Chapter 164: Taking advantage of the situation to attack Kutuzov's guess was very close to what he actually was, and not long after the start of the Russian camp, the Prussian scouts sent the information back to the barracks.
Then the huge gunfire of the Russian army and the Polish army due to the battle, even if it was more than ten miles apart, still very clearly came to the ears of everyone in the Prussian army, and William was startled when he heard the gunfire at first, he thought that there were soldiers in the Prussian army camp because of the pressure of the war and the guns went off, but when he listened carefully, the gunshots came from a distance.
The gunfire became louder and louder, and all the Prussian soldiers were awakened from their sleep, and they rushed out of the camp in a daze, but when they found that there was no danger around, everyone was stunned, and the first to react were the officers of the Prussian army, who ordered all the soldiers to return to the camp and wait for orders.
As William stood outside the tent and watched the flashes of gunfire in the east, Henry and Ferdinand walked up to him.
"Your Majesty, this is the news that our army has arranged for scouts near the Russian army camp to come back" As he spoke, Henry handed a piece of paper in his hand to William, who quickly took the paper from Henry's hand and looked at it.
It was written on the paper that for some reason, there was an exchange of fire in the Polish barracks next to the Russian army, and now most of the Russian troops are moving from the barracks to the Polish barracks to suppress it.
After reading the news, William handed the paper to Buel, who was waiting on the side, and then raised his head to look in the direction of the Russian barracks.
"Your Majesty, this is our chance, looking at the posture of the Russian army, it should be that something happened in the Polish military camp that we don't know, but since it has evolved into a firefight, presumably the current Russian army has put the main ones in the Polish military camp, if we send troops at this time, we can completely catch the Russian army off guard."
Henry saw that William didn't react after reading the news, so he immediately opened his mouth and persuaded loudly.
But as soon as he finished speaking, William shook his head, and William said solemnly: "How tragic the fighting has been in the past few days, you must also know, our soldiers have just experienced a hard battle during the day, just resting for such a short time, it is completely impossible to recover physical strength, and there are too many unknown factors to send troops late at night" "Your Majesty, the physical strength of our soldiers may be insufficient, but the same is true of the Russian army on the other side, if we can send people to get in touch with the Polish army, we can completely make those Poles use it for us, and presumably the soldiers will be greatly boosted when they learn the news of the civil strife in the Russian army."
This time it was Ferdinand who spoke, and he and Henry had a brief communication before meeting William, and both of them believed that since the Russian and Polish military camps were in turmoil, this was really a godsend for Prussia to break the deadlock in front of them, so they both agreed to persuade William to send troops.
But what the two didn't expect was that William's request for the two would actually choose to refuse.
Although Henry was the nominal commander of the Prussian army at the moment, because William was here, Henry was only in name, and if they could not convince William, the Prussian army would not have been able to act at all.
"Prince Henry, Prince Ferdinand, I can understand what you think, but on a night like this, if there is any accident, it may lead to a catastrophe for our army, and what if all this is directed and performed by the Russians," William said with displeasure as he looked at the two men in front of him.
What's the matter with Your Majesty, didn't he realize that this was a great opportunity, with this thought Henry and Ferdinand looked at each other.
"Your Majesty, I don't know what you think, but I think that now is the best opportunity to defeat the Russian army in one fell swoop, even if the Russian army's strategy is not worth mentioning before my Prussian army" Even if William was displeased, Henry thought that he had to say his thoughts.
In fact, William didn't know that the opportunity was rare at the moment, but because of the fierce fighting during this time, the Prussian soldiers had tightened their bodies, and the competition between the two sides at this moment was whose morale collapsed first, and at this time it was night, and the sight was completely blocked by the night, if it was really a ploy of the Russian army, William would have no place to cry.
Kutuzov was one of the greatest generals in Russian history, and the turning point of the Napoleonic Wars was one night in Moscow.
In January, Napoleon led an expedition of 570,000 to Russia.
The Russian army, under the command of Kutuzov, resolutely resisted Napoleon's army, and although the French army won all the way, they suffered extremely heavy casualties.
After the Battle of Borodino, the Moon Army was about to enter Moscow.
The Russian commander-in-chief, Kutuzov, was determined to abandon the capital, and he wanted to save the other half of the Russian army.
Poleon rode into Moscow on a tall horse, and Alexander I and Kutuzov had withdrawn from Moscow with high-ranking Russian generals and most of the inhabitants of Moscow.
Napoleon expected Alexander I to compromise, but he was greeted by a fire of Moscow.
The impending cold winter, the determination of the Russian people not to surrender, and a failed coup d'état orchestrated by General Marais at this time, forced Napoleon to rush back to France.
The cold winter in Russia, the Russian pursuers and partisans that appeared all the time terrified the invincible Napoleon, and the French army either died in battle or froze to death, and finally returned to France with less than 30,000 people.
Since then, the army that has made the whole of Europe tremble no more.
Later generations of Wilhelm first regretted Napoleon when he read this line in Baidu, and then marveled that Moscow had not only created the glory of the Russian Empire, but also made Kutuzov's prestige spread all over the world.
How could William despise such a famous general, and during this period of time, William also found that the Russian army on the opposite side was indeed difficult to deal with, with clear orders and modest manners, and the strength of the Russian army left a very deep impression on William.
Moreover, the sudden chaos in the middle of the night made William have to raise the level of this chaos so suddenly, without any warning in advance, if this was Kutuzov's plan, wouldn't it be right for him to send his own troops.
"Your Majesty, don't hesitate any longer, this is the only chance for our army, if you don't fight, will you really drain all the blood of Prussia here" Ferdinand looked at William, who was entangled by Henry's words, and hurriedly said loudly.
William struggled more and more with Ferdinand's words.
After a long time, William made up his mind, no matter what, he always has to try, people's lives are risk-taking, even if you lose ninety-nine times, it doesn't matter, as long as you can win the most critical one, then the other ninety-nine times are floating clouds.
The belief in fighting for a hand prevailed in William's heart.
"Henry, you go and gather the army at once, and tell the officers that there is no need to arrange for the army to stay in the barracks, and that all those who can move will be thrown into the attack for me.
Also, Ferdinand, you go and gather the cavalry now, I have authorized all the cavalry to you to command, and you have only one task, if you attack, your department will be responsible for the pursuit, and if you lose, then you will be cut off with the cavalry.
Prussia's success or failure is here, and the kings are prosperous."
The two people who heard William's order immediately shouted yes in unison with joy on their faces, and then hurriedly walked out.
William in the tent took out a cross from inside his clothes, and William rubbed the cross while muttering a prayer to God.
Our gaze turned to the Polish barracks Although the Polish soldiers rushed to the Russian defense line regardless of life and death under the slogan "We want to go home", these Polish soldiers were already excited and almost crazy, how could such an unorganized attack break through the Russian defense line.
I saw that the Russian army formed a neat phalanx and kept killing the rebels in the Polish military camp, in the Russian army's dragnet killing, the Polish soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the Polish soldiers were completely suicidal, they raised the muskets in their hands that could no longer fire, and used them as spears and the Russian army fought bayonets, but the well-organized Russian army often did not have much effort to deal with this kind of stragglers, It's just that a large part of the Russian army was in a hurry and was made up of a moment by the Polish soldiers' life-and-death battles and became both defeated.
Just when the Russian army was attacking in an orderly manner, Kutuzov, who saw that the situation had been largely controlled, immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
But not long after, a Russian scout hurriedly rushed into Kutuzov's camp, only to see that the scout ran to Kutuzov and forgot to salute, and said excitedly and quickly: "Your Excellency General, a large number of Prussian soldiers have begun to assemble in their barracks, and a part of the Prussian army has already rushed in the direction of our army.
The words of the Russian scout made Kutuzov lose his mind for a moment, and then his face changed greatly, and even the teacup in his hand fell inadvertently and shattered to the ground, and the sharp sound made everyone in the tent hear clearly.
Immediately afterward, only Kutuzov's loud roar was heard: "Immediately order all the troops to set up in the direction of the Prussian army, tell those Poles who are still resisting, I can spare their dog's life if they surrender at this time, otherwise what awaits them is the fall of their heads, and order the cavalry troops to immediately advance three miles in the direction of the Prussian army, and be sure to give me two hours to resist the Prussian army, at least buy me two hours."
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As soon as Kutuzov finished speaking, the officers in the tent answered in unison.
Seeing that the Poles opposite him were about to be defeated, he suddenly received an order from his superiors to let the army withdraw from the battle in a hurry, and to set up a place about a mile away from here, the Russian soldiers who had been fighting for most of the night suddenly became a little uncomfortable after suddenly leaving the battle, and many soldiers felt that their whole bodies had no strength as soon as they relaxed, but the military orders of their superiors had to be carried out.
The Polish soldiers hiding in the depths of the barracks cheered loudly when they saw that the Russian attack had weakened, and then launched an attack from the rear of the Russian army like a scoundrel, and the tactics of the enemy advancing and retreating were used by the Poles to the fullest.