Chapter 870 Mantua's offensive and defensive battle·Siege to the point of attack
Wilmzetton felt a "buzzing" in his mind.
He had clearly confirmed that there were no French troops near Mantua, so he dared to come to Limone to pursue Napoleon.
So where did the enemies surrounding Mantua emerge? !
If Boliu was present at this time, he would probably pat his shoulder with empathy and sighed: "You finally realized my nightmare."
The combat meeting of Wilmze began soon, but the discussion had changed from "get rid of Napoleon's entanglement" to "rescue Mantua."
Early the next morning, Wilmze, who had been staying up all night, left Ranieri to lead 6,000 people to cut off the rear, and hurriedly retreated to Mantua with his main force.
Napoleon learned earlier than Wilmze that Desay had surrounded Mantua. Last night, he ordered the Marmon Legion located on the south side of the battlefield to escape from the battle and wait for the Austrian army directly in the northwest of Mantua.
He himself was very happy to attack the 6,000 enemy troops who had cut off the rear.
Just after noon, the French army with superior forces completely defeated the Ranieri Legion, and then followed Wilmze without stopping.
At two o'clock the next afternoon, Wilmze's main force encountered Marmon's troops next to the Mingcho River on the west side of Mantua.
Wilmze, who was eager to return to Mantua to rescue the siege, had no intention of fighting at all. He distributed some troops to squeeze the thousands of French troops to the north, while other troops quickly crossed the river from the space they had won.
Malmont did not stop him. A message soldier came to inform him half an hour ago that Napoleon's main force had arrived 6 kilometers away on the northwest side.
Just as the Austrian army set up a pontoon bridge and began to cross the river, he was suddenly attacked by fierce shelling on the back - Napoleon came.
Wilmze had no choice but to respond hastily, and the Mingqiao River suddenly became a mess.
Behind the French army, Gruci looked at the enemy soldiers in the telescope and kept crossing the river, and said to Napoleon anxiously: "General, please allow me to lead the cavalry to cut off the enemy crossing the river. I am worried that if I delay for a moment, Wermze will escape!"
Napoleon glanced at him and shook his head calmly: "No, the cavalry battalion should not have any mission today. You can take a rest."
"But..."
Napoleon smiled: "If Wermze was to capture, I would have Marmond completed the encirclement from the south side yesterday, rather than letting him come here to intercept the attack."
Gruci was stunned: "Why do you do this?"
Napoleon handed the telescope to the attendant, turned around and sat down on the chair, and said, "It is the order of His Royal Highness the Prince. We are not allowed to occupy the Fortress of Mantua within half a year."
Grouch's eyes widened. He had never heard of the order to break through the fortress within a time limit, and this was the first time he had encountered such a thing.
Napoleon was in a good mood. Before he could ask, he explained: "Although I think direct attack on Vienna is the best choice, it is also a good strategy to use Mantua to continuously consume Austria.
"You see, we didn't have much effort this time, and we could destroy 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Wilmze Legion.
"Although the Fortress of Mantua itself is very strong, the surrounding Lombardy to Venice are all waterways, and it is not conducive to hidden terrain. It is easy for us to carry out raids on passing troops.
"You wait. In the next six months, we will annihilate many enemies."
The reason why Joseph gave him such an order was because he knew very well how much blood had been released to Austria as a "unhealing wound".
Mantua is known as the "key to Italy" and is the most sturdy pass on the way from Italy to Austria. If the French army breaks through here, the troops will be directed to Vienna. This led to Austria trying everything to keep the fortress.
Napoleon was unable to eat Mantua in one bite, but he accidentally caused the situation of attacking and aiding. Austria successively invested 120,000 troops to reinforce the place, and finally Napoleon ate at least half of it, causing heavy losses.
Now that he asked Napoleon to directly deploy according to the goal of accompaniment, the effect will only be better.
When Austria was strong, having dominance over the Shinra Empire was a huge strategic advantage. But if Austria weakened to a certain extent, the large number of small states of Shinra would become a burden to him.
This is like a boss from the Black Gang. When he is strong, he wants to get some benefits regardless of whether it is big or small. But when he was seriously ill, even if his younger brothers beg him to stand up, he would only feel bored.
In the end, my younger brother found out that the boss couldn't "cover up", so he would naturally quit the gang with curses.
Joseph's medium-term goal is to dismantle the German region as much as possible, and the consumption of Austria is the most important step.
Gruci was still confused and said, "Commander, but we can capture Wermze first, and then not attack the Mantua Fortress."
Napoleon smiled and said, "There are big men like him in Mantua Fortress, which will allow Vienna to send reinforcements faster.
"And sooner or later we will be able to capture him again, and it will not be too late. "
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In fact, it is difficult to hit the narrow floating bridge with long distances, but even if the shells fall fifty or sixty meters away, it can make the Austrian soldiers on the floating bridge feel scared and their feet tremble.
The people who had not crossed the river were even more nervous. They ignored the officer's obstruction and tried their best to squeeze on the pontoon bridge.
Soon, the soldiers on the bridge were pushed down by their comrades behind them, screaming and "thumping" sounds of falling into the water.
About one soldier arrives on the other side, three or four people will fall into the river.
The French army just fired calmly on the periphery, and most of the Austrian army drowned.
Wilmze looked at the chaos of the Austrian army and realized that the French were no longer repelled. He also stepped onto the floating bridge under the cover of the guards.
As dusk approached, the French army finally stopped the offensive.
Wilmze was panicked and counted the troops on the south bank of the Mingqiao River and found that the 30,000 troops were left at this time.
He immediately thought of another terrible thing - with the little force in his hand, he might not be able to break through the French encirclement outside Mantua and enter the fortress.
Fortunately, he was "lucky", so the French army concentrated its main forces on the southeast side of the fortress early in the morning and attacked a lookout there, leaving a gap behind him.
Wilmze decisively led his army to slip through the gap and escaped back to the fortress successfully.
But the French reacted quickly and immediately turned around and launched an attack, capturing all his troops in the second half.
(This chapter ends)