1890 King of Southeast Asia

The Germans launched a massive "full-line offensive" on a 100-kilometer-long front, which made the British flustered.

Why are the four words "full-line offensive" in quotation marks? Because this is the conclusion Haig came to after listening to the battle reports of almost every senior officer on the front line.

Every British division commander on the front line reported to his superiors that they were attacked by the Germans. Yes, they did.

But what they didn't say was that the intensity of the attack on each division was different. Most divisions encountered far less intensity than the previous battles, and a few encountered unprecedented bombardment intensity.

Because the news was too confusing, and the Germans attacked on a 100-kilometer-long front at almost the same time - just like the previous attacks, the British responded the same way as before - sending support troops in all directions.

In this way, due to wrong news feedback, Haig sent nearly half of his mobile forces at the beginning of the war, and the combat concept was still to fight a traditional battle with the Germans.

That is, you attack all the way, and then focus on attacking a large section of the defense line, and I defend all the way, focusing on defending the position you focus on attacking.

After receiving the news that the Germans launched a large-scale attack in the area defended by the British, there was a problem that troubled Haig - the strength of the troops.

Haig did not know the scale of the German attack, but after a few months of rest, the Germans might be able to launch an army group-level attack.

The war entered the third year, and all the European countries involved in the war except Britain were fully mobilized. Any major participating country had millions of troops, and the scale of the battle was no longer comparable to the beginning of the war in 1915.

The total strength of Britain itself and the troops recruited by the colonies exceeded 6 million. Together with France, the British and French coalition forces had tens of millions of troops.

However, after George Lloyd came to power, the British Expeditionary Force (British troops in France) had not been replenished for a long time, and many troops were withdrawn. By the end of 1917, Haig only had 1.83 million people left.

Among these more than 1.8 million people, half of them are stationed on the first and second lines, which are often called defensive forces, and cannot be moved at will.

Don't think it's too much. This was the case in the First World War. The density of soldiers on the front line was extremely high, so the tactic of trench warfare was born.

During the Ludendorff Offensive in history, Germany and the Allies deployed 200 divisions to each other on the 700-kilometer-long front line, 200 divisions each, and an average of 1 division every 3.5 kilometers.

Therefore, Haig did not put many people on the front line, and after deducting the necessary soldiers for logistics, military police, and defense in the rear, there were only 3.4 million people left to carry out mobile operations.

This made Haig very worried. If there were multiple breakthroughs in the defense line, he would face the embarrassing situation of having no soldiers available.

And this worry soon became a reality.

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"Daniel, are you okay?" Steve shuddered and crawled out of the collapsed trench, looking at Daniel who was pressed by logs and soil not far away.

As for the new recruit ammunition man? He was unlucky when he moved his position for the first time. He was hit by a howitzer shell at close range and disintegrated and spread all over the trench.

Bang!

"Wake up, Daniel." Steve slapped him. If he reacted, he would try to save him. If not...

"Ahem! Is this hell? Steve? Are you in hell too? I said, we shouldn't have come here, God won't forgive us..." Daniel said in a daze.

"Ha! You son of a bitch, we are still alive, but I don't know how long we can live." Steve tried to move the debris on Daniel's body, but it was useless. He couldn't do it with his hands alone.

"I really don't know if this is good news." Daniel rubbed his head, raised his head and looked around, then lay back down.

"Of course it's good news. I don't know why the Germans retreated, and we survived. How do your legs feel?" Steve stuck his head out. It was quiet outside. The Germans who attacked before didn't know where they went.

"We defended for an hour? Or how long?"

"My legs? Fortunately, they may have been hit once. Although it hurts, I was pressed down. However, these things stuck me from the waist and I can't get out for the time being."

Daniel was even laughing because he heard that the Germans didn't come up, proving that they successfully defended their positions.

"Don't be too optimistic. Who knows when the Germans will launch another attack?"

"I don't know what happened above. We have been defending for so long, and only one squad came to support us."

"Wait here for a while, I'll find some tools to get you out of here." Steve shook his head and began to look for tools in the trench.

After the Battle of the Somme, the British imitated the way the Germans built trenches and transformed their trenches to make them more perfect and more functional.

In the trenches, there are ammunition and tool storage points every few dozen meters, so it is relatively easy to find some simple tools.

After walking a few steps, Steve found an engineer shovel and a pair of gardening shears. There were also some other sundries, but they couldn't use them.

Wow~

Wow~

Suddenly, footsteps were heard from next door.

In winter, the yin and humidity of the crickets are cold and humid, and there is a stagnant water. This is caused by various factors such as non -electricity, slow water evaporation, and underground water seepage.

This kind of ground will have a rustic sound, or the sound of stepping on the water, determined according to the muddy level of the ground.

Steve gently put down the gardening scissors and clenched the engineering shovel in his hands. In their machine gun group, only ammunition players were equipped with a rifle.

In the previous battle, he seized a few pistols, but he sold it in the Black Market because he did not have the corresponding ammunition, and it was useless to keep it.

He also thought about buying a pistol with a bullet that can provide bullets, but unfortunately, the price of this self -defense weapon has been noisy in heaven. It is not that you can't afford it, but you can't buy it.

The range of the pistol is very short, so when you can use a pistol, you are basically connected by short soldiers. At this time, the pistol is the second life of the soldier. There is a pistol, maybe you can survive.

Such a sought -after goods, he is not so easy to get.

At this time, his only 1 weapon was the engineering shovel just found. Although this kind of imported from Huaxia is easy to rust, the steel shovel is a bit heavy, but the shovel of the 1 side can be easily cut off easily. A small tree with a thick arm.

Can easily split people's skulls!

"Steve? Is it you Steve?"

A Steve's familiar sound came from the other head, which made Steve tighten the engineering shovel nervously, and then relaxed.

"Lucas?" Steve shouted.

"Yes, it's me, thank you, you are still alive." Lucas held a Weibori left -wheel pistol in his hand, squatted behind the ammunition box behind the corner, and heard Steve's reply and relieved.

"Steve, are you okay? Hey!" Lucas walked out of the ammunition box, and then walked across the corner. His eyes were just at the top of the upper front.

He knew that the Germans hadn't rushed up, and then came over.

"Lucas, why are you back?" Steve looked at Lucas doubtful, and was relieved.

"Since you are here just right, take this, we will save Daniel." Steve shook his head, picked up garden scissors and 1 stick from the ground, and handed it to Lucas.

"Daniel? What happened to him?" Lucas thought about it for 1 time before the Steve's deputy, took the stick and garden scissors, and walked along the trenches behind Steve.

"One cannon shell explodes very close to us, and the trenches are swaying. Daniel and I were buried. Fortunately, a small -caliber cannonball, otherwise you can't see us." Steve even even I was in a mood and smiled.

"Oh my god, are you still alive?" After turning two corners, Lucas saw Daniel, who was buried in the half, and asked in surprise.

People who are buried are not dead or even injured on the spot, but after 1 period of time, local necrosis or even death will occur due to squeezing and hypoxia.

Two people hurriedly started, shaved the floats on the surface, and then separated soils and woods and other debris at 1:11.

The floating soil on the surface is very easy to deal with, but the soil on the middle and lower layers not only endorsed, but also sticky, and it is also wrapped with a large number of grass root trees. If there is no tool, it is troublesome to deal with.

Good for a while, 2 talents clean up Daniel's debris and soil to the acceptable range, and see the most

The logs used to stabilize the trenches are nailed to 1 with nails, which are very heavy.

"Is your legs conscious? Is there any injury?" Lucas asked before moving the last log away.

At this time, the naked eye could not judge whether there was wood inserted into Daniel's leg. If there was, they opened the wood directly, and Daniel was really fierce.

"It's okay, maybe I was smashed a few times, but I moved, God blessed, and nothing was pierced in." Daniel also moved twice.

"Well, we shouted 123, and then you crawl out quickly."

Steve and Lucas held 1 side of the wood row.

"1, 2, 3!"

Stevev and Lucas pulled the original wooden row, Daniel supported the ground with both hands, and kept back, and ran out while they got out of the gap.

"Oh! My lucky machine gun." After coming out, Daniel saw the thing that helped him hold the wooden row and did not make the wooden row all over him -heavy machine guns.

"Don't look at it, he is useless." Steve also saw it. He was sitting next to 1 and shook his head.

"Lucas, how did you come back? When can you support it? We have lost our weapons, and the next German attack, we can't resist it." Daniel's mood is very good, and we are born with life!

"Who knows? The camp has disappeared, and there is no one in the regiment. I have no way to go, so I dare to come back ..."

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