Until the Wehrmacht launched a counter-artillery attack, all the artillery at the disposal of Charlemagne's Royal Army fired a total of 80 minutes of concentrated barrage fire on the trench system on the perimeter of the Siegfried Line. Even at the moment when the enemy's shells were whistling overhead, the gunners still held their posts until they died.

Their performance is not heroic, but the results of their efforts are beyond words.

In the decisive battle plan drawn up by the General Staff of the Royal Army, these ground artillery forces, which were destined to play only one role, undertook the task of destroying the enemy's forward trenches and the surrounding barbed wire fence. The artillerymen did launch a massive artillery cover. But no one has thought about it, or has thought about it, and there is no way to solve the most basic question, whether Charlemagne's artillery equipment is suitable for the task to which it is given.

Due to the fact that the production line of the new cannon had just entered the track, the output had not yet increased, and the influence of the enemy's aerial strangulation warfare, the number of new rear-loading Dahlgren rifled guns on hand on the Rhine front was only 27, and most of the rest were old front-loading smoothbore guns, of which 8-pounder and 2-pounder guns were the majority. The equipment sequence of the entire artillery cluster is not so much to show the majestic military appearance of Charlemagne's royal army, but rather a large-scale field exhibition of the history of the development of Charlemagne's artillery equipment.

The artillery is already in the shape of a bird, but the shells are even less powerful than the cannons. The artilleryman happily received the shells in his hands and opened the boxes, only to find that almost all the shells in the boxes were shrapnel. The shells had few charges, and most of them exploded in volleys, blasting out hundreds of steel balls, scrap metal fragments, and sometimes wheels removed from old clocks. It's not bad to kill and injure exposed soldiers, but it's not bad to break down barriers. If the fuse had exploded a fraction of a second earlier, the all-metal storm would have missed the barbed wire, and if the fuse had detonated too late, the shrapnel would have exploded directly in the dirt and would not have been able to break the barbed wire at all. Only skilled and experienced gunners can master the setting of the shrapnel fuse that effectively destroys barbed wire, but there are never many such people, and the level of most gunners can only be said to be "very average", and the bombardment effect on the barbed wire area can be imagined.

Another deficiency of Charlemagne's artillery was the lack of large-caliber howitzers and ammunition against fortifications and underground bunkers. There were only 34 rear-loading Dahlgren guns of 3 pounder and larger caliber on the entire front, and they were scattered in different sections.

Of course, the biggest disappointment for Charlemagne's GIs was the quality of the shells, especially the fuses. Some fuses are too sensitive and explode in mid-air, and more are simply duds. In their reports to their superiors, the Defence Force observers claimed that one-third of the shells fired from the opposite side were duds, and that there were many duds lying in many of the smashed craters at the front of the position, and that there were hundreds of duds in front of one observation post alone. Perhaps there is an exaggeration in it, and individual isolated evidence cannot confirm that the dud rate will reach an astonishing one-third, but it also reflects from the side that Charlemagne's military production has not followed up with the quality control while tapping the potential and expanding production capacity.

In any case, the artillerymen have done everything they can, and even now that they are being suppressed by the Wehrmacht's counter-battery fire, they are still trying their best to fire shells to show their presence and determination to fight to the end. Now it's the infantry's turn to show their skills and courage.

The moment they climbed out of the ladder, many officers understood that they would not be able to go back today. The previous shelling did show a good sound and light effect, and at one time it gave people a beautiful illusion. When the fog cleared and the real battlefield was in front of everyone, the most daring officers couldn't help but gasp.

In some places the barbed wire was blown up, in others it was blown a few holes, and many more were left intact. Many of the soldiers who had been told that the attack would be a "walk in the sun" were instantly distraught, and when they looked at the Siegfried Line, they could only find impenetrable barbed wire, intact enemy fortifications, and duds everywhere.

Even so, Charlemagne's infantry remained fearless in the first wave of attacks. Zero hour - the time set by the General Staff of the Royal Army, that is, 7:30 a.m. arrived. The soldiers wore clean and beautiful military uniforms, loaded their rifles with bayonets, loaded their bolts, adjusted their backpacks and helmet straps for the last time, and went to the battlefield without hesitation. At this moment, it was up to the captains, lieutenants, ensigns, sergeants, privates and privates, and the cry of a certain unknown soldier represented the voice of all the soldiers who participated in the battle.

"For the sake of the Mother Goddess, we are on our way!"

Immediately after the loud prelude to the military horn sounded, the battle song of the Rhine Legion sung by 10,000 people resounded throughout the battlefield, and the impassioned singing even drowned out the rumbling cannons.

Normally, the defenders' gunners would never have missed the perfect opportunity to get out of the trenches with so many targets, but now they were busy dealing with their counterparts on the opposite side, making corrections based on the data provided by the observers, and they really couldn't spare their hands to take care of this unprecedentedly large choir. I had to leave the responsibility of greeting guests to the infantry brothers.

Faced with an opponent that looked like a military parade, the Wehrmacht infantry reacted quickly and deadly. The defenders, who were on standby in the underground bunkers, quickly moved into position. As soon as Lieutenant General Kemp's order to "send Charlemagne's men to Valhalla (what the Lieutenant General said may not have been remembered, this sentence was taken to heart by the big men and thoroughly carried out)", the first batch of machine guns was put into battle, and they easily fired at the "living target" at the front. Patches of Charlemagne's soldiers fell, and some of them stumbled back into the trench as they struggled to climb out of the trench when they were hit by a dense rain of bullets. Some of the soldiers were dying even before they fell back into the trenches. When a private looked up and saw that the second lieutenant who led the team had just climbed a few steps along the ladder, the whole person flew backwards into the air, and when the private and his comrades were surprised how the platoon commander had the ability to fly, the body fell heavily to the bottom of the trench, and everyone realized that the second lieutenant's head was shattered together with the steel helmet.

The general-purpose machine gun, nicknamed the "Ripper", once again proved that its reputation was more than worthy, and the rain of 7.92mm machine gun bullets fell on the unprepared Charlemagnes in an indistinguishable high-speed fire. This kind of general-purpose machine has already proved its great power when it acts as a stronghold defense weapon with the corpse of a soldier in the other world, and now in the face of the Charlemagnes in a dense formation, it is equivalent to the existence of the Grim Reaper, where the muzzle of the gun spitting tongue of fire is pointed, the scythe of the Grim Reaper's soul-harvesting will be swung down. Often a point shot is over, and 5, a life is over. In addition, the power of the 7.92mm machine gun bullet is sufficient, even if it does not hit the vital point, the huge kinetic energy and the rolling of the bullet will cause huge damage to the body tissues. With the poor medical conditions on the battlefield, even if one of them can escape with a single life, the lucky ones who are shot in the leg and arm will find that the doctor who specializes in amputation is walking towards him with a saw, and his face is full of gentle smiles

The 2.7mm heavy machine gun seems to have a little bit of a presence compared to the assault rifles that are heavily armed, and the general-purpose machine guns that Charlemagne is known and feared for because of the number of kills and the distinctive sound of the shots, but Charlemagne's soldiers are equally in awe of this slow-firing weapon. You must know that if you are hit by a general-purpose machine gun, you still have a chance to leave a life, and if you are hit by a large-caliber heavy machine gun, you will either break your waist in two, or you will have an extra basin-sized vent in your chest, and if you hit your hands and feet, the doctor will save even amputation. What's worse is that experienced machine gunners will also use a high parabolic trajectory to shoot bullets into trenches, leaving no safety on the battlefield.

Add grenade launchers and rapid-fire machine guns, and any grouped targets that gather together will be bathed in a deadly rain of bullets.

Charlemagne's infantry, of course, knew what it meant to be in close formation or in a congregation in the open, exposed to a large number of opponents with automatic weapons. But they had no choice.

The Chasebo rifle did not need to line up the troops into a battle line to ensure the hit rate and rate of fire, and the inherent rate of fire and accuracy advantages of the breech-loading rifled gun were supposed to liberate the infantry from the mode of lining up to shoot, making it possible for infantry detachment tactics and lying down to shoot. However, in contrast to the rapid progress of technology, the tactical thinking of the officer class, the corresponding regulations and training system are far behind, and in order to maintain battlefield discipline and command, the royal army still continues the tactical regulations of the front-loading rifle era to a large extent. In order to solve this problem, Roland painstakingly planned to establish a number of accelerated officer training schools to realize the metabolism of the officer system through battlefield attrition and practice, but unfortunately the situation developed too late to implement such urgent measures.

So obviously with new weapons in hand, in order to avoid the decline in combat effectiveness caused by tactical and equipment adjustments (here is an example, in the early days of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi German army was able to achieve great results, in addition to the undeclared war, strategic deception, and the Soviet army's purge caused serious damage to the ability of the command system, the Soviet army's equipment and operational thinking is in a period of transition is also an important reason, just as the snake is the most vulnerable when it comes out of its shell, the Soviet Red Army, which is being redressed in 94, is at a low point in combat effectiveness. If the Soviet-German war dragged on until 942, the Soviet conscripts would be as familiar with and able to take full advantage of new automatic weapons such as the SVT-40 as the Red Navy infantry. At that time, the German infantry, accustomed to the battalion and platoon defense system, would have a harder time resisting the Red Army's regimental and regimental charges, and the lack of depth of the Germans would hold out until 944 at most in the face of the great depth breakthrough tactics formed by the torrent of steel), Charlemagne's army let the infantry with new weapons continue the outdated tactics. As a result, the chain of command has indeed continued to function, but the casualty rate has also reached alarming heights.

Someone kept falling, someone kept filling in, blood everywhere and red pants drew a thin red line on the ground, stretching from one end of the horizon to the other.

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