Bab 374: 374. Situation

The essence of this war was nothing more than a group of robbers falling out over an uneven split of the loot.

The closely watched Western Front was like a game of greedy snakes, with both sides frantically digging earth while trying to encircle the other.

And so they dug from the Swiss mountainsides all the way to the Belgian seaside, creating two trenches stretching over 500 kilometers, plunging into a trench warfare that drove soldiers to the brink of insanity and death.

Over the years, from poison gas to flamethrowers, from tanks to machine guns, the weapons of killing had been updated multiple times.

The casualties caused were increasingly severe day by day, to the extent that the gauze for wrapping corpses had to be imported from the Shun Dynasty, leading to a boom in the textile industry.

The prolonged trench warfare had already filled ordinary soldiers with extreme loathing.

At this point on the Western Front, today was "Christmas Eve".