After Christmas, the Austrian army did not make any movement and huddled quietly in the military camp. William knew that these Austrians were waiting for the French. If France could penetrate directly into Prussian territory from the Luxembourg area, then William would have to return
Defend, then the Austrians will be able to win without a fight.
But what Lacy was thinking about was that on the one hand, William wanted Austria to slow down the attack so that he would have enough time to adjust his army's defenses.
Empress Catherine II of Russia received the envoy sent by William. When she learned about William's conditions, she thought for a while and agreed. On the one hand, if Prussia failed in this battle, Austria would not only be able to defeat its old enemy, but also
With the power of its victory over Prussia and the entire Holy Roman Empire unified, Russia may not only be able to protect Central Europe, but also Eastern Europe.
Prussia's victory would not be harmful to Russia. Even if Prussia defeated Austria, it would still have to fight against the Habsburg remnants within the Holy Roman Empire and would not be able to effectively unify the Holy Roman Empire. At that time, Russia would have an opportunity.
Catherine II changed her original idea of waiting and watching the situation. She urgently ordered Suvorov on the front line to actively cooperate with the Prussians. She also secretly ordered Suvorov to invade Vienna first if conditions allowed.
You must know that Russia and the Holy Roman Empire both claim that they are the continuation of the Roman Empire. Once Vienna is captured, there will be only one Roman Empire in the entire Europe and that is Russia.
After receiving the empress's order, Suvorov significantly accelerated his marching pace, and the Russian army soon captured Brno in Moravia.
The war situation on the entire Eastern Front was once again unfavorable to Austria. Prague and Brno formed a pincer attack on the České Budejevice area occupied by the Austrian army. Once Austria lost Českia Budejevice, the Prussian and Russian armies could reach the city of Vienna.
, Austria will have no danger to defend.
Queen Theresa urgently ordered Marshal Lacy to either defeat the Prussian army in front of him or to mobilize part of the army to support České Budejevice. At the same time, Queen Theresa protested to the Elector of Bavaria, Charles, believing that the Bavarian army should obey Marshal Lacy.
Instead of withdrawing troops privately, it harms everyone's common interests.
Charles was helpless after receiving Queen Theresa's protest. Although he did not want to waste all his troops on the battlefield, Bavaria and Austria now had common interests, and Prussia would not forget those who betrayed him.
Charles immediately sent an order to Etens, ordering the Bavarian army led by Etens to obey Marshal Lacy's orders unconditionally.
After considering the entire war situation, Marshal Lacy decided to deploy 70,000 troops to support České Budejevice. After the Bavarian army returned, the total Austrian western front army still had 120,000 troops.
After seeing the Bavarian flag appear again on the Austrian position opposite, William smiled happily. William said to Prince Henry:
"What's the use of the Bavarians coming back? Their temporary retreat caused Austria to lose more than 10,000 people. Now I'm afraid those Austrian generals hate the Bavarians more than us. In this way, two armies that cannot trust each other are forced to fight together.
, can only have a negative effect on the war situation."
After hearing what William said, Prince Henry smiled and said yes.
The situation was just as William said, the Bavarians did not receive a welcome from the Austrians after they returned to the front line, especially those Austrian officers who suffered losses after the Bavarian army rashly withdrew, and they did not look good on the Bavarians.
Lacy looked at the generals who seemed to be incompatible with water and fire in the tent, and felt his scalp twitching. He opened his mouth and said to Yitansi:
"Count Etans, we both have common interests. I hope you will not be in the same situation as last time. You should understand how much damage your retreat caused to our army last time. Now I ask you to bring it with you."
Your troops hold their ground."
Of course, Yitansi felt a thousand reluctances in his heart, but he had no choice. Charlie had given him a death order, so he had no choice but to obey Marshal Lacy's instructions.
When the time came to 1780, the entire war situation took on a strange posture. Neither side attacked rashly, but unanimously strengthened their positions.
The first thing to break this situation was the Eastern Front. After the reinforcements of Suvorov and Rumyantsev completed their rendezvous in Brno, the total strength of the entire Russian Expeditionary Corps had reached 110,000.
After Suvorov learned that České Budejevice had only 30,000 to 40,000 defenders, he immediately wrote a letter to Prince Henry in Prague. He asked the Prussians to cooperate with his military operation to capture České Budeje.
The letter from the Russians was very rude. After reading the letter, Prince Henry wanted to slap Suvorov in front of him, but he still needed the help of the Russian army. Henry suppressed his anger and took two
Thousands of people left Prague and marched towards České Budejevice. At the same time, he urgently reported the situation to William.
After William saw that there was no sign of a large-scale attack in Lasi on the opposite side, he guessed that the Austrians on the opposite side should have mobilized part of the troops to march eastward to support České Budejevice, but the Prussian army had only 90,000 people on the front line.
The ability to quickly defeat the enemy on the opposite side.
After thinking for a long time, William decided to use a divorce strategy. He sent a dead man to meet Yitansi, and also brought Yitansi a personal letter from William:
"My dear friend, we have a long-standing friendship between Prussia and Bavaria. Although we are now fighting each other on the battlefield, I know that this was not your intention. As long as you find your way back, I will forgive you leniently.
.Etansi, my friend, you did a good job last time. Do you still remember the conditions I promised you last year? Now as long as you lead the Bavarian army to retreat again, then I will implement the conditions I promised you.
become reality”
That night, William's soldiers appeared in Yitansi's tent. When he saw the second half of the letter, Yitansi was confused. When did he have an encounter with the King of Prussia last year?
ah.
The dead soldier was wearing a black robe and whispered to one side as if talking to himself:
"His Majesty feels that Elector Charles does not have the qualities necessary for a ruler, so His Majesty feels that the master of Bavaria should be replaced by someone else."
Hearing the low-pitched words of the man in black robe, Yitansi began to abuse his hair. Before Yitansi could pluck all the hair off his head, someone broke into the tent with a sudden sound. Yitansi
When he looked up, he saw Marshal Lacy's still angry face.
Originally, Lacy was writing a diary in his tent. This was Marshal Lacy's habit. He would write a diary to record after every battle. But today he got a report from his officer saying that he found a Prussian sneaking around.
Zou entered the Bavarian military camp. After hearing the news, Lacy hurried over.
Sure enough, as soon as Lacy broke into Yitansi's tent, she saw a guy in black robe sitting with Yitansi, and Yitansi was holding a letter in his hand.
Marshal Lacy grabbed the letter without Yitansi's consent. Before Yitansi could organize it, Lacy started reading it. Lacy became more and more angry as he read it. After he read it, he said angrily:
"Come here, arrest Yi Tansi."
When Yitansi heard this, he immediately stood up and said angrily:
"Lassi, what do you mean, you came to my tent to catch me, who do you think you are?"
Lacy held back her anger and gritted her teeth and said:
"Okay, Etans, let me tell you why you retreated in such a hurry last time. It turned out that you were colluding with the Prussians. I will forward this letter to Elector Charles, but now I want to arrest you."
"
Yitansi became even more angry and shouted:
"Come here, guards, arrest all these people. I have long disliked you, Lacy. You are a bullshit famous general. You have the nerve to call yourself a famous general after losing so many battles. If I had you, I would have drowned myself in the river."
"
As soon as the Bavarian guards outside the tent heard Yitansi's roar, they quickly surrounded Marshal Lacy and his entourage. Marshal Lacy said with a heavy face:
"It seems you are really going to fall out."
"If you fall out, you'll fall out. Do you think I'm afraid of you?" Yitansi said arrogantly.
Lacy winked at the attendant on the side, who immediately took out a whistle from his arms and blew it quickly. As soon as the whistle was blown, shouts and the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground were heard coming from outside the Bavarian military camp.
Lacy then said to Itans:
"Order your guards to put down their weapons. Your camp has been surrounded by Nest's army."
But Yitansi smiled instead and replied:
"You are in my hands, do those people dare to attack rashly?"
In fact, Yitansi didn't want to capture Lacy at the beginning, but Lacy insisted on arresting him regardless of right and wrong. Yitansi didn't know what good results would come from falling into Lacy's hands. More
What's more, Lacy also discovered the letter. A normal person would doubt whether Etens was really colluding with the Prussians because of that letter. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain.
Although Yitansi knew that this was a rift, in the face of this unfavorable situation, he had to take decisive action. He was not a good person who just listened to God's arrangements.
Yitansi understood that as long as he detained Lacy, the purpose of the Prussians writing this letter would be achieved. But in this situation, hey, forget it, the Prussians will be advantaged, Yitansi thought.
Thinking of this, Yitansi decisively ordered the army to detain Lacy, and at the same time told the Austrian troops outside the barracks to let them surrender.
William himself hadn't slept since he sent the letter. At the same time, he ordered all the Prussian troops to enter a state of combat readiness. He wanted to see if there would be a good show in the Bavarian military camp. He waited for a long time until late at night, and the show finally took place.
William saw the bright sky illuminated by the torches of the Bavarian military camp in the distance, as well as the rapid beating of drums and whistles during the emergency rally of the army.
William immediately ordered the entire army to attack, taking advantage of the fact that the Austrian army in front of him did not react, to break through the enemy position on the opposite side, and at the same time sent cavalry to attack the Bavarian camp directly.
The Austrian army that was originally surrounding did not dare to act rashly after seeing Marshal Lacy being detained by the Bavarians. The two armies faced off at the entrance of the Bavarian military camp until the sound of horse hooves was heard from behind, and some soldiers shouted before they died:
The Prussians are coming.
All the Austrian and Bavarian armies panicked. Itans stood up and announced to all the Bavarian armies:
"Brothers, in recent times, those damn Austrians have always disliked us and targeted us everywhere. Why should we be the cannon fodder of those Austrians? Now I decided that we should show those Austrians some strength."
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