King's Landing in France

Chapter 361 As long as Massena attacks, everything will be fine!
When An Ning heard that Grand Duke Karl was arrested, he was in a bad mood.

Now nothing is going according to his idea.

It was originally thought to be a large-scale annihilation battle, but now it has become a continuous siege battle. Every time a city is captured, the French army suffers heavy casualties. The most important thing is that it takes a lot of time.

Then Grand Duke Karl was originally released to let him take orders in the face of danger. As a result, the Grand Duke himself mobilized the Bohemian army, which aroused his brother's suspicion and was locked up early.

Also, Italy originally only planned to let Davout and Massena play support, but it turned out that according to Massena's intentions, he was going to go north from Italy to attack Vienna.

Sure enough, it is very difficult to expect everything to work as expected.

Forget it, An Ning thought about it, and decided that this is fine, let's see if the famous generals under him can win the battle by themselves.If this is also won, I can safely retreat to the second line to engage in industrialization, and strive to let France lead the UK and enter the steam age first.

An Ning is very interested in how the history of the world will evolve after France completes the industrial revolution first.

**
Zurich.

After Davout led the French army over the Alps, they entered the territory of Switzerland.

Davout did not know that the route he took was the route of Suvorov in another time and space. In the history of that time and space, Suvorov hurriedly wanted to participate in the battle in Zurich, but Masséna made a quick move. , directly played the Zurich victory.

That was the highlight of Massena's life.

But now that Masséna was in northern Italy, the command of the Zurich campaign became Davout.

However, there may be some connection between the famous generals. After seeing the terrain around Zurich on horseback, Davout chose the same breakthrough point as Massena in another time and space.

On June 6, the Battle of Zurich ended. The Austrian army suffered more than 15 casualties and 8000 surrendered.

After the field battle, the Swiss nobles in Zurich chose to surrender in Kaesong.

The reputation that the French army established a republic instead of masturbating the local nobles when they arrived in a new place has spread. Many nobles, especially the new nobles, are ready to compete for power with their fellow countrymen in the parliament.

In this way, Davout's 3 people, including about [-] wounded soldiers and the same number of corpses, marched into the city of Zurich.

Yes, Davout only paid less than [-] casualties in total, and disintegrated the defenders of Zurich.

On the day of entering the city, as soon as he was settled in the city, Davout's chief of staff came to congratulate Davout: "General, your tactics are so beautiful that they are almost comparable to Lord Frost!"

Davout frowned slightly, and turned to look at the chief of staff.

"Have you ever been to a military academy? Let me ask you, did the military academy teach you how to use skirmishers so extensively?"

The staff officer didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Davu's gourd, so he replied suspiciously: "No. The military school taught us that we must attack with line infantry..."

"That's right. And I adopted this unconventional approach because your Excellency has keenly discovered the difference between our army and the kingdom's army, do you understand? Because it is our army, we can adopt many tactics that have never been thought of before." .

"In addition, the prestige of our army brought out by your Excellency also made the Austrian army collapse at the touch of our bayonet charge.

"I was able to win so easily only because I stood on the shoulders of a giant, Your Excellency. Make no mistake, Chief of Staff."

Davout said seriously.

"How can I have such an unrealistic idea about being as brilliant as Your Excellency?"

He paused, then sighed: "Actually, I think that your Excellency should not fight now, but should return to teach at the Military Academy, he may be able to create a new military school.

"It's a pity that France still needs him to be active on the battlefield. This is actually a pity."

After Davout finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.

**
Massena here.

He was watching the Austrian defenses on the hill with a telescope.

Although Davout left, the Austrian commander still did not dare to fight the French army in the wilderness. Instead, he built a position in the mountains and assumed a posture of defending himself.

Because the French navy is not good enough, there is no way to bypass the direction of the Austrian army by sea, so Masséna can only attack the mountains.

After winning here, he can start to advance to Vienna.

However, after nearly a day of fierce fighting, the situation on the battlefield is still unclear.

Although the morale of the Austrians was low, but with the fortifications, they seemed to have a spiritual support. The French army had to pay a high price to rush to the fortifications in order to force the Austrians out of the fortifications in a hand-to-hand battle.

Once they leave the fortifications, the Austrian army will disperse.

But the Austrian army seemed to have anticipated this, and built several lines of defense on the mountain, and came up with a set of defense in depth many years in advance.

In fact, this is similar to the effect of the Northern Allied Forces' method of defending the city in sections, using space and time to offset the high morale of the French army.

Masséna's feeling now is the same as that of An Ning on the northern front: "Damn it, these bastards, come out and fight us!"

The chief of staff said worriedly at the side: "If this continues, our reserve force will be exhausted. Why don't we try to bypass the line of defense?"

"I also want to go around, but there must be a way."

This part of the border between Italy and Austria is full of mountains.

It should be said that the entire south of Austria is a mountainous country, and the inconvenient transportation situation has not improved much even in the [-]th century.

During the First World War, Austria-Hungary and Italy fought in the mountains for several years, and neither of them could push forward.

In another time and space, Napoleon was able to break through this mountain because of his faster strategic maneuvering. Archduke Karl underestimated the French army's maneuvering speed, and rushed over before he had time to block the French army.

Later, Archduke Karl's troops also rushed to race with the French army, and finally beat the French army by relying on the defense on several key passes, and finally established a more reliable defense in front of the French army.

Just when Archduke Karl was about to rely on the defensive position to give the French army a head-on blow, his brother Franz voted.

The Archduke Karl in another time and space is a tragic hero who was repeatedly pitted by his brother. Although in the end he became famous as an Austrian national salvation hero, he aroused his brother's suspicion and lost all his power.

Massena didn't know this. While observing the Austrian army's position, he said to himself: "Look at the rate of loss, if there are another 2 people, we can forcefully conquer the pass, as long as there are another 2 people!"

Chief of Staff: "But we don't have any."

Massena cursed.

At this moment, a staff officer shouted: "General, what do you think is that?"

Massena turned his head sharply, and then he saw a red army driving along the road.

(End of this chapter)