Chapter 275: On the Road
The two generals who followed Duke Billund were silent, and they could also understand that Duke Billund's anxiety was not without reason.
The news has already arrived, King Charles VI has sent out a requisition order, triggering a response from nobles all over the country, and by this time, perhaps their reinforcements are already on their way.
Time was very short for them, and every minute and every second had to be hurried, but it was almost impossible for them to storm Vienna with their army alone.
Previously, Duke Billund was too confident that the Eagle Feather Cavalry alone would be able to defeat the Habsburg defenders, but now it seems that this is nothing short of a fantasy.
The terrain near Vienna was very difficult for cavalry charges, and even if the Saxony cavalry was skillful, it was impossible to ride over the cliffs and rivers.
Today's battles seem to be going well, but there are also many dangers, maybe not one, they will be besieged and killed.
If the offensive continues, perhaps these eagle-feather cavalry galloping in the northland steppe will also abandon their war horses and turn into infantry to participate in the battle.
At the same time, they do not have an advantage in numbers, and if they convert cavalry into infantry, the battle will be drawn into a war of attrition in close quarters with each other.
That kind of situation is the last thing Duke Billon wants to see.
Now their only hope was that the Prussian army would arrive as soon as possible to join the battle, and their infantry would be better suited to participate in such siege warfare, and when the two sides converged, they would outnumber the Habsburgs by three times, and by that time the breach of the city would be just around the corner.
The commander of the Prussian army, Kyilos, was equally anxious at the moment.
After hearing the news of Charles VI's awakening, Kylos's fighting spirit was at its lowest, and by that time he had already begun to order the army to pack up and prepare to rush back to the Duchy of Prussia.
Although he was a little unwilling, he still felt that there was no need to fight this battle at this point, and it was the right thing to bring the soldiers back to their own territory as soon as possible and preserve their strength.
But at this moment, an order from the family suddenly reached him, and Duke Friedrich actually asked him to continue the attack, break through Vienna as quickly as possible, and kill Emperor Charles VI.
This order came so suddenly that Kylos was caught off guard, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to put in order and continue the march.
However, it has been delayed for a long time, and the army is large in number, and almost all of them are infantry, so as a result, even if you want to, you can't get up quickly.
After a full day, the Prussian corps had advanced less than a third of the way, and it would take at least three days to reach Vienna.
At this critical moment, this is simply a fateful three days, and if they don't break the city within the time limit, it will be too late.
Kylos didn't even dare to think about it, he could only keep urging the army, and even let the army travel overnight, resting only six hours a day, to increase the speed of the march as much as possible.
While Kylos was frantically hurrying, another force set out from the south of Vienna, followed the Alpine trail under the stars, and finally entered the territory around Vienna at dawn.
This army, with a total number of about fifteen hundred people, each on a horse, was very mobile.
However, from the outside, this team is very strange, although everyone is riding horses, but the weapons on their bodies bear no resemblance to the cavalry.
More than 1,000 of them seemed to have been equipped with horses for ordinary infantry and used as cavalry temporarily, and the remaining 500 were even more bizarre, with no swords or shields on their bodies, and each of them carried a long musket behind his back, which had a strange shape and looked very novel.
Under the moonlight, the slender body of the gun reflects the cold light unique to metal, which looks very textured.
These people, the soldiers officially sent out of the city of Leber, as for those soldiers with spears on their backs, were naturally members of the Longxiang army.
Eugen is also in the team, on his left hand is Simon, the commander of the Dragon Army, and on his right hand is Captain Allen, this operation, Eugen can be said to have taken out all his family resources and is ready to go to Vienna to support His Majesty Charles VI.
Turning over another hill, Eugen looked at the road ahead, turned sideways and asked, "Captain Allen, where are we now, and how long will it take to get to Vienna?" ”
Hearing this, Alan took out the map from his arms, took a closer look at it by the moonlight, and then said in a tone that was not very uncertain: "Well, we are now near Graz, about two hundred kilometers from Vienna, and judging from the current situation, we will probably be able to arrive tomorrow evening." ”
Eugen nodded, told Alan to put away the map, and continued to gallop.
When the situation in Vienna deteriorated, Eugen was still supervising the situation there on the Po Line, and it happened so quickly that he could not do enough to transfer troops from the Po Line.
In desperation, Eugen had no choice but to rush back to the city of Lebor from the Po line alone, and then urgently transferred some of the guards of the city of Leber, equipped everyone with horses, and then rushed to Vienna.
He didn't know how much of a role he could make with his own strength, but in this critical battle, even if he only had a little strength, he should make full use of it.
After all, he is in Vienna right now, but his future father-in-law, even if Vienna falls in the end, he has to find a way to rush into the city and get his father-in-law out, otherwise, he doesn't know how to explain to Maria.
When he first learned that Charles VI had awakened, Eugen was also shocked, and his impression of Charles VI was still the same as when he was knighted last time.
At that time, Charles VI looked stupid and stupid, like a wooden man, unable to even say a sharp word, and to be honest, Eugen was somewhat contemptuous at that time.
Unexpectedly, at such a critical moment of life and death, Charles VI actually came to his senses without warning, which is really too coincidental.
Eugen did not believe in such coincidences, and in his opinion, any event that seemed too coincidental must have some kind of hidden rules behind it, and people regarded them as coincidences only because they had not yet seen those laws.
The trick of pretending to be crazy and stupid is not new, he has known some similar cases in the past, but when he thinks that His Majesty Charles VI has been pretending to be stupid for more than ten years, Eugen can't help but sigh: This emperor is really too strong.