The first one to launch the attack were the Austrian infantry. They lined up in neatly and walked in neatly, and under the command of the drums, they approached the French position.

The French cannons began to fire. The shells kept flying into the Austrian army's front and made small gaps in the Austrian front. However, the replenished soldiers immediately rushed up, and the front returned to its original state in a blink of an eye. This made the shelling just now like throwing a few small stones into the pond. Although it caused several ripples, the pond was still a pond.

"General, the enemy's cannons are not large." Next to the Duke of Brunswick, a young officer in his twenties put down the telescope in his hand and said to the Duke of Brunswick.

"Ah, Carl, you have noticed this too." The Duke of Brunswick nodded, "In theory, the French should not lack artillery, but the French army has suffered serious escapes, and the technical troops are even more so. I'm afraid that what they lack is not artillery, but well-trained artillery."

At this time, the Austrian infantry was not far from the French trench. The French also began to shoot. The French were in a mess and inconsistent manner, and the shooting effect was not very good.

"They fired too far away, and they could hardly form a volley, obviously lacking training." The Duke of Brunswick commented, "The French army is devoted to the royal family and is unwilling to fight with us. So they can only rely on those mobs, who have some courage, but war is not just courage... Haha... well-trained gentlemen can always easily defeat those mobs, even if they are large. Well, this attack by your army may achieve good results."

The French shooting was not enough to stop the Austrian army from advancing. On the contrary, their inefficiency in attacks gave the Austrians encouragement. Moreover, in order to advance to a closer distance before the French fired the next shot, the rhythm of their drum beats was accelerated.

"Maybe it's not until the French turn that we can rush up." The young Duke of Carl thought this way, while straightening his body and looking forward on the war.

But at this moment, he saw a flash of light suddenly appearing on the French position ahead, just like a group of stars suddenly appeared on the ground. Then he saw that many huge gaps suddenly appeared on the line of the advancing Austrian army. This was no longer throwing a few small stones into the pond, but a group of meteors smashed into the pond!

"What is this? What happened?" Duke Carl was so surprised that he didn't understand what was going on.

The Duke of Brunswick also quickly raised his telescope and looked towards the place where it was shining just now.

The places where the smoke suddenly flashed, there were now balls of smoke rising. As soon as they saw the shape of the smoke, the Duke of Brunswick, who had been through the battle formation, judged that it was the cannons firing shotguns. From the place where the smoke came up to the Austrian army's front, it was only sixty or seventy meters at most. I really don't know how the despicable Frenchmen hid these cannons, so they didn't find them before the fire was opened.

Napoleon looked at the Austrian army, which was chasing a volley of dozens of his cannons, and jumped up in excitement. Then he murmured to himself:

"Great! It's so magnificent! War, how beautiful you are! Compared with you, all other arts of humanity look so pale! Minerva, you are the most beautiful goddess! I really don't understand why anyone refuses to award you the golden apple!"

Napoleon could indeed express his feelings for a secondary school second patient at this time, because at least in a short time, his artillery mission was over.

Just now, his artillery fired a beautiful ambush on the official battlefield for the first time. Although he had already played similar tricks more than once in the confrontation exercise before, this was indeed the first time in the real battlefield.

The French cannons were not placed directly on the ground. They dug deep trenches in the longitudinal direction on the ground. The cannons were hidden in the trenches at the beginning, and all the parts were under the trenches. Looking from the front, there was no way to see anything. In front of the cannon, there was an inclined earth slope. When the enemy approached, a group of artillery soldiers pushed the cannons with the shells up along the slope. At this time, the cannons' barrels were exposed from the ground and could fire at the enemy. After one shot, these cannons would retreat from the earth slope and disappear from the enemy's sight under the influence of recoil. In fact, if necessary, these cannons could continue to fire at the ground.

But in this battle, Napoleon's cannon only needed to fire this round of volleys. Because this round of volleys is also a signal. After this round of volleys, the French Volunteers in blue uniforms will erect bayonets to launch a full counter-charge against the enemy. Taking advantage of the chaos in the enemy's formation, they will completely defeat them!

The fog of war brought by the cannon volley had not yet completely dissipated, and a blue tide suddenly surged out of the trench on the French side, messing around, and at the same time, it rushed towards the Austrians.

The French Volunteers lacked training. If everyone lined up and shot them, they were most likely not opponents of the Austrians, but at this time, they took advantage of the complete chaos of the Austrians' front and rushed forward. Now, the skills and queues are no longer displayed, and courage and numbers have become the masters of the battlefield. The Volunteers, who have obvious advantages in numbers and courage, defeated the Austrians in such a melee almost instantly. Those who are slower in movements were stabbed to the ground by several bayonets; those who are smarter will throw their weapons, turn around and run away. The French chase them all the way until the Prussian cavalry came out to save the ground, and they stopped chasing and retreated.

The previous experience of straggling wars with the French made the Prussian cavalry dare not pursue the French. Seeing that the French gave up the pursuit, they quickly retreated.

In this round of attack, the coalition forces were bleeding from the heads in front of the French defense line. Fortunately, the Prussians only lost a little cavalry in the initial battle, but the Austrians suffered a great loss. In this round of attacks alone, they dropped more than 600 bodies. Their morale was even more severe, so that they could not launch any attacks again for the whole day thereafter.

Now the Duke of Brunswick is in a dilemma, and his army is no longer able to expel the French army through attacks. The Austrians are scared, and the Prussians are not as good as they are going to suffer huge losses on the battlefield. They have also seen with their own eyes how the Austrians were defeated in front of the French defense line. They ask themselves that the same is true. So now, they are generally afraid of war.

In addition, the marching has been difficult and supply has been difficult, the soldiers cannot eat enough and sleep well. The reason why they can barely maintain morale is nothing more than two factors: first, they have been victorious and have not suffered much loss in the battle; second, after defeating Paris, they will definitely get enough rewards from Paris, which is said to be the richest city on the European continent.

But now, the battlefield suffered heavy losses, and the first factor was no longer effective; if the French army could not be defeated, they could not enter Paris, so the second factor was also over. In this case, it would be good that the army could still maintain the same army. The Duke of Brunswick even suspected that if they forced the soldiers to continue attacking, they might have mutiny.

But on the other hand, he could not continue to stalemate with the French. His logistics supply has always been a big problem. He was first dragged down by heavy rain and mud, and then was constantly harassed by various French volunteers. After being defeated on the battlefield, the intensity of these harassments naturally became even greater, so that logistics supply became increasingly difficult.

From a rational point of view, the best choice for the coalition forces at this time is to retreat. However, in military terms, retreating in front of the enemy is a more difficult and dangerous thing than attack. If it is not done well, retreat will become a retreat, and then it will become a collapse. A closer example is like the inexplicable failure of the French in Belgium not long ago; a farther away, it is like the Battle of the Liver Water of Dongdachi Kingdom. It is a good example of retreating and then being completely finished.

Therefore, the Duke of Brunswick did not dare to retreat very much. The Pu'Austrian coalition suddenly fell into an extremely dangerous situation, and it could even be said to be on the verge of destruction.

But Dimurière, who had won the battle, also had his troubles. The victory of the defensive battle suddenly made the people in the city of Paris burn. Various demands urging him to eliminate the enemy were constantly transmitted from Paris. It seemed that he could really destroy all the Germans with just one order.

"Damn it! Those guys in Paris are sensible!" Dimurier couldn't help complaining to Joseph, "I have guys who are not in line with the company. They may be used for defense warfare, but for offensive warfare, and are enemies whose attack forces are not much less than ours. That's simply going to die!"

"There is already very restrained in Paris," Joseph replied. "They are just sending requests and suggestions, not orders. This is no longer easy."

"I know," said Dimurier. "Some guys just want to see me make a fool of themselves. They are worried...if Kano hadn't stopped them, they wouldn't have known how many stupid things they would have done! Well, Joseph, do you have any advice on the current situation?"

Joseph actually didn't have any choice. He knew that because of political reasons, what Paris needed most at this time was to see the invading army being driven out of France, and the Pakatan Harapan coalition actually wanted to retreat and there was room for operation. However, this matter was politically incorrect. Why did Joseph tell Di Murier?

"General, I have no choice but to do anything about this situation, because what we are going to deal with is our government and parliament this time, they are much harder than the Austrians and the Prussians." Joseph replied.
Chapter completed!