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Chapter 502: Gather Bamberg Again


As the main force of the Prussian army came back to its senses, the emperor who stormed the right flank of the Prussian army was immediately counterattacked by the Prussian army, and the situation evolved to this point, the emperor was powerless to return to the sky, with the rout of the three phalanxes of the Prussian army's right flank, the entire emperor began to collapse locally, and the Marquis of Nassau shouted with all his strength and even killed four or five deserters, but the decline of the emperor was irreversible.

Even in the end, the Marquis of Nassau had no choice but to flee under the repeated persuasion of his own guards, and as a result, the emperor ** collapsed on all fronts.

When Scharnhorst's boots stepped on God's original headquarters, Scharnhorst's face could not see the joy of the victor at all, although the battle was won by the Prussian army, but the Prussian army itself was also heavily damaged.

The original full strength of the 3rd Division of 13,000 people was counted after the war, and nearly half of the casualties were counted, which means that the 3rd Division has lost the capital to continue its march to Frankfurt before it is replenished by the rear.

At the same time that the 3rd Division once again inflicted heavy losses on the emperor, the 9,000 troops sent by Austria also entered Bavaria, and this time Etans sent his cousin Count Victor to lead 10,000 Bavarian troops to cooperate with Austria's Ian to march to the Main River.

After the two armies converged, the coalition army with a total strength of nearly 20,000 men rushed to Bamberg non-stop, and at this time, the 1st Prussian Division led by Dafilia finally arrived in the western part of Bohemia.

When it became known that the combined forces of Austria and Bavaria were rushing to the Main region, Dafilia made the astonishing decision to attack directly into Bavaria from western Bohemia.

Albeit on the Bohemian border.

The armies of Austria and Prussia had already begun an armed confrontation, but they were not in a state of combat readiness on the border between Bohemia and Bavaria.

On the contrary, in order to hit the Prussians by surprise.

In addition to secretly mobilizing his own close troops, in order not to alarm the Prussians, Etans deliberately did not bring the army on the border between Bavaria and Bohemia into combat readiness.

Now, although Itans had sent troops to support the Austrians, due to time constraints, Itans had not yet made arrangements on the Bohemian and Bavarian borders.

Of course, Itans did not think that the Prussian army would attack Bavaria directly.

Regardless of whether it was Itans or his think tank, everyone believed that when Prussia faced the 20,000 combined forces of Bavaria and Austria, it would definitely mobilize forces to strengthen the defense of the Main region.

Instead of sending an army deep into Bavaria to fight.

Moreover, Itans was also aware of the deployment of the Prussian forces, and at present almost all the Prussian troops deployed in Bohemia were preparing for the Austrian attack.

It was impossible for the Prussians to send troops to attack Bavaria.

Of course, nothing is absolute.

Itans also knew this, so after urgently ordering the 2,000 defenders of the border areas of Bavaria and Bohemia to be put into combat readiness, Itans recruited 2,000 soldiers from the eastern part of Bavaria to strengthen the defense of the border areas.

In Itansi's opinion, 4,000 troops were enough to defend the small border area between Bavaria and Bohemia, and even if the main force of the Prussian army turned around and attacked Bavaria, Itans could still recruit nearly 20,000 troops from other regions, and when the time came, the 10,000 main force sent by the recall and the Austrian army would definitely make the Prussian army come and die.

But Itanth met Daphilia.

And Dafilia is also a general who does not play cards according to common sense.

In Dafilia's opinion, a direct attack on Bavaria was dangerous.

But with danger comes great opportunity.

You must know that Prussia has arranged a relatively powerful dark force in Bavaria, maybe Itans can purge those officials in the Bavarian government who are close to Prussia, but in secret, it is impossible for him to uproot all the forces that Prussia has arranged for decades.

Moreover, don't look at the combined forces of Bavaria and Austria, there are nearly 20,000 people, but after all, these Bavarians are not Austrians, if the Prussian army is under the city of Munich, I am afraid that the Bavarian army will not be able to attack the Main River valley with peace of mind.

And Dafilia is very confident in the speed of Prussia's logistical supply, don't look at the 18th Division, it seems that there are less than 4,000 people left to survive in the Bamberg area, but in just one month, the 18th Division can definitely be fully replenished, after all, since before the Prussian declaration of war, the Prussian military began to recruit veterans who had been discharged from the army for less than five years throughout the country.

Dafilia's self-confidence was not unreasonable, after Austria declared war on Prussia, Prussia's huge national war machine was instantly activated, and in just one month, Prussia conscripted more than 30,000 people, these soldiers not only made the Prussian 16th, 19th, 20th, three divisions complete the preparation plan in the shortest possible time, but also nearly 6,000 people were quickly sent by the Prussian military to the front line units as supplementary soldiers.

In addition, the Prussian state has also entered a state of war rationing, thanks to the bumper harvest in previous years, most of the warehouses in the capitals of various regions of Prussia are full of all kinds of logistical supplies, and these materials are not only part of the troops to support the front line, the rest of the stocks will be left in the warehouses in case the war leads to a series of livelihood problems such as rising prices.

In addition, as the prime minister of Prussia, Locks personally met with dozens of famous merchants in Prussia, who were to be temporarily restricted from leaving the country after the Prussian war, and at the same time prohibited large-scale hoarding of goods and price gouging, and in the event of such a situation, they would be immediately executed for treason.

It has always been the tradition of the Kingdom of Prussia that the military first, then the scholars, then the officials, and that these merchants were only slightly better than the commoners.

In addition, don't look at these merchants as if they are rich and invincible, but in fact, in the eyes of the Prussian leadership, they are just a group of ants, a group of ants that can be pinched to death at will, so if these merchants dare to oppose the state, then the huge assets accumulated by these merchant families over the generations can just become savings in the treasury.

Of course, these merchants could not play a big role, because in today's Prussia, a Prussian royal bank occupies most of the market share of most industries in the entire Prussian kingdom, and Mayer has become the famous "Hohenzollern's money bag" in Europe.

Straight to the point The newly formed Prussian 16th Division had been sent to the eastern frontier under the orders of the Military Department, where the 16th Division would be assigned to the Polish theater of operations to strengthen the Prussian army's superiority on the eastern front.

The 19th Division will be sent to Bohemia to strengthen the Bohemian theater.

The 20th Division was sent to the Main Valley, where there were many enemies.

William also had a huge expansion plan in mind, that is, to expand the current Prussian division of more than 12,000 men to 15,000 men, which meant that the Prussian army would reach a huge strength of 300,000 in the next war.

Under the order of the Military Department, the 15th Prussian Division was concentrated in the Warsaw area, except for one regiment, and the original 8th and 13th Divisions of the Prussian Army were marching wildly to Krakow, the center of Austrian Poland.

At the end of March 1791, spring arrived, and as the temperature rose, so did the smell of gunpowder between Prussia and Austria.

The Austrian army officially launched a large-scale offensive against the Prussian lines, and the armies of both sides fought fiercely on the Bohemian and Silesian fronts, with the two sides fighting each other.

The 1st Prussian Division, led by Dafilia, unexpectedly stormed the Bavarian border, and Daflia's actions caught the Bavarians by surprise, and even the Bavarian commander found that most of his army had been wiped out by the Prussians before he could prepare his army.

In early April, after defeating the 2,000 Bavarian troops on the border, the 1st Division under Dafilia moved westward, where the Bavarian capital was Munich.

When he heard the news of the arrival of the Prussian army, Itansi was undoubtedly panicked, the current Bavaria has not yet completed the first round of mobilization, there are less than 10,000 troops in the heart of Bavaria to defend, and seeing that the Prussian army can reach the city of Munich in a week, this makes Itansi shocked and frightened.

On the Main, 20,000 allied troops from Bavaria and Austria were storming the Bayreuth territory of the Hohenzollerns, and the Prussian Eighteenth Division was deployed in the Bayreuth area to resist the allied attack.

In the face of the attack of 20,000 coalition troops, the strength of the 5,000 Prussian army appeared weak, but this weakness was not unbearable, with Bayreuth as the center, Buschman mobilized all the forces in the nearby area to build a series of fortifications in the outlying areas before the arrival of the coalition army.

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When the coalition army arrived, these fortifications played a great role, and with the support of the people of Bayreuth, Buschman mobilized all the young men to participate in the war against the coalition army, of course, except for some of these young men who joined the sequence of defending the city, and many others used their familiarity with the terrain to join the guerrilla warfare against the coalition army.

Of course, guerrilla warfare fundamentally cannot determine the outcome of a war, but guerrilla warfare can hold back some of the enemy's armies in order to weaken the enemy's forces.

Despite this, after holding out for more than ten days, the Bayreuth area was lost, and the remnants of the 18th Division, led by Buschman, retreated to the Bamberg area.

Upon hearing of the defeat of the 18th Division, Scharnhorst immediately led the 3rd Division to Bamberg, while the 17th Division, which had been rushing from Bad Kissingen to Karlstadt, immediately reversed course to the Bamberg area.