"Your Excellency Marshal, we can't fight like this anymore, the army is exhausted, and if we continue like this, the soldiers will definitely oppose us!"
Just as Creech clenched his fists and was about to give the order for another attack, a general standing behind him hurriedly rushed to Creech and saluted.
< －》 "Then you say, what are we going to do?
Now not only are we tired, but the rebels in the city have also reached the final point, and now the competition between our two sides is to see who can't hold it first, and whoever can't hold it first means defeat, don't you understand this face?"
Creech's eyes were already red, and he didn't know what was going on in front of him, knowing that when he sent his troops to quell the rebellion, he made a wish to all the soldiers to end the war by Christmas this year, and then let all the soldiers go home and be reunited.
But now it is less than ten days before Christmas, but the city of Lyon has still not been taken, and the resentment in the hearts of the soldiers can be imagined.
But even if the soldiers had resentment in their hearts, Leon still stood in front of him, and now both sides were doing their best, as Creech said, whoever can't hold on first will lose.
Starter: Frederick William III 348 Creech's words caused the generals behind him to fall into a strange silence.
Just then, a voice rang out "Your Excellency Marshal, now only Napoleon's troops on the battlefield have not been engaged in the war, and his first brigade is the elite of our second army, why don't we transfer the first brigade to participate in the attack?"
This sentence made the generals nod their heads, but seeing this scene.
Creech's heart was surprisingly angry.
When he ordered Napoleon not to take part in the attack, the generals supported this order.
You must know that there was more than one person in the Second Army who was afraid of Napoleon's exploits, but now that the city of Lyon was broken and the war was about to be delayed, someone actually wanted to ask Napoleon to participate in the war, didn't he let Creech slap himself in the face!
"Yes, yes, only a wisp of all the armies has not yet participated in the battle, they are a new force with strong combat effectiveness, once this new force joins the battle, the rebels in the city will definitely not be able to hold on!"
"Yes, yes" As the conversation grows louder.
Creech's face had turned from red to white.
The current situation was completely different from what he had in mind, and now that everyone was putting their hopes on Napoleon, how could she Creech deal with herself?
Could it be that the generals didn't believe him, but believed in some stinky boy?
But in the face of the generals with the same attitude, Creech could not refute at all, it was true that he was the commander-in-chief of the counterinsurgency, but this did not mean that he could refute everyone's opinions, in that case, the prestige that he Creech had built up for many years in the Second Army would collapse.
"Your Excellency Marshal, please order Napoleon's troops to attack Lyon as soon as possible!"
After a commotion, the generals behind Creech bowed and saluted Creech.
And their words also drove Creech to the edge of a cliff.
"Well, since you say so.
Then as you wish!
However, Napoleon was ordered to break the city within five days, otherwise it would be dealt with by military law!
” In the end, Creech decided to go along with the people's wishes, and after agreeing to the general's request, Creech seemed to be ten years older.
His gaze became cloudy, and the ban for so long was ruined by the momentary displeasure of the war.
After giving the order, Creech no longer worried that Napoleon's counterinsurgency would leap above him, and he was now worried about whether his position in the Second Army would be threatened by Napoleon's forehead.
Nothing more than this to lure the wolf into the house!
Actually, what Creech doesn't know is.
Napoleon seemed to stay obediently outside the city of Lyon, and did not make any small moves.
But it was this rare time that allowed Napoleon to get to know the generals of the Second Army seriously, and all the generals that Napoleon thought were useful would have a rich gift in front of him, and what he asked for was to hope that these generals could say a few good words for him in front of Creech, but he did not expect that under such a coincidence today, these generals would unknowingly force Creech to the palace as a gun in Napoleon's hand.
Until he returned to his tent, the anger in Creech's heart had not subsided, or rather it had become almost fearful.
He did not understand what exactly Napoleon did.
He actually gathered all the generals of the Second Army, and especially today, he organized so many people to force himself to express his position!
In Creech's opinion, this is completely rebellious, but what can he do?
Today's scene flashed in front of him like a marquee, and Creech suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
The Second Legion seemed to be out of its grasp.
Just as Creech's order reached Napoleon, the events of the day had already reached his ears.
When he heard that all the generals petitioned Creech to mobilize the 1st Brigade to attack Lyon, Napoleon's face was dumbfounded, he did not expect that one of his unintentional actions would actually cause such a situation, so that Creech would inevitably be jealous of himself, but the same events today will be known to everyone, and everyone will have a different opinion.
In some respects, the generals' request can be seen as a manifestation of Napoleon's will in the Second Legion, and from then on Napoleon's influence will not be confined to one First Brigade, but will spread to the entire Second Legion.
Even the generals who unknowingly helped Napoleon were amazed by today's events, they didn't expect Napoleon to unknowingly play such a big game of chess, and if they knew that it was just a coincidence, they didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
But all in all, whether intentional or not, from this day onwards all the generals of the Second Army will take Napoleon seriously.
Starter: Frederick William III 348 With the military order in hand, Napoleon was in high spirits, he gathered all the officers of the 1st Brigade, and then issued the battle plan for tomorrow.
With more than 1,000 troops of a regiment of the 1st Brigade Cavalry Regiment blockading the eastern city of Lyon, Napoleon decided to place the main attack on the south of the city, and for this reason Napoleon decided to press on his 6,000 men.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
& #32; & #32; & #32; After these few days of observation.
Napoleon found that the rebels guarding the south of Lyon were no more than 4,000 men, which was fine against ordinary people, but Napoleon had a large number of artillery in his hands.
Originally, the 1st Brigade had more than 30 artillery pieces, and when the 1st Brigade was given the task of being the vanguard of the whole army, Creech transferred a few more guns to reduce the 1st Brigade's artillery to 40.
In the first battle of Enlaize, although the 40,000 rebels were poorly equipped, Napoleon still captured nearly 20 artillery pieces from Enlaize after the war.
Don't forget that the rebels in Enlaize Town had 10,000 rebels from Lafayette's 1st Legion.
The 10,000 city defense troops temporarily assigned to Napoleon's command also carried more than 20 artillery pieces, and after Creech took over the command of the city defense army, Napoleon only let the city defense army take away five artillery pieces, and the other dozen guns were concealed in the name of battle damage.
So.
Napoleon's First Brigade actually had more than 70 artillery pieces, although some were reimbursed for battle damage, but now Napoleon's hands could use 63 artillery pieces.
What is the concept of sixty-three guns, the main force used by Creech to attack the north of Lyon is only equipped with less than sixty guns, which means that once Napoleon's troops delay the attack, then the offensive firepower in the south of the city will instantly exceed that of the north of the city.
In order to take Lyon by surprise, Napoleon decided to time the attack at six o'clock tomorrow morning.
The present date is December, and at six o'clock in the morning of December the sky is often not yet bright, and in winter people have a very bad problem, that is, lying in bed.
Although the rebels guarding the south of the city are also considered the elite of the rebels.
The rebel guards were divided into two shifts, one from six in the morning to six in the evening.
The other shift is from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
But this date was only at the beginning of the resolute time, under the fact that Napoleon had not moved for nearly a month, the spirit of the rebels guarding the south of the city became very lax, at least in Napoleon's observation, when at three or four o'clock in the morning, there were rebels who could not bear to slip away coldly, and at six o'clock in the morning, as soon as the time came, these rebels except for a few people who were left to wait for the change of shift, the rest of the rebels withdrew from the city wall.
The army that changes shifts in the morning often does not complete the handover until about seven or eight o'clock in the morning, which means that there will be a defensive gap at six or seven o'clock in the morning.
At that time, there were only three or two kittens on the city walls.
Napoleon observed in detail, and the reality was similar to what he observed.
No matter how armed they are, it is impossible for these people who have not been systematically trained to really reach the level of elite troops.
The rebels in the south of the city still haven't been able to get rid of their small citizen mentality, who wants to get up early in the winter, not to mention that the French army in the south of the city has not moved for a month, in this case, only the rebels in the south of the city are the most idle in the whole of Lyon.
And this state of idleness has begun to shift to laziness.
Although the person in charge of the south of the city is Chalmers, as Lafayette's adjutant, although Chalmers has taken on such an important task, he has nothing to do in the south of the city.
Chalmers still stays by Lafayette's side every day, in his opinion, Lyon is so big in total, if there is something in the south of the city, he can rush over by himself, and if he is fine, it is naturally better to stay by Lafayette's side and serve.
Without the immediate boss of Chalmers, and the temporary head designated by Chalmers is also a lazy guy, the rebels in the south of the city like to lie in bed for a while in the morning, who wants to suffer that sin early in the morning!
But wars often take the unexpected.
At less than five o'clock in the morning of December 18, 1789, Napoleon's headquarters in the south of Lyon were ready for war, every soldier had received a hearty breakfast, and the logistics had already distributed all the ammunition to each soldier.
When he saw that the clock was at five o'clock, Napoleon waved his hand, and more than 6,000 men of the 1st Brigade quietly marched south of Lyon under the cover of night.
Napoleon raised his binoculars and looked at the head of Lyon, only to see not a single rebel soldier in sight above the city.
"General, are we going to get moving?"
"No, wait a minute, it's not six o'clock yet, even if those rebels are lazy, they must have left some men on the city walls, let's wait!"
After answering his subordinates' questions, Napoleon continued to look at the city of Lyon.
After a while, Napoleon saw figures suddenly appear at the head of the city, and these figures were walking along the walls on both sides.
Seeing this scene, Napoleon took out his pocket watch, and sure enough, it was six o'clock in the morning.
Starter: Frederick William III 348 "General, are we going to attack now?"
"Wait a minute, the rebels haven't all left the wall yet, we'll wait until they've come down the wall and left some distance before we move, so that even if we are spotted, we can get to the wall before they react!"
When the time came to 6:20, Napoleon estimated that the last figure he saw had disappeared for about ten minutes.
"Order the army to advance immediately.
The ministries kept quiet, and whoever dared to make a little noise was immediately executed for me according to the previous order!
” "Yes!
Checkmate!
” As soon as Napoleon's order arrived, a large number of French troops suddenly appeared behind him, and the wedge army rushed to the foot of Lyon with a high ladder, and the Syrian artillery was also pushed forward by the French army.
According to Napoleon's idea, after the French infantry built the city wall through the ladder, all the French artillery was pushed not far below the city of Lyon, and then bombarded the city, and the target of the artillery was not the city wall of Lyon but the space inside the wall.
The bombardment of the city walls was bound to alarm the rebels throughout Lyon.
And now Napoleon's main hope was that his actions would go unnoticed, and then after the army had captured the walls.
The artillery bombarded the inside of the city walls, sending all the shells on the heads of the rebels who rushed to support.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
The wheels of the carriages in which the French guns were drawn were all wrapped in linen cloth, and the horses that pulled the artillery were tied to the reins.
Needless to say, the French soldiers had given orders to the whole army long before the departure, and if anyone dared to make any noise during the march, the officers had the right to execute without having to report to the authorities.
Everything was going quietly as Napoleon had hoped, and Napoleon was relieved to see that the vanguard army was less than half a mile away from the walls of Lyon, and even if the rebels at the head of the city found that something was wrong, then the French army still had enough space and time to react.
It's too late, it's too soon.
Ladders of the French army were erected on the walls of Lyon.
"Who?"
The sound of the ladder against the city wall was not insignificant, and I saw a groggy rebel who was cowering in the corner of the wall was awakened, he stood up and looked around, but there was nothing in his eyes, but the sound of collision in his ears was constantly coming.
"Hey, Shetl, wake up.
What sound do you hear?"
As he spoke, the rebel soldier pushed his comrades up beside him "Oh, Gratling, I've already said that, unless those bastards come to hand it over.
Otherwise, don't bother me, don't you know I'm sleepy?"
Still, the rebel named Shetl stood up, and his face changed as the cold snap cleared his groggy mind.
He hurriedly rushed to the daughter wall and looked up "Datede***), Gratling go ring the bell, enemy attack!"
A scream woke up several of the rebels who remained on the wall, and just as they rushed to the edge of the wall, they saw that the French had climbed to the wall.
"Enemy attack!
Enemy Attack !!!
” "Bell, bell, bell."
After shouting a few more times, Schertel heard a bell ringing in his ears, and when he heard the bell ring, Schette's face softened, but then he had to fight a French soldier who had just jumped off his daughter's wall.
Napoleon's face changed at the sound of the bell on the wall, but immediately after that, he ordered "Let all the armies speed up at once, and take the walls before the rebels react.
In addition, get the artillery ready, wait for my orders" After speaking, looking at the still gray sky, Napoleon secretly prayed that everything would go well this time.
Napoleon's timing was very accurate, and the group that had stayed behind the city wall left less than 30 people to complete the handover, while the other group of people who handed over did not appear, that is, when the French army attacked, there were less than 30 people on the wall.
A French charge crushed the rebels to the stairs of the city wall.
"Where's the bell?"
Lafayette, who was looking at the map, was startled by the sound of the bell, and then he couldn't help but look to the north of the city, but looking at the north of the city where there was no movement, Lafayette frowned.
"Your Excellency, it's Chengnan, the bell in Chengnan has been ringing!"
A hurried figure broke into Lafayette's office, and the news he brought made Lafayette gasp.
"Where's Chalmers?"
"Your Excellency Chalmers is arranging your breakfast!"
"Arrange a fart!
Let him get back to the south of the city!
If something goes wrong in the south of the city, I want his life!
” The enraged Lafayette still forgot that Chalmers lived in his mansion, and that it was Chalmers who basically came to wake up for Lafayette every morning.
It can be said that compared with a general, Chalmers is more suitable for Lafayette's domestic slave status, and he was originally Lafayette's domestic slave, so Just after the French captured the walls south of the city, the rebels finally reacted, and the rebels in the south of the city rushed to the French army, and they were given the task of retaking the walls.
But at this very moment, the French artillery also pushed the artillery to the pre-locked position!
To be continued.
If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation, monthly pass,