Gao Yang walked into the fortress he had to enter, where a dozen people had gathered inside. For a fortress roughly over a hundred square meters, a dozen people didn’t count as crowded. Of course, in actual combat, a fortress wouldn’t house so many people because it’s not quite necessary.

After entering the fortress, everyone definitely competes for the shooting port. Who wouldn’t want to fire a few shots when the enemy comes, rather than waiting for their teammates to pretend to be dead and then take their turn at shooting?

But then again, Gao Yang wanted a shooting port, who would dare compete with him?

Before entering the fortress, Gao Yang knew there was something he needed under that shooting port, so as soon as he got inside, he quickly claimed the shooting port he wanted.

Whether due to Gao Yang’s identity as a sniper or his role, no one would compete with him.

Gao Yang was not in a hurry to take out the bullets; it was too early, especially with a French soldier serving as a safety officer inside the fortress. Gao Yang worried that before shooting, that soldier might inspect it once more.

Next was some idle chat among the Germans, Gao Yang would also join in casually.

Finally, the spectators began to enter.

As the spectators entered, then came the entrance of notable figures. The atmosphere gradually grew tense, because once the spectators were in, after the speech concluded, it would be their turn to perform. Although playing the defeated side, just being able to participate, becoming part of history, winning or losing is not all that significant.

Actually, victory and defeat are quite important, just that history can’t be changed.

The waiting time always seems especially lengthy. After a long wait, the speech finally began.

The soldier had no intention of inspecting again. Until the speech ended, as the performance was about to begin, the soldier continued with his hands behind his back, looking somewhat bored.

For a French person to stand among those who were once humiliatingly defeated, the feeling naturally wouldn’t be great, even if it’s fake, and this group claims to be reflecting on history.

Finally, the speech concluded, and the performance began. First was the dance, and the historical footage played on the big screen.

The wait lasted over two hours, most of them sat on the sand waiting,

presuming that the soldier wouldn’t check again. Gao Yang tidied his clothes, leaned his gun against the wall, and simply sat on the sand too.

Then he stretched his hand into the sand.

Without much searching, he stretched his hand directly towards a gap, close to the wall beneath it. As he reached in, Gao Yang touched the item he needed.

The bullets were wrapped in a plastic bag. First, he carefully cleared the sand sticking to the bag, then rubbed it several times against his clothes. Feeling the sand was gone from the bag, Gao Yang tore open the plastic bag holding the bullets and then stood up.

He stood up without a trace, gripping it in his hand, then placed his right hand where others couldn’t see. After carefully wiping the bullets again, Gao Yang said, "Start loading the bullets, folks, our show is about to begin."

Gao Yang took out a few blank bullets and began to load them into the chamber. After loading three blank bullets, he pushed a real bullet into the chamber.

Everyone became excited; they couldn’t see the big screen, but everyone knew once the performance started, it wouldn’t be long until their performance.

The machine gunner started installing the machine guns first; each fortress had two machine guns, either MG34 or MG42. In real combat, such a number of machine guns would be too few, but in a performance.

The chamber pressure for blank and real bullets differs. When firing blank bullets, bolt-action rifles aren’t affected, but machine guns require blank bullet muzzle devices due to insufficient chamber pressure for continuous firing.

For Gao Yang, blank bullets are absolutely unusable ammunition, as they lack a bullet head. After firing, the residue of the propellant will spray and accumulate in the chamber, greatly affecting precision. Therefore, Gao Yang must not fire before shooting real bullets.

The critical moment was approaching, yet Gao Yang wasn’t nervous nor excited. He had already entered his state.

"The landing ship is coming!" 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Someone shouted, causing some commotion in the fortress. Gao Yang also had to step away from the limited shooting port, allowing others to lie down before the shooting port to watch as a landing ship appeared on the sea.

"Is that an LST Landing Ship? Where did they get such a big guy, and it can even be operated?"

An excited middle-aged man lying at the shooting port shouted, followed by someone loudly saying, "Yes, it seems to be an LST."

Gao Yang wasn’t excited nor nervous, but he had to feign excitement, so he shouted, "Let me take a look."

Gao Yang raised his binoculars and began to observe the landing ship approaching the shore.

Once the landing ship releases the landing crafts, it marks the start of the battle.

Everything followed the scheduled time, so there was no need to rush. Gao Yang gave it a glance and offered the shooting port to someone else.

Another nearly two-hour wait ensued, then the bow doors of the landing ship anchored on the sea opened, releasing a landing craft.

"Alright, everyone back to your positions, machine gunners prepare."

Two LCVP landing crafts emerged from inside the landing ship, appearing on the sea, and headed directly toward the beach.

Gao Yang raised his binoculars, shouted, "Two landing crafts! Headed to target area two."

Even though it’s just a reenactment, there’s naturally no artillery support, so no fixed target areas were designated, but when acting, perform as realistically as possible, even if it involves meaningless shouting, speaking unestablished terms, it’s just to make the scene look a bit more credible, however suits your fancy.

Although his shouts were meaningless, Gao Yang’s shout still garnered a response, as the middle-aged man portraying the fortress commander shouted, "Notify artillery, target point two, machine guns ready."

As a sniper, observing and guiding targets for artillery sometimes falls within the scope of responsibilities, so Gao Yang’s actions were reasonable. Most importantly, by choosing to portray a sniper guiding targets for artillery, he didn’t need to hurry to fire.

With only one LST Landing Ship, capable of housing only two LCVP landing crafts, there were hundreds of Allied Forces, using two landing crafts repeatedly for transport would be too slow. Hence, when the two landing crafts began to beach, more landing crafts waiting at sea soon began approaching the shore.

Portraying an oblivious sniper guiding hypothetical artillery, Gao Yang began to carefully search for Tarta’s trace with his binoculars.

The true climax was about to unfold.