The deputy commander of the fortress asked in surprise: "Are they all going?"
"No, of course not. Since everyone has taken a step forward, let's leave the ordinary people to defend the city. The remaining people rush with me!"
After that, Napoleon grabbed the flag directly from the flag bearer, carried it and walked out.
The troops were still stunned, because generally when attacking, they had to line up first, and then move towards the enemy with mechanical steps to the accompaniment of music.
Napoleon took a few steps by himself, looked back and saw that no one was moving, and cursed: "What are you doing standing around? The battlefield is just outside the city. It's all over with so many charges. How fast can the military musicians beat the fastest drums?"
Knock so fast! Follow me and open the city gate!"
After speaking, Napoleon turned around and ran away again. The other soldiers were still confused, but the military musicians had already acted according to the order and beat a very fast drumbeat.
Now the soldiers seemed to be activated, and followed Napoleon with howls.
**
Archduke Karl had the habit of getting up early, and because of this, his troops were able to organize a battle line.
The French army that suddenly appeared outside the city was completely unreasonable. Generally, when the troops arrived at their positions, they had to change their formations and wait in line for an hour before launching an attack.
As soon as the French troops arrived, they began to charge in a marching column.
The coalition forces, who were just waking up from their dreams, suddenly fell into chaos.
Fortunately, the number of French troops who charged at the beginning was not large, and the coalition forces who woke up finally managed to kill this group of Frenchmen back.
Unexpectedly, more French people showed up.
Then the French commander slapped his head and said, "I think the attack should be in horizontal lines." Then the French army began a head-shaking change of formation.
Archduke Karl watched the French army's formation changes throughout the whole process, his brows twisted into knots.
Is that called a change of formation?
Where is the formation? Where is the formation?
It looked like the French army was originally a mass, but it spread out and turned into a mass.
Only the width has increased.
Then the French army formed a formation that couldn't be called a formation at all, and rushed forward with a roar.
Moreover, they had no military music at all, so they couldn't even speak of a unified pace, and they just swarmed up.
Archduke Karl: "Damn it, why do they look like completely untrained troops?"
Because they really haven't been trained.
However, what Archduke Karl couldn't understand the most was that such a mob could actually overwhelm the Prussian army's front line to the point of crumbling.
The Prussians who were attacked had no time to form a formation, and many of them began to flee under the sudden impact.
However, the attacking mob became more and more courageous and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Prussian army.
This was the first time that Archduke Karl experienced personally what kind of monster the French army they were facing was.
It is completely inconsistent with all the military common sense that Archduke Karl learned in the military academy.
However, thanks to the resistance of the Prussian army, Archduke Karl's own troops had enough time to prepare. Now he has mobilized enough troops to form an array behind the Prussian army to prepare for the sudden appearance of the enemy.
At this moment, Archduke Karl suddenly heard shouts of death coming from behind him.
When he turned around, he saw a group of French troops emerging from the fortress!
The gate of the fortress was blocked by an independent triangular pyramid and was invisible to the attacking side, so Archduke Karl only saw the French troops pouring out of the corner of the triangular pyramid blocking the door.
This group of French troops also had no formation and rushed over in columns.
Archduke Karl made a decisive decision: "Turn the rear team back! Face the enemy!"
A staff officer asked: "What about the baggage train at the back?"
Carl: "Move aside!"
"Report to the general, it's too late! The French are coming!"
Karl: "What is coming? Isn't there still some distance?"
"What I didn't say is the back, it's the front!"
Karl turned his head and saw a group of French troops rushing towards the defeated Prussian army.
At this time, the Austrian soldiers looked frightened.
Sometimes, the power of a flanking attack does not lie in the number of casualties caused, but mainly in the huge psychological pressure it brings to the party being flanked.
Many times, the moment the soldiers realize that they are being flanked, the effect of the flanking attack has already occurred.
Archduke Karl made a prompt decision, drew his sword and shouted: "I am the younger brother of the Holy Roman Emperor, the third prince of Habsburg! I am with you! When the numbered regiments are counted, turn back! Others resist
Head-on enemy attack!"
Then Archduke Karl counted out a series of numbers loudly, obviously he had memorized which regiments in his battle formation were there.
His words did play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army, and half of the troops turned back to face the French army rushing towards the fortress.
The army facing the front faced the advancing French skirmishers.
The fierce hand-to-hand combat begins!
Archduke Karl galloped on the road between the two armies, shouting as he ran: "Hold on! The enemy is just a ragtag group of people who can't even move in line! And you can see clearly with your eyes wide open that our number is
Dominant!"
After shouting to the side of hand-to-hand combat, Karl turned to the French army who was about to face the fortress and shouted: "Attention to the rear troops, fire freely, use ferocious firepower to drive away the approaching French army! Turn around quickly with the cannon, use grapes
Greet them!"
In order to deal with the sudden appearance of the French army, Archduke Karl's artillery had just turned the cannons fixed in the fort for siege, and now they were desperately trying to turn the cannons back.
Archduke Karl: "Aim at the man holding the flag! Shoot! Shoot quickly!"
**
Napoleon held up the military flag and charged like the wind.
People kept falling down around him, but the bullets seemed to go around him without touching him at all.
As he rushed, he thought: "Sure enough, like Andy, I am a person blessed by God! Andy must have given his blessing to me! He is indeed the one who wants to create history! He is indeed Caesar!"
Thinking this way, Napoleon shouted: "For France! For Caesar!"
No one in the following big-headed soldiers thought there was anything wrong with the appearance of a Caesar. After all, some of the big-headed soldiers might not know who Caesar was.
Even if you shout for Voltaire at this time, they will probably follow suit.
Head soldier: "For France! For Caesar!"
The Austrians finally brought the cannon over and loaded it with grapeshot.
After the cannon fired, the people around Napoleon fell to pieces, but he was unhurt.
So he held the military flag and rushed towards the Austrian artillery, kicking down the gunner who was cleaning the barrel.
Then the French troops rushed up with a roar and sent the gunners away with a bayonet each.
The French army smashed the Austrian artillery like a tide against a castle on the beach.
Just as the French soldiers crossed the artillery position and rushed towards the enemy infantry array, Napoleon stopped next to the artillery.
He planted the military flag on the ground and shouted: "Come here a few people, follow me to turn the muzzle of the cannon and load grapeshot!"
Someone ran over and moved the cannon around in a hurry, and then someone picked up the brush to clean the barrel.
Napoleon pushed him away, took the brush and brushed the barrel of the gun himself, then picked up the gunpowder barrel and poured gunpowder into it.
"Quick, grapeshot!" Napoleon shouted, "Bring it over!"
The basket of grapeshot was brought over.
Napoleon himself stuffed steel balls into the barrel of the cannon one by one.
After filling it, he saw an Austrian military flag on the ground, so he picked it up and stuffed it inside.
"Get out of your way! Do you want to be shelled?" he roared at the French troops in hand-to-hand combat.
So the French army rolled and crawled out of the way.
He took the torch.
"This shot will make Shinra go to hell!"
He lit the cannon.
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