Duomont Fortress is an extremely important support point on the Douaumont Line, located precisely in the middle of the trenches and the surrounding terrain is flat for several kilometers.
As long as Duomont Fortress is occupied, its artillery and machine guns can suppress the firepower of the trenches within a range of several kilometers to the east and west.
Whoever occupies Duomont Fortress controls the Douaumont Line.
(The yellow lines in the above image indicate the Douaumont Line)
This is also why the German Army, after occupying Duomont Fortress, immediately dispatched an infantry battalion and an artillery battalion to garrison the fortress.
Colonel von Garneton is the commanding officer of the fortress, and as soon as he took over, he ordered the artillery to dismantle the cannons and move them into the fortress for defense.
But he quickly discovered the problem: "You idiots, the 150MM artillery should be placed on the flanks, not the front."
