Chapter 52: Decisive Battle between Munich (VI)

After taking down the Eagle Sun Fortress, the French army had no worries for the time being and could attack Munich boldly. At this time, Munich was like a beauty who had been stripped away, as if she could let the French army do whatever she wanted without any effort. But everyone knew that if she wanted to pick this fruit of victory, she still didn't know how many fresh lives she had to pay.

On the afternoon of October 16, after sufficient preparation, the French Guards, the First and Second Corps, launched a fierce attack on Munich in three directions. First, half an hour of artillery preparation, and then the infantry began to attack. Due to the previous experience, the French did not strictly require the soldiers to line up in an orderly manner to attack. Since this tactic is not yet mature, many problems were exposed. For example, the soldiers' system was often disrupted, which made the command improper, and the attack was very chaotic, and the maximum combat power could not be exerted. But the advantage of this is that casualties can be effectively reduced during the attack.

In order to solve this problem, before the attack, each unit is usually assigned specific combat tasks. Although there are some adverse factors, overall, the effect is much better.

Munich is a famous European city with a long history, the largest city in southern Germany, and the capital of the Bavarian Kingdom. But since the beginning of the war, this prosperous city became very desolate. Most people fled to the countryside to hide from the war, and those who remained were basically people with no place to go. Now most of the city are Austrian troops, who built Munich like a war fortress, and the blocks were blocked and newly built barricades were everywhere. Ferdinand had made up his mind to fight the French army to the death here. He was determined to turn Munich into a grave of the French team. Even if this historical city was turned into ruins, it would be a waste. Anyway, it was not an Austrian city, and it would be ruined if it was destroyed, and he would not feel distressed. This is the suffering of the weak countries in the war between two great powers and the weak countries caught between them.

The first attack of the French army was repelled under the strong resistance of the Austrian army. They left almost two thousand bodies under the city of Munich. However, under their fierce attack, the Austrian army almost suffered the same casualties. In this way, the French army still firmly had an advantage. After all, the number of people participating in the attack was more than twice that of the Austrian army.

In fact, the main problem faced by the French army was that they could not pass through the moat under the city of Munich. The moat was about ten meters wide, three or four meters deep, and was connected to the river flowing through Munich, so it was considered abundant water. The French army without special tools had no way to start every time they arrived at the edge of the moat. They only stood there and shot at the French army on the city wall. The result can be imagined.

Later, the French army adopted a relatively stupid method. When they attacked each time, they brought a large amount of pockets filled with soil or sand and wanted to fill the moat, but because the moat was too wide and too deep, and the Austrian army kept disturbing each other, it took an afternoon without much progress, and instead caused many casualties.

At ten minutes in the evening, a team of cavalry correspondents arrived at the French army's headquarters. They were sent by Prince Mura to report the trends of the Austrian reinforcements. From them, they learned that the Austrian reinforcements had reached Pokin, a small Bavarian and Austrian border town, which was only 180 kilometers away from Munich. And its vanguard had already had a fire with Mura's cavalry army, but the other party was just about to leave and did not intend to fight with Mura. It seemed that they were in a hurry to rescue Munich.

Unexpectedly, the Austrian reinforcements would come so quickly, which caught Napoleon off guard. Fortunately, the Third Legion, the Fifth and Sixth Legion no longer had combat missions, and these three legions and the cavalry legions could also deal with them. But in order to end the war in Munich as soon as possible, Napoleon had a bolder idea. The reason why Ferdinand decided to fight the French army to the death in Munich was that he was desperate. If there was a glimmer of hope, he would definitely not defend here.

, and Munich is an extremely difficult bone to crack. Even if he is gnawed, the French army will definitely lose two teeth. Why is that? If that is the case, the French army will not have enough strength to deal with the attacks of Russia and Prussia. So he is ready to take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate Austrian reinforcements and release Ferdinand out of Munich. It would be great if he could eliminate him. If he escaped, it would be no big deal. If he lost his army, he would not have any threat to France.

So, Napoleon issued the latest order: the Third, Fifth and Sixth Legions replaced the defense zones of the former Guards, the First and Second Legions. They only needed to maintain pressure on Munich and did not force them to attack Munich. The three replaced legions advanced eastward from the 17th, preparing to eat the 80,000 reinforcements from the Austrian army in one bite.

On the morning of the 19th, the First French Army and the uninformed Austrian army encountered a 70-kilometer river in Rimunich. The two armies immediately launched the most fierce battle. Although the First Legion was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, they firmly suppressed more than 80,000 Austrian troops with their excellent combat skills and advanced weapons and could not go further. At this time, the Guards and the Second Legion, which were advancing in line with the First Legion, surrounded them from the left and right wings respectively. Mura's cavalry legion completely blocked the opponent's retreat.

This is when General Zilige, the commander of the Austrian army, realized that he had fallen into the trap of the French army. He could not fight, but he gained the trust of Emperor Austrian by using his prank. This time, 50,000 reinforcements were guarding Vienna, so Emperor Austrian certainly did not allow others to interfere with his army, so he sent his most trusted Zilige to command. The result was such a tragedy.

After organizing several breakthroughs but failed, Zirege simply chose to surrender, on the condition that the French army had to ensure his safety, and after the war, he found a way to get his family out of Vienna, allow them to live in France, etc. Napoleon generously agreed to his conditions. So nearly 80,000 Austrian troops entered the French prisoner-of-war camp without any resistance.

After discovering that all the elite French troops were removed, Ferdinand immediately gave up his plan to defend Munich. He immediately made a decision to break through. He ordered the 60,000 people who were originally stationed in Munich to attack eastward with all their strength. After attracting the attention of the French army, he led the remaining more than 10,000 elite troops from the north to break through and successfully broke out of the encirclement. He fled to Prague, preparing to unite the upcoming Russian troops and make plans.
Chapter completed!