Old Hans took a sip of black tea and his eyes narrowed, as if caught in a memory His Majesty the Moon King gave a secret instruction to the cabinet ministers who remained in Berlin, "If I die in battle, all business must continue as usual in the slightest.
In the unfortunate event that I am captured, it is forbidden to have the slightest scruple for my own personal sake, or to have the slightest respect for the pieces of paper I have written during my captivity."
In fact, His Majesty did not need to do this at all, because once Prussia lost His Majesty, Prussia would lose everything.
His Majesty's only hope is to give the enemy a breakdown before he can assemble it.
At this time, France was still not ready for war, and the British corps to Hanover may have made French action even slower.
The arsenals of the Austrians in Bohemia and Moravia, which were stockpiled with large quantities of weapons and food, and His Majesty was determined to defeat the Austrians and then return to the army to resist the French, and His Majesty personally led an army from Saxony, and ordered Prince Ferdinand of Braunschweig to march into Bohemia from the east and Marshal Schwering from Silesia, and agreed to meet in the eastern hills overlooking Prague.
The beginning went well, and the arsenal soon fell into the hands of His Majesty, but this time the Austrians did not retreat, they met under the command of Charles, Prince of Lorraine, and evacuated half of Prague's population to defend the city in an unfavorable situation.
Our army and 61,000 Austrian troops met under the city of Prague and engaged in an unprecedented melee.
The two sides rushed to kill, the key to victory or defeat, has not been the number of people, the level of strategy, but all depends on the courage of both sides, Schweiling Corps in the Austrian army under the net of fire, across the water and waist wide rivers and swamps to attack, they were beaten by the other side once lost their spirit, turned around and fled, fortunately, the 73-year-old Marshal Schweiling in order to make the army reinvigorate, then took the lead, wrapped the whole body in the military flag, bravely forward, charged against the enemy, unfortunately was hit by five bullets, fell to the ground and died.
Our soldiers were infected by the marshal, so they charged the enemy angrily regardless of life and death, so that they were able to turn defeat into victory.
The battle of Prague was brutal on both sides, with our army losing officers and one of its most distinguished generals, while the Austrians were the remaining 45,000 Austrians who retreated to Prague Castle and prepared to resist the encirclement of our army.
His Majesty, however, found the siege difficult, and soon received reports that a 40,000-strong Austrian reserve was moving towards Prague, which His Majesty found relatively easy to break than the Austrian standing army in the city.
Then he left a part of the army to blockade the castle and personally led the march to the east.
Under the moon and the oncoming Austrian motley army encountered in Kolin, the Austrian commander of the Battle of Colin was Field Marshal Leopold Joseph Dawn, he showed a stronger command ability than His Majesty the King, and in the evening, all the Prussian infantry cavalry charges were repulsed, and under the strong counterattack of the opponent, several generals disobeyed, which made the situation even more chaotic; His Majesty changed his usual calm face and retreated from the cavalry, shouting: "Do you want to live forever?
"Our infantry, due to heavy losses and loss of confidence, refused to advance.
His Majesty was greatly disappointed.
Some of the generals simply ignored His Majesty's wishes, left behind the wounded and captured 14,000 officers and soldiers, returned to Prague with 18,000 remnants, withdrew the besieging troops, and hurriedly retreated to the road back to Saxony.
When His Majesty, who had not spoken a word in the army three weeks later, learned of his mother's death, His Majesty finally broke down and shut himself up in his room and shed tears for a day.
His Majesty wondered if the attack on Silesia 17 years earlier had been the last resort to be tempted by the goddess of revenge.
His Majesty wrote to his sister, Countess Wilhelmina, telling her of his despair: "My dear sister, as you have always insisted that you are engaged in a great work of peace, I beseech you to help me by sending Mr.
Mipola 500,000 silver coins to Madame de Pompadour, the favorite of His Holiness, the Skirt Madame of the Majesty of the Skirt of which he was previously called, in order to seek peace····· It's all up to you...
Dear you, not only are you far more virtuous than me, but you are also another me. ” This did not work, and Countess Wilhelmina had to try something else: she wrote to Voltaire, who lived in Switzerland, asking him to use his influence, and Voltaire accepted her proposal.
Handed over to Cardinal Townsend, who opposed the Franco-Austrian League, Townsend did as she was told, but failed.
The enemy seems to have smelled the breath of victory, and how can he stop like this.
At this time, a French army had entered our borders, led by Prince Subiz, a close associate of Madame de Pompadour, and was on its way to join the Imperial Parliament army stationed in Erfurt, while another army, under the command of Field Marshal Destrem, attacked the Hanoverian army under the command of the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II.
The Hanoverian army was heavily wounded by 100,000 French troops.
The Duke of Cumberland, who was in pursuit, signed a humiliating surrender to disband his army, promising not to take any more hostilities against France.
Immediately afterwards, a Swedish army landed in Pomerania, and a Russian army of 100,000 men, led by Marshal Apraksin the Younger, invaded East Prussia.
The army routed our army at the Battle of Veliky Jergersdorf.
The successive defeats, combined with His Majesty's own defeat in Bohemia, almost destroyed His Majesty's hopes of crushing the enemy, especially since the opponent was so numerous, materially and manpowered, and so well equipped, that His Majesty intended to commit suicide in the abandonment of morality and Christian theology. a letter to Countess Wilhelmina; "I see that all human beings are nothing more than dolls played by the god of fate, who allows a group of despised creatures to continue to multiply here, who makes robbers wear crowns but philosophers who are shackled, who sees our good and evil, the horrors of war and pestilences sweeping across the world, and remains indifferent, dear sister, my only refuge is the embrace of death."
Countess Wilhelmina wrote back to His Majesty encouragingly: "I would like to recall the pitiful situation you put your enemies in before the Battle of Prague.
It was the god of fate, the sudden change made by the two sides...
Caesar was also a slave to pirates for a time, and later became the master of the world.
A man of great genius like you, even when it seems to have lost everything, will still find support; Regardless of the outcome, hope has not abandoned me..."
His Majesty regained his courage: "As for me, I must be like a king in thought, in life, and in death under the threat of a shipwreck, in the midst of a storm."
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