Chapter 258: Purgatory (36/102, 10th Update)

In one day, the Saxon cavalry rushed up the hill seven times, and the heavily armored horses were not conducive to mountain warfare, and the battle was in a stalemate for a while.

The Allied forces were strategically advantaged, but even so, the defense was already extremely difficult, and the most recent time, the Saxon cavalry had even rushed into the middle of the defensive line, and was so close to being breached.

Fortunately, the allied generals transferred the reserve forces in time, which repelled the Saxon iron cavalry and held the defensive line.

In the end, the Saxon cavalry left behind a corpse and withdrew to the rear camp, and the coalition army won a small victory, but in this battle, the coalition army had already revealed all the forces of the first line of defense, and there was no hidden strength.

On the second day, Duke Billon personally commanded the battle, led by ordinary cavalry units, all dismounted, turned into infantry and advanced slowly, pressing the offensive into front of the coalition line, and then the Eagle Feather Legion rushed in under the cover of the front troops, and rushed into the coalition line in one fell swoop.

The coalition's 10,000-strong line was crushed, and after the line was breached, only a large number of soldiers fled without a fight, and then were chased by the Saxon cavalry and slaughtered.

In this battle, the coalition army lost more than 10,000 men, but the Saxon army lost less than 5,000 troops, and the most powerful Eagle Feather Army suffered little loss.

After this battle, the coalition army gathered the remaining 30,000 soldiers in the rear and stationed them in five large cities between the Sudetenland and the Danube Valley.

Although Duke Billund was short-tempered, he did not dare to go deep beyond these cities alone, so he could only choose one city after another to attack the past, gradually eating away at the strength of the coalition army.

The battle turned into a fierce battle of attacking and defending the city, and the Saxon legion had a numerical advantage in the face of a single city, but the cavalry was not conducive to the siege, so it was not easy to win.

On the other front, the Habsburg Corps relied on dozens of large and small cities along the eastern Danube to defend against the Prussian Corps' offensive.

Dividing his 70,000 troops into seven parts, he chose seven easy locations to attack at the same time, and the legions on both sides were relatively balanced, with archers and musketeers firing first to suppress the enemy, and then infantry and cavalry went into battle together, rushing to the front for a fierce collision of flesh and sword.

There is not much difference between the strength of the two sides, and the composition of the troops is roughly the same, and there are exchanges in the battle process, just like two giants of similar size fighting with bare arms, each attack is fist-to-flesh, but it is not enough to kill, it can only be consumed by each other, and the competition is who can't hold on to defeat first.

The commander of the Habsburg side was the son of the old Minister of Defense, known as Iron Shield Ike, who was not very old, only in his early thirties, but had already learned the essence of command from the old Minister of Defense, and was proficient in defensive operations.

At the beginning of the battle, General Ike managed to drag the battle into a stalemate with his steady command style, and under his command, the main line of defense was like a large elastic net, entangled the Prussian legions.

No matter how hard the Prussian corps exerted, it would not be able to penetrate this line of defense, and even if it briefly broke through the line, the perimeter defense forces would quickly backfill and drive the enemy out again.

With the defense line as the center, the entire battlefield seemed to have turned into a huge meat grinder, countless blood was thrown on the land, and the screams and shouts of killing did not stop for a moment.

After a short and rapid battle, when the soldiers retreated, priests in black burqas tended to the dying wounded, celebrated Mass for the dead, and led them on their way to heaven.

The Holy See is always against war, but it is a pity that when war comes, this opposition seems so pale that these words cannot even be transmitted in the hall in the face of interests, and will be easily blown away in the wind.

In the end, the only involvement of the Holy See in the war was to send its clergy to the battlefield to contribute some insignificant forces.

Neither of the warring parties cares about these priests who have dedicated their lives to God, and no one raises a butcher's knife against them.

The priest would sometimes put the wounded of the two warring sides together to treat them, and the two men in different uniforms would most likely lie on a blanket, at which point neither side would have any hatred, and sometimes they would even talk to each other and become very good friends.

Regardless of which side the soldiers were, they were all Christians, they spoke the same language, and they were able to trust each other.

It's a pity that after returning to their respective camps, the two sides will be hostile again, and when they meet on the battlefield, they will not hesitate to wave the butcher's knife.

At this moment, there is no right or wrong, and there is no hatred, the kindness before is real, and the killing intent after is also true, this is the reality.

When the war began, Maria wanted to leave the city of Lebor and return to Vienna to do her part, but she was persuaded by a letter from Prince Eugen, who told her to stay in the city for her safety.

The letter mentions that Maria is the heir of Charles VI and that as long as she lives, the Habsburg dynasty will not end.

Although Maria was reluctant, in the end she stayed and did not leave.

At this time, Eugen's Lebor area also became part of the defense line under the orders of General Allen, and Eugen did not resist this, and cooperated very well to build a defense line against the Prussian army.

Queros did not hesitate to make a detour to attack the Lebor region.

So in the midst of this war that affected most of the Holy Roman Empire, Eugen was rare and stood on the edge of the war.

Of course, he did not let up, and the soldiers of the city of Lebor continued to train hard day after day to strengthen their combat effectiveness.

Eugen did not completely abandon the Bohe Line, and during this time, he went back and forth between the Boho Line and the city of Lebor several times, and urgently transferred a part of the soldiers of the Po River Line to the city of Lebor to garrison.

As the commander of the anti-disaster army, such a transfer is completely in line with the rules, and no one will blame anything.

The First Research Institute of the Po River Line, under the leadership of the witch doctor Pirantz, has developed a comprehensive protocol for dealing with those infected with the Black Death, and has also invented a costume that can protect the safety of front-line personnel to a certain extent, preventing soldiers from becoming infected while dealing with patients.

The Heidelberg Medical Contest was also connected to the First Research Institute, and many high-quality proposals were adopted for use in the Po River Defence, and all those who proposed them were rewarded with a certain amount of gold.

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10th Update..... It's still very fast to pay back the debt... There are still 66 more left.