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Chapter 1439 Trench Warfare at Verdun ([-]rd update, please subscribe)

early morning.

As usual, Zhuang Fan squeezed the toothpaste on his fingers, and then rubbed his teeth vigorously.

In the trenches, what is the easiest thing to lose?
Just toothbrush and toilet paper.

Everyone seems to have lost their toothbrush, everyone seems to be brushing their teeth with their fingers, and even need to use their fingers... In short, the battlefield is the battlefield.

"This is the right hand..."

While Benzhuang Fan was talking to himself, there was a thunderous whistling sound from the sky, he raised his head and glanced at the sky, and Benzhuang Fan then shouted desperately.

"Concealment, shelling, shelling..."

When he issued the warning, the soldiers who had been freshening up in the trenches immediately rushed to the anti-battery holes or bunkers, waiting for the shelling to pass.

After arriving at the Marne River, the expeditionary army built a series of trenches. Even during the battle, they continued to strengthen their defenses and built a fairly complete field defense system.Trenches, support points, traffic trenches, and blastholes.Enough to protect soldiers from artillery fire.

At the first moment of shelling, the soldiers immediately withdrew into the anti-battery holes next to the trenches. Compared with a month ago, their anti-battery holes are now stronger, and the covering soil has increased to 2 meters... If you are lucky, It is even possible to withstand 150-level shells, provided that the wooden beams on the roof of the cave are not broken.

Although the soldiers retreated very fast, they still couldn't keep up with the falling speed of the shells. When some soldiers retreated into the anti-gun holes, shells like raindrops slammed down from the air.

In an instant, the front position was completely covered by a hail of bullets. The choking gunpowder smoke and the mud and fragments raised by the explosion flew horizontally around the position. Like a long dragon rising up, it flew into the air, and then fell hard again.

The artillery shells that fell into the trench directly set off a bloody storm, and the violent explosion threw the soldiers directly into the sky. In mid-air, their bodies were torn apart by the shell fragments and the high-pressure wind blade of the shock wave, and their complete bodies were instantly destroyed. It turned into countless flying flesh and blood, rising with gunpowder smoke, then falling, and then being blown away again, and finally completely integrated with the soil.

Shelling!

This shelling was more violent than the most violent shelling that Zhuang Fan had ever experienced, which he and his comrades had never experienced.

The shelling was like a strong wind, turning the earth into a sea, and the tremors produced by the shelling were like waves, constantly impacting the ground. Even in the blast hole, the village could still feel the power of the explosion.The lantern hanging from the roof of the anti-blasting cave swayed violently, and above the head, fine clods of soil kept falling down the cracks in the logs.

In the explosion and shock, occasionally the screams of soldiers, especially those recruits, could be heard.

"Don't worry, let those British guys blow it up! Their shells are like scratching an itch for us..."

Amidst the shaking of the earth, Shigeru Honjo, already a veteran, even deliberately took out his poker and asked.

"Who is willing to bet two times with me..."

"Count me in!"

"Come on, come on, let's touch two together..."

Although it was unavoidable that he would be a little nervous, Zhuang Fan still played Pai Gow with his comrades. The actions of the veterans made the recruits heave a sigh of relief.

On the battlefield, compared with the officers, the veterans are the real backbone and the courage of the soldiers. Their calmness makes the recruits who are in high tension relax. In war, the will is sometimes stronger than the weapons. more important!

"Haha, the british guys definitely can't imagine that their artillery fire is so fierce, but we are playing poker here..."

"No, these shells falling on us are like scratching an itch."

Although the blast hole was shaking in the violent explosion, the soldiers who had calmed down began to joke, as if, for them, all this was not worth worrying about, nor was it worth going to Think too much, because it can't hurt them at all.

The heavy shelling will end soon!

How long can such shelling last?
Under normal circumstances, at most one hour, the British will stop shelling.Then the British would attack.

But beyond their imagination, the shelling lasted for five hours!
From 3-inch small-caliber field guns to 2-inch heavy artillery, from 240-inch mortars to [-]mm heavy mortars, the British almost mobilized and attacked the defense lines of the imperial army with the most violent bombardment.

"Wipe the positions of the French and Ming people from this planet!"

The orders received by the artillery of the British and German coalition forces were so simple, and they were confident that they could do it. Almost at dawn, the British and German concealed artillery groups launched the largest shelling attack on the German positions since the beginning of the war. From 82mm mortars to 406mm train guns, the British and French teams concentrated almost all available artillery fire to achieve that goal.

The fierce artillery fire plunged the Ming army's position into a sea of ​​gunpowder smoke and flames. In the violent explosion, not only obstacles such as barbed wire were blown up into the sky, but even bunkers were occasionally blown up into the sky, and even some strong fortresses were blown up into the sky. Also hit by British 12-inch train guns.

"The Brits don't want to destroy the world, do they..."

The devastating artillery fire was nothing more than that. In just a few hours, hundreds of thousands of shells fell on the position like raindrops.

When the fierce artillery fire was in progress, dozens of artillery school shooting balloons observed the positions of the Ming-French coalition forces at high altitude, and used the phone to continuously indicate the target for the ground artillery, correcting the bombing point and instructing new ones at the same time. Target.

After such a violent shelling lasted for two hours, the surface position of the Ming army was completely destroyed. Not only the barbed wire fence in front of the position was destroyed in the violent explosion, but even many trenches were buried by the explosion. down.

The deadliest shell is the 240mm heavy mortar shell, which weighs 81.6 kilograms and is filled with 40 kilograms of high explosives. It is quite powerful. This heavy mortar designed by the Empire, because of its powerful It is welcomed by all countries, not to mention that it is almost one shot for general civil engineering works, and together with the reinforced concrete fortifications, it only needs dozens of shells to destroy them.

Sometimes a heavy shell fell on the roof of the bunker, and the people inside were buried alive before they even figured out what happened.

In the fierce artillery fire, almost no one was spared. Even if they were not directly killed by the shells, they would have been shocked to death by the explosion shock wave. At least, for the British and German coalition forces, they believed that such fierce artillery fire was enough to destroy everything.

But what the British and German coalition forces did not know was that as early as the shelling had just begun, most of the officers and soldiers of the Ming and French allied forces had already got into the anti-bunker holes that had been reinforced many times. Although the anti-bunker holes would be destroyed by heavy shells, the Most of the bunkers were still fortified, and the people were safe from the raining shells.

However, not everyone can stay in the strong anti-gun holes. In the forward bunkers, there are still many officers and soldiers responsible for reconnaissance and surveillance. They use periscopes to observe the movements of the British and German coalition forces in the fortifications.

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(End of this chapter)