Bureaucrats who are stubborn and out of step with the times will always have the most in any country and in any era, especially in countries that are about to collapse. They only want to believe what they believe, and they will deny other facts even if they are already in front of them.

"Bastard! That's a bunch of bastards! ”

Otto. Feng. Bello had been roaring for a few minutes, he had just received the latest news that reinforcements had been made from the Entente side, at least 18 divisions had arrived on the battlefield from the rear, and the planes had been reinforced.

"They've been bombing our supply lines, and those damn guys, they'd rather watch us get bombed than bring in even a plane for reinforcements!"

Richie opened a Pandora's box, that is, about the bomber does not have to bomb the battlefield completely, but also to bomb bridges, roads, airports, bases, and all other targets that can be bombed.

The Entente were not entirely stupid, and they quickly mastered the correct use of bombers, and instead of simply sending bombers to bomb trenches and trenches, they began to target airfields, bridges, and roads.

At first, it was actually okay, because the last time the Allies lost too many planes, the German planes on this side of the Somme had the advantage, and the entire sky during that period belonged to the German pilots. Later, the Entente showed what it means to be wealthy, and it took only a month to make up for the previous losses, and even more than the previous number of aircraft!

In terms of productivity, the Entente were in an absolutely dominant position, so even if they encountered sudden losses, as long as it was necessary, the Entente side could always quickly replenish them, especially in the field of combat weapons.

The headquarters of the 1st Army, relatively close to the Somme, was a village ......chief, well, in fact, a ruin that had been flattened by artillery, and then a cellar was cleared and became the headquarters.

The staff officers of the 1st Army, such as Litch, had been ordered to move forward half a day earlier, not because the 1st Army was going to launch a counteroffensive or anything, but because the Allies were going crazy to send planes to attack and bomb any place that might be the headquarters of the German army.

[That is a continuation of the last incident of revenge, and it is estimated that there is also an intention to force the German command to keep shifting? ] 】

Forcing the enemy command to constantly make transfers? You must know that this is not the era of very developed communication, although there is a radio station, but the radio is a behemoth, it is not so convenient to move, and at the same time, it always takes a certain amount of time to set up the machine every time.

And then there's the corded phone. At present, there are wired telephones, but what is the situation of setting up telephone lines in the battlefield? I don't know if it's a hassle to describe it simply, laying a telephone line for too long will always break due to various sabotage or accidents. Since the Germans began to carry out frequent infiltration, the Allies have not done nothing, they have also carried out small team infiltration, and there is no reason not to destroy the telephone lines.

In fact, it is still more dependent on manpower to send messages, so the role of signal troops is still important, and the speed of information communication is not much faster. It is precisely because of the incomparably important heralds that a consensus has long been formed on the battlefield that once the enemy heralds are discovered, even if they call for an artillery battalion to bombard, it is not too much.

There were a lot of people in the headquarters, and the sound of shelling from outside was also very clear, and the officers who were called in, they were all standing and looking at the roaring Otto. Feng. Bello.

Many times, it is really only when you are on the front line that you can understand that war is not so simple.

The Allies' ground infantry attacks did not stop, on the contrary, they repeatedly launched very powerful offensives, and although they faced slaughter again and again, they showed no sign of stopping the offensive at all.

The air forces of the Entente? The latest intelligence gathering shows that the Allied air force has increased to at least 400 and has increased the number of bombers of various types to no less than 150.

"We are holding off the right flank with less than 10 divisions, and we have less than 180 planes to deal with the enemy air force almost twice as large as ourselves!" Otto. Feng. Bello glanced around the scene with a wolf-like gaze and said in a muffled voice, "Our task is extremely difficult! ”

There was a sound of military boots cumping, and everyone, including Li Qi, was in a posture of standing upright.

"So far in the war, any layout that needs to be done has been done." Otto. Feng. Bello patted the non-existent dust on his shoulder, and his eyes were very sharp to look at everyone as much as possible: "Now, in addition to the personnel of the maintenance headquarters, I will ask you to go to the front line, command on the ground or assist in the front-line operations!" ”

Some of the people who listened were excited and some were afraid, especially the purely civilian personnel with panicked expressions.

Otto. Feng. Bello had to do this, and the war consumed not only soldiers, but also the loss of officers.

For example, some company commanders who had to lead their soldiers in a direct attack were the most killed of all officers. The casualty rate of platoon commanders and squad leaders below the company commander level was even more alarming, so that after two years of the war, not only was there an extreme shortage of non-commissioned officers at the grass-roots level on the part of the Allied countries, but also the Allied countries were even more lacking in grass-roots officers and non-commissioned officers because of the heavier casualties and greater losses.

Battalion commanders or regimental commanders at the front of the command are slightly more secure than officers and non-commissioned officers below the company commander, but in reality they are not much safer. Most of the shelling was covered by heavy artillery hits, and the bunkers where the unlucky ones were hiding were hit by heavy artillery and died during the necessary reconnaissance. The resulting phenomenon is that almost all the people in the military academy who can be transferred to the front line have been transferred.

The losses of the officers were still so large, not to mention the soldiers who were directly involved in the rain of bullets, and both sides even began to mobilize minors to participate in the battle, with France doing it most thoroughly.

At the beginning of the war, France would consider all kinds of diseases in adults and not recruit them, and the consumption of soldiers in the back was so great that it didn't matter what kind of asthma, heart distension, rashes...... and other diseases, all of which were directly caught and pulled into the barracks. Then, in August 1916, the French government even began to recruit children under the age of 15 into the army, and put these children into the battlefield without any training.

"Yes, yes, that's what we're doing." Otto. Feng. Bello was specifically leaving Rich behind, and he had something to ask. "In a war of this magnitude, any force that can be used should work, including children," he said. ”

It is estimated that the French government is recruiting even 15-year-old children or younger, and the Second German Reich naturally thinks that France has reached a critical point, thinking that one more push will bring down the Gallic chicken?

"Our troops are very depleted, and several divisions have been beaten to the point where an empty shell remains. I need you to consolidate the remnants of those divisions, and then call up the recovered and soon-to-be-recovered fighters from the various hospitals to form a reserve brigade! "Otto. Feng. Bello stared at Li Qi with blazing eyes, and his face was full of seriousness: "Since you have been doing logistics coordination for just a few days, I know that you have such overall planning and coordination skills." Now I need you to organize a brigade. This one brigade may be the key to this campaign...... At least the key to the right. Do you understand!? ”