Fox of France

"The British are indeed better than the Austrians and Prussians." Napoleon said to Augereau, watching the approaching British army.

"If it's a field battle, these guys can bring us a lot of casualties." Augereau also nodded, "Look, if you have suffered such a blow, if you were an Austrian, you should have turned around and went home to find your mother. Up."

"Austrians? In Walmi, only a round of shelling killed hundreds of people, and the remaining tens of thousands were afraid to move. Look at the British, you just ran into it like this. "Napoleon exclaimed.

"Fortunately, we now have the initiative." Augereau said sincerely. "General, you told us before that in most cases, defense is a more powerful way of fighting than offense, but war must rely on offense. Victory. So a good general, even in offensive operations, should be able to seize the most critical opportunity on the battlefield, seize the most critical position, and then force the enemy to attack our solid defense. A strategic offensive The battle is a tactical defensive counterattack. I used to think, how is this possible? Now think about it, didn’t we just do this? Now we are on the offensive side, but because we occupy the key Position, the defensive enemy had to leave the solid defense facilities and attack us actively. General Bonaparte..."

Augerro admired it and gave a thumbs up: "High, it's really high!"

Napoleon was naturally very proud of it. He knew that Augereau was not a flatterer. Although this principle was not proposed by him, how did the brothers divide each other? Besides, Joseph is just talking about war on paper. If he is replaced by Joseph in this battle, he may not be able to grasp the key. So he was actually very satisfied with his own operation. Now that he is praised by Augereau, he is naturally even more proud. However, his face did not show any more expressions, but said: "Let's talk about this when the British attack is repelled!"

The British had approached the shotgun range, and the cannons on the fort began to use shotguns to shoot like the British. The lobster soldiers were defeated in rows. But the lobsters behind them still lined up neatly, and continued to approach at a constant speed without firing a shot.

It's not the same as the coquettish **** in Europe who take a few steps and shoot a shot, or play three-stage strikes. The rule of the British Army has always been that we don’t play those tricks, just walk straight forward, until the gun in our hand can reach under the nose of the enemy on the opposite side, and then everyone will fire a volley, and then a bayonet charge. Those **** on the opposite side were taken away in one wave. The British army is not large, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is indeed a level higher than those guys familiar with the French before.

The British dropped a lot of bodies, but they still came close. As long as an army is brave enough, it can always make progress. According to their habits, they would have been close to a distance of more than ten steps, then stopped for a salvo, followed by bayonet charges.

But this time, the situation has changed. The British just stopped, and a large stone-like object was thrown from the French side. It's just that these things exploded violently after they landed.

This is the special weapon that Joseph brought Napoleon around—the grenade.

In fact, throwing explosives at the opponent in battle is nothing new. Someone did this earlier. But at that time, the grenade they used was filled with black powder. If they were to ensure their power, they had to make a lot of them. The big ones wouldn't go out at all if they weren't the strong ones, and even the strong ones wouldn't be able to throw them far. If the size is so large that ordinary soldiers can throw it far, then its power is really not much different from the big firecracker.

But the grenade of Napoleon's soldiers was not filled with black powder, but Lavoisier's new thing-nitrated starch.

Compared with nitroglycerin, digested starch is much more stable and requires mercury fulminate to detonate effectively. Of course, there is a problem with this thing, that is, the consistency of the product is more difficult to control. Some nitrated starches are more powerful than TNT, while some nitrated starches are only half as powerful as TNT, so the power of each grenade is different. . However, even so, the power of these grenades is not comparable to old gadgets with black powder. In addition, Joseph was frantically placed on the shell of the grenade to deal with prefabricated fragments, so their killing effect exceeded everyone's expectations.

This round of hand grenades blew up a large line of British people, and the British lineup was completely finished.

Seeing this, Napoleon immediately issued the order to countercharge!

"For France, rush!" The French army rushed towards the British with the bayonet.

To say that there is still a clear difference between the French Army and the British Army in this era, that is, the British need queues to fight effectively, while the French do not need queues at all. The more chaotic the better.

The countercharge knocked the British back. After defeating the British counterattack, the British army quickly withdrew to Toulon. Napoleon judged that it was impossible for the British to attack Mulgrave fortress again in a short time. Now his goal can turn to the ships in Toulon Port.

Of course, it will take some time to fire on the Port of Toulon, because the soldiers have to turn the cannons on the fortress and send more cannons to the Mulgrave fortress, and this takes time.

"Before dark anyway, these things are not well prepared, or just go and beat Lucien!" Although he was in a good mood because of his decisive victory, Napoleon still decided to Go and take on the obligations of an older brother, and educate him seriously so that he can know why the flowers are so popular. Besides, anyway, if it rains to hit the child, it is idle anyway.

After all, Napoleon was not too angry anymore. Anger is like a storm, coming fast and going fast. In addition, Lucien was good at running again, Polina made trouble again, and as a result, Napoleon failed to fulfill his responsibilities as a brother.

By the next morning, the cannons in the fortress were all in place, and Napoleon ordered the bombardment of Toulon. The bombardment continued for a whole day, until the port of Toulon was swallowed by night, causing the French bombardment efficiency to drop significantly. In the shelling on this day, more than a dozen ships were damaged to varying degrees. Hundreds of crew casualties. What's more painful than this is that Toulon has no means to counter the shelling from Mulgrave fortress.

"Toulon can't keep it." The Spaniard first made such a judgment, and then after nightfall, the Spaniard left his guard position and planned to board the ship and leave. Then they were blocked by the british brigade on the dock-the British were getting on the boat! ——When things cannot be done, the British are always very good at retreating.

The British and Spaniards spent two nights and one day, braving the gunfire of Mulgrave fortress, and withdrew from Toulon.

In fact, by daylight the next day, most of the British had already left. Davout wanted Napoleon to propose to take the opportunity to attack and retake Toulon. He believed that the attack at this time would definitely be able to enter Toulon and wipe out all the invaders who had not had time to retreat.

But Napoleon rejected this suggestion. He felt that if he had already won, attacking the enemy's solid position would cause a lot of unnecessary casualties, which was not worthwhile.

This reason convinced Dawu. His only worry is: Will the traitors of the motherland run away with the invaders?

"It's too late for the British and Spaniards to rescue themselves. There is no time to control these traitors. Don't worry, they can't get away!" Napoleon said.

The last few boats were about to leave the pier, but the pier was still full of people—those were members of the Toulon King Party who had served the British. Now the British and Spaniards are leaving, they They also knew that if they were still in Toulon, they would definitely have to go to the guillotine, so they ran here, hoping that British father would show mercy and give them a chance to leave Toulon by boat.

Napoleon could clearly see all this from Mulgrave fortress, so he ordered: "Fight against these guys on the dock! Dawu, you are going to enter the city!"

Dawudai responded and ran off. Napoleon continued to hold his binoculars to admire the results of the artillery.

A shell fell in the crowd at the pier, and a **** alley sprang from the crowd. More people screamed and jumped into the water, trying to swim onto the British boat.

Napoleon saw ~www.readwn.com~ a British officer shouted something to the people below, but the people still swam towards the ship. The officer drew out his commanding knife and shouted again, and then a piece of gunpowder appeared on the side of the ship—the British soldiers on the ship began to shoot at the royalists swimming towards them.

One by one, the royal party members were shot and sank. Napoleon smiled openly.

At this time, a person appeared in Napoleon's vision. The man took a breath, dived into the water, escaped the volley, and swam to the edge of the British boat, and then he climbed up like a spider.

"This guy is good at it," Napoleon said, "It's a pity..."

At this time, the man finally climbed to the side of the ship. He stretched his head out, as if shouting something, maybe it was "God Bless My King" or something else. But it didn't matter, because in the next second, there were several bayonets on his stomach, and then a few British soldiers threw him into the sea with force. This time, he sank and never floated again.

"This is the end of the traitor!" Augero, who was also watching, sighed like this.