More than 1,000 cavalry of the Kingdom of Sardinia, after rapid preparation, rushed towards the French Rao stragglers.

However, the cavalry always has some signs when preparing to attack, if it is dry and sunny, they will raise dust, of course, it has been rainy recently, and the ground is wet, this problem is avoided. But the concentration of the brigade cavalry also required the other armies to give them the way. It's hard to hide this sign. So before the cavalry of the Kingdom of Sardinia came out. Napoleon was keenly aware of this call-up.

"What about sheepdogs? What about sheepdogs? "Take your cavalry and go to the skirmishers!" ”

"Shepherd Dog" was the nickname given to Augereau by Napoleon, and Augerro himself was very proud of this nickname, after all, not everyone had the opportunity to capture more than 300 Peppa Georges with a single horsewhip.

"Yes!" Jérôme replied with a heartfelt sigh, bowed his head, examined the four revolvers attached to his belt, and the sword that hung from his waist, and then stepped on his horse and walked towards the cavalry.

Napoleon, on the other hand, continued to stand there, stepping on a stone with one foot and looking across the side with a telescope.

The Sardinian cavalry had by this time made their preparations, perhaps because they were not very clear about the range of the guns in the hands of the French skirmishers in front, since they had been at the back of the line before. They only knew that they had been ordered to launch a surprise attack on the French stragglers, but the messenger did not tell them that the guns in the hands of the French had a range of more than three or four hundred yards. Therefore, after these cavalry came out of the formation, they did not immediately disperse the formation, but still maintained a relatively tight formation, approaching the French with foot.

Under normal circumstances, it makes sense to do so. Maintaining a tight formation in the first place helps to maintain discipline - it's still far away from the enemy anyway, and it's too late to spread out if you get closer - since the melon was widely used, no cavalry from any country has used a wall-mounted charge.

As for the use of step approach, this is because the horses used by the Sardinian army are not nuclear-powered Mongol horses, and they cannot keep sprinting at top speed all the time. Run outside of the enemy's range, then gradually increase your speed until you reach the range of the opponent's "melon", reaching its maximum speed. In this way, the damage of the stragglers' melons to the cavalry can be minimized.

Daniel, a skirmisher, had just loaded his bullets when the shouts of company commander Amy rang out: "Ready, aim at the enemy cavalry......"

Everyone raised their guns, but Company Commander Amy seemed to be showing off his amazing lung capacity, deliberately dragging the voice to the elder. One of the very important reasons why he can become a company commander is because Commander Lana has taken a fancy to his loud voice, even on a noisy battlefield, his shouts can be heard around. Of course, a loud voice, no matter how loud, cannot be heard by all the stragglers. And that's when his huge lung capacity comes into play. He could keep his voice long so that the other company commanders could hear it and shout along, and then he could still maintain as much consistency as possible at the time of the final order.

Amy finally finished shouting the aria-like "cavalryman", he took a deep breath, counted them in his mind, and then shouted violently, "Fire!" ”

The other company commanders also shouted for fire in about the same amount of time. More than 2,000 skirmishers fired a volley at the Sardinian cavalry, who were still five hundred yards away.

Because the cavalry had a large target and were still in a dense formation at this time, this round of volleys, although the distance was very long, almost to the limit of the range of the Mini rifle, still achieved very good results. The Sardinian cavalry fell from their horses like autumn leaves falling from the branches in the cold wind.

"Damn it! How far can their guns hit! General Kohli began to think about how to give an account to the king and put the blame for the defeat on the incompetent munitions factory merchants.

This round of unexpected blows also confused the cavalry of Sardinia. The front saw the cavalry of their comrades falling to the ground one after another, some wanted to hold the horse and stop, some began to kick the horse's belly with the spur so that it could run away, and some did not understand it at all, and still maintained the posture just now.

So those who wanted to stop collided with those who were moving at a normal speed; I wanted to rush forward for a few steps, and when I looked back, I saw that everyone hadn't followed, and braked urgently; Want...... He simply turned his horse's head and ran to the side—in short, the whole cavalry was in disarray.

The commander of the cavalry division, Count Vivaldi, struggled to hold the ranks, shouted loudly, tried to put the ranks in order, and ordered the troops to charge at full speed at once...... However, at this moment, the gunfire of the second salvo rang out again......

This round of salvo fire made the Italians even more confused, but it also made many smart Italians understand: "To huddle together is to attract bullets, everyone must disperse immediately!" ”

So the cavalry scattered in a hurry, and some of the more intelligent horsemen seemed to be frightened and ran wildly, and at once they did not know where they had gone.

Although the range of the Minnie rifle was much longer, the skirmishers were normally able to fire two volleys in the face of the enemy's light cavalry, and then it was up to the "Bonaparte melon" and revolver bayonets to fight.

But at this time, since the Italians are willing to let the stragglers fire a few more volleys, everyone naturally can't live up to the good intentions of others like this, right? So taking advantage of this opportunity, the skirmishers fired another volley.

Count Vivaldi managed to control a part of his troops, and he ordered: "The whole division charges!" So at last a part of the cavalry under his command was at the fastest speed. The chaotic formation rushed towards the stragglers.

On the way to their charge, they received another volley. However, because their speed has increased, this round of salvo has caused them a lot more damage than the previous times.

Count Vivaldi slowly slowed down his horse so that the other cavalry could overtake him. At the same time, he also saw that the Frenchman on the opposite side had already loaded his bayonet and taken out the melon.

According to the experience taught by the Austrians, by this time there were no bullets in the French guns, so it was only necessary to rush through their round of "melons", and all that remained was to fight with sabers and bayonets. Although the French skirmishers were very brave, the saber still had a clear advantage over the bayonet.

"They don't form a hollow phalanx, how can a bayonet alone fight the cavalry? Of course, they can't form a hollow phalanx either, because we also win melons'. "The Austrian friends at that time were like this.

The cavalry approached the range of the "melons", and a group of melons flew over from the opposite side. In previous exercises, this situation was also familiar to the cavalrymen. Lowered his head, pressed his body against the horse's neck, and rushed over in the blink of an eye, didn't he? But that's acting — no, it's a drill. At that time, the "melon" that was thrown over would not have exploded! So some people running in front can't help but want to turn, and some people running behind can't help but want to slow down (they want to wait for the melon to explode before rushing over), and then a lot of smart people crash into each other...... Immediately afterwards, the "melons" exploded one after another, taking away another wave of cavalry.

However, Count Vivaldi was not injured, not because there was a rule in this world that bullets and shrapnel would evade senior officers, but because he was the smartest of all the charging cavalry, he had already slowed down, leaving himself far behind the line, and even when the cavalry approached the range of the opponent's "melon", he deliberately distanced himself from the queue.

"The rest is sabre-to-bayonet! We can do it! Count Vivaldi looked at the cavalry in front of him, assessed the losses along the way, and then made such a judgment.

However, instead of a bayonet-to-sabre battle ahead, as he had imagined, a dense burst of gunfire rang out.

Colonel Jean Lannes also dropped the rifle in his hand, pulled out the revolver from his waist, aimed the muzzle of the gun at an Italian cavalryman who was rushing towards him, and fired two shots in a row, and the Italian cavalry fell; He pointed his gun at another Italian cavalryman, and fired two shots in succession, and this Italian cavalryman also fell; He pointed his gun at another Italian cavalryman, and fired two shots in succession, and this Italian cavalryman also fell; He pointed his gun at the last Italian cavalryman, "Da ......", ran out of bullets, he quickly pulled out another revolver, and when he looked again, the Italian had already fallen from his horse......

The revolver that could fire continuously completely blinded the Italians, and at this time, someone saw the French cavalry rushing over, so a clever man first understood, turned his horse's head and ran, and then everyone fled in a chaotic manner, and of course, the clever Count Vivaldi was naturally also running away, and ran the fastest.

Jérôme and his cavalry passed the skirmishers and gave them in pursuit, and he tried to drive the enemy directly into their positions. It would have been ideal if the Italians could have their own cavalry ramming their own infantry in the ranks.

However, Jérôme's expectations did not come true, and the Italians, who had always been cautious, were cautious to resume the rejection of their horses in front of their positions after the cavalry sortie. So the Italian cavalry could only turn in front of their array, while Jérôme clung to their tails and, with less than two hundred cavalry, expelled one of the enemy's cavalry divisions from the battlefield.

Colonel Jean Lannes, the commander of the stragglers, stood on tiptoe and watched the cavalry chase over there, and when he saw that the Italian cavalry had not broken his own formation, Gao Xin shouted: "Brothers, I have already passed, don't look at the cavalry looking majestic, but to solve the battle, it is still up to our stragglers!" Now, forward, let's go and crush their privates! ”

The skirmishers armed with mini rifles, against the Italian privates, were almost bullying. Relying on the longer range, they are like peeling the skin of an onion, and with each round of shooting, they can peel off a layer of Italian rao. This situation, in which it was difficult to fight back despite being beaten, quickly broke the morale of Italy.

What's worse is that the cannons placed in front of the position are now under the control of the French. When the Italians abandoned the cannons, they didn't bother to destroy the cannons or anything. So the French simply turned the cannon, and then - before they could fire, the Italians completely collapsed. The soldiers did not pay any attention to the orders of the officers and fled in all directions; The officers were still shouting and threatening to keep the group going, but they soon joined the fleeing and ran faster than the soldiers.

More than 50,000 Italians scattered, and it was not easy for the French to capture them, and the Italians were more familiar with the terrain, so after this battle, Napoleon did not capture too many prisoners. But General Colli, who retreated to Turin, was also unable to gather many of the fleeing soldiers. About half of the soldiers were neither killed, captured, or rebuilt, but went straight to their respective homes.

After obtaining more than 100 cannons, the French army took advantage of the victory and approached Turin, which was taken by surprise overnight. It was rumored in the city that if the French entered Turin, they would behead all the nobles; There are also people who tell the story of the French "robbing the rich and helping the poor" in other places. Some people are afraid of the French and tremble with fear; There are also people who look forward to the French going into the city so that they can divide things.

The nobles of Turin packed up whatever valuable things they could take with them, loaded them into wagons and fled west. There was a serious traffic jam on the roads from Genoa and Milan from Turin, where carriages with various coats of arms were hung. Even the king's family fled to Cagliari, Sardinia.

At the unanimous request of the nobles, the king announced his withdrawal from the war and sent envoys to the French to confront the envoys of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In the end, the Kingdom of Sardinia, threatened by the French army, had to accept the following conditions:

The Kingdom of Sardinia withdrew from the anti-French alliance and promised not to allow any person or force to use the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia for any action against France. The Sardinian army had to surrender the three fortresses of Konicheva and Tortona; Alexandria was temporarily surrendered before Tortona was handed over to the French army; The people of the areas under the control of the French army had complete autonomy, they had the right to establish self-government and carry out revolutionary policies, and the Kingdom of Sardinia was not to interfere; The French army had free passage within Piedmont and had the right to cross the Po River in Valenza; All local police in Piedmont must be dismissed; The regular army of Sardinia was to be stationed in various places as garrisons, and their strongholds had to be set up with the approval of the French army, and the army was not to be equipped with any heavy weapons, and the number of garrisons in any other stronghold was not to exceed 500 men unless approved by the French army. In addition, the Kingdom of Sardinia had to hand over a large sum of money as war reparations.