King's Landing in France

Chapter 275 Eagle Emblem
Alvinzi spent the next two days in shock.

The French army moved with a speed that simply surpassed all military common sense.

On the first day after the collapse of the Fourth Army, the French army appeared in front of the Third Army and launched an attack on the Third Army.

When he first received the battle report, Alvinzi thought it was the stragglers of the French army that had appeared everywhere like locusts recently, but he just thought that the assembly of the third army would be delayed a bit.

Unexpectedly, one morning later, the Third Army sent an urgent report saying that it was besieged by a huge number of French troops and could no longer support it.

Alvin Qi hastily mobilized the troops that had gathered for a decisive battle with Frost to the direction of the Third Army. As a result, the defeated troops of the Third Army ran to his headquarters one after another.

The Third Army had been routed by the French.

However, Alvinzi adjusted the plan overnight, thinking that the French army would at least stop and reorganize after annihilating the Third Army, and would have to wait at least one day before continuing to maneuver on the battlefield.

As a result, at dawn the next day, a large French army appeared in front of his team.

As a veteran of nearly seventy years old, Alvinzi's military common sense has been deeply imprinted in his mind, and he simply cannot understand facing such a French army.

Alvinzi looked at the French army that suddenly appeared, and murmured in front of everyone: "They...they didn't hold a celebration banquet after defeating the third army, didn't repair it, and immediately rushed to attack us overnight? How can this be done? Arrived?"

No one could answer Alvinzi.

Before Alvinzi could think of the answer, the French army started an even more unimaginable action: they launched an attack in columns!
Although Alvinzi was greatly shocked, he immediately organized artillery to bombard the French column.

The French army charging in columns immediately suffered heavy casualties.

Generally, the solid bullets that roll to the ground pass through the horizontal formation, killing six people to death, because the horizontal formation has three rows, and the shells penetrate at most one row of the horizontal formation and kill two people.

If you want to kill three people in the same row with one solid bullet, you can't do it physically. After all, the diameter of the shell is only so much, and it can hit two people at most.

But the situation is completely different when such shells enter the column.

According to Alvinzi's observation, a shell that hit the front of the column took away at least ten French troops.

Sometimes it even happens that the shell passes through too many people and loses its kinetic energy and falls to the ground.

Generally, there are only 50 people in a platoon of columns. This is because the French army has a large number of adults.

Losing one-fifth of the people at one time should have collapsed logically, but the French army did not.

The French army would have to take two shots and kill [-] people before it collapsed.

Then the rest is a simple mathematical problem. The main force commanded by Alvinzi has a total of 15 artillery pieces. One volley fires every shot accurately, and there is no such thing as three artillery pieces hitting the same column. A salvo will also disintegrate [-] platoons.

And now there are as many as forty platoons that the French army is attacking Alvinzi, and new platoons will continue to join the battlefield in the future.

As long as you do a simple calculation, you know that the French army will definitely rush into the formation of the coalition forces for hand-to-hand combat.

Alvinzi comforted himself: "You can still rely on the volleys of the infantry!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the firing began.

The first round of guns passed, and the French army fell.After all, the Austrians have been fully trained and their shooting skills are still good.

However, the French army did not respond at all.

Alvinzi looked at everything in front of him suspiciously, and finally, he realized what was going on.

When the column charge caused the front row to fall, the rear row basically didn't feel it.

Once the normal three-row horizontal team is shot down in the front row, the people in the second and third rows will be affected to a certain extent and start to be afraid.

But the column was more than three rows, he had a full ten rows, and the result was that the casualties in the first row greatly weakened the morale blow to the others!

Alvinzi: "Such an unreasonable thing actually happened..."

At this time, the Duke of Brunswick was still quite optimistic. He said: "The French seem to have found an offensive method that doesn't care about casualties, but grape bullets will disintegrate them!"

As soon as the voice fell, the grape bomb opened fire.

The front third of the French column, which was bombarded head-on by grape bombs, fell down at once.

The rest of the people saw that something was wrong, and immediately started to back away.

But the problem came back, too many French troops.

Even if one or two platoons are disintegrated, there are still many French troops rushing towards the coalition forces!
Then, the most desperate thing happened.

Frost's flag appeared on the other side of the battlefield.

The French soldiers who had been scattered, saw the military flag, and immediately turned around and started walking back.

Alvin Qi looked at Frost's military flag in the distance, and the first thought he had was: "This is not the eagle flag, did you see the eagle emblem?"

He hurriedly waved away this thought, turned his head and asked Brunswick: "Is there any way to retreat from the enemy now? For example, let's use the artillery to try to destroy Frost with one shot?"

Brunswick gave a thumbs up, gestured to measure the distance, and shook his head: "Frost is very wise, he stopped outside the range of our artillery."

The range of cannons in this era is not that far. It is already an extra charge to be able to hit 1200 meters. The range of normal cannons is within 1000 meters.

For the current distance of Frost, it is conservatively estimated that it will take some time to run the cavalry to kill the capital.

Alvin Qi: "Didn't you say that Frost likes to charge himself? Why doesn't he charge himself?"

The Duke of Brunswick shrugged.

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Berthier: "Don't charge yourself anymore! If you are injured, even if you are just knocked off your horse, the morale of our army will be hit!"

An Ning: "Okay, I won't rush, I won't rush! Stop reading, my ears are callused! Are you my mother?"

Fanny: "Let's drink red wine."

An Ning sighed: "Okay, set the table and I'll have a drink. After I sit down, the chief of staff won't worry about me going to the battle in person anymore, right?"

An Ning spoke on a whim, picked up the chair that Fanny had just set up, and handed it to Berthier: "Check it out, make sure it won't run away!"

With a straight face, Berthier checked it out and made sure that the stool was a dead object before returning the stool to An Ning.

An Ning was speechless: "Did you really check it? I'm not a real magician, I won't let the chair run away by itself!"

Berthier: "It's hard to say. Now the enemy soldiers seem to believe that you can summon the Roman legion."

An Ning smiled: "What the hell, you really think I'm the reincarnation of Caesar? Then the Roman legion traveled through time and space to be loyal to me, right?"

Is it necessary to add a line of narration when charging: loyalty that never ends until death is the embodiment of Caesar's kingly way...

What Iskandar.

**
While An Ning was on the battlefield watching the vast number of French troops swarming up to attack the main force of Alvinzi's coalition forces, special commissioner Fouché got the things he had just ordered from the local goldsmith.

He looked at this thing and was very satisfied: "Very good, very good!"

Imitation of the Roman eagle emblem, reflecting the fire in the furnace.

Fouché: "The first batch of 100 eagle flags must be completed as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)