I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 911 Hound and Rabbit

"Marshal, we have found traces of enemy troops on the north side."

Before the cavalryman had finished speaking, Alvinzi noticed a commotion among the soldiers in the distance.

He frowned immediately and was about to ask Davidovich to organize the defense when he heard artillery fire from the northwest.

He looked at the cavalryman who reported the news: "You said north?"

"Yes, it is……"

Alvin looked behind him with a gloomy face, and saw Victor's French troops coming from Trento were there.

And yesterday Zweig reported that Napoleon's troops had been defeated, so it would be safer to continue retreating to Mount Topaganella.

Alvinzi looked at Davidovich and said, "Please open the road to the west immediately."

He then said to the summons officer: "Contact General Zweig and ask him to send someone to pick me up."

However, what he didn't expect was that Victor was only playing the role of a "hound" - barking loudly to drive out the "rabbit" himself.

The real hunter was Napoleon, who came on a forced march from Molvino.

On the north side, Davidovich's troops were still organizing their formation when the French infantry appeared half a kilometer away.

Without any hesitation, more than a dozen French columns rushed forward accompanied by the sound of drums.

On the west side, the French Royal Horse Artillery Battalion set up their cannons directly next to the road.

Fourteen six-pound guns began to bombard the Austrian vanguard intensively.

Davidovich's soldiers had just been severely beaten by the French army a few days ago. Faced with the artillery positions in front of them, they had no intention of destroying them, but turned around and fled.

Seeing this, the French dragoon battalion responsible for covering the artillery simply acted as cavalry, waving their sabers and chasing after them.

Davidovich personally commanded the remaining troops, but the firepower of the French infantry was extremely fierce. In less than half an hour, he had abandoned two lines of defense.

He looked at the soldiers on the last line of defense whose faces were pale with fear, handed over the command to a colonel under his command, and took his guards to protect Marshal Alvinzi.

When Davidovich saw the commander-in-chief's flag of Alvinci from afar, a large group of fleeing soldiers suddenly appeared from the east.

He stopped a captain, but before he could ask any questions, he heard the sound of horse hooves like thunder in the distance.

He was very familiar with this. It should be more than two thousand cavalrymen charging in formation.

Until Alvinzi was surrounded by hundreds of French Hussars, he still didn't understand why Napoleon could continue to succeed in sneak attacks when he had been very careful and conducted the most standard positional warfare?

He suddenly began to understand Beaulieu and Melas very well....

After 1 hours.

Napoleon saw Alvinzi, who was "escorted" by Grouchy himself, and behind them were more than a dozen senior Austrian officers.

To be honest, Napoleon did not expect that this attack would be so easy. Alvinzi had less than 8 soldiers with him, and their morale was very low, and they basically collapsed at the slightest touch.

He jumped off his horse and bowed gracefully to the Austrian commander-in-chief:

"It's an honor to meet you here, Your Excellency Marshal."

Alvin Qi straightened his back to avoid looking too embarrassed:

"You are General Bonaparte, right? I am honored to meet you. I must admit that you are the most talented commander I have ever seen in my life." "Well, I agree with this very much." Napoleon smiled and nodded, then looked to the south. "If I am not mistaken, you should have sent an army to occupy Trento, right?"

Alvinzi sighed, "Yes. General Weber and his 8 soldiers are there."

"Congratulations, at least you did occupy it. But now you have to give it back to me."

If Joseph were here, he would definitely want to tell Alvin the famous Eastern saying: If the people are saved and the land is lost, both the people and the land are saved; if the land is saved and the people are lost, both the people and the land are lost.

……

West bank of the Visio River.

Bajahaza greeted Wilmzer with a smile on his face:

"You are truly sent by God to save us, General!"

Wilmser walked up to him and hugged him, thinking to himself: This decision to break out was indeed the right one.

Bajahaza continued:

"There are some problems with our right flank, so we need to finish the battle here as soon as possible and rush to Molvino for reinforcements."

Wilmser nodded: "That's exactly what I expected. Please tell me about your combat deployment."

Just as the two of them were discussing how to encircle and suppress the Augereau Legion, they were unaware that their camp had fallen into chaos.

The soldiers that Wurmzer brought from the Mantua Fortress poured into Bajahaza's camp, asking their comrades for bread and pickled meat. They were starving in the fortress, and they wanted to break out to get something to eat. Bajahaza had already sent them standard rations, but it was far from enough to fill their stomachs after months of hunger.

The officers under Bajahaza were completely unable to stop these hungry soldiers, as the latter's officers also came to ask for food.

Then some soldiers began to grab food, but more people took out money to buy it.

Half an hour later, the Austrian camp turned into a huge market, dotted with several gladiatorial arenas.

At this time, Ogero launched a surprise attack on Bajahaza.

It wasn't that the French were lucky, as Augereau also discovered that a large number of Austrian troops were coming to reinforce them. After discussing with Marmont, they both agreed that once the enemy troops had completed their battle array, there would be no hope for them.

So they decided to launch a final attack while the enemy's reinforcements were not yet ready for battle.

If they still cannot break through the Austrian defense line, they will probably have no choice but to surrender.

However, what they didn't expect was that this life-and-death attack would achieve unexpected results.

Karl Ludwig immediately noticed the French army's unusual movements and ordered the troops to prepare for battle.

When the bugle sounded, the Bajahaza camp was filled with Wilmzer's soldiers. The two sides immediately crowded together, and some people were even busy counting money.

The soldiers who came from Mantua were desperately stuffing food into their stomachs and ignored the order to assemble.

In desperation, Karl Ludwig took his guards to run back and forth in the Austrian camp several times and shot more than 30 hungry soldiers brought by Wurmser, and only then was order barely maintained.

However, by the time his men began to line up, the desperate French had already broken through the Austrian outer defenses.

Karl Ludwig hurriedly led his Moravian Corps to regroup in the open space on the west side of the camp. The soldiers of Wurmser began to flee or surrender directly, and even Bajahaza's people lost the will to resist.

(End of this chapter)