The British suffered frequent defeats on the central front, first with the destruction of artillery and then with the blocking of infantry attacks.Rush up a batch, and soon fall the next batch.The huge casualty rate made it impossible for the British commanders to afford it any longer, and they originally wanted to break through in the center and blossom on both flanks.Now that the midline is blocked, this plan is completely useless for the time being.British commander Ian Hamilton withdrew his troops before dark, and both sides dug trenches 500 meters away to defend them.After a whole day of fighting, the battlefield left more than 200,000 corpses of British soldiers, and it was quiet again.The positions of both sides formed a buffer zone 500 meters wide, which was densely covered with British corpses.They hid in the trenches and did not dare to come out, and they did not even have the courage to collect the bodies of their comrades.At this time, it was already summer, the weather was hot, and the corpses of the British soldiers emitted a foul stench on the battlefield.The battle increasingly looked like a nightmare for the British army.When they impacted, their feet stepped on the corpses, and they could sink into them at once, and the bloody carrion could burst like watermelons.The British command held discussions overnight, and continued to carry out the resolute offensive policy of the top management.However, since the central defense line cannot be broken through, they are ready to concentrate on attacking the two wings with all their strength, wait to take the two wings, and then close the circle to the center line.Both sides rested in their positions for a day, and on the third day, after the rising sun, the British attacked again.The more the Huaxing army fought, the more morale grew.No matter which direction the British army attacked, the command always made a clear judgment.The British army suffered one casualty after another, and although it was replenished with 500,000 soldiers and horses, the total strength still fell to less than one million.Relying on numbers, the British army was still twice as large as the Huaxing army.Here's why they haven't given up yet.In the first battle of the artillery of the middle line, there were already more than 2,000 artillery pieces left to rescue them, and at this time all of them were pulled to the two wings.At the very beginning of the battle, thousands of guns were fired from each of the two wings of the British army.They also learned wisely, and as soon as the artillery was fired, the infantry immediately launched an attack on the position of the Huaxing army.The Huaxing troops in the trenches were suppressed by artillery fire and all hid in the anti-aircraft bunkers of the trenches.The artillery in the rear reacted immediately, and immediately judged the position of the British artillery, and quickly returned fire.The sound of artillery thunder and thunder flew across the sky, constantly falling towards their respective positions.The artillery range of the British army could only suppress the infantry on the front line of the Huaxing Army, and it could not reach the artillery range of the Huaxing Army at all.They were once again caught in the artillery bombardment of the Huaxing Army, and this time it was not so far away.There were more than 1,000 artillery pieces in each position of the British army, and there were more than 1,000 ironclad chariots and artillery of the Huaxing Army combined.The British artillery positions shook for a while, as if the sky was falling, and shells continued to fall.The artillery battle between the two sides lasted only twenty minutes, and each fired more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition.The British artillery was completely destroyed this time, and not a single gun was salvaged.This time, they all risked their lives, completely to cover the infantry onslaught on the battlefield.The front-line trenches of the Huaxing army were so crushed by shells that they could not raise their heads, and the British infantry took the opportunity to rush to within two hundred meters.The situation was critical, and the infantry of the Huaxing Army quickly organized a counterattack.At this distance, the guns of both sides were at effective range.Although the Huaxing army was hiding in the trenches, it was hit in front by the bullets in front, and it was still suppressed a lot of firepower.After all, the strength of the British army was twice that of the Huaxing army, and although the rifle did not carry as much ammunition as the submachine gun, it also made up for it by relying on numbers.The situation was urgent, and the ironclad chariots in the rear of the infantry quickly moved.This has always been the killer weapon of the Huaxing Army, and at this time it was also forced out by the British army who were desperate to charge.Soon there were bursts of "buzzing" roars on the battlefield, and hundreds of huge iron guys quickly rushed out of the positions of the Huaxing army.When the trenches were being built, the infantry of the Huaxing Army built a runway for the ironclad chariots.These hundreds of vehicles rushed out, forming a great wall of steel on the front line at once.Where has the British army seen such a thing, these soldiers are very few veterans of the Great War in Europe, all of them are new soldiers.For a moment, all the bullets parried the ironclad chariot, making a crackling sound.However, the ironclad chariot still charged at a very fast speed, and at the same time, the artillery battery in front of it continued to fire cannonballs, and the red and red resounded in front of it.A single shell exploded, and at such a close distance, more than a dozen people were torn apart by shrapnel in an instant.The two sides were no more than 100 meters apart in an instant, and the machine guns mounted on the ironclad chariots fired in unison, as if they were in a no-man's land, and everywhere they went, there was blood and flesh flying.The British army is flesh and blood, where can it stop the advance of the ironclad chariot.As soon as the roar of the engine sounded, the steel tracks quickly crushed everything in front of them.Three hundred ironclad chariots crushed three hundred flesh roads in the British army.The speed of the British attack immediately slowed down, and after sweeping around the British army, the ironclad chariot swaggered back to the rear position again.The Huaxing army had time to buffer, and soon set up a proper defense in the trenches, and immediately organized fire on the British salvo."
The devil is coming, run" "God, save your people" "The British army was frightened by the ironclad chariots just now, although the three hundred ironclad chariots killed thousands of people, but the unstoppable impact broke the nerves of the British army.As soon as the gunfire of the Huaxing army's position came, the British troops on the front line quickly collapsed and scattered and retreated.Just now, the Huaxing army was angry when it was bombarded by the British artillery, and after the British army retreated on all fronts, the Huaxing army followed closely behind.The submachine guns "snapped" the bullets, and the British soldiers' bodies were broken one by one.The Huaxing army pursued thousands of meters forward, and only under the strong suppression of the high-level generals did they all return to the trenches and fortifications.The plan of the British army fell through again, and the attack on the two wings consumed almost all the vitality of the British army.Not to mention more than 300,000 infantry casualties, the artillery units were completely wiped out.The two wings failed to break through, and the middle line naturally could not be closed.At this time, the British army had nearly a million dead and wounded, and there were less than 700,000 soldiers left.All the high-level commanders broke out in a cold sweat in distress, and some generals fainted directly.The Plymouth Hundred Mile Front has completely become a meat grinder, and the smell of blood on the battlefield is almost breathless.The tide is gone, and the strength of the British army is exhausted.Morale is so low that even if the attack is organized again, no one is willing to risk the death to attack.The new Field Marshal Ian Hamilton, after much deliberation, informed the Prime Minister and the King of the actual situation at the front.He could no longer afford such a huge sacrifice.Now he finally understands the pain of the previous marshal John French, and watching his young lives disappear in this world one by one, even the iron-hearted generals will no longer turn a blind eye
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