The defeat of the first day did not frighten Nivelle, who soon launched a second large-scale offensive.

There was only half of the time left for Nivelle.

As early as the time to persuade Raymond to agree to Nivelle's battle plan, Nivelle proposed that if the French did not make progress within 48 hours, Nivelle would halt the offensive.

Now the day has passed. So Niviler needs to hurry.

The next day's fighting also began at six o'clock in the morning.

Neville and his staff consulted all night and came up with a new tactic.

In Nivelle's new tactics, the French attackers attacked the Germans in two directions, in a pincer state. One of them was led by Nivelle's confidant Mantin, and the other was led by Alfred, the former commander of the Mobile Force.

Since the outbreak of the First World War, Alfred has been Niveler's chief of staff, and they have worked well together. However, when Nivile proposed a plan to attack Shermandedam, Nivelle's plan was strongly opposed by Alfred, who even threatened to resign.

Naturally, Nivelle, who was already the commander-in-chief of the French army, would not accept such a threat, so Alfred was sent to the front by Nivelle to personally lead the army in what Alfred called "impossible to become a reality" attack.

Unlike Alfred, Mantin, the commander of the other road, is a murderer. As early as the time of Verdun, Manin was accused of wasting the lives of French soldiers along with Nivelle, who was forced to remove him from his post in order to calm the turmoil.

But as soon as Nivelle became commander-in-chief of the French army, Mangin was immediately promoted and climbed to a higher position than before.

Mantin's troops were not only French, but also the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Infantry Regiments of the Foreign Legion, which consisted mainly of Algerians and Moroccans, and were mostly black.

Mantin, who was not concerned about the lives of purebred Frenchmen, was even more indifferent to the lives of these blacks. In yesterday's battle, all four infantry regiments were sent to the front line, and all of them suffered heavy casualties and had not yet been recuperated.

Negroes are also people, and they are not stupid, so they can naturally feel Manjing's indifference, and the commanders of these four regiments raised the need to rest as soon as they heard the order, but Manjing ruthlessly refused. Mangin said something very bad at the preparatory meeting, saying that if the soldiers of the four regiments did not obey the order, then the commanders would be court-martialed.

In fact, the commanders of these four regiments were all French, pure white French. Although their skin colors are different, they have also cultivated a certain affection in the process of getting along with the soldiers day and night, so they want to say a word for the soldiers who are already full of anger.

In the end, the commanders' demands were ruthlessly rejected by Mantin, and all Foreign Legion soldiers, as long as they could still move, had to participate in the next day's battle. As if he wanted to vent his anger against Qin Zhiyuan on these soldiers of the Foreign Legion, Nivelle was not prepared to leave a way for these people to live.

Fortunately, Qin Yunpeng's troops were assigned to Alfred, and although they were also in the battle sequence, they were able to stay in the rear to rest because of the heavy casualties in the first day of fighting.

As on the first day, the second day did not make any progress.

After a day of fighting, the Germans had become accustomed to the new defense, and the French had not yet found a way to break through the German defenses.

When the French began to attack, the Germans would voluntarily retreat and abandon their positions after giving the attacking force a certain blow. Then, when the French were exhausted and stopped attacking, the German reserves would come up and regain the lost positions by driving the French back to their starting positions.

The two French armies, commanded by Alfred, moved northeast to join up with the other French army under the command of Mantin, and then work together to annihilate the Germans in the encirclement, or drive the Germans out of Shermandedam.

The plan is beautiful, the reality is brutal.

Neither French army completed its mission, and relatively speaking, Manking did it to a lesser extent, but at the same time, Manking's troops paid a greater price.

The four infantry regiments of the Foreign Legion had been largely wiped out in a day's fighting, and the four regiments now combined were now less than 1,000 men, and the rest had been ruthlessly squandered by Manking before the German positions.

Not only the blacks in the Foreign Legion, but also the French troops under Manking, who suffered more than 110,000 casualties during the day, of which 40,000 were killed.

In just two days, the French army paid the price of 270,000 casualties at Shellmandedam, of whom 100,000 were killed. The Germans defending in Shermandedam suffered a total of 163,000 casualties.

Such heavy casualties could not be borne by both Germany and France, especially the French, whose human resources were gradually depleted.

That evening, Prime Minister Paul Panrowe rushed to the front and went to Nivel in person, demanding that Nivile stop the offensive immediately.

At the same time, Qin Zhiyuan waited for Qin Yunpeng in the Black Swan Castle.

Since Qin Zhiyuan's engagement ceremony, it has only been a few days, and the high-spirited Qin Yunpeng has disappeared, and what came to Qin Zhiyuan was a middle-aged man with gray hair and a decadent face.

"General Qin, you are right, the French really don't treat us as human beings!" Qin Yunpeng seemed to have drunk a lot of wine before, he was a little drunk, his steps were vain, and he was half lying on the sofa and shouting as soon as he entered the living room.

"As I reminded you, Nivelle not only does not treat foreigners as human beings, they do not even treat French people as human beings." Qin Zhiyuan's face was gloomy, his tone was indifferent, and he lacked a trace of enthusiasm.

Qin Yunpeng is still quite smart, he didn't come over until Qin Zhiyuan's anger passed, if it was last night when Qin Zhiyuan had just finished reading the battle report, Qin Yunpeng didn't even lie on the sofa, he couldn't even enter the door.

Obviously, not all French people are like Qin Yunpeng said, at least not Foch. Otherwise, Foch would not have allowed Julie and Qin Zhiyuan to get engaged.

"It's me who is confused, I am confused...... A full 8,000 children, let me be buried in the wilderness thousands of miles away from my hometown, how can I explain to my parents and fellow villagers after I go back......" Qin Yunpeng burst into tears, and finally couldn't help crying.

Yesterday and today, more than 5,000 Chinese were killed on the spot or seriously wounded, and although Qin Zhiyuan sent some military doctors from the First Brigade to the front line to support the Second Brigade last night, many of the seriously wounded still died of their injuries. If we add those who have lost their limbs and are permanently disabled, the nearly 10,000 people of the Second Brigade before the war have lost nearly 8,000 people, and it can be said that it is close to the total annihilation.

Because of this, not only the families of these eight thousand children, including Qin Zhiyuan, they will never forgive Qin Yunpeng.

And, of course, there is Nivelle who will never forgive. (To be continued.) )