I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 910: Conversion
7 km north of Trento.

Alvin stretched his head and looked around. There were sounds of gunfire everywhere, and he could even vaguely hear a few shouts from French soldiers.

This means that the enemy is very close to him.

And this is his headquarters!
The staff officer at the side was still reading out the battle situation that had just been summarized: "3 French infantrymen were found on the west side, attacking the flank of Weber's Corps.

"General Krudman has been entangled by enemy cavalry and is temporarily unable to move towards his headquarters.

"Colonel Haeng is attacking the enemy artillery, but seems to be encountering resistance..."

Alvin interrupted him irritably with a wave of his hand:
"So, how many enemy troops are there around us?"

The staff officer hesitated and said, "There should be 1 people, Marshal."

"Damn it!" Alvinzi raised his hand and slapped the map. "Napoleon's main force is in Molvino, and Bajahaza blocked Augereau's sneak attack in the east. The French should have no mobile forces left."

Before he had finished speaking, a cavalry captain entered the tent, raised his hat and saluted him, saying:
"Marshal, our people have spotted the flag of Victor's Legion in the southeast."

"Victor?" Alvinzi was stunned. "Isn't he in Trento?"

He immediately reacted: "They actually gave up Trento... God, these French are crazy!"

He was leading a large army to attack Trento, but he did not expect that the French defending the city would take the initiative to attack him.

However, he had previously sent most of his troops to encircle and suppress Napoleon. At this time, the central army had only more than 20,000 people, and at least half of them were deployed on the west side to prevent Napoleon from breaking through the defense line of Mount Topaganella.

His headquarters lay before Victor like a freshly peeled egg.

Alvin gritted his teeth and pointed at the herald:

"Order General Weber to stop reinforcing the right wing and immediately move south to attack Trento!"

Weber's corps was only 9 kilometers away from Trento and could reach there in half a day. Since the French dared to leave Trento, they could just occupy it.

Trento is a very important strategic town and will greatly affect the safety of the Mantua fortress.

Alvin listened to the gunfire around him and began to plan his retreat:
"Order the Kedils Corps to hold back Victor's troops. Krudman to assist him as soon as possible.

"Davidovich and I will move together in the direction of Mount Topaganella."

The Diers Corps was the main force of his central army, with more than 1 soldiers. Together with Krudman's 5 Croatian soldiers, it would be no problem to stop Victor for a day or two.

After two days of gathering, the remnants of Davidovich's troops numbered about 6,000 to 7,000 people, enough to cover his headquarters' retreat to the west.

As long as Victor failed to defeat his center army and Weber's corps captured Trento, the French would immediately fall into a completely passive position.

……

East of Molveno.

Although the Austrian Zweig Corps and Ström Corps were delayed for a while due to the change of command direction, they still launched an attack on Napoleon before 3 pm.

More than 3 Austrian soldiers flooded towards the French defense line, encountered only sporadic resistance, and successfully defeated the French.

Zweig rode his horse past the enemy position he had just occupied, and looking at the jubilant soldiers around him, he always felt that something was wrong.

He turned to Ström and said:
"I thought Napoleon would give us some trouble. I mean, he fought great campaigns in Sardinia and Lombardy before."

The latter shook his whip disdainfully:
"The French have launched too many meaningless attacks in the past two days, which have exhausted the soldiers' physical strength. So it is normal that they seem unable to resist when facing our counterattack with superior forces."

Zweig nodded in approval: "This way our army's right wing is stable again. The next step is to continue pursuing Napoleon's troops."

"That's right," said Strome, "He should have retreated to Molveno.

"There is still some time before dark. I suggest that we gather the soldiers who still have strength and launch an attack there immediately."

"I agree with you exactly." Zweig waved his hand to the side, "Herald!"

Half an hour before dusk, 1 Austrian soldiers arrived at the town of Molveno and launched an attack without hesitation.

The sound of French counterattack gunfire was then heard in the town, but the firepower seemed sparse and there was no oppressive momentum like in the previous battle.

But this is not surprising, because there are less than 4 soldiers of the Lyon Legion in the town, and most of them are weak or injured.

This is also the reason why Zweig and Strom were able to easily defeat "Napoleon" before.

The French troops in Molveno were lucky, as it got dark after the Austrians launched a not-so-fierce attack.

At the same time, Napoleon was leading 1 soldiers around the northern side of Mount Topaganella under the moonlight.

According to his plan, he would reach the position of Alvinqi's central army before 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Mount Topaganella spans only 5 kilometers, which can be used as a support for a defensive position, but if the Austrian defense line is ignored, it is not far to bypass it.

In fact, Napoleon's cavalry and horse artillery had left earlier and had arrived ten kilometers north of Trento.

If Napoleon failed to arrive in time with his infantry, they would launch an attack on Alvinzi alone.

Although there would certainly be serious casualties, Napoleon concluded that there would not be too many troops following Alvinzi at that time, so at least he could be held back.

Then his main force of infantry would arrive to clean up the mess.

However, Napoleon obviously underestimated the hiking and cross-country running abilities of the third-term students of the Paris Police Academy.

The next morning, Napoleon heard the heavy and rapid breathing of his mount. He turned to look at the soldiers of the Royal Infantry Division who were marching quickly beside him, and it seemed a little unreal.

But he immediately smiled, just as brightly as he had smiled when he won before.

Soon, a hussar came up to him and saluted him with his hat:

"General, Alvinzi's headquarters is 3 kilometers southwest."

Napoleon nodded, turned the reins so that he faced the marching column, then stood up in his stirrups and shouted:

"French soldiers, after today's battle, I will personally tell His Royal Highness the Dauphin about their heroic performance.

“And now, everyone has to hold on for another three hours, and then we will rest at Alvinzi’s headquarters!

“Line up!
"Join me to defeat those Austrian bastards!"

The soldiers showed no signs of fatigue from traveling for more than ten hours straight, and immediately shouted like a tsunami:

"In the name of the Crown Prince!"

"Defeat the enemy!"

"victory!"

(End of this chapter)