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Now it was General Ben Weihao's turn to be distressed.

He could tolerate casualties, but the casualties were so high that they were so shocking that even a general like him, who didn't care much about casualties on the battlefield, began to feel the chills.

There were so many light and heavy machine guns on the opposite side that the firepower was so fierce that it had reached a terrifying level, and there were tanks and mortars to help.

Now, he is finally beginning to understand what the Skeleton Commando is called "the best of the best".

The entire 79th Infantry Brigade was crippled, and the faces of the French soldiers, who were constantly attacking under the drive of the officers, were full of horror and fear!

That's not the kind of war that humanity should have

Perhaps the most frustrated was Colonel Crowell, who commanded the 79th Infantry Brigade, and when he arrived in Reims, his heart was full of pride.

He had participated in the Battle of Verdun with General Ben Weihao, and at that time, he was still a lieutenant colonel, and the general gave himself a most difficult task, and a regiment under his command suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties, but still completed the task.

This time, however, he saw no chance of victory

An atmosphere of sadness hung over the 79 Infantry Brigade, as well as over Crowell

At this point, General Ben Weihao didn't seem to have a better way, and he really couldn't think of anything else than to continue to exchange his life for victory.

The 21st Infantry Division was thrown into battle ahead of schedule

This was supposed to be the trump card left by General Ben Weihao in advance in order to win the last victory. But now it looks like the battle can't be solved without using it.

The enemy was not particularly numerous, about six hundred to eight hundred men, but it was such a force that was absolutely inferior in numbers. But it was like an impregnable wall in front of the French.

Now General Ben Weihao personally appeared at the front of the position, he did not believe that the Germans on the opposite side were really iron, he did not believe that the troops under his personal command could not break through the enemy's obstacles!

Since the establishment of the 21st Infantry Division, the most tragic offensive and defensive battle broke out on April 19, 1917. Ben Weihao under his personal command. Successive onslaughts launched wave after wave of offensives against Cinoshi

In two days, no matter how many tactics General Ben Weihao changed, the final outcome was the same:

Tsenochie. Like an indestructible giant!

That skull battle flag has always stood on the German position!

At the same time, the Luftwaffe also increased its power, and German fighters frequently appeared in the sky. Time and time again, it has provided all possible support to the army.

That big red fighter was the most conspicuous everywhere it was placed. Every appearance always drew cheers from the Skeleton Commandos.

The man on the plane was named Manfred. Feng. Richthofen – the Red Baron!

The French Air Force was also working on it, and they were far from being the opponents of the Luftwaffe, both in terms of aircraft type and in the quality of the pilots.

One by one, the French Air Force fighters were shot down, and when the wreckage of the planes fell to the ground, it was the French infantry who sighed one after another, and they suffered a heavy defeat on the ground, and they were also losing in the sky

Not just in one sub-Noshi, but in the entire Reims-Soissons battlefield. The progress of the French was seriously unsmooth. The Germans held their positions firmly and continued to crush enemy attacks.

Even if some positions fell into the hands of the French. But the Germans would strike back at the first opportunity, and then retake the position

The Spring Offensive broke out on April 6, 1917, and for twenty days until April 26, the French received nothing but casualties.

Now, their morale is plummeting

Reims-Soisson's French army had already suffered 50,000 casualties, which the French could not afford, but an end to the battle would mean a complete failure of the French "spring offensive", which would only make the government more passive.

Faced with a dilemma, the French High Command made a desperate attempt to concentrate all its forces and launched the most ferocious and brutal assault on the Germans on the three main fronts of the Reims-Soissons line.

It's called the "Ten Days of Big Madness"

In the face of the surging French army, the Germans were caught in a bitter battle, and the skeleton commandos who had held out in Tsenochi for a full ten days were also caught in a bitter battle

The French High Command made a desperate bet, and so did General Ben Weihao, who threw all the troops in his hands into battle!

At a glance, there were dense French people in front of the position, and the attack had no formation at all, just holding guns, driven by the officers' whistles and shouts, they charged forward numbly

Once, twice, three times

The Cinohi position is like a flat boat in a big wave, constantly being pushed to the top of the wave, and then being thrown down heavily, and there is a danger of being crushed at any time and anywhere.

But every time there was an impact, there was no danger, and this ship was made by Ernst. The small boat at the helm of Lieutenant Colonel Braham himself fought tenaciously against the wind and waves again and again!

The mortar shells were all depleted in three days, and the barrels of the machine guns were red, but the machine gun shooters were still desperate and wildly strafing.

In front of the position, the corpses of the French were almost piled up into small hills, but they had no intention of retreating. Once they were repulsed, and before the members of the Skeleton Commando could have a respite, a new attack began

All the people are desperate, everyone

The war has been going on until now, and everything has become so mechanical. The fear of death is simply negligible, because no one has time to think about such a thing.

The number of casualties in France continues to increase, as do the casualties of the Skeleton Commandos.

Since Wang Weiyi served as the commander of the third company, he has always been accustomed to exchanging the smallest casualties for the greatest victory, but this time it was different, and he had to watch with distress as the soldiers he selected and trained kept falling on his own position

This is war, this is war

No matter how brave a person is, he can't escape the threat of death, and the Grim Reaper flying in the air will not care if those who are fighting on the ground are his strikers, and every time a life is lost, the Grim Reaper will happily treat their souls as their own trophies.

God was powerless at this time, and he could only watch these human tragedies happening on the ground

On the 27th, 28th, and 29th, the days passed, and the corpses could not be cleaned up in time, and the battlefield became a terrible hell.

The team members, who were still counting the number of enemy attacks that had been repelled at first, had no mind to care about these things now. They only knew that Lu Dao took advantage of the enemy's temporary retreat for a short time, and hurried to seize the time to take a good rest. As soon as the officers' whistles sounded, they would mechanically jump into the trenches and fire the bullets out of the chambers as quickly as possible

The nerves of both sides have reached a critical point of collapse, and now, it is up to them to see who is the first to fall from such horrors

At the headquarters of the 2nd Army of the French Army, General Pétain was anxiously watching the front line at the headquarters of the German 2nd Army. General Galvetz was anxiously watching the front line

The French are waiting, the British are waiting, the Germans are waiting

"General, the Skeleton Commando has been holding out in Cinoshi for a full twenty-eight days." Colonel Rohr felt compelled to tell the general about the situation: "Almost all the troops in the first line were rotated, except for Ernst's troops, and there was never one to replace them. General, you see"

"It's almost over, it's almost over" With a keen sense of the battlefield, General Garvetz muttered: "The French are about to be unable to hold on, their casualties have approached 100,000, this is a terrible number, we have no troops to replace the skeleton commandos, maybe they are not willing to be replaced, let them hold on for a few more days, the last few days"

Colonel Rohr nodded silently

General Galvetz was silent: "Did Ernst ask for reinforcements?" ”

"Nope." Colonel Rohr smiled bitterly: "Baron Skeleton and his men are some crazy people, God, they are facing a whole division and a whole brigade of the enemy, although they are well-armed, but God knows how they hold on." It seems that once, the enemy had rushed to the front of the position, and the officers Ernst, Rommel, and Manstein, with all the team members, forced the French back to go crazy, they were really crazy. ”

"Are there many casualties?" General Galvetz asked.

"Judging from the battle reports from the front, the casualties were very large, they were facing an enemy dozens of times their own, and the commander of the other side was the 'brave general' Ben Weihao, a Frenchman who never looked at the casualty reports."

"Ben Weihao? He was an excellent officer, but unfortunately he was met by a skull baron who was even better than him. General Galvetz said in a daze: "When the spring offensive of the French is crushed, we will prioritize the supply of the skeleton commandos, and give them whatever they need!" (To be continued.) )