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Pick Up Your Weapon, Trooper

BY PETER NEALEN

Pick Up Your Weapon, Trooper Part III

Ulgar grabbed the nearest trooper and roughly stopped him, wrenching him around to face the way he’d come. “Why are you running this way, then? Do you want to get shot in the back before we all get killed?” He shoved him back, making the man stumble and fall into the bottom of the trench, tripping up one of his fellows just before the others all stopped in shock and fear. “Stand and fight, or we’re all dead!”