; The coalition army did not pursue after the breakout of the 18th Division, although the coalition army had captured Bayreuth, but Bayreuth, which had been ruled by the Hohenzollern family for nearly a hundred years, was not so mastered, so Ian did not immediately send troops to pursue the Prussian army after capturing Bayreuth, but spent a lot of effort to clean up the Bayreuth area.
Although this gave the 18th Division a respite, it also caused a great humiliation in the heart of Buschmann, since the beginning of the Prussian war, no Prussian general fled like a lost dog at the hands of the enemy, and he Buschmann can be called the first general of the Prussian army.
In the Bamberg area, the remnants of the 18th Division joined forces with the 3rd and 17th Divisions, bringing the total strength of the three divisions to 17,000 men.
After the Prussian army joined forces, the coalition forces under the command of Ian also went straight to the Bamberg area, and after the first battle of Bayreuth, the coalition forces were only 15,000 men, and after leaving 2,000 men to defend Bayreuth, the coalition forces still had more than 13,000 troops.
But these two armies were not the only ones on the battlefield, after the defeat of the emperor, Sigel was greatly frightened, and under his strong pleading, the five thousand Hessian troops under the command of the Duke of Hesse accelerated the march, that is, when the coalition army arrived in the Bamberg area, the rear of the Prussian army also found signs of activity of the Hessian army.
Of the 17,000 Prussian troops, 6,000 were from the 3rd Division, 9,000 from the 17th Division, and 2,000 from the 18th Division.
"Your Excellency Buschman, this time my 3rd Division will be the forward, and the 17th Division will be the central army.
Your army is on the duty of the rearguard, remembering that our scouts have already spotted the Hessian army in the rear, which means that there is a good chance that the Hessian army will attack our rear at the same time as we are at war with the Austrians.
Therefore, although the 18th Division is the duty of the rearguard, it is also full of dangers, I hope you can be cautious!
” As a veteran division, after the three divisions met, Scharnhorst was naturally unanimously elected by Buschmann and Otlan to be the commander of the army.
After Scharnhorst's words, neither Buschman nor Otlan raised any objections, and Scharnhorst's move was very reasonable in terms of the distribution of troops.
The 3rd Division suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Karlstadt.
But its morale was boosted by the victory in the war.
The 3rd Division as the vanguard of the army could not only offset the defeat of the 18th Division, but also serve as an example for the 17th Division.
Although the 17th Division had hardly encountered a decent opponent on the north bank of the Main River, it had not experienced several major battles, which was also the weakness of the 17th Division.
After all, the 17th Division is a newly formed division, and it is still inferior to an old division like the 3rd Division in terms of individual combat.
The 18th Division as the rear guard of the army also gave Buschman a chance to perform, although the Hessian army was famous, but the Hessian army had only 5,000 men.
Of course, the 18th Division was almost completely annihilated because of continuous fighting.
But 2,000 men were enough to hold the Hessian army for a while, which would buy the whole army a precious time.
After Scharnhorst's order, the Prussian army also began to move quickly, and now that the Austrian army had just arrived in the Bamberg area, it was unlikely that they would attack the Prussian army as soon as they came up, so the Prussian army needed to use this point in time to recover from the adverse effects of the defeat of the 18th Division.
At the beginning of April 1791, just as the Austrian coalition was preparing for a large-scale offensive against the Prussian army, the commander of the Bavarian army, Count Victor, received an urgent letter from Munich.
In the urgency, Itans informed that the Viktorp army was approaching Munich.
Under such circumstances, Victor had to immediately lead his army back to Bavaria.
After reading Itansi's letter, Victor's mind was in turmoil.
You must know that under normal circumstances, Itans would never ask for the Bavarian army to come back, because this would mean that all the previous efforts were in vain.
As a Bavarian executive, Victor knew the situation in Bavaria well.
There are less than 20,000 well-equipped regular troops in Bavaria, and most of these 20,000 are deployed in Bavaria except for the 10,000 under his Victor, which means that the 10,000 troops under Victor are the most important mobile military force in the whole of Bavaria.
Victor decided to withdraw after thinking about it for a long time, but he was not prepared to inform Ian.
The situation on the battlefield is obvious, and now the coalition forces are preparing to fight with the Prussian army on the opposite side, although the Prussian army has more troops than the coalition army, but the day before yesterday, the coalition army received news that the 5,000 Hessian army is urgently on the way to the Bamberg area.
This meant that once the Hessian army reached the battlefield, not only would the strength of the Allied and Prussian forces change, but the position of the Hessian army was located exactly behind the Prussian army, and no one thought that the Prussian army would be able to win under the attack of the allied forces on both sides.
Victor thought the same way, and it was precisely because he thought so that he decided not to talk to Ian about the retreat.
Now that the big war is imminent, it is foreseeable that Ian will never agree to the retreat of the main force of the coalition such as the Bavarian army, once the Bavarian army retreats, then the coalition army has little hope of victory.
Victor also thought about returning to Bavaria after this battle, but considering the situation of the Bavarian army, he simply did not allow him to do so.
In the Battle of Bayreuth, the 10,000 Bavarian army was reduced to 8,000, and Victor was pessimistic about how many Bavarian troops would remain after the battle.
Therefore, without the knowledge of the Austrian army, the Bavarian army of 8,000 suddenly and quietly retreated one night, and when Ian sent someone to invite Victor early the next morning, he found that the Bavarian military camp was empty.
This made Ian furious, and he immediately sent cavalry to chase the Bavarian army, and one night, the Bavarian army did not go far, but when the Austrian cavalry caught up with the Bavarian army, Victor only had the Austrian cavalry bring a letter to Ian, and then led the army to retreat without hesitation.
The helpless cavalry had no choice but to turn around and deliver Victor's letter to Ian.
In the letter, Victor confessed his helplessness to Ian, and at the same time relayed the actual situation in Bavaria to Ian, and after reading the letter, Ian tore the entire letter to pieces.
Naturally, the Allied forces caught the attention of the Prussian troops on the other side, and when Scharnhorst found that the Allied forces, which were heavily armed and ready to attack, had withdrawn, he immediately understood that something must have happened to the Allied forces.
Then, when the Prussian cavalry brought back the news that the Bavarian army was missing, Scharnhorst was a little suspicious.
At the moment, the momentum of the coalition was not bad, but the Bavarians retreated at this time, either the coalition army was preparing to lure the Prussian army, or the Bavarians had a change and broke away from the coalition army.
After the withdrawal of the Bavarian army, Ian immediately ordered the whole army to enter a state of garrison, and at the same time strictly blocked the information that there was an incident in Bavaria and then withdrew.
The Prussian scouts soon learned the news from the captured Austrian soldiers, and Scharnhorst changed his alarm when he learned of it.
"No matter where the Bavarian army goes, the advance of the Hessian army has now reached Bamberg, and it is foreseeable that the Hessian army will all reach the Bamberg area within a few days at the latest, and we cannot wait any longer, regardless of whether the Bavarian army goes in another direction to try to flank our army, but now on the front, our army still has a strength advantage over the Austrian army, so I have decided to send 5,000 men from the 17th Division to cooperate with the 3rd Division to immediately attack the Austrian army on the opposite side, The remaining 4,000 men of the 17th Division will join the 18th Division and stay here to closely monitor the surrounding movements, and at the same time let the scouts expand the scope of reconnaissance!
” Scharnhorst ordered that after meeting the 5,000 men of the 17th Division, the Prussian front army, totaling 11,000 men, immediately launched an attack on the opposite side of more than 6,000 Austrian troops.
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"Abominable Prussians!"
When news of the Prussian attack was heard, Ian could no longer keep his composure.
The Hessian army had not yet arrived, and the Bavarian army had retreated, which meant that the Austrians had to rely on their own less than 7,000 men to resist the attack of more than 10,000 Prussian troops, which completely disadvantaged the Austrians on the battlefield.
Then the more he fought Scharnhorst, the more frightened he became, because although the Austrian army on the opposite side resisted very stubbornly, but until now there was still no news of the Bavarian army, which if you think about it from the worst point of view, it is obvious that the commander of the coalition army is very sitting, and the Bavarian army is ready to let the Prussian army have consumed most of its strength before putting it into the battlefield.
Thinking of this, Scharnhorst immediately ordered the front army to divide 3,000 men and horses to maintain physical strength, and the remaining 8,000 men and horses to further increase the offensive of the Austrian army!
But at the end of the day's fighting, the Austrian army was forced to retreat more than ten miles without noticing the movement of the Bavarian army, which made Scharnhorst constantly think back and forth in the tent about the possible movement of the coalition army.
April 8, 1791 The Hessian army reached the Bamberg area, but in front of them was the prepared Prussian army, reinforced by the 3rd Division, and the 4,000 Prussian troops with the help of the fortifications launched a stubborn resistance to the Hessian army.
Scharnhorst, on the other hand, changed his previous deployment and ordered the remaining 3,000 troops of the 3rd Division to stop at the Chinese army for defense, while the soldiers and horses of the 17th Division pursued the Austrian army fiercely. ） ∷Fast Update∷∷Plain Text∷.〗