I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 753 Divine soldiers descend from heaven
Segur solemnly declared: "Austria shall bear full responsibility for any consequences that may arise in the Walloon region."

Amid the discussions of the Hessian nobles, Ségur ended his speech, left Marburg and rushed to Würzburg.

On the day he left, newspapers in Upper Hesse published the news that "Vienna tears up the demilitarized zone agreement, the Wallonia Chamber of Commerce asks France to intervene."

Before arriving in Upper Hesse, Ségur had traveled day and night across most of the German states and delivered no less than 20 speeches, letting all countries know that it was Austria that provoked the war without reason and that France would fight to the end.

The day after the French government publicly announced that it accepted the request of the Wallonia region and would send troops to Wallonia, Austria officially declared war on France.

On the same day, Britain declared war on France on the grounds that "France maliciously sabotaged the sugar market."

Subsequently, Prussia, Hanover, the Netherlands and other countries also openly declared war on France.

Among them, Prussia and the Netherlands had an alliance treaty with Britain and had to send troops to assist Britain.

Thuringia, Lower Hesse and Tuscany participated in the war against France at the request of Prussia and Austria.

Three days later, diplomatic representatives of these countries signed an agreement in Potsdam, announcing the formation of an "anti-French alliance" and "will jointly maintain the existing order on the European continent."

France immediately retaliated and declared war on all members of the anti-French alliance.

The whole of Europe was instantly plunged into the flames of total war.

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Wavre.

The sound of artillery fire from the north of the city had never stopped since dawn. It was only three days since the Walloon Chamber of Commerce requested France to send troops, but the Walloon police force was clearly unable to hold on.

At this time, the northern part of the city was full of Austrians, and the police relied on the iron ore warehouse in the middle of the city to barely put up a resistance.

In fact, if Count Radetzky had not been afraid of destroying Wavre's factory and was somewhat restrained, he would probably have controlled the entire city by now.

Wallonia Regional Police Chief Gaillard frowned as he listened to his men reporting on casualties.

After three days of fighting, the police casualties approached 5. For a non-military organization, it was extremely rare to survive such a casualty ratio without collapsing.

What is worse, this morning a detachment of Austrian hussars stormed the police artillery positions and destroyed all their guns.

So now the Austrian artillery can approach and fire without restraint, while the police's defense line is constantly retreating, and casualties are also greatly increased.

Gaillard knew that the Walloon police had reached their limit.

After discussing with several senior police officers, he said to his deputy:
"Order everyone to abandon Wavre. The people from the Four Police Station will cover the rear, and the rest will immediately retreat to Namur."

"Yes, sir!"

Gayal raised his head again, looked at the city he had fought for for days, sighed, and said:
"Let us hope that the French army will reach Namur in time."

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, a large number of police officers withdrew from the south side of Wavre and retreated towards Namur in frustration amid the rumbling of artillery behind them.

However, they had walked less than two kilometers when they heard the faint sound of horse hooves in front of them.

The police lacked combat experience and their morale was low, so they completely ignored reconnaissance.

It was not until Gaillard was able to see the flag of the Austrian Derna Cavalry Battalion appear in the south through his telescope that he realized he had been intercepted by the enemy.

After a while, another mounted police came to report that Austrian infantry were also found on the east and west sides.

Since they had just arrived for reconnaissance, the enemy was now less than 600 steps away from them.

Gayal's heart tightened, and he was about to give the order to prepare for defense, but he saw the extremely exhausted looks of the soldiers.

He shook his head and said to his deputy, "That's it. The boys have done their best." "Raise the white flag. They shouldn't bear more sacrifices..."

At this moment, the sound of the Austrian cavalry's horses' hooves, which had been extremely orderly before, suddenly became chaotic, and then gradually weakened, as if something had caused them to stop.

Then, a mounted policeman came galloping over and said to Gaillard:

"Sir, the Austrian infantry on the west flank are beginning to gather to the west."

Gayal was stunned. He was retreating to the south, but the enemy's infantry was heading west. Wasn't this clearing the road?

He hurriedly said to the mounted policeman: "Keep scouting, quick! Go and have a look further away."

"Yes, sir!"

Before the scout police came back, Gaillard heard the sound of horse hooves from the south again.

He stood on horseback and looked through a telescope, but was surprised to find that the hundreds of Hussars turned west.

My way to Namur is now completely clear!

Although he didn't understand what was happening, this was definitely a good opportunity to escape from the Austrian army's blockade.

At this moment, Gayal suddenly felt that the sound of horse hooves in the distance was much louder than before.

Could it be that the Austrians have increased their troops?

Just as he was getting extremely anxious, the mounted policeman came running over quickly, waving his whip, and shouted from a distance:
"French! It's the French cavalry! They're attacking the Austrians!"

Jaya's eyes suddenly widened.

How can this be? !
Even if the French army had been waiting at the Wallonia border and rushed here immediately after receiving the Chamber of Commerce's request, it would still take at least a week to arrive.

And it's only been three days, why are they here?
It should be a small number of cavalry coming to reinforce him.

Gaillard was so excited that he shouted to the police:
"Everyone cheer up and cooperate with the French cavalry!"

Although his conducting level is average, he has made sure to take the course "Conducting Studies".

He knew very well that without the support of infantry, cavalry could easily be defeated by the coordinated infantry and cavalry of the enemy.

At this time, there were more than 10,000 Austrian troops near Wavre, with a full range of infantry, cavalry and artillery. He and the French cavalry had to cover each other before they could retreat to a safe place.

However, before the police could start moving, gunshots and screams were faintly heard from the west side.

Gaillard was horrified. Could it be that the French cavalry had been defeated?

He loudly urged the police to form up, but the next moment, he saw more than a dozen cavalrymen running in a disorderly manner not far away, and that direction seemed to be heading into the city of Wavre.

He quickly raised his telescope and immediately saw that the cavalrymen were covered in blood and in a miserable state, and the people in the gray-green uniforms were Austrians!

Soon, the rhythmic sound of military drums was heard from the west, and more and more Austrian soldiers were fleeing. Some of them even ran into the police team in panic and were immediately captured by the police officers.

More than ten minutes later, densely packed white military uniforms appeared in Gayal's field of vision.

The infantrymen's flags had a golden iris and a dolphin painted on them.

It's the French Royal Infantry!
The French soldiers formed a very long horizontal column and swept through the south of Wavre. Gaillard estimated that there were at least four or five thousand of them.

On both sides of them were large groups of French cavalry wearing bear-skin hats, galloping past on horseback, driving the nearby Austrian infantry lines forward.

(This volume ends. A new volume will begin tomorrow, and the era of total war will begin in Europe.)
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