When the attacking British army climbed halfway up the mountain, the German soldiers on it always threw down a few grenades at the right time. Most British soldiers chose to lie on the ground to hide. The first one who stood up was often the British officers who loudly drove their soldiers to move forward. At this distance, the Mauser rifle in the hands of German soldiers could easily lead these loud guys. When the British soldiers who lost their officers were met with a round of machine gun bullets, the living people carried the injured one after another to retreat. In their opinion, what was waiting for them would only be more dense grenades.

About 3 miles from the foot of the mountain is a small English village with less than thirty households. The village is basically full of very ordinary steeple houses. The only small church is also very simple from the outside. At this time, only a few villagers can be seen in the village. About one regiment of British infantry used it as a gathering point and a starting point for the attack. On the muddy road are full of soldiers carrying rifles, and on the side of the road are some carriages carrying supplies. The chapel seems to have become a temporary regiment of the British army. Some British officers and soldiers are busy carrying transmitters, file boxes and other things.

Unfortunately, the Germans on the hills did not have heavy weapons such as rapid-fire cannons. Their 50mm cannon range was only 1,500 meters, and the terrain could blow up to a target of up to 1,800 meters. Everything in that village was just something that could not be seen for these German officers and soldiers.

After all the British troops withdrew from the range of mortars, the German soldiers on the top of the mountain began to sort out their weapons and ammunition. The British did not give up. According to their habits, another more fierce attack would be launched within a quarter of an hour. However, the German side did not sit and wait for death. Ammunition and reinforcements were coming from the beach. In addition, on both sides of the mountain, more than 60 infantry companies formed a long defense line. They also built simple defensive trenches on the flat ground between the hills, and quite a few machine guns and mortars were deployed there. Before breaking through one of the sections, the British could not go around the back of the hills to attack.

"Look! That's our airships! They are here to bomb the British!" The German sergeant who was distributing grenades to the infantry suddenly pointed to the sky south of them and said, and there, five gray Zeppelin airships were slowly flying north.

"Oh! It's time to give those damn British people a little color!" Most of the soldiers were excited, and the faces of the wounded who were carried back by their companions did not have any expression of frustration on their faces.

Behind the hillside, there were three 50mm mortars in parallel. Several gunners looked at the empty ammunition box on the ground helplessly. Mortars were indeed useful in this case. At least one-third of the British soldiers in front of the hillside died from the hands of mortar shells, but unfortunately their ammunition was consumed much faster than the ones being supplemented.

"Guys, drop some shells for us!" A gunner roared to the sky, but the airships had no intention of dropping bombs at all. They flew straight over the German positions. In the end, only one of them gradually slowed down and stopped not far ahead of them. However, no bombs were dropped on it, and the other four continued to fly north without looking back.

"They probably came to reconnaissance!" The soldiers lying on the ground were a little disappointed. After a long time of contact with the snow, their thick military coats could not stop the chill. Most of the faces stained with snow were cold and red. Fortunately, the young infantrymen were strong and strong, and they all pressed the bullets into the rifle's magazine indifferently. Some people even placed several rows of bullets next to them.

Not long after the Zeppelin airships left, teams of British soldiers came out of the village at the foot of the mountain. As expected, the number of British people preparing to enter the battle increased again this time. There were 7 or 8 infantry companies lined up in columns, and there were several Vicks machine guns carried by three soldiers in groups. For the first time, the officers riding horses appeared here on the battlefield.

"Everyone is ready to fight!"

The German commander on the hill was a second lieutenant company commander, but his soldiers were not all here. Earlier, he had been ordered to send one of the infantry platoons to support a nearby position, which was attacked by a group of Scottish cavalry. Although the Germans in charge of defense successfully repelled the opponent, they also suffered heavy casualties. In contrast, such hills were not easily attacked by British cavalry. After all, the advantage of cavalry lies in the speed of the impact on the ground, rather than slow climbing. The British army seemed to be keen on strictly abide by the arrangements of superiors and focus on attacking the areas they were responsible for. Unless friendly and neighboring troops encountered a very unfavorable situation, they would only persist in launching attacks from the front again and again.

Since the start of the battle, the Germans defending this hill have only lost 17 soldiers, most of whom were injured by rifles in the hands of British soldiers, and several were injured by a British soldier who had climbed to the hillside with guns and shot Hale grenades. The British Army had few artillery equipped, and most of the various artillery of the Bonemouth defenders were injured in the artillery positions behind the beach. Now the attacking British troops basically did not have heavy weapons such as rapid-fire cannons. If the British troops below had even an old mortar cannon, the German defense would not be so easy.

After a sound of pulling the bolt of the gun, the hills returned to calm again. The eyes exposed under the infantry helmets were all staring at the British soldiers lined up at the foot of the mountain. The British seemed to have a special habit when they were attacking in field battles, which was to spend a lot of effort to arrange all the soldiers neatly before charging, and then change to scattered formations after entering the opponent's range. This habit is very different from some traditional German, French, Russian and Austro-Hungarian officers. The officers of these countries often lined up their soldiers in a compact and dense formation from beginning to end. No matter how fierce the opponent's firepower was, they had to work hard to overwhelm the other in momentum. On the Belgian battlefield, the French border battle, the Galicia battle, and the Polish battlefield, more than one million soldiers each gave their lives for this tactic, among which the Russian, Austrian and French troops had the largest number of casualties.

Before the British army had completed their massive queue, a buzzing sound was heard from the south sky. The sound was becoming clearer and denser, as if the wasps from all over the world were gathering here. The German infantry on the hills looked back and saw the scene before them that everyone couldn't stop talking for a long time. Although the German fleet of such a large scale had appeared once in the early morning, the darkness hid their real faces at that time. More than 800 aircraft of various types formed 43 small teams flying from the beach. These small teams were separated by a distance, and the entire large fleet occupied a very large area. The blue sky seemed to be cloudy all at once, and people's sight was almost one color, that is, the gray painted on German aircraft.

The surprised German infantry suddenly didn't know what language to use to describe their mood at this moment. Everyone began to be glad that they were born in Germany rather than Britain. There were several other Zeppelin airships in the south, which lined up in a simple straight line, and the planes seemed to be advancing along this straight line.

Suddenly, the airship that had previously parked in front fired a red signal flare downward, and then the group of aircraft in the south began to change. The three leading teams began to lower the altitude first. After a while, another dozen small teams gradually left the large formation, and the remaining planes continued to fly north along the "line" line formed by the airships. In the eyes of the German infantry on the hills, the figures of those aircraft with lower altitudes became larger and larger, and the roar of their engines gradually became louder. Just as people were worried about whether they would land directly on the ground, the three leading teams of 60 biplanes stopped descent, and they began to fly in the air about a hundred meters above the ground, and the 200 aircraft behind quickly also descended to this altitude.

Because the hills obstructed their sight, the British officers and soldiers lined up at the foot of the mountain to see the shocking scene later than the German soldiers. At the beginning, they only had a few lonely German airships in their sight, and their ears were filled with the buzzing sound of bees. As the sound got closer, all the British widened their eyes. While they were advancing to the beach, they only saw some British and German fighters chasing each other out of the air battlefield. Although the scene of the planes fighting and shooting between the two sides was very wonderful, the sound they made was much weaker and monotonous.

"O God!"

The first thing that appeared in the eyes of the British was the huge German aircraft group in the sky. Most British officers and soldiers were at a loss, and some even shouted out. Before this, these Englishmen, Scots and Welsh people had never even dreamed of such a wonderful scene. Just as they were living their lives calmly, human mechanical technology had developed from the era of steam aircraft to the dream era that could dominate land, sea and air. Single or small amounts of aircraft seemed just simple toys, but when these things carrying deadly weapons dominated the entire sky in groups, people finally felt how insignificant personal abilities were.

The British's surprise had not lasted for a long time, and groups of German planes suddenly roared out from behind the hills. Their flight altitude was so low that people on the ground could not only see the white iron cross logo under their wings, but also see clearly how many wheels they had. The round bombs under their bodies completely caused these pitiful and humble British people to panic. The neat queue was in a hurry. Some were lying on the ground to avoid the bombs, some knelt on the ground and begged to pray to God to forgive their sins, and some ran away to places with few people. Stimulated by this scene, the war horse under the crotch of the British officer also lost control and ran and jumped wildly.

The British lying on the ground was smart, and the people who escaped were wise, but unfortunately the prayers on the ground did not receive God's forgiveness. After the pilot airship sent an attack signal according to the command of the command, the attack aircraft group of the Luftwaffe and bombers group began to attack British targets in this area. Several of the "Sky X" attack aircraft targeted these British soldiers who were stupid in the open space. Several 100KG-class heavy

The huge impact of the explosion of the pound air bomb and countless shrapnel flying towards all sides at high speeds devoured the lives of hundreds of British officers and soldiers in an instant. The snow in the air quickly melted, and the soil, broken khaki and gun parts fell down one after another. After the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, only huge charred craters were left on the ground, as usual, with disgusting things all over the ground, and a bagpipe tube was inserted into the snow alone.

The unknown small village at the foot of the mountain failed to escape this terrifying aerial strike. The soldiers and civilians in the village walked out of the house after hearing the explosion. In the high altitude were huge aircraft groups covering the sky and the low altitude were German fighter jets roaring. Many British soldiers were holding rifles but looked confused. Two bold officers pulled out their revolvers and shot them bravely and helplessly. However, what they responded to was not the shot down planes, but black bombs.

The small houses with wooden and stone structures seemed extremely fragile in front of German aircraft dropping 100KG and 50KG bombs. The British people standing on the road also fell into pools of blood in the explosion. The entire squadron of "Ostrich I" bombers almost destroyed the village through low-altitude horizontal bombing. Even the only small church in the village collapsed after eating three bombs. The British officers and soldiers who had no time to withdraw inside were killed and injured. Everyone in the village ran out desperately, but they became the best targets for the two machine guns in the "Sky X" plane in the wilderness.

It was not until the bombing and strafing of the Luftwaffe that the British finally organized air defense in some places. The bulky Vickers machine guns were mounted on some objects protruding from the ground. This weapon with an effective range of 1,000 meters to the ground and 500 meters to the air attempted to force German aircraft to no longer carry out low-altitude strafing. However, most of these Luftwaffe pilots were previously affiliated with the Army Aviation Force. They were not as unfamiliar with ground attacks like naval carrier-based aircraft. It was their best to pass through the strings of machine gun bullets rising on the ground. It was common for them to strafuse the fire points of exposed ground machine guns. Most of these attack aircraft were equipped with thin steel plates in the cockpit positions. Although it affected the speed and load capacity of the aircraft, it was a good guarantee for the lives of the pilots.

Under the command of the officer, several British soldiers mounted a Vicks machine gun on a battle staircase made of empty ammunition boxes, surrounded by soldiers retreating in a hurry. This unyielding machine gun is in sharp contrast to the scene next to it.

"Shoot at that plane! That one is that one!" The officer pointed at a biplane bomber not far away and directed loudly. The white iron cross logo on its fuselage was particularly eye-catching.

The soldiers hurriedly turned the muzzle to the bomber. When several bombs fell from it to the ground, they could feel the earth shaking even a hundred meters away. The soldiers who operated the machine gun shook their hands slightly, and a large string of bullets deviated from the target far away, and their target quickly disappeared behind a hill.

"Idiot! Over there!" The officer looked very dissatisfied. His soldiers hurriedly turned the gun in another direction. There was an attack plane flying towards them at a low altitude. At this time, they could see the cold face of the German pilot on it and the red flames spurted out by the two machine guns on the front of the plane.

A few seconds later, the German plane pulled the head and left, leaving only a lonely machine gun and a few corpses on the ground.

Many British troops who were attacking or preparing to attack suffered heavy casualties in the sudden air bombing. Their attack on the vanguard of the German mixed armored division was forced to slow down. In some areas that were almost lost, the German army got a precious breathing opportunity. In the eyes of the British, many terrible German aircraft were simply death crows that killed people, but they should at least be glad that those were just ordinary wooden skinned aircraft. Even ordinary bombers carried only 300 to 500KG, and this huge fleet was not enough to destroy a medium-sized city. If the course of history was followed, all-metal aircraft would be released soon (Germany).

The KeJI attack aircraft was first tested on December 5, 1915. It is a biplane equipped with aluminum alloy skin and protective armor, and is also the world's earliest all-metal aircraft. The aircraft was equipped with machine guns, carrying a small number of bombs, which can strafuse ground targets at low altitudes. Later, Juncker developed a more advanced CLI-IV attack aircraft, which changed from a double wing to a single wing, and its speed and maneuverability were also improved. The aircraft was equipped with 2-3 machine guns. They performed dangerous low-altitude close-range firepower, showing good performance and combat effectiveness. With the full metallization of the aircraft, the range, bomb load and bombing effect of the bomber will become more terrifying.

The bombing of German aircraft lasted only a few minutes. When the high altitude crew flew past, the sky calmed again, and the blue tones returned to people's eyes. The charred craters on the ground, the corpses of British soldiers and civilians, and the broken and collapsed houses were all evidence that German fighter jets had come.

The British troops, which were hit by the Luftwaffe, did not retreat. Teams of English soldiers in trousers and Scottish soldiers in short skirts and stockings (who aren't cold in winter? Nowadays, beauties are not afraid of the cold in order to kill people. The male compatriots in Scotland have been playing like this for a long time. They admire them) gathered again under the command of the officers and set off for the German positions again. However, air attack was not the only means of counterattack by the German infantry. This time, the voices that attracted the German infantry on the hill came from the ground behind them. Tanks with thick gun barrels were slowly climbing up the hillside. The snow on the ground was crushed by them, and a large number of infantry followed closely behind them.
Chapter completed!