Chapter 319: Attack Failed
The moment Russia declared war, Napoleon knew he had won. At least now Kaiser Frederick III did not dare to act rashly, so that the Tuileries Palace would also have a chance to draw its hand against the British.
He was already very impatient with the evil dwarfs from England. Always be ready to concentrate your forces and devote all your energy to dealing with them. According to the information fed back from the northern front, the German troops stationed on the border line are now gradually withdrawing, and Napoleon's eyes lit up when he heard this news. This meant that the Germans were hastily moving their forces to the vicinity of East Prussia, the border with the Russian Empire, relieving the pressure on the Rhine Corps.
It seems that his last insurance has succeeded, and perhaps the Germans thought it was a small plot by Napoleon, but in fact it was a political gamble on his part to contain Germany in the Russian Empire in order to prevent an unnecessary war between France and Germany.
The Tuileries Palace was now completely free to deal with the British, who were to crush the British attack in all their hands. Anyway, now there is no pressure on France.
It may have been difficult to single out the Germans, but against the British Army, they were not afraid.
Waves and fog covered the entire English Channel, and the shoreline was full of barbed wire, machine guns and pillboxes, ready to prevent the landing of the British, the French had not expected the movement of the British army to be swept away by them, and if it were not for the bombardment of the artillery regiments in the later period, they would have almost lost a peninsula and two harbors.
"It is now very likely that the British will land on this stretch of beach, and Pan-Sang is located on the left side of the Bay of Saint-Malo, which is also where the French defense is weak. Napoleon specially sent two infantry regiments from the Orleans Regiment to garrison it in order to prevent the British from landing here. ”
Since the Tuileries Palace had guessed what the opposing commanders might be thinking, everything had become clear. They decided to carry out the plan of catching turtles in the urn, lure the British army to land here, and cut off their rear route to eliminate them in one last move.
This was similar to the German approach to Russia in World War I, which first lured the enemy deeper, waited until most of their forces had entered the encirclement, and finally countered the army and broke up their offensive.
Napoleon said, "Now that most of the Orleans regiment is placed here, do not mobilize the elite of the Rhine regiment without special incident, and we do not yet judge whether the Germans are really retreating or pretending." ”
"In fact, the terrain of the Constantine Peninsula is narrow, which is not convenient for large forces. Calais and Normandy have their pros and cons, with Calais having the advantage of being closest to England and being close to mainland Germany; There is no large port nearby, and there is also a lack of inland communication lines, which is not conducive to the development of depth after landing. Although Normandy was far away from the British, it had the advantage that the German defense was weak, the terrain was open and could deploy 30 divisions at the same time, and the third was that it was only 80 kilometers away from Cherbourg, the largest port in northern France. The British chose to land and fight here, which was really a wrong choice. It's a pity that they don't have allies, otherwise they will tear most of the holes open, and the whole army will be the same
A tidal wave poured in. ”
Napoleon felt like he was facing a Normandy landing.
By this time the British fleet had approached the beach, and under the cover of the guns of the ships, the soldiers jumped onto the coast, their wet boots trampling on the white sand, and headed inland for France. It's a pity that there is no longer the breeze of the past, and the British soldiers, who have lost face in the battle, are in a hurry to regain face, and have begun to charge forward desperately.
However, they did not meet with massive resistance, only sporadic firefights. After being bombarded by naval artillery, the French did not turn around and run away, fleeing so fast that the British soldiers were somewhat suspicious that they were fighting the mighty Imperial Legions.
The victory carried them away and moved on, their task was to tear a hole here, and let the follow-up troops successfully enter it, then they were completely like a sword pierced into the heart of the French, and if they continued to go deeper, it was possible to completely disintegrate the combat effectiveness.
Unbeknownst to them, however, the French had prepared a gift waiting for the vanguard. Just as they were trying to penetrate tentatively, numerous artillery units drove into the designated area. Hundreds of thousands of shells of various calibers swept through two vast areas occupied by the British in nine days.
After the garrison was completed, a fierce strafing began, and the British, who had tried to attack, quickly abandoned this plan, leaving only a part of the surveillance posts. Perform a re-turnaround and attack again.
They finally landed ashore, and they were unwilling to give up this attack. It is hoped that the myth of the so-called invincibility of France will be shattered.
So they organized a second attack, and the charging lobster soldiers swooped like a red tide in the direction of the interior of France, desperately trying to break the blockade and finally stand in the position of the victors.
There was a noise near the broken barbed wire, and the British rolled up layer by layer. But from the French, from behind the scorched stumps of the gray alder forest, from behind the undulating slopes of sand, a continuous and dense stream of gunfire crackled outward, shook the heavens and the earth, rushed to the sky, and fluttered in the air.
Boom boom, occasional salvo of individual artillery batteries, the earth-shaking rumble crawled forward, closer and closer.
The lagging machine guns of the British were firing wildly. Many columns of black smoke exploded, swept into the air like a whirlwind on the uneven sandy ground several meters wide in diameter, and the waves of attackers dispersed, tumbled, and scattered from the craters like splashes.
The black smoke of the shells swept the land more and more tightly, the shrill screams of shrapnel flying diagonally became more and more dense on the attackers, and the machine-gun fire on the ground was more and more brutal. They struck at the attackers, and did not allow the attacking British to get near the barbed wire. Sure enough, I couldn't get close.
The attacking British looked as if they had been crushed; It became a small river, and the raindrops flowed back backwards......
They were completely blocked by the French on the coastline, and an unknown fate awaited them, as well as countless artillery bombardments.