"Charge! For..." Before the Junker noble officer commanding the death squad finished shouting his encouraging slogan, a rain of bullets from the opposite side hit him in the chest.
The bullets from the heavy machine gun were astonishingly lethal. Human bones were as weak as tofu in such a metal storm. A string of bullets hit the commander's chest horizontally, and the whole person was cut into two pieces horizontally like a sausage. Half.
It’s really hard to describe such crazy density of firepower. The heavy machine gun started a one-sided massacre on the narrow mountain road!
The word storm can no longer describe the density of the bullet rain. This is a city wall composed of metal projectiles, hitting the Prussian charging crowd one after another.
Dead bodies were thrown to the ground. Almost every corpse was beaten into a sieve. Bullets penetrated from the chest and flew out from the back. Sometimes, they could even penetrate the bodies of four soldiers before losing their momentum. Fall to the ground.
A veteran who survived the pile of dead once recalled, "I could see clearly that my comrade was concentrated by the hail of bullets, and his whole body was standing and shaking. Every bullet could hit him, and he was shaking all over, and his limbs were making all kinds of weird postures." !”
"I swear to God, the body of my comrade was trembling with bullets for thirty seconds before he fell to the ground. Right in front of me, his body was no longer human!"
During the whole night of the battle, the most efficient massacre of the French army began. At the four battlefield breakthroughs, 120 heavy machine guns fired at the Prussian army.
Layer after layer of corpses were peeled off from the Prussian military formation, like onions!
What's even more frightening is that the grassroots officers of the Prussian army were all on the front line. Almost all of them were lost in a face-to-face encounter, and the entire charging team fell into a completely commandless state!
Faced with such brutal firepower density, retreat was the only option. However, after losing all front-line commanders, these soldiers could only choose to continue to execute the previous battle orders.
These miserable soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades, roared like beasts in their throats, and continued to run wildly up the hillside!
Everyone's eyes are red, they have forgotten life and death, and the bloody smell has made them lose their minds!
Fear of this kind of thing is also afraid of large quantities! When he exceeds the limit that humans can bear, the collapsed soldier will show an unhealthy bravery!
What's more, the training of the Prussian army focused on brutal corporal punishment. They used the most demanding training and continuous corporal punishment to cultivate the soldiers' absolute obedience to orders!
What is military discipline? The only purpose of military discipline is to make soldiers fear orders more than life and death!
Let their subconscious mind think that disobeying military orders is more terrifying than death!
It is this kind of inhumane military training that caused tonight's tragic massacre!
Thousands of soldiers shouted and charged upwards under the fire of heavy machine guns. They died layer after layer, their lives being harvested like withered grass in a wheat field!
In just thirty minutes of charge, the Prussians dropped more than 3,500 corpses in Saarburg alone!
The avalanche-like casualty rate on the front line quickly spread to the headquarters. When Prince Carl heard this number, his eyes trembled involuntarily. He showed that he was extremely distressed!
But he is the crown prince and the supreme commander of the Eastern Front Corps. Even if Mount Tai collapses in front of him, he can still have any mood swings!
"Why are you panicking! This is a national war! No one will die in a national war!"
"Prussia wants to rise, not to mention losing the lives of 3,000 people, even 300,000!"
"Let those disabled troops withdraw! The artillery troops counterattack and knock out all those damn heavy machine guns!"
"Give me the troops to prepare for the next wave of charge! I want the French to remember this battle forever! We will use the craziest night battle to completely destroy their fighting spirit!"
Karl punched the table, "I don't believe it. An army of 120,000 people can't conquer the Vosges Mountains!"
The charging troops were completely disabled at this moment, their officers had been exhausted, and even all the soldiers in one battalion were killed, not even a seed was left!
The commanders of other corps risked their lives and rushed to the forefront. They blew the retreat bugle and issued the order to retreat to these troops who had suffered heavy losses.
In the blood and fire, the Prussian veteran looked at the mountains of corpses around him, and saw that in the end only himself was left in his company of 120 people!
Tears welled up in his eyes. Hearing the retreating bugle, his steps did not waver at all, and he stood on the charge line as if he had taken root.
He picked up the bloody company flag from the pile of corpses and strode upwards with a desperate expression!
"Brothers are all dead! But our mission is not completed yet!"
"The whole company attacks! Charge with the battle flag..."
His vocal cords were torn, and when the veteran shouted, blood spurted out of his throat. His lonely figure took the company flag and started running towards the French position!
This scene shocked everyone present. Even the French machine gunner was shocked by this scene and subconsciously avoided the veteran with his gun!
"No!" Behind the veteran, the survivors among the countless corpses shouted desperately, but it was too late, just when the veteran had rushed to the edge of the French sandbag position!
Everyone saw with their own eyes that two French soldiers jumped out from behind the sandbags, and two bayonets pierced his chest!
Life has flown to heaven, the company flag has been taken away, the arrogant French army lit the Prussian military flag on the fire, and waved it to the Prussians like a demonstration!
"Oh God!" The surviving Prussians shouted desperately in their chests. At that moment, they forgot everything and the horn of retreat. Everyone turned around and threw themselves into the battle again!
"Live and die together! We came together and we will die together on the battlefield!"
Life has become an extremely cheap thing at this moment, and no one will cherish it, not even themselves!
The commanders looked in despair at the soldiers who did not respect the orders. They knelt on the ground and smashed their fists on the ground. Their throats were choked and their eyes filled with tears!
Prince Carl from behind saw all this, and his throat suddenly hurt so much that it was heartbreaking!
"This is the Prussian! This is us Prussians!"
"If a nation like ours does not rise...then it will only prove...that God is unfair!"
"Send my order! Artillery fire..."
"Your Highness!" Everyone around exclaimed!
Prince Carl said with great determination, "They are the warriors of the empire! They have chosen to serve the nation with death!"
"I can't let their sacrifice be worthless! Fire the artillery! The artillery fire..."
At that moment, the prince burst into tears!
Boom boom boom... The specially-made breech-mounted steel cannon from Krupp Arsenal roared angrily!
The French position suddenly burst into flames, engulfing the French and the Prussians!
