King's Landing in France

Napoleon gave an order, and the marching drum immediately changed to a rapid drumbeat.

Napoleon held the flag and rushed down the mountain first.

Seeing this, the French soldiers who had been marching in a hurry immediately ran along with Napoleon, howling.

But after all, they were marching all the way, and their physical fitness was not as good as Napoleon who came all the way on horseback. After a while, Napoleon took the lead in the whole army, carrying the flag and rushing to the front.

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Alvinzi's heart sank when he saw the tricolor.

"How are they so fast?"

The commander of the Prussian army beside him, Brunswick, comforted: "Maybe it's a sheep-moving army, and the number will not be many..."

As soon as the words fell, the chief of staff of the Prussian Army dismantled the stage: "But the flag is Napoleon Bonaparte's First Army..."

"That must be fake, it's a disguise!"

"But the enemy rushing to the front seems to be a dwarf!"

"There are too many dwarfs, not necessarily the little Corsican dwarf!"

While the Prussians were still deceiving themselves, Alvinzi shook his head: "No, I had a premonition that it was Napoleon. In fact, when I knew that the guard of the bridge was La Salle, another popular man of Frost, I knew that this time it might be possible. It's going to be bad."

The chief of staff of the Austrian army said: "Now we gather our troops together, and we should be able to fight the French army across the river."

Alvinzi: "It's too late. If this is really Frost's countermeasure, it is impossible for only one army to come. The main force of the French army must be behind. His military theory most emphasizes the concentration of superior forces in local areas."

In fact, Frost has not yet systematically written a book to explain his military theory, but only a few words have been circulated, but this does not prevent the officers of Pu'ao from taking this as a standard.

The chief of staff asked, "Then what shall we do?"

Alvinzi was silent.

The Duke of Brunswick was also silent, with a bitter expression on his face.

After all, no one is ashamed to speak out about things like raising hands and surrendering.

After a moment of stalemate, Alvinzi said: "Let's see if we can take the bridge back. After all, there are only a few hussars left guarding the bridge!"

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When Lasalle saw the reinforcements coming, he immediately drew his saber and retreated into the barricade next to him.

The hussar who had been hiding behind the barricade was shocked: "How did you come in?"

"It's about to win, I don't want to die!" La Salle replied, and then shouted to the others, "Everyone hide, don't be hit by the cannon! It's almost there!"

As soon as the words fell, the Austrian cannons opened fire.

The grapeshot from the approaching bombardment swept over the positions of the hussars like a storm of death.

La Salle was still shouting when he was directly hit by a projectile on his left shoulder.

"I'm stupid, I didn't lose the lottery for the whole game, so come for me at the end?"

At this time the Austrian infantry began to attack.

Regardless of his injuries, La Salle raised his head and shouted, "Brothers, go!"

The hussars are all confused, what the hell, are you going to be cowardly or reckless?

But the Austrians obviously thought that La Salle was going to be reckless, so they turned around and ran away.

When all the hussars saw it, they immediately joined the ranks of screaming: "Hurry up!"

"Kill!"

“Fresh meat!”

"Ahhhhhhhh~"

The Austrians are faster.

Chapter 349 Brunswick's Resolution

When Napoleon ran to the bridge, he was already exhausted.

When he saw Lasalle, he gasped for breath and didn't speak for a long time.

The French army rushing down screaming all the way saw that the commander was like this, and they were not polite, and they all began to lean on various things to pant.

Lasalle watched them panting here, and after a moment of deliberation, he said, "You... are here to reinforce us? Why don't you look like me?"

Napoleon straightened his back and watched Lasalle about to speak, but he couldn't catch his breath, so he pointed at him and held back for a long time.

La Salle: "If I hadn't been wounded, I would have danced a Tatar war dance for you."

Napoleon finally came to his senses: "You guy, Frost will definitely scold you. He will tell you that the main responsibility of the cavalry is to investigate, not to fight head-to-head. You will ruin the investigative power of his brigade. When it's over, he will definitely slap the table with you!"

Lasalle: "Then I can only count on you to fight better. You have achieved great results, and my buddies will follow you. Not to mention I was injured, look at the blood."

La Salle pointed to his already red left sleeve: "I'm going down, you'll find some wine in the city and bring it to me first, I'll drink half of it and use the other half to wash the wound."

Napoleon: "Don't worry, you will be indispensable if you find it. You can retreat with peace of mind, and leave the rest to us."

At this time, the Austrian army that had just retreated was reorganized and formed a shock formation in the distance.

Seeing this, Napoleon urged La Salle to get wet quickly.

The cavalry supported each other, and after they limped away, Napoleon opened his voice and ordered to his troops: "Come, we also line up!"

The French army at this time is different from the French army that was just organized in 93. After all, it is an army that has been trained for a year, and its response is very fast.

Soon Napoleon lined up three horizontal lines on the left and right sides.

Napoleon: "Now I ask you to fire your weapons as fast as possible! Let them see the results of your training!"

At this time, the officers of the French army had generally discovered the weakness of the platoon guns, and they all tended to shoot indiscriminately.

Therefore, An Ning took the lead in revising the infantry drill code left over from the Kingdom era, and changed the standard shooting method from volley to random shooting.

He also created a new term created by Suvorov from the original history: battle shooting.

Napoleon raised his right hand: "Battle shooting, get ready!"

The Austrian army began to advance at this time.

Napoleon's hand snapped forward: "Start!"

The French on either side of him fired sequentially from right to left, then reloaded as fast as they could, and fired autonomously once they had reloaded.

Because people will subconsciously start racing with those around them, the French army's horizontal team fires faster and faster.

The Austrians haven't seen the tactics of the French army trained in accordance with the new drills, and wonder why the French army didn't fire in salvo.

Because the French army stopped firing salvos, the Austrian army did not have the same psychological impact as a wave of salvos before, and they actually walked forward for a few minutes against the French army's shooting!

But the French fired faster and faster, and the Austrians suffered more and more casualties.

Especially as the distance got closer, the shooting accuracy of the French army became higher and higher, and the crackling gunshots caused continuous downfall.

Finally, the morale of the Austrian army, which was not too high, collapsed.

With the disintegration of the formation, after a while all the soldiers of the Austrian company ran back together with officers and non-commissioned officers.

Napoleon was very happy: "Very good! That's it! We are no longer an army that can only rush up to fight with bayonets! Shooting us is just as worthwhile!"

A non-commissioned officer in the horizontal team said: "It's more refreshing to rush up and see the red with the bayonet. My hands are sore from this stuffy loading. It's really boring."

Immediately some soldiers echoed: "That's right, it's better to rush up and see the red with the bayonet. Let's charge!"

"General, lead us to rush!"

Napoleon waved his hand: "No, don't worry, there will be a time for you to charge, but not now. Stabilize the front line!"

Another sergeant asked: "We didn't bring dry food, what should we do if we are hungry?"

"That's right, let's go up, disperse the enemies, and grab their luggage to eat!"

Napoleon: "...that makes sense, but now is not the time. Let's defend the bridge first, and wait until the troops behind come up."

Napoleon is very sober now. In fact, he is more than 1000 people in the lead. Although the charge of this force can rely on the French army's hand-to-hand combat ability to gain a temporary advantage, it cannot withstand consumption.

And there are so few people, if you rush to one thing and lose another, you will be in big trouble if you lose the bridge.

But he is still full of confidence, because his 2 people are rushing here. According to Napoleon's estimation, the main force of the First Army will be almost ready in another hour.

At that time, it would not be too late to defeat the Austrian army in the hand-to-hand combat that the French army is good at.

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Alvinzi was in shock at this time: "The French army did not fight melee, but defeated us with continuous shooting! It seems that the training of the French army has also kept up... Such a French army has no weaknesses. ?"

Hello yes.

At least until the military reforms of all European countries, the European army will have the ability to fight against such a French army.

Brunswick looked at Alvinzi: "What to do? The French army has driven a nail into the south bank, and the barrier of the river is gone."

Alvin Qi took a deep breath: "The enemy seems to be only in the early [-]s. Immediately organize more troops to counterattack and take back the bridgehead!"

Alvinzi's officers looked at each other.

They were all counting on Alvinzi to come up with some effective methods to deal with the situation before them, but the old coach seemed to have no other ideas except "offensive".

As for whether the bridgehead occupied by the French army can be taken down, the officers actually have little doubts in their minds: there were so many hussars just now, but they failed to rush down so many times. This is the French infantry. How can this be taken down?

Although he didn't say anything, the officers and staff officers present felt that there was no suspense in this battle.

On the surface they are still fighting high, but in fact they have already turned into defeatist strategists, shouting "Our army is defeated".

Alvinzi: "Who dares to take over the task of taking down the bridgehead?"

The officers looked at each other.

In the end, Brunswick sighed and said, "Let the Prussians try."

At this time there were far fewer Prussians than Austrians in Ulm.

But after all, Prussia still has the officer corps left behind by Frederick the Great. In theory, its combat effectiveness should be much higher than that of the Austrian army.

Alvinzi breathed a sigh of relief, and held Brunswick's hand: "That's great, who do you plan to send, my old friend."

"I personally supervised the battle," Brunswick replied. "The French army likes the Supreme Commander to charge forward. I think we should learn from this. Wish me luck."

Chapter 350 The Bayonet, Solitude, and the Blue Danube

The [-] French troops commanded by Napoleon relied on the fortifications originally built by the Austrian army.

After an hour of fierce fighting, the fortifications were already in tatters. Fortunately, the destructive power of the war is not so great now. Whether it is solid cannons or small projectiles fired by grape shells, it does not cause much damage to the civil structures that make up the main body of the fortifications. , just spoils the surface.

The barricades left by the Austrians were barely adequate.

As for the morale of the French army, to be honest, the first army under Napoleon is all veterans who have been fighting for a long time. There are even basic troops who have fought with An Ning since the Konta period. They are not afraid of 1000 people facing tens of thousands of Austrian troops. of.

What's more, Napoleon is still with them. Many people regard Napoleon as a symbol of peace, a clone, as long as he is there, there will be no problem of instability in the army.

The arrival of the next wave of attack was a bit later than Napoleon expected.

"Are they afraid of us? Are they afraid to attack?" A soldier asked Napoleon.

Napoleon: "Don't take it lightly. The enemy has not attacked for so long. It may be that they are changing the attacking troops. The newly replaced troops will attack harder than the previous troops."

"General, the enemy is coming up!"

Napoleon turned his head to observe the enemy, and then noticed that the color of the uniform had changed.

The upper body of the Prussian military uniform is a color between blue and gray, which is a bit similar to the color of the German army in later generations, but it is not so conspicuous.

The most eye-catching thing about Pujun's suit is the yellow jacket-colored trousers bestowed by the emperor. They are really bright, and the sun shines golden.

Napoleon couldn't help complaining: "These golden trousers are so bright that my eyes were dazzled."

The French soldiers around laughed at this, and the air was filled with merriment.

At this time, Napoleon suddenly discovered that several flags appeared behind the offensive line of the Prussian army.

He picked up the binoculars and pointed them at the flag.

"Hey, is that the Duke of Brunswick, the commander of Prussia? Everyone cheer up, the commander of the Prussian army has come to the front to supervise the battle in person! This wave will be fierce! Get up and shoot!"

After the command was issued, the French army, which was still in a relaxed state, tensed their faces and began to shoot one by one from left to right.