The rain poured down, as thick as smoke and mist.
The lead-gray sky resembled an iron plate, weighing heavily on the land along the French-German border.
Pools of rainwater quickly gathered into small puddles, disrupted by subsequent raindrops, forming turbid ripples.
German Army soldiers clad in raincoats systematically continued constructing their unfinished fortifications inside the trenches.
Opposite, in the British Army's trenches, Major Monty could vaguely see through binoculars the water and mud being flung out by the German Army.
Occasionally, Monty would envy the Germans.
Their soldiers could construct trenches perfectly under any circumstances.
As for the British and the French Army, they're fortunate if their trenches don't collapse or get flooded in the rain. Improvement would require divine intervention.
As for the Colonial Army, the African Legion struggles even with simple trenches.
