At night, the battle resumed.

In contrast to the French and Germans, the night belonged to the scouts.

One of the three armored vehicles assigned to Hu Tingfeng was a special communications vehicle, and a set of radio transceivers was installed in this vehicle.

War is the best driving force for the development of science and technology, and there are already telephones that can freely convert sound and electrical impulses, as well as radios that can transmit signals in the air.

In Qin's laboratory on Corsica, a team dedicated to wireless communications has been formed, and their first research project is to miniaturize the equipment in question, at least for on-board use, so that it can be installed on tanks and other vehicles. Of course, this is not an easy task, and it is estimated that there will be no results in the short term, and for now, only radios large enough to fill a car can be used.

Fortunately, it was not Qin Zhiyuan who paid the bill.

With radio support, it was much easier for the scouts to harass them, and instead of risking being strafed by MG08 on motorcycles, they could deal a bigger blow to the Germans by directing their artillery.

You know, the artillery of the Germans has been raging during the day, but the artillery of the 1st and 32nd divisions has remained silent, and the reason why they have endured for a day is for this moment.

With the large-caliber artillery of the 32nd Division, Qin Zhiyuan can command more than 100 heavy artillery, and if you add small-caliber artillery similar to "Miss 75", Qin Zhiyuan can command more than 300 guns.

Speaking of artillery, the French actually fell into a misunderstanding before the First World War.

When "Miss 75" was just born, its rate of fire was the first in the world, and the French artillery was very popular for a while, especially after the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition in 1900, almost all countries that saw the power of "Miss 75" asked the French to buy "Miss 75". There is no reason not to make money for the money sent to the door, so the French sold "Miss 75" all over the world, except not to the feuding Germans.

The "Miss 75" has a rate of fire that exceeds that of all similar weapons, which is so great that the French changed their tactics for this reason, they equipped the "Miss 75" with steel shields, used grenades that rely on steel balls and fragments to kill the enemy, and in the war demanded that the "Miss 75" be pushed 1000 meters away from the enemy line, crush the enemy with an unparalleled ultra-fast rate of fire, and then launch an infantry charge.

The Germans, who could not buy the "Miss 75", were very helpless, and since they could not get the French in terms of rate of fire, the Germans simply found another way to study the large-caliber artillery that surpassed the "Miss 75" in terms of power and range.

Different routes led to different results, and after the start of the First World War, the French vaunted "Miss 75" was destroyed by the heavy artillery of the Germans before they could push to the preset positions. The shells used by the Germans were no longer grenade shotguns, but high-explosive shells with full charge, and at this time the shells no longer relied on steel balls and fragments to kill the enemy, but on impact breaking to give the enemy invisible damage.

Having learned from the defeat, the French began to shift their focus to large-caliber artillery at the end of 1916. After all, the French still had a background in artillery, and soon created heavy artillery that was as powerful as the Germans' heavy artillery, but had the upper hand in range and rate of fire.

In fact, if you look carefully at the artillery of the First and Second World War eras, the French are not inferior to anyone in terms of technology, but unfortunately the gap in tactics is getting bigger and bigger, which also fully demonstrates the importance of people.

Qin Zhiyuan was just in time for the French to catch up, so most of the troops were equipped with large-caliber artillery.

The power of large-caliber artillery is incomparable to small-caliber artillery, although the firing range has increased a lot, the accuracy is not much worse, it only took three test firings, the artillery completed the landing point test, and then there was a salvo of 300 guns.

What is the concept of a salvo of 300 guns, which is equivalent to throwing fifteen tons of steel into the German camp for each round of fire, and if calculated according to one-fifth of the charge, each salvo is equivalent to about three tons of T.N.T explosives exploding in the German camp.

And so the Germans were tragic.

The Germans were almost awakened by the sound of violent explosions almost as soon as they fell asleep, and at this time they did not care about the "Night Camping Regulations", and first found cover to avoid the French shelling as soon as possible. Not everyone has this opportunity, many people are directly shocked to death in their sleep, there will always be strange red spots on their skin, there are no wounds on the surface, but all the internal organs have been shattered.

Don't think that the Germans are all iron warriors, when they encounter an irresistible fire blow, the Germans will also be busy, they will also panic, and they will also collapse.

When the war has reached this point, those soldiers who have the skills and courage are about to be exhausted, and now the ones who are sent to the battlefield are either those veterans who have been discharged from the army and re-enlisted in the army, or those children who have just reached adulthood and have not received enough training.

Last year's Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme, which completely exhausted the last vestiges of the Germans, the British, and the French, are now only holding on with one breath, not so much fighting the enemy as fighting themselves.

In the second half of last year, 100,000 people of the entire German army fled, and they could not bear to be in a state of death at any time, and would rather become dishonorable deserters than suffer in the trenches.

The French are in a better situation, because the French army is not short of food, the French government also has enough money to maintain stability, and with the Americans as their backing, the French can sell whatever they want. But it is not without problems, the mutiny that is currently taking place in France is a big outbreak under the pressure of French soldiers.

The Russians are even worse, with an average of 35,000 Russian soldiers fleeing every month since Christmas, and this is on the premise that there is no large-scale fighting on the Western Front.

The British look good, that's because the British are continuing to mobilize colonial soldiers to transfuse blood for the British, and now in Europe, there are more than a million Indian soldiers alone, as well as the Canadian Legion, the Australian Legion, the New Zealand Legion, the Irish Legion, and so on.

The Chinese represented by Qin Zhiyuan are also transfusing blood for France, so they will be valued by the French, and they are almost in response to their needs in terms of equipment.

The response to demand was the availability of enough shells and artillery, and now the French are paying off with their investments.

The rate of fire of the heavy artillery was much slower than that of the "Miss 75", about two to four rounds per minute, and if it was measured in hours, the rate of fire would continue to decrease, and in general, it would be able to fire almost two shells per minute. So in five minutes at most, a German divisional camp would turn into a sea of fire.

It's really a sea of fire, all the tents, fences, cars, wood, and even ammunition boxes, as long as they can be ignited, basically burning, and from time to time there will be concentrated stacks of ammunition to explode, there are flames everywhere, everywhere are soldiers running around roaring with fire, they will eventually be burned alive, their bodies curled up into a ball, their limbs will shrink, into a strange posture, and their bodies will become charred.

The sea of lava and fire, the inferno of flames, is probably this kind of scene.

(To be continued.) )