Chapter 810: The Italian Front's Hardest Battle

Chapter 811 The most difficult battle for the Italian army

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However, when Bernard's two infantry regiments began as the Hengsian in front of the Olympic army, they immediately encountered a very violent firepower blow from the opposite side.

Although Arando's troops were not tormented because of great intentions, there were more than 15,000 people.

It is more than 5 times that of the French army, and it is still the defense party, and there is a chance to adjust the formation.

Major Bernard went to the front of the battle line very heroically. He raised his sword and encouraged his soldiers.

His two infantry regiments also used several rounds to shoot the front enemies to fight back, but because they were too small, the Olympic infantry lines quickly form a semi -siege situation from both sides.

French soldiers began to be attacked by the sideways, and the fire density was several times higher than them.

In just ten minutes, the casualties of Bernard exceeded 1,000.

The initial impulse of the French army quickly broke out, and replaced it with the fear brought by a large number of comrades.

With Bernard's left arm, the front French army began to collapse.

Overro highly advocates the offense, so there are only less than 300 preparatory teams in their hands, and there is no ability to accept.

Under the driving of tens of thousands of Olympic forces, Overworo withdrawn from Malungow Village.

At the same time, the Bonnite Sanda Battalion, which performed a raid on the right, also encountered the Abanao Corps.

The French Satalization Camp with less than 1,000 people and the Olympic forces of more than 7,000 people only came into contact with them, and they immediately chose to retreat.

Overro took the defeat to the east of the village two kilometers away, and encountered the Malmont Legion, which came to reinforce, and reluctantly stabilized the situation.

But the Olympic army, who had no retreat, almost followed.

Malmont hurriedly relying on a wooden tissue defense on the south. Fortunately, the Olympic artillery had not yet arrived, and he repelled Ala's first attack.

Beying on the bush, Malmun, who was full of smoke, frowned at Overlot: "You mean, are we facing the main force of Melas?"

The latter nodded: "It should be like this, there are at least 30,000 enemy forces."

Malmont suddenly looked blue.

He and Overro's troops were only less than 6,000 soldiers, and they did not have the ability to fight positively with the enemy.

He asked again: "Did you report to Colonel Boma?"

"Yes, I sent a cavalry to contact him at more than 10 o'clock."

Malmont looked behind him: "The main force will not be able to return tomorrow afternoon. We will retreat to St. Gililiano and strive to stay there until tomorrow."

At this time, Ogulo also gradually recovered from panic, and he shook his head and said, "It seems that Melas was going to Parma and then attacked Lody.

"If they only defend St. Gililiano, they can completely bypass us, and continue to east from Castleciolo Oloo from the north."

Malmun said anxiously: "What should I do?"

Overro gritted his teeth: "Arrange a line of defense from St. Gililiano to Castel Cheli Oro. Drag Melas for a day!"

Castor Cheluo Olo is 5 kilometers northwest of St. Gililiano.

With the 6,000 troops in their hands, it is difficult to keep such a wide defense line.

Malmont glanced at him and sighed: "You are always so crazy ... but now we seem to have only this choice."

After learning that the Airo Corps quickly defeated the French army and began to pursue the east, he was in a deep doubt.

It was really that Napoleon played the Olympic army too miserable before.

The French army is simply a ghost. Whenever the Austrian people feel that they wins the vouchers, a French army will kill them from the most uncomfortable place and tore them.

So Arando won too easily, but made Melas feel that this was the trap of the French.

He was busy sending someone to order the Airo Corps not to advance, and after all the main forces gathered, this continued to move forward steadily towards the town of St. Gililiano.

And this gave Overro the rare opportunity to breathe.

At 3 pm, the Olympic army began to attack St. Gililiano.

Overro was much more honest than that morning. He arranged three lines of defense and resisted layer by layer.

Malmont's artillery company also used a highlands to desperately pour artillery shells at the Olympic army.

However, the gap between the strength of the two sides is too large. In addition, the Austrian people are very clear that they must rush to Loddi as soon as possible, otherwise they may be entangled by the French main force at any time, so they will do their best to launch an attack.

In less than three hours, the first two defense lines in Ogulo collapsed. Arando's striker Sandalion Corps had already seen the French artillery position.

Fortunately, today is an overcast day, and the night is slightly earlier than usual. As the French army seemed to be unable to persist, the sky was completely darkened.

There is no wrong one, one time, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one by one!

Melas had to take back the troops helplessly and wait for dawn.

Overro repaired the line of defense overnight, almost overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, the Olympic army couldn't wait to re -attack.

After the French army experienced the fierce fierce battle yesterday, the morale was very low, and just for less than an hour, it began to show signs of defeat.

On a hill on the north side of the village of St. Gilili, Overro looked at the defense line of the front line and sighed heavily: "I blame me to launch an attack yesterday, and wasted too much troops ..."

He patted Marmont on the back: "Auguste, you lead the soldiers to retreat to Pavia, I will cover you."

Just as Marmont was about to say something, he heard some strange sounds of gunfire from the Austrian army in the north, and immediately frowned and said: "What happened over there?"

Soon, a ranger came galloping, pointing to the northwest and shouting to them: "Captain, cavalry! Our cavalry battalion is here to reinforce!"

Augereau's heart suddenly beat violently, raised his telescope and looked over there, and indeed found that there was chaos on the left wing of the Austrian army.

He made a quick decision and said to Marmont: "We abandon the village of San Giuliano, concentrate our forces, and cooperate with the cavalry to attack the enemy's left wing!"

On the south side of Castelcelliolo, Major Grouchy took the lead and rushed into the Austrian infantry - after occupying Milan, he was promoted to major and served as the battalion commander of the Montpellier Hussar Battalion.

He met the cavalry sent by Augereau to report to Napoleon yesterday afternoon, and after learning that the Melas Corps was moving eastward, he immediately came to reinforce.

His cavalry battalion plus some of the Moulins cavalry, a total of more than 1,200 people, kept on marching and finally arrived before Augereau's side collapsed.

The Austrians were suddenly attacked by a large group of cavalry and panicked. The shadow left by Napoleon came to their minds again.

Many Austrian soldiers began to shout: "We were ambushed by the French again!"

"Be careful, there are French ambushes nearby!"

Grouchy had attended military school in Strasbourg, which was very close to Baden, so he knew some German.

When he heard the shouts of the Austrian army, he couldn't help but have an idea and began to shout in German: "General Bonaparte's 50,000 ambushes have surrounded you!"