Returning to camp, Paris accuses Roget of murdering one of his own men, but Roget caustically reminds him that no one will believe the word of a corporal over that of a lieutenant. Paris runs to the hill to save his friend but finds Lejeune has been burnt alive by the grenade. When Lejeune fails to return immediately, a panicky Roget throws a grenade at the hill and darts back to the regiment.
After crawling yards under wire and over muddy trenches, the three come within several hundred feet of the hill, where Roget sends Lejeune ahead to investigate a noise. Lejeune on a reconnaissance patrol to Ant Hill. When Mireau boasts that "France is depending on you," Dax replies under his breath that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Mireau then threatens to furlough him from his men, forcing Dax to accept the assignment. Dax, a former criminal lawyer and commander of three regiments on the front line, that his regiment must take Ant Hill despite knowing that he will lose over half his men. Mireau then tours the trenches delivering false hope and informing Col. Broulard's subtle but convincing argument is prompted by his need to silence civilian criticism about the standoff. Broulard, that he take the difficult, if not impossible target of Ant Hill, a German stronghold. Mireau accepts the proposition of his commanding officer, Gen.
To ensure himself a promotion, ambitious division commander Gen. In 1916, on the Western front during World War I, prolonged trench warfare between the French and the Germans breeds hopelessness among the Allied soldiers.
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