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When people wanted to continue moving forward, the French's poison gas bombs also played a role. The Germans suffered heavy losses, and more than 200,000 German troops were injured and could not continue to fight. However, after panic, the Germans found that the number of French's poison gas bombs seemed to be not large, and they had been consumed after a round of battle.

So the Germans used their number advantage to compress the French army to Paris and rescued the Ninth Army trapped for half a month. In history, the Germans surrounded Paris for the second time. It seemed that the fall of Paris was only a matter of time.

The Battle of Marne was finally over. This time the Germans won the victory. The Germans, who had a great advantage in numbers (135 vs. 75), successfully detoured to Paris. After a series of bloody battles, although the French killed many German troops, their own breeding ground was greatly compressed, and the situation began to be detrimental to the French.

However, the French are not without hope. The main force of the French is on the way to Berlin, and if you calculate the time, you will be about to arrive. So as long as Paris persists, the French-German comparison in Berlin (250,000 vs. 650,000) is very good

Sure enough, less than a month after the siege of Paris, the Berlin defenders were forced to retreat into the capital, and the "two capitals siege" that had not appeared again in history began the prelude. However, after the brutal baptism of the war, both France and Germany learned very smartly and used trenches and machine guns to defend.

For the defensive party, machine guns played an important role at this moment. The machine gunners who were ambushing behind the fortifications easily took away the lives of the attacking soldiers like strong winds sweeping away fallen leaves.

When World War I broke out, China was the only one who truly realized the importance of machine guns. At that time, the German Army was equipped with the Type 1897 machine gun, with a number of more than C0. The 1897 machine gun was the first real automatic weapon in human history. It played an unparalleled role in World War I, so that some people later called World War I the war of the 1897 machine gun.

The characteristics of rapid launch of bullets have enabled Type 1897:model. At the same time, its chain-type ammunition supply system also saves soldiers a lot of loading time.

Due to the output of automatic weapons such as the Type 1897 machine gun, the combat method was completely changed.

The powerful power of the machine gun makes each side have to pay a heavy casualty price when they want to launch an attack. Many soldiers died meaninglessly under its strafing, while the casualty rate of those soldiers defending in the trench was minimal. In order to more effectively kill the defenders in the trench, some new weapons began to appear, and more and more Chinese-made 52mm silent mortars were hit before the attack.

At the same time, grenades have also been increasingly widely used. The German army threw Chinese-made grenades at the French army for the first time, and since then, grenades have become a common weapon for infantry. In the early days, empty cans or bottles were often used to make grenades.

Although the weapons have been innovative, they still cannot effectively conquer the defense system of the trench net. As the stalemate and confrontation continue, the attack on the ground has not been effective, the two sides turned their attention to the underground again. Both the Germans and the coalition forces began to try to dig tunnels to lead to each other.

Once the tunnel is dug, the tunnel workers will place a large amount of high-intensity explosives inside. This is a very tense job. The tunnel workers must keep monitoring the movements outside and hear whether there are enemies who are also digging the tunnel. Sometimes one side will find explosives buried by the other side, and sometimes, the enemy sides who are digging the tunnel may meet because of digging the tunnel. At this time, the two sides will fight to the death until one side completely falls.

After the explosives are buried, it must be connected to the electronic fire-driving device. The entire system must undergo strict testing to ensure that it can work effectively, and the tunnel is then blocked. In the morning of September, all the explosives buried in a French army called the Messinian Heights were detonated at the same time, and the sound was deafening. Those guarding the Germans were quickly subdued.

With the innovative development of weapons, some new combat technologies have also begun to appear in trench warfare, and patrol and sniping have become the main tactics.

The forward barrage shooting will severely damage the enemy's trenches.

This method of combat is used to destroy barbed wire and fortifications covered by it, and to weaken the morale of the defenders.

The attacker can then break through the no-man's land. Once the attacker reaches the opponent's trench, they will be involved in a close fight, fighting the enemy with bayonets and fists.

Surviving attackers need to consolidate their results. If they cannot react quickly, they may be expelled again. And more casualties will be taken in the enemy's counterattack.

With the development of the war, the German army later developed a new infiltration tactic to overcome trenches. At that time, Guterre, commander of the 18th German Army, actively used this tactic on the battlefield, so this tactic was later called "Guterre's tactic".

When the German army used this tactic, they first sent a specially trained stormtrooper to open the way for combat. These stormtroopers knew how to bypass the enemy's firepower center. They could quickly reach the depth of the enemy's defense system and cut off the enemy's communication, thereby creating favorable combat conditions for the large troops that were responsible for the frontal attack.

This tactic has achieved great results for a period of time, but it is not easy to use it smoothly and successfully.

However, in several battles in the late World War I, the German army's logistics support capabilities were weakened, and Guttel's tactics failed to play an effective role.

In many cases, information communication on the battlefield is done through communication soldiers, and few of them can pass through the unmanned land. This means that anxious commanders cannot figure out what is going on ahead.

So the result is often that the few surviving attackers had to commit suicide alone, and the number of people left was getting smaller and smaller.

Due to poor communication, the remaining people will continue to attack the same place. This state will continue to repeat. The number of people killed and injured in battle will always increase until the attacker is forced to stop. A large number of soldiers die in trench warfare in this way.

France and Germany, which were in a deadlock, began to actively seek foreign aid to alleviate their current dilemma.
Chapter completed!