King's Landing in France

Chapter 141 A Little Trick
An Ning looked at the vast number of enemies at the foot of the mountain, rubbed his chin and thought about countermeasures.

Suddenly, he asked Davout: "Does your army have alcohol?"

Davout: "My troops are not stragglers, and they are not accompanied by female bartenders carrying alcohol."

An Ning was speechless, then turned to Napoleon and said, "Your artillery team has gunpowder carts, right?"

Napoleon looked puzzled: "Take it, what's the matter?"

An Ning patted his thigh: "Get some carts of gunpowder and put them in the barn and mill!"

Napoleon nodded: "That's simple, I'll even out a few carts of gunpowder."

Dawu: "Do you want to abandon the mountain?"

An Ning: "That's right, the purpose of guarding here is to make the enemy stop here and fight us. Now this purpose has been achieved. Throw gunpowder in the mill and barn, and ignite it with lime bombs when the enemy comes up, BOOM!"

Napoleon: "We have special incendiary bombs, that point is faster."

An Ning: "Well said! I will leave the matter of lighting the fire to you! There is still gunpowder, hurry up and bring it here!"

Napoleon saluted An Ning: "Understood!"

Then he turned his horse's head and galloped away.

In a short while, the carriage carrying the gunpowder was driven over, the carriage was hidden in the barn and the mill, and the horse was ridden away by the groom.

An Ning: "Davout, retreat! Sing Roman hymns when retreating, you are the winners, show it!"

Dawu saluted: "Leave it to me!"

As he spoke, he turned and gave orders to the troops.

So the first brigade quickly withdrew from the original defensive position and formed a neat four-row column on the road.

The military flag leads the way first to the drumbeat of the military band, and then the large troops follow.

Davout walked beside the team, like an ordinary non-commissioned officer, and started as he walked: "Let's go, children of the motherland! A glorious day has come!
"In the face of tyranny, we have raised the flag of rebellion!

"They hoisted their bloody banners, listen, in the wilderness of the motherland, the ferocious soldiers are roaring!
"They came to our homes and slaughtered our children!
"Arm up, free citizens!

"Go on, go on!

"Use their dirty blood to irrigate our fields!"

An Ning watched the first brigade singing the battle song retreat, and Davout would take them behind the four brigades now deployed as the general reserve for the entire battle.

Now, only Napoleon's cavalry artillery unit remained on the hill. Although the gunners evened out a few carts of gunpowder, they were still shooting desperately and were not affected at all.

Napoleon rode to An Ning's side: "Go down, I will command the cavalry artillery, don't worry."

An Ning glanced at the infantry guns abandoned by Davout and his troops, and said, "You divide the infantry guns into a few people, and when the enemy comes up, they will run away on horseback."

"Understood, I will do it myself."

Napoleon rode away again as he spoke, and rode back with several gunners after a while.

They dismounted beside the rifles and began to load them.

Napoleon took aim himself and ignited the fuse.

The cannon roared.

An Ning listened to the sound of the cannon right next to his ear, and observed the impact point with the binoculars. He saw the shells from the infantry artillery fall in the bushes below the mountain, breaking a bush.

An Ning observed Lafayette's formation again, and found that the officers on horseback were gathering remnants at a very high efficiency, spreading out on the two wings of Lafayette's main force.

An Ning cursed.

He also wanted to have such an efficient and experienced officer corps.

It's a pity that the officers of his army are all non-commissioned officers promoted by the common people, and they can't be so efficient for the time being. Once the troops are dispersed, there will be no chance to gather them together.

An Ning once again realized how difficult the battle she was facing was.

However, he had already repelled an enemy attack, and his side had almost no losses except for Davout's first brigade.

The 8000 people ambushing on the back slope are basically full.

The defeat of an enemy force of 2 men with such small losses is enough to call it a brilliant victory.

It's just that An Ning can't just win this game, he has to win both games, otherwise he will have to spit out what he just won.

At this time, the sound of the trumpet came from the foot of the mountain.

Then the enemy troops at the foot of the mountain began to advance.

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Lafayette: "Attack with the whole army! No matter what medicine the enemy sells in the gourd, as long as there are enough troops, the enemy can be overwhelmed! Advance!"

Berthier immediately whispered a few words to the trumpeter, and then the trumpeters played together the melody of the march of the whole army.

The military band of the First Division immediately began to play music, and the troops of the First Division, which had just been repaired on the spot, began to advance to the beat of drums.

The rout soldiers who had just finished gathering, on the two wings of the first division, were a step behind before advancing together.

Cannonballs from the top of the mountain fell around the advancing queue, but these shells were relatively small in poundage, and they could only knock down a few people when they hit the team.

Only the guns in the center, under the beech, were twelve-pound guns, and the shells scraped through the ranks could take away seven or eight.

But this is also the maximum damage that solid bullets can cause at this distance.

Naturally, the battle-tested troops will not be shaken by this level of damage.

However, the entire First Division didn't sleep much last night, and now they want to be exhausted.

For a moment, Lafayette doubted whether he could win with such a tired force.

But he immediately dispelled this doubt: He must win today, and he has more than three times the force advantage. If he can't win this, the name of the hero of the War of Independence will be finished.

If this battle is lost, the whole of France will no longer recognize him as a hero, and Andy Frost, the cobbler, will become the most outstanding military strategist in all of France!

This is absolutely not allowed!
Lafayette must win today!
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An Ning was observing the effect of the shelling on the mountain. Suddenly, he noticed something and asked Napoleon who was working the cannon himself: "Where's your quicklime bomb? Why didn't I see you use it?"

Napoleon: "The hit rate of that kind of shell is too bad. It often explodes in the air and then sprinkles on the open ground where there is no one. I trust live ammunition more than quicklime bombs."

An Ning pouted.Artillery in this era had a bad hit rate. Things like quicklime bombs and blooming bombs had to be ignited before firing. It was impossible to say when they would explode, so the hit rate was even worse.

No wonder Napoleon didn't trust these things.

In the case of solid bouncing bullets, in fact, the hit is not bad in the face of the enemy brigade advancing in horizontal rows.

Until the use of trigger detonators in the shells, flower and lime shells did not have a satisfactory hit rate.

An Ning remembered that in "Total War Empire", this was already a very late artillery technology.

An Ning thought that he should find a way to find a scientist and click on artillery technology.

—Wait, I remember that Lavoisier, the father of chemistry, is still alive.

Just as An Ning was thinking about this, Lazar Kano came on horseback: "Your Excellency! Get down quickly! The enemy is attacking again, this place is too dangerous! We need you to sit at the headquarters!"

Just as An Ning was about to answer, an enemy shell hit the artillery barracks a few meters away from An Ning, and hit the wicker basket full of stones directly, causing the wicker in the basket to collapse, and the stones flew out, injuring several artillerymen. .

An Ning also got a shot on the forehead, but he has a special physique, so the stone made Duang's voice.

But the blood still had to flow, and a stream of blood directly covered half of An Ning's eyes, making half of his vision red.

Lazar Kano was shocked: "Are you okay?"

An Ning was extremely calm: "It's okay, just a little injury."

He wiped the blood from his face, and took out his handkerchief to hold the wound.

Napoleon: "Go down quickly, it's too dangerous here, at least get out of the threat of enemy artillery."

An Ning: "Don't make a fuss, keep shooting!"

Napoleon did so.

Several artillerymen looked at each other, obviously overwhelmed by An Ning's courage. Even the artilleryman who had just been injured by a stone struggled to get up and continued to operate the artillery.

Lazar Kano: "Get down! You're useless here!"

Only then did An Ning kick the bloody handkerchief back into his pocket, and said to Napoleon, "I leave everything to you. Remember, when the enemy climbs up the mountain, set fire to the barn and mill!"

Napoleon: "Don't worry! I will shoot the gun myself!"

An Ning nodded, then raised her hand, gave the horse a whip, and ran to her command position on the back slope.

(End of this chapter)