Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

Napoleon's problem was that he now had two main battlefields.

In the north, Ney and Blücher also started fighting, Lecourbe repelled the Austrian army in the west, and Bertrand in the east could no longer be relied upon.

Now that he saw that Murat's cavalry charge was successful, he impatiently asked the Young Guards to join the battle.

This was to expand the results of the battle, further undermine the morale of the coalition forces, and make them completely collapse under the bayonets and artillery fire of the French.

After defeating the enemies here, he also had to check on the situation of Ney in the north.

Sometimes, superman philosophy may not even exist.

After all, our side is very powerful, and we also need to see what the opponent is like.

The current coalition forces are no longer the weaklings they were in the past.

Among them, the Russian army, and probably the French, were never able to completely defeat the enemy.

But now it is obvious that the results of the battle are great. The Polish Lancers are fighting with the Russian cavalry on the flank. When the situation is critical, the Austrian Cuirassiers, after Schwarzenberg's operation, finally joined the battlefield.

However, they can only give priority to friendly forces that are in more urgent situations. If they don't deal with them, their own flanks may be threatened next.

At this moment, the grenadiers in the center of the battlefield lost contact with their friendly forces.

Rajewski insisted on staying in the army and continued to fight against the French cuirassiers with these grenadiers.

After forming a square formation, the Russian army stabilized and shot at the enemy cavalry's horses when they dared to approach.

After all, not everyone is like Solovyov, who raised an armored cavalry from the Circassians, and whose horses are not afraid of ordinary infantry, so he needs cannons.

The cuirassiers who had lost their horses were also helpless and furious, cursing at the Russian infantry, but there was nothing they could do.

This time the Russians had no forts to use, not like the Shevardino battery, the half-finished Redoubt, and the polygonal redoubt, also known as the Raevsky battery.

Probably the only factors that still existed that day were the grenadiers and Raevsky.

He was more worried about the 2nd Grenadier Division. Their unlucky division commander was injured again. Because he was Her Highness Elena's brother-in-law, he was always injured in battles, which made the Emperor worried.

Together with his brother-in-law Solovyov, he was probably the only one who could keep this brave man calm and prevent him from drinking a little from time to time, or from accidentally being exposed to enemy fire and being unfortunately sent to the hospital before his brothers.

It would be a more appropriate choice to let him lie in the hospital now and replace him with another general to take command.

"Your Excellency, you should be in the rear square instead of coming to our Moscow regiment."

"Shatilov, you are a general now. Don't always act like the colonel you were in the past. How does this place compare to Borodino?"

"Sir, if you think about it, there is nothing to be afraid of when the enemy's cavalry rushes over like this. It is more troublesome when their infantry comes up."

"What about the cannon?"

"You almost broke your shoulder and you're still here. What do we have to be afraid of?"

"If you were like our former commander, who used the holy image his wife bought for him to put on his chest to block bullets, we would be worried!"

Raevsky thought of Solovyov. Since he became a general, this kid has never been sent to the hospital by the enemy's bayonet or bullets, but he is always in the most dangerous places.

Now he is here too, and he has a more terrifying aura as the protagonist.

Even if the enemy came up now, Lauriston and Victor attacked the coalition infantry line, causing many coalition troops to voluntarily abandon their positions and find a relatively safe place where it was difficult to avoid enemy fire to regroup, or to look for reinforcements.

Then, the Guards Artillery that came as reinforcements were isolated in the outer positions, and the entire Grenadier Corps was isolated behind the French front.

Later, Oudinot, who was more vulnerable to being shot, followed with a group of young guards. For Raevsky, the situation was now very bad.

Moreover, the Russian army's casualties are still increasing. Today's losses are very heavy. Although some troops of the 2nd Army had previously held the front line, it is difficult for them to continue to hold on.

If some people had to carry the seriously injured away on stretchers, then only two or three people with minor injuries would carry the stretchers. It would be difficult for others to go down, and even if they were shameless enough to go back, they would be scolded by the officers.

The Russians are finally holding on, and Napoleon on the other side is now quite proud.

This time he finally took out the snuff bottle and took two sniffs.

Some stimulation always allowed him to stay awake and continue to command the battle.

"Your Majesty, in this situation."

"I hope, Berthier, that the church bells in Leipzig will ring for this victory."

"But your majesty, the battle is not over yet, and the enemy is still resisting."

For some reason, Napoleon was particularly excited about Berthier's statement today and once again refused to listen to other people's opinions.

Mortier and Oudinot each led the Young Guards forward. If Napoleon was not anxious to see how Ney was doing at this time, but instead sent the Old Guards to the battlefield, then no matter how powerful Raevsky was, no matter how sophisticated the weapons of the grenadiers were, and no matter how tenacious the soldiers were, they might not be of much use.

When it comes to life or death, sometimes you have to put it all on the line.

Solovyov, who played a supporting role today, had already made a desperate attempt when Napoleon was feeling high. He launched an attack with the 9th Division and the Balkan Division, and finally defeated the Italian and French divisions under Bertrand. The Württemberg Division saw that things were not going well and went to Ellenberg to block the position. Only then did Bertrand reluctantly gather his troops.

But that side was insignificant, and the terrible thing was that Napoleon did not deploy the Old Guard in the end.

And now, the grenadiers can still withstand this level of impact.

But for others, it may look different.

The French cuirassiers surrounded the grenadiers and prepared to attack when the opportunity arose, but they were repelled by the fire of the grenadiers in the second row.

If it was let in, the grenadiers in the first row would open fire in return.

These Russian soldiers, except for some elite shooters acting as skirmishers, all stood there, and no one thought of retreating.

When the French infantry came up and brought cannons, they bombarded the Russian squares with buckshot, but it did not shake their determination.

As for the French infantry that attacked, Laevsky did not disperse the phalanx, but directly opened fire to fight back. These infantry also realized that the opponent was not easy to deal with, and the two sides fired at each other for a while.

Alexander was still on the high ground, but Schwarzenberg had already panicked and sent people to persuade the three monarchs to leave.

But Alexander said: "I am here and I will never retreat!"

Well, considering his usual indecisive character, looking at his current situation today, I'm afraid it might be someone from a family of three officials who have been officials for four generations who has taken over his power.

The Tsar decided not to leave, and the other two monarchs were reluctant to announce their own retreat, as that would only affect the morale of the troops.

But Alexander could not just stand there and wait for the French cavalry to catch him, and the Tsar's base had already retreated slightly compared to the position where the French started the attack.

Now he gave an order: "The Cossack Guards should go to support Raevsky. He should not be abandoned there."

Under the new order, the Guards Cossacks drew their sabers - lances were generally not used by troops like them who were more elite than regular Cossacks - and attacked in the direction of Murat's cavalry.

There were about 800 of these Cossack Guards, and they charged directly at the cuirassiers, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides on the field.

From time to time, some cavalrymen were knocked off their horses. The Cossack Guards, who usually liked to fight flexibly and mobilely, didn't care about that today.

Some people's sabers were broken, and they had no time to reload the pistols at their waists after firing six rounds. So they simply turned the hot barrels upside down and smashed them directly at the French people's heads.

The firepower from the front had already intimidated the French, but these Cossack guards were so desperate that they continued to fight with them even after their swords were broken. Even if the cuirassiers had armor, they probably couldn't withstand such a desperate attack.

The revolver was used in this way only because Solovyov was far away.

Otherwise, he would have thought this was a "Dinosaur Fight" or a use of the legendary artifact "Three-Eyed Magic Gun"
But the Guards Cossacks repelled the cuirassiers, and they probably didn't have much strength left, so they had to find a way to reorganize the formation.

Moreover, if the sword breaks, he always needs to get some more handy weapons, as the French infantry keeps attacking from behind.

But now it was Raevsky's turn. He ordered the grenadiers in front to deploy and attack the French soldiers in the front row hard.

As long as the enemy's cavalry is gone, the threat won't be that great. If they can't deal with those wearing breastplates, how can they deal with you?

At this time, in addition to the Austrian cuirassiers who were helping to deal with the Polish lancers, follow-up troops also arrived.

The Austrian cavalry in white clothes are not comparable to their weak infantry comrades.

Now that they were coming, it was the French's turn to guard against the infantry.

Napoleon's victory, which seemed to be on the verge of success, was lost at this moment, and he would never have the chance to make up for this mistake again.

However, all the parties involved were unaware of this situation at the time. As you know from history, this is not the case on the battlefield. History also has a certain ability to change dynamically.

At this time, the French army still had the advantage. The Saxon cavalry who had successfully stolen the artillery were entering the University Forest, and the Young Guards were following behind them.

Murat was very close to the three monarchs, but only very close.

When Napoleon saw this, he was thinking about reporting the victory to Paris and even writing a letter to the King of Saxony.

This approach is indeed a bit outrageous, like Melas in Marengo.

But he is the monarch himself, and what he is probably considering at this moment is to make Paris more stable.

This kind of behavior of popping champagne at halftime will always lead to failure in the end.

The Russian Guards Cavalry that arrived later also joined the battle to support their Guards Cossack teammates.

In addition, there were the Guards Infantry led by Yermolov.

However, at this time, some problems always occurred. The weapons of the Guards Lancers were too long. In order to avoid greater chaos caused by weapon collisions, they were reorganizing.

Seeing this opportunity, the young French cuirassiers launched an attack.

For this reason, the Guards Lancers had to retreat, and the Guards Dragoons and Guards Hussars quickly came to fill their positions.

The hussars repeated what their Cossack comrades had done, but these French cuirassiers, who had never fought against the grenadiers, although inexperienced, relied on the armor they still had and came over to fight the hussars.

Although the Russian Guards were more experienced and had excellent riding skills, their opponents had armor.

Grand Duke Constantine, seeing the damage to his own cavalry guards, could not help but start complaining. If he had brought Solovyov's armored cavalry, he would not have been defeated by these bastards.

As for Barclays, there is something more abstract going on.

There were always problems when Prince Trubetskoy, Solovyov's subordinate on the Danube battlefield, and Prince Volkonsky, Barclay's chief of staff, issued orders through the monarch and the commander-in-chief.

It was Volkonsky who remembered that his uncle's former adjutant, now the commander of a small corps, had left him an optical signal. Since the distance was not far, he simply used the reflected light to illuminate the direction of the Tsar while there was still daylight.

This avoided a bunch of strange orders from Trubetskoy and allowed Barclay to have complete command on the battlefield.

Only when the battle line stabilized did Schwarzenberg come to his senses.

But at least he had served in the cavalry before, so it would be okay if he had poor command ability.

If he is not good at commanding cavalry, he should just find a pond and drown himself.

After the Austrian dragoons arrived at his side, he performed perhaps better than Wittgenstein, who was also a cavalryman.

Temporarily freed from the post of commander-in-chief, he personally led a troop of dragoons to launch a counterattack.

It's true, it was much better than when he was the commander-in-chief. People were no longer cautious and even charged forward fiercely. The commander-in-chief's reckless behavior inspired the Austrian cavalry, and their charge was very effective, tearing a hole in the French front.

The gap chosen was the French cavalry closest to the Austrian army.

This is also one of the few weaknesses of Murat's cavalry unit exposed at present. On the other side, Murat also discovered the counterattack of the Prussian cavalry and Paalen's hussars who were repelled by artillery.

The French cavalry offensive was finally stopped and even reversed. (End of this chapter)