In the latter part of the Battle of Verdun in World War I, artillery became an important force in the battle. www.biquge.info The German army relied on the many large-caliber artillery pieces it had stockpiled for many years, while the French army was ill-prepared and weak...... At a disadvantage.

In April 1916, one day after two days and two nights of shelling by both sides, a French artillery position located in the upper reaches of the Maas River ran out of ammunition, and more than half of the artillery casualties were lost. As a last resort, the commander had no choice but to use a group of logistics personnel who had no experience in artillery to temporarily operate the artillery array. One of them, a young French corporal, with an innate fear of artillery, scrambled to fire a shell without aiming. As soon as the shell was discharged, the timid corporal cried out: "My shell missed!" The firing of this shell confirmed his incompetence, the shell was too outrageously off, the German position was in the northeast, and the shells flew to the northwest. At a time when ammunition is running out, such an act has every reason to be considered suicide. The commander brandished his baton and rushed towards the corporal in a rage. At this moment, only a dull explosion was heard from the direction where the shell flew, followed by a huge series of explosions, which continued like fried beans for 30 minutes.

It turned out that this deflection unexpectedly deflected to an important secret ammunition supply base of the German army in the Spancourt Forest, and successfully penetrated the ammunition depot through the narrow vent, detonating all the ammunition stored in the base, causing the largest explosion in World War I, and the German army's more than 600,000 rounds of large-caliber artillery shells and dozens of tons of ammunition were completely destroyed, and not even a single stink bomb was left for the German Empire. As a result, the countless doors on the German positions were filled with hungry mouths and turned into piles of scrap metal. The French Marshal Petain, who was still anxious just now, was overjoyed and seized the opportunity to counterattack the German positions that had lost artillery support. Thus, the Battle of Verdun went down in history with the defeat of the German army, which was able to fight well, and then decided the final outcome of the First World War.

To this day, we do not know for sure what the French thought of this overly timid and terrible French corporal and his decisive bias.