Unbeknownst to Nichlau, just opposite him, the commander of the Austrian army, Eugenio, was also having a headache.
No general would like to fight in winter, because the cold weather does not distinguish between friend and foe, and the Bohemian border is a mountainous area, where not only the temperature is frighteningly low, but even the roads are rugged and difficult, and several roads that can pass through the army are blocked by the Prussians.
"General, General Ian is going to take someone away, do you think it's going to send it off?"
Eugenio's adjutant quietly walked up to his side and said, hearing the adjutant's report, Eugenio's face turned full.
As mentioned earlier, after Austria had decided to enter the war, Leopold II decided to send an army of 9,000 men to the Main River through Bavaria to stop the Prussian army.
As the closest army to Bavaria, Eugenio's army naturally had to be drawn.
Eugenio's army was originally 23,000 men, but Leopold II's order left his command of 9,000 men, and was commanded by the newly sent General Ian from Vienna, and after a four-day stoppage, the army was finally on its way.
Truth be told, Eugenio didn't like Ian very much, and certainly no one would like someone who snatched something from him, despite the fact that this man had orders from Leopold II.
But after all, Ian was a general appointed by Leopold II, and he still had to give some face, so after thinking about it for a while, Eugenio agreed to go to Ian's place to say goodbye.
Ian gave a warm welcome to Eugenio's arrival.
At the same time, Ian also expressed his gratitude to Eugenio for his support, which made Eugenio's originally depressed mood much better.
In the presence of Eugenio, Ian stood proudly in front of the army of nine thousand.
Just as he was about to announce the order to march loudly, he saw a cavalryman holding a red document high and galloping towards Ian.
When Ian read the document, his whole face turned the color of a pig's liver, and he rushed back to his tent after announcing that the army was stationed in place.
Eugenio, who was watching from the sidelines, was also surprised by the change, and then when he took the document from Ian's hand, his face was already full of solemnity.
The document had arrived urgently from Vienna, and it had been written that Ian had been put on a halt to the march.
The reason was that the Prussian army had already routed the emperor in the Bamberg area, and now the Austrian upper echelons were working on the next plan of action, before Vienna had a clear order.
Ian's troops were temporarily stationed in place to cooperate with Eugenio in the battle against Prussia.
The victory of the Prussian army at Bamberg made Eugenio instantly feel a basin of cold water poured over his head, knowing that Prussia had declared war, and the victory of the Prussians on the Main meant that unless there was a major change in the Main River valley, Prussian victory was in sight.
At the same time, it also means: Prussia could concentrate more on Bohemia.
And while Austria was using their brains to analyze countermeasures, Bavaria's Itansi couldn't sit still.
Originally, he thought that Bamberg's battle would take some days, but now that the Prussian army had won, it completely disrupted Itansi's thoughts.
The main force of the emperor has been routed, which means that half of the Main River valley has fallen into the hands of the Prussians, which Itans absolutely does not want to see.
Although Itans is only the Elector of Bavaria, this does not mean that he is only willing to be an Elector, how can a person who can kill his brother be a person who keeps to himself.
It's just that before it was under the might of the Prussians.
Itanth's ambitions did not show itself, and now.
Itanth decided to give it a go.
You must know that once Prussia completely occupies the Main, then when the time comes, in the face of the dispensable Bavaria, whether Prussia will eat it or not!
"Contact the Austrians immediately and tell Vienna that we in Bavaria can agree to fight Prussia in an alliance with Austria, but Austria must do everything in its power to ensure the safety of Bavaria!"
Itans' message reached Vienna as quickly as possible, and Leopold II was overjoyed to hear the news, and he immediately summoned the Austrian high command to decide on the next phase of the war. .................................................
It was also after the Battle of Bamberg that a large number of armed forces suddenly appeared in Austrian Poland, which attacked the local government, plundered Austrian nobles and landlords, and caused chaos in the entire Austrian Poland region.
More than 20,000 Austrian troops in Poland immediately began to liquidate these armed forces, but at the same time the Prussian Eighth and Thirteenth Divisions in Warsaw also began to move, and the two divisions marched in parallel towards Austrian Poland, capturing nine towns in Austrian Poland in just two days.
The governor of Austrian Poland immediately sent people to Vienna to ask for help, and at the same time, the Austrian government in Austrian Poland began to send men and horses to forcibly expand the army, and the Austrian army was actually tripled in size in one moment.
The 3rd Division was aimed at Frankfurt, and it affected not only the surrounding princes of Frankfurt, but also the princes of the Rhine, who were also feeling great pressure, which made Sigel, who had fallen into despair, ecstatic.
Through constant lobbying, Sigel once again organized an imperial ** in Frankfurt, and with the joining of the Rhine princes, this imperial ** army was as high as 20,000 people, which undoubtedly had an advantage in strength compared with the attacking Prussian Third Division.
And what made Szügel even happier was that as a marriage state of Prussia, Hesse also joined the emperor with the efforts of Frankfurt diplomats.
There is another mercenary army in Europe that is as famous as the Swiss mercenaries, and that is the Hessian mercenaries.
As a small state of the Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe, Hesse has a long tradition of mercenaries, and the commission for mercenaries in Hesse even exceeds half of the national income.
For Hesse, the cultivation, training and pension of mercenaries has become an important industry, and Count Wilhelm VIII, who once ruled the Hesse region, famously said: "Without mercenaries, we will lose all our resources." ” Because of this tradition, the Hessian mercenaries attach great importance to the maintenance and training of the army, while the standing army of Hesse is maintained at about 24,000, and the entire Hessian state has a population of less than 400,000, so his military-civilian ratio has reached a terrible 1:15.
Because of the systematic training, the quality of the Hessian army was ahead of Europe at that time, and the Hessian mercenaries became frequent visitors on the battlefield.
In the original history, during the American Revolution, Britain spent 20 million taylors (the currency unit at that time, the exchange rate with the current dollar was about 1:15, so it can now be understood as 300 million US dollars) to hire 12,000 Hessian mercenaries from the Duchy of Hesse-Kassel.
Since then, the number has increased to nearly 30,000 due to the tight war in North America.
Hesse's addition is not only a diplomatic victory for Sigel, but also a leap in strength for the emperor, who has promised to provide 5,000 troops for the emperor, which means that the emperor will usher in a leap in strength.
While the Rhine and western states were busy dealing with the Prussians, in Cologne Maximilian received a secret messenger from Prussia.
Although Maximilian felt a little resentful that Prussia did not support him at the Electoral, after all, Prussia did not seem to have promised Maximilian that he would support him on the throne, and since Leopold II ascended the throne, Maximilian has been living in fear.
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Through contact with Ferdinand, who was still under house arrest in Vienna, Maximilian learned that Leopold II was planning to strip him of the title of Elector of Cologne through a family meeting.
You must know that although Maximilian is the Elector of Cologne, Cologne is the territory of the Habsburg family, as long as the family meeting decides to expel Maximilian from the family, then Leopold II can justifiably recover Cologne, which Maximilian is absolutely unwilling to accept.
In this way, Prussia had a chance.
Brandenburg had promised Maximilian that if Maximilian helped Prussia stir up trouble in the Rhine states, Prussia would deny the legitimacy of Leopold II as Emperor, and Prussia would support Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in Cologne.
And once Prussia defeated Austria, then Maximilian would be welcomed to the palace in Vienna, and the Habsburgs would be honored by Maximilian.
Although the Prussian envoy said that it was a big deal, Maximilian was full of disdain for this, and what he said was quite nice, but he had not become a puppet in the hands of Prussia at that time.
However, at this stage, this is not a bad choice for Maximilian, after all, Leopold II's determination to win himself cannot be shaken, and it is better to fight than to sit back, and the end will not be worse.
The vacillation of Hesse and Bavaria made the Prussian government feel very troubled for a moment.
And even if it were a little longer, then Prussia could be in an even more disadvantageous position.
"Immediately order that the 1st Division join the fighting in the Main area, and at the same time immediately mobilize the 4th Division south to Bohemia, let the 2nd Division also immediately go to Bohemia, let the East Prussia region be mobilized immediately, and the state apparatus immediately transfer to the wartime system, and give me the order that the 8th and 13th Divisions should be annihilated in the shortest possible time!"