Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

On April 11, the Russian army once again ushered in a break. On this day, Suvorov issued an order on personal hygiene. The Russian soldiers went to the river collectively to "baptize" like when Kievan Rus converted to Orthodox Christianity. Likewise, seeing that the water quality in this area was pretty good, we went down to the river to take a collective bath to keep it clean.

However, to keep the officers tidy and clean, they still prefer to find places like public bathrooms where they can take turns cleaning.

After all, Italy has a tradition of bathing in public baths since ancient times, so it is very convenient to find a bathhouse.

But Solovyov likes to have a single room with a bathtub. But he lives opposite Suvorov's headquarters and lives with Arkady and two young people, so there is no problem. .

"Why did you come to live with me? Aren't you going to stay with Alexander Vasilyevich?"

"He is my father, but for him to recognize me, in addition to admitting that I am his son, he also has to show it, and he cannot always let others say: 'Look, that is Marshal Suvorov's son.'"

"With such a father, you are under a lot of pressure, right?"

Arkady sighed, dried his body with a towel, and went to change clothes.

"I'm not like my cousin who specially changed his army and came here. I don't want to join the army, but with my father here, I can only take this path! The emperor wants me to come over, but it's not Like you, Misha, you came here voluntarily."

Perhaps these tsars were somewhat obsessed with collecting famous generals and were willing to train their sons. Of course, Rumyantsev's sons were all civil servants, which the empress did not expect.

When he came to Tsar Paul, he had this problem. Who made Kamensky's two sons older and already serving in the army?

Arkady's appearance is different from that of his thin and withered father. He is quite handsome. Of course, his face shape still looks a bit like the marshal himself, and his appearance is closer to that of his sister "Suvorochka".

Therefore, he was still very popular in the court. Because Solovyov was going out to fight and the position was vacant, he was asked to fill it. It was also those maids who, although they were all best friends with Elena, gave her Being a model is really exhausting.

But Paul did not want Arkady to be a servant, so he sent him to the military camp. Because of his young age, Suvorov did not assign him many tasks, mainly to help in the headquarters.

The accompanying officers who are a few years older have already gone to combat units, and Solovyov himself will lead the Chasseur Company to the Moscow Grenadier Regiment this time to march with them.

General Rosenberg welcomed his arrival, but the team of chasseurs was well-equipped, but he held them in his hands like a treasure and would never put them in the front.

During several river crossings, the general also asked Solovyov's troops, in order to prevent the paper-packed bombs and primers from getting wet, the Jaegers, who are known for their maneuverability, actually had to control the bridge or set up a pontoon before starting. Cross the bridge.

Although this was hard to understand, he could only accept it. When he came to the front line, he still had to listen to the commander.

On April 12th, the Moscow Regiment had just begun to make some moves, and came face to face with the French army. Both sides were using artillery to harass the other side. After a few hours, they did not cause many casualties, and each side also slowed down the other side's attack. action.

This was also the first time that the Chasseur Company joined the battle. It is said that the Guards Chasseur Battalion and the Ismailov Guards Regiment would arrive in the army later. They had been forming with the Guards in Petersburg. At that time, he would also be subordinate to Grand Duke Constantine.

Naming it after the commander does not rely on the tradition of any country's military, and some old regiments with traditions sound awkward.

Even Solovyov, who only followed the regiment for a short period of time, was still willing to be referred to by the old name.

Paul's military reforms, new guns, new cannons, new coats, new boots, these are all good, even if they are called this habit, I am really not used to it even after changing it.

Even when giving orders, when Suvorov talks now, he still talks to the commanders, following the old habit.

On the other hand, Austria's chief of staff, Verroser, is used to this. After all, the Austrian army, regardless of whether it is a temporarily formed column or division, always takes the name of the commander. What the two sides do is to make a positive out of a negative.

The efficiency of Weerosser's plan was indeed improved after Suvorov emphasized "concise wording", and it was easier for the Austrian army to figure out its intentions.

Soon an order came from the headquarters, requiring Rosenberg to command the troops at the front, to control several bridges controlled by the French army, and to dispatch troops to repair them if the French army destroyed them.

Rosenberg asked Colonel Pasek to send a grenadier battalion there, but he was not very lucky. When they reached the river, the French had already "crossed the river and burned the bridge" and fled.

"Damn, these French guys run really fast."

Pasek arrived at the bridge on horseback and began to urge the grenadiers to repair the bridge. In addition, he sent two companies of chasseurs to guard the bridge.

Solovyov's company was sent out to be on guard because their guns were very accurate at long range. If French skirmishers came back for a sneak attack, they could be suppressed in the trenches and on the top floor of the farm.

These hunters are more "dispersed" than the hunters of our regiment, and they can still play a role.

In fact, if they really wanted to fight, this company could be dispersed and used as a sniper company. There were not many rifles that were more accurate than their guns. By the way, after they arrived in Italy, they actually found some things to make Molotov cocktails.

If Rosenberg hadn't left his company behind to protect it, they might have started reconnaissance activities in the front.

It's just that paper shell bullets are afraid of water, even more than grenades.

The Austrian engineers following the grenadiers prepared wood and put it on the broken bridge first, and the infantry column always had to go first.

It should also be noted that the bridge was so dilapidated that if the artillery vehicles passed over it, they were worried that it would collapse and fall into the river.

It would be better to build two pontoon bridges next to it. At least Werosser didn't lose his mind. He marked all the locations where pontoon bridges needed to be built on the road and sent scouts to supervise the engineers.

Some people won't be able to achieve his business ability even after 150 years. In fact, they have to learn a little, and this is not the top staff business of this era.

After the grenadier battalion of the Russian vanguard crossed the river, they quickly assembled and moved forward to the village of Palazzolo at night. The harassment they encountered before and the French movement reported by local villagers showed that the enemy came from this direction.

But they still came up empty-handed. Rosenberg wanted to launch an attack in the early morning this time, but there was not a single French soldier in the village.

After calling out a few villagers from the cellar, they learned that the French light cavalry had fled to Arcole overnight after dismantling the bridge last night, which could be said to be a safe transfer.

Rosenberg quickly sent someone back to report this information to Suvorov.

"This Scherer ran like a hare. We couldn't catch him, but we couldn't let the French destroy the bridge in Arcole. They are good at sabotage!"

The Austrian army fought with the French army several times, but they were reluctant to destroy the bridge and took the initiative to choose a battle. As a result, they were defeated by the French. This is not surprising. If they had destroyed the traffic lines more in the battle in 1796, they would not have been defeated so quickly.

"Marshal, I think this has something to do with the French approach. They occupied Italy and established a bunch of republics, but they still wanted to control the region and gain control of local fiscal revenue. Our Emperor Franz was worried that the French would sabotage it before. Now it seems that their destruction of the transportation lines has greatly slowed down our march. After we came out of Verona, we were still very fast to Brescia. Now we are marching to Arcole, but the roads along the way have been destroyed."

"The French want to slow down and buy time for the arrival of reinforcements. It doesn't matter. You can't run fast on an empty stomach. If they really get reinforcements from various battlefields, it's probably too late!"

Scherer's main choice is to run away. He consumed more than 10,000 soldiers in two battles, and the reinforcements in the rear could not keep up. Now the coalition forces need to catch his legion, and the secondary thing is to continue to march.

But Scherer's running skill is really a long-distance runner. Suvorov tried to catch him in the movement several times and then launched a battle, but failed.

Although some French soldiers who had fallen behind were captured, the main force could not be caught.

He moved so fast that the coalition forces could not catch him.

General Scherer, who was preparing to retreat to Milan, was quite pleased with himself. He said that our corps was moving safely and smoothly along the way.

He also wanted to send Moreau to guard the bridge in Arcole. If things went wrong, he would destroy the bridge again to delay the Russian army that was chasing him quickly.

His idea was indeed good, but he was so drunk that day that he was bleeding.

Rosenberg's Grenadiers had already caught up with them, just on the other side of the river, but because they were hiding behind the bushes, they were not discovered by the French outposts.

Therefore, he mistakenly thought that the Russian army could not catch up this time, so he followed the road to Bergamo.

But he didn't know that another battalion and two companies of hunters of the Grenadiers behind them, accompanied by a group of Cossack cavalry, had come up.

Colonel Pasek led the team himself. This time, he wanted the hunters to act first and sneak into Bergamo to keep the enemies here before it gets dark.

During the day, Scherer was still thankful that he had retreated safely along the way. So far, except for the soldiers who fell behind and the surprise attack on Brescia, there was not much loss. Gathering the troops here was also for his further retreat. Based on the principle of "a friend dies before a poor man dies", he wanted to lead the main force to continue to retreat to Milan and Turin, and pull the entire French marching column westward, and simply run to Nice, so that he could feel at ease.

However, his choice of this garrison was a bit problematic. He did not notice that the Russian Cossacks came quickly, and the infantry also came quickly.

Even when he was intercepted by a team of grenadiers wearing bishop hats on the road to retreat from Bergamo, he realized that something was wrong.

The Cossacks and the "in-laws" were now charging from the front. These line infantry had not found any battles along the way, and now that they had encountered the French, they launched a direct assault, since the French had no defenses.

The battalion and company commanders had also received orders not to shout "Ura" even if they were within 10 steps, to avoid alerting the enemy.

However, when they were on the battlefield, there were always people who would do this, but they also gave their superiors face. They only shouted "Ura" with their bayonets pointed when they were within 10 steps of the city.

To be honest, if they had sneaked in, it might not have been so dramatic.

The Russians did not fire a single shot. After loading their guns, they rushed in with their bayonets pointed, catching Scherer off guard and causing great chaos.

The French soldiers who stayed in the city saw that it was too late to run, so some soldiers fought hand-to-hand combat at the intersections, using these narrow streets and alleys.

But they found that these Russian country bumpkins fired directly at close range when fighting, and many French soldiers fell into this trick.

If you ask where this trick came from? It was taught by Suvorov. He proposed that before the bayonet charge began, it was best to leave gunpowder and bullets in the gun chamber, so that close-range fire could gain a lot of advantages in hand-to-hand combat.

Scherer saw that things were not going well, so he prepared to flee westward with his followers.

However, he escaped the pursuit of the Cossacks and the Russian musketeers who broke into the city, but met the Russian chasseurs outside the city.

For the first time, Solovyov's chasseur battalion had the opportunity to fire on the battlefield. They kneeled and shot behind the stone wall, knocking many French soldiers off their horses.

This kid saw that the French horses were good, and he mainly beat people. The horses ran around for a while without their owners, and some of them stopped running. It would be best if they could be taken back.

His attitude of being meticulous about every detail of the captured money was indeed too calculated.

Scherer fell off his horse after being hit, and was captured alive by the chasseur company.

More than 2,000 people were surrounded in the city at once, many of whom were officers and cavalry, so he made a lot of money.

"Well done, little captain, you have wiped out Scherer's headquarters, except for his deputy and chief of staff."

"General, please tell me, is my team of hunters well trained? Are they accurate?"

"That's great. I'm worried about your quick-firing guns, don't let the bullets get soaked. Now, I think you can let go and shoot!"

Although Rosenberg sometimes has some "German local rich" problems, he is fair and just. He immediately said that the hunter company captured the French commander-in-chief in this battle and wiped out most of the staff group. This should be considered the first merit.

"The commander-in-chief likes you very much, and there is a reason! Misha, send these French guys to the marshal, we have picked up a 'big treasure'!"