Chapter 3 third chapter

This type of warfare, known as guerrilla warfare, began when the enemy entered the city of Smolensk. Before the guerrilla war was officially recognized by the government, thousands of French soldiers-stragglers and requisition soldiers-were killed by Cossacks and peasants, who killed these French soldiers unconsciously, like a group of soldiers. Like a dog killing a mad dog who lost his family.Denis Davydov, with his Russian sensibility, was the first to recognize the significance of this terrible weapon, with which he, regardless of the rules of the art of war, legitimized this war by destroying the French The first credit should be attributed to him.

On August 24 Davydov formed the first partisan detachment, followed by others.The more the war advances, the more guerrillas will grow. The guerrillas wiped out the army one by one.They annihilated the French troops like leaves from a dead tree, which they shook now and then.By October, when the French fled to Smolensk, these guerrilla groups, large and small, numbered in the hundreds.Some guerrillas completely imitated the army, and had infantry, cavalry, and headquarters as their learning.The main characters are also carrying daily necessities; some are only Cossack cavalry;The leader of one guerrilla band was a church boy who took hundreds of prisoners in a month.There was a village chief whose wife was named Vasilisa, and she killed hundreds of Frenchmen by herself.

In late October, the guerrilla warfare reached its climax.This is the first stage of the war. During this stage, the guerrillas themselves were amazed by their audacity. They were always on guard against being captured alive or surrounded by the French army. Therefore, they never left their horses and men. Hiding in the forest and waiting for the opportunity to attack the enemy is now a thing of the past.The war was clear, and everyone knew how to fight the French.At this moment only the leaders of the great guerrilla armies who have established headquarters and place their headquarters at a distance from the French still consider many things to be impossible.Those small groups of guerrillas who had started fighting early and were always spying on the French at close range thought that they could do things that the big guerrilla leaders could not even dream of.The Cossacks and peasants sneaked in among the French, who thought that everything could be done now.

On October 22, the partisan Denisov and his comrades were in high spirits, and they went into action early in the morning.They spent the whole day watching a convoy of cavalry supplies and Russian prisoners in the forest near the main road. They were at a distance from the rest of the French army, but they had strengthened their cover. To Smolensk.Not only Denisov and Dolokhov, who was active near Denisov (who also led a small partisan detachment), were informed of the movement of this convoy, but also several other companies with headquarters. A big partisan detachment; everyone is informed about the actions of this convoy and, as Denisov said, everyone is gearing up.The leaders of two of these large guerrilla groups—one Pole, the other German—sent letters to Denisov at about the same time, inviting him to join them in attacking the convoy.

"No, man, I've grown a beard too," Denisov said to himself as he read the letter, saying that the basis of all knowledge is to return to the concept of the "lifeworld", which, he thinks, The German replied that although he sincerely wanted to serve under the command of a valiant and famous general, he had to give up this happiness because he was placed under the command of a Polish general.He wrote another letter of the same content to the Polish general, informing him that he had been put under German command. Denisov's arrangement was that this operation would not be reported to his superiors. He joined forces with Dolokhov to attack and intercept the French convoy with these two small teams.On October 22, the transport team set off from the village of Mikulina, and the camp ahead of the day was the village of Shamshevo.Along the way from Mikulinna to Shamshevo there is a large forest on the left. In some places the forest is close to the main road, and in some places it is a mile or more away from the main road.Denisov and his companions rode through the forest all day with the French convoy, sometimes in the middle of the forest, sometimes at the edge, but always keeping the French under their watchful eye. Down.Early in the morning, not far from the village of Mikulina, there was a forest on the side of the road, and two vehicles were stuck in the mud. They were loaded with saddles for cavalry. Denisov's guerrillas easily intercepted the two vehicles. car and take them into the woods.After that, the partisans did not attack throughout the day, but only watched the French without alarming them.Let them safely reach the village of Shamshevo, where he and Dolokhov carried out the raid.Dolokhov came to the forest watchman's hut more than a mile away from the village of Shamshevo to discuss in the evening as scheduled. It was expected to act at dawn the next day. team and seized all supplies.

The guerrillas set up surveillance posts at both ends of Mikulinna and Shamshevo. Two miles behind Mikulinna village, where the forest was close to the main road, six Cossacks were deployed. Report immediately. In the same way, in front of the village of Shamshevo, Dolokhov sent someone to watch the road to see how far away there were other French troops.The transportation team is about 1,500 people."Advocating the interpenetration of philosophy and concrete science, to go deep into the depths of society, Denisov has two hundred people, and Dolokhov is about the same. The French army has an advantage in numbers, which does not make Denisov timid .All he needed to know was what type of army this convoy was, and for this purpose Denisov needed to catch a "tongue" (that is, capture an enemy soldier alive).When he attacked the two carts in the morning, he did it too hastily. He killed all the French guards, and only captured a little drummer alive. This child-like soldier was left behind. What kind of arms is the transport team.

To make a second attack, Denisov considered it dangerous.In order not to alarm the French, he sent Tikhon Shcherbat, a farmer who had been a member of his guerrilla, to the front village of Shamshevo. If possible, even a transport team was captured alive and sent to the front station The soldiers are also good.