Xiao Mubai doesn't actually smoke, but on this battlefield, he always feels that smoking can relieve his mood, and he also has something to do when he is bored.

William has cigarettes on his body, and Xiao Mubai smokes this kind of shoddy tobacco, which is also in demand here, and ordinary people can't get it. William learned to smoke in the barracks, and he was a good boy at first, but then slowly degenerated, so the army is a melting pot.

The taste of tobacco fills the heart, Xiao Mubai doesn't think there is any difference between German cigarettes a hundred years ago and China a hundred years later, they all have a strong tobacco smell, and some are just different tobacco origins.

When Xiao Mubai was smoking, he suddenly remembered those carefree days when he was in junior high school in Zhoushan. At that time, her grandmother was still there, and Xiao Mubai behaved manly in order to chase girls, so she learned from the people in the movie to smoke, learned from them to fight, and used the pocket money given by her parents to treat guests, which is really funny when I think about it now.

In the smoke of gunfire, both sides coincidentally hid under the trenches. This is the clash of artillery, the home show of artillery.

The Krupp cannon unleashed its edge in the city of Paris, tearing through the beautiful and fertile land, erupting with a deafening roar that shocked millions of French troops and French citizens.

After the massive artillery bombardment, the French army charged en masse and rushed to the entrenched positions of the German troops.

This time was different from the last time, the Germans deployed heavy machine guns, dug deep trenches, and laid barbed wire and mines.

Although it is very imposing, it is very chivalrous. But Xiao Mubai still sighed, the French commander was rigid in his thinking and did not know how to be flexible. Interspersing the two flanks in the middle is the best tactic, but if you only know the dense charge, don't you know the lethality of crossfire?

Maxim's heavy machine gun spitted frantically tongues of fire, and the French soldiers fell in rows, like wheat harvesting.

The battle began again. At this time, less than three hours had passed since Xiao Mubai came to the mission world. The number of people Xiao Mubai killed directly has long been forgotten. At that time, the attention was concentrated, and who would count the number of people who fell under the gun, and only after the battle was over, would he recall.

Xiao Mubai carried out the order of the second lieutenant platoon commander Ernst and led the whole squad to counterattack. As a squad leader, Xiao Mubai doesn't need to shoot personally all the time, he just needs to manage the soldiers and give orders to the platoon commander.

The recruits were nervous and at first did not have combat effectiveness at all. Xiao Mubai asked the veterans to bring one each, so that they could adapt to the battlefield more quickly.

Thirteen G98 Mauser rifles, plus one from Xiao Mubai, set up positions on the slightly higher meadow to hold back the charging French soldiers.

The Mauser rifle was equipped with a five-bullet load, and as a single-shot rifle, it took time to pull the bolt every time. Xiao Mubai ordered the whole squad to take turns shooting, covering each other, and replenishing the shooting space, and gunfire continued to sound one after another on the position.

The French retreated unexpectedly, and the Germans began to pursue again.

Xiao Mubai commanded the whole class to charge, the speed was not fast, and he fell behind halfway, raising his gun to shoot.

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From day to night, many battles were fought on this position, leaving behind a dense mass of corpses, for which the warring sides even had to clean up the battlefield.

Trench warfare is a war of attrition of troops. The reserve army is consumed like flowing water, and whoever can't bear the retreat first means who loses.

War allows the warring parties to change, either actively or passively. Victory in World War I prompted France to build the Maginot Line, which was modeled after the fortification of Liège. Germany, on the other hand, carried out blitzkrieg warfare to avoid falling into a long-term attrition of trench warfare. One war has given rise to two different schemes, which have to be said to be the differences between people and the differences in national cultures.

The corpses piled up, leaving everyone in the cleaners silent, and the recruits learned for the first time the cruelty of war.

None of the sides had the upper hand, some were just stuck with each other, and each other suffered heavy casualties.

The Imperial German Army lived up to the name of the world's largest army. Although the French soldiers were brave, their tactical literacy was somewhat deficient compared to the German army.

War is the art of destruction.

By this time of the battle, both sides were exhausted. The uniforms were dirty, muddy and bloodstained. But no one cares about it, and although it is uncomfortable to wear, it is insignificant compared to life.

The evil of war lies in letting two people who have no grudges and have never seen each other fight each other, and this is precisely what they cannot choose. Most hostile countries are neighbors separated by a strip of water. But because of a strip of water and a dispute, they became old enemies. Just like France and Germany, Germany and Russia in Europe. China and Japan, North and South Korea in East Asia.

The Germans requisitioned French houses and used them to build improvised barracks for the soldiers to rest at night. These barracks are not good, but the bloody battlefield is much better than the wet grass.

The soldiers who had fought for a day were very tired, tired like dogs, leaning on the dry planks and not moving, but tired meant that they were still alive, and those who were not tired were already dead.

The recruits were mostly silent. Two recruits died, and they were shocked by the cruelty of the first battle, and passively accepted it in their hearts. The veterans laughed and talked about their peeking at their female neighbors taking a shower or sleeping with a woman.

There were no police on the battlefield, and some were just pickets far from the front line. The soldiers were rarely restrained and became unscrupulous.

Soldiers are often constantly in tension and depression, and their emotions cannot be vented well, so it is no wonder that there are incidents of military discipline that corrupt them. It is really easy for the soldiers to vent their emotions, what to do on enemy soil.

The eggs of the recruits, the oil of the veterans, are clearly distinguished.

In the evening, the regimental headquarters was appointed, and William was appointed squad leader, with the rank of corporal. Xiao Mubai didn't feel anything, when fighting, the non-commissioned officer had to charge at the front, which meant that he was closer to death, and the chance of death was greater.

An incident happened during the afternoon battle, a small episode. Because the recruits rushed to charge, they did not follow Xiao Mubai's orders, and blindly followed the other squads to charge, so that they broke away from the team and died in front of the French position.

Xiao Mubai's face was gloomy and he reprimanded the whole class.

The two newly replenished recruits arrived, Xiao Mubai asked them to be in charge of vigilance, and then let the other people rest, and then replace them in a few hours, so they took turns to rest and take turns to be vigilant, and to maintain enough vigilance.

Xiao Mubai couldn't sleep and sat on the wooden board to rest. The mind recalls the battles of the day. I probably remember that during the daytime battle, he directly killed eleven French soldiers, and several of the remaining were wounded and then rescued.

The French army was on the home field, and the wounded soldiers could be well treated, while the Germans were trapped in the away field, the doctors did not have enough medicines, and the transportation was so inconvenient that many people who could have been treated could not be treated.

Xiao Mubai was also injured, he was shot in the left arm, and the military doctor had already taken out the bullet and wrapped it in gauze, and blood passed through the gauze.

This wound was the result of an attempt to save a recruit during the afternoon battle. Soon after the battle was over after being wounded, Xiao Mubai went to the field hospital for treatment, leaving Paul to take command temporarily.

Not all of them are calm enough, and the recruits are easily emotionally infected, collectively unconscious, and then follow to die. Therefore, young people are very easy to be fooled, and they are most likely to be impulsive and swayed by emotions.

The field hospital is a requisitioned middle school classroom in Villier Town, all the vacant places are occupied, there are wounded soldiers everywhere, injuries are varied, missing arms and legs are very common, Xiao Mubai is the lightest, and he was driven out as soon as he disinfected the bullets.

When he came out, he was brought back by the waiting platoon commander Ernst.

Not only are the soldiers suffering extremely heavy losses, but the non-commissioned officers are also being seriously attritional, and the non-commissioned officers with good combat experience are valuable assets.

At this time, the beautiful town of Villiers disappeared and became a tragic battlefield, with houses demolished, timber requisitioned, potholes in the meadows, and blood and mud in the fields.

The air was filled with gunsmoke and the smell of blood, burnt.

The rainy night crept in, and the fine and dense rain continued to fall, washing away the smoke and blood all over the place.

Xiao Mubai rubbed Luger's pistol, which he inherited from the dead squad leader. The Luger pistol is the standard pistol of the German army, not Browning, not the king eight box of the Republic of China.

The Mauser rifle loaded with the bayonet was very long, leaning against the wall and standing up to Xiao Mubai's chest, the bayonet glowing in the humid air.

In the dark night, Xiao Mubai's eyes were deep and deep.

In a few hours, it will be more than six o'clock at dawn, and at that time, Xiao Mubai will complete the task and can go back.

However, will it actually be as Xiao Mubai hoped?

(There is ~ to be continued later)

PS: Thanks xtmicina and ziyecangq... The reward of children's shoes, as well as the recommendation votes of children's shoes. Book lovers like to collect it, and the highlights of the novel will slowly unfold. I'm working hard to save the manuscript, so let's add it to the bookshelf and cultivate it. The most important thing is that Xiao Mu is going to add more, are you ready?

PS: Just now the boy at the beginning sent a message that this book is about to be signed, and I just saw it.