King's Landing in France

Immediately came a messenger: "Captain!"

"Go, tell Lahalp, I'm going to maneuver to the frontal battlefield, and it's up to him here!"

Chapter 171 Austrians, this is the art of war

Napoleon commanded his troops and ran towards the center.

While maneuvering on horseback, he thought to himself: The current mounted cannon is still too troublesome to maneuver.

We should get a four-wheeled cannon, which can be fired when it stops, and then run when it is pulled.

Napoleon thought so.

It’s best to point the muzzle at the back, so you don’t have to turn around after the shot, just run straight!

Thinking about it, he began to imagine the appearance of this new type of artillery vehicle. If the warrant officer next to him hadn't reminded him loudly, he would not have realized that he was approaching the frontal battlefield.

"Captain!" the warrant officer shouted, "We are approaching the frontal battlefield!"

Napoleon suddenly came to his senses, and then looked around blankly: "What the hell, why are there so many female soldiers?"

The female soldiers were scattered all over the bushes, relying on trees and stone bunkers, and were shooting at the Austrian army on the frontal battlefield.

A woman saw Napoleon and shouted to him: "We are harassing the enemy! Follow the general's orders!"

Napoleon looked at the surrounding terrain and exclaimed: "You have occupied a very good side firing position! We are going to set up guns here!"

"Then we will let you out of the cannon!"

"No, no need." Napoleon waved his hand, "We put the cannon directly in the front, so that we can shoot accurately! Come on, grape bullets!

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The artillerymen skillfully unloaded the cannons from behind the horses and pushed them to the front of the bushes.

"No, no, we have to move forward, let's push to the side of the stone mill in front!" Napoleon commanded.

So the artillerymen pushed their cannons away from the bushes.

Many Austrian soldiers noticed the artillery that was suddenly pushed out from the side, and their eyes widened.

Finally, the cannon reached the stone mill. Napoleon dragged away the soldiers pushing the cannon, and pushed the cannon himself while turning the wheels, aiming at the enemy's line.

Then he snatched the torch and lit the cannon.

With a sound of duang, half of the targeted platoon was sprayed down.

Then the platoon failed immediately, and the soldiers turned around and started running.

The Napoleon thief was happy: "Okay! Continue to load!"

At this time, another gun of his artillery team also fired, and it also disintegrated a platoon with one shot.

At this time, the Austrians finally couldn't sit still, and an officer ordered the troops to change their formation, preparing to shoot Napoleon's small artillery team with a volley of guns.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a large number of female soldiers ran out of the bushes.

A woman with a sergeant's badge yelled: "Girls line up! Cover the artillery!"

The women soldiers lined up beside Napoleon's artillery, firing volleys.

Seeing this, Napoleon immediately shouted to the artillerymen: "Look! Even the ladies bravely face the enemy's hail of bullets, but you all shrink your necks!"

The soldiers were stimulated and finished reloading as quickly as possible.

Napoleon aimed again himself, and blasted away the most threatening group of enemies with one shot.

The young captain was very excited: "Austrians, this is the art of war!"

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An Ning used binoculars to watch Napoleon's performance the whole time.

What the hell, how did he become like this?

Just because I praised him, he started playing like this?

In the Napoleon Wars, it is indeed mentioned that Napoleon likes to use light mounted artillery units to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

But there is no mention in the biography of Napoleon that he inflicted major damage on the enemy at a distance of 50 meters?

What made you Bonaparte, because you didn't meet your destined Josephine?

An Ning directly complained that her desire was full.

At this time, the frontal battlefield is in a strange state. The enemy is lining up and rushing down from the high ground of Diego. Halfway there is Napoleon leading a team of mounted artillery, and there is a group of mounted artillery beside the mounted artillery The skirmish formation is no longer played, and the female soldiers of the enemy are lined up to shoot at the enemy.

At this time, if the enemy dispatched several regiments to attack Napoleon, the frontal brigade would not be able to rescue him at all.

Not to mention that the enemy may have cavalry—no, the Austrian army must have cavalry.

The Austrian cavalry was still hiding on the high ground, because the high ground where Diego was located was higher than the Anning Command, so he couldn't see where the enemy's cavalry was.

If the enemy cavalry rushed down while slipping, Napoleon should have become a prisoner of Austria!

An Ning has one head and two big ones.

Could it be that Christina and the others can only be sent out?

But this narrow terrain full of obstacles is not suitable for cavalry deployment at all!An Ning's original idea was to send Christina and the others to the left wing when La Salle opened up the situation.

Such a large number of cavalry can sweep the entire battlefield like a storm, which is cool to think about.

An Ning was hesitating when he suddenly saw Austrian cavalry appear from the east of the highland.

They rushed down the road to Lahalpe's troops.

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ten minutes ago

Marshal Beaulieu found himself with a collapsed left wing.

He cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, we obviously have fortifications on this side of the road, how could we be defeated by the enemy so easily?"

Condore: "Should the reserve team..."

"No!" Marshal Beaulieu sternly denied, "It's not time to use the reserve team! The battle has only started so soon, and the reserve team is used. This is a very dangerous signal!"

After a short thought, Marshal Beaulieu ordered: "Order the cavalry to attack eastward and sweep the enemy's infantry along the road! At least force the enemy into a phalanx!"

Troops in a phalanx move very slowly, basically losing their ability to attack.

In fact, moving the phalanx itself is a very difficult thing. After all, when the phalanx moves as a whole, only the soldiers on one side walk normally, and the soldiers on the other three sides either walk sideways like crabs, or walk backwards.

After the first messenger ran away, Marshal Beaulieu ordered again: "Send out officers to gather the scattered troops on the left wing and reorganize the front when the enemy is forced to form a phalanx!"

Immediately another person ran away.

Marshal Beaulieu encouraged the officers of the headquarters: "It doesn't matter! It's just the collapse of the left wing. Didn't the enemy also collapse a front? This is even..."

Suddenly someone shouted: "Look, over there!"

Marshal Beaulieu immediately looked towards the frontal battlefield, only to see Napoleon occupying the side and firing at his attacking line.

"What?" Beaulieu was shocked, "Why did the artillery come to this position? This is not in line with the principle of using troops!"

Condoré immediately asked: "Shall we call some of the cavalry back?"

"No! There are a lot of enemies on the left flank. Without a sufficient number of cavalry, it is impossible to force them to form a phalanx! Besides, the enemy's artillery is so close to our infantry! Let the infantry charge to take it! Who wants to Lead an infantry charge?"

An officer with a beautiful mustache stood up and said, "Here I am, the son of the Duke of Styria. Please give me this honor! Your Excellency the Marshal!"

The marshal looked at the officer carefully, nodded, and made a gesture: "Give him a military flag! Son, take this military flag and go to win!"

Chapter 172 National Self-Defense Forces, Advance!

An Ning saw a flag come down from the high ground!

Not the kind of troop flag that every regiment has, but a bigger one!

It means that Beaulieu gave someone a flag and asked him to lead the charge—couldn't Beaulieu charge himself?The old man is over 70 years old.

An Ning immediately commanded the cannon: "Aim at that flag and fire!"

Now the flag is still far away from Napoleon's position, and it can still shoot a wave of blocking shots. When it gets close to the poor accuracy of modern artillery, it is unclear whether to cover Napoleon or send him to his funeral.

The shells fell around the enemy army that was charging with the flag, but because the slope was too steep and the angle of the shells fell was not good, they failed to bounce.

Yes, in this era, rushing down a relatively steep hillside also has the advantage that the enemy's shells do not bounce when they hit them.

If it weren't for the fact that An Ning's side was filled with lime bombs, then this wave of bombardment would have no effect at all!

The lime bomb exploded on the ground, knocking down several people with fragments and forming a cloud of white quicklime dust.

But the charging enemy rushed into the dust cloud without fear.

The Austrian soldiers did display admirable courage.

An Ning shouted: "Ms. Oliver! I order you to bypass the frontal battlefield and attack that mill!"

This is the only mobile force in An Ning's hands that can bypass the frontal battlefield.

Although this terrain is very unsuitable for cavalry to play - it can be said that it is basically impossible to charge up on this terrain, basically the cavalry can only be used as a hand-to-hand combat unit on horseback.

But An Ning still issued an order that he could not let Napoleon be captured.

In fact, it's okay to be captured if you think about it carefully. The Austrian army should not hurt Napoleon, who has a noble title.

The Austrians who rushed down had already reached the mill. An Ning saw that Napoleon had turned the muzzle of the gun and fired grape bullets at the flag. As a result, a wave of shrapnel went down, and the person holding the flag did not fall!Obviously, all the people around are down!

The female soldiers covering Napoleon also charged and fought with the Austrians.

The cavalry were now marching through the bushes between the hills to make a detour, and had not yet arrived.

An Ning saw Napoleon draw out his saber and stand on the cannon directing the artillerymen.

Looks like he's ready to fire another shot at this distance!

Finally, the loading was completed, and Napoleon stood on the cannon, pointing his saber at the Austrians not far away.

A soldier ignites the fuse of a cannon.

The muzzle shot out flames almost against the Austrians.

While An Ning was watching the scene nervously, Berthier suddenly said: "The cavalry on the left wing is attacking!"

An Ning hurriedly put down the binoculars and looked to the left - the field of view of the binoculars is too small to be suitable for seeing things in a wide range.

He saw Lasalle's cavalry appearing in the direction of the river valley to the north, forming a super long front in two horizontal formations.

It looked like a moving city wall, or a huge wave of a tsunami, rolling towards the enemy on the plain along the Bomida River.

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a few minutes ago.

La Salle had been on the river bank watching Davout's troops push across the Bomida.

He was waiting for Davout's troops to gain a foothold on the east bank of the river.

Davout's military flag has always been at the forefront of the troops, leading the troops to ford.

The enemy troops on the river bank continued to shoot, and French soldiers continued to fall into the water, causing small-scale chaos.

However, perhaps inspired by the division commander's flag, the movement of the whole army to cross the river has not been interrupted.

The artillery attached to Davout's division kept roaring on the river bank, doing their best to provide support for the troops crossing the river.

La Salle watched from the bank and muttered: "Come on! Cross the river and spread out in front of the enemy! Hurry up!"

Finally, Davout's military flag boarded the river bank, and after a while most of Davout's division troops also boarded the river bank.

There are still a small number of troops still in the water because of the bending of the river bank.

The newly disembarked troops began to form and then opened fire on the Austrians.

Seeing this scene, La Salle put away his binoculars, picked up the flagon from the saddle, took a big sip, then hung up the flagon, picked up his pipe: "Everyone! It's time for us to attack! We rushed across the river Go, and spread out on the bank! The formation is a line, a perfect line!

"The key is speed! As long as we charge up quickly, the enemy will have great psychological pressure facing the horizontal team!

"Let's go, warriors!"

After speaking, Lasalle took the lead and rushed into the river, the horse's hooves splashed in the water.