King's Landing in France

Chapter 172 Austrians, this is the art of war

Napoleon commanded his troops and ran towards the center.

While maneuvering on horseback, he thought to himself: The current mounted cannon is still too troublesome to maneuver.

We should get a four-wheeled cannon, which can be fired when it stops, and then run when it is pulled.

Napoleon thought so.

It’s best to point the muzzle at the back, so you don’t have to turn around after the shot, just run straight!
Thinking about it, he began to imagine the appearance of this new type of artillery vehicle. If the warrant officer next to him hadn't reminded him loudly, he would not have realized that he was approaching the frontal battlefield.

"Captain!" the warrant officer shouted, "We are approaching the frontal battlefield!"

Napoleon suddenly came to his senses, and then looked around blankly: "What the hell, why are there so many female soldiers?"

The female soldiers were scattered all over the bushes, relying on trees and stone bunkers, and were shooting at the Austrian army on the frontal battlefield.

A woman saw Napoleon and shouted to him: "We are harassing the enemy! Follow the general's orders!"

Napoleon looked at the surrounding terrain and exclaimed: "You have occupied a very good side firing position! We are going to set up guns here!"

"Then we will let you out of the cannon!"

"No, no need." Napoleon waved his hand, "We put the cannon directly in the front, so that we can shoot accurately! Come on, grape bullets!!"

The artillerymen skillfully unloaded the cannons from behind the horses and pushed them to the front of the bushes.

"No, no, we have to move forward, let's push to the side of the stone mill in front!" Napoleon commanded.

So the artillerymen pushed their cannons away from the bushes.

Many Austrian soldiers noticed the artillery that was suddenly pushed out from the side, and their eyes widened.

Finally, the cannon reached the stone mill. Napoleon dragged away the soldiers pushing the cannon, and pushed the cannon himself while turning the wheels, aiming at the enemy's line.

Then he snatched the torch and lit the cannon.

With a sound of duang, half of the targeted platoon was sprayed down.

Then the platoon failed immediately, and the soldiers turned around and started running.

The Napoleon thief was happy: "Okay! Continue to load!"

At this time, another gun of his artillery team also fired, and it also disintegrated a platoon with one shot.

At this time, the Austrians finally couldn't sit still, and an officer ordered the troops to change their formation, preparing to shoot Napoleon's small artillery team close at hand with a volley of guns.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a large number of female soldiers ran out of the bushes.

A woman with a sergeant's badge yelled: "Girls line up! Cover the artillery!"

The women soldiers lined up beside Napoleon's artillery, firing volleys.

Seeing this, Napoleon immediately shouted to the artillerymen: "Look! Even the ladies bravely face the enemy's hail of bullets, but you all shrink your necks!"

The soldiers were stimulated and finished reloading as quickly as possible.

Napoleon aimed again himself, and blasted away the most threatening group of enemies with one shot.

The young captain was very excited: "Austrians, this is the art of war!"

**
An Ning used binoculars to watch Napoleon's performance the whole time.

What the hell, how did he become like this?
Just because I praised him, he started playing like this?
In the Napoleon Wars, it is indeed mentioned that Napoleon likes to use light mounted artillery units to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

But there is no mention in the biography of Napoleon that he inflicted major damage on the enemy at a distance of 50 meters?
What made you such a Bonaparte, because you didn't meet your destined Josephine?
An Ning directly complained that her desire was full.

At this time, the frontal battlefield is in a strange state. The enemy is lining up and rushing down from the high ground of Diego. Halfway there is Napoleon leading a team of mounted artillery, and there is a group of mounted artillery beside the mounted artillery The skirmish formation is no longer played, and the female soldiers of the enemy are lined up to shoot at the enemy.

At this time, if the enemy dispatched several regiments to attack Napoleon, the frontal brigade would not be able to rescue him at all.

Not to mention that the enemy may have cavalry—no, the Austrian army must have cavalry.

The Austrian cavalry was still hiding on the high ground, because the high ground where Diego was located was higher than the Anning Command, so he couldn't see where the enemy's cavalry was.

If the enemy cavalry rushed down while slipping, Napoleon should have become a prisoner of Austria!
An Ning has one head and two big ones.

Could it be that Christina and the others can only be sent out?
But this narrow terrain full of obstacles is not suitable for cavalry deployment at all!An Ning's original idea was to send Christina and the others to the left wing when La Salle opened up the situation.

Such a large number of cavalry can sweep the entire battlefield like a storm, which is cool to think about.

An Ning was hesitating when he suddenly saw Austrian cavalry appear from the east of the highland.

They rushed down the road to Lahalpe's troops.

**
ten minutes ago

Marshal Beaulieu found himself with a collapsed left wing.

He cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, we obviously have fortifications on this side of the road, how could we be defeated by the enemy so easily?"

Condore: "Should the reserve team..."

"No!" Marshal Beaulieu sternly denied, "It's not time to use the reserve team! The battle has only started so soon, and the reserve team is used. This is a very dangerous signal!"

After a short thought, Marshal Beaulieu ordered: "Order the cavalry to attack eastward and sweep the enemy's infantry along the road! At least force the enemy into a phalanx!"

Troops in a phalanx move very slowly, basically losing their ability to attack.

In fact, moving the phalanx itself is a very difficult thing. After all, when the phalanx moves as a whole, only the soldiers on one side walk normally, and the soldiers on the other three sides either walk sideways like crabs, or walk backwards.

After the first messenger ran away, Marshal Beaulieu ordered again: "Send out officers to gather the scattered troops on the left wing and reorganize the front when the enemy is forced to form a phalanx!"

Immediately another person ran away.

Marshal Beaulieu encouraged the officers of the headquarters: "It doesn't matter! It's just the collapse of the left wing. Didn't the enemy also collapse a front? This is even..."

Suddenly someone shouted: "Look, over there!"

Marshal Beaulieu immediately looked towards the frontal battlefield, only to see Napoleon occupying the side and firing at his attacking line.

"What?" Beaulieu was shocked, "Why did the artillery come to this position? This is not in line with the principle of using troops!"

Condoré immediately asked: "Shall we call some of the cavalry back?"

"No! There are a lot of enemies on the left flank. Without a sufficient number of cavalry, it is impossible to force them to form a phalanx! Besides, the enemy's artillery is so close to our infantry! Let the infantry charge to take it! Who wants to Lead an infantry charge?"

An officer with a beautiful mustache stood up and said, "Here I am, the son of the Duke of Styria. Please give me this honor! Your Excellency the Marshal!"

The marshal looked at the officer carefully, nodded, and made a gesture: "Give him a military flag! Son, take this military flag and go to win!"

(End of this chapter)