Complex sentence: In the evening, the Germans rushed the 8th Bavarian Reserve Division into the Merckem peninsula as a reinforcement and during the night the French engineers, in water up to their armpits, built pontoon bridges over the lower Steenbeek, west of Langewaede.
Split into simpler sentences: In the evening, the Germans rushed the 8th Bavarian Reserve Division into the Merckem peninsula as a reinforcement. During the night the French engineers, in water up to their armpits, built pontoon bridges over the lower Steenbeek, west of Langewaede.