Napoleon II Reborn Chapter 88

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Davout and Bernadotte received orders from Napoleon at 4:00 am on October 14 to abandon the northern area between Naumburg and Auerstadt and march south to assist him in his attack on Jena.

At 6 o'clock on the 14th, Davout's vanguard arrived at the village of Hansenhausen in the northeast of Auerstadt. In the dense fog, they happened to meet the vanguard of the main force of the Prussian army. The two sides fought fiercely, and the French army had the advantage with advanced weapons. An hour later, the Prussian reinforcements arrived, because the sight was seriously affected in the thick fog. The soldiers of the French Guards started hand-to-hand combat. Under the siege of the Prussian army, the result can be imagined. When the French reinforcements arrived half an hour later, there were only corpses in front of them. But the combat effectiveness of the Guards Corps is unquestionable. Although the 2,000-man vanguard was completely wiped out, they almost caused the same number of Prussian soldiers to fall here forever.

The French reinforcements who rushed here were all red-eyed after seeing such a scene. At this time, the thick fog began to gradually dissipate. The French reinforcements caught up with the Prussian army that had just left, and the two sides fought fiercely again. In this way, the scale of the battle became larger and larger, and finally the entire Guard Corps was dragged closer.

At this moment, Davout realized that he had encountered the main force of the Prussian army who should have been in Jena. The two armies confronted each other, but facing the main force of the Prussian army, Davout's Guards were clearly at a disadvantage. At 9 a.m., Davout was surrounded by 100,000 men and more than 400 guns at Brunswick. In particular, the 8,000-man Second Guards Division of General Gudin's left wing was attacked by 30,000 Prussians backed by Blücher's cavalry and infantry. Davout is in dire straits.

"Which is the closest friendly force to us now?" Davout asked his adjutant.

"Report to Your Excellency the Marshal. It should be Marshal Bernadotte's First Army. They are marching from Auerstadt to Jena. According to calculations, they are not more than 10 miles away from us at this time. Should we ask them for assistance? ?” The loyal adjutant replied after verification.

Davout was a little hesitant, because among the many marshals in France, he and Bernadotte were the most at odds. The reason is that when the Guards Corps was established at that time, the candidates were Bernadotte, the head of the First Army Corps, and Davout, the Third Army Corps, but in the end Davout defeated Beibei with his incomparable loyalty to Napoleon Nadot won the throne of the head of the Guards. But since then, he and Bernadotte have formed a grudge. In normal times, the two sides often had conflicts, but they did not expand under Napoleon's deterrence. But now Davout should put down his body and ask Bernadotte for help. , he really can't do it.

Seeing that Davout hesitated, the adjutant continued: "Marshal, I know there are conflicts between you and Marshal Bernadotte, but now is a special period, you should temporarily let go of personal grievances, even if you don't think about yourself, you should Think about the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Legion."

After hearing the adjutant's persuasion, Davout sighed, and then said helplessly: "Okay. Send someone to Bernadotte for help, and send someone to report our current situation to His Majesty the Emperor."

Seeing that Davout agreed, the adjutant hurried down and sent someone to ask for help. In less than ten minutes, two cavalry squads rushed out. Looking at the backs of those cavalrymen leaving, the adjutant was also very moved. Their Guards Legion has always regarded themselves as the elite of the empire, but now they have been reduced to needing rescue from others.

But this does not mean that nothing will happen. They have to rescue Bernadotte, so they have to do the same. The adjutant was not sure at all. But now it is in the stage of war, if Bernadotte refuses to lend a helping hand to the Guards Corps, then he must be difficult to explain to His Majesty the Emperor. The adjutant could only comfort himself in this way. Suddenly, there were two explosions in the distance, as well as Davout's characteristic roar when commanding the battle, and the adjutant knew that the Prussian attack had begun. So he hurriedly ran to Davout's location, as an adjutant, he should stay with his chief at all times.

After the bombardment, the Prussians launched a tentative attack. But their bombardment did not achieve much effect, because after the exercise with the 88th Army, the commanders of other legions also realized the role of trenches and foxholes, although their use was not as proficient as the 88th Army, and the trenches also Not as standard as the one dug by the 88th Army, but under the shelling of the Prussian army this time, the trenches still provided good protection for the soldiers of the Guards. After 20 minutes of shelling, the Guards had only suffered less than 500 casualties.

The Prussian attack was still the old-fashioned phalanx attack. The soldiers stepped on the drums and pressed down on the guards' position step by step with neat steps.

At this time, the Guards began to fight back, and nearly 200 cannons blasted at the constantly attacking Prussian army. I have to admire that the Prussian soldiers are indeed the most well-trained soldiers in Europe. Even if the shells exploded around them, they would not dodge and continue to maintain a neat line until they were blown to pieces. And when they died, the comrades behind them immediately stepped up to fill their positions, keeping the phalanx always neat.

However, this method of attack was considered outdated in the last war. Under the intensive firepower of the enemy, using this method of attack will cause heavy losses. The two countries that experienced this most deeply in the last war, France and Austria, have basically given up this old-fashioned offensive method~www.mtlnovel.com~ and turned to study new tactics. It's just that France has gone further and is more mature than Austria in this respect because of Xiao Jie's existence.

After entering the range of the 1806 rifle, the French soldiers began to shoot one after another, and the slowly marching Prussian army became their best target. The casualties of the Prussian soldiers were also increasing. Just halfway through the distance, they had already fallen half of the 10,000 people who participated in the attack.

Brunswick was very surprised by the casualties of his own army. He did not expect that the proud French army would change their tactics, and all of them lay on the ground (due to the distance between them, the French soldiers basically only showed one The head was outside the trench, so he thought the French army was all lying on the ground), and their rifles had a much longer range than their own. This situation was not good for the Prussian army, so Brunswick finally ordered a The tentative attacking troops were all withdrawn, while the artillery continued to fire until the enemy's will to fight was completely destroyed.

At 10:30 in the morning, the request for help from the Guards Corps was finally delivered to Bernadotte. Knowing Davout's current situation, Bernadotte was very happy and ordered the army to continue going south, regardless of the Guards.

"Marshal, isn't this good?" asked one of Bernadotte's officers.

Bernadotte glared at him, and then said: "His Majesty the Emperor gave us an order to go south to assist him in the Battle of Jena. We must resolutely implement His Majesty's order."

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