Wave attacks are routine in trench warfare
If you don't advance in waves or waves of columns, you get caught in crossfire. Just because they were invented in the Great War (in the modern era) doesn't mean that they are bad, stupid or callous. When advancing behind a creeping barrage they are the only tactic that can work with relatively low casualties. On the southern flank of the British Fourth Army in 1 July 1916, XIII and XV corps defeated the Germans, as did the French on both sides of the Somme, by advancing in waves behind a creeper. The defences of the German 2nd Army collapsed. Unfortunately it was in the north that success mattered most and there the Germans smashed the attack.
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