(Chapter to!)
"Is there any new battle situation today?" Early in the morning, Xiao Jie hurried to the General Staff Headquarters. It is already February 6th, and it has been 3 days since Napoleon took the initiative to launch an attack. The Iberian General Staff has set up a research team to study the trend of this war. Every day, a large amount of information is secretly sent back to Madrid from the French or German front lines, and the task of this research team is to keep abreast of the battlefield trends, which will have a great impact on Xiao Jie's plan for the next stage.
"His Royal Highness, no information has been sent back today." Eck replied. He has now handed over most of the work of the chief of staff to Misend, and he is in charge of the operation of this research group.
Xiao Jie nodded, didn't say anything, and continued to stay there, waiting for the information from France.
On the morning of February 3, under the careful planning of Napoleon, the French offensive began. With the assistance of the 6th Army of General Saint-Cyr (the new head of the 6th Army), the 3rd Army of Marshal Lanz launched a fierce attack on the front line of Kassel. More than 20,000 people in two divisions and about 50,000 people in three Prussian divisions resisted for only one day before being defeated. Subsequently, on February 5, Marshal Lanz continued to attack northeastward, preparing to occupy Gergen, the southern base of the Prussian army, where only one Prussian division was in charge of defense. After a day of fierce fighting, Marshal Lanz completed his combat mission and advanced 150 kilometers to the northeast in three days, annihilating more than 40,000 troops of the Prussian and Saxon kings, and 20,000 troops from the Kingdom of Thuringia. More than a thousand people fled back.
At the same time that Marshal Lanz launched the attack, Marshal Lannes led the 5th Army, Marshal Soult's 7th Army, and Marshal Massena's 8th Army to launch a fierce attack in the direction of Frankfurt. The three marshals were very dissatisfied with Napoleon's feint attack order, because the enemy they faced was not very strong. There were only 3 divisions in Bavaria, with a total of 50,000 people, and an Austrian advance army. There are more than 40,000 people, and the only threat to them is a Russian cavalry division and infantry division to the east of them. After discussion among the three, they decided without authorization to turn the feint into the main attack. Among them, the 5th Army of Marshal Lana is responsible for monitoring the movement of the Russian army. Once they move towards Frankfurt, the 5th Army is responsible for blocking them. The 7th Army and the 8th Army were responsible for the attack on Frankfurt.
The 7th Army and the 8th Army were both recruits, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. This was also the purpose of Napoleon's request to only launch feints in this direction. But in the same way, their opponents, apart from the stronger army in Austria, the three divisions in Bavaria are also completely mobs. After arrangement, the 7th Army is responsible for resisting the attack of the Austrian Army, while the 8th Army will attack the Bavarian army with all its strength, trying to solve the opponent as quickly as possible, and then assist the 7th Army.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Bavarian Army was extremely low, the 8th Army did not completely defeat the opponent until February 5th, and within two days, the 7th Army was beaten back by the Austrian Army, almost losing its position Thanks to the timely assistance of the 8th Army, the Austrian Army was finally defeated. At the same time, after learning that the French army was violently attacking Frankfurt, the Russian army also quickly moved closer to Frankfurt. A cavalry division and an infantry division of the 5th Army and the Russian Army fought fiercely in the Offenbach area east of Frankfurt. There were many, and the Russian infantry was tightly suppressed, unable to take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, so that the Russian cavalry division had to retreat again under the oppression of the superior force of the 5th Army.
On February 6, after Napoleon learned of the unauthorized actions of the three marshals including Lannes, he was furious, but because of Marshal Lannes, they won the final success, not only occupying Frankfurt, but also annihilating more than 20,000 Bavarian troops. The Austrian army also lost tens of thousands of people, and the Russian army also lost nearly ten thousand people. Although the losses of the 5th, 7th, and 8th armies were not small, they alleviated the crisis of Napoleon's right wing to a large extent. At least until the main force of the Austrian army and the main force of the Russian army arrived, Napoleon's right wing was safe. .
Compared with the successive victories in other directions, the left wing of the 2nd Army, which was responsible for the attack, did not achieve much. The 2nd Army is also the only elite army in France, and its combat effectiveness is extremely powerful. But unfortunately, their opponents are just as powerful. The task of the 2nd Army is to take Dortmund before February 6, so that it can form two sharp swords with the 3rd Army of Lance, and penetrate the heart of Prussia. But the opponent they encountered was also the most powerful army in Prussia, the Prussian 1st Army. The two sides fought fiercely in the Wupotal area, and the French 2nd Army won the victory with a slight advantage. However, Clausewitz, the chief of the Prussian general staff, urgently ordered the Prussian 3rd Army to move closer to Dortmund, and on February 6, cooperated with the Prussian 1st Army to face the French 2nd Army in Bochum. The Marmont Army was outnumbered and had to retreat. Five potals to stabilize the front.
In order to prevent the 3rd Army and 6th Army from going deep alone, Napoleon ordered the 11th Army and 12th Army to assist Marmont's 2nd Army on February 7th. In any case, Dortmund must be taken before February 10th. Mundo, then marched quickly northeast to meet Lanz's forces.
In addition, considering that the 3rd Army and the 6th Army had to face the attack of two to three Prussian Legions and 3 divisions with a total of 50,000 Russian troops, Napoleon urgently ordered Davout's Guards and Bessie to attack. El's Imperial Guard went to support, and now the Imperial Guard has grown to 20,000 instead of only 5,000 as before. Although their individual combat ability is much worse than before, their training is the most difficult of all French troops. Similarly, their equipment is also the best, and they can hardly change their equipment. Compared with the 88th Legion. This also makes their combat effectiveness very strong. The purpose of Napoleon sending out their two most elite legions is very obvious, that is to completely defeat the Prussian army before the arrival of the main force of the Russian army and the main force of the Austrian army, and it is best to completely annihilate them. If so, the pressure on the French army in the later stage will be greatly reduced.
On February 9, Napoleon had a new plan. He ordered the 13th Army and 14th Army to march towards Paderborn as a reserve force, intending to cooperate with the 2nd, 11th, and 12th Army to completely eat Prussia. The 1st and 3rd Legion. In that case, Prussia would lose nearly half of its combat effectiveness.
On February 10, Napoleon left Bonn. With the development of the war, Bonn was far away from the front line of the troops, and it became unfavorable for him to command. He had to move the headquarters to a place further forward. In order to quickly and accurately grasp the dynamics of the battlefield. On February 13, Napoleon arrived in Kassel and established his new headquarters here. In order to ensure the safety of Kassel, the 6th Army launched an attack to the east of Kassel on February 11, successfully pushing the front line to the east by hundreds of kilometers.
For example, on February 13, Udino defeated the Saxon army and the Russian army again, successfully occupied Fulda, and on February 15, together with the 5th Army, jointly developed a large-scale attack on the Russian army. The defeat of the Russian army caused the Russian army to lose more than 10,000 people. One cavalry division and one infantry division under the Russian subordinates in central and southern Germany suffered huge losses. Thousands of people. At the same time, the 7th Army and the 8th Army fought fiercely again with the Bavarian Army and the Austrian Army in Darmstadt, and won the final victory. More than 20,000 Austrian troops and more than 10,000 Bavarian troops retreated southward along the Rhine~www.mtlnovel.com~On March 16, Prussia concentrated two legions and two infantry divisions with a total of 120,000 soldiers in 50,000 Russian troops (of which With the cooperation of two cavalry divisions), a fierce attack was launched in the direction of Gergen. The 3rd French Army, the Guards Army and the Imperial Guard faced off. The two sides fought fiercely for 3 days. The fierce Russian Cossack cavalry once broke through the French defense line. Only less than two kilometers. But in the end, the French army withstood the attack of the Prussian and Russian troops, and launched a counterattack on February 20, successfully defeated the Prussian-Russian coalition forces, and wiped out more than 50,000 enemies (of which the Prussian army accounted for almost 8% 10), and occupy the Hannover and Halle line, which is less than 200 kilometers away from Berlin.
On the other hand, the 13th and 14th Army Corps also successfully occupied Paderborn, but Clausewitz immediately realized the danger of the Prussian 1st and 3rd Army Corps and ordered them to retreat northward quickly, although more than 30,000 people were lost. , but finally jumped out of the encirclement of the French army.
Overall, in the early part of the war, Napoleon was extremely successful and the Allies suffered heavy losses. If Xiao Jie hadn't known the result, he would have thought that victory was within reach for Napoleon like everyone else.
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