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The battle of history is cruel.
There are countless wars in human history. It should be counted that wars have been with human beings since the day they were born. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, classic combat records abound. But today we're going to look at the most brutal battle in human history. In just five months, there were 6.5438+0.3 million casualties. Although some wars have more casualties than this one, if you understand. You will find that this war is absolutely the most cruel war. Let's look at the specific situation.

This war took place in the Battle of the Somme during World War I ... The two sides of the war were Britain, France and Germany. Mainly during World War I, Britain and France wanted to counterattack Germany and change the war situation at that time. To tell the truth, at that time, the war had reached a stalemate, that is, both sides could not beat each other and were already there. After a period of time, Britain and France found that they could not continue like this and needed to find a way to change the status quo, so they were ready to launch a counterattack. So the battle of the somme began.

1 965438+July 20061. The Anglo-French Coalition forces fought back with 39 divisions (later increased to 86 divisions, including 54 British divisions under the command of General Fauci), 3,500 cannons and more than 300 planes. The first seven days were artillery bombardment. First the German position was bombed, and then the infantry charged. This tactic was still used by the Japanese during World War II. Artillery boom, infantry rush. The infantry completed the shelling. Just keep playing. Cleavage is like this. This war is only a relatively large number of wars, but the fact is far from it.

At that time, the two sides used new weapons and tactics on a large scale in the war. Germans dug trenches, erected barbed wire and used heavy machine guns Ma Keqin on a large scale. Britain invests in newly invented tanks. After the first bombing of Britain and France, a German position was destroyed and there was no stronghold, so the British and French allied forces began to charge. Who knows that moral people are everywhere? Ma Keqin played an important role at this time. One day's charge by Britain and France caused more than 60,000 casualties. Moreover, many Germans lost their lives after the tanks newly invented by the British arrived at the battlefield in the later period. And the two sides have been deadlocked in the 15 line. Millions of people are killing each other in more than ten miles of trenches. To tell the truth, a shell can destroy many people. Because both sides used shelling, the whole battlefield was covered with dust, similar to the surface of the moon. So once it rains, both sides sprint in the mud pit. You can't walk for a long time. Or if you are injured, you can only wait for death because the mud is too deep to walk out. Can only be killed.

After this war, did humans really have a new understanding of the weapons they invented? Found too much damage. Therefore, the subsequent World War I was almost always in a stalemate. Because no one invented new uniforms, and everyone knows that these new weapons are too terrible to charge.