But a veteran is a veteran, Ferdinand only lost his mind for a while before recovering, and he said to Blucher: "Blucher, you go and convey my order immediately, all personnel immediately start to be on guard, and at the same time send double the patrol team outside the barracks tonight, and immediately summon all the officers into the military tent, I have something to discuss" Hearing Ferdinand's words, Blucher hurriedly saluted and quickly ran out.
After Blucher left, Ferdinand picked up a pen and got busy with the map on the table.
The night's quiet barracks boiled again with a command from Ferdinand, and all the officers rushed into the tents of their respective units to pull up the sleeping soldiers.
Of course, being forcibly pulled out of their sleep by the officer, the soldiers must have been very dissatisfied in their hearts, but in the face of the leather whip in the officer's hand, the soldiers could only get up helplessly.
In fact, these officers were also very puzzled in their hearts, after all, everyone was very tired after a day of fighting, but there was no way, who let Shangfeng have already given orders, so some unlucky soldiers became the officers' punching bags to vent their grievances.
Soon after, the commander of a detachment arrived at Ferdinand's tent, but Ferdinand ignored the officers who entered the tent and still looked at the map with great vigour.
"Your Royal Highness, I wonder what is the matter with you summing us together so late," asked an officer who had a close personal relationship with Ferdinand, after seeing that everyone who was supposed to be there was almost there.
But after he had finished speaking, Ferdinand ignored him, and instead stood up and counted the number of people in the tent.
The officers looked at each other, they were puzzled by Ferdinand's actions, but their years of military service had made them in the habit of not asking what they shouldn't ask, and they were just stunned for a moment, and then they stopped talking.
And Ferdinand nodded after losing the number, and then said: "It seems that all the people who should have come have come, now I want to announce a news to everyone, I hope everyone will be mentally prepared after hearing this news" Ferdinand's words set off in the tent Although I don't know what Ferdinand is going to say, but looking at his actions, it seems that it is not an ordinary thing.
"Quiet, look at what you guys say, how can an officer of the Kingdom of Prussia be so uncalm because of a trivial matter" Ferdinand did not continue, but frowned and reprimanded, and as soon as Ferdinand's reprimand words were spoken, the tent became silent again, and some of the officers who had just now lowered their heads and counted the ants on the ground.
"The news I want to say is that our scouts have just discovered that an army of unknown banner has appeared in the rear of our army, and this army is coming from the east" Although Ferdinand said that the flag of the army was unknown, the addition of a sentence from the east made all the officers understand that the comer was not good.
The officers thought the same as Ferdinand, when they were dividing the troops, Henry led his men and horses to find the traces of the disappeared Cossack cavalry, while Ferdinand led the army to feel that Königsberg was attacking the rebels, even if Henry ran fast, it was impossible to suddenly run to the east, and the east of East Prussia was next to Poland's Lithuania, and those who could come from the east were either rebels or Russian troops.
"Your Royal Highness, we want to know how many people there are in that unidentified army" Under Ferdinand's tiger gaze, although he asked, the officers did not show panic, but the tent was also immersed in a strange atmosphere, and then the officer at the beginning asked based on his relationship with Ferdinand.
"According to our sentry's estimates, this army is about five or six thousand men," Ferdinand whispered, the answer that everyone in the tent was eager to know.
Sure enough, after hearing the answer, the officers in the tent breathed a sigh of relief, although the war between the army and the rebels in the past few days has lost a lot of troops, but now the entire army still has nearly 10,000 troops.
Judging from the statistics of the results of the battle in peacetime and the situation on the battlefield, the officers believed that the losses of the rebels were heavier than those of the counterinsurgency, and the original expectation that there were only more than 5,000 rebels in Königsberg at most, and after a few days of fighting, the rebels still had nearly 2,000 at most, and this was still on the basis of some wounded soldiers, even if an enemy army of 5 or 6,000 people arrived, the situation on the whole battlefield was still more favorable than that of the counterinsurgency.
But Ferdinand was not as optimistic as the officers in the tent, and some of the strategically minded generals also saw that the unidentified army was not so simple.
The eastern part of East Prussia borders with Lithuania, and it was also the place where Kleiman met with the Russians, but in fact, because of the previous wars between Prussia and Russia, there were all the necessary places for the Russian army, so many residents fled the area because of the war.
Since it is not the rebel forces and the army of the royal family, then there is only a third answer, and that is that army is the army of the Russians.
Thinking of this, everyone who came up with this answer could not help but shudder, and prayed to God with indignation in their hearts that it would not be Russians, because if it was Russians, there must be more enemy troops behind that army.
But soon an urgent report shattered everyone's illusions.
"Your Excellency Marshal, our army has found out that the unknown army is Russian, and now they have camped not far from our army" This news made everyone in the tent confused, it was really Russians, the Russians came, of course, it is not that the Prussians are afraid of the Russian team, but those who know some Prussian military deployment know, because this rebellion has involved most of the kingdom's standing army, if the Russians declare war on Prussia at this time, then Silesia, East Prussia will become a fish under the knife of the Russians to be slaughtered.
Ferdinand was also stunned when he heard the news, although he had prepared in his heart, but this news was obviously still unacceptable, what were the Russians doing, was this going to be an undeclared war.
"Send someone to contact Prince Henry at once, tell him the news of our place, and at the same time immediately send someone to Sanssouci Palace to inform His Majesty of the military situation here, and where the reinforcements from Bohemia have arrived, Blücher, you will find out for me at once, and then tell them that they must rush to East Prussia within a month anyway" Blucher wrote down the three orders that Ferdinand said one by one, and then he ran out at a trot, no wonder he was in a hurry, this is a matter of burning eyebrows.
Although the Russian army appeared not far from the counterinsurgency army at the moment, there was no action, but before the intention of the Russian army was clarified, the counterinsurgency army still could not give up, and because the soldiers of the counterinsurgency army had just experienced a fierce battle during the day, taking the initiative to attack the Russian army at this time would not only give the Russians a mouthful, but also overwhelm the soldiers and cause unnecessary losses.
Therefore, after the sentry reported several times that there were no unusual movements of the Russian army, Ferdinand ordered the army to rest in batches, arranging for two-thirds of the men and horses to rest first, which made the already exhausted Prussian soldiers burst into joy.
The strange thing is that the Russian army has not moved at all since the march, but has only begun to camp and arrange sentries to patrol around the camp non-stop, and when the Russian sentry meets the Prussian sentry, the Russians did not come forward to fight but shouted in the distance The Prussian sentry did not come forward, because there was no order from the superiors, so the Prussian sentry was still very cooperative and left after wandering far away.
What is wrong, Ferdinand can't figure it out, since the Russians have set foot on the territory of Prussia and marched not far from the Prussian army, this is undoubtedly a tear with Prussia, but why does the Russian army not have the slightest intention of attacking, Ferdinand kept scratching his head, as if this could provide him with some inspiration.
When Ferdinand was depressed and had a pain in the egg, the main general of the Russian team not far away was also in the pain of the egg, when he first marched into East Prussia, Kutuzov had instructed him to attack the Prussian army when necessary, but then Kutuzov said that it was best to scare Prussia away by deterrence to avoid a firefight, and how could these two diametrically opposed orders not give people a headache.
Although Kutuzov had ordered the Russian army to march into East Prussia before, and at the same time announced to the leading generals the order to fight at a critical moment, it does not mean that Kutuzov is willing to join the Russian army immediately into this war.
Of course, Kutuzov can deny that the pressure of Prussia is not a problem for him, but if it reaches the ears of the empress, even if Kutuzov is a bright star, he will not escape death, unless the Prussians annihilate these five or six thousand Russian troops.
If the Prussians really took the initiative to attack, Kutuzov would die of laughter, because Kutuzov believed that even the Prussians would not be able to swallow the five or six thousand Russian army in one gulp, at most it would be defeated, but in this way he would stand on the moral high ground, and he would not make Her Majesty the Empress dissatisfied, as for why the Russian team ran to East Prussia, don't you know that there is something called lost in the world, the Russian army came to East Prussia because it was lost, Suddenly, the Prussians attacked and suffered heavy losses, and then the Russian army asked Kutuzov for support, in order to avenge the Russian soldiers who died in the sneak attack, and in order to maintain the honor of the Russian Empire, Kutuzov angrily raised troops, which was the complete plan in Kutuzov's heart. c