1. The company in close order is surprised by a heavy rifle fire; there is cover near by sufficient to hold the whole company crowded together. Order the men to get into the cover helter skelter, and then advance or retire, by the successive movement of platoons or sections, who take extended order at their best speed as they emerge from shelter. If facilities exist, tell one or two platoons to reply to the fire, from the cover, till their own turn comes to move, by which time the first lots that went out should have got into position to open fire. 2. The company in close order is again surprised by rifle fire, but there is no cover near to act as a base. Get the company quickly into extended order, and let men reply to the fire as soon as they have extended, using studiously slow fire. 3. The company or platoons in extended order have to change front to meet an attack from a flank. As in the book, call on them to line a hedge or ditch, facing so as to fire in the new direction. 4. Coming through a gap in a hedge or wall, either in advance or retreat, scattering off right and left, so as to get out of the way of fire concentrated on the gap. 5. The scouts from a position some distance from the company report a body of the enemy unaware of their presence and exposed to fire. Bring the company quickly up to the scouts’ position, halt, load, and adjust sights under cover and just short of the firing position, and on your whistle the men advance at once to the edge of the fire position and surprise the enemy by a simultaneous fire from all the rifles. 6. Taking up quickly an all-round defensive position; the platoons or sections go off and find the best positions in different directions which you merely indicate roughly. 7. Hastily organised attacks, to dislodge an enemy unexpectedly found in occupation of a position, also taking up action as flank and rearguards under fire. EXERCISE XVII. NIGHT OPERATION TRAINING.