Chapter 283: The Fox Fake Tiger
In the same way, it is impossible for these people to really go to the stormtroopers, no matter how they are all people with status, and when Duke Billund is angry, it will ultimately depend on them to command the army.
After today's battle, the Saxon army has lost about 10,000 people in total, which is already one-third of the total number, and only a little more than 20,000 troops remain.
After the battle, when General Ike counted his troops, the losses were relatively better, with only about 5,000 soldiers killed and wounded.
Most of the soldiers were mainly lost in the encounters on both sides of the cliff, and in close combat, they did not have much advantage as defenders.
However, judging from the battle loss ratio alone, this is already a rare big victory, but after this battle, the overall defensive strength has also been further weakened, and when facing the Prussian army, this disadvantage will be even more obvious.
Faced with this situation, General Ike could only sigh, and his heart was also full of powerlessness.
It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and in the case of a great disadvantage in troops, he has no way to do better.
Of course, the situation might have been better if the famous Tron Prince Eugen had come to garrison, but now the Prince Eugen has been tormented by illness and has lost all his demeanor, and has been sleeping in a chair all day, eighteen of the twenty-four hours.
What else can be hoped for for such a Prince Eugen? General Ike could only rely on all his abilities to delay the opponent's offensive and delay the time, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
Thinking like this, General Ike set his eyes to the east, which was the direction of the arrival of the reinforcements, and calculated the time, it had been two days since the reinforcements had departed, and in five days at most, their vanguard should arrive here in Vienna.
"Five days, can I still hold on for five days?" General Ike sighed and muttered to the night wind in the valley, five days seemed so long in the current situation that he had no confidence that he would be able to make it through.
In the end, General Ike slowly clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "No matter what, I will also hold on for five days, for Your Majesty, for the Empire!" ”
After saying this, he threw off his robe, and the whole person walked down the city wall, he also had to confirm the deployment of tomorrow, only if everything was foolproof, he could sleep peacefully.
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The allied forces of the Hohenzollern family were still in a tense hurry, and everyone in the army, from the Supreme Commander Kyiros to the most ordinary sword and shield soldier, had not closed their eyes for eighteen hours in a row.
During these eighteen hours, except for the necessary food and rest, the whole army did not delay a moment, and all of them were spent on the road.
In this way, they were able to cover almost half of the distance in just one day, and if they continued at this pace, they would have reached Vienna in the same amount of time the next day, saving a whole day.
For an army of 60,000 men, this was simply an impossible thing to do, but now the Prussian legion, led by Kyiros, has done it.
The reason for this was only because of a dead order from Kyiros: if he could not reach Vienna within two days, all the officers above the rank of squadron leader in the corps would have their feet cut off! Conversely, if you arrive within two days, every soldier in the army will be rewarded with ten kild coins.
Under the double attack of sticks and candy, these Prussian soldiers burst into an astonishing potential, advancing for eighteen hours in a single day, with a tenacity comparable to that of a blindfolded donkey.
After half the journey, the whole army finally began to rest in place, and the soldiers of the army did not even unload their tents from the wagons, and began to gather together in groups and sleep.
The same is true of Kyiros, tonight, he is resting in the carriage, with the Supreme Commander to set an example, and the other generals naturally have no choice but to find a place to stay overnight.
Soon, everyone fell into a deep sleep, and even the soldiers in charge of the vigil had begun to sleep against the stones.
After a hard day's work, all the soldiers were in dire need of rest, and the Prussian army entered an unprecedented period of weakness, if a cavalry regiment of 10,000 people attacked at this time, it would be able to take them by surprise, and even possibly annihilate the Prussian army here.
In the midst of this exhaustion and sleepiness, the Prussian legions spent the night peacefully, and the next day the first light was on the horizon when they began a new long journey.
At this time, Eugen also did not fall asleep, if you count from yesterday, he has not slept for nearly two days and nights.
But he was not sleepy at all, on the contrary, he was still in a state of full excitement, and he was complacent about his clever plan, even if he let him sleep.
At this time of the night, the most important props of his plan were finally in place, and more than 800 flags, made by more than 200 tailors, were neatly hung in the square in front of the town hall.
There are up to five flags of the same type, and only one flag at least, so naturally this arrangement is to look more realistic.
Flags of various shapes and colors flutter in the wind, looking beautiful, it is simply an exposition of the banners of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire.
There are more than 500 flags here, all of which can be found corresponding to the noble families, some of them are the Duchy of Bavaria, the aristocratic families under the command of the Wittelsbach family; Some were prominent figures in the Duchy of Hanover, under the name of the Welf family; Others came from the Southwest Coalition Army, among the aristocratic banners that could not be counted in that chaotic land.
Eugen couldn't move all the armies of those families, but he was able to move all their flags here, this was Eugen's plan, with these fluttering flags, he wanted to lead his soldiers to put on a good show, pull tiger skins to make big banners, and scare away those Saxon and Prussian thieves.
This is the only way Eugen can think of in this situation.
All the flags were taken down by Eugen from the books of the noble coat of arms, and except for the slightly rough workmanship, the rest of the place could be completely fake.
If you look at it from a distance, you won't be able to see anything.
With these flags, the 'props' of acting are completely in place, and as for how to act and when to start acting, Eugen is ready to arrange it in detail.
Only by taking all the situations into account and arranging every detail can he truly achieve the effect he wants.
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Today's five watches.... The order of the chapters has been adjusted to normal.