King's Landing in France

Seeing Dawu's appearance, An Ning knew that he had gone through a bloody battle, and felt that Dawu was indeed a fierce general.

It's a pity that another member of the team, Rana, went to the night raid last night and hasn't come back yet.

If this is broken, it will be considered a victory today, and An Ning will not be able to sleep well tonight.

But now is not the time to think about such things, An Ning patted Davu on the shoulder: "You did a good job!"

"It was your good tactics that drove back the enemies on both wings! How long has it been!"

Davout had a loud voice, and everyone could hear his words clearly.

Immediately, the soldiers of the first brigade began to shout: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, is healthy and always victorious!"

An Ning gently waved: "The battle is not over yet! Keep preparing for the battle!"

Davout also turned his head and yelled to his subordinates: "You all heard it, take your positions! The battle is not over yet!"

They all watched the soldiers here reluctantly return to their duties.

An Ning rode to the highest point of the hill, took out the binoculars to observe the situation below.

The enemy's shelling did not stop, and from time to time shells roared and landed near Anning.

But the intense shooting just now happened on the back of the hillside, so there is not so much smoke in front of it, and the enemy who is retreating down the mountain can be seen more clearly, as well as the enemy's main formation at the bottom of the mountain.

Especially the enemy's main formation, Lafayette still has 2 people who have not participated in the battle and are resting at the foot of the mountain.

An Ning saw the officers on horseback rushing down the mountain, obviously gathering the retreating troops.

An Ning murmured, "It's a pity, the cavalry is restraining the enemy's cavalry, or they will rush down... Maybe the battle can end now."

Davout: "Yes, the enemy's next attack will definitely involve more troops, and that will be the real test."

As soon as the words fell, a shell landed not far away, splashing clods of earth as high as a person.

Neither An Ning nor Davout was moved.

At this time, someone galloped over from behind on horseback: "You two! I brought the artillery up again!"

An Ning turned her head and saw that it was Napoleon.

Davout spoke first: "You did a good job, Bonaparte, the last volley of cannonballs almost knocked people down."

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Napoleon: "Because of the well-selected terrain and this mobile artillery, the use of cavalry artillery will become a part of winning the battlefield in the future!"

After the words fell, the cavalry artillery unit deployed on the top of the mountain opened fire on the enemy down the mountain again.

An Ning: "Are there enough shells?"

"There are enough shells. I have prepared a sufficient number of shells in the second position I chose. Enough to give the enemy another look!" Napoleon said with a childlike smile, looking like a child having fun, "This In one battle, my artillery alone has killed hundreds or even thousands!"

An Ning suddenly remembered looking for the lame wounded soldier he saw on Davout Road.

Obviously they are all revolutionaries, but they want to hurt each other, fuck it.

Thinking of this, An Ning couldn't help resenting Lafayette and the gentlemen in Paris.

They must be made to pay the price!

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Lafayette looked at the retreating troops in disbelief.

"I can't believe it!" he yelled angrily, "Twice as many troops were deployed, yet they were defeated so easily! It took less than an hour to start the attack!"

Berthier looked very calm: "The enemy should have used the hillside. If we deploy our troops on the reverse slope, our artillery can hardly hit the enemy."

Lafayette: "Let our artillery push the cannon forward!"

Berthier showed embarrassment: "Our cannons are all heavy twelve-pound guns, which are difficult to push up. I suggest that we retreat first, retreat to a terrain suitable for our operations, and then seek a decisive battle..."

Lafayette said angrily: "No! The enemy has occupied the high ground. Once we start to retreat and the enemy suddenly rushes down the mountain in the chaos, it will be over.

"Even if we can successfully retreat! With 4 of us, we retreated in front of 5000. Morale will be destroyed! Tonight they will burn the camp again, and tomorrow morning we will all be bare commanders!

"

Lafayette thought for a while and gave an order: "Collect the retreating troops immediately and line up on both sides of the First Division. Let's attack again!"

At this moment, the officer in charge of observing the hill suddenly shouted: "The enemy has retreated from the hill!"

Lafayette hurriedly looked towards the top of the mountain, and sure enough, he saw that the military flag that had been flying on the top of the mountain began to retreat.

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An Ning looked at the vast number of enemies at the foot of the mountain, rubbed his chin and thought about countermeasures.

Suddenly, he asked Davout: "Does your army have alcohol?"

Davout: "My troops are not stragglers, and they are not accompanied by female bartenders carrying alcohol."

An Ning was speechless, then turned to Napoleon and said, "Your artillery team has gunpowder carts, right?"

Napoleon looked puzzled: "Take it, what's the matter?"

An Ning patted his thigh: "Get some carts of gunpowder and put them in the barn and mill!"

Napoleon nodded: "That's simple, I'll even out a few carts of gunpowder."

Dawu: "Are you going to abandon the mountain?"

An Ning: "That's right, the purpose of guarding here is to make the enemy stop here and fight us. Now this purpose has been achieved. Throw gunpowder in the mill and barn, and ignite it with lime bombs when the enemy comes up, BOOM!"

Napoleon: "We have special incendiary bombs, that point is faster."

An Ning: "Well said! I will leave the matter of lighting the fire to you! There is still gunpowder, hurry up and bring it here!"

Napoleon saluted An Ning: "Understood!"

Then he turned his horse's head and galloped away.

In a short while, the carriage carrying the gunpowder was driven over, the carriage was hidden in the barn and the mill, and the horse was ridden away by the groom.

An Ning: "Davout, retreat! Sing Roman hymns when retreating, you are the winners, show it!"

Dawu saluted: "Leave it to me!"

As he spoke, he turned and gave orders to the troops.

So the first brigade quickly withdrew from the original defensive position and formed a neat four-row column on the road.

The military flag leads the way first to the drumbeat of the military band, and then the large troops follow.

Davout walked beside the team, like an ordinary non-commissioned officer, and started as he walked: "Let's go, children of the motherland! A glorious day has come!

"In the face of tyranny, we have raised the flag of rebellion!

"They raise bloody banners, listen, in the wilderness of the motherland, brutal soldiers are roaring!

"They came to our homes and slaughtered our children!

"Arm up, free citizens!

"Go on, go on!

"Use their dirty blood to irrigate our fields!"

An Ning watched the first brigade singing the battle song retreat, and Davout would take them behind the four brigades now deployed as the general reserve for the entire battle.

Now, only Napoleon's cavalry artillery unit remained on the hill. Although the gunners evened out a few carts of gunpowder, they were still shooting desperately and were not affected at all.

Napoleon rode to An Ning's side: "Go down, I will command the cavalry artillery, don't worry."

An Ning glanced at the infantry guns abandoned by Davout and his troops, and said, "You divide the infantry guns into a few people, and when the enemy comes up, they will run away on horseback."

"Understood, I will do it myself."

Napoleon rode away again as he spoke, and rode back with several gunners after a while.

They dismounted beside the rifles and began to load them.

Napoleon took aim himself and ignited the fuse.

The cannon roared.

An Ning listened to the sound of the cannon right next to his ear, and observed the impact point with the binoculars. He saw the shells from the infantry artillery fall in the bushes below the mountain, breaking a bush.

An Ning observed Lafayette's formation again, and found that the officers on horseback were gathering remnants at a very high efficiency, spreading out on the two wings of Lafayette's main force.

An Ning cursed.

He also wanted to have such an efficient and experienced officer corps.

It's a pity that the officers of his army are all non-commissioned officers promoted by the common people, and they can't be so efficient for the time being. Once the troops are dispersed, there will be no chance to gather them together.

An Ning once again realized how difficult the battle she was facing was.

However, he had already repelled an enemy attack, and his side had almost no losses except for Davout's first brigade.

The 8000 people ambushing on the back slope are basically full.

The defeat of an enemy force of 2 men with such small losses is enough to call it a brilliant victory.

It's just that An Ning can't just win this game, he has to win both games, otherwise he will have to spit out what he just won.

At this time, the sound of the trumpet came from the foot of the mountain.

Then the enemy troops at the foot of the mountain began to advance.

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Lafayette: "Attack with the whole army! No matter what medicine the enemy sells in the gourd, as long as there are enough troops, the enemy can be overwhelmed! Advance!"

Berthier immediately whispered a few words to the trumpeter, and then the trumpeters played together the melody of the march of the whole army.

The military band of the First Division immediately began to play music, and the troops of the First Division, which had just been repaired on the spot, began to advance to the beat of drums.

The rout soldiers who had just finished gathering, on the two wings of the first division, were a step behind before advancing together.

Cannonballs from the top of the mountain fell around the advancing queue, but these shells were relatively small in poundage, and they could only knock down a few people when they hit the team.

Only the guns in the center, under the beech, were twelve-pound guns, and the shells scraped through the ranks could take away seven or eight.

But this is also the maximum damage that solid bullets can cause at this distance.

Naturally, the battle-tested troops will not be shaken by this level of damage.

However, the entire First Division didn't sleep much last night, and now they want to be exhausted.

For a moment, Lafayette doubted whether he could win with such a tired force.

But he immediately dispelled this doubt: He must win today, and he has more than three times the force advantage. If he can't win this, the name of the hero of the War of Independence will be finished.

If this battle is lost, the whole of France will no longer recognize him as a hero, and Andy Frost, the cobbler, will become the most outstanding military strategist in all of France!

This is absolutely not allowed!

Lafayette must win today!

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An Ning was observing the effect of the shelling on the mountain. Suddenly, he noticed something and asked Napoleon who was working the cannon himself: "Where's your quicklime bomb? Why didn't I see you use it?"

Napoleon: "The hit rate of that kind of shell is too bad. It often explodes in the air and then sprinkles on the open ground where there is no one. I trust live ammunition more than quicklime bombs."

An Ning pouted.Artillery in this era had a bad hit rate. Things like quicklime bombs and blooming bombs had to be ignited before firing. It was impossible to say when they would explode, so the hit rate was even worse.

No wonder Napoleon didn't trust these things.

In the case of solid bouncing bullets, in fact, the hit is not bad in the face of the enemy brigade advancing in horizontal rows.

Until the use of trigger detonators in the shells, flower and lime shells did not have a satisfactory hit rate.

An Ning remembered that in "Total War Empire", this was already a very late artillery technology.

An Ning thought that he should find a way to find a scientist and click on artillery technology.

—Wait, I remember that Lavoisier, the father of chemistry, is still alive.

Just as An Ning was thinking about this, Lazar Kano came on horseback: "Your Excellency! Get down quickly! The enemy is attacking again, this place is too dangerous! We need you to sit at the headquarters!"

Just as An Ning was about to answer, an enemy shell hit the artillery barracks a few meters away from An Ning, and hit the wicker basket full of stones directly, causing the wicker in the basket to collapse, and the stones flew out, injuring several artillerymen. .

An Ning also got a shot on the forehead, but he has a special physique, so the stone made Duang's voice.