The rain became heavier and heavier, and the German soldiers in charge of night patrols found that they could not see clearly from almost five meters away. But in spite of this, these tall German soldiers still dutifully undertook the duty of night watch, allowing the rain to run down their cheeks and into their necks......

This is the important town of Rev, in the Lorraine region, about 40 kilometers from Verdun, which was guarded by the French army, and it is almost 30 kilometers from the entire front line. From the point of view of either side, this is an absolutely safe area. When the news of the successful assault at the front came, the entire German army in Rzhev rejoiced, but then came the headache that caused them, most of the supplies were still nesting in the warehouse in Metz? According to the original Jihua of the General Staff, these supplies will be sent forward with the follow-up troops when the German army is fighting a war of attrition with the French in Verdun. But in just one day, the Germans managed to break through nearly twenty kilometers, something that had not happened since the beginning of the war. Many German soldiers were even greatly relieved by this, and it seemed that the damned French could not bear it, and the war might soon end with the victory of the Second German Reich.

But the front line now needed reinforcements and supplies, and the German officers in charge of the front attack let out a cry for follow-up reinforcements. As a result, the five German divisions stationed in Metz were asked to rush to the front along the road on the afternoon of the 15th with only one standard base of ammunition, while more supplies and heavy artillery were asked to postpone the delivery until the 16th in order to make way for the infantry. Light artillery was unceremoniously carried forward by the infantry on war horses, and without artillery, these heroic German infantry would really be turned into riflemen.

At the same time, the Germans still had about 11 divisions on standby in Luxembourg, and they were now called upon to march directly to Verdun, rather than to rest in Metz, the center of the German campaign. It seemed that the three-year-old war would be over as soon as the Verdun Line was penetrated, and morale was suddenly high in the German army. And none of them cared about the fact that Metz, which had hoarded about 65% of the total amount of German campaign materials, was about to become an empty city, and the Germans with only one infantry regiment and three baggage regiments combined with less than 10,000 men served as garrisons and transporters in the city......

The 191 cm tall German soldier named Worrall, who is in charge of patrolling this post about a kilometer away from the town of Rzef, is 191 cm tall from Munich, the capital of Bavaria. With such a tall figure, a standard German face and dazzling blonde hair, he is only nineteen years old this year, and many girls in Munich love him. Before joining the army, Worrall was a small worker in a brewery and worked hard, but Jishu was average, which was what his master said about him. However, Worrall is not good at brewing beer per se, he is a tall amateur player for Bayern Munich, the local football club in Munich, to be precise, he plays as a striker, and he was the youngest player in the Bayern Munich first team before he was drafted. In the derby of the Munich 1860 team, which was also founded in 1860, he relied on his tall size to score four goals in one go, and fans praised him for being a natural footballer.

Unfortunately, the damned war broke out, and the dream of the star came to naught, and Worrall had to say goodbye to his beautiful girlfriend and put on his military uniform to play with the French on this damn battlefield. Counting the days, Worrall has been in the army for more than half a year, but he has not had a chance to go to the front line to kill a Frenchman, and this time his unit is very fortunate to be arranged in the rear to protect the security of the entire logistics supply line. And victory has already beckoned to the great Kaiser Bixia again, and it seems likely that by the end of the war, he will not have a chance to shoot at the French, and perhaps he will have to defeat these Frenchmen on the football field in the future. Worrall suddenly missed her mother, a standard German rural woman with a bucket-like waistline and a constant yelling at her children. He doesn't seem to be very kind to himself, and always yells at himself: Worrall, you idiot, you kicked your shoes again, don't you know that you can't wear leather shoes when you play football?

But I don't know Weishenme, looking at the sky in the distance that is red by artillery fire from time to time and the slight roar of cannons, Worrall actually misses this fierce mother a little. Damn, the soldiers of the Empire are not allowed to be homesick when they are on duty, Worrall quickly shook his blonde hair, and then cheered up and continued to observe, and the rain became heavier and heavier......

Suddenly, Worrall, who was blinking away from a drop of rain, felt a wind coming towards him, and reflexively looked back. But when he saw a sharp dagger gently slashing through his neck, his throat suddenly felt cold. When the enemy attacked, Worrall tried to scream to remind Corporal Hank, who was guarding the sentry with him, but no matter how hard he tried, his voice could not make a sound, and life seemed to pass away from his body little by little.

The moment he fell to the ground, Worrall looked very unwillingly at the murderer who was wiping the dagger on his body, a stout enemy, wearing the uniform of the French army, but the appearance, well, his eyes were so sleepy, he couldn't see clearly, Worrall's war was finally over......

On the night of the 15th, the Germans, who had been replenished and reinforced, launched an unprecedented attack with the courage of a dreadnought against the French army, which had become demoralized by surprise. Artillery of various calibers unceremoniously tilted their ammunition towards the French positions, and the brave German infantry fearlessly rushed to the French positions.

Although Nivel redeployed, most of the heavy weapons could not be returned to the fourth line of defense due to the rapid loss of the third line of defense, and now the only fire support that the French army could rely on was the heavy machine guns deployed by the infantry themselves. No one could have imagined that the Germans would attack overnight, and the demoralized French army finally began to lose strength after holding out for three hours, but fortunately, the Germans did not know that the French could no longer hold on, and they had already run out of shells, so they chose to stop and wait for reinforcements to come up tomorrow morning before continuing the attack. At the same time, they also tragically discovered another thing, neither the fortress of Douaumont nor Voburg was taken by the Germans, and the battle lasted from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and although the German soldiers were very brave, the marmot-like Chinese seemed to be more tenacious. A full 4,000 heroic German soldiers fell on the way to the charge, but the Germans did not take down even a pillbox, and the fighting strength of these Chinese is really a bit unusual.

Zhao Yanbin, Ma Wenyuan, and Xia Liqiu's squad assigned the task of defending the No. 184 pillbox, which was made of cement and steel bars, and strictly speaking, as long as it was not directly hit by the German 210mm caliber heavy artillery, there would not be much trouble. But unlike the Haode bunkers that the French built early, these bunkers were so loud and frightening to death when they were shelled. At this point in the battle, everyone's ears were still buzzing, and everyone was shouting at the top of their lungs.

After inspecting the position, Zhang Zizhong immediately decided to send the heavy machine guns down to the pillboxes and the grenadiers and mortars to be used at the battalion level. The 6th Division consisted of 20 infantry battalions, each of which was tasked with guarding 20 pillboxes. After all, the bunker is a circular building with a diameter of less than six meters, and after the materials are stacked, at most one more squad of troops will be squeezed into it. Fortunately, these bunkers are built around bunkers, so most of the troops and supplies of each battalion are placed in the bunker as the core defense, which is much safer and more comfortable than the Haode bunker that was just built.

This blockhouse, which was numbered 184 by the staff of the division headquarters, was undoubtedly very lucky, in the German army's crazy artillery bombardment, except for three unlucky pillboxes that were repeatedly hit by German heavy artillery and overturned, the rest of the more than 300 pillboxes were extremely strong, and then waited for the Germans to hit like a tide.

As soldiers, the Germans were a presence worthy of the respect of all enemies and friends, they were disciplined, they were loyal and brave, and they were fearless. Although the soldiers of the expeditionary force were also in battle for the first time to kill the enemy, they had undergone the strictest and most standardized training, and the kind of indiscriminate shooting of the enemy while still outside the firing range did not happen, and the German troops approached the positions guarded by the Chinese troops almost in silence.

The Germans are also veterans of a hundred battles for a long time, and if the Chinese army fires at them at this time, the Germans will feel relaxed, because such opponents are generally not terrible. But the Chinese positions were quiet, and the atmosphere was very oppressive, and the attacking Germans soon felt a kind of mental pressure.

100 meters, 80 meters, 60 meters, 50 meters...... The distance was getting closer, the guns never rang out, the German officers and soldiers began to relax, perhaps those damned Chinese had been bombarded by the artillery. But the commander of the German army, Colonel Effenberg, did not see it that way, and he sensed the approaching danger, and sixteen years ago, Lieutenant Effenberg, who was only twenty-two years old at the time, had entered Beijing with the Eight-Nation Alliance. At that time, the Chinese gave him the impression that he was vulnerable, but then he was ordered to carry out the task assigned by Marshal Wadsey, and randomly arrested a hundred Chinese men at Xizhimen in Beijing for medical examination according to the German Army's conscription standards. As a result, these dumb-looking Chinese gave him a surprising result, and ninety-five out of a hundred people actually met the physical standard. At this time, the German army, which had been ordered to pursue the Qing army to Shanxi, was defeated by the Qing army, and Marshal Wadsey came to the conclusion that the physiology of the Chinese was very healthy, and what was unhealthy was their system and leadership.

Effenberg remembered this vividly, and he did not believe that the Chinese on the opposite side would be wiped out by artillery.

Just as he was thinking about this, the gunfire suddenly burst out, and the German soldiers were knocked down in pieces......