The bunker complex in Metz seriously hindered the advance of the German army.

Every day, this place was like a slaughterhouse, killing the frantically attacking German troops.

Rommel, who had just been promoted to division commander, had a huge headache. All other fronts were progressing very smoothly, but the progress on his own side was extremely slow.

"Division Commander, it seems that we can't capture Metz now. There are too many bunker groups here, and it will be useless no matter how long we prepare our firepower.

Some of these bunkers have been excavated for a century and may be as deep as ten or twenty meters underground.

Moreover, the army opposite was Marshal Ney's First Army. The First Army was famous for its bravery in combat. It refused to retreat in the face of the Ming army and even defeated the Ming army.

us……!"

"Alfred, I know it is difficult to capture Metz. But..., this is the order of the Führer. We must capture Metz, even if we destroy all our divisions." Rommel's face turned livid.

"Commander, I know your relationship with the Führer. If you ask the Führer for the two 580mm mortars made by the Ming Dynasty, then we can conquer Metz!" Alfred suggested to Rommel.

"That...!" Rommel knew that the 580mm mortar was powerful. During the battle in Warsaw, this weapon exerted great power.

I heard that when a shell is dropped, a building will be gone.

"Otherwise, there is really nothing we can do! I have inquired and found out that this door has been shipped to Berlin and is on its way to the front line.

I heard it was given to Feng.\nBock used it to attack Ardennes.

The Ardennes are all mountainous, and trains are not accessible in many places. Without railroad tracks, the cannon would have no way to move.

Look at our place, the train station is ten kilometers behind us.

If the mortar comes, we will temporarily build a section of railway to facilitate the movement of the mortar.

If the fortification in front of us is hit by a cannonball, any castle or bastion will be destroyed." Chief of Staff Alfred reminded Rommel.

"Okay, send a telegram to the Führer. I want those two mortars!"

"That's great, Commander. With your relationship with the Head of State, the Head of State will definitely allocate those two mortars to us." Alfred was very happy to go and supervise the telegram in person.

It must be said that the relationship between Rommel and Asch was extraordinary. Just three days later, the mortars that were originally destined for the Ardennes region were transported to the Metz front line.

For this reason, Feng.\nBock lost his temper.

Ney felt that the German offensive had slackened in the past two days, and even the artillery fire was much less intense.

At the same time, the situation on both wings is even more grim.

The German army suddenly rushed out from the Ardennes region, directly threatening the French army's flanks.

As a last resort, Alcatel's troops of the Fifth Army pushed forward. The two sides are currently fighting fiercely in the Ardennes region.

If the German army made a breakthrough in the Ardennes region, the German army would flank the French army's rear. This move was commonly used by the Ming army, but the Ming army had armored units that could dash forward.

The German army only had infantry.

However, the German army has a large number of airships that can be used to support logistical supplies. This is very useful in the Ardennes region, which lacks effective transportation.

For this reason, the French also sent a large number of airships in an attempt to use airships to deal with airships.

After two battles, the French gave up this idea.

The bulky airships and the equally bulky airships on the opposite side basically shot each other. The situation on the battlefield was almost like dying together.

The French army could not compete with the German army in consumption because their production capacity did not allow it.

Rommel finally got the 580mm mortar. On the day the mortar arrived, Rommel went to see it in person.

When they first met, he was shocked by the huge body of the mortar. The 580mm barrel could easily fit a person into it.

The cannonball alone weighs two tons. A crane is needed to lift the cannonball.

The maximum speed of each cannon is one shot every five minutes, which is already the limit. Under normal circumstances, it is good to be able to shoot every ten minutes.

The shells are heavy and the reloading time is too slow, making them weak in the face of huge power.

The French army on the Mesburg front was somewhat lax because the German army had not launched a large-scale attack in the past two days.

The corpses of the German soldiers in front of the position began to rot, and the increasingly strong wind blew the smell of corpses over, which turned off the French army.

In broad daylight, the soldiers hid in the fortifications and did not come out.

Only the guys who are the easiest to bully will become unlucky observation posts, lying in the trenches with binoculars and watching what's going on on the other side.

"Karl, why are we always so unlucky?"

"Almond, there's nothing you can do, because you're too thin and I'm too short to beat them."

Two French observation posts were lying in the trench looking at the German positions in the distance.

There was no movement at all from the German side, not even a single person could be seen.

And it was particularly strange today. The opponent didn't even bother to fire a single shell. It seemed that they were not planning to continue attacking Metz.

This is good news for everyone. No one wants to go to the battlefield to fight life and death.

The First Army has been fighting for two years, and the soldiers are homesick.

Moreover, there are only a few French troops left in the first batch of troops who entered Russia.

When veterans get together to drink, they often say where this person died and that person died.

If someone comes home missing an arm or a leg, that is something worth celebrating.

"You hear something sound?"

"Damn it, is there a snake?"

The two young recruits looked at each other in confusion and moved their bodies unconsciously.

"Boom...!" The two of them felt a thunder explode next to them.

Then I lost my hearing, and I could only see the soil, fortifications, and everything on the ground flying up.

An engineering shovel used for building fortifications actually flew up to a height of fifty or sixty meters. Then it fell to the ground while smoking!

"Karl...! Carl...!" Sentinel Almond shouted loudly to his companions, but he couldn't hear what he shouted.

Even though his throat was almost bleeding from shouting, no sound could be heard.

I stepped on something soft under my feet, and when I moved it away, I realized it was a leg.

Almond was like a groundhog, scratching at the soft soil. Finally, Carl was pulled out!

Karl coughed violently and spit out a lot of dirt in his mouth.

Then, Karl took a deep breath like a drowning man.

After Karl took a breath, he realized that the bunker behind him had turned into a large pit more than ten meters deep.

As for the people in the bunker, he didn't find anyone. He only found half of his butt on a nearby dead tree that was full of shrapnel.

Soon, a huge explosion also occurred at a trench support point more than 500 meters away.

A squad inside the support point, plus a Maxim machine gun, all flew into the sky.

"Oh God! What did the Germans use?" Almond only saw Karl's moving lips, but didn't know what he said.

"What? The front line was bombarded by large-caliber artillery?" Ney was immediately shocked beyond measure when he heard the news.

What is the caliber of a large-caliber artillery gun?

In his impression, the Ming army was most fond of using large-caliber artillery.

The 120mm artillery is just a regiment-issued artillery. There are 155mm howitzers in the division.

That power is really amazing.

From the report of Chief of Staff General Guy, it seems that the artillery used by the German army is more powerful than that of the Ming army.

What on earth is this!

"Marshal, I personally went to see the crater. I also watched them measure it and found it to be fifteen meters deep.

The bunker made of granite has completely disappeared, including the floor tiles on the ground and the sleepers supporting the bunker.

What’s also great about it is that this kind of artillery is extremely accurate. And they seem to know where our bunkers and firepower points are.”

"Isn't this nonsense? We have been fighting for how many days, and our bastion cannot be moved, and the strong support points of those bunkers have long been exposed.

How stupid must the Germans be to not accept the lessons of human life?"

Ney was so angry that the three corpses jumped up. Could it be that his staff were all stupid pigs?

"You can't blame them. The castle in Metz was built five hundred years ago. Later in the musket era, many bastions were built.

Later, there were our permanent bunkers, which were all made of reinforced concrete structures.

These things cannot be moved.

I am afraid that the German army has figured out the location of these places during this period of offensive. Now they are bringing in super-large-caliber artillery to knock down these bunkers one by one.

Your Excellency, Marshal, I now suggest that we abandon those medieval castles and those strong forts, and transfer all our troops to field fortifications.

Otherwise, if this continues, the German army will crack open a can one by one, and our troops will collapse sooner or later."

They were old partners, and Ney gave the chief of staff some face.
To be continued...