Napoleon Bonaparte commanded the cavalry and artillery troops and was advancing with La Harpe's right wing. He suddenly noticed the situation on the Diego Heights in front of him and stopped to take out his telescope to observe.
After a moment he burst out laughing: "Hahaha! Andy used lime bombs! He lengthened the fuses of the lime bombs and used them as landmines!"
He put down the telescope and sighed: "I have always thought that lime bombs are useless rubbish. Now it seems that as long as they are used in the correct way, there are no rubbish props."
At this time Napoleon's adjutant asked: "Should we also bring some lime bombs in the future?"
"No, no, that kind of thing is useless. Look at the enemies on the mountain. Didn't they rush straight through the lime smoke scattering area with strong determination?"
On the hillside, the Austrian army was passing through the lime area. After all, this concentration of quicklime dust would only burn the eyes if not inhaled.
Lime bombs are now a very common weapon, and armies from all countries have received training to deal with them.
Just close your breath and eyes and quickly pass through the lime area.
After all, the density of stone dust exploded by lime bombs is not high, and its lethality to humans is a bit weak.
But being unable to kill or injure people does not mean that the formation will not be broken. In fact, the Austrian troops that passed Shichen had to stop to reorganize themselves and wipe their faces with something at the same time.
This already has a pretty good hysteresis effect.
But Napoleon was obviously not satisfied with this. He said to his deputy: "What we want to pursue is to completely kill the enemy! Unless the lime bomb is so effective that it can cause all the enemy's skin to be burned, eroded, and necrotic! Otherwise, I will never use lime.
bomb."
As he spoke, he turned around and shouted to the cavalry behind him: "Go forward! Occupy the enemy's flank position!"
At this time, Napoleon was in a very dangerous position. He was on the right wing of La Harpe's division, which was also the far right wing of the entire French army's line.
He took a fancy to a protruding part and planned to mount the cannon here to directly bombard the enemy's line from the side.
"This is the method of bayonet warfare with artillery!" Napoleon said proudly, "This is the evaluation given to me by your Excellency the General after the last battle! How can we let him down! Forward, artillery team!"
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Laharpe looked at Napoleon's maneuvers from the side. He originally thought that Napoleon's troops were simply for reinforcements, so he ordered Napoleon to deploy artillery on the front artillery position.
Unexpectedly, Napoleon didn't listen to him at all, and ran directly to the extreme flank of the entire front with his cavalry artillery.
That position was actually very dangerous. Not to mention the enemy's cavalry, if the enemy's infantry separated into a group to attack, they might even capture Napoleon's artillery team.
Laharp: "Advance the whole army! Press the enemy's space and don't let them have time to threaten our artillery! That's the general's red man. We can't afford anything to happen to him!"
In fact, the Laharp Division has an advantage in terms of strength, and can quickly defeat the enemy by pressing forward and closing in with concentrated fire.
It's just that he doesn't really want to leave the current bunker zone.
After all, there is a road between the two armies, and whoever advances into the open area will suffer the consequences.
Laharp likes to use a sure way to win the victory that is sure to come, and does not want his troops to suffer too many casualties.
Who knew that all of His Excellency the General's celebrities were so crazy?
So he could only push forward.
**
On An Ning's side, when he saw Laharp pushing across the road, he was so excited that he took a big sip of wine: "Okay!"
He turned to ask Berthier: "If Laharpe is to detach part of his troops, lie across the road, and advance to the high ground, will his troops be insufficient to deal with the enemy in front of him?"
Berthier: "No problem, Lahalpe's troops should have an advantage, and removing a regiment should not weaken his frontal advantage."
An Ning snapped her fingers: "Okay! That's it! You draft the order!"
Berthier immediately wrote quickly.
At this time, the lookout loudly reported: "General! The first frontal line has been breached!"
An Ning immediately turned the telescope.
Because he used all his artillery to fire lime bombs on the hillside to delay the enemy's follow-up troops, the frontal troops lost the support of artillery and it was only a matter of time before they were broken through.
There are several similar front lines, all built on existing complex terrain such as low walls and fences.
Many people who retreated from the first front stopped directly when they reached the second front and joined on the spot.
Therefore, such a stepped front actually becomes thicker as we fight, and the enemy needs more powerful troops to break through them.
Most of the enemy's troops were delayed by the quicklime clouds on the hillside. After passing through the quicklime clouds, they had to regroup, which wasted a lot of time.
An Ning's artillery continued to bombard the mountain. Those lime bombs had fragments when they exploded, which was equivalent to exploding grenades.
It just took a while for the fuse to burn, giving the Austrians a chance to run away.
Once a shell falls in the middle of the enemy's formation, you can see the group of people fleeing in all directions.
Sometimes there would be bold officers who had the courage to go up and cut off the leads with their sabers.
An Ning saw all this, and he became a little anxious.
He originally thought that the clouds and mist produced by the lime bombs could completely block the enemy's follow-up troops, but who knew that the concentration of lime was too low.
If you think about it carefully, a projectile can only hold so much quicklime, so it will naturally become very thin when it explodes into such a big lump.
Moreover, lime bombs are not a new weapon. European armies have already seen many of them.
Damn it, that is to say, I am a rookie time traveler. If I were the kind of awesome time traveler who can rub all kinds of things with his hands, I would definitely rub a white phosphorus bomb with my hands, and then let the military of this era know what terror is.
An Ning thought again of watching World War II blockbusters, in which US military officers would shout "cease fire, let them burn" when the German soldiers who had been hit by white phosphorous bombs ran out burning.
Unfortunately, quicklime is far from white phosphorus, so it can only delay the enemy.
An Ning looked at the first line of defense that was broken through, and saw that after the defenders on the front collapsed, the female soldiers were still maintaining their structure to harass the enemy troops on the flanks.
Lime bombs, female skirmishers, and all the available tricks were used. If it didn't work, I had to draw my saber and charge with the Afterglow Knights.
I'm afraid there is no way to win this battle relying on our own frontal battle.
Davout!
An Ning turned his gaze to the left flank of the entire battlefield and looked at Davout's troops deployed along the Bomeda River.
Davout's troops have been moving and expanding just now, and now he should be about to launch an attack!
As long as Davout attacks, everything will be fine!
While An Ning was thinking this, Master Dawu's artillery opened fire.
Davout's opponent was the four Austrian brigades deployed on the east bank of the Bomida River.
In terms of military strength, Davout does not have the advantage.
But An Ning fully trusted Davout.
After all, that was Davout!
If this battle is not won, An Ning will have to review his strategy of trusting too much in the so-called famous generals' combat effectiveness.
An Ning paid attention to Davout's side and used binoculars to watch his troops begin to advance.
The Austrian troops deployed across the river began to fire, and the white smoke even blocked the waves of the Bomida River.
At this time, Berthier suddenly spoke to remind An Ning: "General! Look at the right wing!"
An Ning quickly turned around, thinking that Laharp's troops had collapsed, but when he turned around, he saw that the brigade on the far right of the enemy's line - which was the far left for the enemy - actually began to collapse!
An Ning: "What the hell?"
He quickly raised his telescope to see what was going on, and saw Napoleon himself lighting a cavalry cannon, and the cannonballs sprayed from the muzzle swept through the enemy's lines like a wind of death.
When An Ning saw this scene, the expression on the old man's phone in the subway was: What the hell? I half-jokingly said before that when he fought Lafayette, Napoleon's method of attack was to mount a cannon with a bayonet. He was so damn energetic.
?
Napoleon, turned into a man charging with cannon?
**
"Quickly reload!" Napoleon looked very proud, "Quickly! Let's fire another shot, or the infantry will rush up and block the artillery line!"
When the artillery was loading desperately, he turned to his deputy and said: "See! The power of artillery lies in the grape bullets. If your grape bullets do not destroy the enemy's line, it means you are not close enough! The meaning of mobile artillery is
The key is to get close enough to exert the power of grape bullets and shoot at close range!"
Just as the deputy was about to reply, he was shot in the ear.
He screamed and fell to the ground.
Napoleon didn't care and waved his hand: "Carry him down! Wash his ears with alcohol! Fill them up for me!"
A small group of Austrian troops, led by a sergeant, rushed toward Napoleon's artillery unit, which was outside the line, with strange shouts.
Napoleon himself turned the muzzle of the gun to aim at the Austrian army, and then fired the breech block.
With a loud noise, this group of brave Austrian soldiers fell down.
Napoleon: "Reload quickly!"
At this time, the infantry of Laharp Division rushed up with a roar.
Napoleon cursed: "Damn it! Get out of the way! Bastard! I can still kill another wave!"
But no one paid any attention to him. When the soldiers charged, they were very enthusiastic under the influence of adrenaline and could not listen to anything.
Napoleon cursed, stepped away from the cannon, found a higher place to stand on, and began to observe the battlefield.
Then he immediately found a place where he could continue to excel.
"Quick! Put the artillery carts away quickly! Let's go support the center! It looks like the center also needs a wave of flanking fire! Hurry!"
A warrant officer reported: "If the horses are dead, they won't be able to pull as many cannons!"
Napoleon: "Damn it, things are always so bad with horses! Then throw away a cannon and recycle it after it's shot! Use the remaining horses to load up the remaining artillery carriages and move quickly. Soldiers are faster!"
As he spoke, the short captain got on his horse and shouted: "Herald!"
Immediately a messenger came: "Captain!"
"Go and tell Laharp that I'm going to maneuver to the frontal battlefield. I'll rely on him here!"