King's Landing in France

Chapter 166 The Overly Cautious Davu Hit the Right Way
An Ning took Berthier, La Salle, and a group of hussars and rushed to Diego overnight.

Speaking of the name Diego, An Ning always reminded An Ning of a certain famous star Diego Maradona, and the famous slogan that Argentina played when Maradona died: Don't cry for me, Argentina.

Then he remembered the video of the British-Ama Island war released by Little John Khan, because that video started with Maradona's hand of God and ended with Maradona's farewell words.

After completing this mind-wandering cycle, An Ning thought of the process of Diego's first battle in history.

Because the time is a bit long, and Diego's battle is not an important battle, it's just that Massena defeated an Austrian division.

Compared with the battle of Diego, An Ning was more impressed by what happened after the fight: after Massena took down Diego, because all the troops were so hungry that their eyes turned green, and the military salary had not been paid for a long time, so he acquiesced. Army looting in Ciudad Diego.

He also ran to Diego City to find a beautiful girl to wrestle with.

As a result, the Austrian veteran Vuksevich marched and attacked overnight, and Massena was caught off guard. When the Austrian army attacked, Massena fled in his pajamas, and managed to escape.

Because of this incident, An Ning had the impression of Massena as a very capable bandit.

When he saw Massena during the day today, he was surprised that the impression was completely inconsistent.

Fortunately, it was time for another decisive battle in Diego. An Ning only remembered that Massena ran away naked, but did not remember how he took down the city of Diego.

This is how to do ah.

Do you really have to rely on the experience you have gained in the Total War series of games?
How about I hand over the command to Davout and watch the play by myself?
But there was a problem with Davout.

Massena was able to lead the Battle of Diego because Massena himself was the commander of the avant-garde army of Napoleon's Italian Army, so he could command two divisions without any problem.

Davout is now only a division commander, at the same level as Lahalp, and probably cannot command Lahalp.

It is a little bit reluctant to let only one division of Davout fight against the main force of the Austrian army.

While thinking about this, An Ning trotted the horse in the mountains, because it was dark, An Ning did not dare to let the horse run too fast.

He himself is not afraid of falling, but if the horse breaks, it would be a waste of time to change horses halfway.

A group of people hurried on their way in the night.

Most of the personnel responsible for the supply transfer along the way were asleep. After the sentry found out that the person who came was An Ning, they subconsciously wanted to call the general long live, but An Ning stopped them.

Around one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, An Ning arrived at Montenotte on the way.

On the ramp in front of Montenotte City, An Ning saw a large number of corpses that had not yet been contained.

His horse also stepped on the wounded soldier, and the scream of the wounded soldier woke up the sleeping French soldiers in the nearby tent.

The soldiers rushed out of the tent and shouted, "Who is it?"

An Ning: "It's me, General Frost!"

The soldiers gathered around and brought the torches closer to An Ning, probably because these soldiers lacked vitamins and couldn't see clearly at night. They almost put the torches on An Ning's face, and then they confirmed that this was "Your Excellency the General".

"Your Mightiness!"

"Don't shout long live!" An Ning said immediately after gaining experience.

The soldiers all shut up.

An Ning: "Go and wake up Lahalp!"

Immediately a non-commissioned officer ran away.

A moment later, the sleepy Lahalp ran over in his pajamas: "Your Excellency, why are you here?"

"Don't you know that Davout met the main force of the Austrian army?"

"I know, but he wrote back and said, don't worry, so I'm going to take a break first and then go to Diego tomorrow. Tomorrow... I mean, if I leave at dawn today, I can probably reach Diego by noon."

An Ning: "Call your troops now, don't sleep, and rush to Diego immediately."

Rahalp: "The troops marched a long distance today and are very tired..."

An Ning interrupted Lahalp's words: "The military situation is urgent, can you afford to delay the fighter plane? Call out all the troops!"

Lahalp: "Yes, I will call out the troops. But it will take some time to assemble the troops and prepare the torches. It will take about an hour to start."

An Ning thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I'll go to the front line first, and you will set off in an hour, and force the march to catch up! Soldiers are expensive, do you understand!"

"Yes!"

Lahalp saluted, turned around and ran to the camp, and ordered to his subordinates: "Quickly, call out the whole army! Blow the rallying call!"

An Ning: "Let's go, continue to Diego."

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When An Ning arrived in Diego, it was already around three o'clock in the morning.

An Ning was immediately led outside Davout's tent, only to find that Davout was wearing a neat military uniform, concentrating on studying something at the map at the table.

An Ning: "You didn't sleep?"

Davout raised his head, and in the process of raising his head, his head reflected the firelight in the tent.

Davout: "Your Excellency, General! How did you come to the front line?"

An Ning: "The battle is coming, of course I want to go to the front to see. Where's Napoleon?"

"He drove all day with the cannon and I put him to sleep."

An Ning nodded, and asked again, "What are you researching?"

Davout: "I was thinking, why did the enemy put the battlefield here? What's the point of their main force being here?"

An Ning: "The meaning?"

Davout: "Yes, there are mountains around here. To be honest, it is not suitable for a decisive battle with a large army. It is very difficult to deploy an army of 1. Marshal Beaulieu of the Austrians piled up so many troops behind Diego. What are you going to do?

"He should disperse his troops in several directions and look for opportunities to break through from several directions."

An Ning: "You mean he should divide his troops?"

"Yes, the terrain around Diego is relatively open, and tens of thousands of troops can be placed there, but there are not many such open areas nearby. When I was fighting with the Argento Division, there was no way to spread out because of the terrain. The army took advantage of its strength to eat him.

"That's why Beaulieu has so many troops here, and they can only fight one by one."

An Ning rubbed her chin and looked at the map: "You really have a point in saying that."

It feels a lot like the Mount and Blade series. The game console limits the number of troops that can appear at the same time, so you can only play in waves one after another, and after a wave is dead, you can spawn a wave of reinforcements.

Thinking about it this way, it was indeed unreasonable for Beaulieu to place so many troops in Diego.

Davout continued: "So I have an idea, is it possible that the enemy's main force is not here at all, but they just deliberately lit so many campfires to make us think there is a main force here?"

An Ning: "You told me that there is a main force here!"

"I did think so when I saw the campfire at first, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was wrong. But my troops also fought for a day and were very tired, and I didn't have any cavalry. If there were cavalry, I could let the cavalry ride Get close to those campfires with a torch on your horse, if it's a fake campfire, the enemy probably doesn't have enough strength to defend..."

An Ning: "That's easy, I brought La Salle and his cavalry, let him go find out the truth!"

As soon as he finished speaking, La Salle, who was taking care of the horse, opened the curtain of the tent and rushed in, saying loudly, "General! Come and see!"

An Ning frowned: "What's wrong?"

He asked as he strode out of the tent.

Napoleon and Berthier, who did not know when they got up outside the tent, stood by the campfire, looking into the distance.

An Ning looked in the same direction suspiciously, only to see a long queue of torches appearing on the mountain road east of Diego.

An Ning patted Davout on the shoulder: "Now Beaulieu's main force is here."

(End of this chapter)