; On the Eastern Front, two Prussian divisions were even approaching Krakow at one point, and if it weren't for the fear that their supply lines would be too long and the enemy would have taken advantage of them, then Blucher would have attacked Krakow.
However, although Blucher did not lead the European army to attack Krakow, the Austrian defenders in Krakow were still shocked three times a day, after all, the current Austrian Poland was not only the Prussian regular army, but also the Prussian support, the Austrians ruled the Polish rebel army, which became more and more raging because of the Austrian army's disadvantage to the Prussian army on the frontal battlefield.
The urgent letters of the governor of Austrian Poland were sent to Vienna almost once a day, but these urgent letters were like a stone sinking into the sea, and the helpless governor of Austrian Poland could only pin his hopes on the 10,000 regular Austrian troops and 20,000 conscripts recalled from all over the country.
At the beginning of May 1791, under the command of Blucher, the Prussian side concentrated 30,000 troops totaling 30,000 troops from the 8th, 13th, and 15th and nearly 10,000 Polish volunteers to Krakow.
However, Krakow is not without the strength to hold on, and the 10,000 regular Austrian troops in the city with 20,000 conscripts are enough to support it for a while, and the key is whether Vienna can send reinforcements to Krakow, and this issue has obviously been debated many times in Austria.
Eventually, when the tenth letter for help from Austrian Poland arrived in Vienna, Leopold II made up his mind and the emperor decided to withdraw his troops from the border between Austria and the Ottomans.
As mentioned earlier, Austria had 70,000 troops on the border with the Ottomans, and these 70,000 troops were well-equipped regular Austrian troops.
Once the 70,000-strong army was able to draw out or even only 50,000, Leopold II believed that the whole war could definitely change.
But the key is whether the Ottomans will fall into the trap.
To this end, after declaring war on Prussia, Leopold I sent a high-level diplomatic mission to Istanbul, whose mission was to persuade the Ottomans to ensure that the Ottomans would not send troops to Austria during the Austro-Prussian War.
In fact, within the Ottomans, the aftermath of the last Russo-Turkish war has not subsided.
The victory of the Russian-Turkish war was undoubtedly played by the new army, but in the eyes of the old powers of the Janisseri, it was themselves that played a decisive role.
If it weren't for the pinning down of 90,000 Yenisseri soldiers.
How could Selim's new army be able to break through Nikolaev, so after returning to the army, the Yeniseri tried their best to win the reward after the war.
Although the Ottomans were victorious in the Russo-Turkish War, the actual benefits were not much, and the benefits of the Ottomans were very limited, except for an empty name to open up territory.
And the Ottomans have been degenerate for decades.
The treasury simply could not afford to pay tens of millions of bounties to hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and in such a case, Selim had agreed at the behest of Hamid II.
The bounties of the new and vassal armies participating in the Russian-Turkish war were issued in the shortest possible time, while the bounties of tens of thousands of the old Yenisseri army were delayed.
This naturally caused the Yenisri's dissatisfaction with the caliphate, and the Ottoman court also fought over this matter.
Hamid I, who was a little anxious by the disgraceful ministers, immediately ordered the death of several representatives of the old Janissrid army, who had made the most trouble, but the matter did not end there.
The Janisselli, who had always been arrogant, after learning the news, openly blockaded the whole of Istanbul without the orders of Hamid I to retaliate against the new army.
Upon receiving the news, Hamid I was determined to give it a go, and under the strict orders of Hamid I, the royal army and the new army launched a purge of the Janisseri.
Although this purge caused the Yenisseri forces to withdraw from the Ottoman court, after all, the Yenisseri had been rooted in the Ottomans for hundreds of years, and the subsequent effects of the purge were still fermenting, resulting in no peace in the Ottoman court.
Although the Janisheri have become corrupt and degenerate, this army is still the largest and largest armed group in the Ottoman army.
As a result, the purge of the Janisseri led directly to a decline in the Ottoman army.
After the arrival of the Austrian envoy in Istanbul.
Hamid I immediately sent Selim as a representative of the caliphate to receive the Austrian mission with full powers.
After several rounds of urgent discussions, Austria reached a compromise with the Ottomans on the condition that it would be three million thalers and that a peace agreement be signed.
The intelligence services of the Prussians had been involved in this matter, but as the saying goes, there are no permanent friends in the world, only interests.
When the Ottomans were not yet stable, Hamid I was reluctant to help the Prussians hold back the Austrian army, after all, the Prussians did not offer much more than the Austrians, and the Prussians demanded that the Ottomans send troops to hold back the Austrian army.
When the mission sent the news of the peace agreement with the Ottomans to Vienna, the whole Vienna breathed a sigh of relief, this news was too timely!
On the whole front.
The Prussians were pressing on one step at a time, and in such a situation, 12,000 conscripts would be sent to death, unless Leopold II immediately activated the state of the country's supreme emergency to call all the Austrians to the young, so that the war could be reversed by numerical superiority.
But now things haven't gotten the worst yet.
The consequences of ordering a maximum state of emergency were enough to make the Austrian government think twice.
In this way, the 70,000-strong army stationed on the Austro-Turkish border became a life-saving existence.
Immediately after the celebration of the crown, the Austrian top command gave an order to the commander of the 70,000-strong army on the Austro-Turkish border, Archduke Tuha, and Leopold II asked Archduke Tuha to leave 10,000 men on the Austro-Turkish border, and then led the 60,000-strong army north.
In Leopold II's plan, the 60,000 troops were to be divided into two parts, one part of 20,000 men would enter the area of Austrian Poland, and the remaining 40,000 men would all march to the Bohemian line, so that the Austrian army in Bohemia would reach nearly 100,000 men.
Such a force completely formed an overwhelming advantage over the defending Prussian army!
While the whole of Vienna was rejoicing at the news from the Ottomans, in Brandenburg, Wilhelm's brows were unconsciously wrinkled together.
On William's desk was a battle report from the Main region, where the 3rd, 17th, and 18th Prussian divisions had basically been crippled.
The three divisions still have a total of more than 10,000 troops.
Such a loss made William's heart tug together.
Obviously, 10,000 men were far from enough for the situation in the Main region, and everyone knew that now Hesse, Bavaria and other countries had joined the camp of the Imperial Army, while on the Prussian side there were only Coburg under Maximilian and a few princes along the Rhine.
But at best, these princes could only help Prussia to contain the princes north of the Rhine, and could not help anything else, so that almost half of the empire would depend on Prussia itself.
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Prussia quickly recruited 30,000 men after the war, but these 30,000 men were used to supplement the three new divisions.
Everything else has been added to all fronts, and it can be said that the huge gap in the main theater of operations will not be able to be filled in a short time.
After thinking for a while, William shook his head and asked Bouel: "Buel, how many troops are there in the royal guard?"
"Your Majesty, the royal guard has a total of sixteen thousand men, including five infantry regiments and three cavalry regiments.
And two more artillery regiments!
” Unlike other troops, the Royal Guard was an army directly under the Hohenzollern royal family, and even the Prussian Military Ministry did not have any right to move this army, only the royal governor and the king himself had command of the royal guard.
"The casualties on the other side of the Main are too great, and it will be difficult to fill this gap for a while, so I'm going to let the royal guards pass, what do you think?"
With that, William looked at Buel.
And under William's gaze, Buel's face looked a little embarrassed.
"Your Majesty, the Royal Guard is Your Majesty's private army, and everything is based on Your Majesty's ideas, but Your Majesty, I have to remind you here that the Royal Guard is different from other armies, if the Royal Guard is sent to the Main region, then there will be a huge problem in command!"
Bouel's words make a lot of sense.
You must know that in the royal family, the Guards have always been the King's Guards, and most of the soldiers of the Guards are drawn from various divisions and regiments.
Such an army has combat effectiveness.
But at the same time, because of their own positions and other aspects, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Guards are proud and fierce.
Under such circumstances, the Guards sent the Main region, so to speak, even if Scharnhorst was a general valued by William.
But I'm afraid the Guards won't buy him either.
Thinking of this, William rubbed his forehead and said to Henry, who was sitting not far in front of him: "Prince, you also know that although the recruitment work is going relatively smoothly now, there is a shortage of people in all war zones now, and the speed of replenishment of troops is somewhat not worth the consumption, and the royal guards, if not forced to do so, cannot be used, after all, the Brandenburg area cannot be ignored at any time, so what is the best way for the military department to deal with the Main war zone?"
Henry took a sip of tea and said: "The Military Department has two opinions, one is to temporarily stop the work of the three new divisions, and draw out all the soldiers in the early stage and send them to the Main River Theater as supplementary soldiers!"
Hearing this, William was a little moved, but obviously this was completely a way to quench his thirst, you must know that the three new divisions have been reorganized for several months, although the time is not short, but it is not long, and the Main River is completely like a meat grinder, and sending these soldiers who lack combat experience over is completely to increase the casualty ratio.
"Is there anything else you can do?"
"The second opinion of the Ministry of Military Affairs is to recruit foreign soldiers and increase the proportion of soldiers to be recruited in the newly conquered areas, in order to try to recruit enough soldiers in the shortest possible time!"