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Taking advantage of the time when the artillery was showing off its might, the infantry of the Second Division rarely had time to rest under the shade of the trees behind the position.

Varves, a newly recruited soldier, carefully held two aluminum lunch boxes, which contained a piece of whole wheat bread, marmalade, a bag of coffee, five salted olives, and a piece of marinated fish. Walk to the resting place of this class.

Seeing that squad leader Rofus was taking a nap with his back against the root of a tree, Varvis quietly walked forward, sat across from Velvas, and placed the lunch box in his hand in front of squad leader Rofus.

Hearing the commotion, Rofus opened his eyes and saw that it was the recruit who was taking his meal. He took the lunch box and opened it and took a look at the food. He frowned, the same as before.

Although this kind of food is quite good, with both meat and vegetables included, if people outside the army see it, they will definitely think that the food of the army is good.

However, if you eat the same food every day, you will feel nauseated within a few days.

"Squad leader, here you go." Varves handed the kettle and shook it. The kettle made a splash: "We are serving wine today. I asked the cook to fill it with 100 ml more for you."

Rufus took a bite of the fish and drank a sip of wine.

"Squad leader, why do you think our Greek army deploys artillery in front of the infantry?" Chewing salted olives, Vervas raised his neck and watched the artillery position a hundred meters away.

Rofus, who was drinking with his head down, glanced at Varvis, and his young face reminded him that this soldier was probably less than 19 years old and had just begun his life. He scolded: "You are a big-headed soldier, what do you care about that?" In that free time, you might as well think about how to survive the afternoon attack."

Varves defended: "No, monitor, I just graduated from high school this year."

"I always wanted to be an artilleryman"

Luofus didn't even raise his head, and Nuo Yu said: "I didn't expect that you are still a kid from a rich family."

Even though Greece has universalized compulsory education, not many school-age children can go to high school, and most of them come from wealthy families.

For children from ordinary families, if their grades are not outstanding after primary school, their learning career will be over.

The number of these students accounts for about 60% of the students.

Varvis blushed and continued: "No, monitor, my studies have always been funded by the foundation."

The foundation is the Royal Educational Foundation.

The Royal Education Foundation supports students with excellent academic performance but from modest backgrounds.

The principals and teachers of almost every primary school in Greece have the responsibility of recommending students.

As long as the student's academic performance is satisfactory, the foundation will support him or her to enter university until he or she completes his or her studies.

Of course, there are not many students who meet the conditions of the Royal Education Foundation, and the number of college students supported by the foundation each year does not exceed 3,000.

College graduates in this era are truly elite talents.

Even after these students graduate from college, if they can still maintain excellent academic performance, the foundation will even send them to other countries, such as well-known universities in Germany, to continue their studies.

Of course, such students will have some restrictions on their employment after completing their studies.

For example, you must work in a position required by the foundation for a period of time.

Hearing that Viervas was such a top student, he exclaimed: "I never thought you were such a lucky person."

Lucky are the Greeks who describe those students whose studies are going smoothly with the help of the foundation.

"Are you interested in artillery?" Rofus said to Wilvas while biting bread.

"I have actually submitted an application to the foundation to enter the Athens Military Academy to study artillery subjects." He said this with pride on his face.

"I heard that artillery requires knowledge of mathematics, and I happen to be very good in mathematics," said Viervas happily.

If you can successfully complete the artillery subjects at the Athens Military Academy, you will become an officer after entering the army.

In European countries at the end of the 19th century, the social status of military officers was very high (in fact, the social status of military officers is also very high now). Officers from all countries like to wear officer uniforms and show off in public, which can often attract a burst of admiration.

"The forward deployment of artillery is a tactic to hit the opponent with fierce artillery fire first, suppress the enemy, and destroy their defenses," Rufus explained to Viervas.

"After that, we need to launch an infantry assault, start an infantry charge, and occupy the enemy's position."

Wilvas, who was feasting, stopped, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said: "Then we are going to attack the Ottoman position in the afternoon?"

Rofus glanced at Wilvas and said, "Why do you think the commander asked us to rest this morning?"

Wilvas suddenly felt that the bread in his hand no longer smelled good.

This is his first time on the battlefield.

Seeing the uneasy look of the new recruits, Rufus comforted him: "When you go to the battlefield in the afternoon, pay attention to my command."

While the two were talking, the roar of artillery that lasted all morning suddenly stopped.

The entire artillery preparation took one morning and consumed a full 10,000 rounds of artillery shells.

After the smoke and dust on the Ottoman position cleared, the soldiers observing with binoculars couldn't help but take a breath of cold air: the entire position seemed to have been plowed, and it was littered everywhere. The Ottoman soldiers in the trench were almost buried by the rolling soil. Everything seemed to All turned gray.

After the bombardment stopped, Constantine officially issued an order: the entire army attacked.

The Greek army launched a diversionary attack on the Ottoman army from two sides, mainly the Fourth Division and a Congolese Division, with nearly 30,000 men.

On the frontal battlefield, the second and third divisions, as well as the two Congolese divisions, were responsible for storming the positions defended by the Ottoman army from the front.

After receiving the order, the Rufus Ban, in the form of a skirmish line, with a distance of about 6 meters between each person, charged towards the Ottoman position that had just stopped being bombarded.

Ottoman army position

After being ravaged by artillery for a morning, the soldiers had almost lost their hearing. They only felt dizzy and had a buzzing in their ears.

An Ottoman soldier shook the dirt off his head, leaned out of the trench, and observed the situation on the battlefield. He only saw Greek soldiers on the battlefield in evacuated formations, attacking their own positions, shouting at the top of their lungs: "The enemy Attack, enemy attack"

The Ottoman soldiers who heard the shouts leaned out of the trenches and fired at the moving Greek soldiers.

Gunshots rang out, and Rufus shouted: "Alternately shoot and cover each other."

With an order, five of the ten soldiers in Lufusban squatted on the ground and fired at the local position to cover the other soldiers.

The other five hunched over, holding rifles, and continued to charge towards the enemy position.

When the bullets of the five people were exhausted, the other five people took cover shots and advanced alternately.

The brutal offensive and defensive battle officially began.