Soon the Russian army launched a counterattack, and Marshal Mura was unfortunately in such a protruding position that was vulnerable to attack. In an instant, the French cavalry marshal was surrounded by a large number of Russian cavalry. The barbaric Eastern Slav judged from Mura's gorgeous clothes and believed that this person must be an important figure and decided to capture the beautiful French-official officer.

Murad drew his saber and instigated his war horses, fighting with the Russians who tried to capture him, while galloping towards the north battalion. At this time, the fortification was defended by a Württemberg infantry battalion. When they saw the Russians pounced straight towards them, they were ready to give up the battle and start to retreat.

Just at the critical moment when the bastion defenders were about to collapse, Mura appeared. He broke away from the entanglement and pursuit of the Russian cavalry, drove into the bastion fortifications, and obtained a flintlock rifle and a cartridge from a fallen soldier.

"Damn bastard, when a king of Naples still insists on killing the enemy, you have to give up your position. If you admit that you are cowards, then I will allow you to retreat on your own as Marshal of France; if not, please fight side by side with the greatest cavalry of Europe!" Murah's words and deeds were always so rough, arrogant and conceited, but very effective on the battlefield.

So, the stimulated Wurtemburg infantry battalion regrouped and they returned to the position according to the officer's orders. At this time, Murah also became an infantry soldier. He led all the officers and soldiers of the battalion to repel the Russian attacks many times in the fierce close contact.

At this time, the Russian counterattack was still effective. The two prisms on the south were broken and occupied again, and Marshal Ney's main infantry division was attacked by a large-scale Russian cull cavalry. In the moment of crisis, Ney put a husky division of his Third Army's cavalry on the line of charge of the Russian heavy cavalry, but the ferocious enemy cavalry dispersed the French husky division without any effort. However, the sacrifice of the husky division was valuable and greatly slowed down the Russian offensive momentum. When the Russian cull cavalry continued to advance, General Nassuti threw himself into the Polish lancers and attacked the two wings of the exhausted Russian heavy cavalry. The Russian army withdrew its scattered troops from the layers of encirclement and returned to its previous position.

The Russians' counterattack came to an end, and it was the French turn to attack again.

In less than a thousand meters, countless French soldiers were holding guns and advancing towards the Russian position with firm steps. Rows of bullets came, and many fell down, but the formation became denser. Twenty or thirty snake-shaped queues, according to the width of the terrain, were 8 people, 6 people, or 4 people, and went forward bravely.

On the left-wing position that the Russian army was defending, their commander Baglation was surrounded by a group of senior Russian generals to observe the enemy situation. The short and strong Russian prince wore a black military dress and solemnly took off his soft-cornered hat with feathers. He was paying respect to the French army on the attack. Soon, the noble generals around Baglation also followed suit.

While the Russian aristocrats finished these polite gentlemen's actions, the French infantry continued to advance on the battlefield of death with ease. It should be admitted that the neat and orderly ranks are more amazing than any crazy attack.

When the vanguard of the French column had already stepped on the bodies of his companions and approached the Russian guns, it was the Russian counterattack again. Baglation took the lead, and the troops on the entire Russian defense line rushed down from the mountain, and the bayonets collided with their bodies.

At this time, General Moble's troops also started to support Marshal Ney. The two French troops fought together and launched another fierce attack, recapturing the bastions in the middle and south, connecting the bastions held by Murah and Württemberg infantry battalions, and firmly controlling these important defensive positions. Since then, the French no longer handed them over to the Russian army.

The battle for the bastion lasted for more than two hours, and at this time it had become a melee between various arms. The artillery soldiers on both sides continued to kill thousands of people; the cavalry on both sides fought each other, drowned in the melee of horse hooves and whistling bullets; the infantry soldiers on both sides faced each other, sweating on their faces, covered in blood and soil. The senior Russian commander suffered the most casualties. Unfortunately, Prince Bagration, the commander of the heroic Second Western Army, was also seriously injured in the battle and died two weeks later.

In this way, Ney and Mura finally broke through the Russian army's central defense line on the line of Davu's earlier attack.

At the same time, on the left, Prince Eugen's Fourth Army occupied the village of Borodino, crossed the Moscow River, and began a tug-of-war against the control of a huge earthen fortress. This fortress was soon called the "big fortress" by the French army, and the Russians called it Rayvsky Castle. Because of its gains and losses, the final result of the Battle of Borodino.

Ney, Mura and others have been concluding that the Russian army was in chaos, and the decisive moment was right in front of them. They were waiting for news of the Polish army commanded by Poniatovsky, but they disappointed the two marshals. According to the plan, Poniatovsky's 5th Army surrounded the left wing of the Russian army from the flank along the Old Smolensk Avenue, but was blocked by the Russians and unable to move.

Marshal Ney laughed indignantly: "I knew that this playboy was not worthy of being the battlefield commander at all. Didn't he say in front of the emperor that he would launch his amazing clamp-shaped offensive on my right wing? Damn, these Polish guys must be hiding in the woods to pick flowers! If Little Dercy came here, it would definitely make the Russians furious."

"Enough, Duke Elhingen!" Murah interrupted Ney's complaint, in fact he did not want to hear Desai's name. The Polish king was as shameful as the Jews, and it was extremely disgusting.

"Well, my king, what do you think you should do now?" Ney asked.

"Well, send someone to convince the emperor to dispatch his guard army!" Murah suggested helplessly.

Soon, Marshal Ney found his deputy, and he told General Beliard, "Go and tell the emperor, the great Majesty, if his general reserve team is sent over and the guards are put into battle, then within half an hour, we will blind Kutuzov's other eye. The battle has reached a critical moment, and he lets the 30,000 new forces stand by and do nothing. What is the purpose of? Well, if you meet the adjutant of Prince Eugen, ask the Italians if they like the cold river water of Moscow..."

After the Battle of Borodino broke out, Napoleon, who was at the command center, either sat or paced back and forth. He set up the command of the large army on a high ground in the center of the battlefield, which was occupied by the French army yesterday.

When General Beliard went to the emperor's command as a senior messenger, urgently demanding that all the imperial guards be put into battle and win the final victory. Of course, the last passage of Marshal Ney oral was deliberately forgotten by General Beliard, who repeatedly emphasized to the emperor: "The Russian army's brave counterattack failed, and they could no longer consolidate their positions. The time for entering the final reserve team has arrived... The two marshals agreed that the Russians would be completely destroyed!"

However, Napoleon's poor condition and hesitation ruined the best time to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Russian army. At this time, Napoleon was having a high fever and was suffering from typhoid fever. His spirit seemed quite depressed and a little listless.

Even after hearing that the front line troops had broken through the central position of the Russian army, the emperor was extremely surprised, but hesitated and had not made a decision for a long time.

At the beginning, Napoleon ordered the Guards to advance, but when the guard divisions were ready, the emperor suddenly canceled the offensive order. After drinking a large glass of Eagle-Piece that could relieve the torture of illness, he immediately told Beliard: "This great battle has just begun, and we still need to maintain enough patience. At present, it is not the time to enter the Guards. General, please be sure to convey my original words to the commanders on the front line!"

After Beliard returned to the frontier position and repeated the emperor's instructions, Marshal Ney was furious. He immediately realized that all his efforts, Dawu, Murah and his own efforts, would be wasted in the capture of the Russian central defensive position.

"Are we running here all the way, just to fight a battle?" Ney said angrily: "What is the emperor doing in the rear of the army? Since he is unwilling to start a war, since he no longer leads troops to fight, he just hopes to be the emperor of all countries in the world, let him go back to the Duilary Palace and let us lead troops to fight for him!"

The irritating Marshal's loud complaints were still useless. Ney had to stay on the position with Mura who received the same order, helplessly staring at the swaying battlefield situation.

In the French Supreme Command, after Beliard left, Napoleon began to think about the next action plan. Soon, Napoleon received a report that a powerful Russian cavalry unit was detouring to the left wing of the large army (Prince Eugen's Italian Legion side), and was quickly rushing to the supply convoy, and even preparing to rush to the emperor's command.

Napoleon was shocked by this and immediately ordered General Grouch to send cavalry troops to investigate north. Soon, the news brought back by the scouts confirmed the above report, and several French light cavalry regiments covering the left wing of the army were subjected to fierce attacks. Napoleon had believed that the Russian army was planning a major counterattack. So he ordered the troops of Ney and others to withdraw from the fragile center of the Russian front to defend his threatened left wing, and ordered Grouch to do his best to fight the Russian cavalry.

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Chapter completed!