Fox of France

If there is only a rope net in front of you, it can't stop everyone for a while, not to mention turning over, something like a rope can be cut with a knife very quickly. But when the Ivans got closer, they realized that it was not a rope net, but a barbed wire fence.

What's even more hateful is that these barbed wires are not made of ordinary wires, but barbed wires. There are many thorns wrapped around the wires. , it's really not easy. At least, in a short period of time, it is simply impossible.

Under normal circumstances, it is not particularly difficult to break these wires even with bare hands, slowly twisting, and slowly breaking them, but this is on the battlefield, and the barbed wire is only about 100 meters away from the French trenches. At this distance, it is still difficult for the rifles in the hands of the Russian army to hit the heads of the Louises protruding from behind the trench, but it is very easy for the Louises to hit Ivan standing in front of the barbed wire without any cover.

So the Ivans who were blocked by the barbed wire were knocked down by the French army's platoon guns in rows. Some brave Ivans tried to cross the barbed wire, but were caught by the barbs on the military uniform, paused for a while, and then were shot to death; They shot at each other, and they were naturally knocked to the ground.

The French barbed wire did not completely block the direction of advancement. The barbed wire was section by section, and even had a certain angle relative to the trenches of the French army. If the Russian-Austrian coalition forces also have scout balloons and can observe from a higher height, they can see that these barbed wire basically form a funnel shape, but there is no gap at the bottom of the funnel. It was also blocked with barbed wire.

These shapes are of course intentional, so that the soldiers on the attacking side will naturally gather here!

When the soldiers in front are blocked by the barbed wire, the soldiers behind will instinctively want to bypass the obstacle, and then they will run diagonally along the direction of the barbed wire, and then they will unconsciously gather at the bottom of the funnel stand up. And once the personnel are densely populated, the efficiency of the defensive side's firepower against them will also be greatly improved.

But even if someone sees this trap, on the battlefield, he can't stop the instinctive actions of most people, and it's even entirely possible that he will be passed by and then be blocked at the bottom of the funnel.

At this time, in the trenches of the French army, at the position facing the bottom of the funnels, some khaki camouflage nets used for camouflage were lifted, revealing the half-buried ground, only the gun barrel just sticking out of the ground. The black muzzle of the cannon. Then, with the roar of the cannon, thousands of cannonballs sprayed towards the Ivans who were huddled together at the mouth of the funnel like raindrops.

Although there is no machine gun yet, the killing efficiency of such shotgun shooting is almost as good as that of a machine gun at close range. Soon, piles and piles of corpses were piled up in these positions.

Any army has a limit to its ability to withstand casualties, and the brave Ivans are no exception. In many cases, the dilemma of being helpless can even damage the morale of soldiers more than casualties.

So the Ivans quickly collapsed in front of this seemingly thin barbed wire. Some of them crazily smashed the barbed wire fence with gun butts in vain, and were shot and killed by the Louises; ", he dropped the gun, rolled on the ground with his legs crossed and howled.

The Ivans retreated quickly, even faster than they came up. And when they retreated, they stepped on a lot of landmines, leaving behind a lot of wounded soldiers.

Suvorov has been standing in his position, watching the Russian attack and retreat expressionlessly. He didn't speak until the soldiers started to fall back, and then he said to General Bagration: "Peter, take your cavalry and meet them. Everyone who can come back now is a fortune."

Bagration went forward with a troop of cavalry.

"The Russians did a good job of covering their retreat." Napoleon put down the binoculars in his hand, and said to Murat who was eager to try, "Okay, Murat, you can let your soldiers rest."

"General, let's chase it out," said Murat. "Isn't it just a group of Russian cavalry? We can beat them together."

"You saw the battle at Suchet's side just now." Napoleon glanced at Murat and said, "What kind of exchange ratio do you think he played with the enemy just now? If you have the confidence to fight like that now The exchange ratio, I agree with you to attack. Are you confident?"

Then Murat fell silent.

Bagration led the cavalry to cover the retreating Russian army and returned to his barracks, but there were still many wailing wounded soldiers left on the battlefield.

Bagration frowned, and asked another officer beside him to escort the defeated soldiers back, while he led a troop of cavalry towards the wounded soldiers.

Bagration dismounted beside a wounded soldier. The wounded soldier was lying there crying with his feet hugged.

"Brother, what's the matter, are you still standing?" Bagration asked.

"My feet, my feet..." the wounded soldier just yelled.

Bagration looked there, and a bullet whizzed past him not far away.

Bagration bent down, picked up the wounded soldier, put him on the saddle, and led the horse to another wounded soldier.

"General, do you want to focus fire?" A soldier asked Suchet.

"No." Suchet shook his head, "Let everyone not shoot. Let our people go out, enter the minefield, take care of the wounded, and send the wounded to them."

So the gunfire on the French positions stopped. A group of French soldiers carrying stretchers but without weapons came out of the French trenches, opened the locked barbed wire, carefully entered the minefield, and carried the wounded one by one onto the stretcher. They carried the wounded out along a strange winding route.

Bagration had just put the second wounded on his horse when his guard reminded him: "General, a group of Frenchmen has come out."

Bagration raised his head, looked over there, and saw a group of French soldiers carrying stretchers full of wailing Russian wounded.

The French army carried the wounded towards Bagration and the others, and the leading captain shouted loudly: "You are already in the minefield, please don't move around, or you will be easily injured."

Bagration could understand French. In fact, there were very few Russian nobles who did not understand French. In Europe at that time, if an aristocrat could not speak French, he would be regarded as a bumpkin. It was also fashionable in Petersburg to use French instead of Russian when nobles spoke to each other.

"General, they..." the guard asked.

"It doesn't matter, they don't seem to be malicious," Bagration said.

Soon the team of French troops arrived in front of them. The French put the wounded on the ground with stretchers. The leading captain saluted Bagration and said, "Your Excellency, these are your wounded. I am now ordered to hand over these wounded to you."

Bagration also returned the salute, "Thank you."

The French captain didn't seem to want to say anything more. After finishing speaking, he turned around with his own people and left quickly.

"General, do we want..." a guard said.

Bagration knew what the guard meant, so he arrested the captain and brought him back. He might be able to ask him a lot of questions. You must know that although scouting cavalry can sometimes have a chance to capture the opponent's cavalry alive, the chance of catching the captain is much smaller. And a captain must know a lot more than ordinary soldiers.

Bagration frowned and shook his head: "Don't let people think that we Russians are barbarians."

After saying this, Bagration looked down at the wounded soldiers, sighed, and ordered: "Bring them back."

Back in the barracks, Bagration accompanied the old marshal and talked with the retreating soldiers to learn about the French defense.

After learning about the situation, Suvonov called the generals together to discuss how to deal with it.

This time, everyone has learned more about the reality of the French defense line, but this understanding has not given everyone more confidence, on the contrary, it has made everyone extremely frustrated.

"I have never seen such an insidious defense," said a Russian officer. "The French are completely different from the Turks. The mines and the shells from the artillery are nothing. We can overcome it. But the barbed wire , but I really want to find a way to solve it quickly.”

"Can we have any way to quickly destroy the barbed wire?" Another person said.

"How about blowing it up with dynamite?"

"You can try it. Let's get some wire first, make a model, and try it."

"Also, it's not good to let them blow up their landmines like this."

"I heard that the British used this method to deal with landmines in Ireland, and it was very effective..." an Austrian officer said suddenly.

"How did the British do it?" Everyone immediately became interested.

"The English let some Irish go ahead and step on the mines," replied the Austrian.

"Isn't that turning into a Tartar barbarian?" A Russian couldn't help but ask.

"That's right, isn't this becoming a barbarian?"

"The English are savages."

Russians are always regarded as barbarians in Europe, and Russians are quite dissatisfied in their hearts. Nowadays, there is a tendency to laugh at people as barbarians, and almost all Russians will not let them go. But since the British barbarians were to be ridiculed, the plan to catch some Italians to step on landmines was naturally abandoned.

However, the idea of ​​driving sheep and stepping on landmines inspired by this idea made everyone feel that they could give it a try.