Ludendorff's defense system, if changed to Chinese, is two words: avoid its edge, lure the enemy deep.

Don't feel like this tactic is simple, in France, where there is no room for detours, it is not easy for Ludendorff to come up with this solution.

Ludendorff's tactic is called "elastic defense", and Nivelle was defeated first in front of this tactic, then Haig, then the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Breshilov, and now Bastian has been added to the list.

After receiving the news of Colonel Hausen's request for help, Bastian immediately sent reinforcements, and Qin Zhiyuan also ordered Ruan Juncai's troops, who were closer to the 185th and 192nd regiments, to come to support.

When Qin Zhiyuan ordered Ruan Juncai's 15th Regiment of the Foreign Legion to support the 185th Regiment and the 192nd Regiment, Qin Zhiyuan felt faintly inappropriate in his heart.

Before Qin Zhiyuan could figure out what was wrong, another battle report came, and Colonel Henry of the 192nd Regiment was killed.

The Germans attacked with exceptional intensity.

In the distance, there was a faint sound of intense shelling, it was the German artillery firing, they had not responded to the previous artillery attack of the 17th Army, and they had only played their role now.

Colonel Hausen was in a desperate situation.

Almost instantly, the Germans emerged from all directions, carpet shelling, crossfire, charging German soldiers with bright bayonets......

The 185th Regiment suffered heavy losses, the chief of staff of Hausen was killed in the shelling, three battalion commanders were killed, two were seriously wounded and one was seriously wounded, and Hausen's own left arm was also scratched by shrapnel, but fortunately, Hausen's consciousness was still quite clear, and he immediately organized troops to defend on the spot, resisting the German attack on the one hand, and calling for help from the rear on the other, and at the same time ordering the troops to move closer to the 192nd Regiment.

The 185th Regiment was still able to organize resistance, while the 192nd Regiment was already in disarray.

The commander of the 192nd regiment, Henry, was killed in the first round of artillery fire from the Germans, the regimental chief of staff was seriously wounded, three battalion commanders, one was definitely killed, one was missing, and one had an arm blown off, and still insisted on directing the battle.

The situation was urgent, and the battalion commander, whose arm had been blown off, offered to ask Colonel Hausen to retreat immediately after leading the team to break off.

The Germans attacked so fiercely that there was no time to be polite, and Colonel Hausen had only time to give a military salute before leading the remnants of the 185th and 192nd regiments to retreat.

In order to advance lightly, the 185th and 192nd regiments did not carry heavy weapons, and the soldiers only had grenades except rifles, so the sparse density of fire could not stop the Germans, so when all the grenades were thrown away, the two sides fell into a brutal white-knuckle battle.

White-knuckle warfare is one of the most brutal forms of warfare, and after the war, casualties are counted, and there is often a one-to-one situation, which shows the tragic situation of the battle.

The broken soldiers did not have an advantage in numbers, but fortunately they did not lose their courage and all fought to the last moment. Unfortunately, their numbers were too small to slow down the Germans, and there were too many wounded soldiers in Colonel Hausen's troops, and the Germans caught up before they could return to the forward positions of the enemy troops they had occupied.

So it was another brutal white-knuckle battle, and this time almost all of the wounded soldiers were left behind.

By the time the Germans caught up with Colonel Hausen for the third time, the 15th Regiment of the Foreign Legion had already arrived to the rescue.

Most of the Annam people were new recruits, and this was their first time on the battlefield, and although some Chinese veterans mentioned it, they were still confused when faced with the frantic charge of the Germans.

Still didn't resist.

The Germans pursued until the position of the Ankang regiment before they really ran into hard stubble.

Xiang Ankang has always been cautious, and when he set up his position, he not only had light and heavy machine guns, but also dragged two 75 misses.

In order to prevent the rout from being scattered by the rout, a safe passage was opened in the position to Ankang, and the rout of the 185th Regiment, the 192nd Regiment, and the 15th Regiment of the Foreign Legion passed over, becoming the last line of defense on the battlefield.

In the face of the swarming Germans, Xiang Ankang was not in a hurry, and when the Germans entered the area of death, Xiang Ankang ordered the troops to open fire.

In another sniper attack that bordered on a massacre, the Germans dropped at least 2,000 corpses before they were forced to withdraw from the battlefield in disarray.

By the time the Germans attacked again, it was already an hour later, and in that hour enough grenades and ammunition had been replenished to the Ankang regiment, and at the same time contact with the artillery in the rear had been established, just waiting to meet the German attack.

At this time, the Germans did not simply attack head-on, but attacked the positions of the Ankang Department on three sides.

On the line from Sasi to Sasi, the frontal line of defense is about six kilometers, and if it is defended by four regiments, even if the defenders cannot cover the entire line, at least they can be horns of each other.

But now there was only one regiment to Ankang, so the Germans could calmly attack the defensive positions of the Ankang Department from the three-point direction.

As is customary, the infantry attack was preceded by fire cover.

The Germans' artillery must have calculated the firing elements in advance, and the shelling was carried out with exceptional accuracy. In an hour of artillery strikes, almost a third of the troops were lost to the Ankang regiment.

In fact, at this time, Qin Zhiyuan had already wanted to withdraw Xiang Ankang's regiment, but Maxim insisted on fighting a dozen to measure the combat effectiveness of the German and Chinese troops, so the battle began under extremely unfavorable circumstances for Xiang Ankang's regiment.

After all, the Xiang Ankang regiment had been honed in the Battle of Fairontadenoy, the soldiers cooperated with each other, the tactical movements were skillful, and the officers knew what to do in various situations.

So the Germans were unlucky.

From eleven o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon, the Germans launched three attacks, and except for the first shelling, which yielded many results, the remaining two were unsuccessful.

On the other hand, there were thousands of casualties in each attack, and because of the damage to the Ankang regiment, far more wounded than killed, and even in the second attack, because there were too many wounded soldiers, in order to rescue the wounded, the infantry was routed before reaching the death zone formed by crossfire.

The Germans were also making progress in the war, and their infantry and artillery coordination became more and more proficient, and during the third attack, when the artillery began to extend, the infantry was only about 150 meters away from the position of the Ankang regiment, which was almost stepping on the explosive point to rush forward.

It took a bit of effort to repel the third attack of the Germans, and it took an hour of fierce fighting before the Germans were driven out of their positions.

In this battle, the casualties of Xiang Ankang's regiment increased significantly.

The Germans also learned wisely, and instead of fighting hard, they used terrain to attack in waves. Whenever someone charges, there will always be accurate marksmen who take advantage of the craters and rubble covering the mountains to shoot at the defending soldiers in the position.

The quality of the Germans' individual soldiers is actually quite good, especially their accurate shooters, I don't know if it is because of their own superb shooting skills, or because of the bonus of the scope, anyway, the soldiers who are wounded or killed in the defensive position are basically caused by accurate shooters.

After repelling the third siege of the Germans, Qin Zhiyuan resolutely withdrew his troops from the front line despite Maxim's strong opposition.

Qin Zhiyuan can be regarded as having seen through it, almost all the soldiers of this era are almost the same as Nivelle and Manjing, they disregard life, are stubborn, and will not give up until they achieve their goals.

In order to achieve their goals, even if it is necessary to pay for their own lives, they will not hesitate in the slightest, and the lives of soldiers are like mustard for them.

It's just a paper number.

(To be continued.) )