Complex sentence: Gouget guided A and B troops through ditches surrounding the town, past the outer ring of gunpits, while X Troop fixed bayonets and charged the machine-gun nests quickly taking the positions.
Split into simpler sentences: Gouget guided A and B troops through ditches surrounding the town, past the outer ring of guns pits. While X Troop fixed bayonets and charged the machine-gun nests quickly taking the positions.