The ammunition went up while they were working on it.
It was not one of the guns. It was the middle of the yard, the second platoon's end. Something in the back of one of the trucks, something the second platoon had put in there, went off with a crack that James felt in his teeth. The truck beside it went too, and then a fuel tanker two trucks down. The whole middle of the yard was suddenly fire and black smoke, going up in a column over the quarry, with pieces of something coming down out of the sky.
"*Ammunition park. Done,*" said a voice on the radio. "*Second platoon pulling back to the rock face. We've got three hit.*"
"*Received.*"
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A British Challenger came out of the smoke.
He came from the east, from Eimear's end, where he had broken off from the independents. Six British infantry were behind him. He was going straight for the engineers at the third gun.
