Napoleon climbed the mountain for a long time with his cavalry and artillery troops, and finally saw Mount Nikino in front of him, but he could not hear the sound of fighting at all.
Napoleon looked at the mountain with a telescope in confusion, and then found that there was no Davout on the mountain, only some troops cleaning the battlefield.
There was a medical clinic on the hillside. Napoleon was curious, so he asked the troops to continue advancing along the mountain road, and he rode up the hillside to the medical clinic.
There were wailings everywhere in the medical center.
But Napoleon soon discovered that there were not many wounded French soldiers here, they were all Austrian wounded soldiers in white clothes.
Suddenly, a high-pitched Italian curse came from the medical center: "What are you doing, you pig! Are you deliberately torturing me?"
Napoleon jumped off his horse, walked over curiously, and found an Austrian lieutenant colonel cursing and driving away the nurse who was washing his wounds.
The nurse looked troubled because she didn't understand Italian.
Napoleon spoke: "He is going to wash your wound with wine. Our General thinks it will be good for the wound."
The Austrian officer turned to look at Napoleon: "Corsicans? Huh? Corsicans have become French pigs!"
Napoleon's Italian had a strong Corsican accent, and northern Italians looked down upon Corsicans just as they looked down upon southern Italians.
There are rich people in Northern Italy, but they look down on their poor friends who also speak Italian.
Napoleon: "Let him wash your wounds..."
"I don't!" the Italian roared, "I have already suppurated, do you understand? Purulence means that everything is going in the right direction! I will have a fever soon, and then I will be fine!"
This is one of the many ignorant perceptions in this era. Because people in this era do not know the existence of microorganisms, they do not understand the mechanism of wound infection.
They believe that pus, edema and other phenomena caused by wound infection are evidence that the body is recovering, and the same is true for high fever caused by infection.
They may even use burnt ashes to smear the wound because the wound is too clean to prevent pus, causing the wound to become infected and suppurative, causing the person to have a fever.
Therefore, although the efficiency of bayonet and musket shooting in this era was very low, some very minor injuries, such as skin scratches by bayonet, were "serious injuries" that would cause combat casualties, and could easily lead to high fevers for many days.
In this case, if An Ning could rub penicillin on his hands, the survival rate of the wounded soldiers would be greatly improved immediately. But unfortunately, An Ning didn't know how to do this. He could only ask Lazar Cano to drink a lot of high-strength wine and forcefully order
Military doctors in the army wash wounds with alcohol to keep them clean.
Many doctors protested to him for this reason.
Apparently this Austrian officer of Italian origin also believed that washing wounds with strong liquor was the French army's abuse and torture of captured personnel.
Napoleon patiently persuaded him in Italian, but the other party not only disagreed, but his voice became louder and louder.
Finally, Napoleon got annoyed and slapped the other person on the face: "Fuck, yes, it's abuse! Accept it honestly!"
Although Napoleon was not tall, he was a professional soldier after all. His body was very well-trained and his arms were strong. This slap directly caused the opponent's head to twist.
"Damn it, my dad didn't even hit me!" the Italian roared.
Napoleon slapped him again.
The Italian finally fell silent.
Napoleon: "Wash his wounds! Everything will be as ordered by His Majesty the General!"
When the nurse did so, Napoleon looked around for the medical officer of the medical center: "Where is the military doctor! Where is the military doctor?"
The military doctor came out of the next tent, holding a saw in his bloody hand.
There was no way to treat infection in this era, but they finally realized that rotting wounds could kill people, so they often sawed off the limbs that were starting to rot.
Yes, the most important "treatment" method in field medical clinics in this era is amputation. Doctors may not necessarily know how to cure people, but they must be very good at sawing bones.
Doctor: "Who's looking for me?"
"I am Napoleon Bonaparte, where is Davout?"
Doctor: "Chasing the enemy in the direction of Montenotte. It seems that the order given by the General was for him to stick to the enemy, but when the order came, the enemy had already begun to escape, so Commander Davout led the troops to catch up.
Already."
Napoleon: "How many hours has he been gone?"
"Almost two hours."
Napoleon cursed, turned around, rushed out of the tent, got on his horse, and urged the horse to run down the hillside.
His troops were still advancing along the mountain road, and Napoleon urged loudly: "Speed up! Davout has been walking for two hours! We must catch up with him before he reaches Montenotte!"
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Davout was very anxious at this time because the enemy retreated too quickly.
He once wanted to go behind the enemy and intercept them, but there were too many mountains around, making it impossible to do so.
As for charging, Davout always felt that as long as his troops charged up and engaged in close combat, they would quickly defeat the enemy.
After the enemy flees, there is no way to completely encircle and annihilate the enemy and destroy their structures.
By this time, Davout could already see the town of Montenotte in the distance.
Davout cursed: "It seems that the expected goal of annihilating the enemy in an organic form cannot be fulfilled, military musicians, beat the charging drum!"
Military musician: "Understood, charging drum!"
Immediately afterwards, the urgent drum beat sounded.
When the musicians of each battalion heard that the commander had changed the drum sound, they immediately changed the drum sound. Upon hearing the drum sound, the non-commissioned officers gave orders one after another: "Everyone! Charge!"
Davout's troops rushed towards the enemy's troops along the river valley like blue waves.
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The Austrian division commander, Major General Argento, frowned: "No, this guy has been following us and shooting, and now he suddenly charges. There must be something fishy about this."
He turned his head and glanced at Montenotte, who was right behind him, and suddenly gasped: "Oh my God! That's it! Their goal is to capture Montenotte and then make our dumplings!"
"Blitzcrank!"
Soon a lieutenant colonel ran up to him: "General!"
"Lead the reserve group and charge back to the enemy in front!"
"Understood, General!" Blitz was about to turn around when Argento stopped him, "Take care, Lieutenant Colonel."
Blitz understood instantly and nodded: "Thank you, General, for giving me this honor!"
After saying that, he drew his sword and left in a hurry.
Argento continued to give the order: "Order the entire army to stop alternating cover, the front team changes to the back team, and run forward! Run as fast as you can!"
Immediately, the trumpeter blew the melody of changing formations. Although the Austrian army was panicked, they still completed the formation changes well-trained.
At this moment, shouts of kill came from behind the team, and the reserve team began to charge.
Argento: "Quick, retreat! Retreat past Montenotte!"
At this moment, a horn sounded from the west side of the battlefield.
The tricolor flag appears on the mountain road west of Montenotte.