Harry Potter’s Morning Light - Chapter 2628 Wind and Flowers (7)

   Chapter 2628 Wind and Flowers (seven)

Although the wedding of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI was the "diplomatic revolution" of the Marquis of Choisel, another contributor was Frederick the Great. Prussia's performance during the Seven Years' War allowed France and the Holy Roman Empire It's hard to fight alone.

   However, while Prussia was victorious, there were also battle losses, especially the Battle of Zondorf, which not only profoundly influenced the way 18th-century Europeans viewed the Russian military.

This battle is recognized as the most brutal and **** war in the Seven Years War. Russia sent 40,000 troops, but half of the Russian army was a temporary "reserve army", far less than that led by Frederick the Great. Only experienced the battle of Leuteng and the battle of Rosbach, more than 30,000 Prussian elites with high morale.

   Austria, an anti-Prussian alliance, also sent troops, so the campaign commander had 80,000 troops, almost three times that of Frederick.

   Every day at five o'clock in the morning, the church near the battlefield would ring, and the anti-Prussian coalition would take it as a signal to attack. The weather and terrain that day were favorable for the Austrians, the stars were dim, and there was even fog. After the Austrians left the camp, they kept the camp and let the camp fire continue to burn. The sappers made as much noise as possible, cut down trees to build fortifications, and created various illusions to deceive the Prussian outposts. The sleeping Prussian barracks advanced.

2 liberty battalions were raided, followed by 3 grenadier battalions, but they were better than liberty battalions, when the Austrians rushed out of the morning fog, some Prussian soldiers had already grabbed their rifles, but there were still people in the tents was stabbed to death by a bayonet. The gunners reached their positions as quickly as possible, fired and reloaded, but most of the shells were wasted in the no-man's land shrouded in the morning mist.

  The sound of the cannon made the sleepy-eyed Prussian soldiers assembled instinctively, and then led the officers to the battlefield. At first Frederick thought it was an ordinary raid, until the 12-pounder in the fort went off, and he roared in search of his warhorse.

At dawn, the morning fog dissipated, and the good vision allowed both the enemy and the enemy to distinguish who was fighting to the death. At this time, the church that rang the bell was surrounded by flames, and the roofs of the villagers' huts were ignited. Now, the cemetery has become a battlefield, and the villagers who didn't have time to run were either burned to death by the fire or escaped in the hail of bullets. About 6 o'clock, the Prussians cleared the entire village and rushed out from the other end of the village, but they were greeted by Austrian artillery and bayonets.

After the initial momentum had passed, the Prussians completely lost their forward momentum and were smashed under the disciplined artillery salvo of the Austrians. The Austrians even got supplies, abandoned by the Prussian soldiers who were busy fleeing just now.

   At this time, the king himself went out and assembled the infantry that had been shaken by the sight of the rout, and then, under the leadership of Major Langen, repelled the allied attack until the ammunition was exhausted.

   But instead of retreating, the major ordered his soldiers to mount their bayonets and launched a desperate charge in an attempt to retake the lost position.

The Prussians' hopes of victory were dashed along with the major's fall to the ground, but they bought Frederick time to form a new line north of the village, but only some of the defeated soldiers and survivors of the morning's rout only the meeting point.

   Frederick's 10,000 people were cavalry, while the Russian army had only about 3,000 cavalry. In order to inspire the army and prevent the soldiers from running away, the Russian commander ordered all soldiers to drink vodka before the battle.

   At nine o'clock in the morning, when the Prussian artillery began to suppress fire, the Russian Cossack cavalry took the lead.

  Under normal battlefield conditions, the cavalry cannot overwhelm the unshakable infantry by its own strength, not to mention that there were no hoplites in the 18th century. But the Prussian artillery had a characteristic. They regarded shooting as a science and did not like their superiors requiring them to constantly change their gun positions. They believed that this would disrupt their accurate calculations of range and ballistics.

The 12-pounder had a good range, but it was not easy to move, and it was usually housed in fortresses and fortresses, which resulted in the Prussian artillery having neither the mobility nor the judgment to engage in a maneuverable battle, which cost them a lot of money. It took a long time to move the artillery from one place to another, which led to the fact that the artillery could only play a supporting role in the fast-moving battle.

   In this way, the Prussian infantry became the core force on the battlefield. The morning attack almost collapsed the morale of Prussia, and it was on the verge of chaos. However, the Prussian cavalry, especially the cavalry commanded by Prince Moritz, was still capable of fighting. They had a fierce collision with the Cossack cavalry brigade. And successfully defeated the Cossacks, allowing the Prussian right flank to attack the Russian left flank without any scruples.

Then came "the bloodiest land battle in the 18th century". Alcohol seemed to make it difficult for the Russians to subdue. The Prussians responded with strong platoons. The hand-to-hand combat cost the Prussian infantry too much stamina in the fierce battle. The Russian corpses were piled up layer after layer, and shells and bullets were constantly sprinkled, but it was of no use at all. They just didn't retreat.

   Until 8 o'clock in the evening, it was dusk, and both sides decided to truce and retreat to organize their troops. Casualties on both sides were heavy, with more than 10,000 Russian and 13,000 Prussian soldiers killed, wounded or missing, and the ferocity of Russia shocked even the most hard-hearted veterans under Frederick.

Georgiana remembers a German song about a young mother who clearly wanted to hang out, but she had to stay behind to take care of her son, who complained and looked at him in the cradle whenever he laughed at her I feel very satisfied and don't want to go out to play anymore.

She also remembered the "History of the Gothic" written by the Byzantines, in which there was a battle of Chalons between the Huns and the Visigoths led by Attila. The author used horror, violence and magnificence. Vocabulary, and felt that this hand-to-hand combat, which seemed to come from ancient times, was a miracle even if it was a bystander, and so much blood flowed from the wounds of the dead that a low creek began to rise.

   It was also the battle of Cao Endorf that caused a poet to write "Battlefield Ode".

   Along the blood of murderers,

  I climbed the hill carefully.

   Corpses are everywhere,

   Survivor stood up,

   crane your neck, look carefully, search carefully.

  The battlefield is full of smoke,

   chose him as the anointed one.

   Maybe because she is a woman after all, she can't feel that the scene is "magnificent" and "sacred", she will only stand in the position of that young mother and cry with her.

   She had seen Mamluks fighting at close range, when a group of forest robbers planned to attack her. After a brief silence, the Mamluks gave a sharp cheer, which sounded full of wildness, or the wolves worshipped by the Turks.

Napoleon's new artillery abandoned the 12-pound gun and replaced it with two 6-pound guns. Their range was shorter, but their mobility was improved. From 1802 to 1803, the French steel industry, which accounted for 1% of the total French production, was the main This is what it does.

  Imported British steel to make up for civilian needs delayed by the military industry, and in Jefferson's letter of protest to Napoleon it was mentioned that the United States "must" ship the iron ingots it mined to Britain to make the British "machine" work.

   That is to say, the greater the output of the United Kingdom, the supply of the United States will also increase.

  Prussia took the iron and blood as the foundation of the country, and unified Germany from top to bottom through the iron and blood policy.

   Bonaparte, unlike Frederick the Great, rose from the ground up, and there is even a song that satirizes him, "The first soldier to be king is lucky."

   The Stein-Hardenburg reforms in Prussia did from top to bottom what France did from the bottom up.

   The lower is the same as the upper, and the upper is the same as the lower, thus fulfilling the miracle of "oneness".

On the Western Front between France and Prussia, Archduke Ferdinand confuses the French with the "cloak and sword" tactics, which is like a Spanish bullfighter, using a cloak to tease the bull, consuming its physical strength, and waiting for it to drown its head. When he rushed over, he killed the bull with his sword.

  Unfortunately, not everyone can understand Bonaparte, and he can't tell all the people of his plan, because once the matter is exposed, the "red cape" will not work.

   If she wasn't a woman, she might be happy to watch.

But she also knows how much a person weighs, not to mention that a person's body recovers, and the heart will leave scars that cannot be healed. There are many homeless people on the streets of Paris who used to be soldiers. After all that, they can't return to normal. gone in life.

She sympathized with those people, like she sympathized with Snape who fell in a pool of blood before dawn, and she hoped he would live, or like a warrior chosen by the Valkyrie, who would give the chosen one a kiss, The undead were then introduced into Valhalla to live happily in all desirable ways in the palace of the God of War.

  6 years have passed in a blink of an eye. According to legend, the warriors chosen by Valkyrie will join Odin in Ragnarok. They are not going to heaven to enjoy endless joy.

  Georgianna picked up the pen.

Frederick, who had suffered heavy losses in infantry and regiments after the Great War, devoted himself to replenishing his battered army, and ruthlessly screened young men and recovered sick in the Prussian states, and even Both Pomerania and Saxony were ruthlessly looted, using all necessary means to get the numbers together.

  Napoleon also learned from this idol to loot France and other occupying countries, and thanks to France, which experienced the baby boom of the Great Revolution, otherwise any small European country could not afford him to do so.

  The army of the tyrant Sauron in "Lord of the Rings" is composed of strong orcs, these evil creatures that Saruman peeps through the crystal, and he creates a mixed army of half-orcs and goblin blood in Isengard.

   There is also Grindelwald, who intends to form an army with the Inferi created by the Resurrection Stone.

   These are all very fast, unlike the fact that it takes a person more than ten years to grow from a baby to an adult, or even longer.

   'My Lion' she wrote by this title 'At the banquet, I heard a German say that the Revolution is a historical necessity, a victory of reason over a poorly governed ruler. There was a German named Kant who believed that enlightenment was the release of man from the immaturity he had imposed on him. Immaturity is not a lack of reason, but a lack of courage and determination to use one's reason without the guidance of others. Have the courage to use your reason, that is the slogan of the Enlightenment. What I want to say to you is that conquer yourself, not because you are immature, but because your worst enemy is yourself. ’

   She paused when she wrote this, wanting to cross "my lion".

   Later, I wanted to tear up the whole letter.

   But she continued to write, after all, she felt that she had finally made a good start.

   (end of this chapter)