To shoot it.
Nothing more."
"You must not fire until they are within fifty meters and only when you are sure they will be coming into the pass which leads to the cave," Robert Jordan said.
"Yes.
How far is that?"
"That rock."
"If there is an officer shoot him first.
Then move the gun onto the others.
Move very slowly.
It takes little movement. I will teach Fernando to tap it. Hold it tight so that it does not jump and sight carefully and do not fire more than six shots at a time if you can help it. For the fire of the gun jumps upward.
But each time fire at one man and then move from him to another.
At a man on a horse, shoot at his belly."
"Yes."
"One man should hold the tripod still so that the gun does not jump.
Thus.
He will load the gun for thee."
"And where will you be?"
"I will be here on the left.
Above, where I can see all and I will cover thy left with this small _maquina_.
Here.
If they should come it would be possible to make a massacre.
But you must not fire until they are that close."
"I believe that we could make a massacre. _Menuda matanza!_"
"But I hope they do not come."
"If it were not for thy bridge we could make a massacre here and get out."
"It would avail nothing.
That would serve no purpose.
The bridge is a part of a plan to win the war.
This would be nothing.
This would be an incident.
A nothing."
"_Que va_, nothing.
Every fascist dead is a fascist less."
"Yes.
But with this of the bridge we can take Segovia.
The Capital of a Province.
Think of that.
It will be the first one we will take."
"Thou believest in this seriously?
That we can take Segovia?"
"Yes.
It is possible with the bridge blown correctly."
"I would like to have the massacre here and the bridge, too."
"Thou hast much appetite," Robert Jordan told him.
All this time he had been watching the crows.
Now he saw one was watching something.
The bird cawed and flew up.
But the other crow still stayed in the tree.
Robert Jordan looked up toward Primitivo's place high in the rocks.
He saw him watching out over the country below but he made no signal.