The red light shone, and thousands of cannons roared. Just as time entered 4 a.m., the artillery troops on Russell's southern line launched hurricane lightning-like thunder bombardment at the French positions opposite.

After the efforts of the military technical brigade throughout the night, four 240mm train cannons from the rear also joined the ensemble of the roar of artillery fire. The heavy shells fired by the reducer caused a heavy blow to the French position comparable to an aviation bomb. Each time the gun was bombed out, layers of purple and red waves were rolled out on the French position, and the air waves burst into the sky; countless civil fortifications, steel bricks and stones were broken and collapsed, and fragments were shot colorfully. From a distance, it seemed as if countless meteor fire rains were shining in the vast night sky, hitting the dazzling red fireworks in a area of ​​several kilometers long.

The stars were hiding and the sun was rising. After two hours of artillery bombardment, the German artillery finally stopped roaring. Before the French officers and soldiers could breathe, they saw a few small dots suddenly appearing in the eastern sky: their fierce eyes were blood red and their fangs were radiant. Under the bright morning light, their beige bodies were even more like a layer of shining golden glow.

Seeing this, a commotion immediately appeared on the French position. Although French soldiers with "ideals and sharp swords in their hands" could not frown in the offensive battle, this does not mean that they could have 100% courage to fight to the death in any situation; the German Kirov airship, which was like a fortress in the sky, had already left a terrifying shadow like a nightmare in the hearts of French officers and soldiers. Every attack of their worst attack had the powerful power of a 280mm high-explosion bomb. The overwhelming fire waves and shiny brightness that exploded from the largest aviation bomb was even more shocking than a mountain collapse and tsunami!

"Boom!" Accompanied by a loud roar like a crack in the sky and the earth, the surging sea of ​​fire and clouds rolled around like a huge wave of craze. The area of ​​the explosion site with a radius of more than 100 meters was immediately swallowed up by high-temperature flames and rushing air waves. Above the thick smoke rising, a giant airship of more than 200 meters was flying in a buzzing manner. Against the backdrop of the tragic ground, it was like a demon troll that broke free from the abyss of hell, which was about to turn the turbulent resentment and anger that had been sealed for thousands of years into the purest destruction and killing.

The German Kirov airship slowly rotated in the air, and a pair of extremely vivid blood-red giant eyes were full of fierce lights. Under such terrifying pressure, the French third colonial army could not bear this pressure at the first time. These officers and soldiers from Algeria were originally illiterate black animals, and were summoned to the battlefield with just a bloody look. The understanding of the war was still on the shallowest rifle shooting. Yesterday, they faced German airships, planes, and tanks.

Ke, the joint attack of heavy artillery, and they had suffered heavy losses, they had long been inexplicably afraid of the enemy in front of them; at this moment, when they saw the fortress of gods and demons with the power of overwhelming seas under this attack, they lost all their confidence in resistance. In their eyes, the Kirovs were simply god-like existences that could not be resisted by human power; this trembling fear from the depths of their souls immediately made the Algerian soldiers run back like crazy under Kirov!

The fighter planes roared, howling in the sky; the crawlers rolled and the tail smoke scattered. Just as the airship was dispatched, the German fighter planes, tanks, and infantry advanced rapidly forward like yesterday, with a surging momentum. All observation balloons and watchtowers on the French positions were exploded and shattered by German fighters, and the flames were beating; and the French cannons fired only a few rounds, and were also covered by the Gotha bombers and the dive strafing of the Fokker fighter. They were quickly silent. Under the guidance of the reconnaissance aircraft, the German artillery fired fiercely and accurately: the landslides on the French defensive positions exploded, and the sea of ​​fire rushed, and from time to time, accompanied by the broken flesh and blood limbs, spraying red mist, and blood was stirred up.

Under the joint attack of the German trinity, the second trench defense line of the French army was suddenly pierced again. The German army was like a day ago. Relying on the fact that it was not afraid of guns and bullets, the rolling steel torrents ripped open the barbed wire mesh set up in front of the French army, and took off the French machine gun positions to suppress the firepower of the trench. Then, with the infantry, they cleaned up the French soldiers in the trench. The machine guns roared, grenades were thrown, and the remaining French troops who insisted on resisting in the trench were soon wiped out by the German army, which had absolute advantage in numbers and firepower.

By noon, the French troops on the front of the German South Wing assault cluster had retreated on the entire line. On the battlefield of more than ten kilometers, there were burning fires, rising smoke, scattered debris, and bloody corpses. The German soldiers carrying stretchers ran back and forth on the messy battlefield, carrying the officers and soldiers of the enemy and our army who were not dead to the battlefield hospital for temporary treatment;

The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield and looking for things that could still be used among the debris that fell everywhere. Teams of French prisoners of war with their weapons were holding their heads in their hands, and driven to the temporary prisoner-of-war camp under the escort of German soldiers' bayonets and machine guns. They were haggard, with deep eyes, empty eyes, and dusty faces, like a group of zombies who had lost their minds, doing some things mechanically based on their instincts.

In just over a day, the two French divisions were defeated and fled under the fierce attack of the German army and fled far away. More than 10,000 French officers and soldiers died or were captured, and their overall combat effectiveness was lost nearly half, while the total casualties of the German army were only more than 3,000. In Tionville, German staff members with joy were nervously commanding the transportation troops, loading ammunition, arms, parts, fuel, food, forage and other supplies into the vehicle, and then transporting them to the front line in a steady stream with horses or cars to ensure the assault strength of the South Wing cluster. The entire German command was full of confidence, and they were all looking forward to the second battle of Seandang again.

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The dangerous peaks are abrupt, and the dense forests are green.

In the lookout at the halfway up the mountain, German soldier Fini was bored looking at the vast forest in front of him. The cliffs and valleys were dangerous and the forests were bushes. A few feet away, the tall Sisi also looked tired. He had a weed in his mouth, and he used constant chewing to pass and waste time.

"I said, man, we have been in this damn place for a week." Finney lazily leaned against the wooden wall of the lookout, with deep sighs and loss in his words. "For so many days, let alone French, even a wild boar has not been seen in the Ardennes mountains. What do you mean by what we are here?"

The weeds in the mouth of Sisi thrust, and said vaguely: "I heard from the officers in the regiment that our army launched an offensive on the front and the southern wings, and fought fiercely with the French, but they were still on defense in the north. Those guys beat the Frenchman, but we could only insert them in this mountain stream like a piece of wood, and nothing more disappointing than this."

Fini was silent. As a young soldier from an ordinary family and in his years of military service, Fini, who was deeply influenced by domestic iron-bloodedism, was eager to make a special contribution in this war so that he could realize his own value while glorifying his family. However, when he was recruited from the reserve with passion, the officer responsible for arranging his posts gave him an auxiliary lookout position because of his 2.0 eyes, which was very different from his idea of ​​joining the front line. After being assigned to the Fifth Army under the command of the Crown Prince, Fini thought he would experience a real frontal battle; however, the battle was the middle and south wings, and the mountain troops in the north of Ah and other places were all still in control!

Fini sighed softly, but raised his telescope like routine and looked into the distance. The dense forest is like a cover and the rocks are rugged. The Arden Mountain Forest in early May is at its most beautiful time of the year: green grass is full of gurgling streams, and various wild flowers bloom colorfully on the grass. Yellow and purple are colorful, blue and white are intertwined, and large red fields are rendered in it, like brocade.

Wait...what is the case with so much red?

Fini's mind frightened, and an incredible thought suddenly emerged in his mind. Although he knew that the probability of this incident was approaching zero infinitely, perhaps due to the rigor of the soldiers, the bored and silent, and even the obsessive-compulsive disorder that he could not do it, he still picked up the 98K rifle in his hand, and the dispersed expression in his eyes instantly condensed. Seeing this, Sisi next to him was suddenly surprised and said in surprise: "Little Fini, have you found something?"

Fini pointed his right arm, his face turned out to be unprecedentedly serious. Sisi spat out the weeds in his mouth with a puff, and looked intently from the lens barrel in the direction of Fini's finger. After a while, he put down the telescope in his hand and said in confusion: "Everything is normal, I saw nothing?"

"Look at the reds, the reds revealed in the hidden forest." Fini spoke softly, his words full of complexity, as if they were expecting, as if they were excited, as if they were shocked, as if they were shocked, as if they were afraid. "When did so many bright reds appear in this jungle? I can be sure that at this time yesterday, there was a green green blue!" Sisi raised his telescope again and stared for a while, and saw a bit of bright red seeping out of the layers of green leaves. The barrel turned and swept around, but he saw the same situation in the forest next to him.

After a moment, Sisi was suddenly shocked and shouted: "You mean, these reds are all the red pants worn by Frenchmen? This is impossible!"

"Apart from this, are there any other explanations?" Fini took a deep breath, put the rifle flat, pulled the safety out, and fired out all the five bullets in the gun in one breath. The crisp and loud sound echoed in the deep mountains, clearly visible, and it could be heard thousands of miles away. After doing this, Fini looked out from the lens barrel again, and saw the faint red in the dense forest flashing again and again, as if he was running quickly!

Fini's pupils contracted and his face was pale, but two strange red clouds quietly emerged on his cheeks.

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