As usual, Shigeru Honjo squeezed the toothpaste onto his fingers and rubbed his teeth vigorously.
What is the easiest thing to lose in the trenches?
Just toothbrush and toilet paper.
It seems that everyone has lost their toothbrush, everyone seems to be brushing their teeth with their fingers, or even need to use their fingers... In short, the battlefield is a battlefield.
"This is the right hand..."
While Honjo Shigeru was talking to himself, a thunderous whistling sound came from the sky. He raised his head and glanced into the sky, and then Honjo Shigeru shouted desperately.
"Concealment, shelling, shelling..."
When he issued the warning, the soldiers who had been grooming themselves in the trenches immediately rushed to the shell holes or bunkers to wait for the shelling to pass.
After arriving at the Marne River, the expeditionary force built a series of trenches. Even during the battle, they continued to strengthen their defenses and built a relatively complete field defense system. Trench, support points, communication trenches and anti-artillery
The hole is enough to protect the soldiers from artillery fire.
At the first moment of encountering the shelling, the soldiers immediately retreated into the shell-proof holes next to the trenches. Compared with a month ago, their gun-proof holes are now stronger, and the covering soil layer has increased to 2 meters... If you are lucky,
It is even possible to withstand 150-level artillery shells, provided that the wooden beams on the roof of the cave are not broken.
Although the soldiers retreated very quickly, they still could not keep up with the speed of the shells falling. When some soldiers retreated into the anti-gun caves, raindrops of shells hit them hard from the air.
In an instant, the forward position was completely shrouded in a hail of bullets. The choking smoke and the soil and debris raised by the explosion were flying around the position. The barbed wire fences were blown up into the sky in the explosion, like they were torn out of the ground.
It rose up like a long dragon, flew into the air, and then fell hard again.
The shells that fell into the trench immediately set off a bloody storm. The violent explosion threw the soldiers directly into the sky. In mid-air, their bodies were torn apart by shell fragments and the high-pressure wind blades of the shock wave. Their complete bodies were destroyed in an instant.
It turned into countless flying pieces of 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 Honjo Shigeru had ever experienced, something he and his comrades had never experienced before.
The shelling is like a strong wind, turning the earth into a sea. The tremors caused by the shelling are like waves, constantly impacting the earth. Even in the shell-proof cave, we can still really feel the power of the explosion. Anti-bombing
The lantern hanging on the ceiling of the cave swayed violently, and above the head, fine pieces of soil continued to fall down along the gaps in the logs.
Amidst the concussion of the explosion, you can occasionally hear the screams of the soldiers, especially the new recruits.
"Don't worry, let those British guys explode! Their shells are like scratching an itch for us..."
Amidst the tremors of the earth, Shigeru Honjo, who was already a veteran, even deliberately took out his poker and asked.
"Who is willing to make a bet with me..."
"Count me in!"
"Come, come, let's touch a couple of handfuls together..."
Although he was inevitably a little nervous, Shigeru Honjo still played Pai Gow with his comrades. The actions of the veterans made the recruits breathe a sigh of relief.
On the battlefield, compared to officers, veterans are the real backbone and the courage of the soldiers. Their calmness allows the highly nervous recruits to relax. In war, the will is sometimes more powerful than the weapons.
More important!
"Haha, the British would never have thought that their artillery fire was so fierce, but we were playing poker here..."
"No, these shells falling on us are like scratching an itch."
Although the shell-proof hole was shaking under the violent impact of the explosion, the soldiers who had calmed down began to joke. It seemed that for them, none of this was worth worrying about or going to.
Think too much because it won't hurt them at all.
The fierce bombardment will end soon!
How long can such a bombardment last?
Under normal circumstances, the British would stop shelling within an hour at most. Then the British would launch an attack.
But what they didn't expect was that the bombardment lasted for five hours!
From 3-inch small-caliber field guns to eight-inch heavy guns, from 2-inch mortars to 240mm heavy mortars, the British almost mobilized the most violent artillery fire to attack the imperial army's defense lines.
"Completely wipe out the French and Ming positions from this planet!"
The orders received by the British and German artillery were so simple, and they were confident that they could do it. Almost at dawn, the British and German hidden artillery groups launched the largest artillery bombardment on the German positions since the war began.
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 smoke and fire. In the violent explosion, not only obstacles such as barbed wire were blown into the sky, but even bunkers were occasionally blown into the sky, and even some solid fortresses were blown into the sky.
It was also hit by British 12-inch train guns.
"The British don't want to destroy the world..."
The devastating artillery fire was just that. Hundreds of thousands of artillery shells fell on the position like raindrops in just a few hours.
While the fierce artillery fire was going on, behind the British and German coalition forces, dozens of artillery school fire balloons were observing the positions of the Ming and French coalition forces at high altitudes. They used telephones to continuously indicate the targets for the ground artillery, correcting the impact points of the artillery bombs, and at the same time indicating new targets.
Target.
After such a violent bombardment lasted for two hours, the Ming army's surface position had been completely destroyed. Not only were the barbed wire fences in front of the position destroyed by the violent explosion, but many trenches were even buried by the soil thrown up by the explosion.
Come down.
The most deadly shell is the 240mm heavy mortar shell. This shell weighs 81.6 kilograms and is filled with 40 kilograms of high explosives. It is quite powerful. This heavy mortar designed by the Empire is famous for its powerful power.
It is very popular in all countries. Not to mention ordinary civil engineering works, it can be destroyed almost one by one. Even reinforced concrete solid fortifications can be destroyed with only a few dozen rounds.
Sometimes a heavy artillery shell landed on the top of the shell hole, and the people inside were buried alive before they even figured out what was going on.
In the fierce artillery fire, almost no one could survive. Even if they were not directly killed by the artillery shells, they would have been killed 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 didn't know was that as early as the beginning of the shelling, the vast majority of the Ming and French coalition officers and soldiers had already gotten into the anti-gun holes that had been reinforced many times. Although the anti-gun holes would be destroyed by heavy artillery shells,
Most of the shell holes were still strong, and people were safely sheltered from the rain of shells.
However, not everyone can stay in the strong anti-gun holes. In the forward bunkers, there are 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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