Brutal

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The German Navy's Naval Guns, the British Army's artillery, and the coastal defense batteries all fired furiously, hurling shell after shell at their respective targets.

The British wanted to wipe out the attacking German Marine Corps with artillery fire, while the German Navy hoped to suppress the British artillery as much as possible and reduce Marine Corps casualties to the greatest extent.

"Boom!" A 380mm Shell nearly leveled a British Army 114mm Howitzer position. Meanwhile, a 203mm coastal defense shell directly tore apart a German Marine Corps landing craft.

Casualties on both sides began to climb without cease. This only made the battle all the more brutal.

"Damn it! The Marine Corps really does suffer the greatest losses in landing operations!" Watching his own landing craft get sunk one after another, Lieutenant General Alexander Linsingen felt as though his heart were bleeding.

Every Marine Corps soldier had been carefully selected, and after long periods of grueling training, their combat strength was formidable. Even against the most elite army units, they could hold their own. Yet now, they were dying for nothing at sea. The feeling was simply too suffocating.

Fortunately, as time passed, the landing craft drew closer and closer to the shore.

"Get into position! The Germans are landing. We must kill every last one of them, or all of us will be killed by them. Our countrymen will also be brutally slaughtered by these Germans!" the British commander at the front ordered.

British soldiers who had originally been hiding in the rear defensive fortifications began filing out in a continuous stream, moving toward the frontline positions through communication trenches. Although the defensive works painstakingly built by the British Army had been almost completely destroyed under the German military's fierce bombardment and bombing, even ruins still