"Ceasefire! Stop shooting... Stop shooting!"

The French team's attack was over, and the remaining soldiers retreated far from the range of gunfires, but the cannons from both sides were still bombarding each other. The German officials on the position had to repeat the order loudly to make all the soldiers hear the order of a ceasefire.

The gunshots gradually subsided, and the strong smoke and undispersed mist still spread in the combat areas. It was also the first time that the German soldiers wearing pointed helmets were much luckier than the French on the opposite side. They only needed to repeat the shooting and loading movements for most of the time during the battle. Many people fired up the rifle bullets issued according to the standard, and in those machine gun battle positions, countless bullet shells were piled up on the ground.

The battle just ended, and the soldiers in the trench kept their guns, but they raised their guns slightly. They looked at the front of the position with astonishment. There was still green grass near the ground, and the curtain wall formed by gun smoke in the distance. The area in the middle was replaced by red and blue. The corpses of French soldiers were densely packed with French soldiers. Not long ago, these Gaul warriors were lined up in beautiful attacking queues, leading the officers wearing white gloves and holding sabers. Unfortunately, the glory of the French team had already been buried in history with Napoleon, and their dull tactics ruined thousands of well-trained soldiers. This was neither the first nor the last time.

More than ten minutes later, the cannons on both sides also fell silent, and only the moans and wails of the injured people were left on the battlefield. On the German position, soldiers took turns to withdraw from the trenches with chest walls, rested behind low lyings or obstacles, drank water and smoked, which was convenient. Because of the minor casualties of their own troops, the officers relaxed a lot. Some of them took notebooks to count ammunition, contacted supplies, gathered together, and talked. Not long after, the communication officers of command centers at all levels came to the position on horseback or hiking, conveying new combat orders to the battalion officers.

With new combat commands, some soldiers quickly returned to the frontier positions. They received supplementary ammunition before other companions, unloaded the backpack and dry food bag, inserted bayonets on the front end of the rifle, and stuffed grenades into the ammunition bag (when World War I broke out, the German army was mainly equipped with two types of egg-type fragmented bullets, namely the k1913 and the k1913n). Then, under the leadership of low-level officers, crossed their own trenches. At the beginning of the war, the trenches of both sides were still dug very shallowly. Soldiers usually opened fire behind the chest wall in a lying or kneeling position. If they encountered enemy shelling, they needed to lie in the trenches to avoid the invasion of shrapnel.

Under the cover of machine gunners, these small teams performing combat reconnaissance quickly passed through the battlefield. They ignored the French wounded soldiers who were still twitching or struggling and disappeared into the smoke.

The German officers and soldiers who had "sharp knife platoon" were exploring the enemy situation in front of the front line and continued to stay in the position were less worried. Soon, the military officers drove carriages to deliver combat supplies, and the soldiers received sufficient ammunition, the army was stable, and the morale was high.

Suddenly, a sharp whistle came from deep in the thick fog that filled the mountains and forests, which was a battle alarm issued by the guards. The German officers and soldiers at the back of the front immediately returned to the battle position as fast as possible. There was a clamor of pulling gun bolts everywhere on the position, but before everyone could deploy, there were already rapid gunfire and grenade explosions in front of them. Immediately afterwards, the shells drilled out smoke with sharp whistling sounds and landed at the forefront of the German position in a dense manner. Although the specific location of the enemy artillery was unknown, the field artillery deployed behind the German position still quickly opened fire and fought back.

"French cavalry!"

A high decibel scream sounded at the German position, and a group of French dragoons appeared on the right wing of the position with sabers. They were wearing dazzling bra-protective armor, and their long black ponytails were hanging from their helmets, majestic.

"Open fire! Open fire at the cavalry!"

The officers issued an order in great hurry, and the machine guns began to roar. The riflesmen had almost no need to aim. They mechanically pulled the trigger, pulled the guns, and pulled the trigger again. The firepower of the guns and bullets was dense enough, but they could not curb the rush of the French cavalry...

In front of the fire net pouring from the German positions, some of the French cavalry rushing in front had only a muffled groan and had been beaten into sieve. They either fell off their horses and were soon trampled into meat paste by the horses behind, or rolled down with their mounts, and merged into the rolling dust. The cavalry following behind saw their companions falling down one after another, and knew that the god of death might come at any time, but they still rode forward fearlessly.

On the German position, the mg08 water-cooled heavy machine gun frantically threw out bullet shells with light smoke, which were crazily killing the cavalry. However, the cavalry's sprinting speed was too fast, and they rushed to the German position from the sight within half a minute. These French dragoons forced into the barbed wire in a despised manner. The front few soon wrapped the barbed wire with people and horses. The scene of helpless struggle was very tragic, but they also broke the passage in the barbed wire.

Seeing the French cavalry rushing into the position regardless of the dense guns and bullets, the German infantry in the trench at the forefront evacuated in panic. Some unlucky guys could not dodge and were killed by the whistling cavalry like cutting watermelons.

Although the trenches on the front line of the position were broken by the French cavalry, the German machine guns were deployed at a density of one thrust every 100 meters, and they selected the advantageous terrain to play a tactical support point. At this time, the German field artillery behind the position also responded very quickly. They quickly installed shrapnel bullets and lowered their muzzles to shoot at the French cavalry.

Under the fierce suppression of German machine guns and field artillery, the French cavalry, who had just found a little feeling, suffered huge casualties, and the corpses of companions and horses were piled up in pieces, and the subsequent cavalry's advancement speed was greatly delayed. In front of machine guns, cannons and well-trained riflesmen, the cavalry who lost their speed quickly lost their lives. In this way, the German infantry forced to contain the wave of cavalry attacks, and more and more cavalry were dropped. Finally, after a sharp whistle, dozens of remaining cavalry turned around and retreated.

The battle this morning was scattered and prelude. Then in the afternoon, the battle in the Ardennes began in full swing in the smoke of gunpowder. In Verton and Tantini, in Rossinio and Nevcharto, on various battlefields, the sound of artillery and gunfire were everywhere. The French team tried to defeat the opponent with advance attacks. They broke through the defense line of some of the German advance troops, but the price was heavy. In Rossinio, the Algerians of the French Third Colonial Division rushed towards the opponent again and again with bayonets. When they occupied the German positions, there were only more than 400 people left in the division. Not only were they unable to continue the attack, but they were in trouble.

By dusk, the signs of the French losing their spirit became more and more obvious. The Prussian army commanded by Crown William was well-deployed and the combat power was intact. The divisions were always waiting for the sound of the counterattack horn. On the same day, the French team also launched the last attack on the Bavarian army commanded by Ruprecht in Salpur and Morange, but failed unexpectedly. The victory of Salpur and Morange

Ruprecht seized the best opportunity to counterattack. The Bavarian soldiers were full of morale, like wolves and tigers. With the support of fierce artillery fire, they rushed towards the French positions one after another like an endless wave. The exhausted French team was quickly repelled. Metz's fall made them lose the cover of their flanks. The French team trying to recover Alsace began to retreat across the board, and their morale was hit...

Since the main force of the French army has already rushed forward, it is best not to let them retreat to the original line of defense to the command of the 5th German Army. The generals and staff members had a consistent judgment on the current situation. When night fell, in addition to the 1st Division and 5 brigades listed as mobile reserve forces, the five main corpses of Crown William and the two cavalry divisions of Crown Prince William were fully counterattacked in the south of the Ardennes. The flames flashed in the dark, the shells were whistling, and the shrapnel were flying everywhere, and the French positions were covered with corpses. The shells were constantly blowing, but as soon as they stopped, people heard the wailings of the wounded in the forest, and people were constantly mentally ill under heavy pressure.

Ironically, it was not until the last moment before the war that General Lu Fu of the French 3rd Army discovered that the three reserve divisions belonging to him, which were about 50,000, no longer belonged to him. In order to deal with the possible attack of Ruprecht, Xia Fei quietly drew the three divisions and formed a Lorraine army with the four reserve divisions that had gathered from other aspects. This was one of the re-deployed deployments at the last moment. The direct consequence was that Lu Fu's troops were weakened, so that the seven divisions did not have them at critical moments.

Play a role. Lu Fu later kept saying that he had made arrangements for these 50,000 people. If these troops were at hand in the battle, he could win. A staff officer of the General Command came to his headquarters during the battle. Lu Fu was furious and said, "The people in your General Command never read the reports we sent. You are as ignorant as the oysters in the enemy's bag... Tell the Commander-in-Chief that he commanded the battle, which was worse than in 1870, and he could not see anything at all."

Obviously, these words were by no means welcomed by the gods living in Mount Olympus. Gods such as Xia Fei and his followers always like to blame the incompetence of commanders and soldiers, and Lufu was one of the blamed ones.
Chapter completed!