"Fix bayonets!For any troop on the ground, that is the most feared order that can be given. "Fix bayonets" means, simply, that you're fucked. The enemy is has over-run your outer defenses (or you are preparing to over-run theirs), the prospect of engaging the enemy over a distance of 300 - 500 yards is over, and you are expecting to be fighting
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