King's Landing in France

Yes, Davout only paid less than [-] casualties in total, and disintegrated the defenders of Zurich.

On the day of entering the city, as soon as he was settled in the city, Davout's chief of staff came to congratulate Davout: "General, your tactics are so beautiful that they are almost comparable to Lord Frost!"

Davout frowned slightly, and turned to look at the chief of staff.

"Have you ever been to a military academy? Let me ask you, did the military academy teach you how to use skirmishers so extensively?"

The staff officer didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Davu's gourd, so he replied suspiciously: "No. The military school taught us that we must attack with line infantry..."

"That's right. And I adopted this unconventional approach because Your Excellency has keenly discovered the difference between our army and the kingdom's army, do you understand? Because it is our army, we can adopt many tactics that we have never thought of before." .

"In addition, the prestige of our army brought out by your Excellency also made the Austrian army collapse at the touch of our bayonet charge.

"I was able to win so easily only because I stood on the shoulders of a giant, Your Excellency. Make no mistake, Chief of Staff."

Davout said seriously.

"How can I have such an unrealistic idea about being as brilliant as Your Excellency?"

He paused, then sighed: "Actually, I think that your Excellency should not fight now, but should return to teach at the Military Academy, he may be able to create a new military school.

"It's a pity that France still needs him to be active on the battlefield. This is actually a pity."

After Davout finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.

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Massena here.

He was watching the Austrian defenses on the hill with a telescope.

Although Davout left, the Austrian commander still did not dare to fight the French army in the wilderness. Instead, he built a position in the mountains and assumed a posture of defending himself.

Because the French navy is not good enough, there is no way to bypass the direction of the Austrian army by sea, so Masséna can only attack the mountains.

After winning here, he can start to advance to Vienna.

However, after nearly a day of fierce fighting, the situation on the battlefield is still unclear.

Although the morale of the Austrians was low, but with the fortifications, they seemed to have a spiritual support. The French army had to pay a high price to rush to the fortifications in order to force the Austrians out of the fortifications in a hand-to-hand battle.

Once they leave the fortifications, the Austrian army will disperse.

But the Austrian army seemed to have anticipated this, and built several lines of defense on the mountain, and came up with a set of defense in depth many years in advance.

In fact, this is similar to the effect of the Northern Allied Forces' method of defending the city in sections, using space and time to offset the high morale of the French army.

Masséna's feeling now is the same as that of An Ning on the northern front: "Damn it, these bastards, come out and fight us!"

The chief of staff said worriedly at the side: "If this continues, our reserve force will be exhausted. Why don't we try to bypass the line of defense?"

"I also want to go around, but there must be a way."

This part of the border between Italy and Austria is full of mountains.

It should be said that the entire south of Austria is a mountainous country, and the inconvenient transportation situation has not improved much even in the [-]th century.

During the First World War, Austria-Hungary and Italy fought in the mountains for several years, and neither of them could push forward.

In another time and space, Napoleon was able to break through this mountain because of his faster strategic maneuvering. Archduke Karl underestimated the French army's maneuvering speed, and rushed over before he had time to block the French army.

Later, Archduke Karl's troops also rushed to race with the French army, and finally beat the French army by relying on the defense on several key passes, and finally established a more reliable defense in front of the French army.

Just when Archduke Karl was about to rely on the defensive position to give the French army a head-on blow, his brother Franz voted.

The Archduke Karl in another time and space is a tragic hero who was repeatedly pitted by his brother. Although in the end he became famous as an Austrian national salvation hero, he aroused his brother's suspicion and lost all his power.

Massena didn't know this. While observing the Austrian army's position, he said to himself: "Look at the rate of loss, if there are another 2 people, we can forcefully conquer the pass, as long as there are another 2 people!"

Chief of Staff: "But we don't have any."

Massena cursed.

At this moment, a staff officer shouted: "General, what do you think is that?"

Massena turned his head sharply, and then he saw a red army driving along the road.

Chapter 361 The Real Rome

The red troops are Italians.

The color was specified by Frost himself.

The Italians wanted to change their colors at first, but then Frost became more and more powerful and his reputation grew. In addition, after the integration of Frost, Italy’s economy began to improve, and the living standards of the people improved, so they decided to do it again. There is no mention of changing colors.

Now, the red army is driving over mightily.

Several officers in red uniforms rode up to Massena, dismounted and saluted: "Your Excellency, the Italy-Sardinia-Milano-Venice Joint Force is waiting for your dispatch."

"This is our French war, there is no need for you to participate." Masséna put his hands behind his back, "You have no obligation to participate."

The colonel in red shook his head: "We have, Your Excellency General. Your Excellency Frost said that our freedom needs to be defended by ourselves, and we don't want to be ruled by the Austrians anymore. We Italians will be an independent country in the future. A country of the Italian nation!

"We must have the ability to hold off the Austrian army without relying on France."

The colonel in red paused, and then said: "I still need to have the ability to resist France without relying on anyone, so that we can have real freedom. So we must get used to war and learn how to fight."

Massena pursed his lips and asked, "What's your name?"

"Giovanni Domenico Garibaldi was originally a captain and lived in the Kingdom of Sardinia. To be honest, I'm not familiar with commanding people on the ground, please give me a chance to practice!"

Massena nodded: "Well, you will get this opportunity. Let me tell you the truth, we really don't have enough troops to give the enemy a final blow. How many of you are there?"

"Fifty thousand, Your Excellency General." Giovanni raised his head and declared proudly, "They are all men from northern Italy. We are eager to soak our bayonets with the blood of the Austrians!"

Massena: "Oh? And should I regard you as a new army of citizens, or an army of the old kingdom?"

As soon as the words fell, someone in the marching troops shouted: "We are free citizens!"

Then there was a chorus from the Italian troops: "Yes! Citizens!"

"Let's attack in skirmish formation, we will never retreat!"

It seems that Frost's theory that the citizen army will not easily collapse is well known in Italy.

Massena: "It's useless to talk about it. We will soon know what kind of troops you are! Chief of Staff, arrange for them to attack."

The chief of staff immediately saluted: "Understood! You rest where you are, and the officer comes to me."

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About an hour later, the Italians went on the offensive.

Massena watched the red front formed by the Italians advance, and suddenly thought: "You said that if Austria is republicized in the future, and a team wearing white uniforms is sent out, can we put the color of the national flag on the offensive formation? up?

"The French are on the left, the Austrians are in the middle, and the Italians are on the right. Do you think that is possible?"

The chief of staff laughed directly: "I want to see that scene so much, it will surely scare all the monarchs in Europe to pee their pants."

Massena laughed too, and at that moment he heard singing coming from the Italian line.

"Singing... I even learned this."

The French army likes to sing when they attack. This is also a tradition initiated by Frost. Generally, the French army will sing Roman eulogy.

The tunes that the Italians are singing are very brisk, not as majestic as the Roman songs.

The chief of staff listened carefully and said, "Your Excellency composed the tune. It seems to be about an Italian soldier saying goodbye to his wife."

Massena: "As expected of an Italian, you can't forget women even on the battlefield."

The staff officer squinted at Masséna. The whole French army knew that Masséna was lustful and would sleep with pretty girls when he arrived in a new place.

There is even a joke in the army that if you need to find the general in a hurry in the morning, you can knock on the doors of all the widows in the city, and you will be found.

But the chief of staff did not complain about the general.

Massena: "Oh, the Austrians opened fire. That's right, the Italians show no sign of wavering. But whether it's a citizen army or not depends on how they perform when fighting bayonets."

The biggest feature of the French army is that the scattered soldiers are not defeated, and they are not afraid of bayonets. The French army has defeated the Austrians many times with bayonets.

The Italian red front rushed to the Austrian positions, and bloody hand-to-hand combat began.

The Austrian army may have also been hit with bayonet resistance, but they didn't retreat immediately, and the red and white troops were mixed together on the ground.

Finally, the white retreated.

Massena clenched his fist: "Okay! Great! Sure enough, the Italians are very capable! Much more capable than the Austrians! Continue to attack! Take back all the remaining positions!"

However, as soon as Masséna finished speaking, he saw people running back from the remaining Austrian positions.

"What the hell?" Massena muttered in confusion.

Chief of Staff: "Perhaps the morale has finally collapsed after seeing so many new Italian troops joining the war?"

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At this moment, the Austrians are shouting:

"It's red! The red Roman legion! The Roman legion is coming!"

Yes, the Austrian soldiers who have been stationed in Italy for a long time, even those who are not very literate, know that the Roman legion is red.

And, logically, since the Roman legions showed up, so should the man.

"Frost! Frost brought the Roman Legion to fuck us! We can't win, run away!"

"Our army is defeated, our army is defeated!"

In this way, the Austrians retreated!

Even though Massena was beaten to death, he never imagined that he would win like this!

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Schönbrunn Palace, Franz II's face turned green when he received the report.

"Frost appeared in Italy? How is it possible? Alvinzi also reported him on the Danube! How did he get to Italy?"

The Italian Austrian commander with a gray face said: "But my soldiers have seen Frost's eagle flag and the Roman legion."

Franz looked up and stared at him fiercely: "What legion?"

"Roman Legion..."

Franz looked back suspiciously at the double-headed eagle logo of the Holy Roman Empire hanging on the wall of his office.

"What legion are you talking about again?"

"Roman Legion!"

Franz grabbed the globe on the table and threw it on the ground: "I am the emperor of the Roman Empire! My legion is the Roman legion!"

The commander-in-chief of the Italian Legion hesitated to speak.

Franz furiously said, "Are you trying to say that we are neither holy nor Roman nor an empire? Do you want to say that?"

Imperial Prime Minister: "He didn't say that..."

"He clearly wanted to say something!"

362 Collision

After An Ning heard that Massena had penetrated the Austrian defenses in the foothills of the Alps, the first decision he made was: don't worry about the logistics, and draw out the elite troops to rush towards Vienna.

His side is closer to Vienna, and he can indeed arrive first regardless of logistics.

As for what to eat after arriving, An Ning thought that in the original history, when Napoleon first arrived in Italy, the supplies of the Italian Army were bad, and the soldiers fought hungry.

Then they starved and killed the Austrian army and the troops of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Therefore, An Ning also pins his hopes on the endurance of the soldiers.

His only concern was whether the soldiers would rob the Austrians if they were really hungry.

The French army performed well in both Bavaria and Austrian soil, with good military discipline.But people lack the ability to think when they are extremely hungry, and they may not care about military discipline.

With such worries, An Ning paid special attention to military discipline when leading troops to Vienna these days, and reminded the soldiers to maintain military discipline wherever they went.

But during the march, An Ning discovered a very good source of food.

There are merchant ships carrying grain on the Danube!The Danube is a water system with well-developed inland waterway transportation, and the route from Vienna westward to the source of the river has undertaken considerable surface transportation tasks.

Sometimes the loggers also put the cut timbers in bundles into the water and let them float down the river, so that the timber from the Black Forest fell into the hands of the Austrians.