Although he said "I will think about it", Joseph did not intend to weaken his defenses in exchange for his offensive power during a wave of recklessness. Since the British cannons are not in place yet, hurry up and make the tortoise shell stronger.

However, the damage moves in Joseph's mind, conditionally, are almost ready. If there is no condition, you can also create conditions-and still can't get it. But isn’t there still time? If you don't hammer something, I always feel a little uneasy, or else, hammer a spectacle?

Of course, Joseph knew that the spectacle had missed the country, so he should continue to hammer the fortress. And Joseph hammered a lot of false targets in one breath. By the way, the Supervisory Government was forced to place a lot of new orders with the "Military-Industrial Complex." To fill the vacancy of misappropriation in the arsenal.

In addition, Joseph also specially arranged a person to send emergency reports to Napoleon every day, asking Napoleon to come and help him. However, the fellow Napoleon led the army slowly and slowly, but the British artillery began to be in place.

"That bastard, he just wanted to let the enemy smash his head and bleed me here, so exhausted, and then come up to take advantage! I'm sure this kid thinks that way, it must be!" Joseph was getting it. Napoleon's "The road conditions are too bad, the soldiers were too tired when crossing the Alps, the weather is not good, anyway, people have not attacked...I don't understand why you panic?" After replying, he made angrily Such judgments.

Joseph's judgment was indeed very correct. Napoleon thought so, and Joseph himself thought about it. If the commander of the fortress was still Ruebel, he would probably advise Napoleon to do so. Since he would do it, Napoleon would definitely do it too!

After the artillery was in place, the British began to attack according to the old routine in Liege. The so-called old routine is naturally: bombardment, bombardment, and bombardment after the bombardment. Yes, the infantry will not rush at first, and wait until the artillery blasts slowly for a few days, and some defensive facilities are almost blasted.

So Joseph was very happy to see that the fake targets he had built began to collapse under the attack of the British artillery; on the other hand, he calculated how much gunpowder the British spent, how much artillery barrel life, and how long.

However, the time consumed was actually the most useless, because Napoleon stopped the troops to fix it again. It is said that Napoleon complained to Chief of Staff Berthière: "What are the British doing? The movements are so slow! We have all been dragging time like this, why are they still there!"

The British spent several days, with a little bit of artillery fire, all the false targets that Joseph had built for several days were broken. Then he told the Duke of Brunswick: "The rest is up to you. You gnaw off this paragraph, and then we will bang for a few days, so that it won't take long before we can take Verdun."

So the Prussians confidently put on an offensive posture. After all, the saw-tooth-shaped breast wall in front had already been smashed by the British without money. It should not be difficult to capture this parapet.

Just as the Prussians opened the offensive formation, the Duke of Brunswick saw through the telescope that behind some broken breast walls, there were some French soldiers digging their heads.

"The French are really brave. They have always been there, but as long as we attack, they can't stop us by relying on such a broken breast wall." Thinking of this, the Duke of Brunswick gave the order to attack.

The Prussian soldiers approached the French army's parapet in a skirmish formation, and the French began shooting at the Prussian army. The Prussian army used platoon guns to cover the skirmishers and continued to approach.

Suddenly there was a series of explosions, and several Prussian soldiers fell down holding their legs.

"This is?" Brunswick was taken aback.

"This is a landmine." Major George Cavendish, the liaison officer sent by the British to the Duke of Brunswick, replied. "We often encounter this thing in Ireland. But it seems that the power of the French landmine seems to be. It's much smaller."

The Duke of Brunswick also remembered suddenly, and those Poles seemed to have used such things. However, in order to ensure that the underground supply line passing through Prussia would not be hit hard by the Poles, they have always used these things mainly on the territory of the Russians. Therefore, the Prussians have only heard of the French. Despicable stuff, but few Prussians are lucky enough to fly on this kind of "earth plane".

In the previous battle with the French army, the Prussians also encountered a Northern Army that was not a Bonapartist system. They are also not equipped with such despicable weapons. So this is the first time the British and Prussian coalition forces have encountered such insidious guys as landmines.

However, although landmines have caused a lot of losses to the Prussians, landmines alone cannot stop the Prussians from moving forward. The Prussians gradually approached the parapet. The French soldiers who were still guarding the parapet turned around and fled after the Prussian soldiers approached.

"The morale of the French has dropped a lot," said a Prussian.

"They can still have such morale. They are already very good." Major George Cavendish said, "After successive defeats, the morale of soldiers in most countries should have been very bad at this time. . Moreover, they are retreating, not retreating. Look at the route that the French people ran, they are not in a straight line."

"Well, they are running away-I mean when they retreat, they know how to avoid bullets, and they are really not flustered." Another Prussian major general said.

"It's not just hiding bullets." Major Cavendish said, "They are avoiding stepping on their own landmines. I have seen them in Ireland, and those Irish rebels run like this when they pass through minefields. ."

"Have you fought against rebels supported by the French in Ireland?" the major general asked curiously.

"Yes, General Blücher, I have fought rebels in Ireland." Major Cavendish replied.

"I heard that Irish rebels are good at fighting?" Another Prussian officer said.

"The Irish rebels are very cunning and very fierce. One of my cousins, Viscount Anderson, was martyred by landmines during a battle with them." Major Cavendish said, "In contrast, France. People are much easier to deal with. However, this posture today reminds me of Ireland again."

At this time, the pursuing Prussian skirmishers had already crossed the breast wall that collapsed more than half. Of course, as a price, fifty or sixty of them would not have to worry about not having enough food in the future, and fifty or sixty were still there In the days to come, crutches are definitely inseparable.

Of course, the French army also paid the price. In the previous shooting, the French army also killed five or six people. Afterwards, when they were retreating, they were killed another ten.

The Prussian skirmishers continued to move forward, and in front of them was the first barbed wire fence of the French army.

The Frenchmen who ran over all got down and skilfully climbed over the barbed wire from several predetermined positions. In those places, a little space was left under the barbed wire, just for people to climb over.

But it was impossible for the Prussian skirmishers behind to do this. First of all, they have to pass through a minefield when they chase. Although they didn't know much about landmines before, the fact that the comrades behind them who were lying on the ground with their feet wailing had already used the **** facts to let them understand what was a minefield.

So after taking down the breast wall, they stopped at the breast wall and all hid behind the breast wall to wait. Anyway, the military order given to them above is to seize this parapet and open the way for subsequent attacks. As for what to do next after taking down the breast wall, the superior didn't say anyway. If you don't stroke the water at this time, is it really going to hit you hard?

Even if they occupy this parapet, the army behind cannot immediately follow, because there is still a minefield between the parapet and the main force of the British-Prussian coalition forces.

"If you look closely at mines, you can still find them." Major Cavendish said. "After all, tripwires are exposed on the ground. We have a dedicated mine clearance team, all of which are the most experienced. They can quickly open up a safe passage in the minefield."

So the experienced British demining team set off. But their speed of demining was not as fast as Major Cavendish said. Of course, this may also be because the major's standards for speed are not the same as theirs~lightnovelpub.net~ In short, the major's servant has already prepared morning tea for the major.

"After the morning tea, the passage should be cleared," Major Cavendish said.

As Major Cavendish expected, by noon, the safe passage was finally opened. More infantry followed. They plan to use the remaining breast wall of the French to repair it first, and then continue to attack.

However, what they didn't expect was that this section of the parapet was originally a false target, a decoy. The position of this section of the parapet was already calibrated by the French artillery behind, and even before the construction of the parapet, they had already tested it.

As a result, as soon as the Prussians gathered behind this section of the parapet, the French tore off the camouflage net on the eight-pound cannon not far away and immediately fired a salvo. These cannons are half-buried in the trenches. Only the barrels are higher than the ground and covered with camouflage nets. It is basically impossible to find them in the distance. The firepower of this round of salvo is not particularly fierce (Joseph did not allow all the cannons to fire, so as to keep the dark people in the future), but the accuracy of the hits is very amazing, only ten cannons fired, but they shot The shells hit the target accurately, causing dozens of casualties in one fell swoop.