When the Russian army was out of range of the French Mini's rifles, quickly turned the horizontal column into a column, and quickly approached the French position, Napoleon's eyes widened: "This...... Isn't that our trick? ”

"General, over the years, there are not too many people who imitate our way of fighting." "But no matter how much you imitate them, they're all our losers." ”

"Hahaha......" Napoleon laughed, "Louie, you know what?" Someone said something very similar to what you just said. ”

"Who?" Suschel asked.

"My brother Joseph—the guy who wears the badge of the Academy of Sciences on his chest whenever I'm in a military uniform in front of him—well, we've had a picnic together. And he didn't mean the army, he was talking about the products of the 'military-industrial complex,'" said Napoleon, with the image of Joseph wearing a large insignia of the Academy of Sciences on his chest, a triumphant figure of a villain,' and he said: 'We have always been imitated, but never surpassed.' But really, just this change of formation just outside of our rifle range really surpassed our previous level. ”

When she heard this, she laughed too. It was not difficult to surpass the French army in this respect, especially when it was still widely using the tactics of column assault. Because at that time, the French army only used this tactic, and the main reason was that the soldiers were not trained enough and could not form a neat horizontal formation?

And now the army in front of them, at a greater distance, in order to avoid being hit by solid shells, uses a thin horizontal column to approach (so that even if it is hit, it will kill one or two people), and when it comes close to the range of the rifle, it can quickly turn the horizontal column into a column, and this ability to change formations itself shows that this army is quite well trained.

After completing the change of the queue, the Russian army continued to move forward. And the artillery on the French side also began to fire at these Russian troops.

A shell accurately hit a Russian phalanx, like a bowling ball hitting a row of wooden bottles. A crackle knocked a large line of Russian soldiers to the ground. However, unlike bowling, the wooden bottle knocked down by the bowling ball is at least intact, but the soldiers knocked down by the iron ball fired by the cannon are not so intact, especially the first few are almost torn apart.

But the Russian troops who followed Suvorov to Italy were veterans who were accustomed to life and death on the battlefields with Turkey and Poland. So the pace of the advance of the Russian army was not affected more, they were still approaching the French army at a constant speed, and soon they entered the minefield of the French army.

The mine exploded soon, and with the explosion of the mine, one by one the Russian soldiers fell down with their feet covered, but this still could not stop the Russian army from moving forward. Soon the barbed wire was in front of them.

Several soldiers with explosives bags quickly emerged from the queue and rushed towards the barbed wire.

"Bang bang...... a row of gunpowder smoke rose from the French trenches, and many soldiers with explosive bags were knocked to the ground, but some people still rushed to the barbed wire fence and stuffed the explosives bags under the barbed wire.

With a few explosions, the barbed wire was suddenly blown open several gaps, and almost at the same time, the Russian army spread out in formation, holding bayonets, and rushed towards these gaps.

"How brave!" Napoleon lamented.

"Indeed, it is no less brave than our army!" Su Xie also sighed, "It's a pity, the braver you are, the faster you die." ”

At the same time that the Russian army rushed to the gap in the barbed wire, not far from the barbed wire, a whole row of broadsword mines exploded. Each broadsword shot 800 iron beads at the Russian army on the opposite side, and so many broadswords detonated at the same time, it was like a torrential rain on the front, and it was like a summer when a sudden hail crackled into the wheat field, putting the entire wheat on the ground.

As far as the eye can see, almost all the soldiers who rushed to the front of the Russian army were knocked to the ground, and just one round of explosions brought thousands of casualties to the Russian army.

"I really didn't expect this thing to be so ferocious!" Farther away, Marshal Suvonov put down the telescope in his hand and exclaimed, "When the British talked about the power of this thing, I thought they were exaggerating, but I didn't expect ......."

"The French are the best in Europe in terms of science and technology." Bagration also sighed, "However, this alone cannot stop us." ”

Indeed, this round of blows was very heavy, but it was just like throwing a big stone into the rushing tide. The large stone made a huge splash and made a loud noise, but then it was drowned by the tide that came from behind.

More Russian soldiers rushed past the corpses that had fallen to the ground and through the first line of barbed wire, and in front of them was the first line of French trenches.

The French in the "bang ......" trenches fired a final salvo at the Russians, then turned around and retreated along the longitudinal communication trenches to the second trench in the rear. At the same time, in front of the first trench, another row of "broadswords" was detonated.

This row of "broadswords" failed to stop the Russians, but they also allowed the Russian troops to be slightly blocked, providing time for the retreat of the French troops in the trenches.

The French in the first line of trenches followed the communication trenches and quickly moved towards the second trench behind. And the Russian army soon rushed to the first line of trenches.

"Rush up, rush up!" Bagration shouted excitedly.

"Peter, it's early." Suvorov frowned, "Why didn't there be a battle here?" If this line of defense was relatively important, how could they have not resisted when we stormed the first trench? ”

"And what are they going to do?" Bagration Road.

"They intend for us to continue to expend our strength in front of the next line of defense, and then come back from the counterattack when our forces are exhausted." Suvorov said, "Immediately give orders to the front, tell them to retreat if they encounter obstacles in the front, and today they can consolidate the occupation of the first line of defense." Also, let the follow-up troops in, and the French will probably fight back. It's up to them to stop them. ”

The cavalry who gave the order immediately rushed to the front. At this time, the Russian troops who rushed forward took advantage of the retreat of the French army and pounced towards the second trench.

From the first trench to the second to the trench, there was a distance of several hundred meters in between, and between the two trenches there was a barbed wire. And there seems to be a shortcut between the two trenches - a communication trench that connects the two trenches vertically. It was here that the French army retreated just now. Chasing from here, it seems that you can pass under the barbed wire.

So some soldiers chased them directly from the French trenches. At first the chase seemed to be going well, but as they were about to rush to the second line of trenches, at the exit of the trench, a Frenchman reached out and pulled a yellow cloth, revealing an 8-pounder gun with the muzzle facing the trench. Then the muzzle fire flashed, and an eight-pound iron ball struck.

The traffic trench is not too wide, and there is not much place to hide. Of course, although the cannonballs of that era flew at a slower speed than those of later generations, they were not something that humans could dodge by their own reactions. So the shells hit one end of the trench directly to the other, breaking the Russians in the trench to pieces.

Obviously, attacking from the communication trenches is not a good way, there is no way to dodge here, even if the cannon is slowly reloaded, after firing a shot, there is a chance to rush up in the time between the gaps, but there are also French soldiers over there, and their guns in their hands take turns firing, which can also block the Russians for a while, and then the cannon is loaded again......

Since it is not feasible to take advantage of the communication trenches and rush through, then the only way to attack is to attack from the ground. However, the situation on the ground is not very good, there are a lot of mines buried there, and there is barbed wire, and behind the barbed wire there are naturally artillery and broadsword mines with shotguns.

The Russians, taking advantage of the French retreat to the second to the trenches, stormed again. This time, however, they failed to get past the trench, and their courage and strength were exhausted in the battle ahead. This time he didn't even manage to cross the barbed wire fence and was beaten back by the French.

"The French are going on a counteroffensive." Suvorov immediately made such a judgment.

Sure enough, the French began to launch a counterattack, first with rifle and artillery shotgun fire, driving the retreating Russian troops back to the first line of trenches. The Russians jumped into the trenches one after another, relying on the cover of the trenches and firing at the French on the opposite side. However, this was still unfair, and the first trench did not have a breastwork wall of earth on the side facing the French, so in terms of depth, at least in this direction, the first trench was not enough to cover the whole person.

However, as more people retreated into the first trench, a large flash of light suddenly flashed in the first trench, and then the rumbling explosion rang out.

It turned out that the sinister French had already planted the mines detonated by wires in the first trench, and the sudden detonation of them at this time immediately caused huge casualties to the Russian troops who retreated into it. And the French army also took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

At this time, the Russian reinforcements also began to approach the first line of trenches. But at this moment, the artillery on the French side roared again.

Suvorov had expected that the French would continue to fire at reinforcements with solid shells. This time, however, the shells were completely different, they had a much higher trajectory. (The muzzle velocity of artillery in this era was very low, and the shells were visible to the naked eye when they were flying.) ）

"This is no ordinary solid shell." "Although such a ballistic height allows the shell to fly farther, it is difficult to form a ricochet, which is not an ordinary solid shell. ”