If it were summer, the smell of rotting bodies alone would be enough to cause some soldiers to mentally break down.
More exaggeratedly, some German soldiers, who had been living in such terrible conditions for a long time, were not only covered in mud with deeply sunken eyes but also appeared extremely old and weak, completely unrecognizable.
Nevertheless, the German military upper echelons still naively dreamed of exhausting the French military's living forces through the Battle of Verdun to prevent the imminent large-scale offensive by the British and French forces.
Instead of waiting for the British and French forces to launch an offensive in an unknown region, they took the initiative to launch an attack, leading the British and French forces to the Verdun region for a decisive battle in an attempt to wipe out the main force of the British and French forces. This was the plan of the German upper echelons.
