Obviously, France today is embattled, there are wars everywhere, almost the whole world is working against France, the British, the Orlies, the Spaniards, all countries are sharpening their knives and trying to cut a piece of fat (ròu) from isolated France (shēn).

The Italian legion in Nice was also frustrated by the Austrians, who had already begun to march into Italy, and the titular Italian legion occupied only a small corner of northern Italy, the size of a fingernail on the map.

In the face of the Austrian advance, in order to hold the natural danger of the Alps, Paris ordered General Lapudo to take the initiative. The top brass in Paris knew nothing about the state of the Alpine Legion, or they just turned a blind eye, and what was the difference between giving this order and asking General Lapudo to commit suicide with this little man?

The entire Italian army only has a mere 10,000 men, 30 mountain guns, and 4,000 military horses, do you think this number is a lot? Excluding the horses that pull the baggage wagons, as well as those who are old, sick and thin, the full number of horses that can really be used as war horses is only a thousand!

Han Xing became the commander of the cavalry unit with honor, and the thousand cavalry had to rely on Han Xing to train, fortunately, Han Xing had the help of the horse farm in the [Riverside District], and he only needed to put the stallion into it for quick development, and in a month, he expanded the cavalry to 1,500 people, and the war horses under his crotch were all handsome and extraordinary first-class goods!

After receiving the battle order from Paris, the old general Lapudo had to lead his troops to comply with the "chaotic orders" of the Parisian side, cross the Alps and go to the Piedmont region to face the Austrian forward troops head-on.

The two armies met in a hilly area at the foot of the Alps, with the French occupying a slightly higher hill and the Austrians occupying a slightly lower hill a kilometer away, with a plain between the two hills, so the French began to bombard the Austrian army with the advantage of altitude.

But the results of the shelling were not ideal, the mountain artillery of the Italian Legion was an old product, and the accuracy was already floating, but now it is in disrepair, and when it is shot out, I am afraid that even his own father does not know where it is crooked! Coupled with the fact that the artillery officer was a two-knife officer, the damage caused by this shelling to the Austrian army could be said to be minimal.

Han Xing could even see that only one shell in the distance had successfully fallen into the formation of the Austrian army, but this was still a marginal ball, it seemed that because of the distance and distance problems, it was just a few Austrian soldiers knocked to the ground! And Han Xing could even see through the binoculars that most of them were standing up again, and only one was carried down on a stretcher.

Han Xing's nose almost made him angry! A round of shelling actually caused only single-digit casualties on the enemy! This artillery officer is too secondary! Where is this shelling, it's a fireworks display! He immediately rode to the artillery position and questioned the artillery officer, just as he grabbed the artillery officer by the neck and was about to attack.

He found that his artillery was so speechless that it hurt to the egg, they were pounding for a long time, it was like embroidery! Even the action of cleaning the chamber of the cannon is awkward to death, which makes people feel that the fire is big when they see it. Isn't this the virtue of the artillery that Napoleon had just taken over?

"What kind of soldier do you teach? Even cleaning the gun chamber (qíng) has to be delayed for a long time! When you shoot the next shot, I'm afraid I'll have to wait for all my hair to turn white! Han Xing grabbed the artillery officer's collar and cried and laughed.

"Our army is short of shells and gunpowder, and I don't have a chance to let them practice firing artillery!" The middle-aged artillery officer spread his hands with a wry smile on his face.

"Then why don't you let them practice loading and cleaning in the flat (rì)!" It turns out that it's not this guy's pot, and they all say that sharpshooters are fed with bullets, and I'm afraid that this kind of thing (qíng) has to be practiced with real guns.

"Actually, I don't know much about it!" The artillery officer said with a look of embarrassment.

"Then you draw a picture for them! Or write an instruction manual to educate them about how the cannon works! ”

"I can't read!"

"Which artillery officer school did you graduate from? I'm going to shoot your instructors!" ”

"I didn't go to military school!" The middle-aged man was about to cry when he was wronged by Han Xing's repeated questions, and he replied tremblingly.

"You've won! It's under me that I lost! "Han Xing's heart is called a convincing!" No wonder you can't hit a single shell! You haven't studied ballistics at all, have you? What he didn't know was that, in fact, most of the artillery of this era was like this, and their loading and (shè) shells were purely based on experience, and they were not much better than ordinary people! I don't know anything about academics.

It is precisely because most of the artillery is not powerful that Napoleon's tactics of large-scale artillery clusters seem shocking, isn't it? Napoleon is an unborn talent, if every artilleryman has his level, I am afraid that there will be no future Napoleon the Great in the world!

Seeing the black line on Han Xing's face, he silently looked at the overwhelmed artillerymen, and the artillery officer said, "Major Segaard, your worries are unnecessary!" What was shot just now was the only remaining shell of our army! So, there is no need for artillerymen to practice reloading skills at all! ”

Han Xing's jaw was about to fall to the ground, ", the war has just begun, you have only shelled one round, and you told me that you ran out of ammunition?" What is this!! Han Xing was about to beat this guy up hard to find out if the ammunition had been embezzled by him.

However, it was found that the Austrian army's return fire had come one after another, and the entire artillery position was destroyed in a mess, and several artillery pieces were directly hit by solid bullets and turned into pieces of broken iron. After the original battle of Gibraltar, Han Xing already had experience in evading the shelling, and decisively lay on the ground, and a solid bullet swept over Han Xing's head with a breaking sound and embedded in the hillside behind the position, making a loud ping pong sound.

After the bombardment, the French artillery positions were in shambles, as if they had been hit by a tornado, the heavy cannons were staggered, the ground was left with depressions, and there were still white smoke iron balls lying inside. Thankfully, these shells are not the flowering shells of modern warfare, otherwise they will explode everywhere, and I am afraid that the entire artillery position will be turned upside down!

According to rough estimates, the Austrian army had about 50 artillery pieces, more than 6,000 infantry, and more than 2,000 cavalry. However, in fact, it is still unknown whether the nearly 10,000 infantry of the Italian Legion can exert fifty percent of its strength!

Austrian artillery continued to bombard French positions, and there was a tendency to focus on "taking care" of cavalry, in order to avoid artillery bombardment, Han Xing, after obtaining the consent of General Lapudo, led the cavalry into the forest on the right side of the hillside, so as to avoid the shelling.

This shows the superiority of the cannon (xìng), the cannon is a completely new weapon, with the cannon, you can avoid contact with the enemy (qíng) from a distance of a kilometer, and carry out a substantial (xìng) attack on the enemy, which is incomparable to other weapons!

And in this era, to occupy the artillery advantage means to occupy the initiative on the battlefield, and the defeat of the French army in the artillery contest directly led to the French army being at a disadvantage in this war. In fact, if the Austrians were bad enough, they could have shelled the disgusting French all the time. Provided they have plenty of ammunition!

The Austrians began to march, and it was foolish for them to choose to attack when they had the upper hand in artillery and cavalry. After all, if they wanted to attack the French army, it would mean that they would have to attack from the back, and the French army would pose a great threat to them if they occupied the high ground. However, given the ammunition and the distance of the shot, this choice is not unexpected. After all, this isn't the Total War series of games, is it? Shells are not infinite! As soon as the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels of gold! The cannonballs are cast in iron, so they're expensive!

As the Austrian army approached step by step (bī), the French army began to attack in formation, but the effect was not satisfactory, the Italian army was not only backward in equipment, but even the quality of the soldiers was also hard, Han Xing even heard that a few soldiers did not hold back, and before the officer gave the order to "fire", they had already taken the lead in firing with trembling hands. This directly created a chain reaction, and the other soldiers followed in a hurry after hearing the gunshots, ignoring the officers' stops.

We all know that in the era of platoon guns, it was only by dense bullet barrage to kill and injure the enemy, and the effect of such an untidy (shè) hit was naturally greatly reduced. What's more, there were still about a dozen meters before the Austrians entered the best (shè) strike distance, and firing at this distance simply could not inflict maximum damage on them.

As a result, ten seconds later, when the Austrians entered the combat position and began to return fire, the French were still reloading! With the Qi (shè) of the Austrian army, the French army immediately fell in large pieces! In contrast, the Austrians suffered very little damage. The tide of the war was turning against the French.

Han Xing keenly noticed that as the infantry on both sides began to engage, the artillery of the Austrian army seemed to be left behind, and he suddenly had a plan.

He led his cavalry out of the forest and used the momentum of the descent towards the opposite hillside, intending to wipe out the Austrian artillery in one fell swoop. However, the Austrian cavalry on the opposite side also noticed this, and they began to leave the flank of the infantry and chase after the French cavalry led by Han Xing.

It stands to reason that the French cavalry would most likely be caught by the superior Austrians by the tail and annihilated in one fell swoop. However, taking into account two factors, the situation did not develop according to common sense.

First of all, the horses of the French army were better than those of the Austrian army, which was the credit of Han Xing; Second, the French army rushed up the opposite hill with the help of the downhill habit (xìng), which was already a line faster than the cavalry of the other side (shēn) on the plain.

Therefore, the French cavalry led by Han Xing succeeded in throwing the Austrian cavalry behind (shēn) and eating dust! And successfully pounced on the enemy's artillery positions, and the result was naturally undoubted, trying to use the breech cleaning tools against the cavalry's saber was a suicide at all! These artillerymen were tragically charged by the French cavalry, and in an instant they suffered heavy casualties and mourned all over the field.

At the same time, however, the French infantry front had collapsed! Despite the obstruction of the officers and the pleas of General Laputo, the soldiers of the Italian legion began to flee to the rear in twos and threes, forming a long line of fleeing troops.

Han Xing's brilliant results were meaningless in the face of this great collapse of the infantry front, and the Austrian cavalry had already begun to return (shēn) to harvest the fleeing French soldiers! Han Xing made a quick decision and decided to take advantage of the high ground advantage to launch a charge, crushing the Austrian cavalry from behind, to ensure the complete withdrawal of his own infantry.

The Austrian cavalry (shēn) was halfway up the hill and was descending, but the French horses were better and occupied the high ground, and the Austrian cavalry was suddenly torn apart by the French who had the advantage of speed and altitude.

Seeing that their own cavalry was in trouble, the Austrian infantry began to come to the rescue, while the French cavalry slaughtered nearly half of the Austrian cavalry at the cost of 200 casualties, and then relied on the horsepower advantage to successfully retreat (shēn), successfully covering the withdrawal of their own troops.

The defeated Italian legions had to evacuate Italy and return to France on the other side of the Alps, where they defended themselves with natural hazards.

In this war, the French suffered more than 3,000 casualties, mainly killed infantry, and the news of the defeat reached Paris, and Paris immediately dismissed General Laputo, perhaps in their opinion, they had the advantage and actually suffered defeat, which is simply outrageous! Of course, it may also be that they have long been unhappy with General Laputo!

Han Xing scoffed at this, as mentioned in the Game of Thrones TV series, "If the victory or defeat of a war depends entirely on quantity, then mathematicians should have ruled the world a long time ago!" ”

So, what kind of new commander will the Italian Legion have?