readx(); The battlefield was full of artillery fire and explosions!

The Austrians were almost dumb in artillery in the face of the frontal offensive led by Blucher, and many of the artillery positions were destroyed by the Germans, but when they decided to break through, they concentrated all their artillery and bombarded the German troops led by General Brautz, who was responsible for intercepting behind enemy lines.

As the Austrians did in Valka, the Germans also operated a small trench defense system here, and most of the Germans, although rookies, had been taught how to dig trenches and how to fight in the trenches in the training camps. At the time of the Austrian artillery bombardment, most of the German troops hid in the trenches to avoid the artillery fire, so the losses were not large. The Austrians took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the Germans, and the Germans had to meet the Austrians with their guns under artillery fire at this time.

Large numbers of Austrian soldiers, dragging their rifles, half-hunched over, rushed quickly towards the German trenches and fortifications. The German soldiers lay on their stomachs on the edge of the trenches, a few machine guns roaring and spraying a large number of bullets, while ordinary soldiers with bolt-action rifles slammed into the enemy. Even if most of the soldiers were actually dealing with the enemy for the first time, and their marksmanship was not very good, but under this density, a large number of Austrian soldiers still fell in front of the battle.

The Austrian army, which turned from the era of queuing to shoot, was by no means like many people think, fearlessly moving forward under gunfire and shooting in front of the enemy's nose before shooting, in fact, some people in the era of queuing and shooting would do this, entirely because the accuracy of the smoothbore gun was too impressive. In today's mode of warfare, the density and accuracy of firepower have increased linearly, and the degree of lethality of soldiers has also increased. An infantry battalion rushed up, and it was a matter of burning incense to successfully rush to the edge of the trench. However, at this time, almost all the armies of Europe had mastered a special branch of arms, that is, the gendarmerie. Whoever dares not to charge halfway, the gendarmes will directly beat them to death.

The gendarmes of the Overseer played a good "guiding role" on the battlefield, and the Austrian soldiers had to slap the German positions like a tidal wave.

A young soldier who was so nervous that he emptied all his ammunition not long after the start of the battle asked his squad leader in horror, "No bullets, squad leader, I have no bullets!" ”

His squad leader still had a few left, shooting methodically, and he could have given himself some of the freckled recruits, but he could see clearly that this guy had almost closed his eyes and emptied all the bullets in his hand, not even a single enemy body hair. It was a complete waste to give him bullets, and he grabbed the rookie, and in the midst of the fire he had to shout: "When those Austrian grandsons get close, throw me grenades!" Attention, you idiot, don't drop grenades into the trenches! ”

With that, he let go of the guy, still shooting with his rifle.

The rookie was still scared and asked, "There are only two grenades, what about throwing them away?" ”

The squad leader didn't look at him, pulled the bolt and fired another bullet, which hit an Austrian, and said in his mouth: "Then use a bayonet to poke the stomach of the Austrian who jumped down!" ”

The more superior Austrians soon reached the trenches, and the German soldiers, led by veterans, fought the Austrians hand-to-hand with rifle butts, bayonets, and even teeth. This kind of hand-to-hand combat is extremely bloody, but in this kind of situation where you die or I die, no one is not desperate. The Germans have a strong conviction and the Austrians have the will to survive, so at this moment, no one is holding back.

The Germans were soon sent reinforcements from the second trench, but even so, the Austrians had such a significant superiority. The Germans inevitably lost two trenches, but the Austrians were also exhausted from the attack and finally stopped at the third trench, and in order to advance this short distance of several hundred meters, the Austrians paid nearly 4,000 lives, and a large number of Austrian soldiers were wounded.

German General Brautz made several mistakes in his deployment, which allowed the Austrians to make some progress, although these advances were not particularly fatal. One of the biggest problems was that Blautz considered saving ammunition, but ignored the intensity of the war, so the ammunition in the hands of the front-line soldiers was seriously insufficient, which made them unable to kill and injure the Austrians more effectively when facing the Austrians, and finally ran out of ammunition in the trenches, and could only give the Austrians hand-to-hand combat.

Brautz quickly realized what he had done wrong, so he issued an excess of ammunition to the trenches facing the Austrians. In fact, in the eyes of the Tang Army, the amount of these ammunition was insufficient even in ordinary wartime, but the German army's lack of ammunition was quite serious, so it could only do so.

The Austrians stormed their rear, and Blucher immediately ordered the Germans to launch a large-scale offensive in the front after receiving the information that the Austrians were trying to break through in the rear, and the Austrians left behind the defense of the troops were equally resolute, but Blucher also showed the momentum of gambling in the end, he supplemented the large-scale automatic fire and artillery, so that the Germans attacked the Austrians with more than twice the previous firepower.

This attack was so effective that within a day Blucher's German army had broken through the three lines of Austrian defence and advanced five kilometers, while Bender had to reallocate a part of his forces from his main forces for a second break.

The ammunition in Blucher's hands was already seriously insufficient, and many of his front-line soldiers could only get a dozen rounds of ammunition, especially the machine guns even had only one or even half a chain of ammunition, and a large number of artillery pieces had no ammunition to fire. However, Blucher was convinced that the Austrians were equally embarrassed, because on the second day, although the Austrian assault on Brauz had increased in size, there had been a noticeable decrease in firepower, and many of the Austrian troops had not fired a single bullet from beginning to end.

Blucher judged that Bender was at the end of his rope. So he ordered his troops to break through Bender's broken rear forces at all costs and annihilate Bender's Austrian army.

At this time, however, Bender did not continue to attack Brautz's rearguard, but turned to the Poles on the western flank. Although Kościuszko had been carefully prepared, the Polish army's combat strength was weaker, and the enemy's sudden arrival allowed Bender's main forces to break through the Polish People's Revolutionary Army line, tear a hole in the western front and retreat in a southwestern direction.

Although the German army in general caused great damage to the Austrian army, the Bender division still had a force of 50,000 men, and the threat to the German army was still relatively large, if the Austrian army could not be annihilated, then the German army could not concentrate on the north to deal with the Russians and Prussians.

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