A VIEW OF THE SUMMIT
The countless sacrifices from before bought the needed time for the IF to successfully infiltrate and breach the perimeter's first line of defense entirely, opening up the road leading to the top of Hill 253.5. In spite of putting up fierce resistance, a few minutes after the breach had occurred, the Mirabilis was in full retreat towards their second line, merely a hundred meters from the summit. Remarkably, the enemy stopped pressing, neglecting the momentum build-up due to the damage sustained, a relief that came as a godsend to the Portuguese forces on that side of the battlefield. Exhaustingly resting on top of empty boxes of ammunition, Simão wiped the sweat from his forehead and drank a few sips of water from his canteen. To him, things had never looked so grim; they were runni
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