Chapter 515: Threatening the British When Karl joined up with Eugenio's troops to counterattack Bratna, Dessau lurked in the city and on the outskirts of Bratna.
Although Karl checked the inhabitants of Bratna when he entered Bratna, especially the young and strong.
However, since they were able to hide, the Prussians had a way to avoid the Austrians' interrogation, and it was impossible for the automobile trade geography to dig all the land in the city, and the Prussians had deliberately dug holes in some places.
After Karl led the army to leave, more than 100 soldiers who had been hiding in advance quickly began to move, and before everyone in the city knew it, the Prussians seized the opportunity of the Austrian officer to go to the toilet and captured him, and then the Prussians took him as a hostage to occupy the gates north of Bratna.
Looking at the Prussian flag fluttering on the walls of Bratna, Karl had the intention to order the army to attack Bratna, but now attacking Bratna was completely delusional.
Most of the artillery was lost, and most of the Austrians now had only rifles and bullets in their hands, and rifles alone would not allow the Austrians to climb the walls of Brattna or blast open the gates of Brattna.
At this time, Karl was a little out of control, there were Prussian pursuers behind him, if there was enough time, a city of Bratna would not be in Carl's eyes at all, but now the key is to be surprised that there is not much time.
"Quick, order the cavalry to make a charge at the advance of the Prussians, and order General Eugenio to immediately lead his troops to the east, and from there the moat will swim into the city for me!"
Bratna was a small city after all, and except for a few important entrances with walls, a small river had been dug out of the rest of the place.
Although it is now summer, the water in the creek is not deep, so swimming is not impossible, which is why Karl gave such an order.
To this end, Karl did not hesitate to send his own treasured cavalry units, which Karl did not even send out to deal with the pursuing Prussian cavalry.
This cavalry numbered 2,000 men, but after the Prussian army captured Holstein, Mecklenburg, Bohemia and other regions, the Austrian cavalry was slightly inferior to the Prussian cavalry.
Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Bohemia all have large horse pastures, while Austrian horses mostly come from Hungary.
But after Leopold II came to power, relations between Hungary and Austria were not very good, so there were problems with the supply of war horses in Austria for a time.
Eugenio could not care about anything else, and he knew that if the Prussian army could not take the city before it reached the city of Bratna, the defeat of the Austrian army would be a foregone conclusion.
Of course, even if the Austrians recaptured Bratna, it would only be a short breath, but after all, there was still hope for reinforcements.
The 5,000 men of Eugenio's department immediately turned to the east, and just as Eugenio's troops were heading to the river that Karl had mentioned, a loud shout of slaughter sounded not far behind Karl, and it was clear that the cavalry sent by Karl and the advance troops of the Prussian army had exchanged hands.
Time passed minute by minute, and Karl's heart was getting higher and higher, just at this moment only a burst of gunfire was heard in the city of Bratna, Karl let out a sigh of relief, it was obvious that Eugenio's men had entered Bratna.
But before Eugenio's men could take Bratna, Karl heard the sound of horses' hooves suddenly ringing in his ears, and an Austrian cavalryman, covered in blood, rushed to Karl's side and shouted: "Grand Duke wire, the Prussians have caught up, our men have been scattered, and now the Prussian cavalry is following us closely, please make a decision early!"
The corners of Carl's eyes twitched violently, and looking at the still closed door in front of him, Carl looked at the sky speechlessly.
"Your Royal Highness, retreat!
The Prussian cavalry had already caught up, and not far behind the Prussian cavalry, we also found a large number of Prussian flags, and the main forces of the enemy were almost there!
” After a while, a staff officer rushed to Karl's side and said.
Hearing the words of this staff officer, Karl shook his lips and ordered: "Order the whole army to retreat!
Bypass Bratner and continue to retreat south!
” With that, Karl stopped looking at the city of Bratna, which had humiliated him in front of him, turned his horse's head and galloped east.
Thousands of Austrian soldiers, after learning of Karl's order, had no choice but to follow Karl eastward to bypass Bratna and continue to flee. ....................................
The Battle of Bratna ended in a victory for the Prussian army, and the Prussian casualties in this battle were not large, but the results were very gratifying, except for Karl's army, which escaped less than 4,000 men, and Eugenio's army was basically wiped out by the Prussian army.
When Karl began to retreat, Eugenio was ordering his troops to speed up their swimming into the city of Bratna, and after most of the army entered Bratna, in the face of Karl fleeing from his side, Eugenio immediately panicked, and when Eugenio reacted and was about to lead the army to escape, the Prussian army had already caught up.
Therefore, except for Eugenio and his guards, who fled at the speed of their horses before the Prussian army could kill them, the rest of the soldiers who did not swim across the river and those who had already entered Bratna became prisoners of war of the Prussian army.
Before the war, Karl had nearly 20,000 men, and after the war, there were less than 4,000 men left under Karl's command.
The Battle of Bratner, which took place before the arrival of Austrian reinforcements, greatly boosted the morale of the Prussian army, but also alarmed the Austrians, who were becoming somewhat arrogant when reinforcements were approaching ().
After the capture of Bratna, Marshal Dessau did not have the fame and fortune to continue the army to continue the offensive on the rest of the front, Dessau knew that after the Battle of Bratna, the Prussian army had to rest, especially the six cavalry regiments that served as the vanguard of the army suffered great losses and needed to be replenished. .................................
Looking at Henry and the others at the bottom of the steps, William's head was big.
In the royal palace in Brandenburg, Wilhelm was convening a meeting of the military top brass on the question of what Prussia would need to do if Austrian troops were drawn from the Austro-Turkish border into the Austro-Prussian war.
At present, most of the soldiers recruited by Prussia were used to replenish the losses on various fronts, and it was undoubtedly beyond the power to form a few new divisions, and the Austrians' large amount of 40,000 men to the Bohemian front line at once made the Prussian top brass led by Wilhelm feel very difficult.
Even though the Ministry of War had issued orders to increase the conscription of the newly conquered areas, it would take time for these orders to be carried out until the new troops could be brought into battle, and the Austrians' 40,000 troops were now a big problem of urgency.
Therefore, at the meeting, Wilhelm proposed the idea of a personal expedition, but this idea met with resolute opposition from the Prussian military top brass, led by Henry.
The Prussian Imperial Expedition could indeed ease the pressure on the front, after all, William's personal expedition meant that more than half of the 16,000 soldiers and horses of the Royal Guard would be drawn to escort ().
But William was the king of Prussia after all, and the sword had no eyes on the battlefield, and once William made any mistakes, then this battle should not be fought again, because the Prussians had already lost.
"Has Hannover replied to our questions?"
William, who was unable to get off the stage by Henry, had to ask Elstner, the foreign minister of the Prussian government on the side, and when he heard William's culture, Elstner bowed and said: "Your Majesty, there seems to be some reluctance on the part of Hanover to accept our demands, and according to the inside information we have received, the British seem to be preparing to transfer the troops deployed in Hanover to Holland and join the war against the French!"
Elstner's answer made William furious.
Because the losses in the Main theater were too great, William sent Elstner to Hanover, hoping that the British could send more than 20,000 troops deployed in Hanover to join the war against the emperor, so as to help Prussia contain the emperor and let the Prussian army on the Main River have a time to breathe and replenish.
However, Hanover was quite embarrassed by the Prussian demands.
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Hanover did have more than 20,000 troops, and even more than 20,000 troops were very good in combat, but Hanover was reluctant to send these troops to help Prussia.
At present, there has been a war between Britain and France, and Britain is continuously increasing troops to Western Europe, but France is a big country after all, not to mention anything else, just at present, Napoleon's 70,000 troops are still deployed in Calais, so if you want to win the war against France, Britain must draw a large number of troops to enhance the strength of the British expeditionary force ().
In this way, the more than 20,000 people originally arranged in Hanover were naturally remembered by the British Parliament.
"Isn't there any other way?"
Elstner shook his head, then lowered his head.
Seeing Elstner's actions, William pinched his fingers fiercely and said: "Elstner, you go to Hanover again, and tell the British that if Hanover does not send troops to help our army in the battle on the Main, then I will compromise with the Austrians privately, and then open a road for the Austrians to go to the Netherlands, and when the time comes, I will see what the Hanoverians will use to resist in the face of nearly 100,000 Austrian troops!"
"Your Majesty, don't ......"
"Your Majesty, this move is absolutely impossible!"
As soon as William's words were finished, the Prussian high-ranking people under the steps spoke up to dissuade them, but William's face was smiling "To these Englishmen, they are to threaten like this, when they came to beg us to go to war with Spain, they were like Sun Tzu, and now they do not even intend to fulfill their obligations as allies, what kind of alliance is this, tell the British, if they annoy me, I will let them go around without food!"