Since the persuasion to surrender has been rejected, the only thing left is to attack.

In theory, the safest method of attack is siege and consumption. The terrain of this highland is dangerous. If you attack hard, the loss is certainly not small, but this highland is not very large, so there will not be too many materials in the highland. If it is surrounded, for a long time, the highland will definitely be there. Unsupportable.

But there is one problem that everyone cannot ignore, and that is how much time they have. Napoleon's Italian Legion is on the way, who knows when he will arrive. Therefore, the British and Prussians cannot afford to wait.

But this attack could not be launched immediately, because the French army also understood the meaning of the high ground. The nearby French army is constantly launching counterattacks, trying to get through with the high ground. Therefore, the most urgent task for the coalition forces now is not to attack the high ground immediately, but to consolidate their positions.

But it is not easy to consolidate one's position. The areas occupied by the coalition forces are all within the range of the artillery on the high ground, and they are susceptible to attack by the artillery on the high ground. Coupled with the French army on the high ground, you can see the various movements of the coalition forces defending below. Although there are no walkie-talkies in this era, it is also possible to use semaphores and other means to transmit messages. This also makes the defense of the coalition forces must be extra careful.

So the coalition took another whole day to consolidate the encirclement of the high ground. Putting it on the offense, it will have to wait until the next day.

"Napoleon has come?" Joseph, unharmed, said to the liaison officer sent by Napoleon, "Well, where is your general now?"

"We have arrived in Saint-Meneoud," the liaison officer replied.

"It's very close." Joseph said, "I guess the coalition will launch a general offensive on Height One tomorrow morning. It should be fine to support Height One for three days. Well, you take this letter back. Give it to Napoleon and let him figure it out."

Joseph was talking about a letter, but it was actually a big gift bag and a heavy box. The messenger returned to Saint-Meneoud under the **** of a team of cavalry, and gave the suitcase to Napoleon.

Napoleon opened the box, which contained one after another fortification maps of the fortress of Verdun, as well as information about the various deployments of the coalition forces that Joseph had learned.

"What did Joseph say?" Napoleon asked.

"General Joseph Bonaparte said that the British and Prussian coalition forces have now bitten their hooks and are besieging Highland One. Highland One can support at least three days. As for how to fight back, he lets you decide."

Napoleon carefully read these deployment plans carefully, and then he called all the generals under his command to prepare a meeting to discuss the next battle plan.

The generals are coming one after another. Napoleon, who came first, asked them to see Joseph's defense plan. After a while, everyone arrived. Napoleon was not in a hurry, but let them continue to look at the map. It wasn't until everyone had finished reading that Napoleon said, "What do you think?"

"I think, are we still a little earlier?" Dawu said first.

"That is, looking at this defensive picture, I can see that my scalp is numb." Augero said, "I don't know what other people are doing. After changing me, I feel that I will not be able to muster the courage to attack. This is completely It's a spiny steel tortoise shell, and"

"And in this steel tortoise shell, there is more than one layer of steel tortoise shell." Berthier said, "Today, General Joseph Bonaparte uses Height 1 as a bait to attract enemy troops. According to his message. , I think Highland One can hold on for at least a week. If possible, I hope they can hold on for a few more days."

"But we can't hide the news that we put down the Paris rebellion." Napoleon said. "Otherwise, this guy would never show off these maps to us. Considering the speed of Paris news, we can wait at most. Two days. Let’s rest here for one day, and then wait until the early morning of the day after tomorrow. We march on the moon in the middle of the night, so that at noon, we should be able to reach Verdun. At this time, it should be the enemy’s besieging Heights 1. When the fight was the most intense. When we suddenly appeared, we would be able to completely defeat the specific arrangements of the British and Prussian coalition forces, Berthier, you can handle it."

Just as Napoleon was preparing to give the British and Prussian coalition a big stick, the British and Prussian coalition forces also riveted their strength and prepared to take the next high ground in one fell swoop.

After spending a day to consolidate the encirclement of Height One, the Duke of Brunswick once again sent an envoy to Height One to persuade him to surrender. This time, on the basis of the previous conditions, he even added the condition that he could give Captain Firma and other officers a large pension.

However, the persuasion to surrender failed. Chief Firma said: "We can hold on until you are all old."

So ten minutes after the coalition troops left the high ground, the coalition attacked the high ground.

In previous offensive operations, coalition soldiers and low-level officers already believed that there is **** in the world, and after they launched an offensive on Highland One, they determined one more point, that is: Hell really looks like Dante described it in many layers.

On Height One, there were no new things that they hadn't seen before. It is nothing more than mines, barbed wire, mini rifles, melons, cannons, flamethrowers, broadsword mines. But the fateful thing is that the density of these things has greatly increased. Obviously, although the French army was slow to respond some time ago, they still knew that Highland No. 1 became the key target of the coalition's attack, and they have made a lot of efforts to this end.

The terrain of Highland No. 1 also brought great trouble to the attack. Highland No. 1 is not particularly high, but the topography of the highland has been deliberately rested. All the trees that would block the view have been cut down. All the protrusions that could provide cover for the attacking side were also levelled. All sides of the high ground are smooth and unobstructed.

The barbed wire on the high ground is also denser, but more than 20 meters is a barbed wire. The denser barbed wire naturally means that soldiers need to be exposed to enemy fire for a longer time. On Height 1, the French army deployed a large number of artillery.

Among these artillery, there are 12-pound or even 24-pound heavy artillery, as well as 8-pound and 6-pound medium artillery. The French army built special bunkers for them. These artillery relies on the protection of the bunkers, and the use of shotguns can effectively kill those coalition soldiers who are blocked by barbed wire.

The barbed wire is naturally densely packed with mines as usual. Judging from the consumption of the Prussian mobilizers who launched the attack, the density of mines here is at least twice as high as those they had encountered before.

In addition to being condescending, the soldiers of the defending army can easily throw the cantaloupe up to fifty meters away, and if the attacking party wants to throw the cantaloupe over, it will have to climb dozens of meters more. As for the "Little Cantaloupe Launcher" here, it can throw the Cantaloupe nearly 100 meters, which has reached the shot range of a cannon.

Even if, with God's blessing, someone hasn't been killed by these terrible things, and can keep moving forward, then he will immediately encounter even more terrifying broadsword mines and flamethrowers.

Compared with these things, the supervising team behind them immediately looked very gentle and lovely. After all, the supervising team used a rifle, and one shot had to be loaded with bullets, and it took a long time for the second shot to be shot.

Therefore, the first group of soldiers quickly retreated, and some soldiers even clashed with the supervising team. The two sides fired at each other, making it impossible to communicate.

The entire day's attack cost thousands of casualties, but apart from destroying some minefields and breaking some barbed wire fences, there was no progress.

That night, the coalition sent personnel to carry explosives to attack at night, trying to destroy the enemy's barbed wire at night. As a result, they just approached, they were spotted by military dogs raised on the high ground, then they stepped on landmines, and then there was another chaos. Crossfire. Then the outer French army also launched a night attack, and everyone fought for a while until dawn.

After dawn, the coalition forces can finally see the results of their night attacks. The barbed wire on the high ground has been damaged, but the brave French engineers are also rushing in the gap of the coalition attack~lightnovelpub.net~ and began to repair these wire fences. Up.

The coalition artillery first fired at these engineers with solid shells. But these engineers remained unmoved and continued to be busy repairing the barbed wire. Although some engineers were killed by artillery shots occasionally, the hit rate of solid shells against such targets was too low. As for pushing the cannon forward to use the shotgun, it would be better to let the infantry charge directly.

So the soldiers of the coalition forces were forced to leave the trenches and rushed towards the French engineers, but they were immediately shot by French grenade shells and crackled and knocked down a lot. And when they rushed to a position where they could fire on the French engineers under the French artillery fire, the despicable French had stopped work and fled.

Since then, the offense has remained the same. The French resistance was as fierce as yesterday. It seems that yesterday's attack did not exhaust the ammunition on the high ground. However, the coalition forces that are pressing for time have no other options. They have reached this point. The sunk cost is already too high. Could it be possible to relieve themselves and go back? Besides, maybe even a day of high-intensity attack can consume the enemy's ammunition. Anyway, mobilizing troops is worthless.

In this way, batch after batch of John and Fritz fell in front of the barbed wire on Height One, and the time gradually reached noon.

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