In June 1791, the fighting on the Bohemian border became more and more intense, first the Prussian side took the Austrian army by surprise on the western front of Bohemia, and the more than 10,000 troops of Eugenio were forced to retreat nearly 100 miles before they could stabilize the defensive line.
But just as Dessau was preparing to order the 4th and 9th Divisions to move eastward, 12,000 Austrian troops led by Archduke Karl of Austria arrived at the front.
Instead of leading his army to Bavaria, Karl was able to join the 7,000 men of Eugenio's command under Karl's orders, and the Austrian army, with a total strength of 20,000, quickly launched a counterattack on the previously lost positions.
After Karl's men joined the battle, Dessau had to change his previous plans, and it was at this time that even worse news came.
The 40,000 Austrian troops drawn from the Austro-Turkish border were not far from Bohemia, and even within half a month this force could join the battle.
This news shook the situation in the entire Bohemian theater, and once 40,000 Austrian troops joined the battlefield, it would mean that the situation on both sides of the Prussian and Austrian sides had undergone an irreversible reversal, and the main force of nearly 100,000 Austrian troops was twice as large as the four divisions under Dessau.
Fortunately, the newly formed Prussian 19th Division finally arrived on the battlefield one step ahead of the Austrians, and with the addition of the 19th Division, Dessau decided that it could not be delayed any longer.
The 40,000 Austrians were on their way to the starry night, and if they could not inflict heavy damage on the Austrian army on the opposite side before the Austrian reinforcements arrived, then once the Austrian reinforcements arrived, the Prussians would be the passive ones at that time.
Therefore, Marshal Dessau, after combining the opinions of the divisions, decided to mobilize the fourth, ninth, and nineteenth divisions to attack the garrison of the Austrian army under Karl's Bratna.
Bratna is located in the southwest of Bohemia.
After Karl joined Eugenio's army with his army, he marched to the Bratna region, which had previously been home to Eugenio's headquarters.
The total strength of Karl's division was nearly 20,000, while Dessau assembled all three divisions with a total strength of 33,000 men.
Under such circumstances, the Prussian army had a numerical superiority over the Austrians in some areas, and the enemy in the other direction.
Dessau had already ordered the 7th and 10th Divisions to hold back the enemy in front of them, and not allow the Austrians to draw a single soldier from these two fronts to support Karl's department.
Dessau didn't despise Karl because he was on the battlefield for the first time, and it was clear that Karl's previous performances had given him a certain place in Dessau's mind.
After the order to move was given, the three Prussian divisions quickly completed their assembly, because the stakes were high.
So Dessau left Prague and went to the army himself.
On the opposite side of the Prussian army, Karl also ordered the army to be vigilant to prevent the Prussian counterattack.
The news that 40,000 Austrian troops were on their way to support not only stressed the Prussians, but also gave Karl a bad feeling in his heart.
Karl's enemy this time was the famous Prussian Marshal Dessau, and Karl did not believe that Dessau would remain indifferent to the presence of 40,000 Austrian troops joining the battlefield.
If that's the case, it can only mean that a lot of Dessau's age is completely alive to the belly of a dog.
Karl therefore decided that the Prussians would certainly act before reinforcements arrived, and that this was the only way that the Prussians would not be reduced to complete passivity after the arrival of the Austrian reinforcements.
Soon Karl's vision became a reality, and the news came from the Austrian intelligence agents lurking in Prague that the Prussian theater command had been unusually busy lately.
Marshal Dessau has not been seen in Prague for a few days, and the possibility of quietly going to the front line of the Prussian army cannot be ruled out. ........................................
"The instructions for the actions of the various departments have been very clear, and everyone knows that the 40,000 reinforcements of the Austrians are on the way to help, so we must cut off their arms before the arrival of the Austrian reinforcements, so as to gain room for maneuver for the next step of our army's action, and at the same time can greatly boost the prestige of our army, this time we have gathered three divisions, and the Austrian army on the opposite side is about 20,000 troops, and the 19th Division is a new division, so the 19th Division will be my Chinese army.
As for the 4th and 9th Divisions, I don't need to say more, in short, this battle is related to the life and death of our army in the future, so you must take all the credit!
” After saying this, Dessau looked at the generals of the three divisions standing in the tent and waved his hand "If you don't succeed in this battle, you will be a beneficiary.
All the kings are prosperous!
” The Prussian army of more than 30,000 men poured out, and when Karl received the news, he immediately shouted: "Quick, gather your army thirty miles north of Bratna, and tell General Eugenio to lead his army to immediately lurk in the area of Zbury on the northern outskirts of Bratna, and wait for my orders!"
Even though Eugenio has more seniority in the military than Carl, and compared to Eugenio, Carl is just a child who has not grown up.
However, Karl was the concubine of the Habsburg royal family and the Grand Duke of Cischen, so according to the rules, Eugenio could only submit to Karl and obey Karl's orders unconditionally.
However, when Karl's order reached Eugenio, Eugenio was completely confused.
This time, the Prussians were obviously menacing, and the Prussian army of more than 30,000 people was not so easy to deal with, and Karl's headquarters was only 10,000 people.
And the field battle is not counted, but Karl only brought more than 10,000 men under his command to fight, and ordered Eugenio's troops to lurk in Zbley.
Tsbury is a hill around Bratna, and the city was also largely devastated by the fighting because of the Austro-Prussian army's alternating battle for Bratna.
Previously, Tsbury used to be a good place for the citizens of Bratna, but after the war, this hill is very desolate and full of trees, so that people are not in the mood to appreciate it at all.
If he really wants to go out of the city to fight, it is obviously not enough to have more than 10,000 people under the command of Carl, so Eugenio's brows are unconsciously wrinkled, he doesn't know what Carl wants to do, but his intuition tells him that a half-year-old man like Carl really can't have much hope.
However, Carl is the Grand Duke and the Imperial Admiral, and his status in Eugenio is not as good as that of Carl, so he can only carry out Carl's orders even if he is dissatisfied in his heart.
With the deafening and uniform sound of footsteps, Karl knew that the Prussians were coming.
Because of the distance, Karl had already led his army to the battlefield that he regarded as the location of the decisive battle yesterday, and taking advantage of the gap that the Prussian army had not yet arrived, under Karl's order, the Austrian army had arranged horse barriers in front of their own ranks, which were more than two meters high, enough to affect the movement of the Prussian cavalry.
In the whole battlefield, there are three layers of such horse barriers, and behind these horse barriers, there are sandbags about half a meter high, and the sandbags are just enough to block the body of the soldiers who squat down and shoot.
When the Prussian army arrived on the battlefield, Dessau was full of praise for Karl being able to arrange it all in such a short time.
The reason why it was known that Karl's troops had arrived at the battlefield yesterday was because the Prussian scout cavalry had arrived at this place yesterday, and when Dessau learned from the scouts that the Austrian army had arrived here, he understood that the Austrians wanted to use this place as a battlefield.
However, half a day's efforts were limited after all, because of the battle that might take place today, so Carl didn't dare to consume too much of the physical strength of his army yesterday, so the three-layer horse rejection fence was only arranged for a distance of nearly two miles.
"Hehe, General Nichilao, it seems that the little duke opposite us still has a few brushes, but after all, his vision is still too small, you first lead the Ninth Division to teach him a lesson, let him know that war will not die in the history books!"
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Hearing Dessau's words, Nichlau answered with a loud voice, and galloped to his troops.
Soon on the right flank of the battlefield, the formation of the 9th Division was changed by order of Nichlao, and the artillery regiments belonging to the 9th Division were transferred to the forefront of the entire army.
Then, with a wave of Nichlau's hand, the soldiers of the artillery regiment drove the horses pulling the artillery to the Austrian position.
In European history, there was one war that had a very far-reaching impact, and this battle was the Battle of Hastings, in which the British used the horse barrier to resist the onslaught of the French knights, and then used the longbowmen to defeat the French army in one fell swoop despite the weakness of the army.
For now, Karl's strategy of rejecting horses is similar to the historical Battle of Hastings, but it is not hundreds of years ago, and the development of artillery has changed the situation of warfare.
Under the orders of Nichlau, the artillery regiment of the 9th Division transported nearly a hundred cannons beyond the range of the first barrier laid by the Austrians.
Behind these barriers, in addition to the Austrian sandbags, the Austrian army artificially created a dirt slope, and on top of these dirt slopes were some artillery guns.
After the artillery regiment came to a standstill, the Prussian artillery began to fire solid shells at the first line of the Austrians.