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Alvinzi spent the next two days in shock.
The French army moved at a speed that simply exceeded all military common sense.
On the first day after the collapse of the Fourth Army, the French army appeared in front of the Third Army and launched an attack on the Third Army.
When he first received the battle report, Alvinzi thought it was the stragglers of the French army who had recently appeared everywhere like locusts. He just thought that the Third Army's assembly actions would be delayed a little.
Unexpectedly, one morning later, the Third Army sent an urgent report, saying that it was besieged by a huge number of French troops and could no longer support it.
"First Evolution"
Alvinzi hurriedly mobilized the troops who had gathered to prepare for a decisive battle with Frost in the direction of the Third Army. As a result, broken troops of the Third Army successively ran to his headquarters.
The Third Army has been defeated by the French army.
However, Alvinzi adjusted his plan overnight, believing that the French army would at least stop and reorganize after annihilating the Third Army, and would have to wait at least one day before continuing to maneuver on the battlefield.
As a result, at dawn the next day, a large French army appeared in front of his own team.
As a nearly seventy-year-old veteran, Alvinzi's military common sense has been deeply imprinted in his mind. Facing such a French army, he simply cannot understand it.
Alvinzi looked at the sudden appearance of the French army and murmured in front of everyone: "They actually... actually didn't hold a celebration banquet or repair after defeating the third army, and immediately attacked us overnight? How to do this?
Arrived?"
No one could answer Alvinzi.
Before Alvin could think of an answer, the French army began to take even more incredible actions: they launched an attack in columns!
Although Alvinzi was greatly shocked, he immediately organized artillery to bombard the French column.
The French army, which charged in column, immediately suffered heavy casualties.
Generally, a solid bullet that rolls to the ground will pass through the horizontal formation and kill six people. Because the horizontal formation has three rows, the shell can penetrate the horizontal formation and kill at most two people in one row.
If you want to kill three people in the same row with one solid bullet, it is physically impossible. After all, the diameter of the cannonball is only that much, and it can only scratch two people.
But when this kind of shell hits the column, the situation is completely different.
Based on Alvinzi's observation, a shell hitting the front of the column would take away at least ten French troops.
Sometimes it even happens that the cannonball passes through too many people and loses kinetic energy and falls to the ground.
Generally, there are only fifty people in a platoon. This is because the French army has a large number of people.
Losing one-fifth of the men at one time should logically collapse, but the French army did not.
The French army would have to take two cannons and kill twenty men before it collapsed.
Then the rest is a simple mathematical problem. The main force commanded by Alvinzi has a total of thirty artillery pieces. Even if every salvo fire is accurate, and it does not happen that three cannons hit the same column,
One volley destroyed 15 platoons.
There are now forty platoons of the French army attacking Alvinzi, and new platoons will continue to join the battlefield.
With a simple calculation, we know that the French army will definitely rush into the coalition's formation and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Alvinzi comforted himself: "You can still rely on the volleys of the infantry troops!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the firing began.
After the first round of gunfire passed, the French army fell completely. After all, the Austrians were fully trained and their shooting skills were good.
However, the French army's troops showed no reaction at all.
Alvinzi looked at everything in front of him with confusion, and finally realized what was going on.
When a column charge causes the front row to fall, the back row barely feels it.
In a normal three-row formation, once the front row is shot and falls, the people in the second and third rows will be affected to a certain extent and start to get scared.
But the column was more than three rows, and he had ten rows of people. As a result, the casualties in the first row greatly weakened the morale of the others!
Alvinzi: "Such an unreasonable thing actually happened..."
At this time, the Duke of Brunswick still maintained a very optimistic attitude. He said: "The French seem to have found a way to attack without caring about casualties, but grape bullets will disintegrate them!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the grapeshot fired.
The French column was bombarded from the front by grape bombs, and the front third of it suddenly fell.
The remaining people saw that something was not going well and immediately began to retreat.
However, the problem came back, there were too many French troops.
Even if one or two platoons were defeated, there would still be a huge number of French troops rushing towards the coalition forces!
Then, the most desperate thing happened.
Frost's flag appeared on the other side of the battlefield.
When the French soldiers who were crumbling saw the military flag, they immediately turned around and started walking back.
Alvinci looked at Frost's military flag in the distance, and his first thought was: "This is not an eagle flag. Didn't you see the eagle emblem?"
He quickly dismissed this idea and turned to ask Brunswick: "Is there any way to retreat from the enemy now? For example, let's use artillery to kill Frost with one shot?"
Brunswick gave a thumbs up, gestured to measure the distance, and shook his head: "Frost was very wise. He stopped outside the range of our artillery."
The range of cannons in this era is not that far. The range of cannons that can hit 1,200 meters is already increased by charging more. The normal range of cannons is within 1,000 meters.
With Frost's current distance, it would be conservatively estimated that it would take some time to use cavalry to behead the capital.
Alvinzi: "Didn't you say that Frost liked to charge in person? Why didn't he charge in person?"
The Duke of Brunswick shrugged.
**
Berthier: "Don't charge yourself anymore! If you are injured, even if you are knocked off your horse, the morale of our army will be affected!"
An Ning: "Okay, I won't rush, I won't rush anymore! Stop reading, my ears are calloused! Are you my mother?"
Fanny: "Let's drink wine."
An Ning sighed: "Okay, set the table and I'll have a drink. Once I sit down, the Chief of Staff won't worry about me rushing into battle myself, right?"
An Ning had a sudden thought, picked up the chair that Fanny had just put out, and handed it to Berthier: "Check to make sure it won't run away!"
With a straight face, Berthier really checked the stool to make sure it was a dead object, and then returned the stool to An Ning.
An Ning was speechless: "Are you really going to check it? I'm not a real magician, I won't let the chair run away by itself!"
Berthier: "It's hard to say. Now the enemy's soldiers seem to believe that you can summon the Roman legions."
An Ning smiled: "What the hell, do you really think that I am the reincarnation of Caesar? And then the Roman legions traveled through time and space to be loyal to me, right?"
Is it necessary to include a line of narration during the charge: Loyalty that never ends until death is the embodiment of Caesar's kingliness...
What Inskandar.
**
While An Ning was watching the vast French army swarming up on the battlefield to attack the main force of the Alvinci coalition, Commissioner Fouche got what he had just ordered from the local goldsmith.
He looked at this thing and was very satisfied: "Very good, very good!"
The imitation of the Roman eagle emblem reflected the firelight in the furnace.
Fouche: "The first batch of 100 eagle flags in total must be completed as soon as possible!"