King's Landing in France

Chapter 175 The Birth of the Horse Artillery Song

An Ning had just rushed to the side, and before he could fight the enemy, the enemy began to retreat.

Because the main road was blocked by Lahalp's division, and La Salle's cavalry was hacking people everywhere in the river valley to the north, most of the Austrian army chose to flee directly into the hilly area north of Diego.

Now the mountains and plains are full of fleeing Austrian troops.

An Ning yelled to the people around him: "Military flag, seize those who hold the military flag!"

In addition to being a trophy that represents honor, a well-crafted military flag is also an important prop used to organize troops. Military flags are often used in the formation of troops.

After all, the organization of the army and the initiative of the soldiers in this era are not high, especially the Austrian army is still a dynastic army, and the big soldiers are forced to go to the battlefield. Without the flag, the organization degree will be halved.

Therefore, the capture of the military flag in this era has practical tactical significance.

Hearing An Ning's words, Lana led a group of infantry and rushed to the enemy's flag.

Lana's troops have just entered the battle, and their physical fitness is very well preserved, which is not comparable to that of the Austrian army that has been fighting for most of the day.

They quickly caught up with a few Austrian soldiers carrying flags, and handed over the flags in two or three strokes.

An Ning saw a flag tucked under Lana's arm, and ran to another flag that was still fleeing.

Originally, An Ning's plan to use Lana was probably a frontal emergency, but it was too late to throw the teaching group and Sunset Knight into the hand-to-hand fight.

As a result, because of Napoleon's showmanship, the enemy only broke through the first line of defense, and it was not time to join the reserve team.

As a result, Lana can only use the physical energy he has retained until now to chase the army flag.

It can only be said that the influence of the subjective initiative of these powerful generals on the battle situation is far beyond An Ning's expectations.

The same is true for La Salle on the left wing. It was really unexpected that a single charge would completely crush the enemy.

Sure enough, there are these fierce generals, all they have to do is draw lines on the ground, and they will win the war by themselves.

An Ning doesn't need to be an outstanding military strategist, he just needs to use the knowledge beyond the times to gather the generals in his own hands, and then he can enjoy the benefits.

What a beautiful thing!

Now it is time to promote Davout as soon as possible, and promote him to brigadier general, so that he can lead an army, throw an army to Davout, and then match his men with Lasalle and Napoleon, and an invincible army will come out. Let him go when there is a war, and An Ning can catch fish!

Thinking about these things, An Ning couldn't help but smile.

He didn't know that at this time, David was sketching him with a sketchbook, and this sketch later gave rise to the famous painting "General Frost Smiling During Diego's Great Victory".

At this time Napoleon came running from a distance on horseback.

"Andy!" he shouted, and then realized that it was not good to call the general by his first name in front of so many troops, so he changed his words, "General Frost! See what I just did?"

An Ning turned her head to look at Napoleon, only to find that he came back fully bearded and tailed. Sure enough, he had an AT force field, and the bullets couldn't hit him.

No wonder in the real history, during the Battle of Lodi, Napoleon personally carried a flag and rushed to the bridge, and ate a few waves of grape bullets from guns and cannons at a very close distance. Nothing happened, and many people around died. dial.

An Ning: "You lunatic, I'm going to add artillery to you again. Is it easy to train you as an artillery?"

Napoleon said with a smile: "But I killed so many enemies! Don't you think this exchange is very good?"

"Yes, yes, thanks to you, only one frontal line has been broken through, and you are the first to win this battle!"

Napoleon smiled: "That's right! Then I'm not going to be polite! Let me tell you, I thought of a new gadget that can make the use of motorized mounted guns to a higher level. The current mounted guns have to be fired before they can be fired. Unmounted from the horses, I want to get a carriage, with the cannon on the carriage, and four horses to draw one of these carriages!

"Although it will be very limited in rough terrain, it will show amazing strength in plains!"

An Ning frowned, with a "what the hell" expression. Napoleon's description reminded him of something called a tower gun card, which was a kind of "battle carriage" created by the Red Army during the Soviet-Russian Civil War. It was on top of a four-wheeled carriage. A Maxim heavy machine gun.

The Soviets also made a special song to praise the soldiers who used this kind of carriage, "The Song of the Tower Gunka", also called "The Song of the Horse-Drawn Machine Gun".

As Napoleon said it, An Ning began to hallucinate that song in his mind.

The Soviets are tower gun cards, you are going to make tower gun cards!
It looked like Napoleon was heading down the road of approaching the bombardment specialists.

Napoleon: "What? Why do you have this expression, do you think it's a bad idea?"

An Ning scratched her head: "Uh, I didn't think so, you can try it."

He paused, and then said to Napoleon: "By the way, seeing your heroic posture in battle, I just had a sudden inspiration, and a song is about to come out."

Then An Ning began to sing the revised version of "The Song of Tagunka". Anyway, Tagunka's tactic is to turn around and stop the car in front of the enemy. Words are also easy to change.

An Ning can only sing the first stanza of the song, and her singing skills are not good enough, so she can barely sing the melody.

Beethoven's eyes lit up when he heard it: "Great, this brisk melody! When you are commanding a battle, are you still thinking about music? You are indeed a great commander!"

No no, you misunderstood, I was just stimulated by Napoleon's idea, and then the melody was all over my head.

Napoleon was very happy: "Is this a song specially for me? It's great, everyone in the horse artillery unit will be able to sing this song in the future! Hey, Ludwig, give me the score!"

An Ning was a little surprised, because Napoleon called Beethoven by his first name directly, and it was obvious that they had a good relationship.

An Ningguang knew that Napoleon and Davout had a good relationship because they had a common language because of the battle on the ridge, but he didn't know when his relationship with Beethoven also improved.

Beethoven nodded: "I will write the piece as soon as possible."

An Ning: "Do you need me to sing it again?"

"No, one time is enough. I memorized the whole score in one time!"

Worthy of being Le Sheng.

An Ning joked, "You dislike my bad singing, right?"

Beethoven also laughed, because An Ning is usually very unassuming, so they often go straight to An Ning like this.

"Hearing you sing," Beethoven said, "I feel that God is fair and didn't give all the benefits to one person."

At this time, a messenger came quickly: "General! Colonel Berthier asked me to inform you that the flag of Marshal Beaulieu of the Austrian Army has retreated from the army formation! We have achieved complete victory!"

An Ning: "Understood, go back and tell Berthier that I will meet him in Diego City."

(End of this chapter)