King's Landing in France

Chapter 162 The Attacking Davout

As soon as An Ning left the gate of the headquarters, he ran into Beethoven and David head-on.

Strange to say, the musician and the painter became close friends for some reason and acted together all day long.

As soon as they saw An Ning, they greeted him, and then asked happily: "Is the front line tight? Are you going to the front line now? Please let us go together!"

An Ning: "No, I'm going to Varazze now. I asked them to find Massena before."

Beethoven asked suspiciously: "Why do you want to find this Masséna? Does he have any outstanding deeds?"

An Ning grinned, revealing a mysterious smile.

In fact, as early as a year ago, when An Ning issued the list to Lazar Kano, who was not on the front line now, there were rumors that An Ning had received a revelation from God.

An Ning was worried that there would be some problems when he opened the list. At that time, he had no choice but to find out where those people were, which was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack, so he compiled the list.

But now he found that there was no problem at all, and instead increased his legendary attributes. Beethoven is the only one who directly asks questions face to face like Beethoven.

Maybe Le Sheng is a little bit special, not affected by An Ning's rumors that have been rumored to be miraculous.

Anyway, things were like this, and An Ning didn't bother to explain in detail.

At first, he was worried, if these people were not as fierce as in the legend, wouldn't it be bad?

Then when he played Lafayette last year, the performance of Davout and Lana dispelled his doubts.Especially Dawu, with solid military knowledge and bravery in combat, is a fierce general just like the legends in history.

That is to say, Lana is really too young and doesn't really understand military affairs, and he still needs to study, otherwise An Ning would have thrown him out to command a division long ago.

As for Massena, the current Massena is just a warrant officer, but at least he has been a soldier for so many years, so he should be of great use.

This morning's battle also proved this point, Massena is indeed very fierce, as witnessed by La Salle.

Therefore, An Ning strengthened his determination to appoint Massena as division commander.

An Ning said to Beethoven and David: "It's okay if you two are willing to follow. If you want to go to the battlefield, you can find Napoleon. His artillery team should set off for the frontal battlefield immediately."

David: "Let's follow you, and we will also meet Massena, whom you have been thinking about all the time."

La Salle intervened and said, "Oh my God, you want to draw this Massena. I saw it with my own eyes. The Austrians attacked at dawn. Massena himself raised the flag to counterattack and pushed them back outside the town. If it wasn’t for him, I would have been captured! Then I found dozens of cavalrymen, rode out of the town, and charged the Austrians in the back!”

Beethoven laughed and said, "According to what you said, it's your fault for winning in the end?"

"Of course... er, no, er, this, Massena and I are one and a half!"

An Ning had already mounted the horse at this time, and he said while eating a hot dog, "You can half believe what he says, especially when he smells of alcohol."

"You are right! When I scouted the enemy situation, you must not believe half of it. I must have got 100% accurate enemy situation at that time!"

An Ning smiled, and then urged Beethoven and David: "If you two want to come, hurry up!"

"Immediately, Your Excellency the General!"

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At this time, Davout was commanding the troops to face the Argento Division on the top of Mount Nikino.

He analyzed the terrain of the mountain and believed that General Frost's reverse slope tactics should not be copied, but formed on the top of the mountain.

The Austrian artillery was then able to hit Davout's troops.However, last night Davout ordered the troops to rush to repair some fortifications before staying overnight, so the casualties caused by the artillery were not very large.

The four artillery pieces of Davout's troops bombarded the Austrians even more fiercely, relying on the condescending advantage.

When the Austrian infantry came up, Davout's formation took effect. The enemy was attacking from the back, which consumed a lot of energy, and the momentum of the charge was also weakened, so they were repulsed several times in a row.

Taking advantage of the time when the enemy went down to reorganize the attack, Davout ordered the troops waiting on the back slope to come up to replace the exhausted troops that had blocked several waves of charges.

The switch was done quickly.

The Austrians could only stare blankly, because Davout was on the mountain, and even if the Austrians wanted to take advantage of the chaos of Davout's defense change, they would still need time to climb the mountain.

When the Austrians charged for the fifth time, Davout received Frost's order: firmly crucify the Argento division in front of him, and suck it!

After seeing the order, Davout murmured: "It seems that the commander ordered other troops to go around, otherwise the order would not be able to be explained."

The adjutant next to him asked, "Shall we charge?"

Dawu shook his head: "No, no! If the enemy breaks up, we won't be able to complete the mission. Damn, the order came late, and I won't switch defenses if I come earlier. Let the enemy think that we only have so few people!"

The messenger was about to return to the headquarters to report that the order had been conveyed. When he heard Davout's words, he turned his head and said pitifully: "I have tried my best to run, but the mountain road is really difficult. I dare not let go even on horseback." Legs run."

Davout: "I know, I'm not blaming you. Now I can only hope that the Austrians are determined enough to conquer this mountain. Go back and report!"

"Do you need me to bring a battle report?"

"Just tell the commander that everything is fine and I promise to complete the task."

After Davout finished speaking, the orderly saluted and ran away.

If he didn't go back, seeing that he had been gone for too long, the headquarters would think that something happened during the transmission of the order, and would send another orderly and several armed cavalry guards to deliver the order.

As soon as the messenger was sent away on the front foot, the watchman on the back foot shouted: "Teacher! Look!"

Davout immediately opened the binoculars to observe the changes in the enemy's formation, and soon he came to a conclusion: "Damn it, the enemy found out that we have a strong force, and they are going to sneak!"

In this era, after defeating the enemy, the enemy may run to the rear and regroup.

In this era, regardless of the bayonet or the musket, the killing efficiency is actually not that high, so after defeating the enemy, the enemy's troops may run back as high as [-] to [-]%, and they can fight again after regrouping.

To completely nullify the opponent's army, it is necessary to completely wipe out the opponent's organizational system, take away the army's flag, the army's roster, the officer's roster, and everything else, and burn them.

In this way, even if the enemy finally runs back, they will have to reorganize for several months.

In addition, there is another practice in this era, that is, the captured officers must make an agreement that they will not fight against "our army" within one year.

Regardless of the lack of coercive power of this agreement, everyone in Europe often abides by this agreement.

Later, when Napoleon arrived in Egypt, he did the same to the Ottoman army. As a result, he agreed and was let go. He turned around and joined the Ottoman army to continue fighting the French army.

So Napoleon had no choice but to kill the captives of the Ottoman army who surrendered.

All in all, only by dismantling the enemy's organizational system on a large scale and capturing the enemy's troops can the enemy lose a large number of personnel, which cannot be replenished in a short period of time.

Simply crushing is not enough.

Faced with the signs that the enemy began to retreat, Davout immediately lost his composure.

After thinking for a while, he lowered his collar and said, "Let's start advancing now!"

"Charge?"

"No!" Davout said loudly, "If you don't charge, push towards the enemy, then stop and shoot, keep in contact, and prevent the enemy from running away smoothly!"

(End of this chapter)