Chapter Twenty-Nine: Methods of Disruption
On the banks of the Rhine, the fires on the river slowly extinguished over time. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Charred corpses, sparkling pieces of wood floated across the river. The French army on the south bank was still standing in order, but the German camp on the north bank was in chaos.
The fire itself is not very powerful, and even if it is a highly adhesive petroleum stock solution, the fire will naturally extinguish after being sunk into the water. The key is the wooden pontoon bridge and raft under the soldiers' feet. In the raging fire, they all turned into charcoal, and the people standing on them fell into the raging river.
As the most elite soldiers in Germany, the soldiers of the three major legions are all armored, and most of them are full sets of steel armor, chain mail, and there are not a few people with heavy weapons. With such a weight, once it falls into the water, it is a strong sinking. Weapons are easy to throw away, but armor is not so easy to take off. Those well-crafted armors often require someone to help them put on when they are put on, and if they want to break free, they will not be able to do it in a moment, and in the water, it is obvious that there is not enough time for them to break free calmly.
Cut with a knife, bite with your teeth, and tear with all your might......
They probably never imagined that the sturdy armor they had always prided themselves on would become a prison that imprisoned them and plunged them into the abyss of death.
Those who have the strength to break free from their armor are only a few who float up after all, and most of them are sinking to the bottom of the deep river, and there is no chance to go ashore again.
Just one just right fire cost Germany most of its elite soldiers.
Those who had finally escaped death were mad and wanted to escape from the river, as if they were fleeing from hell, and the soldiers on the shore who had not yet set out for the battle were afraid, and there was no trace of courage to move forward.
The unarmored corpses drifted with the waves, some of them drifting to the shore, and their charred and deformed bodies spoke of the horrors of the previous situation. The armored corpse sank into the water, and it was unknown how long it would take to see the light of day. The burned wounded lay on the ground howling and weeping, but no one took care of them, no one stopped to treat them. All the unwounded soldiers, the reserves, under the angry shouts of the commanders, hastily built a crude defensive line.
The offensive and defensive momentum has been reversed!
Without waiting long, without giving the opponent time to lay out the defensive line, the French Revolutionary Army began to cross the river!
The military flags were unfurled, the military formation began to move, and a large number of rafts and pontoon planks hidden behind the military formation appeared in front of everyone.
As at the beginning, the rafts and planks were lowered into the water, and as the number increased, they spread towards the opposite bank.
It's just that the movements of the French Revolutionary Army are more calm, more stable, step by step, from south to north, slowly moving forward.
The pontoon bridge spread forward, and with the pontoon bridge, the French army began to move forward.
"Whoosh" "Whoosh" "Whoosh" ......
Interceptions began to be organized on the north bank, and a sparse array of arrows was fired towards the army formation on the river.
Most of the arrows were blocked by the large shield, and the small number of fish that slipped through the net did not cause much damage.
"Whoosh" "Whoosh" "Whoosh" ......
It was an arrow with fire, but without the cooperation of oil, such a small fire could not ignite the planks and rafts on the river.
Throwing guns, stones, crossbow arrows, and desperate shots from the north shore, compared with the original performance of the French Revolutionary Army, their number is too small, and the attacks are too chaotic, except for the attacks of some masters who can cause a little loss, most of the arrows are in vain, and they are blocked in vain and fall into the water.
The barrage did not work, and the first group of French soldiers stepped unstoppably on the land of the north shore, followed by the second and third teams......
The hastily moved fences were overturned, the hastily formed formations were torn apart, and the hastily organized charge was blocked......
It was not only the offensive and defensive momentum that was reversed, but also the comparison of the strength of the two armies, as well as the strength of the morale of the two armies.
More and more French soldiers came to the north shore and set foot on German soil.
The defenses of the Eagle's Beak Gorge were torn apart, and the army formation came east.
The resistance of the Migration Bend was crushed, and the army was approaching westward.
Swords and shields, spears, bows and arrows, crossbowmen, and phalanxes of French infantry began to assemble.
Light cavalry, heavy cavalry, dragoons, French cavalry phalanx began to gather.
They gathered at the gates of the German camp and began their final assault......
The battalion held the main road, where the remnants of the German army put up their last resistance.
Resistance becomes dense, resistance becomes sparse, resistance becomes sporadic......
Unlike the last night attack, this time, the French camp was penetrated at once, and the resistance formed by the tents was constantly crushed......
In the hopeless situation, the last remaining soldiers of Germany began to flee, whether soldiers or generals, whether they were warlords or marshals and nobles, in all directions, roads, paths, forests, everywhere there were fleeing figures.
They were not pursued and exterminated, nor did they stay in the German camp.
His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon's order has been given: "All the way north!
"Disturb Austria, isn't that what we're doing now?" said Adolf, puzzled.
"Yes, but according to our original plan, it would take months to start an Austrian rebellion. "And now, if the French Revolutionary Army crosses the river and marches to Berlin, if it goes well, the war will be over in a little more than a month, and our previous efforts will be in vain." ”
"You mean plans need to change?" said Adolf, touching his chin.
"A little change, others still go to major cities in Austria to open stores and secretly promote, while you and I have changed our strategy, we won't stay here for co-ordination, and go out to do a vote!" Zhang Ang said categorically.
"How?" asked Adolf.
"The French army is now able to win without Austria's support for them. They could come from France, but they could not also rely on cross-border transportation of food and grass materials, and they must have relied on the help of the Austrian royal family to raise support. The first thing we have to do is to find a way to cut off this supply line, so that the French army will not be able to advance directly to Berlin due to its logistics!" Zhang Ang analyzed: "I think that without enough supplies, just by virtue of the plundering along the way, in Germany, they will not be able to go far anyway!"
"However, if you want to transport food and grass supplies, there must be a special escort, and eighty percent of them are regular soldiers. Of course, if there are few people, we can still handle it, if the number of people is large, once we are besieged by a large army, we are not martial saints, and we may not be able to escape if we want to!" Adolf looked a little unoptimistic about Zhang Ang's plan: "Moreover, once we successfully robbed the supply convoy several times, their logistics commander is not a fool, and the more conservative ones will increase the manpower of the transport, and the bold ones will even lay traps, waiting for us to be fooled and besiege us." ”
"Moreover, we don't have any access in Austria, so how easy is it to know the route of this grain and grass escort?"
"Of course it's not to rob the grain and grass supply convoy!" Zhang Ang denied Adolf's speculation: "The reason why the French were able to successfully collect grain and grass materials in Austria was, in the final analysis, because of the support of the Austrian royal family, and the name of righteousness! That is, the Austrian archduchess who was about to marry the French Napoleon Emperor was here!" As you have seen in the past few days, in fact, most Austrians have no good impression of the French, but under the pressure of the officials, the city lords cooperated with the small group of French soldiers to collect grain and grass materials in various cities, and the people could only be forced to hand over grain and grass!"
"What do you mean......" Adolf's eyes lit up, as if he understood something.
"Yes, when I have trained the people below, the two of us will leave for Vienna! Kill the future princess of France, the current Austrian Grand Duchess!" Zhang Ang's eyes showed a hint of fierceness, and he cut the railway. (To be continued.) )