Dombrowski's men remained in Toulon for technical training, while Vibitsky's men left France for an internship in Italy after completing a certain amount of theoretical study and reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance training.

Napoleon had gained a foothold in Italy and began an offensive against the Austrian possession of Lombardy, an Austrian possession in Italy, where he was defeated by Marshal Bolieu with his sharp Bonaparte rifles and captured Italian artillery. In negotiations with the Kingdom of Sardinia, Napoleon forced the Kingdom of Sardinia to open the crossing of Valenca on the Po River. This condition was also revealed to the Austrians by the Kingdom of Sardinia, who had lost all confidence in the question of whether it could regain its lost territory, but only in his trust." They had realized that unless the Austrians could win, Piedmont would say goodbye to them forever.

Marshal Bolieu, after receiving this news, did not dare to slack off, and hastened to concentrate all the troops that could be gathered near the Valenca ferry. In previous battles of the scale, he had realized how far his army was from Napoleon's. Thus, the Po became his only hope of stopping Napoleon.

Napoleon also brought his army to the vicinity of the Valenca ferry, and constantly sent troops to cross the river to reconnoitre. Preparing to force a crossing of the Po River from here, the scale of the conflict between the two sides almost never stopped.

Conflicts on these scales have led to a further erosion of Austrian morale. The first is that the difference in weapons between the two sides was too great, and the rifled guns in the hands of the French fired so fast and with high accuracy that the Austrians could barely raise their heads. And after the defeat of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the shortcomings of the cavalry in Napoleon's hands were also compensated. These French scout cavalry, armed with revolvers, beat the Austrian cavalry into doubt in a battle of scale.

Moreover, since entering Italy, the morale of the army has also been greatly improved. This was not only because of the victory, but also because half of the military pay could be paid in silver instead of coupons. Considering that over the years, the army's military salary has been paid with index coupons, and the index coupons have fallen to a mess due to inflation, but if you just look at the numbers, the soldiers' military salaries have risen many times in numbers. Now that half of the military salary is suddenly paid in silver coins, it feels like suddenly the fiat currency can be exchanged for Yuan Datou at a ratio of two to one. The soldiers received so much military salary, and their morale naturally rose with a fight. Many soldiers could not resist writing home to encourage their brothers to come to Italy as volunteers to assist the French army in the fight for their country. The contents of the epistles are of course varied, but there is one sentence that makes little difference:

"The enemy army here is very stupid, and the military pay is a lot, hurry up!"

Under such pressure, in order to hold the banks of the river, Marshal Beaulieu had to transfer all the troops he could find here, so that he could take advantage of the terrain and withstand the French. On the other hand, he also constantly sent envoys to Vienna to ask for help from home.

Napoleon, however, had no intention of crossing the Po River at Valenza, and after Marshal Bolieu had brought almost all the other armies here, he marched fifty miles at a terrible speed to Piacenza downstream. And there directly crossed the Po River.

Such a big move by the French army was naturally not hidden from Austria, but Marshal Beaulieu was almost helpless, because his troops could not keep up with the speed of the French army at all, they first tried to keep up with the French and block the French at Piacenza, but after finding that they could not keep up with the French at all, Marshal Beaulieu immediately made the decision to withdraw across the Ada River and use the Ada River to block the French Rao.

The soldiers under his command were very much in favor of the marshal's decision, and through a series of large-scale battles with the French, all of them realized one thing, that is: the French army is an elite cavalry, and the field is absolutely impossible.

Moreover, the Ada River is more conducive to defense than the Po River in terms of natural conditions, because the river has many rapids and rapids, and there are almost no ferries that are really suitable for the use of large armies, and there is only one bridge that is most suitable for the passage of large groups of people, as long as the army is withdrawn across the river, and then the bridge is blown up, although the retreat loses a large area of land, but at least they temporarily keep most of the Lombardy.

Napoleon, of course, knew the importance of the bridge, so as soon as he crossed the Po River, he immediately sent Davout with a group of mounted infantry to seize the bridge. Napoleon originally thought that Marshal Beaulieux would rush directly to engage him, but in his plan, the French army would first defeat the Austrian army head-on, and then intersperse Davout with the past to block their retreat, so that the Austrian army could be completely annihilated in one fell swoop. But he didn't expect Marshal Bolieu to withdraw the rabbit so decisively.

So when Davout arrived near the bridge with the mounted infantry, he found the Austrians already crossing the bridge.

Davout looked at the army around him, the number was only five hundred, but there were at least 20,000 Austrians over there (including Italian mercenaries), and Marshal Bolieu arranged the retreat very well, and the rearguard troops were arranged quite well - obviously a direct attack would not work, even the brave Davout knew that if he rushed directly, nothing good would come of it.

So Davout had his soldiers dismount and hide behind a wood, while he himself took a telescope and climbed to a nearby mountain bag to look that way.

The Austrian retreat was well organized, the army crossed the bridge in an orderly manner, and the rearguard troops began to retreat one after another to cross the bridge. However, most of the last rearguard troops were Italian mercenaries, and their retreat was a bit chaotic.

Davout knew this was the last chance, and if the Italians had crossed the bridge, the Austrians might blow it up. At that time, if you want to cross the river again, there will be many more twists and turns. So he quietly descended from the mountain, gathered his soldiers, and ordered them to attack the enemy on the opposite side in a skirmish formation.

The French immediately launched an attack on the Italian mercenaries, and as soon as the guns rang out, something unexpected happened to Davout: the Italians held out for a while at first, but suddenly, the Italians placed a row of guns indiscriminately, and then the Italian mercenaries were in a mess, and they did not resist at all, but rushed to the bridge, hurrying to cross the bridge.

"This ...... These Italians are too cute, aren't they? Faced with this scene, Davout was almost dumbfounded, and finally came up with such a sentence.

The Italians pushed each other on the bridge, cursed, and even shot inexplicably into the air. Davout's men took advantage of the confusion and rushed to the bridgehead almost without any obstacles.

The Italians guarding the bridge either escaped the bridge or surrendered. Davout found an Italian mercenary officer who could speak French and asked, only to know that there was a reason why the Italians were like this.

"The Austrians put explosives on the bridge, and they told us to blow it up as soon as we crossed it. We were supposed to do the ignition. But after the gun rang out just now, a group of Austrian cavalry suddenly came towards the bridgehead - they didn't come to help us defend the bridge, those damn Judas, they came to blow up the bridge, they wanted to blow up the bridge directly, and they didn't care if we crossed it or not...... Damn Judas! ”

The first group of Austrians who came to blow up the bridge were recognized by the Italians guarding the bridge and driven back. But the Austrians were clearly not giving up, and they soon organized another group of cavalry to rush over and blow up the bridge, but the French, who had already reached the bridge, immediately beat them back with a dense barrage of rifle bullets and melons.

Marshal Beaulieux, having received reports that the French had occupied the bridge, almost fainted. But he reacted immediately, he noticed that his artillery was just lagging behind, so he gave the order to immediately push the artillery up and fire heavily at the bridge with solid shells to cover the other troops to blow up the bridge.

Of course, the accuracy of the solid shells was tragic, but the Austrians had a lot of artillery, and Marshal Beaulieu concentrated more than fifty cannons at once, and fired at the bridge indiscriminately, and the French troops who had just crossed the bridge could not resist it, so they retreated to the side of the bridge. But the French rifled guns were so sharp that the bridge-bombing squads sent by the Austrians rushed several times, but they did not rush up.

While Davout commanded his soldiers to block the area around the bridge with rifle fire, he also selected death squads from his ranks to go down to the bridge to dismantle the explosives. The Austrians tried to rush over to stop them, but were fired back by the platoon.

Just when Marshal Beaulieus made up his mind to rely on the superiority of numbers to press forward regardless of casualties, another group of French troops arrived.

The cavalry that Ogero had just arrived with this time. As soon as Napoleon found that the Austrians had retreated, he immediately feared whether Davout would be in danger here, so he asked Augero to rush over with the newly formed cavalry division. Reinforced by fresh troops, Davout successfully consolidated his position on the west bank of the river, and his death squad successfully defused the explosives placed under the bridge by the Austrians. However, due to the blockade of enemy artillery, it was very difficult to rush to the other side of the bridge.

In the evening, Napoleon's main force finally reached the bridge, and by this time it was almost dark, and the two armies faced each other across the river.

That night, Napoleon gathered several of his officers together and assigned Ming's combat mission, preparing to break through the enemy lines in one fell swoop. After all, the bridge was basically in the hands of the French army, and Napoleon was confident that he would break through the line of only 20,000 Austrians on the opposite side. However, when the French army attacked the Austrian position the next morning, as planned, Napoleon was surprised to find that Marshal Beaulieu had once again moved in front of him—in the middle of the night, he had the cannon fire nailed, and then he left behind the fifty or so cannons and withdrew with his army.