If there is only a rope net in front of you, it will not be able to stop everyone from getting older for a while, not to mention turning over, something like a rope can be cut very quickly with a knife. But when the Ivan approached, they realized that it was not a rope net, but barbed wire.

What's even more hateful is that these barbed wires are not made of ordinary wires, but barbed wires, and there are many thorns wrapped around the wires. At least, in the short term, it is simply not possible.

If it is in ordinary circumstances, even if you are barehand, slowly twisting, slowly folding, it is not particularly difficult to break these wires, but this is on the battlefield, and the barbed wire is about 100 meters away from the French trenches, at this distance, it is still difficult for the rifles in the hands of the Russian army to hit the heads of the Louis who are exposed from behind the trenches, but it is easy for the Louis to hit Ivan who is standing in front of the barbed wire unobstructed.

So Ivan, who was blocked by barbed wire, was knocked down by the French platoon guns in rows. Some brave Ivan tried to cross the barbed wire, only to be caught in his uniform by the barbs above, paused slightly, and then was shot and killed; There were also some brave Ivan who shot Louis with his rifle through the barbed wire, and naturally he was knocked to the ground.

The barbed wire of the French did not completely block the direction of advance, the barbed wire was section by section, and even compared to the French trenches, there was still a certain angle. If the Russian-Austrian coalition also has reconnaissance balloons and can also observe them from a higher height, they can see that these barbed wire basically form the shape of a funnel, but the bottom of the funnel is not notched, and it is also blocked by barbed wire.

Of course, these shapes are intentional, so that the soldiers of the attacking side will naturally gather here!

The soldiers in front of them are blocked by the barbed wire, and the soldiers behind will instinctively want to bypass the obstacle, and then they will run diagonally forward in the direction of the barbed wire, and then they will unconsciously gather at the bottom of the funnel. And once the personnel are dense, the firepower of the defending side will also greatly improve their efficiency.

But even if a few people see this trap, on the battlefield, he can't stop the instinctive actions of most people, and it is even entirely possible that he will be passed over and then blocked at the bottom of the funnel.

At this time, in the French trenches, facing the bottom of those funnels, some earthy yellow camouflage nets used for camouflage were lifted, revealing the muzzles of the cannons, which were half-buried in the ground, with only the barrels just protruding from the ground. Then, with the roar of the cannons, thousands of shotguns rained down on the Ivan who were huddled together at the mouth of the funnel.

Although there are no machine guns yet, such a shotgun fire, at close range, is almost as effective as a machine gun. Soon, piles and piles of corpses were piled up in these locations.

In any army, there is a limit to what it can withstand casualties, and the brave Ivan is no exception. And in many cases, the helpless predicament can even break the morale of the soldiers even more than casualties.

So the Ivan soon collapsed in front of this thin-looking barbed wire. Some of them frantically smashed the barbed wire fence with the butts of their rifles in vain, and were shot dead by the Louis; Others shouted and turned around and ran, and then, accidentally, stepped on a "potato from Abagon", dropped their guns, and rolled on the ground with their legs crossed and wailed.

The Ivan retreated quickly, a little faster than they came up. And when they retreated, they stepped on a lot of mines, leaving a lot of wounded soldiers.

Suvorov stood in his position all the time, watching the attack and retreat of the Russian army with a blank face. He remained silent until the soldiers began to retreat, when he said to General Bagration: "Peter, take your cavalry and meet them." Everyone who can come back now is wealth. ”

Bagration led a troop of cavalry to meet him.

"The Russians did a good job of covering their retreat." Napoleon put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Murat, who looked eager to try, "All right, Murat, let your soldiers rest and rest." ”

"General, let's chase it out." Murat said, "Isn't it just a troop of Russian cavalry?" We can defeat them together. ”

"You saw the battle over there." Napoleon glanced at Murat and said, "What do you think he and the enemy have just played?" If you're confident that you're going to play that now, I'll give you the go. Have faith? ”

So Murat was silent.

Bagration led the cavalry and covered the defeated Russian army back to his barracks, but there were still many wounded soldiers on the battlefield who were wailing.

Bagration frowned, and asked another officer beside him to escort the defeated soldiers back, while he himself led a group of cavalry over to the wounded soldiers.

Bagration dismounted beside a wounded soldier. The wounded soldier was lying there with his feet folded and wailing.

"Brother, what's wrong, can you still stand up?" Bagration asked.

"My feet, my feet......" the wounded soldier just shouted there.

Bagration looked there, and a bullet flew not far from him with a whoosh.

Bagration bent down, picked up the wounded soldier, put him in the saddle, and led the horse to another wounded soldier.

"General, do you want to concentrate fire?" A soldier asked Susse.

"Nope." Suche shook his head, "Let's not shoot." Let our men go out, into minefields, take in the wounded, send them there. ”

So the gunfire on the French positions stopped. A group of French troops, carrying stretchers but without weapons, came out of the French trenches, opened the locked barbed wire, cautiously entered the minefield, and carried the wounded one by one onto the stretchers. He carried the wounded out of the way in a strange way.

No sooner had Bagration helped the second wounded man onto his horse than his guards reminded him: "General, a group of French men has come out. ”

Bagration looked up and saw a group of French soldiers, carrying stretchers, on which were the wounded Russian soldiers wailing.

The French army carried the wounded towards Bagration, and one of the captains in the lead shouted: "You are already in the minefield, please do not move, or you will be easily wounded." ”

Bagration understood French, and in fact, there were very few Russian nobles who did not understand French. In Europe at that time, an aristocrat who could not speak French would be seen as a bun. In St. Petersburg, it was also fashionable for the nobles to use French instead of Russian when they talked to each other.

"General, ...... they," the guard asked.

"It doesn't matter, they don't seem to have malicious intent." Bagration said.

Soon the French army came to them. The French put the wounded on the ground on stretchers. The captain who took the lead saluted Bagration and said, "Your Excellency, this is your wounded. I am now ordered to hand over these wounded to you. ”

Bagration returned the salute and said, "Thank you." ”

The French captain didn't seem to want to say anything more. After speaking, he turned around with his own people and left quickly.

"General, shall we ......," said one of the guards.

Bagration knew what the guard meant, and took the captain back, perhaps he could ask for a lot of things. You must know that although the Scout Cavalry sometimes has the opportunity to capture the opposing cavalry alive in the engagement, the chance of catching the captain is much smaller. And a captain must know a lot more than an ordinary soldier.

Bagration frowned and shook his head: "Don't let people think that we Russians are all barbarians. ”

After saying this, Bagration looked down at the wounded soldiers, sighed, and ordered: "Carry them back." ”

Back in the barracks, Bagration accompanied the old marshal to talk to the returning soldiers about the French defense.

Having learned about the situation, Suvonov again called the generals over to discuss the question of how to respond.

This time, everyone has learned more about the reality of the French army's defensive line, but this understanding does not give everyone more confidence, on the contrary, it also makes everyone extremely frustrated.

"I've never seen such a sinister defense." A Russian officer said, "The French and the Turks are completely different, those mines, and those artillery shotguns, it's all that, we can overcome it." But the barbed wire fence really has to find a way to solve it quickly. ”

"Is there anything we can do to break the barbed wire quickly?" Someone else said.

"How about blowing it up with dynamite?"

"You can try. Let's get some wire, make a model, and try it out. ”

"Also, their mines, it's not good to let them blow up like this."

"I've heard that the British dealt with mines in Ireland in this way, and it was very effective......," said an Austrian officer, suddenly.

"What did the British do?" Everyone was immediately interested.

"The British let some Irish go ahead and step on mines." The Austrian replied.

"Isn't that a Tatar barbarian?" A Russian couldn't help but say.

"That's right, isn't this a barbarian?"

"The British were all barbarians."

The Russians have always been regarded as barbarians in Europe, and the Russians are quite dissatisfied in their hearts. Nowadays, there are almost all Russians who ridicule people as barbarians, and almost all Russians will not let go. But since the British barbarians were to be ridiculed, the plan to catch some Italians to step on the mines was naturally abandoned.

However, the idea of driving sheep or something to step on landmines inspired by this made everyone think that they could give it a try.