When Lin Youde enjoyed a leisurely family life with his daughter and wife, the French Civil War front, which had been quiet for a while, reopened.

French government forces, which had received salaries and supplies from the British, launched the spring offensive of 1938, although spring had not yet arrived.

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Versailles, France.

Alain Delon was at his command post, watching the soldiers reinforce the defensive line.

His troops had repelled three government charges, and the entire front of the position was covered with the corpses of government soldiers, whose yarkes looked like mushrooms growing out of thin air in the snow.

Alain's forces defended a salient on the east bank of the Meuse, where the Meuse twisted in the direction of the government front, creating a protrusion that resembled the plump breasts of a young girl embedded in the line on the west bank. To the north of Alain Delon's position, on the west bank of the river, is the high ground that had made the Germans suffer enough in the last war.

In the last battle, the French heavy artillery positions set up on the high ground bombed the German troops occupying the positions on the east bank of the Meuse River to the bitter end, and the huge casualties made the German army realize that they had to cross the river to attack the hills on the west bank of the Meuse River and occupy the artillery positions on the high ground.

So in the second stage of the Battle of Verdun, the German army dispatched a large number of battle queen troops to attack the west bank, but was counterattacked by a large number of French war queens, and the fiercest battle of war queens in the entire Battle of Verdun was staged in this way.

It is said that fragments that fell off the armor of the battle queen can still be found on the west bank of the Meuse River.

However, this is not important, the important thing is that the revolutionary army troops led by Alain Delon are now enjoying the treatment that the German army enjoyed at that time.

Every time they repelled an attack by the government troops, the artillery on the heights to the northwest greeted them fiercely, and the enemy artillery had caused far more casualties than the government troops rushing up.

To make matters worse, many of Alain Delon's troops were in shell shock and were largely incapacitated, and it was good enough to be able to shoot indiscriminately at the front of the position when the enemy attacked.

There are different theories about the causes of shell shock, some doctors believe that this is a physiological brain injury, the cause of which is the shock wave of the shell, but more people think that the shock of the shell is a psychological phenomenon, especially the middle and senior officers who have experienced the last war, all claim that many soldiers are not in the direct range of the shell at all, and will also produce shell shock, which must be a symptom of the combined effect of fear and fear.

The two sides have been arguing for almost twenty years since the last war.

Aladron himself observed that the latter was more reliable, and that most of the artillery shocks occurred in the newly replenished recruits of his troops, who had been apprentices in factories two months earlier, students in colleges, or some other profession, and who had only begun military training a few weeks earlier, and had been sent to the front after hastily learning to use German-made weapons.

As a result, as soon as they arrived at the front line, they were met with such fierce fighting and such heavy shelling, and many people were probably not mentally prepared to endure this.

Fortunately, the veterans who had joined the revolutionary army in the early days of the revolution were very calm - although the veterans had only experienced a few more battles than the recruits, this experience had already reborn the surviving veterans.

Alain Delon himself followed the Revolutionary Army's current most successful general, General Andrew, through the government's winter offensive last year.

After seeing with his own eyes how General Andrew commanded the battle, Alain Delon also had a calm and relaxed momentum at this time - in his rear, the one who coordinated the defensive operations near Verdun was General Andrew, and he would definitely properly handle the requests of each army and arrange the operation of every section of the defensive line. He would never give up on such a critical salient, reinforcements were certainly already on the way.

At this time, Alain Delon suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound in the sky, and he only had time to shrink his shoulders when the shells landed not far from his headquarters.

He heard the soldiers outside reinforcing the fortifications shouting: "Shelling! Take cover! ”

The second shot fell, this time at a distance, but before Alain Delon could rejoice, a series of explosions exploded in his ears.

Instinctively, Alain Delon crouched down against the wall of the command post, as did the rest of the command post, and the ferocious shelling made the walls and ceiling of the command post tremble, and dust and sand continued to fall from the sky and stick to Alain Delon's neatly combed hair.

There were still people shouting outside the command post, but Alain Delon couldn't hear what he was shouting at all amid the rumbling of the cannon. Suddenly, the shouting came to an abrupt end, and Alain Delon guessed that the brave warrior had probably been killed.

To Alain's relief, he could tell that there weren't many heavy artillery shells coming from the explosion, most of them were seventy-five-millimeter infantry guns, and he guessed that there weren't many heavy artillery shells left in the government army.

If it hadn't been hit by a heavy artillery shell of more than 155 mm, the chapel that Alain Delon had chosen as his headquarters would probably have been fine, but many things on the battlefield were simply uncertain, and perhaps a 75 mm grenade would have gone straight through the window next to Alain Delon and exploded in front of him.

I don't know how long it took for the shells to fall in the vicinity to decrease in number, and it was obvious that the shelling had shifted to positions closer to the riverbank.

"It's changed to Xu Jin's barrage." Alain Delon stood up and shouted to his staff officers, "Inform the front, the enemy attack is coming!" ”

The French first used a dense barrage to attack the enemy's core positions and headquarters to suppress the enemy artillery that might be in zài, and then turned to the forward position and used the barrage to cooperate with the infantry attack, which was a tactic that the French learned from the Germans in the last war, but judging from the fact that Alain Delon's troops repelled the previous attacks, the government army was not particularly proficient in the use of this tactic.

In particular, the German combat group attack method was not learned by the government army at all. Of course, there are also weapon restrictions in this, and most of the soldiers of the French government army use an improved version of the M1916 bolt-action rifle, although it is an improved version, but this rifle developed in the last war to compete with the K98 has long been behind the times.

In contrast, a large number of revolutionary army units were equipped with new semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, which were all equipment that Lin Youde's National Volunteer Division had replaced after fully adopting assault rifles, and all of them were handed over to the French Revolutionary Army by Lin Youde in the form of assistance. As one of the main forces of Andrew's legion, Alain Delon's division naturally gave priority to equipping these new weapons.

Today's day of fierce fighting has made Alain Delon fully aware of how great the battlefield advantage brought by the new weapon is.

A skilled revolutionary rifleman can take down several enemy soldiers in a row in a matter of seconds, without pulling the bolt and other superfluous actions, and an assault soldier equipped with a submachine gun can easily sweep down a bunch of people by himself.

So after the morning battle, Alain Delon adjusted his defense.

Now the line of defense on the river beach consisted mainly of skirmishers who could support each other, and the revolutionary army did not take the time to rebuild the bombed trenches, perhaps this was misunderstood by the artillery observers on the opposite side, thinking that they might abandon their positions.

Alain Delon leaned against the walls of the church, looking through the glass window, stained glass shattered by shells scattered at his feet.

Alain Delon listened, and sure enough, he heard the explosion of the shelling gradually approaching his position, indicating that the government infantry unit had landed and was approaching the beachhead - at least according to the artillery timetable given to the government artillery, the infantry should have come ashore.

Alain Delon heard the gunshots.

The sound of the machine gun was so weak in the roar of the barrage that it seemed to be interrupted by the wind at any moment.

"The time has come, let the mortars fire."

"Yes."

With Alain Delon's order, the mortars, which had long been set for a long time, began to fire, and the sound of the artillery was also drowned out in the roar of the barrage.

At this moment, the operator next to the broken organ at the other end of the church suddenly shouted: "Radio call, it's the air team, they will support us immediately." ”

"We don't need support," Alain Delon shouted to the interlocutors, "let them take care of the artillery positions of the government forces in the West Bank!" It's fucking better than anything else. ”

The operator turned around and began to call the fleet of planes in the air, while Alain Delon continued to turn his head and look out the window, although he was the commander, he didn't really have much to do until further reports came back from the front.

A few more minutes passed, and the barrage of Xu Jin came to the vicinity of Alain Delon's headquarters again, and the falling shells shook the entire church again.

This time, however, the sound of heavy artillery shells was completely inaudible in the explosion, and it seemed that the government army did not have heavy artillery shells.

As soon as Alain Delon thought so, a 75-mm grenade hit the steeple of the church.

Alain Delon had no time to raise his head when he saw the large bell hanging at the top of the tower smashing through the wooden floor of the bell chamber and landing in the center of the chapel, smashing the rows of wooden chairs to pieces. The bell made a loud sound, shaking Alain Delon's head.

But fortunately, the bell quickly lowered and became a calm trill.

While the bells are fading away, the shelling of government forces is becoming sparse.

It seems that the government artillery has completed its task, and the rest of the offensive has nothing to do with them for the time being.

Alain Delon let out a sigh of relief, turned his head to the adjutant who was guarding the phone, and said, "How is the front line?" ”

"So far, we have received information that government forces have launched attacks at both crossings, with more than 2,000 people coming ashore."

Alain Delon glanced at the clock on the wall, but saw that it was out of order, so he took out his pocket watch and checked the time. It's almost dusk, and this is supposed to be the last attack of the government forces today, as long as it is withheld, this damn day will be over.

As soon as Alain Delon thought this, the roar of the engine was heard in the sky, followed by the characteristic screech of the lightning dive bomber as it dived, tearing at Alain Delon's eardrums.

It seems that the air force did not attack the artillery positions of the government troops, as Alain Delon had hoped.

But that's fine, without air support, Alain Delon estimates that his troops may have to abandon their positions on the riverbank and retreat to their core positions.

In general, the results were not bad, but Alain Delon decided to sit in the little jeep assigned to him only a few days ago tonight, and go to General Andrew's headquarters to explain to the general in person the need to immediately destroy the artillery positions of the government troops on the high ground to the north.

However, I heard that the general was dealing with a large-scale attack by government forces in the center, so I may not be able to fulfill this small request.

At this time, the phone rang, and the adjutant immediately picked it up.

"Uh-huh, I see." The adjutant put down the phone and looked up at Alain Delon, "The attacking government forces have begun to retreat, and our men have completely recaptured the riverbank positions. ”

"Did the soldiers shoot at the government soldiers who were swimming and running away?"

"Report, no."

"Sue them, target the officers, and kill as many officers as possible, those are all lackeys who instigate the simple workers and peasants to work for the powerful."

"Yes."

The adjutant picked up the phone again.

Adain Delon pulled out his cigarette case from his pocket, a beautiful little cigarette case that Alain Delon had taken from a dead nobleman - no, they weren't called nobles in France, but it didn't matter.

He took out a cigarette from his beautiful small cigarette case and put it in his mouth, lit the fire leisurely, and took a pleasant puff while watching the sunset.