Chapter 186: , Invincible Defense (2)

Early the next morning, the Russian-Austrian forces launched a tentative attack like the French position. The first is natural shelling. Generally speaking, the purpose of shelling is to destroy various obstacles in front of the enemy's position and cause certain damage to enemy personnel.
　　 The shelling of the Russian-Austrian forces is naturally the same. In front of the French army’s position, there are many wooden horse-proofing things used to hinder the actions of the cavalry. They are naturally the targets of shelling. In addition, the small earthen walls piled up in front of the trenches by the French army can also be bombarded with big shells. In one fell swoop, maybe it can cause a certain loss to the French army?
　　 Of course, this is just the fantasy of the Russian-Austrian forces. In fact, the French soldiers have not yet entered the front line.
　　 When the Russian-Austrian forces began to prepare for artillery fire, there was actually no one in the first trench. Before the enemy attacked, infantry would never enter the trenches.
General Peter Ivanovich Bagration watched the shelling in front of him. Suddenly, a strange phenomenon surprised him-on the French army's position, a huge The gray sphere, there is something like a basket hanging under the sphere.
　　 "What is that? Alyosha, bring me the telescope." Bagration shouted.
　　 Adjutant Alyosha handed him the telescope. Bagration stretched the telescope, leaning close to the gray sphere and looked over.
The big ball looked like it was made of silk. There was a hanging basket underneath. There was a machine in the hanging basket spitting flames upward. There were two people in the hanging basket wearing French uniforms, one of them He is holding a telescope and looking here.
　　 "Isn't that a hot air balloon." A voice came from Bagration.
　　 Bagration put down the telescope and turned his head. Marshal Suvorov, who wanted to come from behind, said: "Marshal, are you here too?"
　　 "Well, Peter." The old marshal said, "Remember the last time I mentioned to you the idea of ​​using a hot air balloon to perform battlefield surveillance missions? It seems that the French have come in front of us again."
　　The hot air balloon was first invented in 1783 by the Mengerfeld brothers in France. In November of this year, they also completed the world's first manned hot air balloon flight.
　　In fact, in the original history, Napoleon’s army had been equipped with hot air balloons, but at that time Napoleon did not like this thing very much, and later simply decommissioned it. The main reason why he did this was that the preparations for the take-off of the manned hot air balloon at that time were too complicated, and the perfection rate was very low. It was very restricted by the weather. It was inconvenient to use, but it took a lot of time. Big establishment.
　　 But this time, the hot air balloon used by the French army is a balloon optimized through a "military-industrial complex". It is equipped with a special fuel burner and a sphere made of silk coated with vulcanized rubber. It is relatively simple to maintain and use. In addition to the shortcomings of not being able to move freely, other problems have been resolved to a certain extent. In addition, Joseph provided the balloon soldiers with a slight improvement in the semaphore originally prepared for ships at sea, so that the balloon can provide almost real-time information. Therefore, in this time and space, at least for now, Napoleon's view of this thing is also not bad.
The French balloon surprised the Russian-Austrian coalition forces, but it is limited to this. After all, this is Europe. Such a thing may be able to pretend to be a ghost in some places, but in Europe, it is to make the Russian-Austrian coalition forces. The guys exclaimed: France's technology is really the best in Europe.
　　 But I exclaimed, I still have to fight. So after half a day of preparations for artillery fire, the Russian army began to attack the French position in a loose formation.
"Louis, you see that the Russians learn very quickly. Look, their skirmish formation really looks like that. Well, at least it can be seen that the morale of the Russians is quite high, not better than the Austrians. Less.
Looking at the approaching Russian army, Napoleon said to the officer standing next to him,
It shouldn’t be a problem for you to guard against their attack, but I hope you can expose our army less. Some little tricks that are still unknown. But they can't cause unnecessary casualties to soldiers. Is there a problem?"
　　The officer standing next to Napoleon was Louis Gabriel Suchet. As in the original history, Suchet knew Napoleon for a long time. In Toulon, he fought under Napoleon. Later he came to Italy with Napoleon. Unlike in history, Napoleon did not expedition to Egypt, so naturally there was no mistake in squatting, which led to the neglect of Napoleon for a long time. In this time and space, until now, Xu Xie is still one of Napoleon's good friends.
　　 "It should be no problem." Xu Xie replied simply, "Apart from the previous net, I will not expose more things here."
"Okay, I'll leave it to you over here. I'll look over there again." After Napoleon finished speaking, he took a few people and left the defensive section that Suche was responsible for, and went to Murat's army. Up.
　　In the prior arrangement, after Suche thwarted the Russian offensive, if the Russian army was retreating and there was chaos, Murat’s cavalry could take the opportunity to launch a counterattack.
Napoleon was not worried at all about whether Suche could block the enemy’s attack. Napoleon was not at all worried about Murat’s performance after the impact, but whether Murat could correctly judge whether he should attack and when, Napoleon did not have much confidence. Therefore, Napoleon thought it would be better to go to Murat.
　　 Soon after Napoleon left Suche’s position, the Russian skirmishers entered the French rifle range. The French soldiers had also entered the trenches and began to shoot at the Russian army, which continued to approach.
　　 Not many Ivan fell to the ground with a shot, because at this distance, even with a Mini rifle, the hit rate is not much higher. But as they got closer and closer to the French trenches, the French shooting hit rate became higher and higher, and more and more Ivan fell.
　　 But the Ivans still approached firmly. Such casualties are not enough to make this army that has always been victorious retreat. Then they walked into the minefield of the French army.
The French army’s current landmines have also made new technological advancements. Of course, this technological advancement was despised by Napoleon as
full of the stench of Abakon
(the protagonist of Moliere’s comedy "The Misty", in France, his The name is synonymous with miser), because of this improvement of Joseph, the biggest purpose is to save money.
　　 In order to save materials, the new mines have become much smaller. Even Joseph tried to use glazed stoneware instead of cast iron. It was only after the experiment proved that the cost saved was not enough for the loss in transportation. However, Joseph still reduced the amount of cast iron used to one-third of the original.
Not only has the use of cast iron reduced, but the use of explosives has also been greatly reduced. With the improvement of explosive production technology, the power of explosives fluctuates less and less. Today, there are often only a few grams of explosives in each mine. Up.
Josephus said: "From the data we obtained in Ireland and Poland, a landmine, even if it is a landmine with a lot of charge, on average, the chance of being able to blow up a few enemy forces is negligible. Yes. So, except for some special purposes, making landmines too powerful is a waste."
　　 Then Napoleon naturally retorted that the power of his mines is that no one can die. So "Abagon" replied: "Why do you want to kill them? Isn't it enough to blow them off one foot? Anyway, such wounded soldiers cannot fight anymore. But their injuries are not guaranteed to die. The army is not very good and gives them a joy. You have to raise them and let other soldiers see them to demoralize. Well, Napoleon, you said last time that soldiers are not afraid to see the bodies of their comrades. , In many cases, it will inspire their fighting spirit for revenge; but it's fine to not let the soldiers see the wounded soldiers, the blow to morale is greater than the dead body.
　　 Of course, the enemy forces gave them a good time. It is not impossible for UU to read www.uukanshu.com, but you must know the consequences of doing that. "
　　 "If the enemy retreats, will these wounded soldiers fall into our hands?"
　　 "Idiot! Then we can return the captives to them magnanimously, can they still not want it?"
So Napoleon was persuaded, but privately, his opponents said: "Don't call this thing'Bonaparte potato', it should be called'Abagon potato'. Yes, on this thing, It's full of the stench of Abagon."
　　 "Abagon's stench" is classified as "stinky", but by doing this, the cost of landmines has dropped a lot. Almost reduced to one-half of the original. If you consider the reduction in weight and volume and the reduction in transportation costs, the savings are even greater. This is reflected in the battlefield, that is, the number and density of landmines have risen dramatically.
　　 So the Ivans quickly stepped on the mine. With an explosion sound not much different from the sound of the shooting, an Ivan fell, clutching his legs and wailing loudly. The small power mine just now happened to explode no more, no less. He dropped the sole of his foot.
　　 Then another Ivan fell down in the explosion, and then more Ivans were shot by the French army, or the explosion of landmines fell down, and more wailing sounds.
　　 The wailing of comrades-in-arms is the best weapon against morale, and the actions of the Russian army began to appear a little slow. But they were still moving forward. At this time, something that looked like a rope net appeared in front of them.