However, to the surprise of the German soldiers, the French army did not take advantage of the favorable situation of mustard gas on the position to attack, but launched a slightly smaller artillery bombardment again, although it felt inexplicable, but those German soldiers still quickly retracted into the trenches, and after a period of time, the double torture of mustard gas and shells finally passed, and as time went by, the yellow poisonous fog over the trenches gradually dissipated, and the German soldiers who had been holding gas masks for a long time could finally breathe a breath of fresh air, One by one, I couldn't wait to take off my gas masks.

At this moment, the horn of attack suddenly sounded from the opposite side, and the German soldiers who had just taken off their gas masks hurriedly picked up their weapons and climbed up the ladder, ready to meet the approaching enemy, without noticing at all, there seemed to be a faint sweet fragrance around, of course, it was too late for them to realize it.

In the face of these well-protected German soldiers, the French came up with such a very insidious method of poisoning, they first used a large amount of mustard gas to force the German soldiers to wear gas masks, and then in the final stage of bombardment with mustard gas shells, they mixed a large number of shalins shells into it. No one likes to wear a gas mask for a long time, this thing is a kind of torture when the mustard gas is obvious in the air, the German soldiers who think they are not dangerous will definitely take off the gas mask, and at this time the hidden shaman gas invades their bodies silently.

The French proved to be a great success, and the German soldiers who took off their gas masks had no idea that there were demons lurking next to them, and just as they were preparing to face the French, one by one quickly showed symptoms of poisoning, and even if anyone understood, it was too late. The much faster onset of action than mustard gas, and the much smaller lethal dose, caused the vast majority of German soldiers to be poisoned before putting on their gas masks again, and those under the trenches. The soldiers in the place where the shamans were most concentrated did not even have time to put on their gas masks again, and then they fell to the ground foaming at the mouth.

By this time, the attacking French army had already begun to charge.

With the terrifying power of the shaman, the French easily broke through the German defense line at Saint-Miel, and more than 10,000 German soldiers fell silently on their positions, at the same time, the news that the Russian army broke through the German defense line in Zhytomyr has also arrived, and the morale of the entire Entente bloc was immediately shaken, and even the Italian government was clamoring to launch a counteroffensive to regain the lost territory, of course, they were just shouting. Even if Prime Minister Littini wants to fight the Italian soldiers, he still doesn't want to fight!

However, just when the allies were playing a triumphant song, the British suffered a heavy setback at St. Quentin, they had neither the tactical innovation of the chariot group attack, nor the special external equipment, so they could only honestly fill in the lives of the people as before, repeating over and over again the meat grinder tactics of artillery bombarding the infantry and artillery bombarding the infantry again, such tactics have been more than three years. The effect is proved to be pitiful with countless dead bodies, and now the British certainly will not have a miracle.

Covered by thousands of cannons, nearly three million British troops charged in vain over and over in the buffer zone between the two armies, like the waves of the rising tide hitting the breakwater, and then one by one they turned into corpses and remained in the mud. The only bright spot was the massive bombardment of German positions by the British airships, and the massive use of white phosphorus ran-incendiary bombs, but unfortunately they could not gain air supremacy, after the defeat in the air battle. Their airship ended the battle with equally heavy losses.

But in this way, the British Army is very humiliated, and looking at the two allies, especially the French in the same battlefield, it is simply a triumphant advance. After Saint-Mielle broke through the defensive line, the French army attacked north without stopping, taking advantage of the opportunity of the German army to react because of the surprise and rushed towards Verdun, and on the morning of the second day of the battle, the advance had already reached this former fortress, of course, it was also their former sad place, and now the Verdun fortress is still there after being burned into glass.

However, at this time Verdun was not defended by the Germans, it was already in the rear of the battle line, and the only small number of routed troops did not form any effective resistance here, and the attacking French division recaptured this important strategic node with almost negligible casualties, cutting off the railway from Metz to the German-occupied area of France, and in the following short time, the French army re-inserted two army groups into this salient.

And part of the French army even began to attack Metz, although strategically this did not make much sense, with the strength of the French army it was impossible to continue the German attack in depth, just around this salient, the capture of Verdun was enough. But the symbolic significance is huge, because it means that the French army has entered Lorraine, into this land that represents their shameful history, and all of a sudden, the French public opinion, which was originally dying, became excited as if it had suddenly shot a jar of chicken blood, making it seem as if the French army had really won some great victory.

This shows the incompetence of the British army, for the honor of the British Empire, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, Field Marshal French, also let go, he also knew very well that the Germans were in chaos at this time, in order to recapture Verdun, Prince Leopold, the supreme commander of the German army on the Western Front, was desperately mobilizing all the forces that could be mobilized to launch a counteroffensive. So Marshal Frenzi noblely ordered his men to go on the offensive, not once, twice, not three times, not to think about casualties, as long as victory, no matter what kind of casualties were acceptable, even if to drown the Germans with blood, the warriors of the British Empire did not flinch.

He enjoyed the applause and praise, the British soldiers on the front line were unlucky, they were like worthless cattle in all kinds of slogans, and of course, strict military law drove the next futile attack on the German lines, the bloody casualty count was increasing day by day, and even tomorrow newspaper, began to feel the courage of the British soldiers.

However, although this tactic was bloody and cruel, it was also really effective, because the German army could not withstand this attrition even more than them, Germany's war potential had reached its limit, and the attrition of the front line could not be replenished at all.

It's not that his command can't do it, in fact, he has been pressing on Britain and France like a heavy mountain over the years, it's not that the German soldiers are not brave enough, there are the most elite German troops on the Western Front, the key is that there are fewer and fewer people, almost no division is full, and the age of the new recruits is unbearable even for him to look at.

In fact, the Western Front is better, the French army's offensive is to look bluffing, it actually has little impact on the war situation, the British attack is very headache, but in the short term they will not have much breakthrough, after all, while the blood of the Germans is drained, the blood of the British themselves is also dry, the real killer is the Eastern Front, after Zhytomyr was broken through, the Russian soldiers who poured in from the breakthrough were divided into two routes, all the way to the west and all the way to the south, to the west to contain the main attack, and to the south to attack, it is obvious that the goal is to encircle the main forces of the Allies in Ukraine.

Although this sounds exaggerated, after all, it is a huge group of three million people, but it is not impossible, the Russian army has invested at least five million troops on the Ukrainian front, nearly twice the strength advantage, although the morale of the Russian army is not high, but the Austro-Hungarian army as the main force on the Eastern Front is not as good as them, the desertion situation in recent times is extremely strict, and the Austro-Hungarian soldiers of those Slavic nationalities are not willing to fight at all, and the Russian army is fully capable of encircling both in terms of strength and combat effectiveness, Once this happens, it can be said to be a disaster.

The German and Austrian general staffs immediately began to order their respective forces in Ukraine to shrink their defensive lines, abandon the currently fighting front and retreat westward, towards the borders of Ukraine with Galicia, Poland and other places, which is effectively equivalent to withdrawing from Ukraine.

But this still can't be done, they have to get reinforcements, without reinforcements, under the continuous attack of the Russian army with a total strength of more than 8 million, they will eventually have to continue to retreat, especially for Austria-Hungary, and it is even possible to retreat to Galicia, the place where the original war began, which will undoubtedly be an extremely heavy blow to the already low morale.

But neither Germany nor Austria-Hungary had no one left, and if they wanted reinforcements, they could only draw reinforcements from other battlefields, and the Western Front would definitely not work, so that the Italian battlefield became their only option, although this was also very frustrating, but they had no choice but to abandon Italy.

The two German armies that were originally pressed in the Alps and northwest Italy immediately began to shrink back, of which the 14th Army directly withdrew from Italy to reinforce the Ukrainian battlefield by train, and at the same time, the Austro-Hungarian Sixth Army, which was originally on the eastern coast of Italy, also withdrew from Italy to reinforce Ukraine, and the two Greek Army and the Montenegrin Army with them retreated north to the Apennines and the Austro-Hung 10th and 11th armies in the north of the Apennines.

In this way, the Allies were left with only five armies left on the Italian battlefield, and although it was impossible to maintain the offensive, there was still not much pressure on the defense, after all, the main enemy they faced was the Italian Army, and more importantly, they had enough space behind them to retreat, and it was not impossible to completely withdraw from Italy if necessary. (To be continued......)