Chapter 148: , The liberation of Italy (3)


After swift preparation, more than a thousand cavalrymen of the Kingdom of Sardinia rushed towards the French skirmishers.
   However, when the cavalry is preparing to attack, there will always be some signs. If it is a dry and sunny day, they will raise dust. Of course, it has been rainy recently and the ground is wet. This problem has been avoided. But the concentration of cavalry in the brigade also requires other armies to make way for them. This sign is hard to hide. So before the cavalry of the Kingdom of Sardinia came out. Napoleon keenly discovered this call.
   "Where is the shepherd? Where is the shepherd?" Napoleon said, "Take your cavalry and help the skirmishers!"
   "Shepherd Dog" is Napoleon's nickname for Augereau, and Augereau himself is very proud of this nickname. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to capture more than three hundred Peppa Georges with a whip.
"Yes!" Jerome happily replied. He lowered his head, checked the four revolvers stuck on his belt and the sword hung around his waist, then stepped on his horse and turned towards the cavalry. Passed over there.
   As for Napoleon, he continued to stand there, stepping on a stone with one foot, holding the binoculars and looking across.
   The Sardinian cavalry had completed their preparations at this time, perhaps because they were not clear about the range of the guns in the French skirmishers in front, because they had been behind the team before. They only knew that according to the order, they launched an assault on the French skirmishers, but the person who sent the order did not tell them that the guns in the hands of the French had a range of more than three or four hundred yards. Therefore, after the cavalry came out, they did not immediately disperse the formation, but still maintained a relatively close formation, approaching the French with small steps.
   Under normal circumstances, this makes sense. First of all, maintaining a tighter formation helps to maintain discipline-anyway, it’s still far from the enemy, and it’s too late to disperse when it gets closer. Since the "little melon" has been widely used, no country’s cavalry will continue Use a wall-mounted charge.
  As for using small steps to approach, this is because the war horses used by the Sardinian army are not nuclear-powered Mongolian horses, and they cannot keep sprinting at the highest speed. Run a small step outside of the enemy's range, and then gradually increase the speed, reaching the highest speed when it is approaching the opponent's "Little Melon" range. In this way, the damage to the cavalry from the cantaloupe of the skirmishers can be minimized.
   Skirmisher Daniel had just loaded the bullets, and the company commander Amy’s voice rang in his ear: "Prepare, aim at the enemy cavalry..."
   Everyone raised their guns, but Captain Amy seemed to be showing off his amazing lung capacity, deliberately dragging his voice to the old elder's. One of the important reasons why he can be a company commander is because Captain Rana is attracted by his loud voice. Even on a noisy battlefield, his shouts can be heard around him. Of course, a loud voice, no matter how loud it is, it is impossible for all skirmishers to hear it. At this time, his huge lung capacity worked. He can drag the voice long, so that other company commanders can shout after they hear it, and then as much as possible to maintain the consistency of the final command.
   Amy finally finished shouting that aria-like "cavalry". He took a deep breath, counted the number in his heart, and then yelled, "Fire!"
   The other company commanders also called out to fire at the same time. More than two thousand skirmishers successively fired a round of volleys at the Sardinian cavalry who were still five hundred yards away.
  Because the cavalry had a large target and they were still lined up in a dense formation at this time, this round of volley fire, although the distance was very long, almost reaching the limit of the Mini rifle range, it still achieved very good results. The Sardinian cavalry fell from their horses one after another, like autumn leaves falling from the branches in the cold wind.
   "Damn it! How far can their guns go!" General Kohli began to consider how to explain to the king, and put the blame for the defeat on the incompetent arms factory.
   This round of unexpected blows also made the Sardinian cavalry mess. The ones in front saw the cavalry with their comrades falling to the ground. Some wanted to stop the horse, some began to kick the horse's stomach with spurs so that it could fly away, and some didn’t understand at all. Gesture.
So the one who wanted to stop ran into the one who was moving forward at the normal speed; the one who wanted to rush forward took a few steps and looked back and saw that everyone did not follow up, and then slammed the brakes; wanted to... Ran next to him-in short, the entire cavalry team was in a mess.
Count Vivaldi, the commander of the cavalry division, tried hard to maintain the team. He shouted loudly, tried hard to reorganize the team, and ordered the team to immediately charge at full speed... However, at this moment, the second round of gunfire sounded again. ...
   This round of volleys made the Italians even more chaotic, but it also made many smart Italians understand: "Choosing together is attracting bullets, everyone must scatter immediately!"
   So the cavalry scattered away in a mess. Some of the smarter cavalry's horses under the crotch seemed to be frightened. They ran around, and suddenly they didn't know where they were going.
Although the range of the Mini rifle is much longer, when the skirmishers face the enemy light cavalry, they can also shoot two rounds under normal circumstances. Next, they must rely on the "Bonaparte Melon" and the revolver. Pistols and bayonets fought.
   But at this time, since the Italians are willing to let the skirmishers fight a few more volleys, naturally everyone can't just betray others' good intentions, right? So taking advantage of this opportunity, the skirmishers fired another round.
   Count Vivaldi managed to control a part of the troops, he ordered: "All the division charge!" So finally a part of the cavalry under his command, at the fastest speed. The chaotic formation rushed towards the skirmishers.
   While they charged, they got another salvo. However, because their speed has increased, the losses caused by this round of volleys have been much smaller than the previous few times.
   Count Vivaldi slowly reduced the speed of his horse so that the other cavalry could pass him. At the same time, he also saw that the Frenchman on the opposite side had already been bayoneted and took out the cantaloupe.
  According to the experience taught by the Austrians, at this time the French had no bullets in their guns, so as long as they rushed through their round of "little melons", the rest was to fight with sabers and bayonets. Although the French skirmishers are very brave, the saber still has a clear advantage over the bayonet.
   "They won't form a hollow phalanx. How can they fight against the cavalry with their individual bayonets? Of course, they can't form a hollow phalanx, because we also have ‘little melons’.
An Austrian friend said at the time.
   The cavalry was close to the shooting range of "Little Melon", and a group of little Melons flew over from the opposite side. In previous exercises, the cavalry was familiar with this situation. He lowered his head, pressed his body against the horse's neck, and rushed over in the blink of an eye, right? But that was acting—no, it was an exercise. At that time, the "little melon" thrown over won't be fried! So some people running in the front couldn't help but want to turn, and some people running behind couldn't help but want to slow down (they wanted to wait for the melon to explode before rushing over) and then many smart people ran into it. Together... Immediately afterwards, the "Little Melons" exploded and took away another wave of cavalry.
However, Count Vivaldi was not injured. This is not because there are bullets and shrapnel in this world that will avoid the rules of high-ranking officers, but because he is the smartest of all the cavalry who charge, and he has slowed down a long time ago. The speed made himself far behind the team, and even when the cavalry was close to the opponent's "melon" range, he deliberately pulled a certain distance away from the queue.
   "The only thing left is the saber versus the bayonet! We can do it!" Count Vivaldi looked at the cavalry in front of him, assessed the loss along the way, and then made this judgment.
   However, there was no head-to-head battle between bayonet and saber as he had imagined. Instead, there was a intensive gunfire.
Colonel Jean Rana also dropped the rifle in his hand, pulled out the revolver from his waist, and pointed the muzzle at an Italian cavalry who was rushing towards him. He fired two shots in a row, the Italian cavalry. Fell down; he pointed the muzzle at another Italian cavalry again, and fired two shots with "pop, pop", and this Italian cavalry fell; he pointed the muzzle at another Italian cavalry again, "pop, pop" company After firing two shots, the Italian cavalry fell; he pointed the muzzle at the last Italian cavalry again, "Da...", there was no bullets, he quickly pulled out another revolver, and looked again, the Italian Long ago fell from the horse...
The revolver, which can be fired continuously, completely blinded the Italians. At this time, someone saw the French cavalry rushing over, so a wise man first understood it, turned the horse's head and ran, and then everyone rushed together. Of course, the wise Count Vivaldi was also running away, and ran the fastest.
   Jerome led the cavalry past the skirmishers and chased them. He tried hard to drive the enemy directly into their position. It would be ideal if the Italians' own cavalry could disrupt the formation of their own infantry.
   However, Jerome’s expectations did not become a reality. The Italians have always been cautious. After the cavalry attacked, they carefully resumed the refusal before the position. Therefore, the Italian cavalry could only turn in front of their own array, and Jerome bit their tails tightly, and leaning on less than two hundred cavalrymen, drove an enemy cavalry division from the battlefield.
The leader of the skirmish regiment, Colonel Jean Rana, stood tiptoe and watched the chasing of the cavalry over there. When he saw that the Italian cavalry had not overwhelmed the formation, he shouted with joy: "Brothers, I've said that. No, don’t look at the cavalry looks majestic, but to solve the battle, we still have to look at our skirmishers! Now, go forward, let us defeat their private soldiers!"
   The skirmishers equipped with the Mini rifle were almost bullying people when they faced the Italian privates. Relying on the longer range, they are like peeling an onion, every round of shooting, the Italians can be stripped of a layer. This situation of being beaten but difficult to fight back quickly destroyed the morale of the Italians.
   What's more terrible is that the cannons placed in front of the position are now under the control of the French. When the Italians abandoned those cannons, they didn't care about destroying them. So the French directly turned the cannon over, and then-before the gun could be fired, the Italian collapsed completely. The soldiers fled in disregard of the officers' orders; the officers started yelling and threatening to keep the team, but they soon joined the ranks of fleeing and ran faster than the soldiers.
   More than 50,000 Italians fled in all directions. It was not easy for the French to catch them. In addition, the Italians were more familiar with the terrain, so after this battle, Napoleon did not catch too many prisoners. But General Coli, who retreated to Turin, also failed to gather many soldiers who fled. Approximately half of the soldiers were neither killed in battle nor captured nor returned to their homes. Instead, they went back to their homes.
   After acquiring more than a hundred cannons, the French army approached Turin by victory. The city of Turin was shocked overnight. People in the city have said that if the French enter Turin, they will behead all the nobles; there are also vivid legends about the French "robbing the rich and helping the poor" in other places. UU reading www.uukanshu. com Some people are afraid of the French and tremble with fear; others are looking forward to the French entering the city to share things.
   The nobles in the city of Turin packed up valuable things they could take away, loaded them into their wagons and fled to the west. There was a serious traffic jam on the roads from Genoa and Milan in Tongxiang, Turin, and all the horse-drawn carriages with various coats of arms were stuck there. Even the king's family fled to Cagliari on Sardinia.
   At the unanimous request of the nobles, the king announced his withdrawal from the war and sent envoys to negotiate with the French. In the face of the messenger of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Napoleon first put on an air of indifference, followed by various threats. Finally, under the threat of the French army, the Kingdom of Sardinia had to accept the following conditions:
   The Kingdom of Sardinia withdrew from the anti-French alliance and promised not to allow anyone or any force to use the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia to carry out any actions against France. The Sardinian army must surrender the three fortresses of Koni, Cheva and Tortona; before Tortona is handed over to the French army, Alexandria is temporarily handed over; the people in the French army control area have complete autonomy, they It has the right to establish an autonomous government and implement a revolutionary policy. The Kingdom of Sardinia must not interfere; the French army can move freely in Piedmont and has the right to cross the Po River in Valenza; all local police in Piedmont must be dismissed The Sardinian regular army must be stationed in various places as a garrison. The establishment of their strongholds must be approved by the French army. The army must not be equipped with any heavy weapons. Unless approved by the French army, the number of troops stationed in any other stronghold must not exceed 500. In addition, the Kingdom of Sardinia must hand over a large sum of money as war compensation.
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