The next day, at daybreak, little William came and ran to the window to look down, and the guards below were changing shifts, and he knew that things would not be as simple as Locks had said.
At this time, Locks was in a hurry, two Assassins were killed by soldiers in the hall, and more than a dozen nobles were killed or injured in the previous night's attack.
The nobles who were concentrated in the Potsdam City Hall also complained about Locks, and they declared that they would propose his impeachment to His Majesty upon his return.
But it wasn't their impeachment that made Locks' heart palpitate, but the death of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who didn't know how to report it to Frederick.
Locks took the plunge and wrote a letter to Frederick, which read: My dear majesty, I must tell you bad news.
Your nephew, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia, died while attending a ball hosted by his friend Madame Lichtnau.
I have sealed off the whole city with the rights you have given me, and at present few people know the news of the death of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and those who know have been controlled by me.
But now Potsdam is not calm, and I hope that you will come back as soon as possible to calm the situation.
Your close subordinate Locks.
After the Prussian army at the front had joined up with reinforcements, Frederick did not rush to attack, but ordered the artillery to bombard Vienna non-stop all night, and after a week of continuous bombardment, he decided to attack Vienna.
The Austrians in Vienna had endured a week of Prussian shelling, and Joseph several times ordered Field Marshal Lassi to send troops to destroy the Prussian artillery positions, but Lassi objected, and the cavalry could only exert its greatest power against the infantry that could not be formed in a row.
And now the attack on the artillery positions of the Prussians was undoubtedly a joke on the cavalry, and Queen Theresa supported the idea of Marshal Lassy, and Joseph II had to give up.
Just as Frederick was mobilizing his army for an attack on Vienna, Locks' letter was delivered to him.
Frederick was stunned for an hour after reading the letter, when he suddenly stood up and kicked over the table in front of him and scolded: "Damn it, Austrians who deserve hell, I'm going to let you all die" Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm II was the son of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, and August Wilhelm, the most beloved brother of His Majesty Frederick, died, and Frederick the Great established Frederick Wilhelm II as crown prince at the age of 14 in his grief.
And now his nephew is also dead, and Prussia has again lost his crown prince.
Frederick remembered the time of Auguste William's death, and he immediately took a fancy to Frederick Wilhelm II, a nephew who was handsome, polite and easy-going, and Frederick regarded him as his own child.
Although this nephew grew up and often mingled with his mistress, and was more interested in literature and art than in the military.
But Frederick believed that in his lifetime he would be able to sweep away the enemies of Prussia, and that his successors would only be able to govern the country in peace.
So even though there were many grievances against this nephew, he never expressed them.
The title of William Jr. as Prince of Brandenburg was only to determine William Jr.'
s successor in advance, and he never thought of changing the crown prince.
But now, the damned Austrians have changed everything.
He had to find a new crown prince for Prussia who could lead Prussia forward, and Frederick was confused about himself, not knowing what would become of Prussia after his death if there was no suitable heir.
Frederick was sixty-six years old, and he did not know if he could still raise a suitable successor for Prussia, and he remembered William Jr.
But William Jr. was only eight years old, and he did not know whether he would be able to withstand the burden of Prussia.
Frederick walked out of the marching tent after thinking about it, looked at Vienna in front of him, and sighed: "There is no day off."
Then he ordered the troops to fill in the trenches, and ordered the artillery units to shoot all the shells.
The Austrians in Vienna clearly felt that the Prussian firepower was stronger than the previous week, and it seemed that the Prussians were about to launch a general attack, and Marshal Lassi thought so, and ordered the troops to be ready for final battle, and at the same time no one was to be sent out without his orders.
That night, however, Frederick ordered the large forces to retreat first, while he and his cavalry continued to confuse the enemy outside the city.
The next day, the Austrians suddenly realized that the Prussians outside the city did not seem to be carrying out routine shelling.
Marshal Lassi hurriedly went up to the city and looked through a telescope, only to see a large puff of smoke and dust behind the hill outside the city, and he concluded that there was a large Prussian army there, and he ordered the whole army to be on alert.
Suddenly, a small group of cavalry appeared outside Vienna, and Marshal Lassi looked at it, and Frederick appeared in his sight.
The small group of cavalry stopped outside the Viennese guns, and a knight rode up with a white flag.
"Who is the commander of Austria," the knight shouted to the Austrians on the city walls, running outside the city gates.
"I am, is there anything your Majesty has ordered you to come over?"
asked Lassi as he poked his head out to the Prussian knights under the city.
"It turned out to be Marshal Lassy, and His Majesty the King said to invite the commander of the Austrian army to play chess outside the city," the knight said, apparently knowing Lassy.
"Thanks to His Majesty Frederick's kindness, but I beg your pardon, I am not in a position to meet with His Majesty Frederick right now," Lassi arched.
"That's a pity for him, I'll explain it to Your Majesty, goodbye, Marshal Lassy," said the knight, turning his horse's head and galloping away to Frederick's side.
Frederick was not happy when he heard the report, he nodded and ran around Vienna with this small group of cavalry.
Someone suggested to Marshal Lassi that he would send troops to capture Frederick alive at this time, but Lassi decisively vetoed it, and he pointed to the smoke and dust outside the city and said: Our army has 80,000, while Prussia has 100,000, and once the war begins, it will be a big war.
We still have the advantage of defending the city, and once we go out of the city to fight the Prussians, won't Frederick be happy?
The Austrian generals looked at the smoke and dust outside the city, thought about it, and agreed with Marshal Lassi.
What they didn't know was that the smoke was made by Frederick ordering his cavalrymen to tie branches to the tails of their horses.
At this moment, there were only more than 10,000 Prussian cavalry outside Vienna, and they had to block the outer roads of Vienna.
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Once the Austrians in the city sent troops, the consequences would be unimaginable.
But Frederick was right, and when the Austrians saw Frederick swaggering around the city of Vienna, they would only think that Frederick was considering the weakness of Vienna's defenses rather than suspecting him of posturing.
After two more days, the Austrians in the city felt that something was wrong, but they could not say which side was wrong.
At this moment, a cry came from the large camp of the Prussian army, and the Austrians, thinking that the Prussians were about to attack, carefully hid behind the city walls.
But as the morning passed, and not a single Prussian appeared, Lassi thought it was too strange, and he decisively ordered a cavalry to rush to the Prussian barracks outside the city to reconnoiter the enemy.
After a while, the cavalry came back to report that there was no one in the large camp of the Prussian army, that the Prussians had retreated, and Marshal Lassi froze.