King's Landing in France

Chapter 163 Montenotte Assault
Napoleon climbed the mountain with his cavalry artillery for a long time, and finally saw the Nikino Mountain in front of him, but he couldn't hear the sound of fighting at all.

Napoleon looked at the mountain with a telescope in doubt, and found that there was no Davout on the mountain, only some troops cleaning the battlefield.

There is a medical clinic on the hillside. Napoleon was curious, so he let the troops continue to advance along the mountain road, and rode up the hillside by himself to the medical clinic.

There was wailing everywhere in the hospital.

But Napoleon soon discovered that there were not many wounded French soldiers here, but all wounded Austrian soldiers in white clothes.

Suddenly, a high-pitched curse in Italian came from the medical center: "What are you doing, pig! Are you deliberately torturing me?"

Napoleon jumped off his horse, walked over curiously, and found an Austrian lieutenant colonel cursing away the nurse who washed his wound.

The nurse was looking troubled because she didn't understand Italian.

Napoleon said: "He is going to wash your wound with wine. Our Excellency the General thinks it will be good for the wound."

The Austrian officer turned his head and looked at Napoleon: "Corsicans? Huh? The Corsicans have become French pigs!"

Napoleon's Italian had a strong Corsican accent, and Northern Italians looked down on Corsicans just as they looked down on South Italians.

The rich in northern Italy look down on the poor guys who also speak Italian.

Napoleon: "Let him wash your wound..."

"I don't!" the Italian yelled, "I'm suppurated, do you understand? The suppuration means that everything is going well! Soon I will have a fever, and then I will be fine!"

This is one of the many ignorant cognitions of this era. Because people in this era do not know the existence of microorganisms, they do not understand the mechanism of wound infection.

They believed that the pus and edema produced by wound infection were evidence of the body's recovery, as was the high fever caused by infection.

They even smear the wound with burnt ashes because the wound is too clean and does not suppurate, causing the wound to become infected and suppurate, which in turn causes people to have a fever.

Therefore, although bayonets and smoothbore guns are very ineffective in this era, some very minor injuries, such as skin scratches by bayonets, are "serious injuries" that will cause combat attrition and high fever for days at every turn.

In this case, if An Ning can rub penicillin with his hands, the survival rate of wounded soldiers will be greatly improved immediately, but unfortunately, An Ning can't do this. Military doctors in the army wash the wound with alcohol to keep it clean.

For this reason, many doctors protested against him.

Apparently, this Italian-born Austrian officer also believed that washing the wound with spirits was the abuse and torture of the captured personnel by the French army.

Napoleon patiently persuaded him in Italian, but the other party not only disagreed, but his voice became louder and louder.

Finally, Napoleon got annoyed, and slapped the other party's face: "Fuck, yes, it's abuse! Accept it honestly!"

Although Napoleon was not tall, he was a professional soldier after all. He had exercised very well and his arms were strong. This slap directly smashed the opponent's head.

"Damn it, my father never hit me!" the Italian yelled.

Napoleon gave him another slap.

The Italian finally fell silent.

Napoleon: "Wash his wounds! Follow your orders from the general!"

When the nurse did so, Napoleon looked around for the military medical officer of the medical center: "Where is the military doctor! Where is the military doctor?"

The military doctor came out from the tent next door, holding a saw in his bloody hand.

There was no cure for infection in this day and age, but they finally realized that the decay of the wound was fatal, so they often sawed off the limb where the wound had begun to decay.

Yes, amputation is the most important "treatment" method in field medical clinics in this era.Doctors don't necessarily know how to cure people, but they must be very good at sawing bones.

Doctor: "Who is looking for me?"

"I am Napoleon Bonaparte, where is Davout?"

Doctor: "I chased the enemy towards Montenotte. It seems that the general gave him an order to stick to the enemy, but when the order came, the enemy had already started to slip away, so Commander Davout led his troops to catch up. gone."

Napoleon: "How many hours has he been walking?"

"Almost two hours."

Napoleon cursed, turned and rushed out of the tent, got on his horse, and urged the horse to run down the hill.

His troops were still advancing along the mountain road, and Napoleon urged loudly: "Hurry up! Davout has been walking for two hours! We must catch him before he reaches Montenotte!"

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Davout was very anxious at this time, because the enemy retreated too fast.

He once wanted to go around behind the enemy to intercept the enemy, but there were too many mountains around, it was impossible to do it.

As for the charge, Davout always felt that as long as his troops charge up and engage in close combat, they will soon defeat the enemy.

After the enemy flees, there is no way to completely encircle and annihilate the enemy and destroy their organizational system.

At this time, Davout could already see the town of Montenotte in the distance.

Davout cursed: "It seems that the formation's expectation of destroying the enemy cannot be fulfilled, military musicians, beat the charge drum!"

Military musician: "Understood, charge drum!"

Immediately afterwards, eager drums sounded.

The musicians in each battalion heard the commander's change of drumbeat, and immediately changed the drumbeat. Hearing the drumbeat, the non-commissioned officers ordered one after another: "All! Charge!"

Davout's troops rushed, like blue waves along the valley, towards the enemy's troops.

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Major General Argento, the Austrian division commander, frowned: "No, this man has been following us to shoot, and now he suddenly charges, there must be something strange about it."

He turned his head to look at Montenotte behind him, and suddenly gasped: "My God! That's right! Their goal is to capture Montenotte and make our dumplings!
"Blitz!"

Soon a lieutenant colonel ran up to him: "General!"

"Lead the reserve group and countercharge the frontal enemy!"

"Understood, General!" Britz was about to turn around when Argento held him back, "Take care, Lieutenant Colonel."

Britz understood immediately, he nodded: "Thank you General for bestowing on me this honor!"

After speaking, he drew out his sword and hurried away.

Argento continued to order: "Order the whole army, stop alternating cover, the front team becomes the rear team, run forward! Run as fast as you can!"

Immediately, the commander's trumpeter blew the melody of changing the formation. Although the Austrian army was flustered, they completed the formation change well-trained.

At this moment, the sound of shouting and killing came from behind the team, and the reserve team began to charge.

Argento: "Quick, retreat! Back past Montenotte!"

At this moment, horns sounded from the west of the battlefield.

The tricolor flag appears on the mountain road west of Montenotte.

(End of this chapter)