King's Landing in France

Chapter 362 The Real Rome

The red troops are Italians.

The color was specified by Frost himself.

The Italians wanted to change their colors at first, but then Frost became more and more powerful and his reputation grew. In addition, after the integration of Frost, Italy’s economy began to improve, and the living standards of the people improved, so they decided to do it again. There is no mention of changing colors.

Now, the red army is driving over mightily.

Several officers in red uniforms rode up to Massena, dismounted and saluted: "Your Excellency, the Italy-Sardinia-Milano-Venice Joint Force is waiting for your dispatch."

"This is our French war, there is no need for you to participate." Masséna put his hands behind his back, "You have no obligation to participate."

The colonel in red shook his head: "We have, Your Excellency General. Your Excellency Frost said that our freedom needs to be defended by ourselves, and we don't want to be ruled by the Austrians anymore. We Italians will be an independent country in the future. A country of the Italian nation!
"We must have the ability to hold off the Austrian army without relying on France."

The colonel in red paused, and then said: "I still need to have the ability to resist France without relying on anyone, so that we can have real freedom. So we must get used to war and learn how to fight."

Massena pursed his lips and asked, "What's your name?"

"Giovanni Domenico Garibaldi was originally a captain and lived in the Kingdom of Sardinia. To be honest, I'm not familiar with commanding people on the ground, please give me a chance to practice!"

Massena nodded: "Well, you will get this opportunity. Let me tell you the truth, we really don't have enough troops to give the enemy a final blow. How many of you are there?"

"Fifty thousand, Your Excellency General." Giovanni raised his head and declared proudly, "They are all men from northern Italy. We are eager to soak our bayonets with the blood of the Austrians!"

Massena: "Oh? And should I regard you as a new army of citizens, or an army of the old kingdom?"

As soon as the words fell, someone in the marching troops shouted: "We are free citizens!"

Then there was a chorus from the Italian troops: "Yes! Citizens!"

"Let's attack in skirmish formation, we will never retreat!"

It seems that Frost's theory that the citizen army will not easily collapse is well known in Italy.

Massena: "It's useless to talk about it. We will soon know what kind of troops you are! Chief of Staff, arrange for them to attack."

The chief of staff immediately saluted: "Understood! You rest where you are, and the officer comes to me."

**
About an hour later, the Italians went on the offensive.

Massena watched the red front formed by the Italians advance, and suddenly thought: "You said that if Austria is republicized in the future, and a team wearing white uniforms is sent out, can we put the color of the national flag on the offensive formation? up?
"The French are on the left, the Austrians are in the middle, and the Italians are on the right. Do you think that is possible?"

The chief of staff laughed directly: "I want to see that scene so much, it will surely scare all the monarchs in Europe to pee their pants."

Massena laughed too, and at that moment he heard singing coming from the Italian line.

"Singing... I even learned this."

The French army likes to sing when they attack. This is also a tradition initiated by Frost. Generally, the French army will sing Roman eulogy.

The tunes that the Italians are singing are very brisk, not as majestic as the Roman songs.

The chief of staff listened carefully and said, "Your Excellency composed the tune. It seems to be about an Italian soldier saying goodbye to his wife."

Massena: "As expected of an Italian, you can't forget women even on the battlefield."

The staff officer squinted at Masséna. The whole French army knew that Masséna was lustful and would sleep with pretty girls when he arrived in a new place.

There is even a joke in the army that if you need to find the general in a hurry in the morning, you can knock on the doors of all the widows in the city, and you will be found.

But the chief of staff did not complain about the general.

Massena: "Oh, the Austrians opened fire. That's right, the Italians show no sign of wavering. But whether it's a citizen army or not depends on how they perform when fighting bayonets."

The biggest feature of the French army is that the scattered soldiers are not defeated, and they are not afraid of bayonets. The French army has defeated the Austrians many times with bayonets.

The Italian red front rushed to the Austrian positions, and bloody hand-to-hand combat began.

The Austrian army may have also been hit with bayonet resistance, but they didn't retreat immediately, and the red and white troops were mixed together on the ground.

Finally, the white retreated.

Massena clenched his fist: "Okay! Great! Sure enough, the Italians are very capable! Much more capable than the Austrians! Continue to attack! Take back all the remaining positions!"

However, as soon as Masséna finished speaking, he saw people running back from the remaining Austrian positions.

"What the hell?" Massena muttered suspiciously.

Chief of Staff: "Perhaps the morale has finally collapsed after seeing so many new Italian troops joining the war?"

**
At this moment, the Austrians are shouting:
"It's red! The red Roman legion! The Roman legion is coming!"

Yes, the Austrian soldiers who have been stationed in Italy for a long time, even those who are not very literate, know that the Roman legion is red.

And, logically, since the Roman legions showed up, so should the man.

"Frost! Frost brought the Roman Legion to fuck us! We can't win, run away!"

"Our army is defeated, our army is defeated!"

In this way, the Austrians retreated!
Even though Massena was beaten to death, he never imagined that he would win like this!

**
Schönbrunn Palace, Franz II's face turned green when he received the report.

"Frost appeared in Italy? How is it possible? Alvinzi also reported him on the Danube! How did he get to Italy?"

The Italian Austrian commander with a dingy face said: "But, my soldiers have seen Frost's eagle flag, and the Roman Legion."

Franz looked up and stared at him fiercely: "What legion?"

"Roman Legion..."

Franz looked back suspiciously at the double-headed eagle logo of the Holy Roman Empire hanging on the wall of his office.

"What legion are you talking about again?"

"Roman Legion!"

Franz grabbed the globe on the table and threw it on the ground: "I am the emperor of the Roman Empire! My legion is the Roman legion!"

The commander-in-chief of the Italian Legion hesitated to speak.

Franz furiously said, "Are you trying to say that we are neither holy nor Roman nor an empire? Do you want to say that?"

Imperial Prime Minister: "He didn't say that..."

"He clearly wanted to say something!"

(End of this chapter)