King's Landing in France

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So he rushed towards the Austrian artillery with a flag, and kicked down the gunner who was cleaning the barrel.

Then the French army rushed up screaming and sent the gunners away, one by one with a bayonet.

The French smashed the Austrian artillery like a tide against a castle on the beach.

At the same time that the French soldiers crossed the artillery positions and rushed towards the enemy infantry formation, Napoleon stopped beside the cannon.

He planted the military flag on the ground and shouted: "Come here, some people, follow me to turn the muzzle of the cannon around and load grape shells!"

Someone ran over, turned the cannon over in a hurry, and then someone picked up the brush for cleaning the barrel.

Napoleon pushed him away, took a brush and brushed the barrel of the gun himself, and then picked up the powder barrel and poured gunpowder into it.

"Quick, grapeshot!" cried Napoleon, "bring it here!"

Baskets of grapeshot were brought over.

Napoleon himself stuffed steel balls into the barrel one by one.

When he was done, he saw an Austrian flag on the ground, picked it up, and stuffed it in.

"Get out of your way! Do you want to be shot?" he yelled at the French army in hand-to-hand combat.

So the French army scrambled and crawled out of the way.

He took the torch.

"This cannon, let Shinra go to hell!"

He lit the cannon.

Chapter 263 Long Live General Napoleon

Grapeshots swept across the Austrian formation.

Napoleon found himself loving the feeling of his enemies falling in pieces.

"Load!" Napoleon shouted, loading the cannon himself.

The main reason is that the artillery of the defense force of the fortress is all on the fortress, and Napoleon brings out all infantry. These people have not practiced loading and are not as familiar as Napoleon.

But now, no one can express any opinion on the dignified commander actually filling the shells himself. The infantry has all rushed up and fought with the Austrians.

After Napoleon finished loading, he looked up and found that he was nowhere to be found, and all his people were mixed with the Austrian army.

He should be lucky to be able to fire that shot just now.

"Mother Xipi!" Napoleon cursed in Corsican dialect, pulled up the flag next to the cannon that had just been planted, and rushed towards the crowd in the melee.

The soldiers who had just been operating the cannon with him followed closely behind him.

A panicked Austrian army charged at Napoleon, only to be kicked down.

"Your foot is not stable!" Napoleon was very excited, and he stabbed the fallen Austrian army with the tail of the flagpole in his hand.

Napoleon: "Fight them head-to-head! For France! Damn, why are they so strong? Normally, they should retreat at this time!"

Napoleon's impression of hand-to-hand combat is different from that of other European generals. Others have the impression that the moment the bayonet sees red, the winner is usually determined, and there is no real knife and gun in hand-to-hand combat for a few 10 minutes.

Napoleon's impression was that if the French army rushes up to fight for 10 minutes, the enemy should be defeated. If the French army is the defender, it should last longer, but generally the battle will end within 10 minutes.

This is the case in Italy. The French army generally fights hand-to-hand for more than a dozen or 10 minutes before the enemy collapses. The French army defends the enemy and generally lasts for three to four 10 minutes.

At this moment, Napoleon suddenly heard the horn sounding from the Austrian army, which should be the horn of the charge.

He was startled, as if he was experiencing something incredible: "Not only did the Austrian army not retreat, but they dared to attack our army?"

The Attack, as if the Austrian army was about to suffocate, gave it a big breath of air.

Encouraged by the charge, the already declining Austrian army continued to fight hand-to-hand with the French army.

Napoleon saw a tall, lanky general riding through the melee, slashing and shouting.

Napoleon rushed to the general with the French flag.

The general also saw Napoleon, he immediately turned his horse's head and came galloping!

Napoleon thought to himself: This is how things should be. When the stalemate was stalemate, I cut down the enemy's generals and became the last straw that overwhelmed the situation!

Like the heroes of every song!

Napoleon let go of his legs and ran wildly, facing the charging horse.

At this time, a gap suddenly appeared in the hazy sky, and a beam of skylight came down.

The skylight fell just between Napoleon and the general, like a follow spotlight in a drama.

It seemed that someone in the sky was watching the battle, and then marked the stage with this beam of skylight.

The Austrian general riding his horse shouted: "It is Karl Ludwig Johann Lorenz who will kill you! Austrian general, Duke of Cieschen, third brother of the emperor!"

Napoleon also shouted: "Napoleon Bonaparte, I am from Corsica!"

It's not that he doesn't want to talk about a dicky title, like "Lord Frost's best friend and student, contemporary follower of Caesar" or something, but there's no time.

In an instant, Napoleon fell to his knees, and at the same time thrust the long flagpole into the chest of the oncoming horse.

Because the power of the impact was too great, the flagpole broke all of a sudden.

The horse, unable to stop its forward momentum, rolled forward and fell sideways after hitting its head on the ground.

The knight's saber has also been swung out, no matter how you look at it, it should be an ending for both sides——

However, at this time, a key factor played a decisive role.

Napoleon was shorter.

The saber passed across his forehead.

Archduke Karl fell off his horse and grabbed the ground with his head.

Napoleon threw away the broken flagpole, switched the long knife he was holding to his right hand, and rushed to the fallen Austrian general.

Then he found that there was no need to fight, and the fallen Austrian general had passed out.

Napoleon tore off the ribbon on his body - this ribbon is the proof of the royal family.

He put the ribbon on the point of the knife and held it high.

"Austrians, your general is dead!"

However, no one noticed on the chaotic battlefield, so Napoleon pulled over the French army who had just stabbed the bayonet into the chest of the Austrians: "Come on, I am your commander, shout with me: Austrians, your general died in battle." Already!"

The soldier then shouted.

Then more and more French troops began to shout.

The Austrian stopped in astonishment and looked at this side.

Napoleon finally realized a key problem: the Austrian nobles understand French, but the big soldiers don't!

The big soldier is very confused now.

Just at this moment, Napoleon saw a fallen Austrian officer who seemed to be still alive, so he pulled him up: "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, so he immediately showed a desperate expression and said "your general is dead" in German.

Napoleon immediately parroted: "Austrians, your general is dead!"

The surrounding French also shouted: "Your general is dead!"

After a while, the entire French army, no matter whether they were from the fortress or came to help, shouted: "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, like a wind-up toy that had finally run out of spring, all stopped.

Napoleon was happy when he suddenly heard a noise around him, and turned around to see the fallen Austrian general getting up.

He hurriedly punched Carl in the face.

Poor Archduke Karl has fallen again.

Napoleon's face was crooked, because the punch just now was too hard and hit the joints of his hands.

The biggest injury to Napoleon Bonaparte by the Austrians in the whole battle came from the face of their commander, 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.

Excited soldiers rushed to Napoleon, lifted him up, and threw him high into the sky.

Someone shouted: "Long live the Colonel!"

"What colonel, long live the general!"

"Long live the General!"

"Long live General Napoleon Bonaparte!"

Chapter 264 Archduke Karl Receives Enlightenment

While cleaning the battlefield, Napoleon saw Archduke Karl who had woken up.

Then Archduke Karl touched his nose.

Napoleon: "Don't worry, your nose is not broken."

Carl: "You really are not from aristocratic background, and you don't pay attention to etiquette at all."

Napoleon: "Then you are wrong, I am a nobleman registered with the Civil Service Bureau."

"Oh is it? Where is the territory?"

Napoleon hesitated, because he was a nobleman who had been communicated with the French king, and his father was just a man who helped the French king manage a garden on the island of Corsica.

In desperation, Napoleon blew directly: "Corsica is all my territory!"

"You are the Duke of Corsica?"

Napoleon adhered to the belief that as long as I am not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed, nodded and said: "Yes, the Duke of Corsica, you are a Duke, and I am a Duke, neither of us should look down on the other."

Carl: "I'm still the emperor's third brother."

"I am a student of Frost," Napoleon added after a pause, "the most proud one!"

Karl seemed to be remembering something, and suddenly he realized: "You are that Corsican follower of the cobbler..."

Napoleon: "Bastard! Call His Excellency General Frost!"

Napoleon was going to give Karl a slap, but in the end he held back.

Carl: "I don't mean to offend, but the nobles around me call it that, I'm used to it. Sorry."

Napoleon: "You don't know how great your Excellency General Frost is! Think back to how you seem to be defeated. Do you know that as early as 1784, Your Excellency the General foresaw how great the national army would be after the rise of the nation-state? Terrible fighting power!"

Carl frowned: "1784?"

"Yes, at the Brienne Military Academy, Frost told me at that time that the entire European army is now the private soldiers of the nobles. The soldiers don't want to fight, so they have to be restrained in a dense formation and Noble officers surrounded the soldiers before they could charge under fire.

"But nation-states are different. Soldiers fight for their nation and their motherland. Every soldier is full of desire to fight."

Grand Duke Karl showed an enlightened expression: "A nation-state... everyone is full of desire to fight... that's why you can use skirmishers to attack!"

Napoleon: "Right! Of course we are forced to do this, because our troops can't walk in line at all. It's better to charge as skirmishers."

Archduke Karl looked thoughtful.

Napoleon saw that he was lost in thought, so he didn't bother him, but turned his head and explained the matter to his chief of staff.

After a while, Napoleon continued to look at Archduke Karl after explaining the matter, and found that he was also freed from contemplation.

Carl: "So, Frost foresaw the present situation as early as 1784?"

"That's right, he also told me that the Republic will explode with astonishing fighting power. Is he right? You have already experienced it yourself."

Karl nodded: "Yes, I have felt it. Before we got news from the French nobles who defected to Austria, we thought it was just a bunch of mobs, but we didn't expect another mystery."

Napoleon showed a disdainful expression: "Huh, those nobles who defected are really shameful. They do such things, and they have the nerve to say something noble. How can such a person be noble?"

"Don't say that, the nobles only need to be responsible to the superior feudal lords. You have forced the biggest lord king to abdicate, and they naturally have no obligation to stay in France."

"This is the most ridiculous thing!" Napoleon pointed to Carl's nose. "Oh, sorry, I just point at it out of habit. When I argue with Andy, I will point at each other like this."