King's Landing in France

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The Prussian officer corps played its due role!

But at this moment, Frost's military flag appeared on the hill.

The first Prussian soldier who saw the flag shouted in horror: "It's Frost! The Roman legion is coming!"

Kruger: "There is no Roman Legion! Use your brains, how can there really be a Roman Legion?"

As soon as the words fell, the staff officer shouted in horror: "General, look behind us!

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Kroger turned his head and saw a French hussar appearing behind him.

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"Blacksmith" drew out his saber: "Although we don't know what happened, we just happened to come! Everyone lined up in a wall formation!"

The cavalry quickly lined up in two rows like a city wall.

The distance between the two horsemen was so close that they were knee to knee.

Michel Neyon: "Cavalry company, advance!"

A brigade of cavalry sweeps across the land like a storm.

The Prussian army collapsed.

Chapter 273 The disintegration of the monarchy begins with their army

An Ning was greatly surprised by the appearance of this cavalry unit.

The French army is currently very short of cavalry—mainly horses. Most of the horse farmers in the countryside are nobles. Many horse farmers have a good relationship with the nobles, so many of them are now directly rebelling against the royal party.

The current cavalry of the French army are all former cavalry units that tended to be republican and then joined the National Guard. The newly formed cavalry units are basically zero, and the existing cavalry units are also non-renewable resources. If a horse dies, one horse will be lost.

The problem of lack of cavalry in the French Revolutionary Army was not alleviated to a certain extent until around 1795. At that time, the Jacobins adopted a policy of terror and cleared the obstacles to the implementation of reform policies such as land distribution. The economy also began to recover. Most of the rebellions in the countryside Calm down, the supply of horses begins.

Of course, this is the historical situation. Now, because of An Ning's intervention, the horse problem of the revolutionary army has been alleviated to a certain extent. The main south is relatively stable, and Milan, Italy, can be raised from Italy.

While thinking about this, An Ning watched the cavalry who came out of nowhere and launched a brave back charge.

The Prussians collapsed directly, and the cavalry began to chase the scattered Prussian army all over the mountains and plains.

An Ning's infantry also seemed unwilling to admit defeat. They wanted to compete with the cavalry to capture prisoners, and they were also chasing the enemy all over the mountains and plains.

When the whole scene was in chaos, An Ning saw two cavalrymen running towards him against the flow of the enemy chasing them.

The cavalry at the head looked like an officer, and the cavalry running behind held a flag.

It should be the brigade flag of this cavalry unit.

The two knights came before An Ning, and the leading officer saluted him: "I salute you, Your Excellency General Frost!"

An Ning returned the salute: "I salute you. May I ask who you are?"

Officer: "My name is Michel Neyon, acting commander of this hussar regiment."

An Ning was overjoyed when he heard the name, and felt the pleasure of winning the SSR in a single draw. If there was a chat group or something at this time, he would definitely post a screenshot of Nei Yin's expression in the group: "Mengxin won this in the single draw, how are you?" use it?"

An Ning: "Oh, it's Major Neyin..."

"Uh, I'm just a captain. According to the order of the Ministry of War, I'm acting as the head of the regiment to command everyone. I haven't been promoted to the rank yet."

An Ning: "Captain Neyin, you have done a very good job. In order to reward you for your military exploits today, you are now a major. I will ask the Ministry of War to issue an official document."

Nei Yin saluted.

An Ning continued to give instructions: "Although your brigade has just experienced battle, there is no time for you to rest. I order you to immediately assemble your brigade and head towards Verdun to search for the enemy's scout cavalry. Completely block the enemy's reconnaissance. "

Nei Yin: "I'll do it right away."

After speaking, he turned the horse's head, kicked the horse's belly, and the war horse let go of its hooves and galloped.

An Ning turned his head and gave Berthier an order: "Tell the troops to stop chasing the defeated enemies, rest on the spot, eat dry food, and fill up the kettle. Today we will continue to march."

Berthier: "Do you want to continue marching?"

"Yes, anyway, we don't have time to set up a camp. Instead of letting the soldiers sleep in the wild, it's better to march."

Berthier: "Actually, we have occupied the camp that the enemy has not had time to withdraw. We can take a nap in it and take a nap to recover our strength."

An Ning thought for a while, and felt that as the saying goes, sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood, and it is not a bad thing to seize the time to restore the physical fitness of the troops.

So he changed the order: "Five hours on the spot, and continue to set off after five hours. We must be fast! Before the enemy reacts, quickly attack the scattered enemies!"

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It was late at night that the Allied Command had a full picture of what had happened: Frost rushed up with a group of French troops.

Alvinzi: "We should immediately mobilize our troops to completely defeat Frost on the frontal battlefield. Now the morale of the French army is so high, it is purely because of Frost's personal reputation. And he is also doing bad things to our army. Due to the influence of ordinary soldiers, he became more and more legendary. We must defeat him once to completely dispel his myth."

Duke of Brunswick: "I agree. Frost has just defeated the Fourth Army, and judging from the way he used the column attack, it is likely that he is trying to avoid the shortcomings of his own troops' lack of training.

"Next, he should camp at the position of the Fourth Army, restore the organization that was completely messed up due to the melee, and clean up the battlefield by the way. It is estimated that we will mobilize the army one day."

Alvin Qi: "We estimate the number of Frost's troops to be between 10 and [-]. In one day, we can gather about [-] troops and deploy them at this location."

Alvinzi gestured on the map.

He seemed to be full of confidence: "We then dispatched the troops that surrounded the Verdun Fortress as a reserve team. These reserve teams should join the battlefield a little later. If the decisive battle is scheduled for two days later, the reserve team will fight Join the battle that afternoon.

"It's just when the final battle has come to an end, whoever puts the last remaining battalion into the battlefield will win!"

Brunswick nodded: "It's a very reasonable plan. Let the staff start working on the map. Our troops are highly trained and professional. They should be mobilized faster than the French army!"

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An Ning: "The key to action is to be fast! Run as fast as possible before the enemy reacts! So we don't have time to restore the chaotic troops to normal. Let everyone join the troops nearby and obey the command of an unknown officer.

"Anyway, everyone is a revolutionary army, fighting for a common goal. We are not afraid of chaos, and the common belief of fighting for the revolution and the motherland will connect the whole army together!

"The previous cumbersome camping and withdrawal process can also be omitted, and these can be handed over to a special logistics team. The troops don't need to be responsible for camping. They just lie on the ground and rest when they are tired. I believe that their high patriotic enthusiasm can make them overcome this kind of situation. Small difficulty!"

A big reason why the Kingdom's army needs to camp is to let the soldiers sleep in the wild, and maybe a bunch of them will run there overnight.

After all, the army is essentially forced to work by the nobles, not to fight for themselves.

Berthier: "Too contrary to common sense."

"Admit the reality, the times have changed, and the old common sense cannot be used to measure the current French army, my chief of staff."

An Ning paused, and looked at the other officers. Now the brigade commanders of the entire army are gathered at his command post.

"Everyone, this war is a war between a new type of army and an old army. This new army will have completely new characteristics and cannot be measured by the standards of the old army. I boldly predict that they will exceed everyone's expectations. You know. It won’t be long before European countries will have to learn from our military reforms. During the process of military reforms, the ideas of the Great Revolution will be passively exported to other countries!

"The disintegration of the monarchy begins with their army!"

Chapter 274 Eagle Emblem

Alvinzi spent the next two days in shock.

The French army moved with a speed that simply surpassed 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 that had appeared everywhere like locusts recently, but he just thought that the assembly of the third army would be delayed a bit.

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.

Alvin Qi hastily mobilized the troops that had gathered for a decisive battle with Frost to the direction of the Third Army. As a result, the defeated troops of the Third Army ran to his headquarters one after another.

The Third Army had been routed by the French.

However, Alvinzi adjusted the plan overnight, thinking 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 team.

As a veteran of nearly seventy years old, Alvinzi's military common sense has been deeply imprinted in his mind, and he simply cannot understand facing such a French army.

Alvinzi looked at the French army that suddenly appeared, and murmured in front of everyone: "They...they didn't hold a celebration banquet after defeating the third army, didn't repair it, and immediately rushed to attack us overnight? How can this be done? Arrived?"

No one could answer Alvinzi.

Before Alvinzi could think of the answer, the French army started an even more unimaginable action: they launched an attack in columns!

Although Alvinzi was greatly shocked, he immediately organized artillery to bombard the French column.

The French army charging in columns immediately suffered heavy casualties.

Generally, the solid bullets that roll to the ground pass through the horizontal formation, killing six people to death, because the horizontal formation has three rows, and the shells penetrate at most one row of the horizontal formation and kill two people.

If you want to kill three people in the same row with one solid bullet, you can't do it physically. After all, the diameter of the shell is only so much, and it can hit two people at most.

But the situation is completely different when such shells enter the column.

According to Alvinzi's observation, a shell that hit the front of the column took away at least ten French troops.

Sometimes it even happens that the shell passes through too many people and loses its kinetic energy and falls to the ground.

Generally, there are only 50 people in a platoon of columns. This is because the French army has a large number of adults.

Losing one-fifth of the people at one time should have collapsed logically, but the French army did not.

The French army would have to take two shots and kill [-] people before it collapsed.

Then the rest is a simple mathematical problem. The main force commanded by Alvinzi has a total of 15 artillery pieces. One volley fires every shot accurately, and there is no such thing as three artillery pieces hitting the same column. A salvo will also disintegrate [-] platoons.

And now there are as many as forty platoons that the French army is attacking Alvinzi, and new platoons will continue to join the battlefield in the future.

As long as you do a simple calculation, you know that the French army will definitely rush into the formation of the coalition forces for hand-to-hand combat.

Alvinzi comforted himself: "You can still rely on the volleys of the infantry!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the firing began.

The first round of guns passed, and the French army fell.After all, the Austrians have been fully trained and their shooting skills are still good.

However, the French army did not respond at all.

Alvinzi looked at everything in front of him suspiciously, and finally, he realized what was going on.

When the column charge caused the front row to fall, the rear row basically didn't feel it.

Once the normal three-row horizontal team is shot down in the front row, the people in the second and third rows will be affected to a certain extent and start to be afraid.

But the column was more than three rows, he had a full ten rows, and the result was that the casualties in the first row greatly weakened the morale blow to the others!

Alvinzi: "Such an unreasonable thing actually happened..."

At this time, the Duke of Brunswick was still quite optimistic. He said: "The French seem to have found an offensive method that doesn't care about casualties, but grape bullets will disintegrate them!"

As soon as the voice fell, the grape bomb opened fire.

The front third of the French column, which was bombarded head-on by grape bombs, fell down at once.

The rest of the people saw that something was wrong, and immediately started to back away.

But the problem came back, too many French troops.

Even if one or two platoons are disintegrated, there are still many French troops rushing towards the coalition forces!

Then, the most desperate thing happened.

Frost's flag appeared on the other side of the battlefield.

The French soldiers who had been scattered, saw the military flag, and immediately turned around and started walking back.

Alvin Qi looked at Frost's military flag in the distance, and the first thought he had was: "This is not the eagle flag, did you see the eagle emblem?"

He hurriedly waved away this thought, turned his head and asked Brunswick: "Is there any way to retreat from the enemy now? For example, let's use the artillery to try to destroy Frost with one shot?"

Brunswick gave a thumbs up, gestured to measure the distance, and shook his head: "Frost is very wise, he stopped outside the range of our artillery."

The range of cannons in this era is not that far. It is already an extra charge to be able to hit 1200 meters. The range of normal cannons is within 1000 meters.

For the current distance of Frost, it is conservatively estimated that it will take some time to run the cavalry to kill the capital.

Alvin Qi: "Didn't you say that Frost likes to charge himself? Why doesn't he charge himself?"

The Duke of Brunswick shrugged.

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Berthier: "Don't charge yourself anymore! If you are injured, even if you are just knocked off your horse, the morale of our army will be hit!"