Chapter 36: Notebook

At night, the girls who had been fighting fiercely for a day all fell asleep, but Sun Hui somehow couldn't sleep.

Although Ye Chuchu used the reason of "amnesia" to prevaricate the instructor's interrogation, he always had a trace of worry in his heart that this matter would not pass so easily.

In the dead of night, the "KV-1" tank made a slight sound again, and Sun Hui knew that the "automatic repair" had started again.

This time, he did not look again to see how the tank was repaired.

He took out the notebook left by the former crew member and looked at it.

Although the solution to the predicament had been roughly formed in his mind, he still did not dare to try it easily.

Maybe this notebook can give him further hints......

Sun Hui opened the notebook and flipped through it casually by the bright moonlight.

This is an intermittent diary, and the title page of this diary surprises Sun Hui as soon as it begins.

"When you see this diary, it means that I am dead, and we all have disappeared into the long river of history like dust, and maybe for me who loves history, this is also a good ending, but I still hope that this diary can help those who see it, because I understand what it is like to be in extreme despair......"

"What I want to tell you is that there is no 'real zero-distance experience of history through VR technology', everything around you is real, it is a fact that really happened in the past, and you are living in history......"

Although he had long known this, when he read these words, Sun Hui couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart.

"There is no VR software, no software testers, you are the actor in this bloody film, like the gladiators of ancient Rome, but you can't proudly leave the curtain after a wonderful performance, no bonuses, no glory, no cheers, only death ......"

"I've written down all of our real experiences, and I hope it will be helpful to you when you see it."

"None of us could have imagined that the first battle would be the 'Verdun meat grinder'."

"By the time we landed, the battle had already begun, and the Germans were astonishingly prepared for this massive offensive, first by concentrating artillery from Russia, the Balkans, and the Krupp factories, and by lining up 542 mine-throwers around the site of the attack. Together with the flank weapons, there were more than 1,400 cannons lined up on a line less than 8 miles long! In the middle of these cannons were 13 earth-shattering 420-mm siege howitzers. ”

"Particularly vicious for us were the mine throwers, which fired shrapnel loaded with more than 100 pounds of high explosives and metal fragments. Thunder can be seen rolling one after another on a high bow, but it is often too late to see this precursor. The explosion destroyed an entire section of the trench system. Another formidable weapon was the 130mm 'small-caliber rapid-fire gun', which fired 5.2-inch shrapnel at the speed of a rifle bullet, killing the French before they could even notice it. The Germans were not satisfied that these weapons would achieve their desired effect and adopted flamethrowers......"

"Early in the morning, the weather was bitterly cold. At 7:15, along the six-mile front, a concealed German artillery group fired shells into the fortress complex at a rate of 100,000 rounds in one hour. More than 2 million shells fell in a 14-mile triangle bounded by the villages of Verdun, Brabant, and Orne, blowing up all the French forward trenches. After twelve hours of bombardment, the German search force crawled forward in the darkness to test the French resistance. ”

“…… The Germans soon broke through the main French defenses, capturing more than 10,000 prisoners, 65 cannons and a large number of machine guns. At the same time, a large number of German artillery wheels followed, and in front of their infantry units, fired a continuous stream of rolling shells, leveling trenches, blowing up pillboxes, and blowing forests to pieces. ”

"It was easy for us to figure out where we landed, which was the famous Fort Douaumont. A light infantry division entrenched in front of the sloping deck of the Duaumont Battery—a steep slope around a 24-foot-wide dry trench—quickly broke up under continuous German shelling. A German patrol, in the midst of snow and smoke, trudged to the abandoned and lowered drawbridge. Other soldiers followed, until three hundred stunned Germans wandered through the tunnels of the fort. We attacked with a small group of valiant French troops, destroying them with machine guns, otherwise they would have taken this formidable fortress without firing a single shot, the most powerful battery in France, having withstood more than 120,000 rounds of German shells. ”

"The Ormont battery was the hope of the entire Verdun defense system, because it was not captured in the first battles because of our relations. However, the fort was severely undermanned, and in order to strengthen the other defensive lines, the defenders here were reduced to less than 24 middle-aged gunners operating a turret, but history could not be changed after all, it still fell under the onslaught of the Germans, until the French carried out a massive counterattack with 170,000 troops, more than 700 guns and 150 aircraft, and paid a heavy price to recapture the Douaumont battery. ”

"In the bloody battle around the steep bank known as 'Hell', both sides suffered a terrible loss of life. Dense high-explosive shells shook the earth, throwing human bodies, equipment and rubble into the sky like chaff. The heat wave of the explosion melted all the snow and filled the craters with water, and many wounded soldiers drowned in them. The blind, blood-blurred men groped their way into the cave to find safety, and fell on top of their companions, drenching them in blood......"

"A French gunner inadvertently hit a German arsenal with more than 450,000 large-caliber shells, causing the largest explosion of the war. The munitions, unknown to the French army, were hidden in the Spancourt Forest, but were accidentally fitted with a fuse. …… During the 10 months of slaughter, more than 40 million shells were fired by both forces, plus millions of bullets. When the defenders could not be shaken by the continuous artillery bombardment, flamethrowers, poison gas, and infantry charges of hand-to-hand combat, the German sappers dug holes under the French positions and exploded powerful blasting mines, which blew up into many ten-story deep craters......"

"It's inconceivable that we could survive such a battlefield, probably because we changed the relationship of history, and we were quickly teleported somewhere else......"

"Is history really immutable? This time, no matter where we come, we will try to change the course of history, because this is our only hope......"

When Sun Hui read this, his mind was like lightning and thunder!