Standing Firm (Requesting Monthly Votes)

Rat-a-tat-tat!

On the beach, a German Marine Corps General Purpose Machine Gun was sweeping the area. Dense bullets struck the British trenches, kicking up clouds of dirt. The British soldiers huddled inside the shattered trenches could only keep their heads buried low, terrified of being hit and losing their lives.

The German military's General Purpose Machine Gun fired at a rapid rate. A belt containing 250 rounds was emptied in less than half a minute. Once a belt had been fired out, the machine-gun team immediately changed positions to avoid being targeted by enemy mortars.

On the battlefield, machine gunners were always among the first targets to be eliminated. Both sides knew that the enemy's machine guns could inflict enormous casualties on their own troops. Thus, they would strike at machine gunners at the first opportunity. Mortars and snipers, in particular, often singled out enemy machine gunners. This made the casualty rate among machine gunners exceptionally high.

Less than ten seconds after this German military machine-gun team had moved, a mortar shell struck the position they had just occupied. Had they not withdrawn, they would already have been torn to pieces by the British mortar round, and the machine gun would likely have been blasted into scrap metal as well.

It had to be admitted that the British Army was growing quickly on the battlefield. Though they had suffered heavy losses, they had also learned many lessons. If the German Army had not been improving as well, maintaining a constant lead over the British would probably not have been so easy.

"How is the situation at the front?" Lieutenant General Alexander Linsingen asked.

"General, the 1st Regiment is having a hard fight and has suffered heavy casualties. Although our naval guns and aircraft have inflicted enormous losses on the British,