Although the wheeled chariots parked in the battle line covered under the camouflage net did not seem to have much momentum, like piles of withered grass and yellow leaves, but when the engines of these armored vehicles roared and broke free from the restraints on their bodies, especially a soldier wearing a chemical protective suit like a rubber poncho and a gas mask like a grimace mask silently boarded the vehicle, and under the guidance of several vehicles with some strange iron shelves, it had begun to start, and the air was filled with the choking smell of diesel. But the majesty of the Jin Ge Iron Horse made many British soldiers wearing frying pans and Australian soldiers with turkey feathers in their hats come out of the trenches to watch, and this is the first time that such a formation has appeared on the Western Front, to be exact, on the battlefield.

"74, 75, 76" A British colonel was counting and looking at these vehicles coming out of the back of the hills, he couldn't help but marvel at the magic of time, more than ten years ago they were still carrying rifles in the royal palaces of this country, giving what they wanted, and even wantonly killing the inhabitants of their capital, but in just a dozen years, the army of the British Empire already needed to look up to each other, at least he knew that the kind of water tank that the Royal Navy was developing was not comparable to these armored vehicles, although they were all wheeled, Maybe the armor can be a little thicker than these Chinese wheeled vehicles, but the speed of 5 kilometers per hour is not even as fast as the speed of a soldier running, and the huge body is so jealous, it is almost certain that if those clumsy guys appear on the battlefield the first time, maybe the Germans can't do anything about them, but when they use these guys for the second time, the other party will definitely mobilize enough barreled artillery to destroy these large targets, but unfortunately his words will not make those self-righteous old men in London feel anything, They should really come to this battlefield to see the performance of the Chinese, some almost exclusively trucks with reasonable armor protection and firepower configuration, without much reduction in mobility, their survivability on the battlefield is not even worse than those tracked iron boxes, and these guys who gallop on the battlefield at a speed of thirty to fifty kilometers per hour can completely use their twin large-caliber machine guns and 50 mm short-barreled guns to send the opponent's infantry artillery and even cavalry into the sky, Because the heavy artillery that can impress them will definitely not be able to catch up with them, and the cavalry that can catch up with them will not be able to gnaw on this kind of soaring tin cans at all, infantry? What else can they do, rifle-machine gunners * grenades can't take these guys, do they want to stand in the trenches and spit on these armored vehicles?

Not to mention the colonel's grievances, the trench system faced by the expeditionary force alone was enough for the staff officers of the command headquarters to have a headache for half a day, and if it weren't for the batch of strange-shaped armored vehicles sent from China in time, the staff officers even planned to bury the armored vehicles in the trenches and use them as batteries.

Speaking of the trench system, it has actually been perfected since the Russo-Japanese War, and now with the arrival of the tug-of-war phase, the stability of the battle front has given both sides the opportunity to carve their trench defense system.

The German fortifications were excellently built. The shelters and strongholds they built were located deep underground, protected from shells and had air circulation. Because the Germans wanted to retreat strategically to a well-prepared defensive position more than their opponents. They also began by using the "defense-in-depth strategy," which consisted of building a series of isolated positions in a front-line engagement zone several hundred yards wide, rather than a continuous trench. Each position can provide artillery support to its adjacent positions. Although the attackers are free to move freely between positions, they are subject to the defenders' shots. The British eventually adopted similar fortifications, but they were not yet complete when the Germans launched the Spring Offensive in 1918, which proved that even if the British had already built them, they would not be of much use.

In addition to the permanent fortifications, a number of temporary trenches were built on both sides. When a large-scale attack is prepared, several makeshift trenches appear near the front trenches. The infantry in these trenches will attack with the soldiers in the front trench who are participating in the first wave of attacks. There are also temporary trenches that are uninhabited and extend into no man's land. They allow Soldiers to perform a variety of tasks, such as listening for enemy movements near barbed wire or launching surprise attacks.

When a trench protrudes partially into the no-man's land, a salient is formed. The enemy trenches facing the salient are called "depressions". The large salient is dangerous for the soldiers inside, as it is vulnerable to being attacked on three sides.

A few kilometers behind the front trenches, there are usually at least two partially completed trenches, which are used when the soldiers in front retreat. The Germans often dug some redundant trench system; During the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the Germans dug two complete trench systems, which were 1 km apart, and after 1 km there was a third system that was partially completed. Multiple trench systems made it almost impossible for the Entente forces to launch a decisive offensive. If part of the first trench system is captured by enemy troops, the defender digs a passage from the second system to the uncaptured part of the first system.

These trenches are not straight, but zigzag. This meant that a soldier could not see anything ten meters away from a trench. A trench of this shape protects the infantry inside it when the enemy attacks from the flank, otherwise all the troops inside will be exposed to enemy fire and suffer heavy casualties. If a shell falls into a trench, its shrapnel will not fly far before it will be blocked. The side of the trench facing the enemy is called the breastwall, and the side facing away from the enemy is called the back wall. The back wall prevented the soldiers' backs from being injured by shrunnel from shells that fell behind the trenches. If the enemy captured the trench, then the original back wall became a breastwork. The sides of the trench would be reinforced with sandbags, wooden frames and barbed wire. The ground inside the trench is usually covered with planks.

The soldiers' shelters were located in the rear of the support trenches. British shelters were usually 8 to 16 feet deep, while German shelters were generally much deeper, with the closest to the ground being 12 feet deep, sometimes as deep as 3 floors, and soldiers ascended through concrete steps.

In order for a soldier to observe the outside of the trench without exposing his head, there will be some perforations in the breast wall of the trench. The perforation can be as simple as a notch in a sandbag, but it can also use steel plates to protect soldiers. To penetrate the holes, German snipers used armor-piercing bullets. Another way to look at the outside of the trench is to use a periscope, which in its simplest form consists of a stick and two mirrors. In the Anzac trenches at Gallipoli, Australian and New Zealand soldiers used periscope rifles to shoot at the enemy without exposing their heads, and of course you didn't have to hunt for anything like accuracy.

In the face of such fortifications, any infantry attack, no matter how much artillery support, is a catastrophic victory or a major defeat, and the warring sides are tired of this simple exchange of flesh and blood, but there are few good ways to solve this contradiction. However, the Chinese brought their way of fighting, maybe they can try, anyway, the loss of Chinese lives is also lost. In this situation, the cattle were still reserved, and the roosters, who had long been squeezed out of flesh and blood, could not wait to agree that the Chinese could independently command their troops in "certain specific combat areas" on the ground battlefield, rather than being stuffed into the holes of the defense line as filling like the colonial army. In view of the amazing performance of the Chinese air force on the battlefield, the cattle and cattle are not good at raising any objections to whether the yellow race can adapt to the battlefield on the Western Front, and after all, the main force on the Western Front is the rooster, and they will also half-push and half-obey, oh, agree to the agreement between the French and the Chinese.

Faced with this intricate system of trenches on the Western Front, the armored combat engineer brigade of the Chinese Expeditionary Force came into being. Their weapons included a "water-shooting fish" mine-clearing rocket truck that threw explosive cables, a "crab" minesweeper in front of it that was constantly rolling round iron buckets and threw out iron chains to smash the ground, a "scorpion-shaped" barbed wire cutting truck with two large pincers sticking out, a "Tianniu" bridge-erecting vehicle that poked out two long iron frames like a giraffe, and a "wild boar" bulldozer with a bulldozer like a unicorn fairy mounted on the front of the vehicle. Such a strange convoy is really worthy of the "Boss Wu Zoo". However, in the face of the intricate trench terrain of the Western Front, without these guys in front of the road and bridge, the powerful wheeled armor in the back is useless.

The ground was full of residual phosphorus fire, charred and curly wreckage and corpses clutching their throats and twisting to maintain a survival posture, covered with trenches, and the few remaining German soldiers who were still holding rifles were even a little indifferent in the face of the ironclad chariots that rumbled in the smoke, some of them picked up their rifles and shot until they ran out of magazines, and when they found that it was useless, they simply sat in the trench and did not react, waiting to be killed or captured by the opposing soldiers. There were still many soldiers who were still trying to breathe in the still poisonous air, and the guns and ammunition had long been thrown aside, and even the chariot drove to their side without stopping them from scratching their throats vigorously.

Sporadic gunfire rang out, and the German soldiers who were still struggling were killed one by one, and they were no longer saved. And those soldiers who could still cover their mouths and noses with towels disarmed at the signal of the Chinese soldiers in the armored vehicles, walked to the circle surrounded by several armored vehicles, and squatted down, in this relatively high terrain and just on the tuyere, they could breathe in the air mixed with the smell of gunsmoke and burning, where there were at least not many phosphide particles.

The armored detachment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force continued their armed march until it reached the edge of the smoke field to find a group of German artillerymen retreating in panic with cannons, but the fire of 12.7 mm machine guns and 50 mm short-barreled cannons, accompanied by the crisp sound of Qin crossbow rifles, knocked the soldiers to the ground, and soon fell silent.

The Germans reacted quickly, and after a roar, hundreds of grenades of more than 150 mm were smashed on the edge of the smoke area, and if it was a British water tank, it was now a pile of scrap metal. However, the speed of the wheeled armor was the guarantee of their survival, and the armored detachment that had just strafed the enemy's artillery quickly divided into several squadrons and swept away to the rest of the smoke zone, leaving the empty position to the German artillery to find a place for their counterparts.

The debut of the Chinese armored forces began in a cloud of smoke and ended in a cloud of smoke, except for the capture of a five-kilometer defense line three kilometers deep with zero casualties, there is not much record of this battle in the history of the First World War in France, perhaps because it is believed that all this is due to the cursed "devil's egg", the French are not impressed by the Chinese armored forces, and the Chinese armored forces are still a mysterious division in the eyes of Europeans. However, even the French did not expect that they would soon have to rely on these armored vehicles, which they thought had little actual combat effectiveness, to save their main forces, which may be the humor of the god of war.