At 2 pm on August 10, after lunch and resting for an hour, the soldiers of the Guards and the Imperial Guards were guided by the officers to prepare for a new round of attack.

Marshal Dawu and Besier stood on the position, staring at the opposite position, which was the position, which caused him to "lose" nearly 3,000 people this morning, making him lose face. This afternoon, he was preparing to capture the opponent's first line of defense in one fell swoop to wash away their shame.

Through morning observation, Dawu and Besier both found that if the two barbed wires in front of the enemy's position could not be destroyed, it would be difficult for them to win. In order to prevent the enemy artillery from suppressing their artillery, Dawu divided the remaining more than 250 cannons into two parts, using only part at a time to bombard them.

At 2:20 pm, the artillery of the Dawu Army began to speak, but this time the focus of their artillery bombardment was shifted from the enemy's position to the barbed wire in front of the position. Although their shells were not very powerful, the barbed wire was also blown up by their repeated artillery bombardment. The artillery of the 88th Legion also began to suppress them when the artillery of the Dawu Army fired. In the end, it was still the end of the "loss" of the 50 cannons of the Dawu Army.

Although Davu and Bessier felt very distressed after losing so many cannons, fortunately, they tore a few holes in the barbed wire in front of the opponent's position, which was considered a little compensation. However, this compensation also depends on the infantry to retrieve it, on the condition that they have the ability.

This time, Dawu drew four entire regiments from the Guards, a total of ten thousand people. Bessier's imperial guards did not want to be spectators. You should know that at the beginning, they were prepared to fight against the 88th Legion. They would be very dissatisfied without their share in the morning's attack. If they had no share in the afternoon, they would not know what they would be like.

So at Besier's strong request, the Imperial Guard also sent two brigades to participate in the attack, which brought the total number of people in this attack to 12,000. Therefore, Davu and Besier were full of confidence in this attack.

At 3 pm, the attack began. Although the soldiers had tried their best to disperse the attacking team, due to their large number, they were still relatively dense in some places. After entering the strike range of the 88th Legion, these places became the first places where the mortars of the 2nd Battalion attacked.

Under the fierce attack of the 88th Legion, the coalition of the Guards and the Imperial Guards continued to attack. Although many people were "dead", the large coalition forces did not care about this "loss". Finally, after paying a certain price, the coalition forces rushed to the place where the barbed wire was set up. Some of them rushed into the three holes that were blown up by artillery fire. At this time, the heavy machine guns of the 2nd Battalion of the 88th Legion had already targeted this area. They blocked the three holes together with some infantry, but because the holes were too large, they were blocked.

Then, many fish that escaped the net rushed in, but were then "solved" by the snipers who were guarding it. Another part of the coalition forces brought tools to dismantle the wire mesh when they set off. They cut the wire mesh with big scissors, and then charged in the rain of bullets from the 2nd Battalion of the 88th Legion. Some people kept falling down, but someone immediately made up. For a moment, the position of the 2nd Battalion of the 88th Legion was attacked in danger. Fortunately, the attack on the coalition forces began to attack the 2nd Battalion, which made the situation of the 2nd Battalion a little better.

After knowing this situation, Xiao Jie immediately asked all the artillery soldiers to start blocking and shooting, forming a barrage in the middle of the coalition forces to prevent the coalition forces from continuing to attack. In this way, the situation gradually improved.

Seeing that the advantage he had finally gained slowly began to lose, Dawu gritted his teeth and sent two regiments of 5,000 people to participate in the attack. With the addition of these new forces, the balance of victory tilted towards the coalition again, and some areas of the 2nd Battalion's position even launched hand-to-hand combat. In order to preserve his strength, Xiao Jie had to order the 2nd Battalion to withdraw the 2nd Line of Defense under the cover of artillery and Heights No. 1 and 2. So less than a day after the exercise began, the first line of defense of the 88th Legion was lost.

The coalition soldiers who won the victory cheered, but then they couldn't be happy. After losing the position, the 88th Legion launched artillery fire on their first line of defense. Unexpectedly, the coalition soldiers would be so despicable that they had to escape to their positions desperately. Dawu did not expect Xiao Jie to be so rogue. He scolded Xiao Jie in his heart, but he did not dare to say that the crime of insulting His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was quite a minor accusation.

The final results of this attack also came out later. The coalition formed by Dawu and Besier's troops "lost" 7,000 people, while Xiao Jie only "lost" 500 people. In addition to the troops lost in the morning, the station losses between both sides reached an astonishing 20:1.

After getting this result, Dawu's eyes seemed to be spitting out fire, but Bessier was still very open and kept persuading him. He already understood that the outcome of this exercise didn't matter. Anyway, His Majesty the Emperor wanted to plan and practice and establish his authority for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But Xiao Jie did not plan to end the first day of the battle. He planned to send cavalry to the coalition forces in the evening to test the night battle ability of the cavalry.

At 4 a.m., it was the time when a man was most tired. Almost everyone except the sentinels were asleep. Slowly, the soldiers of the 88th Legion Cavalry Brigade, with cotton tied to the horse's hooves, moved out under the cover of night. They did not run quickly on horseback at the beginning, but continued until they were only one kilometer away from the coalition's base.

The coalition did not expect the 88th Legion to attack so despicablely at this time and was caught off guard. There were gunfire everywhere, and the camp fell into a sea of ​​fire.

At this time, Napoleon, who was in Chartre, was also awakened. He hurriedly got up and put on his clothes, and asked him what happened to his adjutant Diloch, and whether the royalists had rebelled again.

Dilok went out to inquire and came back to report to him that it was not a royalist rebellion, but a night attack on the Imperial Guards and Guards Corps.

After knowing that this was the case, Napoleon smiled bitterly, sighing that his nephew could really think of any method for victory. He couldn't help but feel sorry for his most loyal Marshal Dawu.
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