Fox of France

Polina ran about in the fog, surrounded by gunshots, cannon and shouts. At first, Polina was still panicked, but soon, after a series of violent explosions, she found that the sound of the guns seemed to become quieter. After a while, shouts of "Long Live the Republic" rang out all around.

At this time, the fog gradually dissipated. Polina saw not far from her, a group of soldiers in blue uniforms were cheering there - obviously, they had won the battle just now.

A bearded veteran noticed Polina and came up to him.

"Hey, little guy, how did you come here?" the soldier asked.

"My brother and I ran away. Our boat encountered a storm at sea, drifted for several days, and then landed here, and then..." Polina hurriedly said, "Did you see my brother? "

"Ah, you are so unlucky that you suddenly ran to the battlefield in a daze. I didn't see your muddled brother, how could he leave his brother in such a place? But I can ask our people to help Look for it." The veteran said.

Polina was just a thirteen-year-old girl at the time, wearing boyish clothes again, and a hat covering her hair. (She still fit Napoleon's clothes when he was a child.) As a result, the old soldier regarded her as a young lady whose voice hadn't changed.

"Come here with me, I'll ask for you." Saying that, the old soldier took Paulina to the side of the fort, and shouted to a soldier who was hanging the tricolor flag on the fort: "Eugène, look The other one, similar to this child, is it a civilian who ran into the battlefield?"

"What did you say?" Eugene asked, "I can't hear you..."

Maybe it was because he didn't concentrate well, the tricolor flag in his hand slipped and fell from the top of the fort.

Everyone's countenance changed, because the tricolor could not be hoisted, and the omen was too bad. In general, the more luck-dependent a business is, the more superstitious it is. The army is a place where all kinds of superstitions are very concentrated. When the navy eats fish, they are never allowed to turn it over before eating the other side, because they taboo the action of "turning over"; as for the army, they also have a lot of superstitions about flags. It was believed that if the flag fell to the ground, it would herald a setback for the army.

The tricolor flag was slowly falling in the morning wind, and everyone ran after the flag, trying to catch it in the air and prevent it from falling to the ground. Even the old soldier, leaving Paulina behind, ran after the flag.

"Catch it, catch it!" everyone yelled.

But for some reason, a sea breeze blew suddenly, and the falling tricolor flag suddenly turned around and fell towards Polina. Polina stretched out her hand and caught it falling on her hand. tricolor flag.

"That kid, that kid caught the flag! Great!" someone yelled.

"That's great!"

According to the same superstition, if the flag is blown down by the wind, whoever catches her on the way, then he will hang the flag back with his own hands, and the bad luck will pass, and all the good luck will follow.

So the old soldier came up to Polina, half bent over, and said, "Thank you, boy, for catching the battle flag. Will you help us raise this flag again?"

...

Lucien was terrified at the loss of Pauline. He knew that if Napoleon found out about this, he would definitely beat him up, maybe his ass would be cut into eight petals; and when he returned to Paris, Joseph would not spare him, to be precise, he would not be spared. Him and Napoleon. Because Joseph felt that he was unreliable for a long time, and Napoleon supported him...

So Lucien slammed into the battlefield like a headless chicken. The soldiers cheered, and Lucien kept asking them: "Have you seen my sister? Have you seen my sister?" But everyone ignored him.

At this time, the soldiers suddenly cheered in the direction of the fort. Lucien also looked over there, and suddenly froze.

"Damn it! What did I see? That's... that's..."

That was Polina, she stood at the highest point of the fort in high spirits, and hoisted a tricolor flag. The soldiers cheered vigorously at her, and the crazy Polina completely forgot about looking for her brother. She even took off her hat and moved towards her like the soldiers below who were waving their hats at her. They waved, and all at once her long hair was flying with the tricolor in the morning wind.

A few years later, when the men of the Bonaparte family ascended to the throne of power, this story of Paulina was spread everywhere by all kinds of interested people. The flag turned into Polina who strayed into the battlefield, and held up the flag in the hands of the standard-bearer who thought she was sacrificed on the battlefield, leading the French warriors to fight the enemy bravely, and finally defeated the British (the British said: It is obviously Spain people!) recaptured Toulon. Some even gave Pauline the title of "Jean of Arc of Toulon" because of this. Of course, regarding this, Polina said: "What? Someone still thinks I have some 'Jean of Arc'?"

(In the original time and space, Polina’s life style was very bold and unrestrained, and she was the famous "Lady of the Lustful Generation". It is said that when the sculptor Canova gave her a statue, he once wanted to treat her as a hunting goddess. But Polly Na said: Let’s act like Venus, because the goddess of hunting is still the goddess of chastity, do people in Europe still believe that there is no chastity in my place?)

But at this time, although the soldiers were cheering for her, they didn't regard her as a "saint". At most, they only regarded her as some kind of auspiciousness. And Lucien ran towards the fort.

Beside the fort, several soldiers stopped him: "Who are you and why are you running here? Are you a British spy?"

"I am the younger brother of General Napoleon Bonaparte, and my sister is inside, and I want to see her!" Lucien shouted quickly. He knew that on the battlefield, just suspicion can kill people. And when he shouted like this, no matter people believe it or not, at least before they figured it out, they would definitely not shoot him.

"Are you the younger brother of General Bonaparte?" The soldiers obviously didn't believe it, but, just like Lucien thought, they still wanted to verify it first.

"If you lie to us, you will die badly," said a soldier.

At this time, a group of cavalry came towards this side. A soldier ran over and said a few words to an officer over there, and the officer rode over.

"Lucien? Why are you here?"

"Ah, Napoleon! Our ship has been blown here... Paulina is in the fort now..."

...

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers saw a good show. Their general, whip in hand, pursued his brother, while Lucien ran round Pauline.

"Lucien, man, don't hide behind women!" said Napoleon.

"A man, you must have your own opinion, how can you do whatever you say?" Lucien panted and responded.

"Paulina, get out of the way and let me kill this unreliable bastard!"

"Napoleon, don't hit Lucien, this matter..."

While they were making a fuss, Augereau came over: "General, the British cavalry has appeared!"

Napoleon stopped and gave Lucien a hard look: "I'll deal with you later!"

Then he threw down his whip, and Augereau passed.

The British sent only a small detachment of cavalry to scout. This is also normal. Davout had just retreated from the front. How could they have such a fast speed to immediately mobilize the army and launch a counterattack? However, the appearance of British cavalry means that a new battle will soon break out.

"The English will not be ignorant of the significance of this fortress. Without it, they will not be able to hold Toulon. They will come to counterattack in a moment. Augereau, find some people and take Pauline and Take that idiot to safety. There is going to be a war here," said Napoleon.

Just as Napoleon judged, the British reacted quickly. They quickly launched a counterattack to the Mulgrave Fortress, because they knew that every second the counterattack was delayed, the French defense at the Mulgrave Fortress would become stronger. The success rate of their counterattack will drop a bit.

Therefore, at noon that day, they launched a large-scale attack on Fort Mulgrave without adequate preparation.

The British were the first to bombard Mulgrave Fort with their cannons. Then the lobster soldiers in red uniforms approached in a neat line.

Fort Mulgrave is a new type of fort. In order to resist shells, its walls are less than two meters high and have a large slope, which makes this kind of walls almost impossible to collapse in the face of shelling. But if the enemy's infantry rushed up, they could even run straight up the wall after a run-up.

Napoleon's army had just captured Fort Mulgrave, and they were not very clear about the various details of the fortress, and they did not have a usable artillery firing table, so although the British offensive was not well prepared, Napoleon's defense , is also not well prepared.

The British almost pushed all the cards up, and put out five or six thousand troops in this attack at one time. But the defense bonus of the fortress is still not to be underestimated. Even if there is no shooting table, the effect of the shelling will be discounted, but as the British approached, the French artillery fire still caused a lot of damage to the British. But those lobster soldiers approached the fort despite the artillery fire.