Chapter 1438: Razor Their Defenses to the Ground (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
The empire's sea wolves have already headed for the sea, and the vast ocean will become the sea wolves' hunting grounds.
In the early morning, when the sun jumped out of the horizon, the sea was calm.
As the submarine, like a blue whale, was sailing alone on the sea, many sailors came out of the cabin filled with various smells and enjoyed the fresh air on the sea.
While the sailors were laughing and enjoying all this on the deck, Captain Sun Zhiyuan walked onto the bridge, looked at the clear sky in the distance and asked Wu Min'an.
"How about it, do you have any ideas about this mission?"
"idea……"
Wu Anmin thought for a moment and said.
"I think we should enter the English Channel. The British are fighting the French in France right now. There must be a lot of British ships sailing in the channel. After all, they need to transport troops and supplies to Belgium. Compared with searching in other places, our success rate should be higher if we search there."
"The success rate is high, but the risk is also high. A fleet like that must have escort warships. Let's..."
"Captain, warships are also ships. If we seize the opportunity, we can sink them as well! Submarines don't just attack unarmed merchant ships. It's easy to attack unarmed merchant ships, but if merchant ships fly a neutral flag, should we attack them or not? Therefore, if we want to expand the results of the battle, we have to attack warships. Warships... Only by attacking warships can we weaken the power of the Royal Navy."
Why do submarines attack merchant ships?
Because it’s easy to hit!
Compared to warships, merchant ships not only have a more fragile structure, but also have no weapons, making them the perfect targets for attack.
To the empire's sea wolves, those merchant ships were like lambs on the prairie, the kind that they could prey on at will. But that was far from the truth.
Merchant ships may be very vulnerable to attack, but they are also easy to disguise. By simply hanging the merchant flag of a neutral country, the submarine will watch it leave.
After thinking for a while, Sun Zhiyuan nodded. He thought for a while and then said.
"Well... that's true. Otherwise, let's try..."
In the next few days, the "S83" submarine sailed northward. After entering the northern Atlantic Ocean, the wind and waves became stronger. The submarine sailed among the waves, circling left and right from time to time, and rising and falling back and forth, moving forward at a high speed of sixteen knots, towards the distant battlefield.
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In fact, the battlefield is not far away.
For the millions of Ming-French coalition troops in the Verdun area, the battlefield was right next to them. They were on the battlefield, no, they were in purgatory.
A month ago, when the soldiers arrived in Verdun, lush woods and French-style country buildings were scattered among the fields, and everything was quiet and peaceful.
But in just a few short days, everything changed.
Brutal battles are taking place along a long front line, and the battles are even changing the topography here.
The lush and green forests were long gone - either they were cut down by the warring parties to reinforce fortifications, or they were blown up in the fierce artillery fire. Now only some broken tree stumps stood there, standing like lonely tombstones.
The green fields were completely turned upside down. The bumpy craters of various sizes turned the earth into the surface of the moon. Under the fierce artillery attack, there was no green on the earth. Only the stumps of trees stood alone, and the corpses or body parts hanging on the trees reminded people that this was a battlefield!
A purgatory filled with death.
After a heavy rain, the battlefield became muddy and there was water everywhere in the trenches. The soldiers could only squat on the shooting platform to avoid getting soaked in the water.
But even so, you still need to wade through knee-deep water when walking.
Holding a Webster 100 rifle, Chen Dongguo walked silently in the trench. In front of him, a mouse was swimming freely, but he completely ignored it.
But after only a month, people, rats, and even fleas were living in peace here.
"Dongguo, where are you going?"
Occasionally he would meet familiar fellow villagers who would greet him.
"I'm just wandering around."
Although he was walking around, he was actually fighting. Finally, after searching for a while, he found a suitable position, a forward observation trench. After entering the observation trench, he grabbed a handful of mud and smeared it on the rag wrapped around the outside of his helmet. He even smeared some mud on the gun wrapped in cloth. After observing for a while, he carefully stuck his head out. At this time, he had almost become one with the battlefield.
There was some mist rising from the ground after the rain. Chen Dongguo observed the British trenches through the mist. Everything looked very similar to Anping, but the rain in Anping would never stop. Born on a farm, he loved hunting the most. Now... this was his hunting ground.
An experienced hunter needs to be patient, and only with patience can he wait for his prey.
However, on the battlefield, there will always be some people who make mistakes. But after only waiting for a few minutes, half of the body of a British soldier appeared in the sight, and before that guy realized the danger, Chen Dongguo pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
With a gunshot, the head in the scope shattered like a ripe watermelon.
When loading the rifle again, Chen Dongtian saw half of a head popping out again. The moment it appeared, he pulled the trigger again.
Gunshots rang out and people fell down.
Although no shouting could be heard from the British trenches, the deaths of two people in succession would certainly cause chaos. When Chen Dongguo quietly retreated, he heard a whistle coming from the air.
Bombardment!
"It's a mortar."
Chen Dongguo muttered something, and as he finished his words, a shell fell, blasting out clouds of smoke near the trench. The violent explosion raised a large amount of dirt. However, this small shell did not pose much threat to the soldiers unless the shell fell into the trench.
The retaliatory bombardment lasted less than a minute and then stopped, and did not cause many casualties.
On the battlefield, such back-and-forth shooting or shelling is absolutely normal. Everyone is getting used to it.
In the British trench, a British general observed the Ming army's defense line, and then he said.
"We must break through the Ming army's defenses!"
The Ming army’s defense line!
In the past month, they have launched several attacks, but none of them have broken through the Ming army's defenses.
Barbed wire and machine guns are simply insurmountable obstacles for the soldiers' flesh and blood.
In just one month, tens of thousands of British soldiers died on this land.
However, in war, death is acceptable.
The only question is how to defeat the enemy, capture their positions, and then capture Paris!
Occupy Paris and force France to surrender, this was the strategy of Britain and Germany. Although their plan was implemented smoothly, a plan is always a plan, just as they did not realize that barbed wire, trenches and machine guns could block their advance.
After putting down the telescope, the general stroked his beard and muttered to himself.
"Okay, now let's raze their battle lines to the ground!"
(End of this chapter)
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