You do as ordered. Your platoon stays in the captured Number Two trench and prepares for a possible German counter-attack. You dig a new firing step and heighten the parapet, roll out barbed wire, place Lewis machine guns at key places and make sure you have a large supply of extra ammuntion and grenades. A Signals team rolls out telephone wire to connect your position to Battalion HQ and to the artillery batteries.

Just before dusk a sentry yells, "Here they come!"