Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 239 Wool comes out of the dog

Let’s talk about the coalition forces of the Habsburg family. They don’t give them for free. Although they have been going downhill recently, the lingering power of the Habsburg family is still there. It is not much smaller than the size of the French coalition.

In particular, the coalition forces assembled here in Luxembourg are larger than the French coalition forces.

It is precisely because of this that Franz II boldly ran to the border of Luxembourg to pick up Mrs. Deficit.

But Franz II never expected that Napoleon, who didn't talk about martial arts, would directly lead people to attack Luxembourg.

In terms of military strength, France's military strength in the direction of Luxembourg is indeed smaller than that of the Habsburg family.

But when it comes to combat effectiveness, the French army is really stronger than the Habsburg family's coalition forces.

First of all, the French army is equipped with percussion guns imported from Ming Dynasty, which are better than the flintlock guns equipped by the Habsburg coalition army in terms of accuracy, range, and loading speed.

Secondly, in the French army, there are not only a large number of high-level officers who studied under the Ming army like Napoleon, but also a large number of low-level officers who have been trained in the Ming Dynasty.

Although the French officers did not learn the essence of the integration of officers and soldiers and the integration of the army and the people of the Ming army, they were much stronger than the Habsburg coalition forces in terms of tactics and military discipline.

Especially in the hands of Napoleon, there is also an elite army that is fully equipped with Ming's weapons and trained in full accordance with the training mode of the Ming's army, known as the Europa Xiaoming Army.

Therefore, when Napoleon led this army to attack the Habsburg coalition forces stationed in Asdorf, the Habsburg coalition forces were beaten at that time.

"Who can tell me what's going on!"

"The more than 5000 French frogs outside the city actually blocked our [-] coalition forces in the city?"

As soon as he returned to Asdorf, he was dizzy by the bombing, and Franz II was also angry: "Can any of you tell me, besides staying in the castle and being bombed by the French frogs, is there any other way?" !"

Austrian Chief Minister of the Interior Zweig also looked confused. After pondering for a while, he bowed and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, I think that of course we can't blindly defend. We must find a way to counterattack."

Franz II hummed and asked, "So, how should we fight back?"

Zweig said: "You can lead the cavalry to attack the artillery positions of the French frogs, and then let the musketeers go out of the city to fight the musketeers of the French frogs."

Obviously, when there is no other good way, the method proposed by Zweig becomes the only way.

Fred Jelinek paid homage to the general, and was awarded the important task of commander-in-chief of the cavalry by Emperor Franz II of Austria. He was responsible for leading the cavalry in Astorf to attack the broken positions of Napoleon, while Ernest Gould also paid homage to the general, and was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the musketeers, who was responsible for waiting for the opportunity to go out of the city and fight against the French musketeers under Napoleon.

But what no one expected was that when the drawbridge of Astorf Castle was slowly lowered, Napoleon, who personally led the troops to attack, burst out laughing.

Seeing that Napoleon was so overjoyed, the left and right couldn't help asking: "Why is the general laughing?"

Napoleon pointed at the gate of Astdorf with a whip, and said with a smile: "I laugh at Franz II for his lack of wisdom and Zweig for his lack of strategy - if he guards the gate, our army can only smash it with artillery fire and kill him." In fact, there is no other way to implement the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness."

"However, after all, Franz has no experience in leading troops to fight, and Zweig only knows how to play tricks, so he dared to send cavalry out of the city to fight. Such a joke, isn't it an act of subjugation?"

After finishing speaking, Napoleon called his own soldiers and said, "Take my secret weapon!"

The soldiers took the order to leave, and after a while, someone from the French rear army pushed something to the artillery position, first carefully unpacked the box, and then fixed the secret weapon that Napoleon said, waiting for Astor After the husband's door was wide open, and after the Austrian cavalry led by Fred Jelinek left the city, Napoleon's personal soldiers ignited the so-called secret weapon——

Divine machine arrow.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

As the fuse burned out, 64 large sky monkeys smashed into the Austrian cavalry phalanx.

As we all know, creatures like war horses can charge against artillery fire after undergoing rigorous training. However, facing the extra-large, 64-mounted monkeys with rusty nails that have never been seen before, the Austrian The war horse couldn't stand it a bit.

The consequence of being unable to withstand it was that the horses were frightened. Some simply took the knights and ran wildly together, and some simply threw the knights off their horses and ran all the way, and they all avoided the French artillery positions perfectly.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Napoleon couldn't help laughing again: "I just said that the future war will be a war without cavalry."

Bessières, who was following Napoleon, couldn't help but shook his head, and said, "But I have to remind you that such an extravagant war, except for the army of the Ming Dynasty, cannot be fought by anyone else—just Just for this group of divine machine arrows, 200 taels of silver will be knocked out, and you know what that means."

Of course Napoleon knew what 200 taels of silver meant.

200 taels of silver, roughly two thousand Wen, was enough to buy a thousand catties of rice in Daming. Calculated on the basis of one catty of rice per person per day, one thousand catties of rice was enough to feed a family of three for a year.

Or look at it from another angle: for an ordinary family of three, the annual income is about 30 taels to 50 taels of silver. The income of an ordinary family of three for four years.

This is still calculated according to the income of the common people of Ming Dynasty. If it is replaced by common people in France, this group of magic arrows is almost equivalent to the income of an ordinary family of three for seven or eight years.

However, Napoleon didn't care: "Don't worry, you should remember what the instructor said - the wool always comes from the dog. Every group of magic arrows we shoot now can bring us 300 taels or even 500 taels later." war reparations."

Napoleon didn't feel sorry for the magic arrows that cost 200 taels of silver, but Franz II was so distressed by the five hundred cavalry that he couldn't breathe.

That's five hundred cavalry!
Although the Habsburg family could not afford to lose [-] cavalry, but these [-] cavalry did not even show their due effect at all, so they were abolished directly like this, which is too unreasonable!
What hurt Franz II even more was the three thousand musketeers who were ready for war.

The cavalry is abolished, what about the musketeers?
(End of this chapter)