On August 8, Lehmann refused the German surrender again. He knew very well about his current situation: the German army increased its troops to Liège, and he had only one division in his hand, and Liège was already isolated and helpless. But General Lehmann had determined to survive and die with the fortress and decided to fight to the last battle with the last soldier, one gun and one bullet.

Therefore, although the German army occupied the city of Liege, the 12 surrounding forts were still steadfast, which prevented the German army from crossing the line. After several tentative attacks, Rudendolf still failed. So he immediately ordered the German army to stop attacking. He had no idea and waited for the arrival of decisive giant siege weapons.

In the following days, the two sides spent a peaceful and tense confrontation, until August 12, when the German giant siege weapons finally arrived...

The masterpiece of the perverted German engineer: the giant mortar of the Big Berta, with a gun length of 7 meters, a diameter of 420 mm, a gun body and a gun truck weigh 120 tons, which can launch nearly 1 ton of shells to targets 14.5 kilometers away. Each shell used nearly 200 kilograms of launching medicine, which required more than 200 gunners. In order to transport it to the front line, the German army first used trains to the end of the railway line, then paved a special road, and then dragged it to the position near Liege with 36 strong horses. Because it was too heavy, even the sidewalk was shaken.

In the evening, the first gun was set up, with its short and chunky gun barrel and a giant tumor-like retreat barrel, waiting for the order to assault Fryron Fortress.

At 6:30 pm, Rudendolf ordered the "Great Belta" to fire the first gun at the strongest Fryron turret among the various turrets in Liège. Professional gunners filled the shells and retreated to the protective trench 300 meters away from the giant cannon, plug their ears with earplugs, and then ignited the guns.

"Boom!" A huge roar that shook the sky and the earth was heard, and a giant shell rushed straight to a height of 300 meters, and then landed in a parabolic shape 1,000 meters in front of the Fleyon Fort. Immediately, a large pit dozens of meters square was blown out of the ground, and sand and dust were splashing all over the sky. The Bi army infantry in the fortress looked at the big pit in a daze, and the belief in "resisting to the end!" was collapsing.

German artillery observers kept correcting targets at the top of the church. Bijun in the fortress only heard the whistling sound of the shells when they landed, and felt the explosions getting closer and closer, as if they were exploding on their heads. Their horror was higher than that. Finally, the shells exploded above their heads, the steel warheads broke through fortifications, the ceiling collapsed, the tunnels were blocked, and the basement was filled with flames and gas, and the explosions and shouts were mixed together, as if the end of the world was approaching.

Everyone was worried about being hit by the next shell, Theo was no exception: his pants were wet. Many soldiers went crazy, and they shouted "hysterically" to demand retreat or surrender to the Germans.

At midnight, the other three German guns were also set up, and the coordinates were corrected, and the fire was fired one after another. The Fleyron Fort was shaking like sitting on the crater. The steel bars and cement, the broken limbs and the guns and materials were splashing everywhere, and the flames reflected half of the sky red. The shelling lasted for 24 hours. The Fleyron Fortress caught 45 shells and collapsed...

On the 13th, when everything fell silent, the German infantry rushed forward, and the huge Fryron Fortress had turned into a piece of rubble ruin. None of the defenders survived, and there were broken human bodies and broken cement blocks everywhere. Theo was lucky enough to break into two pieces, which was the most complete corpse in this fort.

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The dawn here is quiet......

In the early morning of August 12, a small number of guard sentries were leisurely performing patrol missions on the 1,000-kilometer border between Bulgaria and Romania. They either smoked cigarettes and chatted about home, or looked up at the stars alone and admired the beautiful night view. The war was still far from them, at least here, the neighboring country Romania was a good neighbor, and their title of King Ferdinand was the same coincidentally as the Romanian king, and they were called Ferdinand I.

At 4 a.m., a series of artillery fire broke the calm. The Russian army rented artillery from the Romanian army, plus hundreds of artillery brought by itself, and a total of about 300 artillery fired continuously in Bulgaria.

The simple fortifications set up by the Baojun on the border were gone under a series of shellings. The border defense troops had just woken up from their sleep, and the Baojun soldiers ran around in the military camp, and no one could figure out what had happened.

After a brief shelling, more than 20,000 Cossachton River Army launched a charge. The cavalrymen were eight men and eight horses in each row, some wearing cylindrical curly hats, and some wearing black cloaks. They were cross-body rifles on their backs and sabers hung around their waists. They advanced in the dust. 20,000 horses galloped across and 20,000 swords were wielding. This scene was extremely shocking. Russian infantry followed closely behind the cavalry, shouting "Ula!" and headed forward.

A small number of protectors on the border were unable to stop the Russian army's charge, and soon the Russian army advanced dozens of kilometers.

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Early in the morning of the 12th, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria was woken up by the attendant. Ferdinand was very dissatisfied. The carnival last night had severely consumed his energy, but when the attendant told him that the person was Prime Minister Georg, Ferdinand patiently put on his clothes.

At this time, the person who was sleeping with Ferdinand also woke up. When several servants saw this person, they all showed strange expressions: Man! It was actually a man!

Although rumors about King Ferdinand's homosexual hobbies had spread throughout the court, it was really blind to see it with his own eyes. Ferdinand also noticed that something was wrong, so he quickly pulled down the bed curtain and ordered, "Everyone is out for me, I will change my own clothes."

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"Your Majesty..." As soon as Prime Minister Georg saw Ferdinand, he immediately walked forward tremblingly and presented a telegram to the king, saying angrily, "Your Majesty, 3 hours ago, the Russians raided our border, but an hour ago, the Russian ambassador handed me the declaration of war, saying that from now on, the two countries were in a state of war... Your Majesty, this is an obvious sneak attack! The most hateful thing is that according to the report on the front line, the Romanians have been helping the Russians!"

After reading the telegram, Ferdinand was stunned. He didn't understand why Russia attacked Bulgaria, was it for Serbia?

"Quick, hurry! I want to meet the Austrian ambassador, and order the army to hold its position and stop the Russians for me!" Ferdinand jumped up suddenly and tore up the telegram, "Convene an extraordinary meeting immediately!"

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