Chapter 349: Shura Hell (5)

Not willing to be lonely, de Gaulle and his five hundred French brethren also joined the battle, but they entered late, and they were fully organized and supplied, so they were very lucky, and when they rushed into the battle group, the German morale had fallen to the lowest point, so de Gaulle and his men not only did not suffer too many casualties, but also captured 3,400 German prisoners, who can imagine what a spectacular scene it is for a French army to hold six or seven German prisoners? That's all for later.

Although the German army is not good at sports warfare, it does not mean that the German army will not fight, after a day of panic and disorder on the 20th, although Ludendorff can not be contacted, but the 400,000 German army of more than a dozen division commanders are still a little talented, they immediately judged that the original roundabout strategy can not be continued, and now the troops are scattered within a radius of more than ten kilometers, the only thing everyone can do is to consider how to concentrate the German army, and now a pig also knows that there are 500,000 French troops behind.

The only way was for everyone to make a centripetal attack towards Druvattomon, and only in this way could the Germans concentrate on the already lost formation.

Sorry, this time Bai Chongxi thought of going with the Germans again, so the battle on May 21 became even more fierce. Around the town of Dhruvatomont, the fiercest battle between the armies of the two sides began, and Bai Chongxi's jaw almost fell to the ground in surprise when he learned that the German army actually had no commander-in-chief at this time. These Germans are too tenacious, aren't they?

The first two special battalions held in Druvatomont were almost all wiped out, and before the Germans could exclaim, Zhang Zizhong led two regiments of the Sixth Division to unceremoniously rush into the town, and after ten minutes of fierce fighting, the Germans left more than 400 corpses and were forcibly driven out. And then, then the 6th Division was nailed into the town like a nail.

The disadvantage of chaotic disadvantage finally came out, and because the advantage of the artillery could not be brought into play, as the battle continued for more than a day, the disadvantage of the expeditionary force's strength was finally exposed. According to Bai Chongxi's Jihua, as long as he can defeat the Germans at the first time, the disadvantage of troops is not a problem, after all, winning more with less is such a victory.

But as the battle progressed, the discipline and tenacity of the Germans still exceeded Bai Chongxi's expectations, and he sadly found that these Germans were still so powerful in such adversity.

And Jiang Baili's arrival once made Bai Chongxi excited, this is simply a send-off in the snow. But before he could be happy, two German divisions suddenly appeared, and after a scuffle, the men and horses brought by Jiang Baili also rotted on the battlefield. Looking at Jiang Baili with an apologetic face, Bai Chongxi once again rejected the suggestion of his subordinates to move the headquarters back, and then said to Jiang Baili very helplessly: "Now let's see if those arrogant and stubborn French are willing to seize this opportunity to defeat the Germans......"

In a wooded area about 300 meters away from Druvatomon, Xue Yue, the commander of the 61st Regiment, was lying in the pile of dead people with three soldiers, and coincidentally, the three soldiers were Zhao Yanbin, Ma Wenyuan and Xia Liqiu. It's not unusual for these three people to be together, everyone has a good relationship so much that even the girls do it together. But the head of the regiment, Xue Yue, is very strange here, as soon as everyone entered this Shura field this morning, they felt a deep horror, they had never seen so many dead people die so miserably. Many of the war dead were even pinching each other's necks before they died, and many of their bodies had been battered, and the bright blood had soaked the vast expanse of the land. Xue Yue made a cold joke at that time: "Will these trees become sperm after sucking human blood?"

Xue Yue didn't know if these trees would become essences, but if it weren't for the three soldiers in front of him, it was estimated that Xue Yue himself would become immortals.

At that time, Zhang Zizhong, commander of the Sixth Division, decisively judged that the key point in the entire battlefield was in Druwatomon, and whoever captured it first would be able to gather his scattered troops first. So Zhang Zizhong rushed over with the men and horses without hesitation. The 61st Regiment was tasked with guarding the grove on the left side of the town, where a path led to the town.

I don't know what kind of big lottery Xue Yue is, his luck is not ordinarily good, but quite good. The largest German army is directly towards the defense area of the 61st regiment, how big is this German army, it is really not big, only about 5,000 people. The actual number of people in the 61st Regiment who fought bloodily for a few days and rushed all the way here was more than 2,600 people, which was a tragedy directly. Even more tragic was yet to come, as many years later, Western military strategists who studied the history of World War I again discovered that the Heroic Regiment of Albert I, the ace of the German 12th Army, which had made great achievements in the Franco-Prussian War, also participated in this offensive. This army, which consisted of German stick boys from Saxony, was very fierce in combat, so it put great pressure on the 61st Regiment at the very beginning of the battle. If it weren't for the fact that the grenades and ammunition carried by everyone were still relatively sufficient, the 61st Regiment would not have been able to hold out for so long anyway, but the goddess of luck still favored the Chinese officers and soldiers who came from far away, and the enemy of the 61st Regiment was not in the best condition after a day of hard fighting yesterday, so the Chinese soldiers were very lucky and brave to persevere......

The 61st Regiment, composed of landless peasants, veterans, and patriotic students, also broke out with amazing combat effectiveness, and for five hours, without drinking a sip of water or taking a breath, they were fighting to the death with the German soldiers of Albert I's Heroic Regiment.

As the commander of the 61st Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Expeditionary Force, Xue Yue personally killed twelve German soldiers, and the fewer people around him, the fewer and fewer people around him. And the German soldiers also felt extremely stressed, they felt that they had killed the Chinese every time they attacked, but when they rushed up again, they saw the Chinese staggering from the pile of dead people and continue to fight with themselves, which was really a very frustrating thing.

The battle lasted until more than three o'clock in the afternoon, almost to the moment of Zuihou, Xue Yue killed another German soldier, but when he looked back, he saw that four German soldiers surrounded him, and there was no one comrade-in-arms around him, whether it was the chief of staff of the regiment, the political commissar of the regiment and his own guards, they had all been martyred in the battle, and he was left alone. After thinking about it, he was going to confess here today, and the young Xue Yue was still a little unwilling in his heart. The only thing the four red-eyed Germans wanted to do now was to kill the Chinese guy in front of him, especially since the robbery in his hand was out of bullets.

But before they could kill Xue Yue, who was already desperate, Zhao Yanbin and the three of them ran in from another small forest. These three bastard prostitutes met in the fiercest battle and lay in the corpse and pretended to be dead, but Ma Wenyuan, who was the most slippery on weekdays, was obviously the first person to make this suggestion, but he didn't know that Weishenme actually jumped up and killed a German soldier after hearing the screams of the tragic death of his comrades, and the other two naturally didn't continue to play dead, but got up and fought with the Germans, and as a result, they attracted a large group of Germans, and the three of them saw that the situation was not good, so they had to flee to another wood, and they accidentally saved the regiment commander Xue Yue, Zhao Yanbin flashed his hand on the spot, and stabbed three tall German soldiers by himself. The rest of the German soldiers were also very knowledgeable, and when they saw that there were many people, they immediately ran away, but everyone had neither bullets nor grenades in their hands this time. Between the lightning and flint, Xia Liqiu picked up a stone very cleverly, stretched out his hand and threw it, and the stone smashed the German soldier with great precision, just as the four of them were about to finish playing in the next wave of attacks, the German attack never came......

At five o'clock in the afternoon of May 21, although the German army did not capture the town of Druvatomont, but successfully achieved the goal of concentrating troops, at this time around Druvatomont, the number of German troops is increasing, hastily estimated that almost 100,000 people have gathered, no number has not changed more, it is not that the Germans are dead, but many German troops have received the latest order from Ludendorff and have chosen to break out of this battlefield. Seeing that the expeditionary force was about to suffer a big loss, Bai Chongxi and Jiang Baili had even issued an order to abandon the Sixth Division and withdraw their troops on all fronts after dark.

And Marshal Petain's French army finally arrived at the battlefield at the most critical moment, at this moment, all the officers and soldiers of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force who had fought for two days and one night shed tears of excitement, while the German soldiers who had been exhausted and ran out of ammunition and food showed desperate expressions, and everything was over......

The Verdun counterattack, the 520 campaign to be exact, was a battle with heavy casualties. The Chinese European Expeditionary Force paid a huge price of 60,000 officers and soldiers killed and 30,000 wounded. However, the harvest was also abundant, Wang Zhenyu personally awarded the title of the 61st Regiment Verdun Heroes, while Xue Yue and Zhao Yanbin, Ma Wenyuan and Xia Liqiu became good friends after the war and became a glorious member of the famous "three guns plus one gun" prostitute combination.

The losses of the Germans were even greater, with a total of 130,000 officers and men killed, 190,000 officers and men captured (including the wounded), less than 100,000 of the 450,000 German troops who withdrew from Verdun successfully broke through to Luxembourg, and more than 30,000 were missing. In just two days of fighting, 280,000 casualties were caused, and such casualties were rare in the entire Shijie War. So Marshal Petain didn't say a word when he saw Bai Chongxi, just hugged him fiercely, and then kept kissing our General Bai on the cheek, making us Xiaobai disgusted.

Although the French army suffered little losses, their appearance finally forced 120,000 German troops to choose to surrender.

After the end of the battle, a huge gap appeared in the eastern sector of the Western Front for the German army, and the initiative of the entire war was returned to the Allied forces.

The British newspaper The Times declared: "It was a decisive victory, and it was the brave and fearless dragon knights who brought us victory Chinese......"