Grape bullets swept across the Austrian formation.
Napoleon found that he loved the feeling of enemies falling in droves.
"Load!" Napoleon shouted as he loaded the cannon himself.
The main reason is that all the artillery of the fortress defense force is now on the fortress, and all Napoleon brought out are infantry. These people have not practiced loading and are not as familiar as Napoleon.
However, no one could comment on the fact that the dignified commander was loading the shells himself. The infantry had already rushed forward and fought with the Austrians.
After Napoleon finished loading, he looked up and found that he had hit nowhere and all his men were mixed with the Austrian army.
He must be lucky to have fired that shot just now.
"Nian Xipi!" Napoleon cursed in Corsican dialect, pulled up the flag that had just been placed next to the cannon, and rushed towards the melee crowd.
Several soldiers who had just been operating the cannon with him followed closely behind him.
A panicked Austrian soldier rushed towards Napoleon and was kicked down.
"You are not stable!" Napoleon was very excited and stabbed the fallen Austrian army with the tail of the flagpole in his hand.
Napoleon: "Fight hand-to-hand with them! For France! Damn it, why are they so strong? Normally they should have retreated at this time!"
Napoleon's impression of hand-to-hand combat was different from that of other European generals. Other people's impressions were that the winner could be decided the moment the bayonet saw red, and there was no hand-to-hand combat with real swords and guns that lasted for dozens of minutes.
Napoleon's impression was that if the French army charged forward and fought for twenty minutes, the enemy would be defeated. If the French army was on the defensive, it should last longer, but the battle would usually end within forty minutes.
This is the case in Italy. When the French army attacks, the enemy usually collapses after more than ten or twenty minutes of hand-to-hand combat. The French army can usually defend the enemy for three to forty minutes.
At this moment, Napoleon suddenly heard a horn sounding from the Austrian army, which should be the horn of charge.
He was shocked, as if he was experiencing something incredible: "Not only did the Austrian army not retreat, but they dared to attack our army?"
This attack number seemed to give the Austrian army a big breath of air just when it was about to suffocate.
Encouraged by the charge, the Austrian army, which was already in decline, continued to fight hand-to-hand with the French army.
Napoleon saw a tall and thin general riding a horse through the melee, slashing and shouting something.
Napoleon held the French flag and rushed towards the general.
The general also saw Napoleon, and he immediately turned his horse's head and galloped over!
Napoleon thought to himself: This is how things should be. When the stalemate reached a stalemate, I chopped down the enemy general and became the last straw to overwhelm the situation!
Just like the heroes in various ballads!
Napoleon let go of his legs and ran wildly to meet the charging horse.
At this time, a gap in the hazy sky suddenly appeared, and a beam of skylight shone down.
The skylight fell just between Napoleon and the general, like a spotlight in a drama.
It was as if someone in the sky was watching this battle and marked the stage with this beam of skylight.
The Austrian general galloping on horseback shouted: "The one who will kill you is Carl Ludwig Johann Lorenz! The Austrian general, Duke of Cieschen, the third brother of the emperor!"
Napoleon also shouted: "Napoleon Bonaparte, I am from Corsica!"
It's not that he didn't want to use a longer and more provocative title, such as "Lord Frost's best friend and student, contemporary Caesar's follower", but there was no time.
At the moment of the collision, Napoleon knelt down and at the same time inserted the long flagpole into the chest of the colliding horse.
Because the impact was so powerful, the flagpole suddenly broke.
Unable to stop its forward momentum, the horse rolled forward, hit its head on the ground, and then fell sideways.
The knight's saber has also been swung. No matter how you look at it, it should be a lose-lose ending——
However, at this time, a key factor played a decisive role.
Napoleon was shorter.
The saber grazed his forehead.
Archduke Karl fell off his horse and grabbed the ground with his head.
Napoleon threw away the broken flagpole, changed the long swords he held on his left and right hands to his right hand, and rushed towards the Austrian general who fell to the ground.
Then he found that there was no need to fight anymore, and the fallen Austrian general had passed out.
Napoleon ripped off the ribbon from his body - the ribbon was proof of his royal status.
He put the ribbon on the tip of the knife and held it high.
"Austrians, your general has died in battle!"
However, no one noticed the chaotic battlefield, so Napoleon pulled the French soldier beside him who had just stabbed the bayonet into the chest of the Austrian: "Come, I am your commander, shout with me: Austrian, your general is fighting
Dead!"
The soldier then shouted.
Then more and more French troops began to shout.
The Austrian stopped in surprise and looked here.
Napoleon finally realized a key problem: the Austrian nobles knew French, but the soldiers did not!
The big head soldier is very confused now.
At this time, Napoleon saw an Austrian officer who had fallen to the ground and seemed to be still alive, so he grabbed him up and said, "Let me ask you, how do you say 'Austrians, your general is dead' in German?"
The Austrian spat on Napoleon's face, and then saw the ribbon on Napoleon's sword. He instantly showed a despairing expression and said "Your general is dead" in German.
Napoleon immediately parroted: "Austrians, your general is dead!"
The French people around also shouted: "Your general is dead!"
After a while, all the French troops, regardless of whether they were from the fortress or came to help, were shouting: "Your general is dead!"
Because German and French belong to different language families, the French pronunciation is weird, but it is enough for people to understand what it means.
The fighting stopped in an instant, the French were shouting, and the Austrians all stopped like clockwork toys that had finally run out of spring.
Napoleon was happy when he suddenly heard a noise around him. He turned around and saw the Austrian general who had fallen on the ground getting up.
He quickly punched Karl in the face.
Poor Archduke Karl fell again.
Napoleon's face was distorted because the punch just now was too hard and hit the joint of his hand.
The biggest casualty the Austrians inflicted on Napoleon Bonaparte in the entire battle came from the face of their commander-in-chief, Archduke Karl!
At this time, the Austrians dropped their guns one after another and raised their hands high.
The French army burst into overwhelming cheers.
The excited soldiers rushed to Napoleon, lifted him up, and threw him high into the sky.