Chapter 542: Bad News After making his decision, Ernst immediately went to Dafilia, and when Dafilia learned the news from Ernst, he was already smiling like a chrysanthemum.
Of course, Ernst also had conditions, the Hanoverian army followed the Prussians to Bohemia, but the army's logistical baggage had to focus on the Hanoverian army, and at the same time, the salary promised to the Hanoverian army remained unchanged, and if necessary, Dafilia had to unconditionally send more troops to Ernst.
These conditions were not difficult for Dafilia, and in Dafilia's opinion, as long as he could take these Hanoverian centaurs of Ernst to Bohemia, then whatever conditions could be agreed to for the time being, after all, as long as people were in their own hands, then they could not turn over any storms.
After arranging the defense of the two remaining divisions on the Main after the departure of the army from the Main, Dafilia led the Prussian army of the 1st, 3rd and 17th Divisions and nearly 10,000 Hanoverian troops to the east. ...........................
Standing on the head of the city of Seydlice, Tuha did not have any joy in his heart, a small Seydlice was enough to block him for nearly half a month, not only that, but in the end, a part of the Prussian army broke through, which was a shame for Tuha!
In order to prevent the Prussian army in the city of Seydlice from escaping, in addition to arranging Karl to lead more than 10,000 Austrian troops to encircle in the north of Seydlice, Tuha sent men and horses to the east and west, and as for the south, the direction of the main Austrian attack led by Tuha was the south of Seydlice.
What no one expected was that when the Austrians had not yet noticed, Nichlau actually led the remaining Prussian army of less than 2,000 men of the Ninth Division to break through, and the direction of the breakthrough was to the west.
Immediately after Nichilao led his army to break through the siege, Tuha ordered three cavalry regiments under his command to pursue him.
But the Prussians were very cunning, and scattered a lot of boiled soybeans along the way, and the horses under the crotches of the pursuing Austrian cavalry could not resist the temptation of food, and in this case, the cavalry had to watch the Prussians gradually disappear in their own eyes.
In this attack on Seydlice, the Austrian army under Tuha also suffered a lot of casualties, and even the losses of the Austrians exceeded that of the Prussians, and the army under Tuha suffered more than 13,000 casualties, which made Tuha feel distressed and couldn't help but hate the Prussians more and more.
Fortunately, the Austrians still had a military advantage over the Prussians.
Nichlau's 9th Division had been routed, and the only divisions Dessau could rely on were the 4th and 19th Divisions, and as for the 7th and 10th Divisions, Tuha believed that the Austrian generals on other fronts would be able to hold them back.
After the capture of Seydlice, the Austrian army only rested for three days before attacking north again, this time with Tuha's target, of course, Bratna.
Before Tuha captured Seydlice, Karl's 14,000 Austrian troops had already arrived on the outskirts of Bratna, which had now been dug up.
From the position where Karl stood, it was clear that the land under his feet had been dug by the Prussians for at least half a meter, and at the lowest point it was even more than a man's height.
With such a strange terrain, Karl naturally did not dare to rush in, after all, the news that the Prussian army wanted to rely on flooding tactics to win had already been known to Tuha and Karl, in such a situation, if Karl rashly stepped into this obvious trap, wouldn't he be looking for his own death!
However, Karl did not give up, and all his cavalry was sent out to reconnoiter the terrain, and the results of the reconnaissance showed that the Prussians had placed a large number of guard towers around Bratna, and that many Prussian troops were found to be stationed in the lake area in the west and east, and the pits excavated by the Prussians on the southern outskirts of Bratna extended to the lake area on the east and west sides of Bratna.
After hearing the news, Carl thought about it.
The role of the Prussians in digging these pits was well known to everyone, and it was nothing more than an attempt to use the lake outside Bratna to stage a good show of flooding the Seventh Army!
In such a situation, the Austrians had two options, one was a detour, that is, the Austrian army did not attack Bratna from the south, but through the lake area of Bratna.
The other option is to know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to go to the tiger mountains.
The first option was not advisable for Karl, taking Karl's current position as an example, as long as he picked up the telescope, he could see the dense positions laid out by the Prussians in the distance, and those positions could block the Austrians' advance, and when the Austrian army entered the pit, the Prussians opened the floodgates from both sides to release water, and the Austrian soldiers of more than 10,000 people were probably going to be dumped.
The only thing left for Carl to choose was a detour.
But there is a great deal of learning in the detour, and the lakes to the west of Bratna are very irregular, and the higher terrain to the west of Bratna is covered with a lot of forests, which is really not a suitable area for large armies.
As for the east side of Bratner, it is much better ().
Although there are many lakes in the east, the terrain is low, and in addition to the lakes are the plains, which are the most suitable places for large-scale armies to march and fight.
Under these circumstances, even if Bratner's Prussian army came out, Karl was confident that his army would not fall into a certain defeat.
"Order the whole army to march slowly eastward, from where we cut into Bratna!
At the same time, immediately report the situation here to the Grand Duke of Tuha" Although Karl had an Austrian army of 14,000 men, Karl was not arrogant, Bratna's Prussian army was definitely not smaller than his own, and Tuha's order to Karl was very clear, that is, to act as the vanguard of the entire army instead of letting Karl himself lead the army to attack Brattner.
That's why Karl ordered his army to march slowly, knowing that his army alone would not be able to take Bratna.
He needed to wait for the Grand Duke of Tuha in the back to lead the main force of the Austrian army to catch up. ................................
After standing on the walls of Seydlicice for a while, Tuha turned around and began to leave the city, but at that moment Tuha's adjutant hurried to Tuha with a document in his hand "Your Royal Highness, this is an urgent military situation from Vienna, please take a look!"
Tuha frowned, then took the paper from the adjutant's hand.
When he picked up the papers, Tuha's spirit was stunned, and then his face showed anger "Waste, all waste ()!"
Furious, Tuha threw the document to the ground, and the Grand Duke's performance suddenly silenced everyone around him, although they didn't know what Tuha was angry about, but everyone was afraid that they would stimulate Tuha to become the object of Tuha's anger, because once that happened, then it would definitely not be able to die and peel off the skin!
This document reads the battle report of the River Main, and when he saw that the emperor had ceded Frankfurt to Prussia without much resistance, Tuha's anger could not be suppressed.
"The Reich provided so much material for those wastes, but the waste was so good that it gave Frankfurt to the Prussians!
All of this waste should be hanged!
Utter hanging!
” After throwing the document to the ground, Tuhayu was a little embarrassed, and he stomped the document under his feet in hatred.
In fact, the anger in Tuha's heart was not only directed at this document at his feet, you must know that the previous unfavorable pursuit of the Prussian remnants had accumulated some anger in Tuha's heart, and now the unfavorable news of Frankfurt could no longer contain his anger.
"Command the whole army, immediately reassemble, be sure to complete the preparations in the shortest possible time, let's go to Bratna!"
Tuha certainly knew the possible effects of the fall of Frankfurt, and he knew that if he had been kept at Bratner by the Prussians, he would be finished.
Previously, the Austrian intelligence department had learned through some special channels that the Prussians could have five divisions in the Main theater of operations, and although the war with the emperor also caused the Prussian army to suffer a lot of losses, as long as the Prussian army did not disappear, then as long as the soldiers were replenished, it would be another well-known division ().
According to Tuha's budget, after the Prussians conquered the Main Valley, they only needed to leave a force of about 30,000 men, or even less than 30,000, to subdue the princes around the Main.
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The battle between the three emperors and Prussia had already frightened the princes, and it was obvious that Sunigo was afraid to lead his army to evacuate on the eve of the Prussian attack on Frankfurt.
Of course, Tuha did not know the inside story of Sunigo's departure from Frankfurt, and in his opinion the reason for Sunigo's departure was his fear of the Prussian army, and there were many people who held this idea.
With Sunigo in fear, which of the main princes dared to challenge Prussia?
Who else has the strength to challenge Prussia?
And how many troops did Prussia have in the Main theater, Prussia had 50,000 troops in the Main, which means that the Prussians could withdraw at least 20,000 troops from the Main theater if they wanted, and don't forget that the Prussians still had 10,000 Hanover reinforcements.
But even if the Hanoverian army left the Main, Prussia would have been able to draw 20,000 men.
And once the Prussian army of 20,000 men was thrown into the Bohemian theater, the impact would be enormous.
At present, Tuha has a total of 90,000 troops under his command, but 30,000 are pinned down by the Prussian 7th and 10th Divisions, which means that Tuha can mobilize less than 60,000 troops, and now Tuha is leading 50,000 troops to the Bratna area, and 10,000 are placed in the rear as reserves.