All In Scarlet Uniform (Napoleonic War 4) - Plot & Excerpts
It was cloudy again, and he was glad of the burning torches that gave some light to the arcaded corridors around the little courtyard that led into the main one. Sergeant Rodriguez was waiting, smoking a cheroot, and the officer gestured for the man to finish when he moved to throw the cigar away. Williams was a few minutes early and there was no sense in wasting tobacco in a city where supplies were bound to grow short. He shook his head at the offer of taking a puff. Then the world exploded. With savage violence the gate beside the chapel burst into fire, noise and flying debris, the big timber doors themselves shattered into fragments and all the heavy boxes and sacks piled to reinforce them were flung back and high into the air, scattering around the far end of the courtyard. One sentry was caught and his head smashed by a great smoking beam of timber. Williams and Rodriguez were sheltered at the far corner of the high-walled compound, but even so felt the wash of the blast. ‘Get the men up!’ yelled Williams.
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