First Contact With the Enemy

Bruno often had a grim sense of humor, and that humor manifested itself as the opening shots were exchanged between the "punitive expedition" consisting of the 1.8 million men belonging to the Army Group dispatched into Serbia and the Serbian Army defending against their onslaught. 

Bruno stood among his soldiers, or more specifically the command staff in the rear echelon, as he gazed upon the explosions detonating with each passing second. The sound of machine gun fire echoed along with artillery, and the screams of the wounded created a symphony of death. 

All the while, Bruno smoked another cigarette and spoke his thoughts on it all. 

"I was curious if history would remember me as the man who made such great preparations for this moment, only to be the first to fall in battle by a stray bullet… Truly ironic, wouldn't it be?"