"Shelling !!"

"Get down! Get down! ”

The sound was very sharp, it was the long, shrill whistling of the cannonballs as they burst through the air, and the deafening sound of explosions filled the eardrums, and the ground seemed to be smashed by a hammer again and again, and the furious sound and the tremor of the ground made people feel an unbearable feeling of dizziness.

From a bird's-eye view, the grass on the dusk earth is gone, and some are dug trenches, each of which looks crooked.

Yes! The ground has been dug everywhere and is full of trenches, and some of the trenches are covered with barbed wire, so you don't have to pay too much attention to it, and you can see the corpses of the war-dead lying near the barbed wire, and even the barbed wire will have the bodies of the war-dead.

Over the vast expanse, barbed wire divides the "world" into two sides.

In the eastern trench, a dense mass of figures could be seen, dressed in dark green trimmed field gray uniforms with a pointed spike in their helmets.

One after another could be seen in the trenches to the west, and in contrast to those in gray and pointed helmets, there were people in gray and gray-yellow uniforms, although a few of them had spikes in their helmets, but most of them wore helmets that looked like pot lids.

The front that was being shelled to the east belonged to the ...... of the Second German Reich and, more correctly, were the positions of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment and the 24th Reserve Light Infantry Battalion.

To the west, hiding in the trenches and listening to the roaring of artillery were the British and French coalition forces, a certain part of the British 4th Army and a certain part of the French 16th Army.

It's 1916 A.D., in mid-June, and the location is in the Somme region of northern France.

"Damn, what a rare free time!"

"Don't speak, cover your ears and open your mouth wide."

There are many kinds of whistling shells, some small-caliber and some large-caliber, and veterans can tell what caliber of shells are flying from the sharp whistling.

The war began on July 28, 1914, and lasted until June 13, 1916, and it was two years since another month and ten days.

The Somme has been the subject of several major battles before, but with the new changes in the situation on the Verdun side, the Somme has recently become somewhat calm.

Previously, both sides had been squatting in their trenches, and there had been occasional brief and abrupt gunfire from the positions, most of which had been calm, but the calm was broken as British and French artillery tilted their shells towards the German positions during the evening of 13 June.

"Adolf, Lieutenant Lawne calling you!"

"Yes!"

An emaciated corporal tried his best to stand up, and he was slapped off halfway through his salute.

"God, it's been said many times that don't stand upright and salute on the battlefield. You squat, squat. ”

The corporal had a thick beard and his eyes were full of exhaustion, and he was from Braunau, Austria, whose full name was Adolf. Hitler was the son of a customs officer.

"Sergeant, where should I go to see Lieutenant Lawn?"

"Keep going down the trench, and Lieutenant Lawne is in a bunker not far ahead."

"Okay, Sergeant."

During the roar of artillery, the ground trembled with each shell that fell, and if the shell landed too close to the trench, even if it did not hit directly, the flying earth would cover the trench.

Adolph. Unbeknownst to Hitler, a pair of eyes in the distance had been watching him, and he saluted the sergeant again and shook his body as he struggled down the trench.

Look at Adolf. Hitler's man was a young man who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, dressed in a field gray uniform with light green piping, a flat tall hat wrapped in a Prussian cap and an officer's neck strap with scales. As an infantry lieutenant, he was allowed to carry a pistol, as well as a number of field equipment, including an old "Empire" M91 revolver in a round pistol holster, as well as a telescope and map bag.

The young man, a lieutenant, was rolling his body as far as he could, his hands behind his back. His name was Richie...... Not! It should be said that he was not called this name before, to be precise, it was right to call Li Qi, but there was no word Oubei.

Li Qi woke up one time and found himself in the hospital, listening to the nurse say that he was stunned by a shell during a battle in Verdun and was sent to the field hospital for ambulance, and in a state of confusion, he did not understand why he could understand and speak German, and learned from the nurse's mouth that his name was Li Qi, and he was still an infantry lieutenant.

It used to be very important, but as no one called him by his original name for four months, and Richie's name was called more frequently, he gradually got used to his new name...... And, of course, a new identity.

The four German regiments in World War I had more than 20,000 infantry divisions, and the division commander was a major general. Each brigade has 4 infantry regiments, and the brigade commander has the rank of brigadier general. The infantry regiment consisted of 4 battalions with the rank of colonel. Each battalion has 4 companies, and the battalion commander has the rank of lieutenant colonel. Each company usually has 100 men, and the company commander has the rank of major or captain. There are 2-3 platoons per company.

Li Qi belonged to a lieutenant in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment and was originally a platoon commander, but the captain company commander was killed in a charge, and the other two platoon commanders of the same company were also reimbursed, and he was promoted to company commander in the field, leading a company of only forty-six men.

"Lieutenant?"

"Sergeant?"

"Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes, please come over."

"Got it."

It is a very risky thing to move in an environment full of artillery fire, and the correct thing to do is to honestly hide in the trench and stay motionless, but what can the boss do if he has an order?

When Litchie arrived at Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes, he found that he was not the only one who had been summoned, but that he was there except for Adolf, who was in the corner of the bunker. Except for Corporal Hitler, the rest of the men were at least a second lieutenant.

"Our intelligence indicates that the British and French on the opposite side are planning a major offensive, and the Colonel thinks that we should strengthen our fortifications while we are on guard." Rhodes was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties.

The lieutenant colonel wore the Prussian Order of Merit equivalent to the Victory Cross on his neckline, the Iron Cross of the 1st degree on his chest and the ribbon of the Iron Cross of the 2nd degree tied to the chest buttons. His M1910 Bavarian General Staff officer's field uniform was matched with the M1896 Bavarian infantry helmet. The scarlet collar badge, the trim and trouser line of the scarlet breeches, and the conspicuous traditional lieutenant's cross-back ribbon adorned his tunic in light blue and silver, representing Bavaria.

Litch listened attentively to Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes' speech, but that didn't prevent him from occasionally glancing at Adolf, who looked a little cramped. Hitler.

Adolph. Hitler really should have felt cramped, the Second German Reich was an imperial state, and the class position was very distinct. The lowest rank present was also a second lieutenant, and it was normal for him to feel nervous as the only corporal present.

Litchie discovers Adolf. Hitler's gaze swept over him, and he smiled a smile that he thought was kind, and thought to himself: "Who would have guessed that such a nervous and cramped man who looked nervous and cramped in front of a group of officers would end up being the Führer of Germany?" ”