The Land Ironclads (A rare science fiction story by H. G. Wells)
By H. G. Wells
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H.G. Wells is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. He was the author of numerous classics such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, and many more.
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The Land Ironclads (A rare science fiction story by H. G. Wells) - H. G. Wells
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The Land Ironclads
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The young lieutenant lay beside the war correspondent and admired the idyllic calm of the enemy’s lines through his field-glass.
So far as I can see,
he said, at last, one man.
What’s he doing?
asked the war correspondent.
Field-glass at us,
said the young lieutenant
And this is war!
No,
said the young lieutenant; it’s Bloch.
The game’s a draw.
No! They’ve got to win or else they lose. A draw’s a win for our side.
They had discussed the political situation fifty times or so, and the war correspondent was weary of it. He stretched out his limbs. "Aaai s’pose it is!" he yawned.
"Flut!"
What was that?
Shot at us.
The war correspondent shifted to a slightly lower position. No one shot at him,
he complained.
I wonder if they think we shall get so bored we shall go home?
The war correspondent made no reply.
There’s the harvest, of course….
They had been there a month. Since the first brisk movements after the declaration of war things had gone slower and slower, until it seemed as though the whole machine of events must have run down. To begin with, they had had almost a scampering time; the invader had come across the frontier on the very dawn of the war in half-a-dozen parallel columns behind a cloud of cyclists and cavalry, with a general air of coming straight on the capital, and the defender horsemen had held him up, and peppered him and forced him to open out to outflank, and had then bolted to the next position in the most approved style, for a couple of days, until in the afternoon, bump! they had the invader against their prepared lines of defense. He did not suffer so much as had been hoped and expected: he was coming on, it seemed with his eyes open, his scouts winded the guns, and down he sat at once without the shadow of an attack and began grubbing trenches for himself, as though he meant to sit down there to the very end of time. He was slow, but much more wary than the world had been led to expect, and he kept convoys tucked in and shielded his slow marching infantry sufficiently well to prevent any heavy adverse scoring.
But he ought to attack,
the young lieutenant had insisted.
"He’ll attack us at dawn, somewhere along the lines. You’ll get the bayonets coming into the trenches just about