Chapter 89 Training
From the beginning of the war to the present, the soldiers of the Imperial Regiment have performed very well, with high morale and tenacious fighting spirit. Except for the melee combat, they are worse than the French at other times, especially when firing volleys at close range.
Not much, thanks to Cheap Daddy and the national sentiment our family stirred up throughout the empire.
It's just that compared to the excellent grassroots soldiers, our mid-level officers and senior generals are much worse than the French. The fall of Bratislava was caused by the lack of experience of the senior generals. Torosidis has already
If he died in battle, I won't talk about him, but generals like Ventra and Kalnezis still have to continue training.
Like the Battle of Holabrun, as far as I know, the Duke of Vendôme has been sitting in the center of the army in the early stage, and the west wing is commanded by the French general Duke of Villeroy, and a little-known general Villeroy is the forward.
The two of them cooperated and beat my west wing to pieces. In the mid-term, Duke Vendôme moved to the west wing, and he stayed in the west wing.
The general supervising the battle in the central position executed his tactics very well, which resulted in us suffering heavy casualties when we crossed the swamp... In this way, the French generals were more than one level better than us, although Alexander and I were pretty good
We have some military talent, but if the French army wakes up to the fact that we are the only ones who can defeat Rome, then we will be in tragedy.
For example…
It continues with Napoleon, who made him a master who reached the pinnacle of tactics and strategy in the volleyball era. However, even for such a master, the lonely king who seeks defeat will inevitably fail and be exiled to a small island for a lonely life.
Speaking of Napoleon's defeat, it is inevitable to mention the various passivity of the French army in the later period. Such passivity cannot be undone by Napoleon alone, because his group of men inadvertently played the role of pig teammates again and again.
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The most famous ones are before and after the Battle of Leipzig and before and after the Battle of Waterloo.
Before the Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon defeated the anti-French alliance several times, but why did the Battle of Leipzig still break out and it was still a defensive battle for the French army?
There were only two reasons why the Battle of Leipzig broke out. That was when Napoleon's generals failed to cooperate well, prompting Napoleon to miss several opportunities to encircle and annihilate the main force of the anti-French alliance, causing the Austrians behind to join the war again. A complete pullback in terms of military strength.
The gap between the two sides has widened.
You know, even after retreating from Russia, the French immediately provided their emperor with more than 600,000 troops. The anti-French alliance's military strength at that time was almost the same, and it was only Austria's participation in the war that made the strength comparable.
The two sides became 600,000 versus nearly 1 million. The Battle of Leipzig would result in 190,000 French troops fighting 330,000 Allied troops, which was due to the sudden appearance of the Austrians.
Of course, just missing several good opportunities to encircle and annihilate the enemy is not the reason why the Austrians dared to rebel against France after having failed several times in a row. The reason why the Austrians dared to rebel against France was that when Napoleon led the main force to win the battle against the Allies,
when
.His generals continued to fail in other battlefields. In other words, except for Davout, Napoleon's most powerful commanders seemed to have no other comparable commanders, but this General Davout seemed to be there before and after the Battle of Leipzig.
Make soy sauce…
Well, let's put it this way, the Allied forces have found a way to defeat Napoleon, that is, not to play with Napoleon, but to beat up his generals. Then, the result is that Napoleon wandered around Germany with the main force of hundreds of thousands of troops. And the way to his hometown
The roads of Paris are blocked.
So now, after finally fighting to this extent, the French army is huddled in a defensive line. There are still many strongholds and enemy forces outside that need to be swept away. As long as we can hold on to a few key points, there will be no problem and we can still do it.
It shows that we are eager to conquer the French defense line, so why not do it.
The so-called training of generals actually means delegating command authority. This guy Ventra knows more about his opponents than I do. In addition, he is already old, so he will not participate in this "troop training" operation.
But he can still help me with my arrangements. According to his future functions, this old man can be a staff secretary or something.
The land from Frankfurt to Kassel in Hesse became a place for military training with a stroke of my pen. In addition to the Roman legions under my command, the Prussian legions also had to practice.
Artillerymen practice their skills and skills, soldiers practice their courage, messengers who run errands practice delivering orders, grassroots officers practice dispatching, middle-level officers practice their reactions, and senior officers practice strategic awareness. Anyway, it’s all kinds of training.
The Imperial Regiment and the Prussians have taken care of all the sports that can be practiced. For the Bavarians, Austrians and others, there are no sports that they can play, but for them this is very in their interests.
But they don't know that strong soldiers are created by fighting.
From April to mid-May, each of the legions under my command and the legion commanders accumulated a certain amount of experience using the fortresses of the German princes and several large fortresses on the French defense line. Then at this time, our
The first batch of reinforcements arrived, crossing the Alps and arriving at the Alexander Army Camp outside Ulm.
This batch of reinforcements was nearly 13,000 people. The two legions, in addition to infantry, also brought 2,000 supplementary horses and more than 20 cannons. According to the report of the general who came, they had a total of
Nearly 30,000 people arrived on the Italian peninsula. There were three legions in total. One legion was pulled to reinforce Italy.
The troops on the peninsula maintained pressure in that area, making it impossible for the French army in the south to withdraw to support the defense line in Alsace. Originally, the empire had deployed more than six legions in the past six months, but the reason why only three appeared here was
It was we who had to keep a marine force in the Mediterranean to remind the French.
The newly arrived legions rested in Ulm for two days before heading to Stuttgart. There, the first thing to greet them were four French fortresses that had been devastated by us but still maintained a certain combat effectiveness. As a force that had just returned from Anatolia
The rookies and recruits who came out of the Lia Mountains will be baptized by the French guns here.
The first guy who had the honor to receive my hand-to-hand training was an officer who was related to me, Captain Dionis. To be precise, he was related to Maurice's mother.
Commander Dionis is only 27 years old today. He was able to rise to this position so quickly. I think this is mainly because he is related to our family. Well, let’s put it this way, this is a guy who relied on nepotism to climb up, right.
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Perhaps, even though he had the reputation of having attended the West Point Military Academy in Constantinople, he still gave me a perspective, and this perspective allowed me to save the lives of thousands of people.
What happened was this. I ordered the attack on Colonel Dionis at 3 o'clock in the morning, and then I arrived at the front line 30 minutes early. Soon, during those 30 minutes, I just finished sighing that the other party knew that according to the French fortress
When the fortress went to allocate troops, it was discovered that something was wrong.
Where are the artillery?
Where is the suppression?
Why are the line infantry so neatly arranged?
Where are the vanguard troops with grenades?
Oh, I saw it.
I had just breathed a sigh of relief when suddenly, a black shadow appeared in front of my eyes.
cavalry?
Damn it, why did the cavalry appear on the battlefield at this time?
What made me even more confused was that Colonel Dionys actually appeared in the cavalry formation. Could he use these dozens of cavalry to attack the French fortresses and tunnels in the highlands?
But that's not what frightened me the most. I saw that guy raise his saber, and what he said the next second almost knocked me off my horse: "Romans, let's charge!"
"Asshole! Stop this fight! Stop this fight!!!"
The signal to charge had just sounded in front, and the horn of retreat came from behind. The French who were standing on the hill and looking down were confused, and then they probably saw a guy dressed in a fashionable dress rushing out of the safe area behind.
Arriving at the front line, gesticulating there, and finally inexplicably ending today's yet-to-be-started battle.
"What the hell!!!"
Faced with Dionis' actions, I stood in the camp and roared, in front of his infantry commanders and several other legion commanders.
"Fight!" Dionis said very nicely, not knowing where he was wrong.
"Fighting?" I probably had a crooked nose and squinting eyes at this time, "What kind of battle is this?"
"This is our charge to show our pride to the French! Prince!" Dionis still didn't know where he went wrong.
"Asshole! I have been living in Germany for at least three years and in the Netherlands for almost a year and a half. Although I have been in Constantinople for more than a year, I am not an idiot! I have not been beaten stupid by assassins! Any
One, any Prussian general or Austrian general knows that the formation you launched today is not a battle, but a suicide! You go and ask, you go and ask, in the most basic military teachings of the empire,
In the textbook, is there any paragraph that mentions that cavalry can be used in siege warfare? And is there any paragraph that doesn't mention digging tunnels and advancing along the tunnels toward the enemy's position to reduce losses! You're better off! Form a tight formation.
In the infantry line, there are no skirmishers, but you do have vanguard soldiers, and they are well positioned. However, you don’t even have artillery, and you are going to launch a frontal charge. Are you looking for death?"
"Your Highness the Prince! I think that using artillery is a cowardly act. Launching a frontal and violent charge against the enemy is the heroic act that the Thousand-Year Empire and we Romans should have!"
"Coward!?" I wanted to slap this guy in the face, but I held back, but the table next to me was damaged. When these officers stared at me, I actually smashed the table.
I heard a loud crash and the table fell apart. This phenomenon even shocked me.
Chapter completed!