Chapter 914： Counterattack (2/2)

Looking at a bunch of dying officers, Patrice McMahon snapped the table and yelled sharply, ”Everyone looks in the mirror and sees how you are doing now. It doesn't look like a soldier.”

Do you know that France's face will be lost to you? Especially your Udino, have you forgotten the guarantee you gave me before?

Isn’t it just a loss? Just find a chance to get back from the enemy later. Could it be that he was about to retire, and he could live unscrupulously.

I tell you that if you don’t want to live a life of infamy in the rest of your life, just cheer me up. I have all remembered that the shame of defeat can only be washed with blood and victory. ”

In fact, the morale of the French officers and soldiers is low, not just because of heavy casualties.

The casualties of tens of thousands of people have not been encountered and are not desperate; what really makes people feel desperate is that they are not optimistic about the prospects of war.

In addition to the heavy losses of the first day of the offense, there were no full-scale battles in the next few days, but small-scale engagements occurred every day.

Without knowing it, everyone suddenly realized that the Austrian army was not so decayed and incompetent in government propaganda, but a tiger that went down the mountain.

In Linlin's fragmented engagement, the two sides scored a 1.3:1 record. The French army is 1.3, which makes French officers who claim to be the first army in the world undoubtedly a thunderbolt.

This is not an offensive and defensive battle, but a direct collision in the wild. Everyone was helpless to find that under the same strength, the French army was no longer the opponent of the Austrian army.

Of course, this is also related to the French military’s recent low morale, but the main reason is the sequelae of the crazy expansion of the army.

Even the so-called elite troops have at least one-fifth of recruits, and combat effectiveness inevitably declines.

With the inconvenience of news transmission this year, the French government could not propagate for Austria, so that the middle and high levels of the military gang did not understand the particularity of the Austrian military service system.

Everyone judges through brain supplements, and assumes that everyone is an expanded army, and a group of recruits are behind.

It is seen that under the same conditions, the French army was suppressed by the Austrian army, and it is not an exception. This is true on the front line that has spread hundreds of miles.

The French commander who witnessed all of this naturally had no confidence in this war. Of course, there is no essential difference between this misjudgment and knowing the truth.

Anyway, the facts have proved that under the same troop strength, the expanded French army won't win the Austrian army.

Maybe someone will talk about equipment, the problem is that weapons and equipment are also a part of strength. This is no longer the age of knights, as long as they can win the war, who cares about fairness.

In a sense, Austria's largest ally is Italian. The pessimistic thought was first transmitted by them. After the offensive defeat and the heavy casualties in the front, they quickly spread in the French army and began to exert influence from the bottom up.

Marshal Patrice McMahon came in a hurry to restore the morale of the troops, but the scene before him told him that the situation was worse than he thought.

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From bombing others, to being bombed every day. It's only a few days before and after, and this kind of mental gap can't be tolerated by few people.

Witnessing this scene with his own eyes, Marshal Patrice McMahon somewhat understands why everyone's morale is sluggish.

As the highest commander of the French army, Patrice McMahon knows more than anyone else.

Sometimes knowing too much is not a good thing. Everyone was drunk, I woke up alone, but it was not so easy to bear.

Unlike the radical gangs in the country who dreamed of breaking Vienna, Patrice McMahon's battle plan, from beginning to end, only won the territory west of the Rhine.

It is not that Patrice McMahon has no ambitions, just because he knows that the French army is not as strong as government propaganda, and the enemy is not as weak as propaganda.

After taking the territory west of the Rhine, France would be able to guard against danger, even if Austria broke out, he was confident to stop it.

As for breaking Vienna, just shouting slogans. Patrice McMahon is already old and has already passed the radical age.

Admiral Udino said bitterly: ”I'm so sorry, Marshal. I let you down! If it wasn't for the command error in front of me, it wouldn't let us collapse into a great situation.”

The situation collapsed?

Obviously the battle situation is not serious enough, the French still occupy the initiative on the Sino-European battlefield.

As for the counterattack launched by the Austrian army, it was all pediatrics. To be sure, the Austrian army cannot fight the French army until enough troops are assembled.

Patrice McMahon: ”Don't talk nonsense, now I have only one requirement, that is to tear the Rhine defense line as soon as possible.

This is your last chance. No matter what method you use, I must rush to complete this order before the enemy reinforcements arrive. ”

There was another sentence in his heart that was not said, that is: this is also France's last chance.

If this opportunity is missed, it will be difficult for France to win this war.

Even if the French army broke out in the later stage, and the luck was to win the war, it was only a clear victory, but the true situation was both defeats.

”Marshal, the biggest problem now is the enemy's trenches. According to the information we have collected, it can be determined that the enemy troops have deployed at least 10,000 machine guns and thousands of heavy artillery on the Rhine, and more than 5,000 ordinary artillery.

Relying on the trenches, the enemy built a dense firepower network, and our troops simply couldn't reach it.

In order to reduce the casualties of officers and soldiers, our soldiers can only climb and charge. Even if the fluke rushed to the enemy's position, it would still be blocked by the iron net.

The best way to tear the Rhine defense line is to choose a main attack and focus our artillery to launch a sneak attack to suppress the enemy's firepower in the area at the first time...”

The method is what people want to pass, although there is no saying that crawling forward, but crawling the charge is essentially the same as crawling forward.

Focus on bombing with concentrated firepower to gain regional firepower advantage, which is also the most suitable for the French army at this moment. From this perspective, Admiral Udino is still qualified.

Patrice McMahon nodded: ”Very well, I approved your plan for this battle. Udino, give you one last chance, I don't want to hear any bad news again.”

Frankly speaking, Patrice McMahon did not want Udino to continue to command the troops. But there is no way. The French army has only a handful of officers capable of commanding hundreds of thousands of troops.

Among these people, Udino's ability is also ranked top. If it weren’t for the previous mistake, another name would rise.

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