When the Russian army quickly transformed the horizontal line into a column outside the range of the French Minni rifle and quickly approached the French position, Napoleon also opened his eyes wide: "Isn't this our trick?"

"General, over the years, there are not too many people who imitate our combat methods." Xu Xie raised his chin high, "but no matter how he imitated, they were all defeated by our men."

"Hahaha..." Napoleon laughed, "Louis, do you know? Someone once said something very similar to what you just said."

"Who?" Xu Xie asked.

"My brother Joseph is the guy who hangs the badge of the Academician on his chest as long as I wear military uniforms in front of him, and we have a picnic together. And he is not talking about the military, he is talking about the products of the 'Military Complex'," Napoleon said, and his mind was in his mind with a big Academician on his chest, a picture of a villain hanging on his chest, "He said: 'We have been imitated, but never surpassed.' But to be honest, just before the formation change they had just exceeded our previous level."

Xu Xie also laughed after hearing this. It was indeed not difficult to surpass the French army in this regard, especially when the French army was still widely using column assault tactics. Because at that time, the French army only adopted this tactic. The main reason was that the soldiers were not trained enough and could not line up neatly horizontal lines?

Now, the army in front of them has a thin horizontal lineup approached at a longer distance in order to avoid being hit by solid shells (so that even if it is hit, one or two people will be killed). When it is close to the range of the rifle, it can quickly turn the horizontal lineup into a column. This formation transformation ability itself shows that the training level of this army is quite good.

After completing the queue changes, the Russian army continued to move forward. The French cannons also began to fire at these Russian troops.

A shell accurately hit a Russian military formation, just like a bowling ball hitting a row of wooden bottles. It knocked a large row of Russian soldiers to the ground with a crackling sound. However, unlike bowling balls, the wooden bottles knocked down by bowling balls were at least complete, but the soldiers knocked down by iron balls fired by cannons were not so complete, especially the front few were almost all broken into pieces.

However, the Russian army that followed Suvorov to Italy were veterans who were used to life and death on the battlefields of Turkey and Poland. Therefore, the pace of the Russian army's advance was not affected more. They still approached the French army at a constant speed, and soon they entered the minefield of the French army.

The mines quickly exploded. With the explosion of the mines, Russian soldiers fell down with their feet covering their feet, but this still couldn't stop the Russian army from moving forward. Soon the barbed wire appeared in front of them.

Several soldiers holding explosive bags quickly came out of the queue and rushed towards the barbed wire.

"Bang bang bang..." A row of gunpowder rose from the French trenches, and many soldiers holding explosive bags were knocked to the ground, but some people rushed to the barbed wire and stuffed the explosive bags under the barbed wire.

With a few explosions, the barbed wire was blown up several gaps. Almost at the same time, the Russian army expanded its formation and rushed towards the gaps with bayonets.

"So brave!" Napoleon sighed.

"It's indeed no less courage than our army!" Xu Xie also sighed, "It's a pity that the braver he is, the faster he dies."

Just as the Russian army rushed to the gap in the barbed wire, a row of broadsword mines exploded not far from the barbed wire. Each broadsword shot eight hundred iron beads at the opposite Russian army. While so many broadswords were detonated at the same time, it was like a heavy rain on the frontline, and it was like in summer, when a sudden hail crashed into the wheat field, knocking the entire wheat to the ground.

Looking around, almost all the Russian soldiers rushing in front were knocked to the ground. Just one round of explosion caused thousands of casualties to the Russian army.

"I really didn't expect this thing to be so cruel!" Marshal Suvorov put down the telescope in his hand and sighed, "When the British talked about the power of this thing, I thought they were exaggerating, but I didn't expect..."

"The French's science and technology are really worthy of being the best in the continental region." Bagladion also sighed, "But, relying on this, we can't stop us."

Indeed, this round of blow was very heavy, but it was just like throwing a big stone into the tide. The big stone splashed huge splashes and made a huge sound, but then it was flooded by the tide coming from behind.

More Russian soldiers crossed the bodies that fell to the ground and rushed through the first barbed wire. In front of them was the first trench of the French army.

"Bang bang bang..." The French army in the trench fired the last round of volleys at the Russians, turned around and retreated to the second trench in the rear along the longitudinal traffic trench. At the same time, in front of the first trench, another row of "broad swords" was detonated.

This row of "broad swords" failed to block Russia, but it also blocked the Russian army's footsteps for a while, providing time for the French army in the trenches to retreat.

The French army in the first trench quickly moved along the traffic trench toward the second trench behind. The Russian army quickly rushed to the first trench.

"Run up, rush up!" Bagladion shouted excitedly.

"Peter, it's still early." Suvorov frowned. "Why didn't there fight here? If this line of defense was relatively important, how could they not resist when we rushed to the first trench?"

"Then are they going to?" said Bagladion.

"They plan to let us continue to consume our strength before the next line of defense, and then counterattack when our army is exhausted." Suvorov said, "Immediately give orders to the front, so that if they encounter obstacles in front, they will retreat. Today, they can consolidate the occupation of the first line of defense. In addition, if the subsequent troops enter, the French may counterattack. They can only rely on them to block them."

The cavalry that was sent to the command immediately ran forward. At this time, the Russian army that rushed forward took advantage of the French army's opportunity to retreat and rushed towards the second trench.

From the first trench to the second trench, there is a distance of several hundred meters in the middle, and there is a barbed wire between the two trenches. There seems to be a shortcut between the two trenches that can be used to vertically connect the two trenches. The French army retreated from here just now. After chasing here, it seems that they can pass under the barbed wire.

So some soldiers chased after the French traffic trench directly. At first, they seemed to be very smooth, but when they were about to rush to the second trench, at the exit of the traffic trench, a French soldier stretched out his hand and pulled a yellow cloth, revealing an 8-pound cannon facing the traffic trench. Then the muzzle flashed and a large 8-pound iron ball hit.

The traffic trench was not too wide, and there was not much room to hide. Of course, although the flying speed of the shells of that era was quite slower than the cannons of descendants, it was not something that humans could do with their own reactions. So the shells hit directly from this end of the traffic trench to that end, smashing all the Russians in the traffic trench to pieces.

Obviously, attacking from traffic trench is not a good way, and it is impossible to avoid it here. Even if the cannons are loaded slowly, after firing one shot, there will be a chance to rush up in the gap. However, there are French soldiers there. The guns in their hands can still be fired in turn, which can block the Russians for a while, and then the cannons are loaded again...

Since it was not feasible to rush over from the traffic trench, we could only launch an attack from the ground. However, the situation on the ground was not very good, and there were many mines buried there, and there were barbed wire. Naturally, there were cannons and broadsword mines equipped with shotguns behind the barbed wire.

The Russians took advantage of the opportunity of the French retreating to the second place to the trench and attacked again. However, this time, they failed to cross the trench, and their courage and strength were exhausted in the battle ahead. This time, they failed to cross the barbed wire and were beaten back by the French.

"The French are going to counterattack." Suvorov immediately made such a judgment.

Sure enough, the French began to launch a counterattack. They first used rifles and cannon shots to drive the retreating Russian troops back to the first trench. The Russians jumped into the trench and shot against the French on the opposite side with the cover of the trench. However, this pair of shots was still unfair. The first trench did not have a pile of earth-building chest wall on the side facing the French, so in terms of depth, at least in this direction, the first trench was not enough to cover the entire person.

However, when more people retreated into the first trench, a large flash of light suddenly flashed out of the first trench, and then the rumbling explosion sounded.

It turned out that the insidious Frenchman had already buried mines detonated by wires in the first trench. At this time, they suddenly detonated, causing huge casualties to the Russian army retreating into it. The French army also took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

At this time, the Russian reinforcements also began to approach the first trench. But at this moment, the cannons from the French army roared again.

Suvorov thought the French would continue to fire at reinforcements with solid shells. However, this time the shells were completely different, and their ballistic trajectory was much higher. (The artillery of this era had very low initial velocity, and the shells were visible to the naked eye when flying.)
Chapter completed!