Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1521 "Crossing the River and Demolition of the Bridge"

  According to the “story” that Georgeanna heard from Bonaparte, the biggest difference between Moreau and Napoleon is not whether they are a republican general.

The army that has just been liberated from the old system still follows the old system. It has to listen to the orders from the capital. It used to be the king and the ministers. In the era when Moreau and Napoleon were in the governorship, Moreau was delayed. Many fighters.

He had already reached the Rhine on June 1, but he had been active on the left bank of the Rhine. One did not build a pontoon bridge, and two did not keep in touch with the Sombre-Maas Front. After the army crossed the river, he was on the Norwegian side. After waiting for 8 days on the battlefield of Lesheim, he finally decided to move in the direction of Donaufurt. At this time, he had not yet made contact with the Sumbre-Mas Front.

  Moreau did not decide to cross the river himself, but waited for the order of the supervising government. Crossing a river like the Rhine is a very difficult military operation. It must be done quickly. Moreau prepared to cross the river on June 24. He let Desai take a boat and lead 2500 people to capture Erlian-Rhine in the early morning of June 24. The island occupied Kerr again in the morning, and the pontoon bridge was erected at dusk. The pontoon bridge was not erected until noon on the 25th.

If he erected the pontoon before noon on the 24th, Archduke Charles learned that the French army had crossed the river near Kerr on June 26. If the 70,000 soldiers composed of the three armies of the Rhine Front and the reserve can reach the right bank before the 26th And advance, then you can unexpectedly capture and defeat the Austrian division walking along the river to achieve brilliant results. As a result, Moreau gave Archduke Charles time to react. He took 24 battalions of infantry and 29 companies of cavalry to support the Upper Rhine Front.

When crossing the river, Moreau was divided into three teams. Saint Cyr led 20,000 people on the left bank of the Rhine, 40,000 people on the right bank, and 10,000 people on the upper Rhine. Archduke Charles led his troops on the Upper Rhine. He these ten thousand people. Three different combat routes and six flanks, the flanks are the weakest part, so they need cover. If this is not possible, it is necessary to reduce the flanks as much as possible. Moreau’s army has only one flanking cover. If it weren’t for the fact that General Ferino went up against the Rhine and took the opportunity to occupy the two barracks that could hold six thousand people, With fortifications you can rely on, otherwise you will be attacked by Prince Charles's army and the Upper Rhine Front in the field, and his ten thousand people will be wiped out.

Desai also led his regiment towards Rastatt at this time. At that time, the Austrian General Latu led 25,000 people from Mannheim to Rastatt, but St Cyr heard that the enemy was coming from Mannheim. As he was advancing up the Rhine, he immediately followed the left bank of the Rhine, passed the Kerr Bridge into Freudenstadt, occupied some of the multifaceted fortresses distributed in Knibis, and then crossed the Muir through fierce battles all day long. Ke river.

  Why didn’t Saint Cyr take the opportunity to capture Rastatt? As long as they occupy Rastatt and Pforzheim, they can isolate Philipsburg and Mannheim, and cut off the connection between the enemy and the Neckar. Their style of play allowed Archduke Charles and Latour to victory. Joining forces, which gave Prince Charles a forty-four infantry battalions and eighty cavalry companies, which gave him the strength to deploy troops on Ettlingen and the three main communication routes to Kerr.

This time there was no way to obtain the order of the supervising government. Moreau began to "act without authorization." Originally, Grand Duke Charlie planned to attack Moreau on July 10. On July 9, Moreau ordered Saint Cyr to attack first, defeating Kaim and After repelling the Saxon soldiers on the Neckar, the Grand Duke let his center and right wing attack Desai after knowing this battle. Desai persisted for most of the day, until the evening before retreating to a new position. The Grand Duke Charles Sill cut off the back and began to retreat and sent troops to supplement the guards in Mannheim and Philipsburg. After being pursued by Saint Cyr the next day, Archduke Charles continued to retreat to Stuttgart, where he crossed the Neckar. On Ferino's side, he took control of the Kinzig River and crossed the Black Forest Mountain, which completely eliminated the enemies in the Rhine River and Black Forest Mountain area.

Jourdan was also a commander. He did not order the occupation of the Ulm fortress, and he did not join with Moreau. He left General Marceau with 30,000 defending the fortresses. He led 50,000 people into the hinterland of Germany. Proceeding along the edge of the Turingia mountain range around Sakcha, leaving the Danube, the guards arrived at Schweinfurt before July 21, and the headquarters arrived on the 26th.

At this time, Morrow was looking for command posts everywhere on the battlefield, which was equivalent to the French army forming three independent regiments in the march, and there was no contact with each other. Morrow sent troops to chase Archduke Charles’s tail. Charles thought The French planned to join forces in the Altmil River, and Grand Duke Charles thought he could take the risk to prevent Moreau and Juul from becoming a teacher, so the rear team changed to the front team and advanced to Ettlingen.

  Actually, when Archduke Charles drove the French army’s headquarters and heavy corps out of Heidenheim, the Germans had already won. At this time, both the heavy and reserve teams were in chaos, and he could completely order an encirclement and suppression. However, the troops that Charles Grande used to complete this task did not rush to the scene, so they were unable to participate in the battle. The Central Army, which was in charge of the main attack, was personally commanded by the Grand Duke. He confronted Saint Cyr. Saint Cyr did not expect that he would be beaten. As a result, the two sides fought and lost six to seven thousand men. At night, he led the left wing back to the Danube. Going to Dillingen, stayed overnight in the battlefield in the middle. The French took this opportunity to retake Heidenheim and allowed the French to restore the line of communication. Moreau took the opportunity to clean up the wounded soldiers, and Duke Charles obtained intelligence, Sombre- The Mas Front has crossed the Legnitz River, and has passed Amberg to Regensburg.

  On August 11, the Grand Duke believed that the Rhine Front and the Sombre-Mas Front had already reconciled. In order to avoid being surrounded by himself, he gave up his plan to prevent them from joining forces and began to retreat.

In fact, Archduke Charles had a misunderstanding. Moreau had no idea where Jourdan was. He stayed on the battlefield of Noreheim for a few days, first sent people to Donaufurt, then back to Gherstadt, even Soldiers were also sent to Artemier. Moreau's indecision made Grand Duke Charles excited. He thought he still had a chance to stop the reunion, so he left 30 battalions of General Ratur to stop the Rhine Front, and he took a cavalry, infantry and artillery team. Cross the Danube and proceed along the Nuremberg Road, attacking Bernadotte of the Sombre-Mas Front in front of Neumarkt.

Bernadotte had no idea that he would be beaten by Archduke Charlie. At that time, the Sombre-Maas Front was mainly facing the offensive of Vartian Sliebian. After the Rhine Front, Ferino, who was assigned by the Rhine Front, turned around in the Black Forest. It has already merged with the Rhine Front on the Lech River. The Sombre-Mas Front has no reinforcements, no luggage, and no large lines of communication. The chaotic and disorderly march has a bad influence on military discipline. Of course, Jour should be defeated and morale. Depressed and exhausted, General Marceau was also killed. Kleber and Corot were transferred back because they did not obey Juldan’s orders. Part of them spent the Rhine and part of them lived in the barracks in Düsseldorf. When dismissed from the post of commander-in-chief, the supervising government appointed a battalion commander to be commander-in-chief.

  After the result of the Sombre-Mas Front Army, Archduke Charles left 50,000 people to watch. He personally led 12,000 people to leave the Lan River and turned around to fight the Rhine Front.

  At the time, Moreau still didn’t know where the Sombre-Mass front was, so he could only move forward blindly, leaving the left wing to Neustadt, which was close to the Danube, the central road to Mainz, and the right wing to Moosburg. The battle lines were wide and thin, but fortunately there were not many obstacles to his advance, because the enemy thought he was going to attack Regensburg, and they were waiting for him there.

  But Moreau did not act without authorization, and instead retreated to his original position. When Grand Duke Charles left the Rhine, Mainz, Mannheim, Oerenbrecht, and Philipsburg all had defenders. After arriving at the Lahn River, Grand Duke Charles ordered Mannheim and Philipsburg to dispatch 9 battalions each to attack General Sherbo and take down the two bridgeheads of Kerr and Gyuningberg. If the Germans succeeded, then The retreat of the Rhine Front is gone, and it is only a matter of time before it is encircled and annihilated in the absence of luggage, supplies, and fortifications.

Later, after General Scherber learned of the incident from the surrendered soldiers, he began to retreat on September 13 and returned to the city of Kerr. The German general who followed him encountered a fierce attack, because in addition to the city of Kerr, The National Guard of Strasbourg also participated in the battle.

Moreau was shocked when he knew that he was almost cut off. He began to move closer to the Rhine and retreat. Jourdang also retreated to the Lehe River at the same time. Fortunately, Ulm, without any guards, was occupied by the French at this time. Six hours after Se left Ulm, the Austrians entered there.

The Black Forest was also taken away by the Austrians. The town was occupied by the uprising peasants. All the achievements of the Rhine Front were gone. His troops were later commanded by Massena. Moreau retreated in an orderly manner and brought back 5000. Captives, and Napoleon won a series of victories in northern Italy. The two fronts that cooperated with the attack on Austria became Napoleon's fast fighting alone. In the end, Napoleon eclipsed the politicians in Paris.

  Piedmont does not need to be attacked. It belongs to the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia. France established a satellite country here in 1796. It was merged in 1801 and became a new satellite country in June 1802. But last year, something happened in Turin that shocked Europe and brought Napoleon to shame. The French attacked the fort with the tricolor flag guarded by the Italians.

  Jourdan established a military district here, and many of the French troops who withdrew from the Papal States retreated to Piedmont.

  Piedmont is as rich as Burgundy in France. With Napoleon’s personality, Italy is his most beloved woman, and he will not let others touch it. But aren’t so many people saying that he deliberately sent Morrow’s people to Santo Domingo? Does he hate Moreau?

  The Italian Republic actually prefers the name of the Southern Alps. With the South, there is the North. They like to restore the former Rome—Gaul is just a province of Rome, and Paris is also known as the Rome of Gaul.

Piedmont is well governed, and it will have great benefits after being merged into France. If it is not well governed, the same incident as the last time occurs. Moreau will at least lose a reputation for ruling the army. Valmy in 1793 After the surrender of General Charles François Di Mourier, the hero of the victory, his men were all implicated. Moreau was not implicated because of his commanding of the army, excellent military quality and firm republican position. Instead, he was promoted to brigadier general. At that time, he only managed one battalion.

  If Morrow still listens to the command of the Parliament as before, then he will listen to the orders of Napoleon, the Speaker of the Senate. He does not listen to orders. As a military governor, what does he want to do with so many troops?

  The republic does not allow independence. He will give Napoleon a reasonable reason for attempting to rebel and subvert the power to destroy himself, so the wise choice is to act on orders.

  Napoleon is now the “mediator” of Switzerland. After the Easter coup, Switzerland was divided into the Federal Party and the Solidarity Party. The 36 representatives of the Solidarity Party quickly arrived in Paris, but the Federal Party hesitated, not even sure how many people would come.

  Napoleon sent Michel Nay as the ambassador, took the letter of credence and a group of people to military occupation of Switzerland, and ordered all parties to lay down their weapons. Giorgio Anna’s roads came in handy at this time.

At present, the Seny mountain road from France to Piedmont has not yet passed. It will form a competitive relationship with the Strasbourg trade route. Would you say that the Strasbourg people will help Mo Will Luo defend the city of Kerr?

   Moreau was sent to study law by his father in his early years. His father hoped that he would become a lawyer in the future, but Moreau had no intention of studying. Later, he formed a gang at the University of Rennes in the west of France, fighting with the poor students in the school all day.

  Later, Moreau joined the army with these men. The last time he marched cautiously, he did not lose much. Many of the generals who died on the front line this time were Morrow's former "brothers." When he arrived in Piedmont, everything had to be repeated.

  The key is that he still needs to listen to the orders of the "enemy", and accepting this kind of appointment is not as good as leaving home.

But his ambitious wife, Millie Oro, would not agree. This Creole woman was eager for power. She was introduced to Morrow by Josephine, and Georgian had also met his mother-in-law. A character that is hard to say.

Napoleon also had a power-hungry sister, Caroline, who was Murat’s wife. Georgiana heard from Belle that the Mamluks had seen her maid, Matilda, approached Caroline’s cronies in the middle of the night. , The other party is female.

  Her life here, apart from reading books, is to watch the stars. It is extremely boring. How can aristocratic girls who have seen the upper-class life in Paris be willing to work here?

  The other "servants" are not real servants, so they work so seriously. The barber who may have left is the only one who really came to work.

  She didn't want to doubt Belle's intentions. She only knew that she couldn't live without a French maid, so she didn't hear it.

  People, will they change when they become rich?

  Georgiana smiled bitterly and shook her head, continuing to look at the information in her hand.

  Perhaps it is precisely because she is as boring as Bonaparte that they get along so happily. They are all people who are as dry as paper.

  (End of this chapter)