In the wet and dark nights, the men of the List Regiment started to see enemy soldiers everywhere. One night, dark shadows were moving slowly towards them. The men of RIR 16 sensed an imminent enemy attack. Soon they sent a formidable barrage of fire at the shadows.

Yet strangely enough not a single shot was returned. They were soon to find out why. As the sun rose the following morning, the area ahead of their front was littered with dead bodies—the dead bodies of a herd of cattle that had gone astray during the night.⁴⁰ This was not the war that they had expected.

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