Chapter 1120: Fort Wo
The explosion destroyed an entire section of the trench system. Another terrible weapon was the 130-millimeter small-caliber high-speed gun, which fired 5.2-inch shrapnel at the speed of a rifle bullet, killing the French before they could even notice it.
Among them, the 13 'Big Belta' heavy howitzers, with an arc trajectory of up to 122 meters, hit the target after 60 seconds. Able to penetrate reinforced concrete buildings, the power is huge! When the shells exploded, the dust, debris and gunsmoke formed a huge cone, which rose to an altitude of more than 300 meters. Artillery observers are on the plane, making ballistic corrections from the air, allowing the shells to gradually approach the target. Every shell explodes on the ground, and it can form a huge crater tens of meters square! It's as if the feet of an invisible beast are approaching you step by step!
The fear of the approaching shells was able to make the soldiers in the underground fortifications hysterical! As the explosion got closer and closer, it felt like it was exploding in my head. Their horror was also higher and higher, and the shells finally exploded above their heads, the steel warheads pierced the fortifications, the ceiling collapsed, the tunnels were blocked, the basement was full of flames and gas, and the explosions and shouts were mixed together, as if the end of Shijie was coming.
This electronically controlled cannon once played a decisive role in the capture of the Belgian 'Liège Fortress'! In that battle, the Germans used only 4 such heavy howitzers! It only took four days to tear the 'Liege Fortress', known as the strongest fortress in the whole of Shijie, to shreds! And this time, all 13 'Big Berta' heavy howitzers of the German army were deployed on the front of the Verdun fortress! The power is imaginable!
If it weren't for the underground arsenal that bought time, Akon would have run fast enough with everyone, and it is estimated that he would have turned into ashes along with the forward positions where they didn't know the location!
Everyone rested here for half an hour, only to feel dizzy, the space here is too small, and the oxygen content is very low. Franken, who was a little weaker, was already in a semi-comatose state. Everyone ate some supplies and regained some vitality. He continued along the tunnel that Yoda had dug.
Fortunately, this time it is going up, which at least gives everyone hope that they can breathe fresh air. Crawling in this cramped tunnel, people's will is also being consumed, and the tunnel seems to have no end. This kind of environment can only be adapted to by creatures like goblins. If it weren't for Yoda's evolution into the Goblin King, and he also collected a group of tribes in the scene, so he had the ability to dig frantically and summon his subordinates, I'm afraid everyone wouldn't have the treatment of drilling tunnels, at most digging a bunker or something, and waiting to die inside.
The French soldiers in the Yongzhu fortifications were trembling and trembling under the frantic artillery fire of the German army. Most of the artillery originally deployed in Verdun was dismantled and transported away by the headquarters of the army group. Not even a symbolic counterattack. The upper echelons of the French army believed that the fortress was outdated after the heavy artillery. Therefore, with the Verdun fortress, they had a chicken rib mentality and withdrew most of the defenders and heavy artillery from the fortress. It was because of this mistake that the German army had the absolute upper hand in the early days of the Battle of Verdun!
A group of soldiers are hiding in a canteen in a relatively safe underground bunker that has been converted into a makeshift field hospital. Because there are so many wounded! They were waiting for the German artillery to cease. But I am afraid that this wish will not be fulfilled for another eight hours. And in the next eight months, such attacks will be commonplace. The wounded in the trenches outside were constantly being brought in, and they were all blown up to a blur of flesh and blood! Military doctors and nurses are as busy as ants, but their efforts, most of the time, can only serve a comforting effect. The only thing left is for the chaplain to pray for the dead.
The ground in a corner of the canteen of this underground bunker suddenly collapsed. Several French soldiers were startled, pulled the bolts of their guns, and nervously roared. They were already overheaded by the artillery overhead, and they were so depressed that they were about to have a nervous breakdown. Out of the hole, I saw a few friendly soldiers, although they all looked strange, some seemed to be Orientals, and some were Indians. But they really should be friendly soldiers, and they are also high-ranking officers. This is the scene's default to the identity of the vow-bearer.
"You're from that unit? Sir? The French soldier immediately saluted, and then asked aloud.
Akon ignored it, patted his clothes, looked around, and asked in turn, "Where is this?" ”
"This is Voburg! Sir! The soldier replied.
Akon nodded, pulled Zhang Fan and the others out of the tunnel behind him, and Akon said to the soldier: "We are from the fortress of Douaumont, which has been captured by the Germans!" "Akon's lie will come true tomorrow, so it can't be verified, because now no one can get out, and if they can get out, then the fortress of Douaumont will really be captured.
"What? How is that possible? The soldier exclaimed, "The fortress of Duaumont is a three-dimensional defensive fortress!" ”
"Nothing is impossible! Damn the Germans threw a hundred thousand shells there! The fortress of Douaumont has been razed to the ground! Akon said angrily, he was also surprised in his heart, this is Voburg, everyone still hasn't left the front line. And after the fall of the fortress of Douaumont, it will become the main target of the German attack! And it will inevitably fall in three months!
Anyway, Zhang Fan's scene identity is still very high. Therefore, although everyone should be regarded as deserters, they have also been treated more in line with their status. I got a food supply for the scene, and arranged a slightly cleaner corner to rest.
The sound of shell explosions overhead came and went, and it is estimated that the outer trenches may have been blown up intermittently! The miserable howls of the wounded did not stop, stimulating everyone's nerves and indicating that a more tragic battle was about to begin.
Zhang Fan, as a doctor, came in handy here. Because of his fame, he has been recognized by the soldiers and officers here. So he and Greenwing were immediately invited to help deal with the injuries. And this was required to be executed as a scene task, and Zhang Fan couldn't refuse. The rest of the people were also assigned tasks one after another, some went outside to reconnoitre, and some were sent to guard a key place. Riyadh and Akon take Yoda to a bombed-out fortification somewhere for repairs, and it seems that the scene will not be quiet at all.
However, these scenario missions are all moderately dangerous, as long as they are not far from the trenches, the biggest danger is from the artillery overhead. Fort Vauvo was also the main area of this German artillery attack, although it did not suffer a devastating blow like the fortress of Douaumont, but it was also blown up by heavy artillery, and suffered heavy casualties!
At this time, the vow-keepers realized that those German shells were like meteors in the sky, wrapped in blazing flames! Some of the giant cannonballs, even faintly revealing the skull of a roaring black dragon, spewed flames and slammed into the ground! And on the French fortress, there is also a layer of pale golden defensive enchantment shining with a faint light! And from time to time, there is a naked virtual image of an ancient Roman fighter, raising a huge shield to defend against cannonballs like raindrops in the sky! That's 500% nerfing of the paranormal phenomenon in the scene!
By evening, the density of German artillery fire was much smaller. Just when the French wanted to take a breather, the experienced commander of the Vauburg defense immediately ordered everyone to prepare for defense, and everyone went into the trenches!
Akon crouched in the trench and looked at his pocket watch, 16:45. I saw an overwhelming German soldier in the distance, holding a rifle with a bayonet and screaming, rushing up to the French position! The barbed wire fence and foxhole, which could have blocked the attack of German soldiers, had long been blown to the ground in the preparation of German artillery fire! Many of the trenches were also blown up in sections, unable to be connected.
When the German army attacked, the clouds in the sky faintly condensed into a black cross with gold edges, symbolizing the arrogance of the German Empire, and attacked the French position! There was also a faint cry of the German Empire in the air! In the sky above the French position, there was also a faint sound of the radical 'Marseillaise', and the image of a red, blue and white shield symbolizing the French Third Republic appeared in the clouds, fluttering like a flag!
The French soldiers in the trenches knew that they had no way to retreat, and in the face of an enemy five or six times their size, they bravely opened fire and returned fire! In positional warfare in this era, the defending side has to take advantage of it. What's more, this is the Yongzhu Fortress area! The terrain is condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If it weren't for the German artillery coverage, even if there were a million male soldiers, they would have to sink into the sand!
Heavy water-cooled machine guns, at a rate of 2,000 rounds per minute, fired fiercely at the onrushing Germans! That barrage, as if it was the shining scythe of the Grim Reaper, easily harvested the lives of the attacking troops! But the first and second lines of defense of the French army, which were mainly fortifications based on field trenches, had long been destroyed under German artillery fire! Most of the soldiers were killed in the artillery fire, so it was difficult to block the feet of the German attack, and in less than two hours, the Germans occupied the first line of defense more than 500 meters deep!
In the sky, German planes flew like hornets, and from time to time dropped high-explosive bombs in areas where the French returned fire to Liliang. And give shooting tips and calibration to heavy artillery! French planes flew sporadically to reconnoitre, and were soon dispersed by German fighters. In such a three-dimensional attack, the casualties of the French soldiers increased rapidly!
On such a brutal battlefield, a group of vow-holders were forced by Aken and Patigul to fight soy sauce. Holding the gray props from the World War I era equipped in the scene, there is a counterattack without a match. Because everyone can find that the bullets fired by the soldiers in these scenes actually have a strong flash of spiritual ability! It seems that the defense of the spiritual ability of the Ring Bearer is a big blow! That's 500% of the energy that weakens the scene!