Iron Cross Fire

From all indications, the United States' participation in the war was already forced by the situation. In order to ensure its foreign economic and trade interests, the United States must participate in the war.

Faced with such a variable, the Allies did not need to worry because they had a stronger foundation.

The Allies repeatedly rejected the United States' request to open the canal.

Finally, the United States was forced to formally declare war on Turkey on August 5 and join the Allied Powers.

Germany then declared war on the United States, followed by Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the First World War entered its largest scale.

However, Kuster did not know all these changes. He was on his way to the front line at this moment.

Kuster's army was very special. It was not bound by superiors, nor did it need to worry about too many casualties that would lead to the failure to expand the results of the war.

He knew this in his heart, so he would not be merciful when using it.

It was probably on August 6 that Kuster's army had arrived in the Normandy region.

As soon as he arrived, his army was sent to the battlefield.

He needs to be responsible for a battle line of more than 20 kilometers, which is a very short distance in the terrifying huge armies of both sides.

This also means that he has a longer strategic depth and his breakthrough ability will become more powerful.

Kuster once again counted the strength of the soldiers in the entire army. His army group has a total of two armies, eight divisions, and a total of about 120,000 people.

Then he has to pay attention to his friendly forces in the north and south, namely the German Second Army and the Fifth Army.

The Second Army has 230,000 people and the Fifth Army has 270,000 people, which are too many compared to Kuster's army.

But in fact, these two armies were originally responsible for this place. So, Kuster's arrival has reduced a lot of pressure here.

The German army hopes that he can cooperate with them to attack Paris together, but Kuster doesn't think so. He prefers to attack Brittany in the west.

The German army is just the opposite. They don't think Brittany is more important than Paris, but no matter how they persuade, they have no results, so they have to give up and let Kuster attack Brittany.

The French army's most defensive forces were in Paris, which had 80% of the country's defensive forces, making it very difficult for the German army to conquer there, and making its troop deployment in other areas very vulnerable.

The French army in Brittany only had a total of 40,000, and at most three divisions.

Even if Custer's army group was small in number, it would not be defeated by several divisions.

And the friendly forces promised to give him all the extra artillery support.

All these made Custer full of confidence, and he launched the attack after a short rest.

Because they came too fast, they didn't even dig foxholes, let alone the trenches that were crisscrossed, which was the most common thing on the Western Front.

But because of this, the French army in Brittany thought they would attack Paris, resulting in a lack of defense.

The sudden whistling sound from the sky could not alarm them. These experienced French soldiers were used to the rain of shells and chose to go directly into the underground bunker.

However, this "rain" was too terrifying, more dense and more persistent than usual.

A large number of negligent Frenchmen heard the explosions stop and thought that the artillery fire had stopped. As a result, they were killed by the next batch of shells, causing considerable casualties.

After another round of bombing, Custer personally went to the front line and mobilized the soldiers.

After a simple statement, a new round of artillery bombing was about to begin. Custer asked the soldiers to seize the opportunity and advance under the cover of artillery fire.

"Don't be so fast that you will be killed by going directly into the trenches, and don't be so slow that you will be killed by walking on the battlefield."

This was the last sentence the soldiers on the field heard from him.

The next moment, he blew the horn symbolizing the charge.

The horn sounded throughout the German camp, and soon whistles sounded in each camp.

Those soldiers who were still in a daze woke up and knew that they were going to attack.

The empty plains were quickly filled with dense crowds, and hundreds of terrible shells were constantly passing through the vast sky, and the sky and the ground were approaching the French positions together.

However, the French army did not know all this, and they were still in the panic of the long bombing.

Most of the soldiers were transferred from the Paris front to Brittany to rest not long ago. They were finally able to avoid the artillery fire, but now the dense artillery shells have brought them romance in Paris.

The panicked French people also understood something in their hearts while fleeing.

The Germans are coming.

Morale suddenly dropped to a low level. Some people could not withstand the pressure and retreated directly. The entire army was also affected by this and could flee at any time.

The French officers shot several fleeing soldiers in anger.

But soon, in the earth-shaking artillery fire, he vaguely heard the sound of at least thousands of people stepping on the mud in the distance.

Braving the dense bombing, in the foggy battlefield, he bent all the way to the trench, only showing his head outside the trench, observing the battlefield with a telescope.

However, except for the collapsed barbed wire in front of him, he could not see anything clearly, and it was all white fog, but he could still hear that the sound was getting closer and closer.

Just as he was suspicious, the shells falling from the sky gradually became less and less.

Years of experience told him that the Germans must be coming, no matter if it was real or fake, he blew the whistle immediately.

The French who were still in the pit rolled out of the ditch, grabbed their guns and ran to the back of the trench, vigilantly observing the battlefield in front of them.

The officer's suspicion was undoubtedly correct, and the soldiers' actions were extremely fast, which was rare in war.

However, the fatal thing was that they did not know that the Germans needed another round of artillery fire to come over.

When the French suddenly heard a loud noise from afar, they just wanted to subconsciously avoid the artillery fire, but the next second there were several gunshots and several soldiers fell to the ground.

The troops quickly fell into panic. There were German infantry on the ground, and they needed to fight back; shells were still falling from the sky, and they could not ignore it.

Even if the French were experienced, they could not accurately judge how to deal with it.

After dragging on for more than ten seconds and killing dozens of soldiers, the officer decided to let the soldiers retreat to the pit to avoid the shells.

The advancing Germans saw that the French troops on the position had disappeared, and they also rushed forward in many ways to seize the small slope 50 meters in front of the position.

At the same time, dozens of brave grenadiers were sent to crawl forward under the artillery fire, and try to advance to 10 meters in front of the French position.

After a while, the fire in the gun barrel was finally extinguished by the rain, and the drizzle in the sky was faintly visible in the white mist.

However, the people on the battlefield did not care about whether it rained or not, or whether it was wet or not.

The German grenadiers in front of the position quickly stood up, threw hundreds of grenades into the position, blasting the dust inside, and rushed into the trench with bayonets and submachine guns.

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