On the battlefield, the sergeant, seriously wounded, was brought back to the infirmary. Worried for him, the corporal came to pick up his news but the meeting ended again with an argument between the two companions. Upon leaving the infirmary, Blutch learned that the general intended to lift the camp despite the condition of the wounded. Blutch, furious, bursts into the state-Major cabin to find out more. The general reassured Blutch as quickly as he told him that he had not forgotten the wounded and that the latter would be taken to a small charming village while the army was going to reconstitute his forces further north. But what Blutch did not know was that the small village in question was a very welcoming Southern patelin.