The lawn is just an endless stretch of grassy lawn. When the wind blows through the grass, it looks very quiet, comfortable and pleasant...

Outside a trench sunk into the ground, the sky is blue and the grass is green. If there were not that trench and the smoke that obscured the sun, perhaps the scenery outside would have seemed infinitely beautiful, extremely lyrical, and extremely full of elegance.

With the breath of poetry. 1 Novel Network Perhaps, looking out from the dark and cramped trenches, such beauty will appear even more precious and rare.

But a trench is a trench, and a battlefield is a battlefield. Its gloom and coldness tell people that what they are facing is by no means poetry, but death.

The British soldiers walking on the grassy grass formed a square formation to the drums of the Scottish organ, and walked forward step by step, towards the German trenches that they thought had been leveled.

"Keep formation!"

Almost every few dozen meters of marching, when the formation became a little untidy, Billy faithfully fulfilled his responsibility as a sergeant and maintained the company's column formation.

Both officers and soldiers feel that this kind of infantry group charge is very natural. For hundreds of years, they have been using this kind of phalanx-style group charge to fight. Once upon a time, the British relied on the well-trained army phalanx.

, made Napoleon hate Waterloo, and opened the door of other countries again and again. Now, on the battlefield of the 20th century, this kind of infantry group charge, which has long been proven ineffective in the face of rapid-fire artillery and machine guns, once again appears in front of the world.

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At this time, while Billy and thousands of other officers and sergeants were doing their best to maintain order in the formation, in the machine gun position a few hundred meters behind the German army, the German machine gunners and machine gun commanders were busy.

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Unlike many countries, most of the German machine gunners and machine gun command officers have received extremely professional training in machine gun shooting and use. Germany even has a special machine gun school to train machine gun officers and machine gunners. Because of this

, German machine gunners are often better able to master the art of shooting than machine gunners from other countries.

Shooting, to be precise, is a science. Especially for machine guns, shooting is definitely a science! In this war, the use of machine guns is definitely different from what others understand, with intensive spraying.

Shooting at a row of attacking troops under the bullet-proof machine gun, in fact, the damage caused by this is extremely limited. If carefully arranged, the firepower density of a few simple machine guns is equivalent to an entire rifle battalion. Of course, this is a pair of officers

Their arrangement of machine gun firing positions presented a new test.

After the war broke out, commanders from various countries quickly figured out how to increase the power of machine guns - indirect shooting. In the machine gun shooting skills of this war, indirect shooting was placed in a very important position. The so-called

Indirect shooting. That is, shooting at targets outside the field of vision. This shooting technique is extremely difficult to master, but its combat effects are equally terrifying. The greatest value of indirect shooting is that the machine gun can be well concealed in one's own side.

Behind the defense line, the enemy is killed with almost "murder" firepower. At this time, the aiming and range calculation methods of the machine gun are the same as those of the artillery, but the effects of the two are completely different. When the artillery shells come, the soldiers can use the whistling and range of the projectiles.

The screams were predicted in advance, and for the indirect fire launched by the long-range machine gun, the soldiers could only hear the rustling sound like the wind rushing through the grass. What followed was the sound of bullets hitting the human body and the screams of the people being hit.

What's more important is that indirect fire can easily form a more intensive crossfire with almost no blind spots.

To carry out accurate indirect shooting, shooters must make careful calculations in advance. This method is very complicated, although German machine gunners have long developed a complete set of equipment, manuals and conversion tables required for indirect shooting to help shooters.

Indirect shooting at targets that are less than reachable, but the preparation for shooting is very long...

Almost as soon as the artillery shells overhead were far away, when the machine gunners who carried the machine guns to the firing position were preparing, the officers of the machine gun company quickly unfolded a high-precision large-scale map and began working on the map.

Every hill and ravine in the combat area can be found in detail on the map. The high-resolution photos taken by reconnaissance aircraft every day have also become an effective tool for officers to implement indirect fire.

Compasses, clinometers, inclinometers, indexing gauges, aiming posts... With the help of various instruments, it took the heavy machine gunners at the rear nearly two minutes to complete preparations for indirect fire.

"Hurry up, in a few seconds, we will send the British guy back to his hometown two thousand meters away!"

Ruth Doug shouted with some excitement. In fact, he had shown off his indirect shooting skills to others - knocking off fleas on the tips of dog ears from two thousand meters away, of course, as long as he wanted to.

But now, for him, he wants to bury all the British people in a death zone composed of bullets and bullets!

"I can guarantee that we will make this day unforgettable for the British people and they will never forget it!"

The machine gunners said in an extremely confident tone that in the past few months, although there has been no large-scale fighting here, it does not mean that these machine gunners will give up training. In fact, this has made them more fully equipped.

They would have more time to test the operation and use of the newly developed machine guns. When they discovered the abnormal movements of the British and French coalition forces, they would have more time to prepare for the war.

They had made all preparations and had been anxiously waiting for this day to arrive. But now, this day has finally arrived. This is the time for them to show off their power!

"They will definitely be in trouble for the rest of their lives!"

At this moment, a signal came from the front, which was a shooting signal. The sending of that signal meant that the British army entered the shooting area.

"shot!"

At an order, six Maxim heavy machine guns commanded by Ruth Doug opened fire.

"Steady the speed..."

"Keep formation..."

Just as Lieutenant Dawson was commanding the troops to advance, the silence of the early morning was broken by a burst of rustling. First, dozens of soldiers in the front column suddenly collapsed to the ground like mud. The next moment, accompanied by a sound in the air,

There was a dense "whooshing" sound, and a small storm seemed to blow up on the originally silent grassland. The storm swept away pieces of green grass from time to time, and the green grass danced on the grassland.

Without any warning, the bullet hit Lieutenant Dawson's shoulder and passed through his lower back. At this time, the rain of bullets with a "rustling" sound seemed to fall from a high place.

, most of the soldiers who were hit were shot in the shoulder, and the exit was either in the waist or wrist.

It was a storm, a storm carefully prepared by the German machine gunners for the British infantry.

When the British troops 1,600 meters away were still more than 200 meters away from the German position, they were baptized by a hail of bullets. However, they did not hear the sound of gunfire. However, they were commanding the troops 1,600 meters away.

Ruth Doug, who used equipment to carry out indirect fire at a large angle, just kept directing the machine gunners to carry out attacks according to the established "form". The machine gunners numbly pressed the firing plate, and the cooling water flowed out amidst the deafening sound of the machine gun.

It is heated by the barrel and then boils.

When a 333-round ammunition chain is about to be fired, the unnecessary machine gunner passes or shouts, and the ammunition that has been waiting for a long time will be carried in the magazine. At the moment when the ammunition chain is finished, the bullet chain will be leveled to guide the plate.

Insert the machine gun, and then the machine gun cheers again, propelled by the gunpowder gas, the SS stern heavy tip bullet. This heavy bullet specially developed by the Germans for the heavy machine gun continues to spray wine with the jubilation of the machine gun. In this bullet

With a furious roar, the bullet was pushed more than a thousand meters away, where the bullet could easily penetrate the body of any enemy, and even penetrate several people...

The roar of the machine guns was deafening to the German machine gunners, but to the British caught in the heavy rain, it was silent. It was like a silent massacre, with bullets raining in the dense columns.

Sweeping everything, at this time, the column of nearly 100,000 British troops was completely covered by the dust and broken grass stirred up by the bullets. A red blood mist continued to rise in the flying soil and grass. The blood mist seemed to be caused by the ground.

It seemed to be boiling and rising, enveloping the column.

In the rain of bullets, the shouts of the officers continued to be heard. The recruits who suffered the sudden blow completely forgot their previous aspirations at this time. Most of them were confused and numb.

While moving forward, the bullets with a slight whistling sound in the air kept falling down as if they had eyes.

Where are the enemies?

Ahead!

Where are the bullets?

overhead

No one could hear the enemy's gunshots. All they could hear were the screams of the wounded soldiers. Sergeant Billy, who was still stubbornly following the order and ordering the troops to rush towards the German defense line in columns, could hear the constant flow of bullets.

The sound of hitting the tree trunk could also be heard as the crisp sound of the bullet hitting the soldier's bones. In the continuous terrifying whooshing sound, one person fell down one after another. He saw a person in front of him.

The soldier's head was shot through by the enemy's bullets, and his white brains flew away. Just when the soldier was about to fall, several bullets tore his waist into pieces, forcibly splitting his body into two pieces.

Whoosh...chih,

With the sound of bullets whistling around him, he saw the Irish boy scream and fall down. He didn't even see the blood mist rising. At this time, within the scope of his sight, there were everywhere

They were all red, and the red color was like mist, shrouding his sight, and that red color looked strangely beautiful under the sunlight.

"Quick, throw away all unnecessary supplies and move forward quickly..."

Finally, Billy, who realized that they had become a target, reacted first as a veteran. He tried to speed up by reducing the burden, but just when he gave this order, at the junction of his neck and shoulders

A cloud of red mist burst out. The red blood mist was so weird. When the red blood mist burst out, he lay softly on the land eroded by the rain of bullets.

When some timid soldiers tried to avoid the rain of bullets in the bomb craters, bullets kept hitting their backs. At this time, the silence between heaven and earth seemed to be just the silence before, and the only sounds the soldiers could hear were

, just the thumping sound when the body was hit, the sound when the bones were broken, and more and more screams, became the last song of many of them in their lives.

"Stop attacking!"

Numbly pulling the trigger, Heisenberg shouted to the British soldiers in his heart. Don't they know that their stupid behavior cannot change reality and that the human body cannot stop bullets?

But the British soldiers obviously couldn't hear his shouts, and just endured the unprecedented casualties, moving forward, moving forward, attacking the German defensive positions step by step, even though every step required them to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Even though people are dying, they are still advancing and attacking without hesitation.

The successive ferocious attacks, regardless of life and death, were finally effective. In the morning, the British soldiers finally rushed into the German trenches in certain areas, and started a life-and-death hand-to-hand combat with the German troops guarding the trenches.

, submachine guns came into play at this time, and the extremely bloody battle continued. This one-sided massacre lasted for a whole day. On this day, the British army suffered more than 60,000 casualties. By evening, but

Only occupying 4.8 square kilometers of land, it also created a history - setting a record for the largest casualties in the history of British military operations, in one day!

It can be said that the huge casualties on this day are enough to be remembered deeply by the British.

When the British launched an attack, the French also launched an attack. Compared with the British army, the French army in the southern part of the battlefield was luckier. The French had more heavy artillery and used more high-explosive bombs. The bombardment effect was very good.

It blew up a lot of wires and fortifications at the front of the German position, and because it did not use a vertical attack, it suffered fewer casualties than the British army. At the beginning of the attack, the French army's extremely fierce artillery fire overwhelmed the opponent, and the infantry

Taking the opportunity to launch a quick and sudden attack, the French soldiers reached the front of the German position before the German soldiers could crawl out of the shelter. In just two hours of fighting, the French 2nd Army occupied the first German position and supporting point.
Chapter completed!