Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty Seven Sounds East and West!
Because hundreds of Pu army were busy building fortifications, except for more than seventy soldiers who acted as warnings, the rest of the soldiers were basically unarmed due to the weather and work.
This is great news for the two squadrons of Austrian cavalry. You must know that if an unprepared infantry was suddenly attacked by the cavalry, he would almost die, because without a group of infantry, it would not be able to effectively fight the cavalry's charge.
"charge!"
A shout sounded at the Austrian cavalry team, and then nearly a hundred Austrian cavalry quickly began to whip the war horses under their command. Nearly two hundred cavalry formed a front arrow formation in a very short time, which shows that all these Austrian cavalry have strength that cannot be underestimated.
Just as the Austrian cavalry began to instigate the horse charge, more than seventy fully armed Pu's soldiers immediately formed a standard three-row formation, and other Pu's soldiers immediately gathered together amid the roars of the officers. These Pu's soldiers no longer cared about clothes, took their weapons and carried ammunition bags and quickly lined up under the command of the officers.
The distance between the Austrian cavalry and the Pu army was only more than 400 meters away from the Pu army, and with the acceleration of the war horses, this distance could be completed in more than one minute. However, the Pu army soldiers were also very dissatisfied. When the Austrian cavalry was about to reach the range of the rifle, a simple infantry phalanx had already blocked the front of the Austrian cavalry.
"John, take your men around the men and rush towards the soldiers behind them, and the others rushed forward with me!"
At this moment, a captain of the Pu cavalry squadron spoke, and when he heard his words, another captain of the Austrian cavalry squadron quickly called his cavalry to rush to the side, seeing that their intention was to bypass the already lined up Pu soldiers and attack those Pu soldiers who were not ready.
"shooting!"
A sharp roar echoed over the Pu army formation, and then a row of guns was heard. The front row of Pu soldiers quickly squatted down to fill in ammunition, while the second row of soldiers quickly pulled the trigger again towards the enemy who had already aimed.
However, it was only the third row of Pu's soldiers who had just finished firing the bullets from the gun. Before the first row of soldiers could fire the bullets from the gun chamber, the Austrian cavalry was about to rush to the PLA soldiers.
"Get the bayonet!"
At this time, the seventy or so Pu soldiers no longer cared about bypassing their Austrian cavalry and put the bayonets on the barrel.
Just when the Pu army soldiers had just installed bayonets, the Ao cavalry had already rushed into the Pu army's formation. The high-speed horses directly knocked the enemy blocking them. After restraining the war horses, the sabers in the hands of the Aurora cavalry began to fall to the enemy's heads one after another.
The neighing sounds, gunshots, shouts and crying for help from war horses are mixed together, which is the symphony that can only be played by real war.
However, the Pu army soldiers in this battalion were not easy to deal with. The veterans knew how to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible under the charge of the cavalry, and the Austrian cavalry that rushed towards the unfinished preparations were also stopped by a team of Pu army soldiers. Although the intercepted Pu army soldiers suffered major casualties, they at least bought time for their comrades.
Just as the two teams of Austrian cavalry were preparing to join forces to fight the remaining Prussian soldiers for another round, hundreds of Prussian soldiers were already gathered together. Seeing this situation, the Austrian cavalry knew that things were impossible, so they immediately rode their horses to evacuate far away amid the commands of the officers. This sensitivity to the battlefield situation once again showed the extraordinary significance of the Austrian cavalry.
The total number of nearly 500 infantry casualties in a battalion was as high as more than 200. This result made Nichlao, who later learned about it, get angry. However, this also made him secretly feel alert.
According to the descriptions of the soldiers after the war, the performance of the invading Austrian cavalry was definitely good, and only less than twenty bodies of the Austrian army were left on the battlefield. As for the war horses, they were all taken away by the Austrians. This result not only shows that these Austrian cavalry have good combat effectiveness but also show the qualities of Austrian officers.
"This battle is not easy to fight!"
Think about it, there were 50,000 Austrian troops coming this time. If these five people were like these cavalrymen, then Nichilao would be so depressed that he vomited blood.
But thinking about it, it is true. The Ottoman Turks have always been known for their cavalry. Even the Ottoman cavalry in the current era is still a great deterrent to European countries. If the Austrian army, which had been confronting the Ottomans for many years, cannot absorb certain advantages from the enemy, then the Grand Duke Tuha could have died.
Desau's order to Nichlau was to defend Seedlitse for as long as possible, and as for when to defend, Desau had no requirements at all. At the same time, Desau also revealed that the length of time Nichlau held directly depends on the success or failure of a huge combat plan in his mind.
Nichlau naturally had to implement Dessau's order completely, but Nichlau was completely confused about Dessau's so-called huge plan.
After all, the Austrians were there. Apart from the Ninth Division, Dessau could only use the Fourth Division and the Ninth Division. And Nichlau had no idea how much trouble the two divisions could cause to the Austrian army.
In fact, Dessau's plan is not very complicated. Although there is a plain around Blatner, there are also many lakes around Blatner. In addition, there is a Lom River passing through the city, which gave Dessau some ideas.
It is already summer and the rainy season is coming. Once the rainy season comes, the water levels of the small rivers and lakes around Blatna will inevitably rise. These rising water levels can completely help Dessau deal with the Austrians, of course there is still a prerequisite.
First of all, the low-lying areas around Blatna are limited. If you want to use water to help yourself deal with the enemy, you must lure the enemy to a relatively low-lying place. Only in this way can the water rushing straight down cause the greatest damage to the enemy.
But the low-lying area around Bratna is either in the north or in the west. Although there is a relatively large low-lying area in the east, it is not the place where the Austrians must pass to attack Bratna.
Because Dessau either changes the terrain slightly or leads the Austrians to lower terrain.
This method is simple to say, but it is actually very difficult to do. First of all, the Austrian army is not a fool. There are many cases of using low-lying terrain to flood the enemy's army in history. As the head of the army, Tuha and his staff will definitely take terrain factors into consideration when formulating military operations. After all, this is the most basic common sense for generals.
On the other hand, if you use manpower to change the terrain, it is obvious that the action will not be small. Moreover, if you use tens of thousands of people to create a suitable battlefield, the movement will be too big and you cannot hide it from those who are interested. Unless God blesses, the news leak is necessary.
Wait! Just as Dessau was thinking about how to fool the Austrians, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.
"Since you can't hide it from the enemy, why do you have to hide it? Wouldn't it be better to pretend to be like a joke and then make a sound like a fight!"
The more I think about Dessau, the more I feel that my ideas are very feasible.
There are a large number of lakes and jungles to the west of Bratna. It is obviously unrealistic to pass through a large number of people in such a region in a short period of time, because the complex landform will largely slow down the speed of the army.
The north is the Bohemia line. Before defeating Bratna's army, Austria would never be able to bypass Bratna and attack Bohemia's defense line directly, because even if the Austrians wanted to go around, they could not get around. In this way, if they wanted to attack Bratna, there were only two defense lines left, one was the east and the other was the south.
Seedlitze is located southeast of Bratna, which means Tuha will have two choices, one is to conquer Seedlitze and attack the south of Bratna, and the other is to attack from Bratna's east.
If Dessau recruited a large amount of manpower to transform the southern terrain of Bratna, then the Austrians who had learned about the situation of the PLA are likely to march from the east of Bratna to Bratna. At that time, the largest lake in the east of Bratna, the Booth Lake, will become the biggest reliance of the PLA!
What Dessau has to do now is to force the Austrians to march from the east of Bratner to Bratner, which means he needs to let Austria know that Bratner’s south is a trap, a trap set by the Prussians with great effort, so that Austria ignores the possible dangers in the East.
After making up his mind, Dessau immediately found Reohard. The task that Dessau assigned to Reohard was very simple, which was to recruit as many civilians as possible near Blatner, and then take all these civilians to the place south of Blatner for excavation, which would inevitably make the dig there into a large enough lowland!
Just as Reohard was about to leave, Dessau called Reohard again
"Remember, what you have to do is keep confidential as much as possible. Confidential work must be done as well as possible. Without my permission, this matter must not be known to others. If someone asks you, you will definitely not answer!"
"I understand, Mr. Marshal!"
After Reohard left, Dessau began to sit down and think about the whole plan from beginning to end. He knew that there must be no mistakes in this matter, because this was his greatest hope to defeat the Austrians!