On March 9, An Ning arrived in Ulm, which was still contested.
Napoleon had been waiting for him for a long time.
In the first sentence, An Ning said this: "I didn't expect that you didn't take down this city after two days of fighting."
Napoleon immediately showed an expression that was eating his clothes: "You don't know how disgusting they are. There are barricades every three steps in this city. The roads are full of traffic jams. Every step you take will cost you a lot of casualties!"
An Ning: "Barricade?"
"Yes, barricades. Even the Austrian army, which we have brutally beaten many times, has become brave behind the barricades. Although we can quickly defeat them as long as we rush up and fight them hand-to-hand, but a barricade
Behind is another barricade..."
An Ning waved her hand: "Take me to the forefront."
"Okay, let's go this way." Napoleon made an invitation gesture.
A moment later, Napoleon personally brought An Ning to the forefront of the battle between the French army and the Prussian-Austrian forces. They climbed up a barricade that had been captured, and then pointed to the Austrian barricades at the intersection ahead and said: "Look! There are barricades one after another.
, endlessly.”
An Ning took out his telescope and observed the enemy barricade for a while, then turned to look at the nearby buildings: "Where is this building? The enemy has not entered the building to defend it?"
"At the beginning, they entered some buildings, but after we adopted the tactic of setting fire to the buildings and the people inside to burn them into charcoal, they rarely entered ordinary buildings and only stayed in solid masonry buildings.
The city has now become an impenetrable fortress, and I have filled it with thousands of casualties."
An Ning put away the telescope, turned to Napoleon and said, "I never thought that you would be limited by your past thinking."
Napoleon frowned: "What do you mean?"
An Ning shook his head.
As a "experienced person", An Ning is of course very familiar with the mincing of modern cities like Stalingrad, so he understands the essential difference between the army of the Stalingrad era and the army of today.
In the era when Stalingrad happened, the army could be disbanded into small units with only a few people and still maintain the will to fight and the ability to act.
This is simply unimaginable for today's military.
Even the current French army cannot be reduced to a small force with only a few people and still maintain the will to fight and be able to perform tactical missions.
For the Prussian-Austrian coalition, as long as the number of soldiers is less than thirty, or the proportion of non-commissioned officers among the thirty soldiers falls to a certain level, the army will collapse.
Therefore, when the Prussian-Austrian coalition forces entered a house, they did not mean that a small team of several people entered a house to defend it, as in modern warfare, but they entered a company or even a battalion at a time.
In this era, it is normal for hundreds of people to guard a solid building, and there must be a considerable number of non-commissioned officers and officers among these hundreds of people. Otherwise, the most basic fighting will and morale cannot be maintained.
This is why barricades are so effective in this era.
Because the army has to maintain its scale and formation, it can only walk through streets, and these are relatively wide streets.
Real street fighting is something that can only be done by elite units such as skirmishers, leapers and hunters, and even for this type of unit, the proportion of officers cannot fall below a certain number.
After An Ning omitted the future part of the above content, he briefly explained it to Napoleon, and then asked Napoleon: "What is the biggest difference between our army and the old army?"
As a good student of An Ning, Napoleon immediately replied: "Our grassroots soldiers are citizen soldiers. They understand why they are fighting and have the desire to fight. They can maintain morale and fighting will even in skirmish formations."
An Ning nodded: "Yes, so we have to take advantage of this. That sergeant over there!"
The sergeant who was called by An Ning immediately stood at attention: "I am Sergeant Jean Boer, Your Excellency, Commander!"
"Take your platoon into the alley on the side, climb through the window and cross the building. I want you to climb up the wooden building next to the enemy barricade!"
The sergeant turned to look at the house that An Ning pointed to, then turned to his soldiers and said: "You all heard what the commander said! Follow me!"
So a platoon of people stood up and, led by the sergeant and two corporals, got into the alley next to the avenue.
The sound of broken glass could be heard in the alley, indicating that troops were climbing through the windows.
An Ning continued to order: "And you, Sergeant! What is your name?"
The staff sergeant who was called shouted: "My name is Pierre, sir!"
"Take your platoon, enter this alley, climb through the window - or climb over the wall, no matter what, take a detour to enter that house!"
An Ning ordered a new house: "When you get there, shoot at the barricade from top to bottom!"
An Ning issued orders one after another, and one after another, led by the sergeant, they dispersed into the alleyway.
After giving the order, An Ning turned to Napoleon and said: "Just watch, the barricade will be taken down by us smoothly! This is called a dimensionality reduction strike!"
Napoleon: "Dimensionality reduction?"
Good guy, Anning's translation system didn't translate this word directly. Maybe it really can't find a suitable word in this era.
It is estimated that if An Ning talks about scientific terms such as photons and protons, he will also end up like this, so he will have to pay attention to it in the future.
An Ning changed his mind: "It's like fighting between a tiger and a cat! It's so easy!"
**
Sergeant Bo'er led the troops, passed through several buildings, and entered the building pointed to by An Ning.
The locals on the first floor of the building were so frightened that they could not speak. The family huddled in the corner.
Sergeant: "Don't be afraid ma'am, we are here to liberate you."
A corporal below said in a poor tone: "Sergeant, they don't understand. This is the territory of Hesse. Only nobles can understand French. Ordinary people speak German."
The sergeant cursed: "Do you want you to tell me? Go to the second floor! Quick!"
The soldier who moved quickly had already reached the second floor first. He shouted back at the window: "Sergeant, look, they are all Austrian heads!"
The sergeant rushed up to the second floor in three steps. When he looked out, he saw that the Austrian barricade was directly below. The Austrian soldiers looked up when they heard someone speaking French above them.
The officers of the Austrian army were all confused. They had never seen such a situation and did not know what command to give.
The sergeant was overjoyed. He raised his gun and stretched it out. He randomly found an officer with a noble badge on his chest and pulled the trigger. As a result, because the paper ball that filled the gun with bullets and gunpowder was not stuffed securely, the bullet came out of the muzzle before firing.
He slipped out and even threw the gunpowder in the face of the Austrian army who was looking up below.
The soldier next to him was amused: "Sergeant, you didn't use a purge to tighten the gun! Hahaha, you won't dare to train us in the future, right?"
The sergeant gave the big soldier a blow with the butt of his rifle and cursed: "Idiot! Shoot down there! Quick, shoot!"
The soldiers were waking up from a dream, and they all put their heads down to fire. After one round, they retracted and loaded bullets.
At first, the sergeant urged them to load bullets, but suddenly he had an idea.
"Wait a minute!" After saying that, he picked up a bench on the ground and threw it out the window.
The bench immediately smashed the unlucky guy below to a bloody head.
"This is faster! Hurry up and throw something at them!"