As the sun sets, the already noisy battlefield gradually became quiet. In the first half of the night, there was no moon, and only the night wind blew quietly across the entire battlefield.

There are traffic trenches between the French trenches. These traffic trenches can not only ensure the retreat of the French army, but also use the troops behind to come forward to reinforce. At night, these traffic trenches are the possible routes of attack by both sides, which must be strictly guarded by the enemy.

The soldiers on both sides threw a illuminated torch into the traffic trench from time to time, so that if someone wanted to pass by here, they would definitely find it. On the ground on both sides of the traffic trench, there were originally minefields.

In such a darkness, the French engineers quietly left the trenches with baskets filled with mines and came to the minefield.

During the day, the minefields of the French were basically carried out by the mobilized troops of Prussia and England to carry out an extremely efficient mine clearance. The British and Prussians ran over from the minefield, ran over, ran over, and ran over, which had effectively destroyed the minefield quite thoroughly. Now, taking advantage of the moonless first half of the night, the French went out to bury mines.

However, this job is also a very dangerous job. Although the British and Prussians did a great job in mine clearing on the minefield during the day, it is hard to say whether their work is missing. In such darkness around, French engineers could only rely on the faint starlight to vaguely see a little thing, and naturally they could not find those mines that had not yet exploded. Whether they would encounter these things depends entirely on the arrangement of fate.

So in the first half of the night, the battlefield was very quiet, but many times, there would be a sudden explosion and a flash of light. The French engineer who came out to bury the mine accidentally encountered a landmine that survived under the iron hooves of the British and Prussians.

However, as the moon rose, the French engineers retreated. In the second half of the night, another movement gradually occurred on the battlefield.

Some British soldiers and Prussian mobilizers selected through lottery. After about half an hour of striking study, each of them was stuffed with a shovel and a probe in their hand, and they were kicked into the minefield. The explosions from time to time in the minefield have told them that the French must have done something despicable in the dark.

As for the despicable things the French did, at first, the Prussians and the British were worried that they would attack themselves while the night was dark. Although it was difficult to launch an attack on such a moonless night, and it was likely that it would even waste ammunition at all. The French were always cunning, and God knew what they were doing. So the British and the Prussians were waiting for the night for most of the night, but the French did not launch a night attack.

Since the French came out, not to conduct night attacks, they could not have come out to take a walk under the stars and think about life. So the question of what the French were doing in the first half of the night was immediately answered: "These despicable and cunning French people just buried mines in the minefield while they were in the dark!"

If the French could come to bury landmines at night, the British and Prussians could naturally dig landmines at night. So the British engineers and the Prussian engineers drawn out of the lottery were driven out of the trenches and crawled towards the minefield under the moonlight.

So this night, in the first half of the night, the boom caused by the French, and more boom caused by the British and Prussians slowly passed by in the second half of the night.

The next day, just as dawn, the British and Prussian troops launched a new attack as usual. The way of attack was still to bombard the cannons, bombard the infantry after bombarding the cannons (this time was really rushing). However, there was still some change. The change was that when a group of Prussian mobilized soldiers rushed up with bayonets to clear the mines, there were also a group of live ammunition soldiers in the trenches holding guns under the command of an officer, aiming at their vests.

Yes, after thinking for a night, the Prussians finally came up with a good way to use the supervision team to increase the enthusiasm of soldiers to fight.

Under the gun of the supervising team, the Prussian mobilizers did show extra courage. They did not care about the possible mines under their feet (after all, did the guys who went out to clear the mines last night stare at them, God knows whether they were lying there paddling in the minefield?) and ran forward because they knew that the guys behind them would really shoot.

Accompanied by the rumbling explosion of mines, the Prussian army rushed towards the barbed wire that the French had repaired overnight.

As usual, they were first shot by the French volleyball in front of the barbed wire, then shot by the French cannons, then bombarded by the French with "little melon", then swept by the French with "broad sword", and then the remaining Prussian mobilized soldiers were killed by the Prussian supervising team.

Then the next group of Prussians rushed up again. Because, if a trench could be captured every day, they would be able to take the high ground in a few days, and once the high ground was taken down, Verdun's door was opened.

Such a story is also staged by the British. Except for the British who are embarrassed to get a supervisory team out, there is almost no difference.

After fierce battle, at noon, the Prussians broke through two more trenches. But they were soon driven back by the French army, which were supported by more cannons. Then they rushed back and were driven back again... It was not until the sun was declining that they had firmly stood firm in the position of the third trenches.

After breaking through the trench, the Prussians stopped attacking and began to consolidate their defense on the spot. It seemed that they were planning to come step by step.

The British fought more fiercely, and the battle for the third trench continued until the sun set. When the British repelled the French's last counterattack, the sky was almost dark.

Like the Prussians, the British should consolidate this position first and continue tomorrow. Although the casualties between the British and Prussians in the past two days were a bit scary, Mao could estimate that more than 30,000 casualties had been killed or killed in two days. Such losses were really rare in the previous history of Europe. But now they are very close to the "key goal". If they work harder, they seem to be able to reach that high ground. Therefore, both the British and the Prussians think: we can hold on for a while.

However, they did not know that there was a big difference between the third trench and the first trench, that is, the connection between the third trench and the fourth trench was not only the traffic trench, but also the tunnels that were hidden very well.

These tunnels were originally traffic trenches, but they were covered with wood, covered with thick soil and disguised the exit. The repeated backlash from the French army also made the Prussians not even bother to check these things.

The guns and cannons on both sides did not stop until the sun set, and then naturally the old plays of the previous night continued to be staged: in the first half of the night, the French came out to bury mines, then bang, bang; in the second half of the night, the British and Prussians came out to dig mines, and then "boom boom boom boom boom..."

Just as the British and Prussians triggered the plot of "Boom Boom Boom Boom...", teams of French troops were stroking towards the third trench through the tunnel.

When it was almost dawn, the plot of the British and Prussians' "Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom..." was basically about to end, but at this time, the French cannons suddenly opened fire violently at the third trench occupied by the British and Prussians.

Even the French cannons had a limited amount of damage to the trenches, but the sound of the cannon was also a signal. As soon as the cannon sounded, the French soldiers erected their bayonets, first crossed the wire along the traffic trench, then jumped onto the ground, and rushed towards the enemy opposite.

Neither the British nor the Prussian army expected that the battle on this day would start with the French attack. They quickly prepared to organize a counterattack, intending to play a defensive counterattack first, and then... but they did not expect that many pieces of soil suddenly collapsed in the trenches on their side, revealing many authentic crossings, and then a large group of French soldiers rushed out with bayonets.

With the internal and external cooperation, both the British and the Prussians soon collapsed. Then the French counterattacked with the trend and even regained the second trench for a while. They also put a lot of effort into dragging the British and Prussians over, and many artillery prepared to support today's offensive operations were also destroyed.

Moreover, the French army's firepower became stronger again, and even more, it was obvious that the cannons above 12 pounds began to join the French camp, and shrapnel also appeared on the battlefield for the first time. When the British and Prussians launched a counterattack, large numbers of their soldiers were killed on the battlefield by such shells.

After huge casualties, the British regained the third trench that had just been lost. The Prussians almost threw even the second trench back.

When the battle ended on this day, the British took a look at their losses. In the past three days, the British army's losses had reached 20,000. Even though considering that 30,000 British troops who didn't speak English had just been brought from Hannover, the losses were all real elite troops, and such losses were not something that those mobilized soldiers could supplement.

But the Prussians lost more depending on the number of people, especially in today's battle, the Prussians lost 20,000 people. In total, Prussia had lost 40,000 people in these three days.

Although that "important goal" seems not far away, many people are already considering whether there are any necessary questions to continue to fight like this.
Chapter completed!