The hail of allied fire continues; and it's too much for the trapped grenzsoldaten. Sal and Doc rush in, prepared to engage the enemy in melee or drive them to flight; but by the time they have closed the gap to the edge of the platform, and the short hop it would take to board the railcar, it's over. One man lies twisted and dead on the rocket train-tunnel floor, having tumbled after his riddling the five feet of clearance between the bottom of the railcar and the ground. The other nine lie, riddled with bulletholes and partially mutilated by the intensity of the gunfire, folded and tangled with one another in the car itself. Somewhere in the mass, one can be heard wheezing and gurgling; a sound that competes with the creak of the rocking metal, the shuttling click-click of K'ral repopulating his weapon's magazine with rounds, and the irregular drizzling of blood, scattering like raindrops to the tunnel floor from the ends of the car at each of the diminishing ends of its pendulum swing. A few seconds later, and the wheezing stops too. The men were caught in an ambush; Sal's intuition prevented them from whizzing onto their destination with only partial casualties, and they were unable to produce any effective retaliation. The assault had been perfect; the enemy stood no chance.

A quick search of the bodies reveals nothing thrilling. Kreiger weapons, mostly unfired. Clean, sharp, oiled bayonets in their sheathes. Personal tokens. In the corporal's pocket, the crumpled remnant of a circular token of cardboard torn in half - the halves, placed together, feature the word "Sprechen". It's reasonably to conclude this is the spent remnant of some kind of communication item.

Spoiler: Decisions
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A 'glorious' victory, gents. The obvious questions outstanding:

These soldiers were going somewhere during what you have been assured is an evactuation.
You can try to go in the direction they were going, or the way they came from, using either the tunnel, or the train car.

And if you intend to use the car, what of the bodies of the enemy? Not a powerful mechanical decision; just a pragmatic and thematic one. Kick them off, to the tunnel floor? Something more time consuming and respectful?