Fox of France

　　 The first to attack was the Austrian infantry. They lined up neatly, stepped neatly, and under the command of drums, they approached the French army's position.

　　 The French artillery began to fire. The shells continued to fly into the Austrian army's front, making small gaps in the Austrian's front. However, the additional soldiers immediately pushed forward, and the front line returned to its original state in a blink of an eye. This made the shelling just like throwing a few pebbles into the pond. Although there were a few ripples, the pond was still a pond.

　　 "General, there are not many cannons for the enemy." Next to the Duke of Brunswick, a young officer in his twenties put down his binoculars and said to the Duke of Brunswick.

"Ah, Carl, you have noticed this too." The Duke of Brunswick nodded. "In theory, the French should not lack artillery, but the French army has a serious escape, especially for technical units. I'm afraid. What they lack is not artillery, but well-trained artillery."

　　 At this time, the Austrian infantry was not far from the French trench. The French started to shoot cracklingly. The Frenchman's shooting was messy and untidy, and the shooting effect was not very good.

"The distance they shot was too far, and almost no volley was formed. Obviously lack of training." Duke Brunswick commented, "The French army has a heart for the royal family and is unwilling to fight us. So they can only Relying on those mobs, those mobs have a bit of courage, but war is not just about courage... Ha ha... Well-trained gentlemen can always easily defeat those mobs, no matter how large their numbers are. Your army’s offensive may be able to achieve good results."

　　The French shooting was not enough to stop the advance of the Austrian army. On the contrary, the inefficiency of their attack encouraged the Austrians. And in order to advance to a closer distance before the French fired another shot, the rhythm of their drums has been accelerated.

　　 "Maybe, it's not the French's turn to play the next round, and we will be able to rush to it." The young Duke Karl thought this way, while straightening up on the battle horse and looking forward.

　　 But at this moment, he saw a flash of light suddenly appeared on the front of the French army's position, just like stars suddenly appeared on the ground. Then he saw that there were a lot of huge gaps in the line of the Austrian army that was advancing suddenly-this is no longer just throwing a few pebbles into the pond, this is a group of meteors smashing into the pond!

　　 "What is this? What happened?" Duke Carl was so startled that he didn't even understand what was wrong with him.

　　 The Duke of Brunswick also hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked at the flashing spot.

　　 At the places where there was a sudden flash, there is now a cloud of gunpowder rising. As soon as he saw the shape of the gunpowder, the battle-hardened Duke of Brunswick judged that it was a cannon firing a shotgun. From the place where the gunpowder smoked to the front of the Austrian army, the maximum was only sixty or seventy meters. I really don’t know how those despicable French guys hid these cannons so that they didn’t even find them before they opened fire.

　　 Napoleon jumped with excitement as he watched the Austrian army that was thrown into chaos by a volley of dozens of cannons fired by him. Then he muttered to himself:

"It's great! It's... It's so magnificent! War, how beautiful you are! Compared with you, all other human art looks so pale! Minerva, you are the most beautiful goddess I really don’t understand why anyone refuses to award you a golden apple!"

　　 Napoleon can indeed express the feelings of the second stage of the second stage cancer patients at this time, because at least in a short time, his artillery mission is over.

　　 Just now, his artillery made a beautiful artillery ambush for the first time on the official battlefield. Although he led the "Red Army" before, he had played similar tricks more than once in confrontation exercises. But on the real battlefield, this is indeed the first time.

　　 The French cannon was not directly on the ground. They dug deep and longitudinal trenches in the ground. , The cannon was hidden in the trench from the beginning, and all the parts are under the trench. Looking at it from the front, there is nothing to see. In front of the cannon, there is a sloping soil slope. When the enemy is approaching, a group of artillery pushes the cannon with shells up the slope. At this time, the barrel of the cannon was exposed to the ground, and it was ready to fire at the enemy. After a shot, these cannons will retreat down the **** by themselves under the action of recoil and disappear from the enemy's sight. In fact, if necessary, these cannons can continue to fire on the ground people like this.

　　 But in this battle, Napoleon’s cannon only needs to fire this round. Because this round of volley is also a signal. After this round of salvos, those French volunteers wearing blue uniforms will stand up with their bayonets and launch a full countercharge against the enemy. Take advantage of the chaos of the enemy formation, completely defeat them!

　　 The fog of war brought by the salvo of cannons hadn't completely dissipated, and a blue tide suddenly poured out from the trenches on the French side, in a mess, and at the same time rushed towards the Austrians indefinitely.

　　 The French Volunteers lacked training. If everyone lined up to shoot them, they were probably not the Austrians' opponents, but at this moment, taking advantage of the Austrian line's complete chaos, they rushed forward. Nowadays, skills and queues can't be used, courage and number have become the masters of the battlefield. The Volunteer Army, which had obvious advantages in number and courage, defeated the Austrians in such a melee almost in an instant. Those Austrians who moved slower were directly stabbed to the ground by a few bayonets; those who were more clever, threw down their weapons, turned around and ran, and the French chased them all the way until the Prussian cavalry came out to the rescue. Stopped the pursuit and retreated.

　　 And the previous experience of fighting with the French skirmishers also made the Prussian cavalry afraid to pursue the French. Seeing that the French gave up the pursuit, they quickly retreated.

　　 In this round of attack, the coalition forces in front of the French line of defense, it can be said that they hit their heads and bloodshed. The Prussians were okay. They only lost a little cavalry in the initial battle, but the Austrians lost a lot. In just this round of attack, they left more than 600 corpses. And their morale was so severely affected that they were unable to launch any attacks again for the entire day.

　　 Now that the Duke of Brunswick is in a dilemma, his army is no longer able to expel the French through an attack. The Austrians have been frightened, and the Prussians are not much better-although they are not the ones who have suffered huge losses on the battlefield, they have also seen with their own eyes how the Austrians were defeated in front of the French defense. They asked themselves to replace themselves, and it was the same. So now, they are also generally afraid of war.

　　 In addition, during this period of time, it has been difficult to march and supply supplies. The soldiers can’t get enough food and sleep well. The reason why they can barely maintain morale depends on two factors: first, they have been winning, and they have not lost much in the battle; second, after defeating Paris, they will definitely be able to learn from Paris, which is said to be the most on the European continent. Sufficient returns are obtained in rich cities.

　　 But now, there are heavy losses on the battlefield, and the first factor does not work; and if you can't defeat the French army in front of you, you won't be able to break into Paris, so the second factor is dead. In this case, the army can still maintain the appearance of an army, which is pretty good. The Duke of Brunswick even suspected that if he forced the soldiers to continue the offensive, they might directly mutiny.

　　 But on the other hand, he couldn't continue to stand with the French. His logistical supplies have always been a big problem, first dragged down by heavy rain and mud, and then constantly harassed by various French volunteers. After being defeated on the battlefield, the intensity of these harassment naturally became greater, so that logistics supplies became more and more difficult.

　　 From a rational point of view, the best option for the coalition forces at this time is to retreat. However, militarily, retreating before the enemy is more difficult and dangerous than offensive. If you don't do it well, the retreat will become a retreat, and then it will become a collapse. A closer example is like the inexplicable failure of the French in Belgium not long ago; a farther example is like the battle of Feishui in the East. It's all a good example of retreating and then it's all over.

　　 So the Duke of Brunswick is also afraid to retreat. The Prussian and Austrian coalition forces suddenly fell into an extremely dangerous situation. It can even be said to be on the verge of destruction~www.novelmtl.com~ But the victorious Di Mourier also had his troubles. The victory of the defensive battle immediately ignited those people in Paris. Various demands urging him to quickly destroy the enemy continued to pass from Paris. It seems that he can really wipe out the Germans with just one order.

"Damn it! Those guys in Paris don't understand things!" Di Maurier couldn't help complaining to Joseph. "I have guys in my hands who don’t even walk in a neat line. They may be used for defense, but It is used for offensive operations, and it is an enemy whose attack force is not much less than ours. That is simply to die!"

　　 "Paris has been very restrained." Joseph replied, "They only sent requests and suggestions, not orders. This is not easy anymore."

"I know." said Du Mourier. "Some guys just want to make a fool of me. They worry... if Kano stopped them, they wouldn't know how many stupid things they would do! Well, Joseph, you are right now Any suggestions?"

Joseph is actually not incapable. He knows that for political reasons, what Paris needs most at this time is to see the invading army being driven out of France, and the Prussian and Austrian coalition forces are actually very hoping to retreat-it is completely inside. There is room for operation. However, this matter is politically incorrect. Why did Joseph tell Di Mourier?

　　 "General, I have nothing to do with this situation, because what we have to deal with this time is our government and parliament-they are much more difficult to deal with than the Austrians and Prussians." Joseph replied.

　　 "You are right, Joseph." Di Mourier frowned. "But I have to figure out a way."