What is war? What can war bring? Needless to say, war is the mutual use of violence, attack, killing and other acts by two countries to achieve certain goals, whether in the era of cold weapons or the era of hot weapons. The development of mankind is full of wars, and we do not want to remember the first and second world wars. But before the outbreak of World War I, people did not view war this way, and it is strange that European countries had a positive attitude towards war. Do they really not know the cruelty of war?
Answer: European countries do not know. Even on the eve of the outbreak of World War I, the mainstream media of various countries were clamoring for war like chicken blood, and the people were even more frenzied, and each country said that it would hit each other's capitals in a few months and overturn the generals of the rival countries. On the basis of this high-pitched public opinion, all countries have actively prepared for war and mobilized soldiers, and several countries have mobilized tens of millions of troops to enter the war at once.
There had been no major wars in Europe for 100 years before World War I. The long-forgotten brutality of war, bullets on the battlefield; Shells do not have long eyes, everything is equal on the battlefield, there is no gap between rich and poor, and some only live and die. The scale of World War I was unprecedented, and various advanced weapons, tactical applications, aircraft and tanks were successively on the battlefield. By the time the war began, it would be impossible to hold back.
In this way, a group of people who have not experienced war have personally created more barbaric weapons, and with a naked heart, they think that it will be over in two days to fight, but the summoning is a four-year war. Before the outbreak of World War I, how many people still wanted to end the war as soon as possible and come back for Christmas.
Between June 24 and November 18, 1916, the Anglo-French and German forces fought the Battle of the Somme, with a total of 1.3 million casualties on both sides, and it was also the heaviest positional battle of the First World War, because the number of casualties in this battle was so large that it was called the "Somme Hell".
The Battle of Verdun, which lasted from February 21 to December 19, 1916, was the most destructive and longest battle of World War I. Germany and France committed more than 100 divisions, killing more than 250,000 people and wounding more than 500,000. The number of casualties was also second only to the Battle of the Somme, known as the "Verdun meat grinder".
A series of casualty figures are shocking, the war has given the war fanatics a head start, and the people have paid a terrible price. There was nothing right or wrong in World War I, it was a war of great powers over colonies, and a punishment boasted of by fanatics. After the end of World War I, people thought that there would never be another war, but they did not know that more brutal wars would be in the near future, and this was only an intermission.