Polina ran around in the fog, surrounded by gunfire, cannons, and shouts. At first, Polina was panicked, but soon, after a series of violent explosions, she noticed that the gunfire seemed to have become quieter, and after a while, shouts of "Long live the Republic" rang out all around.

At this time, the fog gradually dissipated. Polina saw that not far from her, a group of soldiers in blue uniforms were cheering - it was clear that they had won the battle just now.

A bearded veteran noticed Polina and walked over to him.

"Hey, little one, how did you get here?" The soldier asked.

"My brother and I got separated. Our ship had a storm at sea, drifted for several days, and then came to shore here, and then ......" Polina hastened, "have you seen my brother?" ”

"Ah, you're so unfortunate that you ran to the battlefield in a daze. I didn't see your foolish brother, how could he leave his brother in such a place? But I can ask our people to find it for you. The veteran said.

At this time, Polina was only a thirteen-year-old sister-in-law, wearing a boy's dress, and a hat on her head covered her hair. (To say that Napoleon's clothes fit well when she was a child.) As a result, the veteran took her for a little Shota who hadn't changed his voice yet.

"Come with me, I'll help you ask." So saying, the old soldier led Polina to the side of the fort, and shouted to one of the soldiers who was hanging the tricolor on the fort, "Eugène, do you see another, a civilian who is about the same as this child, who has come to the battlefield?" ”

"What did you say?" Eugène asked, "I can't hear ......"

Perhaps because of a lack of concentration, the tricolor in his hand slipped and fell from the fortress.

Everyone's faces changed, because the tricolor flag could not be hung, and this omen was really bad. Generally speaking, the more survival depends on luck, the more superstitious it becomes. The military is a place where all kinds of superstitions are concentrated. When the navy eats fish, after eating one side, it is never allowed to turn it over first and then eat the other side, because they are taboo to "flip" this action; As for the Army, there is also a lot of superstition about flags. It was believed that if the flag fell to the ground, it was a sign of a setback for the army.

The tricolor flag was slowly falling in the morning breeze, and everyone ran after it, trying to catch it in the air and not let it fall to the ground. Even the old soldier left Polina behind and ran after the flag.

"Catch it, catch it!" Everyone shouted.

But I don't know what happened, suddenly a gust of sea breeze blew, and the falling tricolor suddenly turned in a direction and fell towards Polina, who reached out and caught the tricolor that had fallen on her hand.

"That kid, that kid caught the flag! That's great! Someone shouted.

"That's great!"

Also according to superstition, if the flag is blown down by the wind and whoever picks her up halfway, then he will hang the flag back with his own hands, and the bad luck will pass, and the rest will be good luck.

So the veteran went up to Polina, half-bent down, and said, "Thank you, young man, for catching the battle flag." Will you help us raise this flag again? ”

……

Losing Polina, Lucien was terrified. He knew that if Napoleon found out about this, he would beat him severely, and maybe his ass would be beaten into eight pieces; And when he returned to Paris, Joseph could not spare him, to be precise, he and Napoleon. Because Joseph had long felt that he was unreliable, Napoleon still supported him......

So Lucien stumbled around the battlefield like a headless fly. The soldiers cheered, and Lucien kept asking them, "Do you see my sister?" Do you see my sister? But everybody ignored him.

At this time, the soldiers suddenly shouted again in the direction of the fortress. Lucien also looked over there, and was suddenly stunned.

"Hell! What do I see? Is that...... That's ......"

It was Polina, who stood on the top of the fortress and hoisted a tricolor. The soldiers cheered at her, and Polina, who had gone mad, had completely forgotten about her brother's search, and she even took off her hat and waved it at them, following the example of the soldiers below who were waving their hats at her, and her long hair fluttered in the morning breeze along with the tricolor.

A few years later, when the men of the Bonaparte family ascended to the throne of power, Polina's story was spread everywhere by various people with good intentions, and the plot of the story also changed from Polina getting lost and straying into the battlefield, and happened to receive the flag, becoming Polina strayed into the battlefield, and holding high the flag in the hands of the standard-bearer who thought she had sacrificed on the battlefield, leading the French warriors to fight bravely and finally defeat the British (the British said that they were obviously Spaniards!). Recaptured Toulon. Some even gave Polina the nickname "Joan of Tea" for this. To this, of course, Polina said, "What? There are still people who think I have any 'Joan of Arc'? ”

(Originally, Polina in time and space had a very bold style of life and was a famous "lustful generation girl".) It is said that when the sculptor Canova gave her the statue, he wanted to treat her as the goddess of the hunt. But Polina said that it is better to follow the example of Venus, because the goddess of hunting is still the goddess of chastity, and there are still people in all Europe who believe that I have any chastity here? ）

But at this time, although the soldiers were cheering at her, they did not regard her as a "holy woman", at most, they only regarded her as some kind of auspiciousness. Lucien, on the other hand, ran to the fortress.

Next to the fortress, several soldiers stopped him, "Who are you and why are you running here?" Are you a spy for the British? ”

"I am the younger brother of General Napoleon Bonaparte, my sister is in it, I want to see her!" Lucien hurriedly shouted, he knew that on the battlefield, just suspicion can kill. And when he shouted like this, whether people believed it or not, at least until they figured it out, they would definitely not shoot him.

"You are the younger brother of General Bonaparte?" The soldiers were obviously not convinced, but, as Lucien thought, they had to verify it first.

"If you lie to us, you'll die a miserable death." A soldier said.

At this moment a troop of cavalry came in this direction, and a soldier ran over and said a few words to an officer on the other side, and the officer came on horseback.

"Lucien? How did you end up here? ”

"Ah, Napoleon! Our ship was blown here by the wind...... Polina is in the fortress now......"

……

Immediately after that, the soldiers saw a good show. Their general, with his whip, chased after his brother, while Lucien ran around Polina.

"Lucien, manly man, don't hide behind a woman!" Napoleon said.

"A manly man, you have to have your own opinions, how can you do whatever you say?" Lucien gasped in response.

"Polina, get out of the way and let me kill this unreliable bastard!"

"Napoleon, don't hit Lucien, this thing ......"

While they were making a fuss, Augereau came over, "General, the British cavalry has appeared!" ”

Napoleon paused and glared at Lucien fiercely, "I'll clean you up later!" ”

Then he threw down his whip and went with Augero.

The British sent only a small group of cavalry who came to reconnoitre. This is also normal, the front Davout has just retreated, where can they have such a fast speed, they can immediately mobilize the army and launch a counterattack? However, the appearance of the British cavalry meant that a new battle was about to break out.

"The British would not be unaware of the significance of this fortress. Without this, they would not have been able to hold Toulon. They're going to go back soon. Augereau, find a few people and take Polina and that silly hat to safety. There's going to be a war here. Napoleon said.

As Napoleon judged, the British quickly reacted. They quickly launched a counterattack on Fort Mulgrave, knowing that with every second of the counterattack, the French defenses at Fort Malgrave would become stronger. The success rate of their counter-offensive will drop a bit.

So, at noon that day, they launched a large-scale attack on Fort Mulgrave without adequate preparation.

The British first bombarded Fort Mulgrave with artillery. Then the lobster soldiers in red uniforms approached in a neat line.

Fort Mulgrave is a new type of fortress that is less than two meters high and has a steep slope to withstand shelling, making it almost impossible for the walls to collapse in the face of shelling. But if the enemy's infantry rushes up, they can even rush directly to the walls after the run.

Napoleon's army had just captured the Mulgrave fortress, and the various details of the fortress were not very clear, and there was no artillery firing table available, so although the British attack was not fully prepared, the defense on Napoleon's side was also not well prepared.

The British pressed almost all the hole cards in one go, and put out five or six thousand troops in this attack at once. However, the fort's defense bonus is still not to be underestimated. Even if there was no firing table, the effect of the shelling would be reduced, but in the process of the British approaching, the French artillery fire still caused a lot of casualties to the British. But the lobster soldiers approached the fort under artillery fire.

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