It wasn't until Ferdinand saw that the French army had dispatched a large number of troops and began to rush towards the defense line of the Second Imperial Division, that Ferdinand realized that this was the enemy's general attack, and the target was his left flank.
"Quick, order the Second Division of the Empire to immediately assemble towards the main formation, and at the same time immediately order the Twelfth Division to let them start attacking from the rear of the enemy's flank!"
The Twelfth Division, which had previously been sent out by Ferdinand the Younger, had also reached an excellent position to attack, just behind the flank of the main force of the French army.
Immediately after Ferdinand Jr.'
s order was given, a flare flashed over the Prussian army's main position, and seeing this, Cruyff, the commander of the 12th Division, immediately gave the order for the whole army to attack the position of Napoleon's banner in the French army.
Napoleon's eyes were also looking to his flanks and rear when he saw the Prussian Twelfth Division attacking, and a smile appeared on Napoleon's face.
When the Twelfth Division began to make a detour, Napoleon deliberately made some arrangements for this, and he never put his Second Division into battle, which is precisely why.
The French 2nd Division, under the orders of Napoleon, had already built a fortification near the main formation, and at the same time, all the French artillery was quietly mobilized to the flank and rear positions at this time.
After all, now on the frontal battlefield, the two sides have been strangled together, and in this case, in order not to accidentally injure their comrades, the artillery is naturally a little unable to show their hands and feet, in this case.
Napoleon decisively assigned the artillery to the position of the 2nd Division.
Now the main force attacking the left flank of the Prussian army was the 3,000 cavalry of the French army and the French Guards, and the combat effectiveness of the Second Imperial Division was relatively indistinguishable.
Under Napoleon's deliberate mobilization of large troops, the Second Imperial Division was soon split in two with the Prussian Central Army.
Having cut off the enemy's connections, Napoleon decisively ordered the cavalry to continue to kill the remnants of the Second Imperial Division, while the French Guards continued to attack the Prussian army with the previous First Division.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the enemy's defenses are so tight that we have no chance to take advantage of them, and now all the troops have suffered heavy losses.
It would be in vain to continue the attack!
” After the 12th Division launched its attack, Cruyff realized that they were not facing the empty French army as he had envisioned.
Rather, countless enemy troops were on high alert.
And when the 12th Division launched a charge, the French artillery caused the 12th Division to suffer heavy losses in the first place.
Although the 12th Division also had artillery, Ferdinand Jr. concentrated most of the artillery in the 12th Division on the frontal battlefield because he wanted to hold on to his own position.
As a result, there are currently less than twenty artillery pieces up and down the 12th Division.
And the French army, on the other hand.
On the opposite side of the 12th Division, nearly 100 French guns were firing non-stop.
Hearing the words of his own chief of staff, Cruyff said: "Marshal Ferdinand has given the order, our target is the French army's main position, even if the troops have suffered heavy losses, but no one is allowed to retreat until our goal has broken through the French army's main position!
Even if my 12th Division fights to the last man, it will give me a breakthrough of the French defenses!
” The resoluteness in Cruyff's words was that everyone could understand it, and seeing his division commander say this.
The chief of staff of the 12th Division immediately gritted his teeth and began to draw soldiers from his side to reinforce the various regiments that were fighting.
In fact, when Cruyff said the above words, his heart was actually dripping blood.
For Cruyff, the 12th Division was like his child, although he was not very old, but he had served in the original main constituent unit of the 12th Division as early as Prussia began to reorganize its troops.
From the establishment of the 12th Division to the present, Cruyff has been watching the division grow, watching his own troops and his own soldiers fall one by one, how can Cruyff not have blood in his heart?
But the military order is hard to disobey!
In Prussia, the first rule of military regulations was that it was the duty of a soldier to obey orders!
If Cruyff dared to preserve his strength and postpone the attack on the French army, then he, the commander of the division, would definitely not have to go down after the war.
The Twelfth Division had 7,000 men before the battle for the French main position, but within an hour of the attack, the number was rapidly reduced to less than 6,000.
Nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed in an hour, and it has to be said that the brutality of this battle is beyond everyone's imagination.
And under the desperate fighting style of the 12th Division, although the position of the French 2nd Division had not yet been broken through, it was still instigated by the Prussian army's fearless spirit of death, and the officers of the 2nd Division were wondering if the enemy opposite them was a bunch of madmen!
While the 12th Division was fighting endlessly, the French Guards also cooperated with the previous French 1st Division to tear apart the defense line of the 11th Prussian Division.
"Your Excellency, retreat!
The life and death of the 12th Division is unknown, but now that the defense line of the 11th Division has been broken through, if it continues like this, I am afraid that our army is in danger of annihilation!
” "Bastard!
If our army retreats at this moment, won't it give the enemy a chance to pursue and kill our army!
Moreover, the current position has only been broken through a few places, and it is not yet a rout, if you flee at this moment, I am afraid that the army will collapse immediately!
” Seeing that the situation of the 11th Division was unfavorable, a staff officer immediately proposed to Ferdinand Jr. to retreat, but Ferdinand Jr. was furious.
For Ferdinand the Younger, this battle would be a turning point in his martial arts, and if he could defeat Napoleon and even annihilate the main French army in this battle, he would have become one of the top generals in Europe.
But if he is defeated by Napoleon's French army, then the current advantage of the coalition will turn into a disadvantage, France is thousands of miles away from Prussia, and a major defeat may bury the advantage that countless Prussian soldiers have bought with their lives.
"Organize my guards.
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In addition, let the people in the command who do not have a combat mission also prepare immediately, and they will launch a counterattack on the lost positions on the front line as a new force!
” At Ferdinand's order, there was an immediate uproar in the Prussian army command.
Ferdinand Jr.'
s two hundred guards and more than a hundred staff officers and heralds of the command headquarters were assembled, and then immediately rushed towards the position of the Eleventh Division, which had been seized by the French.
On the battlefield, the appearance of any army with a certain strength may change the tide of the war, although the army invested by Ferdinand Jr. is not much, only more than 300 people, but among them is Ferdinand Jr. himself 200 guards, and as the guards of the marshal.
These soldiers are naturally elite.
Although the addition of this raid team did not have the power to change the tide of the battle, it finally made the collapse of the front a little more stable.
But this change was very unpleasant to Napoleon, for Napoleon.
Seeing that victory was in sight, he would never allow anything to affect the victory of the French army, so Napoleon immediately sent five brigades of nearly 1,000 soldiers from the sequence of the second division to reinforce him.
As a result, the strength of the French 2nd Division quickly fell to 7,000 men.
However, it still had an advantage over the Prussian 12th Division.
"God forbid.
This attack must go well!
” Immediately after praying, Cruyff ordered the Twelfth Division's nearly 1,000 cavalry, which had not been used before, to immediately enter the battlefield.
A full-fledged division can have 2,500 cavalry, but the 12th Division also suffered great losses in the previous battles, and the cavalry strength of the division is only about 1,000 men.
In the previous attack on the second division of the French army, Cruyff was not willing to send out the cavalry in his hands, after all, he was facing the heavily guarded French army, and in this situation, he rashly invested in the cavalry.
It will only send these hard-won elite cavalry to their deaths.
But now Cruyff saw an opportunity, in the midst of the fierce attack of the Prussian soldiers.
The French 2nd Division was a little shaken, and after Napoleon ordered the withdrawal of troops, it was clear from the telescope that the 2nd Division's defensive depth had become thinner, so in this case, Cruyff decided to devote his precious cavalry forces to fight to the death. ..................................
"Let the army go faster!"
Rumorin looked at the army that had spread for miles in front and back, and his face looked a little anxious and instructed his officers.
"General, the soldiers are already very tired after a night of fighting, and if you let the soldiers speed up, I'm afraid that even if we rush to the battlefield, the soldiers will not be able to exert their combat effectiveness!"
The chief of staff of the 7th Division stood beside Rumorin and said to the division commander, but at this time, Rumorin could not care so much "No matter, keep picking up speed, even if it's similar, run for me, as long as you can catch up with the battle!
The main forces of the army are all with us, and there are not many troops with His Excellency the Marshal, and if the enemy pours out, I am afraid that even His Excellency the Marshal will have a great struggle!
” At Rumorin's insistence, the whole marching party soon picked up speed, and although the soldiers were very tired, they could not care about it at this time. .............................................
It took only four days for the Prussian emissaries sent from České Budjevice to reach Karl's army, after two days of storming Wagram, but in the face of Alexander's desperate struggle, Karl's troops did not take the city for two days.
Wagram was originally a fortress that complimented Vienna to the east, and Alexander fled here to reinforce it desperately, for which Alexander also deliberately forcibly recruited more than 10,000 people in the Wagram area.
Facing such a fortress, even Carl had a headache.
The previous battle had caused some losses to Alexander's Hungarian army, but because Alexander had deliberately concentrated most of his army in the Wagram fortress after deciding to ask Prussia for mediation, Karl had only annihilated more than 1,000 Hungarian troops in the previous battle to sweep the outer areas of Wagram.
Right now, inside Wagram City.
Alexander's Hungarian army still had 8,000 men, plus more than 10,000 Austrians, but it also made Karl, who had nearly 30,000 troops outside the city, helpless.
The Prussian emissaries arrived at Karl's army and immediately asked for Karls, who learned that the Prussians had sent an emissary.
Although Carl was a little stunned, he was interviewed.
"Your Highness Karl, on behalf of the Kingdom of Prussia, I have come to express my regret over the changes that have taken place in your country, and as a great peace-loving country, Prussia does not want its people to fight each other among its fellow God's people, so we hope that your ministry will return to peace with His Highness Alexander, and for this reason.
China is also willing to intervene in mediation!
” It is undeniable that Karl was uneasy when he heard such words from this guest from České Buděvice.
Without waiting for Carl to speak.
Ferdinand, who was also in the tent, said; "Your Excellency, the Emissary of Prussia, what is happening in our country is our internal affair, and in accordance with the Austro-Prussian armistice, your country has declared that it has no intention and no right to interfere in our internal affairs.
I don't know why you have sent your Excellency to claim mediation.
I think I have the right to doubt your identity!
” Hearing Ferdinand's words, the Prussian envoy smiled slightly and said: "The civil war in your country is certainly an internal affair of your country, but because of the war between His Highness Karl and His Highness Alexander, which led to the displacement of a large number of people, a large part of whom poured into the territory of Prussia, this cannot but cause concern for our country!
Also note that the Austro-Prussian armistice, signed on the part of Austria by His Royal Highness Alexander on behalf of Austria, cannot but be doubted in our country.
If His Highness Alexander fails, the possibility of your country tearing up the armistice!
” The words of this Prussian suddenly made Karl and Ferdinand somewhat irrefutable.
That's true.
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The signing of the Austro-Prussian armistice was signed by an envoy sent by Alexander to the Prussians, and on the Austrian side, it was signed and sealed by Alexander himself.
It seems that it was indeed normal for the Prussians to wonder whether Austria would continue to recognize the armistice after Alexander's defeat.
Karl did think that after he defeated Alexander, he would see the situation or re-sign a peace agreement with Prussia, after all, the existence of this agreement would mean that Alexander's power would be recognized by Prussia.
As for Karl's desire to tear up the armistice, if Karl really did so, then it can only be said that the Grand Duke's mind became stupid overnight, after all, Austria has lost the capital to continue to fight against Prussia.
The successive civil strife had already caused chaos in Austria, and in this case, even if Karl defeated Alexander, he would need to reorganize the current chaos in Austria, and in this case, how could he want to provoke Prussia.
"For us, the armistice signed with your country represents not only Alexander, but also the entire Austrian people, and no matter how the rulers of our country change, there is no objection to the armistice between you and us."
"I believe in the sincerity of His Highness Karl, but the effects of the civil war in your country have spread to our country, so I hope that your country can return to a state of peace as soon as possible!
In addition, Her Royal Highness does not want her mother country to continue to be harmed by the war, so I hope that Her Highness Karl will take into account the desire for peace of the people of your country and the call of friends to stop the civil war!
” In the face of this Prussian envoy who seemed to be a little aggressive, even though Karl was a good temper, there was still a lot of anger in his heart, and at this time, I saw that the Prussian envoy seemed to feel that Karl had not been stimulated, and only heard him continue: "Your Highness Karl, we have been entrusted by His Highness Alexander to officially come to your country for peace mediation!
I ask His Highness Karl to reply as soon as possible, so that I can reply to my Government and His Highness Alexander!
” Hearing that it was Alexander who had asked the Prussians for intercession, Karl's anger suddenly boiled out "What will happen if I do not accept your mediation!"
"Then our Marshal Dessau will lead 50,000 Prussian troops to mediate in person!"
The messenger said coldly, and his words immediately extinguished most of the anger in Karl's heart.
Previously, Karl's attack on Alexander was also in consideration of the Prussian side, so he specially sent people to investigate the situation of the Prussian army, and it was not until he learned that Prussia had no intention of participating in this war that he would lead the army to destroy Alexander.
But now, when he heard about Dessau and the fifty thousand Prussian troops, he felt a tremor in his heart.
The pressure on him from Prussia was too great, and he had been trained by the Prussian soldiers when he was under Tuha, so although he was full of hatred for Prussia, he never showed this hatred.
"We give you three days to reply, and if you do not reply within three days, then we will send Marshal Dessau to intervene!"
After saying that, the messenger left the tent with some drag.
"Karl, do you have an idea in your heart, I didn't expect Alexander to ask Prussia to come forward, this is really ..........."
After a moment of silence in the tent, Ferdinand said to Karl with a somewhat depressed expression.
And Karl, shortly after listening to Ferdinand's words, actually smiled a little and then said: "Didn't the Prussians want us to reply in three days!
So as long as we take Wagram in three days, then there is nothing to say about this matter!
”