The experiment with explosives to break the barbed wire fence was quite successful, but the plan to drive the sheep to step on the mines was abandoned after one trial. Because in the experiment, they just put a cannon in the flock, and the whole flock scattered in all directions, according to the direction of the flock to escape a little calculation, you know that most of the flock ran in other directions.

If you really drive the sheep into battle, I'm afraid that there won't be too many mines to step on, but the ugly appearance will definitely reduce the morale of your side. But you can't make the flock line up in an array, sing the Pleasant Goat March and go forward to step on the mines, right?

In the end, Bagration proposed: "The French have limited power in mines, we push them in front with trolleys, and the others follow the ruts." ”

"You'll be attacked by French artillery at a distance." Someone reminded.

The range of artillery is very limited when using shotguns, and the range of solid shells is long, but the killing range is very limited. But if Bagration's approach is adopted, it is in fact a column march. Advance in columns, and if you are hit by a solid shell, it will be a gourd.

"I don't think I'm going to push any carts in a column." John said publicly, "In the past, when we were fighting the French on the northern front, the French at that time, lacking training, could not set up the array at all, so they often used columns. They rushed towards us in column mode under artillery fire.

The column is easy to hold, even on the run. As long as there is enough morale, the army can quickly approach the target in columns. Although when the column is shelled, there will be a lot of casualties once it is hit, but because of the fast speed of approaching, the number of times the artillery can fire is correspondingly reduced. And because it was a column, the salvo of the rifle could only kill and injure one or two people at the front, so the French attacked quickly and quickly in a column, and the casualties were much smaller than expected.

Once they had rushed to the approaching position, the French spread out the column into horizontal formations, and with one volley, they entered bayonet fighting. Relying on the superiority in numbers and high morale, the French army defeated us again and again with such simple and crude combat methods.

I think that pushing the cart in front will certainly reduce the casualties caused by landmines, but it will also slow down our advance, which will make us have to endure more shelling. On the contrary, directly assault the ...... in the way of the French in those years"

At this point, Archduke John looked at everyone, then pointed to the map and said, "This is the area of mines of the French army, and you see, if we enter in a horizontal formation, all the mines here will pose a threat to us." But if we enter in columns, most of these mines, except for those that are right in front of our column, will be useless. Compared to the losses of going too slow and being shelled, I think it may be best to use the French way, the column to rush forward quickly, and then blow up the barbed wire with explosives, and rush forward to settle the battle with bayonets. ”

"That's right! The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a hero! Bagration slapped in agreement.

"It's just that this kind of tactics has very high requirements for morale. Later, when we fought against the French, we also wanted to imitate their tactics. But basically all of them failed - without the high morale of the French army, such tactics could not have been carried out. Duke John said.

As a general, Duke John was not too outstanding in his original history, of course, this is also related to his unluck, always able to bump into Napoleon. But this man's political ability is quite outstanding. Of course, he knew what kind of effect he could have when he said such a sentence at this time.

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the Russians next to them exploded like a powder magazine that had been ignited.

"Aren't you afraid of death? What's so hard about it? In Russia, there are heroes who are not afraid of death! ”

"If you want me to say, what they French can do, there is no reason why we Russians can't do it. I think that's all it takes! ”

"Yes, yes, bayonets are heroes!"

Everyone shouted for a long time, and finally they all stopped, and many pairs of eyes fell on the old marshal Suvorov.

Suvorov looked down at the map and remained silent. Finally, he raised his head, glanced at everyone, and said, "Since everyone agrees with this plan, then we will organize training for this plan." After the drill, we launched a general attack on the French positions. ”

While Napoleon was confronting the Russian-Austrian forces in Italy, the situation of the French army on the northern front was deteriorating sharply. After the French retreated to Liege, it was not long before the Prussian army pursued Liege and the two sides confronted each other in the area of Liege.

In the previous retreat, the French army paid a lot of casualties, and lost almost all the artillery, to Liège, although it was supplemented by domestic reinforcements, but because of today's strange weapons procurement system, the domestic reserve troops did not get too much money for weapons procurement, and as a result, the weapons they could hold in their hands were basically the smoothbore guns eliminated by the army.

If it weren't for the fact that Liege had to be supported by another blockade, the French army was afraid that it would not be able to withstand it again.

But a few days later, the British arrived with their artillery, and the defenses of Liège suddenly became precarious.

However, as early as the retreat of the French army from Hanover, the French government, especially Carnot, had already understood that there was a great crisis on the northern front. At this time, of course, the best way is to recall the Italian legions, otherwise, once there is another defeat in the north, I am afraid that there will be another battle for the defense of Verdun, if the defense of Verdun fails again, then Paris will really have to fly the white flag.

Therefore, the Directory began to frantically issue orders to Napoleon, asking Napoleon to bring his troops back home as soon as possible and go north to resist the British. But Napoleon, on the grounds that the war was fierce and he could not retreat, blocked these orders. The Directory issued twelve orders to Napoleon within a month, but Napoleon ignored them and remained firmly in Italy.

For more than half a month, the Russian-Austrian coalition forces have been confronting the French army, and there have been some small frictions between the two sides from time to time, but there has been no major war, as if everyone is on vacation and leisure.

During this time, the Russian army seriously practiced tactics such as attacking in columns and blowing up barbed wire with explosives bags. Finally, everyone, including Marshal Suvorov, decided that the training was enough, and the time for the decisive battle came.