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This Carl is quite brave, and he is worthy of being the guy with the same name as Grand Duke Carl."

In the Austrian Army General Command of Turin, Marshal Boliyu threw the newspaper on the table.

Carl led nearly 100,000 main forces of the First Army to advance towards Milan, so naturally he could not hide the Austrian scouts and cavalry.

Many times, nearby Sardinians would inform the Turin area of ​​this information.

Although the Sardinians were shattered by the French Defence Force, for the Sardinians, they were still very resistant to the French Defence Force.

In the eyes of the Sardinians, the French Defence Force was an invader and was unjust!

On the contrary, against the backdrop of the French Defense Forces, the Sardinians had a good impression of the Austrian army. Even when the Austrian army was stationed in the Kingdom of Sardinia, it caused a lot of harassment to the local Sardinian residents...

For example, a beautiful Sardinian girl disappeared into the grass and was found as a corpse. The cause of death was caused by heavy bleeding and shock below...

A doctor who knows it at a glance can tell that this is not a crime that several men can commit!

As for a Sardinian woman, when her husband joined the army and was captured by the French, and she has not returned yet, she suddenly became pregnant. It is not news in the Kingdom of Sardinia.

For the Austrian army, as long as they do not kill anyone, the big men above will turn a blind eye. Who said this is a war period?

We also have to rely on the Austrian boys to fight to the battlefield!

Even the Sardinian royal family dared not make any mistakes in the military discipline of the Austrian army. The performance of the Sardinian army was so bad that the Sardinian royal family had no say at all.

Even the Sardinian royal family had to deliberately bribe the top leaders of the Austrian army and let them open up a passage to allow the Sardinian royal family to continuously transfer property to Sardinia.

Of course, many nobles in the Kingdom of Sardinia were also doing this, even if there are tens of thousands of Austrian regular troops and nearly one hundred thousand armed Sardinian militias in the city of Turin.

The combat effectiveness of the French Defence Force was too terrible. The upper class of the Kingdom of Sardinia had no sense of security at all. The terrible rumors that Levi could hypnotize even eliminated the idea of ​​surrendering the Sardinian royal family and the Sardinian nobles.

After all, as a superior, no one wants his thoughts to be enslaved by others.

Even if the ‘other’ here is a dictator of a great power.

Therefore, in the city of Turin, where the defense is tightly guarded, there are many Sardinians moving with the efforts of their servants.

As for ordinary Sardinian civilians, they naturally do not have the capital to move. Once ordinary people in this era leave their hometowns, they will immediately become refugees!

Fortunately, the Sardinian royal family still has the most basic limit. King Sardinian himself did not leave. He just asked his little relatives to leave Turin early.

There are two main directions of escape in the Kingdom of Sardinia. The pro-Austrian Sardinian nobles fled to Vienna, while the Sardinian royal family and his followers fled to Sardinia, where there was protection from the British Royal Navy. There was no need to worry about the French who were blocked by the British Royal Navy in the port in a short period of time.

The Mediterranean is now the world of the Royal Navy. The Spanish narcissistically named Invincible Armada, several small-scale encounters with the Royal Navy were all completely defeated.

In addition to causing insignificant ship losses to the Royal Navy, no strategic advantage was achieved. Since the Royal Navy firmly controlled the sea control of the Mediterranean, the London government has even begun to formulate a plan to seize the Gibraltar Fortress!

Once the Gibraltar Fortress is captured, the British Royal Navy will be able to open unobstructed between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gibraltar Fortress is close to the ocean. The British army only needs a small number of troops to repel any attack in the Spanish under the escort of naval guns!

Even if you want to attack the Spanish Kingdom that betrays the anti-French alliance in the future, Gibraltar Fortress can be used as a landing stronghold.

Of course, there is also the most important point. The main forces of the Spanish Kingdom are fighting against the Portuguese Kingdom, and there are few defenders in the Gibraltar Fortress, and the British are confident that they will occupy it with thousands of troops.

Marshal Boliyu naturally knew how insufficient confidence the top leaders of the Kingdom of Sardinia had in this war, but he didn't care. Do the Austrians need to consider the opinions of the Italians?

In this high-level military meeting, there was no representative of the Kingdom of Sardinia!

However, Baoliyu is not aware of the situation in the Milan area yet.

I don't know that the Italian state coalition is disintegrating on its own.

"Since Carl has given us such a good opportunity, how can we be worthy of the country and His Majesty if we don't seize it?"

Marshal Baoliyou said with a smile.

There is only one division's troops behind the defense, and the other division is mainly responsible for escorting logistics and supplies. They are all scattered and not afraid of it.

The First Division of the First Army has only 10,000 people, and the Austrian army has more than 60,000 people. Will it still fail?

The morale of the Austrian army is not low!

After Marshal Bao Liyou understood that the generals under his command had no objection, he immediately began to mobilize his troops.

More than 60,000 Austrian troops were divided into three groups, advancing and covering each other, reaching the headquarters of Niza, the First Division of the French Defense Forces, which was left behind in the Kingdom of Sardinia.

In the field tent where Niza was the First Division of the French Defense Forces First Army, Niza held the enemy's intelligence that had just been sent by the scouts and reconnaissance cavalry, who were the guards and cavalry in his hand, laughed three times and issued a series of combat orders.

Three days later, both sides encountered a plain in the Kingdom of Sardinia!

According to the information obtained by the guard cavalry scouts of Niza's troops, they were facing an Austrian regiment of more than 20,000 people.

An Austrian corps with more than 20,000 people on each of the left and right wings are coming around on a large scale.

"Austrian Marshal Boliyu has a great ambition and wants to eat us in one go.

The first regiment was responsible for blocking the Austrian Corps that were detoured from our left wing, and the second regiment was responsible for blocking the Austrian Corps that were detoured from our right wing.

Don't send anyone to inform me until you're about to die!"

Napoleon and another leader of the second regiment were present, with a serious expression on his face.

Now Napoleon, who was enlightened by the administration, has long understood how brave and fearless the soldiers and officers under his command are, so Napoleon used a regiment (about 2,000 people) of his troops to resist more than 20,000 people in the Austrian Corps for half a day without any panic.

The resistance for most of the day was naturally calculated by Napoleon himself. The wild encounters in this era usually lasted half a day to one day.

Especially in this plain terrain, the ending time will only be faster!

Shortly after dispatching troops, Niza saw several battle lines forming in the monocular telescope, marching towards his side.

The flag of the double-headed eagle with a black and yellow background is everywhere. Every Austrian company will have a national flag, and in addition, there will be their own military flag.

Compared with the unified Austrian flag, the style of the military flag is much brighter. Some are the military flags that the leading officers think of by slapping their minds, while others are the flags of the family behind the noble commanders.

In this era, the army will carry a national flag and a military flag with unique characteristics when they go to the battlefield.

Only the American mud legs without nobles would use only one national flag from beginning to end...

The uniforms of the Austrian army are all white uniforms, while the clothes of middle and upper-level officers are in different styles and colors, especially the hats they wear, one more fancy and whistle...

During this period, European countries' unified requirements for military uniforms were only for grassroots officers and ordinary soldiers, and there was not much constraint on middle and high-level officers.

The more personalized middle and senior officer uniforms can also allow soldiers to quickly discover the position of their officers on the battlefield.

What?

You talk about the sniper threat?

Sorry, even a well-equipped front-mounted rifle can guarantee a hit rate of 200 meters, but which middle and senior officer is idle and runs within 200 meters of the front line?

Running to such a close distance, you don’t need a sniper to hunt, as shells alone can easily kill the officers.

The closer you get, the more accurate the artillery is!

All ~

As the Austrian privates were launched, Niza's troops, which were only three infantry regiments, were bombarded by a large number of solid iron balls.

A front guard infantryman who was standing in a tight battle line suddenly exploded on his chest, and a bloody irregular hole appeared on his chest. The face of the guard infantryman next to him was sprayed with blood. The guard infantryman who was hit fell to the ground, swaying without saying a word!

But what's even more unlucky is that the guard infantry standing behind the guard infantry has disappeared above the neck, and the guard infantry around it is covered with red and white residues...

Fortunately, this solid iron bullet has flew upwards from the company's phalanx and did not continue to cause damage.

At this moment, the intense sound of war drums suddenly rang out.

Faced with the Austrian Corps, which had an absolute advantage in military strength, Niza naturally would not have a reserve team and suppressed all the troops of the three regiments in his hand. With the sound of the drum beats of the war drums, he quickly launched the battle line and the gun line.

As the distance between the three regiments was closer to the enemy, four rows gradually formed.

At the same time, the field artillery under Niza's command also began to fire, and the artillery carrying the mortar cannon followed dozens of meters behind the guard infantry in front.

Beside Niza were the guards of a regiment that Karl left for him.

This is the army that Karl has expanded his victory after winning Niza.

Yes, Carl was sure that Niza would win before the war started, and the only difference was how much the losses were.

In the field battle, Carl firmly believed that the French Defence Force could fight against enemies ten times more than his own.

This confidence may be a bit blind, at least the countries of the anti-French alliance will never agree with it.

But it also proves how proud the French Defence Force is.

Among the solid iron bombs that were shooting interactively, the advancement line infantry were constantly killed.

Guard infantry is actually line infantry, but they are just the best among them.

Marshal Baoliyou, who was holding a monocular telescope in his hand, rode on a high-headed horse and stood on a small high ground, looking at the thin battle lines of the French army and the artillery positions protected by only two thousand cavalry behind the battle lines, and estimating the distance between the battle lines of both sides.

After the first shot of the Austrian Corps fired, Marshal Boliyu immediately ordered the cavalry general behind him: "Take all your cavalry and destroy the French artillery positions for me!"

"As for orders, Marshal!"

After a war horn sounded, Austrian cavalry, one thousand more than a guard cavalry regiment, rushed out from behind the Austrian regiment.

Cavalry is an expensive branch of troops in any country, and even in the Austrian army, the scale of cavalry is much smaller than that of infantry.

Not to mention that Bao Liyou also divided his troops into three groups, trying to completely eat up Niza's troops, the enemy's troops.

Bang bang bang bang...

The guard infantry, who had reached within a hundred meters, fired the first shot on the opposite Austrian private, half-kneeled on the ground, stood in the second row, and pulled the trigger and fired a volley.
To be continued...