King's Landing in France

The confidant saluted, turned around and mounted his horse, took a torch and galloped along the road.

Argento shouted at his back: "Be careful when riding at night! Don't fall!"

"Don't worry!" The reply came from afar.

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An Ning wasn't worried about Davout's progress at all. After all, he sent Davout and Napoleon, both fierce men. No matter how you think, the Austrian division commander named Argento can't beat these two together.

As a result, Dawu's letter came just after nightfall.

Napoleon didn't catch up with the battle, and led the artillery team on the way. Davout scared the enemy away as soon as he came up. Although he tried hard to stick to the enemy, he was finally retreated to Montenotte by the enemy.

Lahalpe was exhausted from running, and in the end only had time to block half of Argento's men.

After reading Dawu's letter, An Ning directly changed into the expression of the old man on the subway.

How could this be so? With a strong army and a brave general, the two things that can bring victory are superimposed, which should bring double victory...

Why is this happening?

But after reading the letter, Berthier seemed to think differently from An Ning. He said happily: "It is a great victory to boast that half of the enemy's troops have been wiped out. The enemy's Argento division has lost its combat effectiveness. Sent by Marshal Beaulieu to guard the rear."

Obviously Berthier is the general view of this era, and defeating half of a division is already a very huge victory.

But An Ning came from later generations. When he said "big victory" in his era, he would think of the siege of Kiev, and think of "No matter how you say the battle force is 80 vs. 60, I have the advantage"...

In An Ning's view, capturing three thousand alive is too childish.

An Ning took the letter from Berthier and read it carefully.

Davout wrote at the end of the letter, "I am going to chase the enemy all night and try to defeat the remaining enemies in Diego." So An Ning asked Berthier: "Is this all right? Wouldn't many people be left behind by marching at night?"

Berthier: "If you don't light a torch, that's true."

An Ning fell silent.

He suddenly realized that his previous understanding of the night march had gone wrong.

When An Ning read the history of the war before crossing, he preconceived that the French army marched all day and all night. It was the same as a certain army later, marching in the dark, so at that time he lamented that it was indeed an army that had experienced revolution. March at night.

Many of Napoleon's victories in Italy were actually won by forced marches and night marches.The Austrian army on the opposite side rarely marched at night.

When he fought Lafayette before, he organized a night attack with so much effort and so much loss. At that time, he explained to himself that after all, the law revolution had just begun, and the invincible citizen army had not yet been formed.

Now that Berthier said a word, An Ning discovered his blind spot: Night raids cannot be lit with torches, so it is a smear march and fight in the dark, but if you are just traveling at night, you can light torches!

This is not the night raid of the army of later generations at all!

Dry, misled by modern concepts!

An Ning: "Great, then I'll just wait for news from Davu."

So An Ning took a shower and was about to go to sleep, but not long after she lay down, someone shouted outside: "Report, an urgent message from Master Dawu!"

An Ning sat up and said, "Bring it in!"

After a while, a messenger limped in: "Your Excellency, General!"

An Ning hurried forward to support him: "What's wrong?"

"The horse slipped on the road and fell down. The horse fell to death, and I was also injured. If I hadn't met our army's logistics team, I might have been in trouble." The orderly smiled bitterly, and then handed a note to An Ning, " Your Excellency, the news is all right, all right!"

An Ning: "You have worked hard, go and rest. Let the doctor show you your legs..."

After speaking, An Ning suddenly hesitated. Doctors in this era are quack doctors. They might amputate the poor man's leg in the end.

So An Ning changed her mind: "You go to my groom, he will wash your wound with strong wine, believe me, it is more reliable than a doctor!"

The messenger smiled and said, "Why don't you give me some strong wine."

"You can drink too. Go on down."

After speaking, An Ning turned his attention to the note in his hand.

Davout wrote very briefly: "There are a large number of campfires near Diego. It is presumed that they are the main force of Beaulieu. I am sending the troops who have been fighting for a day to go to the camp to rest and prepare for tomorrow's decisive battle."

An Ning slapped her thigh vigorously: "Okay! I've found Beaulieu's main force position! Fanny!"

Fanny immediately opened the door and came in: "I am here."

"I want to change clothes, and wake up Berthier and the staff, we move to the front line overnight."

It's not that An Ning doesn't trust Davout's ability, but mainly because he wants to be present in this kind of battle.

After all, it was the main battle!How can it be done without watching!

Chapter 165 The Overly Cautious Davu Hit the Right Way

An Ning took Berthier, La Salle, and a group of hussars and rushed to Diego overnight.

Speaking of the name Diego, An Ning always reminds An Ning of a certain famous star Diego Maradona, and the famous slogan that Argentina played when Maradona died: Don't cry for me, Argentina.

Then he remembered the video of the British-Ama Island war released by Little John Khan, because that video started with Maradona's hand of God and ended with Maradona's farewell words.

After completing this mind-wandering cycle, An Ning thought of the process of Diego's first battle in history.

Because the time is a bit long, and Diego's battle is not an important battle, it's just that Massena defeated an Austrian division.

Compared with the battle of Diego, An Ning was more impressed by what happened after the fight: after Massena took down Diego, because all the troops were so hungry that their eyes turned green, and the military salary had not been paid for a long time, so he acquiesced. Army looting in Ciudad Diego.

He also ran to Diego City to find a beautiful girl to wrestle with.

As a result, the Austrian veteran Vuksevich marched and attacked overnight, and Massena was caught off guard. When the Austrian army attacked, Massena fled in his pajamas, and managed to escape.

Because of this incident, An Ning had the impression of Massena as a very capable bandit.

When he saw Massena during the day today, he was surprised that the impression was completely inconsistent.

Fortunately, it was time for another decisive battle in Diego. An Ning only remembered that Massena ran away naked, but did not remember how he took down the city of Diego.

This is how to do ah.

Do you really have to rely on the experience you have gained in the Total War series of games?

How about I hand over the command to Davout and watch the play by myself?

But there was a problem with Davout.

Massena was able to lead the Battle of Diego because Massena himself was the commander of the avant-garde army of Napoleon's Italian Army, so he could command two divisions without any problem.

Davout is now only a division commander, at the same level as Lahalp, and probably cannot command Lahalp.

It is a little bit reluctant to let only one division of Davout fight against the main force of the Austrian army.

While thinking about this, An Ning trotted the horse in the mountains, because it was dark, An Ning did not dare to let the horse run too fast.

He himself is not afraid of falling, but if the horse breaks, it would be a waste of time to change horses halfway.

A group of people hurried on their way in the night.

Most of the personnel responsible for the supply transfer along the way were asleep. After the sentry found out that the person who came was An Ning, they subconsciously wanted to call the general long live, but An Ning stopped them.

Around one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, An Ning arrived at Montenotte on the way.

On the ramp in front of Montenotte City, An Ning saw a large number of corpses that had not yet been contained.

His horse also stepped on the wounded soldier, and the scream of the wounded soldier woke up the sleeping French soldiers in the nearby tent.

The soldiers rushed out of the tent and shouted, "Who is it?"

An Ning: "It's me, General Frost!"

The soldiers gathered around and brought the torches closer to An Ning, probably because these soldiers lacked vitamins and couldn't see clearly at night. They almost put the torches on An Ning's face, and then they confirmed that this was "Your Excellency the General".

"Your Mightiness!"

"Don't shout long live!" An Ning said immediately after gaining experience.

The soldiers all shut up.

An Ning: "Go and wake up Lahalp!"

Immediately a non-commissioned officer ran away.

A moment later, the sleepy Lahalp ran over in his pajamas: "Your Excellency, why are you here?"

"Don't you know that Davout met the main force of the Austrian army?"

"I know, but he wrote back and said, don't worry, so I'm going to take a break first and then go to Diego tomorrow. Tomorrow... I mean, if I leave at dawn today, I can probably reach Diego by noon."

An Ning: "Call your troops now, don't sleep, and rush to Diego immediately."

Rahalp: "The troops marched a long distance today and are very tired..."

An Ning interrupted Lahalp's words: "The military situation is urgent, can you afford to delay the fighter plane? Call out all the troops!"

Lahalp: "Yes, I will call out the troops. But it will take some time to assemble the troops and prepare the torches. It will take about an hour to start."

An Ning pondered for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I'll go to the front line first, you set off in an hour, and force the march to catch up! Soldiers are expensive, do you understand quickly!"

"Yes!"

Lahalp saluted, turned around and ran to the camp, and ordered to his subordinates: "Quickly, call out the whole army! Blow the rallying call!"

An Ning: "Let's go, continue to Diego."

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When An Ning arrived in Diego, it was already around three o'clock in the morning.

An Ning was immediately led outside Davout's tent, only to find that Davout was wearing a neat military uniform, concentrating on studying something at the map at the table.

An Ning: "You didn't sleep?"

Davout raised his head, and in the process of raising his head, his head reflected the firelight in the tent.

Davout: "Your Excellency, General! How did you come to the front line?"

An Ning: "The battle is coming, of course I want to go to the front to see. Where's Napoleon?"

"He drove all day with the cannon and I put him to sleep."

An Ning nodded, and asked again, "What are you researching?"

Davout: "I was thinking, why did the enemy put the battlefield here? What's the point of their main force being here?"

An Ning: "The meaning?"

Davout: "Yes, there are mountains around here. To be honest, it is not suitable for a decisive battle with a large army. It is very difficult to deploy an army of 1. Marshal Beaulieu of the Austrians piled up so many troops behind Diego. What are you going to do?

"He should disperse his troops in several directions and look for opportunities to break through from several directions."

An Ning: "You mean he should divide his troops?"

"Yes, the terrain around Diego is relatively open, and tens of thousands of troops can be placed there, but there are not many such open areas nearby. When I was fighting with the Argento Division, there was no way to spread out because of the terrain. The army took advantage of its strength to eat him.

"That's why Beaulieu has so many troops here, and they can only fight one by one."

An Ning rubbed her chin and looked at the map: "You really have a point in saying that."

It feels a lot like the Mount and Blade series. The game console limits the number of troops that can appear at the same time, so you can only play in waves one after another, and after a wave is dead, you can spawn a wave of reinforcements.

Thinking about it this way, it was indeed unreasonable for Beaulieu to place so many troops in Diego.

Davout continued: "So I have an idea, is it possible that the enemy's main force is not here at all, but they just deliberately lit so many campfires to make us think there is a main force here?"

An Ning: "You told me that there is a main force here!"

"I did think so when I saw the campfire at first, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was wrong. But my troops also fought for a day and were very tired, and I didn't have any cavalry. If there were cavalry, I could let the cavalry ride Get close to those campfires with a torch on your horse, if it's a fake campfire, the enemy probably doesn't have enough strength to defend..."

An Ning: "That's easy, I brought La Salle and his cavalry, let him go find out the truth!"

As soon as he finished speaking, La Salle, who was taking care of the horse, opened the curtain of the tent and rushed in, saying loudly, "General! Come and see!"

An Ning frowned: "What's wrong?"

He asked as he strode out of the tent.

Napoleon and Berthier, who did not know when they got up outside the tent, stood by the campfire, looking into the distance.

An Ning looked in the same direction suspiciously, only to see a long queue of torches appearing on the mountain road east of Diego.

An Ning patted Davout on the shoulder: "Now Beaulieu's main force is here."