When the first wave of attacking French troops led by Valendo entered the range of the Prussian artillery, they were greeted by the angry flames of the Prussians.
"Ah...ah!"
Screams rang out among the advancing French troops, but Valendo turned a deaf ear to them. For him, the only top priority was to capture the Prussian camp as soon as possible.
Under the command of the officers, the French soldiers continued to attack the Prussian camp despite the Prussian artillery fire. Death was always accompanied on the offensive road, and when the French soldiers marched within the range of the rifles in the hands of the Prussian soldiers,
, death follows these poor French soldiers closely.
"Quick, speed up and rush over!"
Valendo stood at the forefront of the marching queue, waving the saber in his hand and shouting loudly at the French soldiers behind him.
Under the urging of Valendo and officers at all levels, the marching speed of these French soldiers further accelerated.
One general's success will lead to thousands of dead bodies, but for ordinary soldiers, every general's road to success is paved with their numerous corpses.
Finally, after the first wave of French soldiers led by Valendo suffered nearly two hundred casualties, the front line of the Prussian camp was brought within their firing range.
"The first battalion opened fire immediately! The others continued to charge me!"
Valendo's face turned red and he shouted at the French soldiers beside him. After hearing Valendo's order, about two hundred French soldiers gradually stopped and held the rifles in their hands toward the guards.
The Prussian soldiers at the forefront of the Prussian camp opened fire, while the other French soldiers could only continue to rush towards the Prussian camp with the shells flying above their heads.
"The third team comes forward and shoots!"
A Prussian officer stood behind a fence composed of carriages and roared loudly. After his order was given, about a hundred Prussian soldiers took up the positions previously vacated by their comrades.
"Quick, fix the bayonet!"
Seeing that the French soldiers were not far from the carriage, the officers who had just retreated to the back immediately ordered the soldiers around them to install bayonets.
Fairy Ah is not an era where all kinds of hot weapons are rampant in later generations. If the enemy does not rush to the front and fix the bayonet, the result will undoubtedly be tragic.
Under the orders of these successor officers, the Prussian soldiers nervously installed bayonets on their rifles.
After the third group of Prussian soldiers fired a round of ammunition, the distance between the French soldiers and the carriage was less than fifty meters. In such a short distance, it would undoubtedly be very stupid to continue to order the soldiers to reload ammunition.
, because for these crazy soldiers, the distance of fifty meters does not take a minute at all, and one minute is exactly the time for the new recruits to load a round of ammunition.
"Bayonets forward!"
The voices of officers rang out among the Prussian soldiers. The soldiers with bayonets installed immediately rushed to the front line, holding their rifles tightly with their hands. For them, the only thing that could keep them alive at this moment was God.
Maybe only the bayonets in their hands!
"Come on!"
Smoke filled the battlefield, and after seeing that the Prussian soldiers had gradually stopped firing, Valendo knew that this was the moment when the bayonet saw red, so he did not say anything more, but waved his saber and rushed towards Prussia.
Human camp.
The sonata of artillery fire is played on the battlefield. At this moment, whether they are veterans or recruits, they are just human beings at this moment!
Due to the obstruction of the carriage, the French army was unable to open the gap in the Prussian camp for a while. The Prussian camp, which was arranged in a circle, was full of soldiers with bayonets in their hands.
Just when Valendo was unable to do anything about the Prussian camp, five hundred French soldiers led by Odyssey came up as reinforcements from the right wing.
All the horses pulling the carriages have been gathered into the camp by Germain, and only the carriages of the carriages used as fences are left. It is really difficult for the French army to break through this front.
"Quickly, push the carriage here away, we need a gap!"
Valendo stood in front of a carriage that had been almost destroyed by French artillery and shouted to the French soldiers beside him. After hearing Valendo's order, a dozen French soldiers immediately rushed forward and started fighting
They want to move these carriages.
But it is not a simple matter to move these carriages loaded with heavy objects. Although these carriages have lost the pull of the horses, the heavy objects loaded in the carriages undoubtedly created a new round of trouble for these French soldiers.
difficulty.
Just when the French soldiers tried to push these carriages away, nearly a hundred horses that had been gathered in the center of the camp had already been gathered together.
Germain looked at the defense line in front of him that was under pressure from the French with a stern face. Although Germain was not fighting on the front line, the waves of French offensives still made Germain endure an extraordinary feeling.
pressure.
"Battal Commander, eighty-nine horses have been gathered together. According to your order, the tails of these horses have been tied with burning objects, but is this really useful?"
Just as Germaine was looking ahead with a stern face, a staff officer hurriedly walked to Germaine's side and said, and after hearing what the staff officer said, Germaine said:
"Whether it works or not, I have no more options. Now we can only pray for God's blessing!"
After speaking, Germain waved his hand, and seeing Germain's actions, the staff officer who spoke before immediately waved the command flag in his hand a few times.
And just after the command flag was lowered, the horses that had been gathered together rushed towards the outskirts of the camp.
The eyes of these horses have been blindfolded, but what is unusual is that a long section has been added to the tails of these horses, and the things added to this section are not good things. They are all flammable things such as weeds.
things.
Before these horses felt the temperature on their tails and became violent, the Prussian soldiers had already opened a passage for these horses, and there was no doubt that right in front of this passage were the French troops who had been attacking fiercely before.
military.
Maybe in normal times, hundreds of war horses wouldn't attract much attention, but don't forget. It's almost nine o'clock now, and the sky has turned dark. In this case, the tail of hundreds of horses
It was very difficult not to attract attention with the flaming horse on top.
When Lucien, who was standing on a small high ground, noticed what had happened in the Prussian camp, his face suddenly turned pale.
I have to say here that no matter whether it is ancient Europe, the Middle Ages or modern times, those European generals are not even a little bit worse than the generals of ancient China.
Any Chinese who knows a little bit about history books will know that Germain’s tactics can be called the Fire Ox Method. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, Tian Dada of the Qi State relied on this tactic to save the Qi State that was about to be destroyed.
country.
But in Europe, this tactic is historically unheard of.
"Quick. Let the soldiers move out of the way!"
Lucien is indeed a very smart general. Although he has never encountered such a case, he also knows that it is almost impossible to use human power to resist these crazy horses at this moment.
But what Lucien didn't know was that under certain guidance, war horses could rush forward when they felt the threat of death, but in combat, it was almost impossible for these human armies to immediately spread out a gap.
possible things to do.
The direction in which the war horses were galloping was exactly a gap deliberately left by the Prussians. Of course, it may not be appropriate to use intentionality, after all, this gap could be said to be the main entrance of the Prussian camp before.
Long before the horses went crazy, the Prussian soldiers who had been guarding the main entrance had already moved out of the way.
But the French had no way of knowing all this. Valendo was even ecstatic about the gap opened by the Prussians, thinking that this was where he would break through the Prussian camp.
Therefore, in this narrow gap that could only accommodate four people parallel to each other, Valendo invested nearly two hundred soldiers at once.
The noise caused by the approaching horses had already made the French soldiers feel uneasy. However, as the commander of the first wave of attacks, Valendo did not think much about it.
In Valendo's view, these noises were most likely caused by the Prussian cavalry. After all, it was no secret that there were hundreds of cavalry in this Prussian baggage team.
For Valendo, as long as a certain number of soldiers are arranged here, even a charge by Prussian soldiers will be of no avail.
But what Valendo didn't expect was that what he had to face was not the Prussian cavalry who had a certain sense of reason, but what he had to face now was a group of horsemen who had lost their minds under the force of the flames.
Feeling the threat of the flames on their tails, these rogue horses will not think about how many people are blocking them in front, or whether it is life or death ahead. For these ignorant animals, at this moment, escape is the biological instinct.
!
Nearly a hundred galloping horses collided with the French soldiers blocking the gate. Facing these four-legged creatures, even though the French soldiers had sharp weapons in their hands, they were facing these crazy horses.
No matter how sharp the weapon is, you will never feel the ferocity of the flames of death at any time!
"Don't stop, follow these horses, and let me fight back against the French!"
Seeing that the Prussian soldiers under his command seemed a little stunned by the scene in front of them, the officers immediately used their roars and the sabers in their hands to let the Prussian soldiers understand that they were not just watching a show at this moment, but a real place.
On a battlefield where you can lose your life at any time!
"Harud! You bastard! Bring your people to me immediately to support Valendo. Don't let him be defeated by the enemy's counterattack!"
This reversal made Lucien's heart seem to be about to stop beating, so Lucien cursed the damn evil Prussians in a low voice, while on the other hand he could only let Harud lead the soldiers to go up as reinforcements!
In fact, these horses burned by the flames did not cause much casualties at all, but on the battlefield, sometimes the outcome is not determined by the number of casualties on both sides.
The Fire Ox Technique, no, or it can be said that the damage done to the morale of the French army by Germaine's Fire Horse Technique cannot be described in words.
"General, my men can't stop these horses!"
Harud looked at the crazy group of horses, and his eyes seemed to be about to cry.
Lucien's order just now made Harud think that Lucien was asking him to lead his soldiers to stop these crazy horses.
It was precisely with this in mind that even Harud, who was famous for his bravery among the French army, had to sue for mercy. After all, facing these crazy horses, no one could say that they could stop them with manpower. Unless He is willing to pay huge casualties for this!
"Idiot! I'm not asking you to stop these horses, I'm asking you to immediately bring people to support Valendo to prevent the Prussians from seizing back the gap that was just opened!"
Lucien no longer cared about his grace at this moment. He looked at Harud with red eyes, as if he was going to send this guy who misinterpreted his meaning to hell in the next moment.
After seeing Lucien's expression, Harud had no choice but to bite the bullet and quickly rush back to his army, and then commanded the 700 men in his hands to go towards Valendo for reinforcements.
"General, we have seen the enemy's trump card, but we don't need to worry about it at all. After all, our military advantage lies here, and there is no way those horses can defeat our army!"
Just when Harud left to lead the army to reinforce Valendo, a staff officer walked up to Lucien and said.
After hearing what the staff officer said, Lucien said:
"I know, I know it! But we can't hide such a big news from others. If our morale is taken away because of these damn horses, then we don't know how long it will take to completely annihilate these Prussians! You also know that we are not very far away from the enemy's main force, and if the enemy's main force works hard, they can appear here within three hours!
And whether we, with our morale deprived, can conquer the enemy’s camp within three hours is a huge problem!”
Although the main force of the Prussian army is still in Ayi, the distance from the ambush site to Ayi is less than a hundred miles. In other words, if the enemy runs desperately, then it is indeed possible to attack Ayi. Appeared on the battlefield within three hours.
And this is precisely what Lucien is most worried about.
Although the French army had an advantage in strength, Lucien did not think that the soldiers under his command could get an advantage in the battle with the Prussian regular army, even if the Prussian army was only half their number.
These soldiers under Lucien's command were all veterans of the French army. After all, they had all participated in the battle in the Austrian Netherlands, but it was this that made Lucien feel very uneasy.
A series of battles in the Netherlands ended with the defeat of Napoleon and the French army. This failure also cast a shadow on the hearts of most French soldiers, and this shadow cannot be made up by several attacks on enemy supply depots. Came back.
In other words, there are not a few soldiers in the French army who are anxious about facing the Prussian army in field battles. For many French soldiers, this mentality has even evolved into fear!
And fear is often the biggest shadow of an army's failure! Didn't you see that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were rumors everywhere that "the Jurchens are dissatisfied with thousands of people and are invincible". On the one hand, this rumor can be seen as the Ming Dynasty generals' response to their own defeat.
A kind of evasion, on the other hand, it can also be said to be the Manchu Qing's psychological offensive against the Ming army.
After all, when you have determined in your heart that the enemy is something you cannot defeat, how much deviation can there be in the outcome?
The French soldiers who originally blocked the entrance to the Prussian camp were seriously injured under the hooves of these red-eyed horses. Even though Valendo stood at the back and loudly encouraged morale. But the French soldiers who were snatched the first advantage were severely injured.
The army still only waited and watched helplessly as the Prussian soldiers took back the entrance to the camp again.
And some Prussian officers even commanded the army to launch a counterattack against the French army after these rogue horses. That is to say, this round of counterattack wiped out the advantage that the French army had previously gained by relying on its strength!
"I'll support him. If anyone dares to retreat, he will be shot immediately!"
Although Valendo kept roaring from behind the French army, the decline of the French army could not be changed for a while. Fortunately, not long after, Hadrou led 700 French soldiers to come up as reinforcements.
And it was with the help of these reinforcements of French soldiers that Valentin gradually stabilized his position.
This scene made Germain, who was holding a telescope, feel a little regretful, but fortunately, he did not expect these rogue horses to destroy the French army in an instant.
What Germain hopes is to buy himself a certain amount of time with the help of these crazy horses, and judging from the situation, it is obvious that these horses are enough to help him achieve his previous expectations.
"It takes more than four hours at the fastest to get here from Ayi. The casualties we have suffered are not small, but depending on the situation, we can still hold on, and that will be enough!"
Germain clenched his teeth secretly, and his palms were clenched into fists.
In fact, what Germain didn't know was that shortly after the French army began to attack Germain's camp, more than a thousand Prussian cavalry sent by Jarmain had quickly rushed towards the battlefield.
Although this cavalry was not personally commanded by Arman, it was obvious that the orders Arman had given to the cavalry had an effect.
Jarman in the city of Ay also received the news less than an hour after the battle started. The reason why he was able to get the news in such a short period of time is that the homing pigeons equipped in the Prussian army became the largest.
Hero!
When Germain left the city of Ay, Graeme asked Germain to take away several homing pigeons raised by the Prussian army stationed in Ay. After the French army launched an attack, Germain released these pigeons as soon as possible.
Homing pigeon.
After being released, these homing pigeons flew straight towards Ayi City without stopping for a moment!