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The shelling in 1916 was a kind of firepower tilt that had nothing to do with precision strikes, especially long-range shelling, which was generally a kind of high-density and large-scale coverage, and the mortars that had just appeared had just appeared with a little accuracy, but the range of the mortars was a bit worrying.

Marcus. Ergen's mortar teams and some of the Guards' mortar groups have been ordered to participate in the shelling, and they are taking advantage of the observation advantage to fish in troubled waters to target special targets, such as enemy observation bunkers and machine-gun bunkers.

Shells fired from the rear of the German line continued to fall on the side of the Allies who were surrounding the field hospital, and every time the roaring explosions rang out, a burst of explosions would always kick up a large area of dirt and leave a large crater.

"Cannons and howitzers, looking at the movement and pulling sounds, the caliber is more miscellaneous?"

"Yes, it sounds like most of them are 105mm caliber, but there are 150mm, 210mm, and 240mm extended cannons, look at the terrifying explosion scene, a shell is directly a huge crater with a diameter of about ten meters."

"Oh...... This shot sounds like the 280mm heavy howitzer produced by Krupp in 1904, which is theoretically capable of firing once a minute. However, isn't there only 4 pieces of this heavy artillery on the side of the Somme Line? ”

Cruel! The 280mm caliber guns were generally installed on battleships, but the Germans were still equipped with the army, which was more normally used as shore defense guns, but also a small number of field regiments. Such a large caliber sounds like it should be a train gun, but what is very strange is that they are not train guns, they are installed on the battlefield with a very special base, and then use animal power or truck pulling, so they are said to be murderous.

The sudden shelling caused confusion among the Allied forces surrounding the field hospital, especially since Li Qi ordered the remaining artillery group to carry out a targeted clearance, so that the Allied troops thought that the German troops who were field hospitals were about to break through and reported the situation to Maxim. Wei Gang.

As the current supreme commander of the site, Maxim. Wei Gang once thought that the surrounded German army was about to break through, but instead of worrying, he felt happy in his heart. However, he soon found that the encircled German army showed no signs of breaking through at all, and had even contracted to a certain extent.

"It's hard to entangle!" Maxim. Wei Gang was really impatient, and he said to the people next to him: "They have shrunk back, and it is difficult for us to do anything unless we attack." ”

Li Qi must have to shrink his forces appropriately, because the accuracy of the shells fired from at least seven thousand meters away was really a bit unreliable, and some of the shells simply fell within the range of the field hospital, and the closer to the encirclement established by the Entente, the more likely it was to be accidentally bombed.

"Call back: We can't take advantage of the chaos to break through, and if we can't maintain a high level of shelling, please continue to harass and shell at low intensity until sunset."

After Richie finished speaking to the dispatcher, he looked at Ewald. Feng. Kleist, provoked Ewald. Feng. Kleist twisted his head away in shame.

Ewald. Feng. Kleist was really a little ashamed of his immediate boss, Wa~Er~T. Feng. Brauchitsch went so far as to ask in the telegram about whether they could break out.

Yes, the Allied side of the Somme front is launching an onslaught, and it is not difficult to guess from the movement from afar, that they have indeed successfully infiltrated the enemy-controlled area and completed the almost impossible task, but it does not mean that they can return with a group of prisoners in the current situation.

【W~er~Te. Feng. Brauchitsch must have been the future commander-in-chief of the Nazi Third Reich, right? How did this guy become the commander-in-chief of the army, and he would give such an opinion, is it when we are all invincible iron King Kong or something! 】

"Actually...... The situation is more complicated. "Ewald. Feng. Seeing that Li Qi had been scanning himself with strange eyes, Kleist was really embarrassed to be looked at, explained, and then said: "The captain should know that there are actually more complex underground tunnels under every battlefield, and we conducted special research before the operation began, so ......"

Li Qi also knew about the underground tunnels of the battlefield, which were used to dig into the enemy's underground bombs and his own transportation channels. If he remembered correctly, there was a loud bang to the southeast around 9 a.m., which must have been the work of the Newfoundland Legion.

Indeed, the offensive at the Battle of the Somme began with the explosion of a bomb called "Hawthorne".

The "Hawthorne Bomb" was not a bomb in the pure sense of the word, but was actually a combination of several tons of explosives piled up in an underground tunnel. It was dug into the vicinity of a natural Y-shaped position of the German army, and after it was ignited and detonated, the loud bang did not destroy the German Y-shaped defensive position as the Newfoundland Army envisioned, but the movement and damage of the explosion were still huge, and it directly reimbursed a German company. Even after the explosion of the crater, nearly a hundred years after the end of the war, the crater still exists on the site of the battlefield of the First World War in Bomon Amer.

"It's impossible, at least I don't think it's possible." Li Qi also considered making use of complex underground tunnels, but what was the actual situation? He said: "The ground can also use the terrain to hide and dodge, and there will definitely be people on the Entente side in the tunnel, and once we encounter it, it will be a battle that we have to fight, and we will be directly blocked by superior forces, and then we will face only two remaining ends, be killed, or surrender." ”

Ewald. Feng. Kleist seemed to have something to say, keeping an embarrassed look on his face, and then kept smiling bitterly.

It was really only when you went to the control of the Entente and experienced for yourself what it was like to be on the ground, and then you would know how unreliable the plan was to sit in the office and watch and consult the documents. To put it bluntly, it is most appropriate for the guy sitting in the office to formulate the general direction and strategy, and then hand over the details to the executor.

"Nothing has changed, has it?" Li Qi was referring to the reception of the airship at night.

Ewald. Feng. Kleist was even more embarrassed, he was in charge of guarding the radio, and according to the latest contact information just now, things had really changed. "The evacuation at night will not take place," he said. ”

Li Qi's face changed in an instant, he almost blushed, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"The General Staff Headquarters believes that there are too few airships for 9 airships, and there are not enough aircraft to receive and escort them, and thinks that it is necessary to wait for the follow-up airships and planes to be mobilized in place, and then ...... Ewald. Feng. Kleist smiled bitterly and said, "That's why Major (Brauchitsch) asked if it was possible to break out on his own. ”

Richie's sentence "Holy! He didn't scold it because he endured it stubbornly, and he already understood that it was a misunderstanding of Wa~Er~Te. Feng. Brauchitsch. However, he really seriously doubted that the unit he was serving in was not the German army, but the French army or the American army, because since the beginning of the operation, a series of accidents did not seem like what a rigorous, rigid, and disciplined German army would do!

Ewald. Feng. Kleist continued: "This is what Your Majesty meant. Said to be foolproof. ”

The Kaiser seems to have blown the cowhide to the major media? As soon as he heard that it was the Kaiser's meaning, Li Qi completely lost his temper, because things repeatedly developed in a seriously unreliable direction, and he was even considering whether to really surrender.