Di Mourière rode at the front, Joseph and Napoleon followed him on horseback, sabre in hand, and the soldiers followed them towards the smoky heights of Jemapou.

Perhaps because of exhaustion, or because of the fog of the battlefield, the Austrians did not react immediately, and Di Mourier was naturally happy to continue to approach with his soldiers.

Gradually, the team was already within range of the Austrian artillery, and Di Mourier shouted again, and the command knife in his hand slashed forward a few times. The soldiers began to speed forward in column, while Dumourier slowed his horses and gradually fell behind the line.

Joseph also followed Di Mourier to slow down and approach, as they had done before, which was only used to boost morale. The battle is not a heads-up between the generals in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", nor is it a knight duel in knight novels, where is there a reason for a commander to really rush up.

Joseph reined in his horse, nodded to Dumourier, who was also reining in his horse, and then turned around and suddenly found ...... Damn it! And what about Napoleon? Where did Napoleon go? Wasn't he still following just now? We didn't cross the river just now, how could Napoleon be gone?

Joseph looked anxiously in all directions, and suddenly he saw a guy on horseback at the front of the procession, brandishing a gleaming saber, leading the procession.

"Damn, this middle two cancer!" Joseph cursed fiercely in his heart.

"Joseph, how did your brother rush to the front...... I can't see that he's small, but he's really brave! At this time, Dumourier also noticed that Napoleon had run to the front.

"Brave fart! It's completely a burnt out head! Joseph scolded viciously. At the same time, I decided in my heart that after coming back after a while, I must teach this bear child a good lesson and let him know why the flowers are so red!

At this time, the Austrians also began to react, and the Austrian artillery began to fire continuously at the advancing French columns. The speed of the cannonballs of this era was relatively slow, so that Joseph could see with the naked eye those little black dot-like shells slowly and leisurely rising from the high ground, and then slowly and leisurely rising to the heights, and seemed to pause there, and then suddenly accelerated and fell, smashing up a cloud of dust on the ground, and at the same time bouncing back again, like a little rabbit, bouncing all the way forward. One of the shells, with a whistling whistle, whizzed past not far from Joseph. Frightened, Joseph almost shrunk his neck into his torso.

"Napoleon is closer, and of course more dangerous, you damn bastard!" Joseph thought.

"I can't leave him alone in that kind of place!" Joseph shouted at Dumourier, then waved his whip, drove his horse, and pursued Napoleon.

"Ah, Joseph usually looks like an old pedant, and I can't see that he is so brave." Dumurier shook his head. But he didn't catch up, he was the boss and had to stay behind to preside over the overall situation.

Joseph chased after him in a fit of rage and grabbed Napoleon's horse by the reins: "Bastard, do you have a pit in your head?" I called you here just to show your face in front of the soldiers, why did you come here? What are you running around! Come back with me! ”

Napoleon turned his face and looked at Joseph with a very strange expression: "Joseph, you have a hole in your head, right?" It's all here, can you turn around and go back? ”

Joseph was stunned by these words, but he immediately understood what Napoleon meant:

Di Mourier was boosting morale just now, but he gradually fell behind, and most of the soldiers would not notice, so it was not a problem for him to retreat to the back in the end. But if at this time, Napoleon and Joseph turned around and went back like this, it would have shaken the morale of the army.

"You goddamn bastard!" The more he figured out the situation, the more angry Joseph became, because it meant that he had to go crazy with the bear child now!

"Hahaha......" Maybe it was because he succeeded in trapping the eldest brother, and Napoleon was actually proud, so the bear child was so itchy and unbeaten.

"Joseph, you have ventured here for the sake of my safety. I was impressed, really! Just when Joseph was so angry that he was about to whip Napoleon at him, Napoleon suddenly changed his face and said this sentence again.

"Phew! You're touched by a fart! You're not a woman! Joseph scolded, but the whip was lowered.

At this time, a shell flew over and hit a small column not far away.

The cannonball struck the front standard-bearer in the chest, shattering him, and then skewered a large line of people behind him with blood gourds. The flagpole in the flag bearer's hand was also broken into two sections, and the flag flew high and then swirled down in the air.

At this moment, a hand reached out, grasped the broken flagpole, and raised the tricolor flag high again.

It was Napoleon's hand, and he caught the falling flag, held it high, and then he jumped off his horse, turned his head, and shouted to the other soldiers, who were stunned by the cannon: "Soldiers of France, for the sake of the motherland, follow me!" ”

The soldiers were inspired by the short officer who held the flag high, and they shouted and followed the short man and continued onward.

Joseph gritted his teeth, drew his saber, and urged his horse to follow.

"Stupid! Get off the horse! Your target is too conspicuous and you'll be the magnet that attracts bullets! Napoleon cursed as he pulled Joseph off his horse.

Joseph was slightly moved, but in a blink of an eye, his heart was full of anger: "Dog, if it weren't for you, a bear child, Lao Tzu would be behind now, and I don't know how stable I am...... TMD, Lao Tzu didn't even bring a gun, just such a saber! ”

Joseph would never have imagined that the scene he and his bear brother today would soon become the content of a world-famous painting. When the news of the victory reached Paris, the painter Jacques-Louis David (friend of Armand and author of The Oath of the Horace Brothers and later The Death of Marat) was so excited by the heroic actions of the Bonaparte brothers that he created a painting called "France, Forward".

In this painting, Jacques-Louis David breaks through the shackles of the neoclassical painting he had previously represented, and opens up a new style, with the background of iron and lead gunpowder smoke and thick clouds, and in the center of the painting, Napoleon, dressed in military uniform, holds the tricolor flag symbolizing the Republic in one hand, and half-turns his head, revealing a resolute side face, as if shouting to the warriors behind him. At his feet, the corpses of the warriors who had been killed in battle lay a little behind on his right, and he was followed by Joseph, who rushed forward with a saber in his hand. Farther away, warriors in blue uniforms and rifles with bayonets charged forward.

The corpses that fell to the ground, the warriors who fought and Napoleon who held the French flag high form a triangle of stability and momentum. The tricolor, a symbol of freedom, equality, and fraternity, is located at the apex of the isosceles triangle. In the history of art compiled by later generations, most of them regard this painting as a precedent for the emergence of Romantic painting.

However, at this time, Joseph did not care whether his image would appear in the painting, in fact, he was so nervous that he did not have the awe-inspiring bearing of the painting at all. However, their column was not targeted by concentrated fire. Because their team had just been hit by a cannon, their advance speed lagged behind the other teams. This allowed more of the Austrians to pour more fire on the other columns.

Napoleon had short legs and was not very fast. As for Joseph, if he runs backwards, he will definitely be able to run as fast as a reporter somewhere, but if he rushes forward, forget it. As he charged, Joseph looked around for possible cover, and was ready to drag Napoleon behind the cover. The other fighters were rushing very fast, so the two of them gradually fell behind the group.

The other columns behaved very well, and by the time Joseph and Napoleon rushed to the Austrian positions, the Austrian defenses had practically collapsed.

Napoleon took a saber and tried everywhere to find an Austrian to chop, but ......

"Damn, why did the Austrians run so fast? I can't find a living person to chop it! Napoleon gasped and grumbled.

"That's because your legs are too short! If you run one step in Austria, you need to run two steps. Joseph took his knife and looked around to guard against the Austrians who might have popped up out of nowhere, and seized time to mock Napoleon in order to vent his anger.

Napoleon habitually planned to ridicule each other, but looking at Joseph's iron face, and thinking about this coward, today he really rushed to the battlefield for his own sake, and the sarcastic words could not be spoken, so he simply gave him a "hehe".

In this battle, the French army lost more than 600 casualties, plus more than 1,300 wounded, for a total loss of about 2,000 people. Austria, on the other hand, lost about 300 people killed and wounded more than 500, plus more than 600 prisoners, for a total loss of about 1,500 men. If you only count the exchange ratio, the Austrians seem to have a slight advantage.

However, this was a defensive battle based on terrain and fortifications, and the French were mainly poorly trained volunteers. Even so, the Austrians could not withstand even a day in the face of the French attack. Without the terrain advantage and fortifications, they would have been hoisted up by the French. This battle actually showed that even the poorly trained French Volunteers were more than enough to deal with the Austrians in all kinds of battles.