Chapter 155: , The distant bridge

The people of Eastbrovsky continued to stay in Toulon for technical training, while the people of Vibitsky left France after completing certain theoretical studies and reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance training, and went to Italy for internship.
　　 Napoleon had already stood his ground in Italy, and began to attack the Austrian possession of Lombardy in Italy, relying on sharp Bonaparte rifles and captured Italian artillery, Napoleon defeated Marshal Bolière steadily. In negotiations with the Kingdom of Sardinia, Napoleon forced the Kingdom of Sardinia to open the Valenta ferry on the Po River. This condition was also revealed to the Austrians by the Kingdom of Sardinia. After all, the Kingdom of Sardinia has no confidence in whether it can regain lost land, but only "trustworthiness". They have realized that unless the Austrians can win, Piedmont will say goodbye to them.
　　 Marshal Beaulieu did not dare to neglect after receiving the news, and quickly gathered all the troops that could be gathered near the Valenza ferry. In previous small-scale battles, he had realized how far his army was from Napoleon's army. Therefore, Po became his only hope to block Napoleon.
　　 Napoleon also brought the army to the vicinity of the Valenza ferry, and continued to send small units to cross the river for reconnaissance. As if preparing to forcibly cross the Po River from here, the skirmish between the two sides has almost never ceased.
　　 These small-scale conflicts caused the morale of the Austrians to plummet. First of all, the weapon gap between the two sides is really too big. The rifled gun in the hands of the French shoots fast and has high accuracy, making the Austrians almost unable to raise their heads. After defeating the Kingdom of Sardinia, the shortcomings of the cavalry in Napoleon's hands were also made up. These French scout cavalry equipped with revolvers, in small-scale battles, beat the Austrian cavalry into doubts about life.
　　 And since entering Italy, the morale of the army has also greatly improved. This is not only because of victory, but also because half of the military pay can be paid in silver coins instead of coupons. Considering that over the years, the army’s military payments have been paid with coupons, and the coupons have fallen into a mess because of inflation, but if you only look at the numbers, the soldiers’ salary has increased many times. Suddenly half of the army's salary is paid in silver coins. It feels like suddenly the fiat currency can be exchanged for a big Yuan at a ratio of two to one. The soldiers got so much military salary, and their morale naturally increased. Many fighters couldn't help but write home, encouraging their brothers to also come to Italy as a volunteer army to help the French fight for the country. The content of the letter is of course various, but there is one sentence that is almost indistinguishable, that is:
　　 "The enemy army is stupid here, with a lot of military expenses, come here!"
　　 Under such pressure, in order to defend the river bank, Marshal Beaulieu had to transfer all the troops he could find here, so as to take advantage of the terrain and withstand the French. On the other hand, he also constantly sent envoys to Vienna to ask for help at home.
However, Napoleon had no intention of fighting the Po River at the Valenca ferry. Just after Marshal Bollieu transferred almost all the other troops here, he took the army and marched fifty miles at an alarming speed. To Piacenza downstream. And directly passed the Po River there.
Naturally, such a big move by the French army could not be hidden from the Austrians, but Marshal Beaulieu had almost nothing to do, because his troops could not keep up with the French army's speed. They first tried to keep up with the French. After stopping the French in Piacenza, but after realizing that he could not keep up with the French, Marshal Bollieu immediately made the decision to withdraw from the Ada River and use the Ada River to block the French.
The soldiers under his men very much agreed with the Marshal’s decision. These days, through a series of small-scale battles with the French, everyone has realized one thing, that is: the French army is capable of riding and fighting in the wild. No.
In addition, the Ada River is more conducive to defense than the Po River in terms of natural conditions, because there are many rapids and rapids on the river, and there are few ferry crossings that are really suitable for the army. The most suitable for large groups of people to pass is only a bridge. , And then bombed the bridge. Although the retreat lost a large area of ​​land, at least they temporarily saved most of Lombardy.
　　 Napoleon naturally also knew the importance of the bridge, so as soon as he crossed the Po River, he immediately sent Davu to take a team of mounted infantry to seize the bridge. Napoleon originally thought that Marshal Beaulieu would directly rush to fight against him. In his plan, the French army would first defeat the Austrian army head-on, and then Davout interspersed in the past to block their retreat. Naturally, they could wipe out the Austrian army in one fell swoop. . But he didn't expect Marshal Bollieu to retreat so decisively.
　　 So when Davu brought the infantry on horseback to the bridge, he found that the Austrians were already crossing the bridge.
Davout looked at the army next to him. The number was only 500, but the Austrians there were at least 20,000 (including Italian mercenaries), and Marshal Bollie arranged a very good retreat arrangement, and the rear guards were quite arranged. Good—obviously a direct attack is not feasible. Even the brave Davu knew that if he rushed directly, there would be no good results.
　　 So Davu dismounted the soldiers and hid behind a small forest, while holding a telescope himself, he climbed to a small hill next to him and looked over there.
　　 The retreat of the Austrians was well organized. The army crossed the bridge in an orderly manner, and the guards began to withdraw after the bridge one after another. However, most of the last defenders were Italian mercenaries, and their retreat seemed a bit messy.
　　 Dawu knew that this was the last chance. If they waited for the Italians to cross the bridge, the Austrians might blow up the bridge. At that time, if you think about crossing the river, there will be many more twists and turns. So he quietly got down from the hill, gathered the soldiers, and ordered them to immediately attack the opposite enemy in a skirmish formation.
The French army immediately attacked the Italian mercenaries. As soon as the gunshots rang, something unexpected happened: The Italians persisted for a while at first, but suddenly, the Italians were in chaos. A row of guns were fired, and then the Italian mercenaries became a mess. They did not resist at all, but swarmed towards the bridge, rushing to cross the bridge.
　　 "This...isn't these Italians too cute?" Facing this scene, Davu was almost dumbfounded, and finally said such a sentence.
　　 The Italians pushed and cursed each other on the bridge, and even shot into the sky inexplicably. Dawu's people took advantage of the chaos and rushed to the bridge head almost without obstacles.
　　The Italians guarding the bridgehead either escaped the bridge or surrendered. Davu found an Italian mercenary officer who could speak French and asked, and he knew that the Italians were like this for a reason.
"The Austrians loaded explosives on the bridge. They told us to blow up the bridge as soon as we crossed the bridge. We originally did the ignition. But after the gunshot just now, a group of Austrian cavalry suddenly came towards the bridge. They're not here to help us guard the bridge, those Judas, they're here to blow up the bridge, they want to blow up the bridge directly, it doesn't matter whether we come here or not... These Judas!"
　　 The Austrians who came to blow up the bridge in the first team were seen through by the Italian guarding the bridge and were driven back. But the Austrians were obviously unwilling to give up. They soon organized a group of cavalry to rush over to blow up the bridge, but the French army that had reached the bridge head immediately shot them back with dense rifle bullets and cantaloupe.
　　Marshal Beaulieu almost fainted after receiving the report that the French army had occupied the bridge. But he reacted immediately. He noticed that his artillery was just behind, so he ordered the artillery to be pushed up immediately and fired violently on the bridge with solid artillery shells to cover other troops from going to blow the bridge.
The accuracy of the solid shells is of course very tragic, but there are a lot of Austrian cannons. Marshal Bollieu gathered more than fifty cannons at once and beat them on the bridge. Live, then back to the bridge. However, the French rifled gun was too sharp. The bridge bombing squad sent by the Austrians rushed several times, but UU reading www.uukanshu.com did not rush up.
　　 Dawu commanded the soldiers to blockade the area around the bridge with rifle fire, while also selecting a death squad from the team and going down to the bridge to remove the explosives. The Austrian wanted to rush over to stop him, but was shot back by a platoon gun.
　　 Just when Marshal Beaulieu made up his mind and planned to force it up despite the casualties and relying on the superiority of numbers, another French army arrived.
　　 The cavalry brought by Augero who just came this time. As soon as Napoleon discovered that the Austrians had retreated, he immediately worried that Davu would be in danger, so he asked Augereau to hurried over with the newly formed cavalry division. Davu, who was reinforced by the new force, successfully consolidated his position on the west bank of the river. The death squad he sent also successfully removed the explosives placed under the bridge by the Austrians. But because of the blockade of enemy artillery, it was very difficult to rush to the other side of the bridge.
　　 In the evening, Napoleon's main force finally reached the bridge. At this time, it was almost dark, and the two armies confronted each other across the river.
　　 That night, Napoleon gathered several of his officers together, assigned the battle task for tomorrow, and prepared to break through the enemy's defenses in one fell swoop. After all, the bridge was basically in the hands of the French army, and Napoleon was full of confidence in breaking through the opposing line of defense of less than 20,000 Austrians. However, when the French army launched an attack on the Austrian positions according to plan the next morning, Napoleon was surprised to find that Marshal Bolière moved in front of him again-he was crucified in the middle of the night. He closed the fire door of the cannon, then dropped the fifty-odd cannons and evacuated with the army.
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