Utterly Mad

"The greatest fear that any trench soldier felt was when it came their time to go over the top, when they ran through the shell shocked and broken landscape, dodging machine guns and trying to make it to the other side." Robert Jones "An Exploration Of The Trenches."

Everyone
You awaken as your comrades push you up and out of bed. You all grudgingly walk to the front trenches, seeing the dreadful ladders which must be ascended. A very soft clanking noise announces that at least one Walker will be making the charge with you, though for now it is out of sight. Your commander walks by, inspecting his troops for what may very well be the last time that they are seen. He gives a salute and many of the men give him one in return, everyone has the go ahead...but for a few moments no one moves, no one wants to be the first to go. Suddenly there comes a noise...a noise that seems to always accompany those brave few who go over the top, it plays off a basic speaker system found in the trenches and invigorates many.
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Others go over the top rapidly, yelling in a loud and frightful unison and the clanking of steel grows louder as a pair of Steel Walkers rushes past, the noise is deafening when they pass you. They appear to be bipedal although hunched, have machine guns on both arms and what appears to be a large artillery cannon located in their belly.
You follow the others over the top, everything seems serene...the movement of the armies, the beautiful music. And then you hear the howl of howitzers...watch them blow a pair of comrades into bloody chunks and mist. Hear the rattle of machine guns and watch as your friends die in front of you. You can't stand here any longer...but you can't go backwards either.

In front and to the left of you, about twenty meters away is a hostile machine gun. The same is true to your right. Directly in front you can see a pair of snipers, picking off targets. About ten meters from the enemy trenches is a long line of barbed wire.

What do you do?