Napoleon II Reborn Chapter 205

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"Failed! Failed again! Has God really abandoned us in Austria?" After learning that Munich had been breached and Hillier and others had run out of ammunition and food and surrendered, Archduke Charles looked at the blue sky and said to himself. road. He didn't blame Hillier for surrendering. If it was him, he would have chosen to do so in that situation. After all, it wasn't Hillier's fault. He just didn't want those soldiers to sacrifice in vain. They are all the hopes for the future of Austria. Helpless, now Charlie only has helplessness in his heart. He really can't figure out why they have been preparing for so long, but they still can't beat France in the end. Is it true that Austria really has no chance to stand out? No, the defeat is only temporary, the heroic Austrians will not surrender, the war is not over, we still have a chance, as long as the Prussian allies can defeat the French army standing in front of them, then we still have victory Chance. At this time, only the remnants of the 1st Army and the 10th Army were fighting the Prussian army, and Prussia had already invested 3 armies, which was already the largest army they could invest. Although the situation on the battlefield was unfavorable to the French army, their reinforcements were on the way at this time. The 14th Army could enter the battlefield in 2 days, and the 9th Army was farther away, but it could also enter the battlefield in a week. Therefore, it is basically impossible for Prussia to defeat the French army. It's not that Grand Duke Charles is unaware of this, he's just still looking forward to a miracle in his heart.

Now that Munich has fallen, the French army must be rushing here day and night. Grand Duke Charles knows that there is no point in besieging Regensburg. What he has to do now is to leave here immediately to avoid being caught in the internal and external pincers of the French army. . On May 7, Archduke Charles led his army to retreat and retreated from the Bohemian mountains to Austria. When he withdrew his troops, he deliberately kept the match and did not give Napoleon the chance to pursue him. In fact, Napoleon had no strength to pursue him. After these days of fierce fighting, the soldiers were very tired. As soon as the army retreated, everyone relaxed, how could they have the strength to pursue them?

On the afternoon of May 8, the French army from Munich arrived in Regensburg, where the two armies converged and began a three-day rest. In this campaign, there were only 140,000 French troops left in the six armies that participated in the attack, including 20,000 in the Guards, 25,000 in the Sixth Army, and 10,000 in the Seventh Army. The 8th Army still has 25,000 soldiers, the 11th Army has 30,000 people, and the 12th Army has 30,000 people. The battle loss rate has reached 42%, but compared with the Austrian Army, they are almost Much luckier, 10 corps of the Austrian army participated in this battle, and in the end, only less than 100,000 people fled back to Austria. If several corps were wiped out, it can be said to be a heavy loss. Over the past few years, they have worked hard Accumulation, in less than 20 days of fighting, was exhausted. Emperor Francis of Austria fainted on the spot after receiving the result.

And this victory made some contradictions that were originally exposed in France hidden again. It also dispelled the plans of Bavaria, Württemberg, and Saxony and other Rhine allies to abandon Napoleon, and offered their loyalty to Napoleon again, but their loyalty was too cheap.

On May 11, Napoleon led 5 legions except the 7th Army to continue to march towards Austria. At this time, except for the 100,000 remnants in the hands of Archduke Charles, there were only 3 legions left in Austria. However, some A legion is now fighting fiercely with the French and Italian fronts in southern Austria, and the roles of the two sides have been completely reversed at this time. At the beginning, it was the Austrian legion that held back the French and Italian side, preventing it from advancing towards Austria, but now it is the French and Italian side that is holding back the Austrian legion, preventing him from going back to rescue. Another legion was fighting fiercely with the French 5th Army in northern Austria. At the beginning of the war, Lana received an order from Napoleon to lead the legion south to contain the strength of the Austrian Army and accompany the 5th Army. There was also a Polish army attacking. It was difficult to fight two against one. After receiving the news of the defeat, the morale of the Austrian army dropped severely, and it was defeated by the French-Polish coalition forces. In this way, the total number of French troops entering Austria reached 200,000, of which nearly 30,000 were Polish troops. For Austria, the current situation is very bad.

Napoleon arrived in the suburbs of Vienna on May 18, just a month after he had left Paris. Here, Napoleon's opponent was not Archduke Charles, but another Grand Duke of the Habsburg dynasty, Grand Duke Maximilian. He closed the gates of the city and resisted stubbornly. The French army suffered heavy casualties. Napoleon sent Colonel Laguera to urge the Grand Duke to surrender, lest he be beaten by a Hungarian cavalry force in the city. Napoleon couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately ordered heavy artillery to bombard the city of Vienna, and Vienna was suddenly ablaze. On the 21st, the French captured Vienna.

Even Beethoven, who was deaf, could not get a moment of peace in his work amidst the rumbling guns: "What a terrible destruction, the order of life I saw and everything around me were completely disrupted, except for the drums, the sound of guns and human misery. There is no other voice but the cries of Napoleon..." Beethoven's enthusiasm and support for Napoleon from 1802 to 1805 evaporated, and his third symphony song". "What peace are you talking about?" he asked his publisher. "I no longer expect stability in our time!"

When Napoleon inspected Vienna, he found that all the bridges on the Danube River had been burned or blown up by the Austrian army. These bridges had enabled Napoleon's army to cross the river and fight the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. And now the remnants of his army, led by Grand Justice Charles, were holding out on the other side of the river. In order to achieve the final victory as soon as possible, Napoleon and Davout studied the crossing point by the river every day. It was later discovered that there was an island in the middle of the river named Schwarzleken upstream of Vienna. The island is already guarded by the Austrian army, but there are not many people, and the island is connected to the north shore by a bridge. Although the river was swollen and the current was turbulent, Marshal Davout ordered a general to lead 500 people across the river to the island. But the Austrian counterattack was very fierce, and the French army finally failed to occupy here.

Afterwards, through a calm analysis, Napoleon chose Eberdorf, southeast of Vienna, as the place to cross the river. The river bed here is wider, and there is an island in the middle of the river called Luobao Island. The island is overgrown with trees, which can cover the troops from crossing the river. After the decision, Napoleon summoned Bertrand, the chief engineer, and ordered him to use 68 large ships and 9 large rafts to set up a solid bridge between the right bank of the Danube and the island of Roburg, which was swelled due to spring snowmelt and heavy rain. A pontoon bridge, a lighter boat bridge was erected between Roburg Island and Aspern and Essling on the left bank of the Danube. In order to confuse the Austrian army, Napoleon ordered Davout's army to march to Northdorf, north of Vienna, and pretend to build a bridge to cross the river. Napoleon was determined to break the boat, but such a decision also gave the Austrian army an opportunity. Once the Austrian army launched an attack while the French army was crossing the river, it might split it into two sections, cutting off its back and Back up and surround and annihilate them. But I have to say that Napoleon was very lucky, this time, he succeeded again.

Archduke Charles really thought that the French army would cross the river at Northdorf, and hurriedly dispatched the main force of the army to intercept it, but what he didn't expect was that Napoleon actually used the tactic of attacking east and west. The main force of Wan has already crossed the Danube, and the war started again, with the same ending, and it still ended in the defeat of Archduke Charles.

In the end, Grand Duke Charles had to lead the remnant army to flee to Hungary. At this time, there were less than 70,000 people around him, and more than 100,000 French troops were chasing after him.

It was already June 1, and at this time, a major event that ended the war took place. King Friedrich William III of Prussia saw no hope of victory. He didn't want to be driven out of Berlin by the French army like last time, and fled in embarrassment, so he took the initiative to seek peace with France and announced his surrender. There was no way he could do this. At this time, France had already concentrated three legions on the German front, while the three Prussian legions had almost lost almost all of their losses after repeated battles, while the losses of the French army were relatively small. much. The flames of war have already burned into the territory of Prussia, and the 1st Army even hit Magdeburg, which is only 120 kilometers away from Berlin. Although Friedrich William III knew that Prussia would have to pay a high price to seek peace, but at least it was much better than subjugation.

With Friedrich William III as an example, UU Reading www. uukanshu. com Austrian Emperor Francis also announced his surrender on June 5, so the war ended after only one and a half months. Napoleon once again won the final victory, declaring to the world that his empire is still the most powerful, and any enemy who dares to provoke will not end well.

Next, the three warring parties held final peace talks, and both Prussia and Austria had to cede territory and pay compensation again in order to ask Napoleon to forgive them.

Accepted? It's the same as in history, Xiao Jie said after putting down the information in his hand. When the whole of France believed that they had achieved a great victory, Xiao Jie had a different opinion: France seemed to have won, but it also lost hundreds of thousands of people in this war. Conscription again. At this time, the French conscription requirement has relaxed the age to 17 years old. Is it necessary to continue to relax to 16 years old? Wouldn't this push all the young people of France into the flames of war? In addition, the war also brought France's economy into a terrible cycle. If it wins, it's okay, but if it fails, the economy will inevitably collapse. "Nuo Da's empire is going to collapse in war after war! A war is bound to perish! The words of the ancestors really make sense." Xiao Xiaojie couldn't help sighing.

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