444 The brutality of the assault
The Russians took the initiative to storm on an absolutely correct strategic level, but on a tactical level it was a naked disaster for Russian soldiers!
Although the Han army's trench positions are far less powerful than the Russian army, the Han army's machine guns, artillery and other weapons are much more advanced than the Russians!
The most important thing in trench warfare is to launch a continuous fire strike before the infantry attack, and in the trench tug-of-war of World War I in history, there is even a record of artillery preparation for a day and a night.
If this is not done, the infantry will not even have the slightest hope of crossing the barbed wire fence under the bombardment of machine guns and enemy artillery, and the artillery washing is actually to clean the dense barbed wire and clear mines.
Of course, in Lin Haoda's era, landmines had not yet been invented by the anti-Han allies, and among the army weapons that Lin Haoda exploded, there was no mine, and the anti-Han allies, who had always thought that Lin Haoda's technology represented advanced force and took this as an example, naturally did not think of the invention of landmines......
The anti-Han allies were full of battles in which they were crushed by the Han army's armored forces and fought with high-powered artillery, and desperately urged the R&D department to invent machine guns with faster and more stable rate of fire, breech guns with longer firing ranges and larger calibers, and armored vehicles that could be driven by fuel.
These awaiting inventions are enough for European scientists to study for a long time......
Lin Haoda's existence is like a sword of war hanging over their heads for Europeans, they are not allowed to engage in other research, all resources will be tilted towards war, and all scientists have been given strict orders by the government to imitate the weapons of the Han army in various names!
If Lin Haoda cannot be eliminated, there will be no future for Europe, and the anti-Han allies will naturally not do other 'useless work'.
Today's anti-Han allies are a bit like the countries of the Eastern world in history, after seeing all kinds of advanced inventions and systems in Western countries, they are screaming that they are sending students and introducing industrial equipment, and they are eager to copy the complete set of European countries, as for research and development......
In the eyes of most people, it is only right to catch up with the footsteps of Western countries first!
In the period of backwardness and beating, human beings rarely invent and create their own things, because the pressure of survival will force most people to try to take the 'shortcut' of copying and imitation.
Obviously, in the anti-Han allies, the Han army's series of weapons and equipment that have been tested in actual combat and beat the white army to the ground are more worthy of attention!
The Russians were undoubtedly using the blood of hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers to teach the anti-Han allies a practical theory that defense is better than offense in trench warfare.
The shortcomings of the Russians' artillery range made them almost useless when attacking the Han trench positions, and they would be 'ignited' by the Han artillery as soon as they appeared.
Moreover, when the Russian GIs shouted "Ula" to launch the famous pig assault charge with a tsunami from the mountains, dense crossfire and a barrage of grenadiers piled up the corpses of Russian soldiers all over the forward positions.
Almost every barbed wire fence on the front line was covered with the corpses of Russian gray cattle, which were slaughtered by the Han army machine guns when the attacking Russian soldiers tried to cut the barbed wire, because the Russians could not open the way with artillery, so they had to cut the barbed wire with their lives......
Fortunately, the strength of the main Russian force is dozens of times that of the Han army, and it can afford to consume it!
In fact, under the almost non-stop fire of the Han army, Russian soldiers rarely succeeded in cutting the barbed wire, and most of the time, Russian soldiers used corpses to break the barbed wire or fold it into a slope of human flesh for the attacking Russian soldiers to jump over......
In the eyes of the Han soldiers stationed there, the Russian GIs were simply a bunch of crazy people, who used the corpses of their own people to 'pile up' one barbed wire fence after another, and used a large number of flesh shields to dense the human wall, successfully blocking the barrage of grenadiers and the death shooting zone of Maxine heavy machine guns!
As military experts in World War I have said, when the number of people in the attacking unit area exceeds the intensity of the firepower per unit area, the attacker can successfully break through to the defender's trench.
The Russians used their lives to interpret this simple mathematical problem, and the name of the gray cattle was worthy of its name, and the Russian soldiers who did not hesitate to kill shocked the Han army mobilized soldiers for the first time!
In this way, at the cost of more than 100,000 casualties, the Russians forced themselves to break through the first line of trenches defended by less than 10,000 Han army mobilized soldiers.
And there are two whole trenches in the back......
If you look at it according to simple math, it seems that the remaining Russian army can really break through the two trench positions behind it with numbers, but unfortunately, even if the Russian gray cattle play with their lives and sacrifice so many soldiers to break through the first line of positions, they will become powerless.
The morale of the Russian soldiers, poured with tons of corpses and blood, was no longer able to maintain its initial exuberant fighting power.
Most of the remaining Russian soldiers were people who had attacked the first line of the Han army, and they knew the kind of scene of nine deaths and one life, and any Russian soldier with normal intelligence knew very well that if they were allowed to launch another charge on the scale of the first line of positional warfare, their chances of survival would be not about equal to but completely equal to zero!
The fact that the Russian soldiers did not hesitate to die did not mean that they were not afraid of death, and when they seized the first Han army position and looked at the scene of corpses everywhere, the sense of emptiness after the fanatical sound of 'Ula' was quickly replaced by a nostalgia for life.
Such heavy losses even made many Russian soldiers think that they were a failed offensive!
After all, at this time the Russian soldiers had not yet been educated as the Japanese madmen of the Second World War, who were full of allegiance and the idea of dooming together, and the idea of militarism did not arise within Russia, and the Russian Empire at this time was more of a chauvinism.
The chauvinism of the Russian Empire, that is, expansion and aggression is the foundation of a nation standing on top of the world, which is at the heart of the madness of the Russian gray cattle to fight wars, because they themselves also yearn for victory and expansion.
It's a pity that this kind of thinking is far less sharp than the militaristic kind of sacrificing the small self to achieve the big self, and the morale of the Russian soldiers is on the verge of collapse in the face of countless casualties!
Sure enough, in the subsequent attack on the second front of the Han army, the Russian soldiers could no longer play the momentum of the first battle, and this reality also forced the Russian commander to make the most painful choice - surrender!
Thus, after Austria-Hungary, another white regular army with a strength of more than 100,000 people officially laid down its arms to the Han army en masse!