And when the first wave of French troops led by Valendo came within range of the Prussian artillery, they were greeted by the angry flames of the Prussians.
"Ahh Yes!
” Screams rang out in the ranks of the advancing French, but Valendo turned a deaf ear to them, and for him the only priority was to capture the Prussian camp as quickly as possible.
Under the command of the officers, the French soldiers continued to attack the Prussian camp under Prussian fire, and death was always accompanied by death on the way of the attack, and when the French soldiers marched within the range of the rifles in the hands of the Prussian soldiers, death followed these poor French soldiers.
"Quick, speed up!"
Valendo stood at the forefront of the marching procession, brandishing his saber and shouting at the French soldiers behind him.
At the urging of Valendo and other officers, the French soldiers marched at a further pace.
One general has achieved ten thousand bones, and for ordinary soldiers, the road to success of every general is paved with their tired corpses.
Eventually, when the first wave of French soldiers led by Wallendo had suffered nearly two hundred casualties, the Prussian camp front was included in their range.
"The 1st battalion opened fire immediately!
The others keep charging me!
” Wallendo's face turned red and shouted at the French soldiers beside him, and hearing Wallendo's order, the French soldiers with about two hundred people gradually stopped and fired at the Prussian soldiers guarding the front line of the Prussian camp with their rifles in their hands, while the other French soldiers could only continue to rush towards the Prussian camp with the shells flying over their heads.
"The third team comes forward and shoots!"
A Prussian officer stood behind a fence of carriages and shouted loudly, and after his order was given, about a hundred Prussian soldiers took the positions that had previously been given way by their comrades.
"Quick, get on the bayonet!"
Seeing that the French soldiers were not far from the carriage.
The officers, who had just retreated to the rear, immediately ordered the soldiers beside them to load their bayonets.
Fairy Ake is not the era of all kinds of thermal weapons in later generations, if you don't use a good bayonet before the enemy rushes to you, then the result will undoubtedly be tragic.
At the sound of these succession officers' orders, the Prussian soldiers nervously loaded their rifles with bayonets.
By the time the third group of Prussian soldiers had fired a round of ammunition, the French soldiers were within fifty meters of the wagon.
At such a short distance, it would undoubtedly be very stupid to continue to order the soldiers to reload their ammunition, because for these crazy soldiers, a distance of fifty meters does not take a minute at all, and a minute is exactly the time it takes for those recruits to reload a round of ammunition.
"Bayonet forward!"
The voices of the officers rang out among the Prussian soldiers.
The soldiers with bayonets loaded immediately rushed to the front line, their hands tightly gripping the rifles in their hands, for them, at this moment, the only thing that could keep them alive was maybe the bayonets in their hands except God!
"Rush!"
The smoke of gunfire filled the battlefield, and after seeing that the Prussian soldiers had gradually stopped firing, Valendo knew.
At this moment, the bayonet was red, so he did not say anything, but brandished his saber and rushed to the Prussian camp first.
The sonata of artillery fire is played on the battlefield, and at this moment, whether it is a veteran or a recruit, they are just human beings at this moment!
Due to the blockage of the carriage, for a while.
The French ** team could not open the gap in the Prussian camp, and the Prussian camp arranged in a circle was full of soldiers with bayonets in their hands.
And just when Valendo was helpless against the Prussian camp for a while, five hundred French soldiers led by Odyssey came up from the right flank.
All the horses pulling the carriages had been concentrated in the camp by Germain, and the carriages that served as a fence were only the carriages, and it was a bit of a struggle for the French to break through this line.
"Quick, push the wagon out of the way here, we need a gap!"
Standing in front of a car that had been destroyed by French artillery, Valendo yelled at the French soldiers beside him, and heard Valendo's orders.
More than a dozen French soldiers rushed forward and began to struggle to move the carriages.
But it was not a simple task to move these wagons loaded with heavy loads, and although these wagons had lost the pull of the horses, the heavy loads in the wagons undoubtedly created a new round of difficulties for the French soldiers.
And by the time the French soldiers tried to push the carriages away, nearly a hundred horses had been gathered together in the center of the camp.
Jermain looked grimly at the French line in front of him, although he was not fighting on the front line.
But the French were attacking one wave after another, putting Germain under extraordinary pressure.
"Battalion commander, eighty-nine ponies have been gathered, and according to your order, these ponies have their tails tied to incendiary substance, but does this really work?"
Just when Germain looked ahead with a stern face, a staff officer hurriedly walked to Germain's side and said, but after hearing the words of this staff officer, Germain said: "Whether it works or not, I don't have any more options, now we can only pray for God's blessing!"
After speaking, Jermain waved his hand, and seeing Jerman's movements, the staff officer who spoke before immediately took the order flag in his hand and waved it a few times.
And just after the order flag was lowered, I saw that the horses that had been gathered together before rushed towards the periphery of the camp.
The ponies have been blindfolded, but unusually, they all have a long section added to their tails, and this section is not a good thing, it is all weeds and other flammable materials.
The Prussian soldiers had made way for the horses before they felt the heat on their tails and became furious, and there was no doubt that the passage was directly ahead of the French army that had been attacking earlier.
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Maybe in peacetime, hundreds of war horses don't attract much attention, but don't forget.
It was now nearly nine o'clock, and it was all dark, and it was difficult for hundreds of horses with flames burning in their tails to go unnoticed.
When Lucien, who was standing on a small high ground, noticed the change in the Prussian camp, his face suddenly turned pale.
It has to be said here that whether it is ancient Europe, the Middle Ages, or modern times.
Those European generals are not inferior to those of ancient China.
As long as Chinese know a little about history books, this method of battle of Germain can be called the fire ox method, and during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period in China, Tian Dada of the State of Qi relied on this tactic to save the State of Qi, which was about to be destroyed.
But in Europe, such tactics are simply unheard of in history.
"Quick.
Let the soldiers get out of the way!
” Lucien was a very clever general, and although he had never encountered such a case, he knew that it was almost impossible to fend off these mad colts with manpower at this moment.
However, what Lucien didn't know was that the war horse could rush forward vigorously when it felt the threat of death under certain guidance, but in battle, it was almost impossible to make these human armies immediately spread a gap.
The direction of the horses was a gap deliberately left by the Prussians.
Of course, it may not be appropriate to use deliberately, after all, this gap could be said to be the main entrance of the Prussian camp before.
Long before the horses went berserk, the Prussian soldiers who had been guarding the main gate had already moved out of the way.
The French did not know all this, and even Valendo was ecstatic about the gap that had been opened by the Prussians, believing that this was the place where he had broken through the Prussian camp.
Therefore, in this small gap that only allowed four people to go together, Wallendo threw in nearly two hundred soldiers at once.
The sound of the horses rushing was already unsettling the French soldiers.
But as the commander of the first wave of attacks, Valendo didn't think much of it.
In Valendo's opinion, these noises were caused at most by the Prussian cavalry, after all, it was no secret that this Prussian baggage team had a hundred cavalry.
As far as Valendor was concerned, as long as a certain number of soldiers were placed in this place, even a Prussian soldier would be of no avail of a charge.
But what Valendo didn't expect was that he didn't have to deal with the Prussian cavalry who had a certain amount of sanity, but a group of horses that had lost their minds under the pressure of the flames.
Feeling the threat of the flames on their tails, the ponies don't think about how many people are blocking in front of them, or whether they are dead or alive in front of them, for these ignorant animals.
At this moment, escape is the instinct of living beings!
Nearly a hundred horses galloped and crashed into the bodies of the French soldiers who were blocking the gate, facing these four-legged creatures, even though the French soldiers had sharp weapons in their hands, but in the face of these horses that had gone berserk.
No matter how sharp the weapon was, it didn't feel the ferocity of the breath of fire death at any time!
"Don't stop, follow these horses, and give me a counterattack against the French!"
Seeing that the Prussian soldiers under their command seemed to be a little stunned by the scene in front of them, the officers immediately used their roars and sabers in their hands to make the Prussian soldiers understand that they were not watching a drama at this moment, but were really on a battlefield that could lose their lives at any time!
"Harud!
Bastard!
Immediately bring your men to my aid to Valendo, and don't let him be crushed by the enemy's counterattack!
” This reversal made Lucien's heart seem to stop beating, so Lucien cursed the damned, evil Prussians in a low voice, and on the other hand, he could only let Harud lead the reinforcements of the soldiers!
In fact, these burning horses did not cause much casualties at all, but on the battlefield, sometimes the victory is not determined by the number of casualties on both sides.
The damage to the morale of the French army by Germain's fire horse technique is indescribable.
"General, my people can't stop these horses!"
Harud looked at the frenzied herd of colts, and his eyes seemed to be about to cry.
Lucien's order had just made Harud think that Lucien was going to let him lead his soldiers to stop the mad horses.
It was precisely with this in mind that even Harud, who was known for his bravery among the French army, had to say goodbye, after all, in the face of these crazy war horses, no one could say that they could be stopped with manpower.
Unless he's willing to pay a huge toll for it!
"Stupid!
I'm not asking you to stop these colts, I'm asking you to immediately bring people to support Wallendo and prevent the Prussians from seizing back the gap that has just been opened!
” Lucien didn't care much about his demeanor at the moment, and he looked at Harud with red eyes, as if he was going to let this guy who had misinterpreted his meaning go to hell in the next moment.
After seeing Lucien's expression.
Harud had to hurry back to his army, and then command his seven hundred men to reinforce Valendo.
"General, we have seen the enemy's hole cards, but we don't have to worry about it at all, after all, the advantage of our strength is here, and those horses are impossible to defeat our army!"
Just as Harud left to lead the army to reinforce Wallendo.
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A staff officer walked up to Lucien and said.
And hearing the words of the staff officer, Lucien said: "I know, I know!
But we can't hide it from anyone else, and if our morale is taken away because of these damned horses, then we don't know how long it will take to annihilate these Prussians!
You also know that we are not very far from the enemy's main forces, and if the enemy's main forces are desperate.
You can be here in less than three hours!
And whether we, whose morale has been robbed, will be able to conquer the enemy's camp in three hours is a great problem!
” Although the main force of the Prussian army was still in Ayi, it was only less than a hundred miles from the place of the ambush to Ayi, in other words, if the enemy were desperate to run wildly, it was indeed possible to appear on the battlefield within three hours.
And this is precisely what Lucien is most worried about.
Despite the superiority of the French army, Lucien did not believe that his soldiers would be able to bargain for the regular Prussian army, even though the Prussian army was only half as large as theirs.
The soldiers under Lucien's command were all veterans of the French army.
After all, they had all participated in the battle of the Austrian Netherlands, but it was this that made Lucien very uneasy.
A series of battles in the Netherlands ended in the defeat of Napoleon and the French, and this defeat cast a shadow over most of the French soldiers, which was not compensated for by a few attacks on enemy supply depots.
In other words, there were not a few soldiers in the French army who were anxious about fighting a field battle face to face with the Prussian army, and even for many French soldiers, this psychology evolved into fear!
And fear is often the biggest shadow of an army's failure!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were rumors everywhere that "the Jurchens are invincible if they are not satisfied with the Ten Thousand Man", which can be regarded as a kind of shirk of the Ming Dynasty generals for their defeat on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also be said that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a psychological offensive against the Ming army.
After all, when you have already decided in your heart that the enemy is an existence that you can't defeat, how much deviation can there be in the ending?
The French soldiers who had blocked the entrance to the Prussian camp were dead and wounded under the hooves of these red-eyed horses, even though Valendo stood behind and shouted to boost morale.
But the French army, which had been taken first, waited helplessly to watch the Prussian soldiers retake the camp gate.
And some Prussian officers even commanded the army to follow these horses and launched a round of counter-charge against the French army, that is, this round of counter-charge wiped out the advantage that the French army had previously relied on in terms of strength!
"All of his things are on top of Lao Tzu, if anyone dares to retreat, they will be shot immediately!"
Despite the constant shouting of Valendo in the rear of the French army.
However, for a while, the decline of the French army could not be changed, but it was not long before Hardru led 700 French soldiers to reinforce him.
And it was with the help of these reinforced French soldiers that Valendo gradually stabilized his position.
This scene made Germain, who was holding the binoculars, feel a little regretful, but fortunately, he did not expect these horses to destroy the French army in a moment.
All Jermain wanted was to buy himself some time with the help of these frantic colts, and depending on the situation, it was clear that these ponies would be enough to help him meet his previous expectations.
"It will take more than four hours to get here from Ayi at the earliest, and the casualties we have suffered are not small, but depending on the situation, we can still hold on, which is enough!"
Germaine secretly clenched his teeth, his palms already clenched into fists.
In fact, what Germain didn't know was that shortly after the French army began to attack Germain's camp, more than a thousand Prussian cavalry sent by Yarman had already rushed towards the battlefield.
Although the cavalry was not commanded by Yarman himself, it is clear that Yarman's previous orders to the cavalry had an effect.
And Yarman in the city of Ayi also received the news less than an hour after the battle began, and the reason why he was able to get the news in such a short time has to be said that the carrier pigeons equipped in the Prussian army have become the biggest contributors!
When Germain left the city of Ayi, Graeme asked Germain to take away a few carrier pigeons raised by the Prussian army stationed in the city of Ayi, and after the French army attacked, Germain also released these pigeons as soon as possible.
After the release, these carrier pigeons did not stop for a moment and flew straight towards the city of Ayi!