The small town of Druvatomont, about 33 kilometers from Verdun Fortress and about 22 kilometers from Metz, is located between this low hill forest. Most of the residents here are French. After the war broke out, they chose to leave the town in the center of both sides.

Due to the terrain, the Great Plain is 15 kilometers from this town to the direction of France. So here, the armies of both sides fought an unprecedented fierce battle. This happened in 1916. On May 20, 1917, the small town of Druvatomon was recorded in the history of World War I. The Verdun counterattack, which eventually affected the direction of the entire World War I, began with this town as the center.

Many years later, the French built the Verdun Counterattack Monument in this town to commemorate the officers and soldiers of China and France who died gloriously in this famous battle. Ninety years later, Wang Zhiyuan, the grandson of Wang Zhenyu, the 22nd President of the Chinese Federation, personally visited here to lay wreaths to the martyrs of the Chinese Federation who participated in this counterattack.

But now, May 20 is still an ordinary day for both sides of the war.

After the war, relevant military history research experts checked almost all relevant information, and found out the names and resumes of first-level officers of both sides of the war. However, they did not find the plan or written orders of the supreme commanders of both sides. In the end, they came to the conclusion that was closest to the truth. This battle that changed the direction of the First World War was a complete accident.

The two special battalions of Guo Meng and Li Dachao rushed to this small town named Druvatomon as soon as possible, because the order issued by the Expeditionary Force Command was to make close contact with the German army as much as possible and provide tactical warnings for the troops that followed the forward movement.

But it is obvious that the good luck of Lieutenant Colonel Guo Meng, who was known as the tiger in the army, and Lieutenant Colonel Li Dachao, who was known as the wild fox, was used up in a series of previous actions to show his face. The result of this mission was that it directly changed the military careers of the two people.

When they entered the town, a regiment of German troops arrived on the small mound not far from the town, and then it was ridiculous that these German troops also walked into the town in a swagger. The moment was 8:30 am local time. The fundamental reason for this error was that a rare morning fog in the hilly areas was not very visibility between the two sides, so they walked to the center of the town at the same time.

When the two groups of people saw clearly that the other party was the enemy at the same time, everyone was not in a hurry to shoot, because the distance between the two sides was too close now, so no matter how good they were, they could not avoid the bullets that would fly at any time. So a strange scene appeared on the battlefield. Li Dachao and Guo Meng and the German officers chose to kill each other with their eyes less than one meter apart, but they didn't shoot or speak, and the positions of the three people were awkward. Once the fire was opened, no one of the three could survive. So everyone moved backwards in a very rare and tacit understanding, and they all carefully opened the distance between each other to avoid irritating the other party to fire.

This atmosphere was so depressing. The first one who couldn't stand it was Li Dachao. This clever young man in Henan was the first to wake up after taking three steps back. He was afraid of hair, so he wouldn't it be safe to lie on the ground. As a result, for a moment when Li Dachao was local, Guo Meng and the German officer were so angry that they scolded the bastard. However, their strong desire to win still made the two guys choose to follow suit and lie on the ground. The soldiers who were not sure about the situation thought that the other party had fired. In short, they chose to shoot each other, and Verdun's counterattack started.

The most bitter smile is that the first person who met in the counterattack of Verdun, which later known as the Battle of Shura Hell, Chinese soldiers Li Dachao, Guo Meng and German major Longdestedt. These three most damn guys were not dead. Li Dachao was seriously injured in this battle and was judged not suitable to continue as a field army officer after he recovered from injury. He had to retire in 1918. Later, under the special concern of Bai Chongxi, Li Dachao was retained and then transferred to the Sichuan Corps of the Security Command. He was later promoted to major general in the security system and transferred to Wuhan Security The Command Academy served as the head of the special operations department and lived an ordinary life in the following history. Although Guo Meng was also injured, his luck was better than Li Dachao and he was not seriously injured. After recovery, he was promoted to Army Colonel. After the war, he was transferred to the position of commander of a division of the Youth Army, Brigadier General Brigade Commander of a Brigade of a Brigade of the Guard Division, Major General Commander of the Central Military Commission Guard Regiment, Commander of Nanjing Security District, Commander of Jiangsu Provincial Military Region, Commander of Hebei Provincial Military Region, Commander of the Federal Defense Command in the Kingdom of Vietnam, Commander of the Federal Defense Command, Commander of the Federal Military Police Command, and then retired gloriously.

In comparison, the luckiest of the three was the German man. Ronderstate was not only not injured, but also successfully broke out from the battlefield. He finally got the marshal in the German system. This is really a matter of death and a commodity.

After getting off the ground, I returned to this battle. As soon as the battle started, the commanders of both sides of the war were shocked. Bai Chongxi was surprised because he did not expect the German army to go here. Xiao Zhuge's original plan was to go around here and attack the returned German army from here, but he didn't expect to install it head-on. Why didn't these German men take the road?

Ludendorf was surprised because he had obviously chosen to give up on the road in order to avoid positional warfare and went back through the hills. However, the Chinese army still appeared in front of him. What was the situation? Did the Chinese not defend their positions, but pulled them out to fight against themselves in the field?

Rudendolf issued an order very decisively: "Order the vanguard division to immediately bypass the town of Druvatomon and defeat the damn Chinese army from the side and behind. At the same time, the follow-up troops followed up. This damn hilly area is not suitable for our troops to unfold. Everyone should quickly pass through these twelve kilometers."

History is so amazing. On a hill less than 4 kilometers away from Ludendolf's command, Bai Chongxi also issued the same order: "Now we are going to engage in a mobile warfare and tell Shawei and others not to worry about the gains and losses of this small town, and firmly insert it to the enemy, stick it up, and disrupt the enemy."

The tragic incident happened. The officers and soldiers on both sides strictly implemented the orders of their commanders. Almost everyone was very enthusiastic about playing mobile warfare, constantly rushing into the depths of the other party, and then trying to seize the commanding heights to attack the other party, and then, then, began to bleed on a large scale.

The First Division of the First Army of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force entered this battlefield around 10 o'clock in the morning. Since Commander Liao Lei was also the commander of the First Division, the actual command was in the hands of Chief of Staff Wei Lihuang and Director of the Political Guidance Department Jiang Zhiqing. The tall and handsome Jiang Zhiqing followed Chen Cheng, the commander of the 13th Regiment.

According to the memoirs of this brother Jiang Zhiqing, who is named Zhongzheng, the tragic level of this battle is unprecedented.

"When we entered the battlefield, the battle had already started on many small mounds. The fog in the air made us hear the sound of gunfire and fighting, but we were not sure about the situation of the enemy. I think the situation of the Germans was worse than that of us, because our heavy artillery troops were seizing every minute to bombard their side. The shells were almost as high as my waist. The consequences of being shot were very serious. Fortunately, I realized that due to many reasons, the German army had always been proud of. The artillery troops failed to play much role in this battle, perhaps the luck of our entire expeditionary force. When we passed through several hilly areas, we saw our brothers fighting fiercely with the German army. In some areas with higher areas, we even had to bow to pass in order to avoid being hit by stray bullets. It is hard to imagine that in just sixteen years, we dared to run to Europe to fight against the great powers. It is still such a chaotic battlefield. From time to time, we saw brothers fighting with the German army in hand-to-hand combat, but We were asked not to reinforce. The command gave the First Division the order to rush the German army to the back. However, we ran for about an hour but couldn't find the back there. The battle started on the hills of about ten kilometers at the same time. As the running continued, a small group of lost German troops appeared in front of us from time to time. At first, we could easily deal with the advantage of the large number of people, but after running, Chen Cheng and I were surprised. The nearly 4,000 officers and soldiers of the entire 13th Regiment could still keep up with us. There were fewer and fewer. More and more officers and soldiers broke away from the establishment in this melee and fought on their own. This situation really happened to me. However, in Europe, we have no second choice except to fight to the death, so we can only fight to the end. Fortunately, there will be small groups of people who have fallen apart from time to time to add to our team. Among them are the First Division, the Second Division, and even the Fifth Division. Anyway, when we finally got into the fire with the German baggage unit, we still had more than 3,000 people, "
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