Chapter 510: History tells us that no way is no way!

Sometimes human greed is the greatest enemy, it will make people lose their judgment on the situation, and unknowingly go crazy and perish.

"I only have one requirement, and that is to ensure the fruits of victory on the Eastern Front. Everything else can be restored to the state before the war. Whether it is to maintain the borders of the Western Front or the colony, these can be discussed, and they can be given up!" Said.

   "Then we are on the western line, don't we mean a fight for nothing?" Xiao Mao stood up and said excitedly. "We have millions of troops on the western front, hundreds of thousands of casualties, and tens of thousands of tons of material consumption in exchange for a pre-war start? So what is the purpose of our war?"

"Then what do you want? Negotiations are not what you want to do, what if Britain and France disagree? The troops on the eastern front can be transferred back to solve the problems of Britain and France? What if it can't be solved? At a huge price After that, everyone sits at the negotiating table to sign a treaty that should have been signed a year ago?" The prince smiled bitterly, and his worry finally came.

"If we have to say the value of the Western Front, then there is only one, and that is to buy time for us to defeat Russia! It is impossible to crush our opponents solely by military means! Really, absolutely impossible, even if you can Now people can't even imagine the firepower!" The prince said decisively.

Prince Ruprecht, as a traveler, also had trouble, because he didn’t know how to explain to the future German chief of staff what happened to the battle of Verdun in history. The worst battle, then there is only one! That was the Battle of Verdun. This battle was unprecedented in the scale, level and duration of the artillery! The two belligerent nations of Germany and France seem to regard this battle as a manifestation of the national strength and national glory of both sides! They put their troops and resources into it at all costs, and then watched them vanish into nothing with flashes and explosions! This may be the largest war that tragically tramples on human life that people have ever seen!

This battle, personally planned by Falkenhain, the then chief of the German General Staff, was so cold-blooded and cruel. In the original plan, Verdun was just a magnet to attract French reinforcements. The Germans attacked Verdun. Then they attracted a steady stream of reinforcements from the French, and then the Germans used their superior large-caliber artillery to eliminate them. When the situation on both sides developed to a certain extent, the German and French troops were in a decisive battle to decide the victory!

  For the smooth implementation of this plan, the entire German army was concentrated on the Western Front, and even during the entire war, it was the only powerful artillery assault force! This force is so powerful, purely from the perspective of the amount of projection, such a lineup is terrifying even if it is put in the second battle!

  On the front of the position less than 13 kilometers away, Falkenhain has concentrated 1,220 various large-caliber artillery, including 542 heavy artillery, 306 howitzer, and 152 heavy mine launchers! And this is only the front artillery, there are other artillery on the two wings!

  Don’t think that these howitzers are 105MM or even 75MM gadgets. The so-called 306 howitzers are German 210MM heavy howitzers! These artillery pieces were originally assigned to first-class units of the army! Those subordinate cannons can only play the leading role at all! These more than 300 210MM heavy artillery were deployed to the front, 150 meters apart, there is a 210MM heavy howitzer artillery company! So many heavy artillery shooting at close range is probably unprecedented, right?

  Germans and the housekeepers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire also participated in this feast of blood and steel! These heavy artillery includes 13 420MM Belsa guns! This heavy artillery that destroyed the fortress of Liege in Belgium with only 3 artillery pieces is the most powerful artillery in the German army! The total combat weight is 42.6 tons. It can shoot 810KG heavy artillery shells 9 kilometers away. When it first appeared, only 3 of them smashed the fortress of Liege. This time, a total of 13 artillery pieces were deployed to the front!

  In addition, there are 2 380MM heavy guns transferred from the naval turret and 17 305MM heavy howitzers from the Austro-Hungarian Empire as long-range support artillery groups.

In order to provide sufficient ammunition for these artillery, the German Army’s engineering department paid a huge price. 26 military engineering companies and 20 railway companies with a total of about 20,000 road construction troops were invested. They built railways for each division. , And there are a large number of narrow-gauge railway auxiliary transportation.

Before the war, 213 trains full of ammunition sent a large amount of supplies. According to the specifications of each field cannon company with 3,000 shells, each field howitzer company with 2,100 shells, and each heavy howitzer company with 1,200 shells. Enough shells for 6 days, and after the war, according to the plan, 34 trains of ammunition will be transported every day for consumption!

  And the French did a great job in ammunition supply and transportation! It can even make the German counterparts ashamed. Although the French were unprepared at first and there was no special railway for transporting ammunition, their performance on the roads simply crushed the Germans! At the end of February, the French had organized a huge transportation unit composed of 300 officers and 8,500 soldiers. They formed 1,075 transportation companies and drove 3,900 vehicles at 4 vehicles per minute and 6,000 vehicles passed day and night. The speed of the car transported ammunition to the front line ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ During the period from February 27th to March 6th, the French transported 23,000 tons of ammunition, 2,500 tons of other materials and 190,000 reinforcements to the front line! This is equivalent to the daily shipment of 15 pairs of railway trains.

  And what was the result of this battle? In the battle that lasted nearly 10 months, the Germans had destroyed 22 million shells, and the French were not to be outdone. As of June 15, the French had also destroyed 15 million shells, of which 2 million. Fired as a heavy shell! In the end, nearly a million soldiers slept here. The loss of the French was about 542,000 or more, while the loss of the Germans was about 433,000! Hundreds of thousands of tons of materials were turned into ashes. Both sides failed to achieve their goals. The result of the war only resulted in the change of hands of several square kilometers of positions. What is the point of such a battle?

  This kind of intense consumption is undoubtedly a disaster for Germany, but even after the Battle of Verdun, the Germans still did not think about how to end the war decently, but continued to increase it like a gambler! In the end, Germany ran out of the last trace of war potential, and its oil ran out!

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