The thunder is loud and the rain is small, this is the portrayal of the British. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info originally went to Hamburg to threaten the German Republic very fiercely, but then when the Tang Dynasty said that it might intervene, the British died down. Of course, the British were a little eager to challenge the Tang Dynasty, but neither King George III nor Prime Minister William Pitt Jr. saw that now was the right time to go to war with the Tang Republic. Moreover, a fact that the British found somewhat shocking was that, according to the information sent back by their spies in Hanover, the civilians of Hanover had been thoroughly incited by the National Revolution, and they expelled all the nobles and consciously participated in various actions under the organization of the National Revolution. Many young people enthusiastically signed up to join the army, some citizens spontaneously put on armbands to maintain order, and even under the leadership of members of the National Revolutionary Committee, production was resumed in many places, and great enthusiasm for work broke out.

The Hanoverians now hated the aristocracy and the British even more, and the British government could not help but worry that even if they succeeded in recovering Hanover, there might be continued unrest and more trouble for the British. In essence, England and Hanover are not strictly one country, they just have a common monarch, and they have their own political tendencies. And the Hanoverians themselves were not willing to sacrifice themselves or die for the benefit of Britain. George III was also the first English-born Hanoverian monarch to speak English, which increased the sense of closeness to the British subjects, but increased the alienation to the Hanoverians. So many Hanoverians did not recognize the status of George III, and immediately abandoned George III when they had a new choice.

Indignant at the dominance and interference of the Dons, the British then gave themselves a reason to comfort themselves, and the British also did not want to see a particularly strong Austria and Prussia, after this revolution. Regardless of whether the German Revolution or Austria won in the end, Prussia and Austria would suffer huge losses. At the same time, the French Revolution is also weakening France's national strength, before Spain was defeated by the Tang Dynasty and lost almost all its colonies, and Tsarist Russia was too far away, then Britain's monopoly on Europe will become more and more obvious.

Either way, Britain ultimately chose to stop the war. So the war was still a civil war for the Germans.

After the initial defeat of the Prussian offensive on the Elbe, the German army stepped up to replenish its military strength, and a large number of enthusiastic revolutionary masses were willing to join the battle, encouraged by the spirit of revolution and internationalism, and the German army gained a high momentum. In the five days following the Battle of the Elbe, the four German divisions were replenished with varying degrees of manpower, and the strength of the 2nd and 3rd Divisions, which were the most tight, was increased to 9,000 and 7,000 men, respectively; The first division has basically completed the full establishment and is now about 15,800 people; The 4th Division, which returned to the division, also replenished its strength in the Rhine-Ruhr and grew to about 11,000 men. It was the largest increase in the number of troops.

However, there is also a problem with this expansion of troops, that is, the vast majority of volunteers who join the army have not undergone complete military training, and many of them are not even very good at shooting. Moreover, the new batch of soldiers who joined the German army no longer had enough Tang-made weapons to equip them, so most of the weapons they used were indigenously made, from rifled rear-loading guns of paper shells to flintlock pistols. This undoubtedly increased the logistical pressure on the German army, and also made its combat capability uneven. An early unit with veterans of the German Corps. The combat effectiveness is very strong, and the newly formed troops. It's almost a rabble.

In order to maintain effective combat effectiveness, some units of the German army are the main force composed of veterans of the German Corps supplemented by more combat-effective and trained soldiers, while some are new units composed of veterans as seeds and leading a group of new recruits, which can not only ensure that the German army can fight tough battles. If you can rush and kill, you can also train new troops relatively quickly and enhance the combat strength of your troops.

However, although the Germans were strengthened in strength, they soon faced an even greater challenge - the Austrian Legion's 50,000-strong army came from the south. Having crossed Dresden, it was gradually approaching the Leipzig battlefield. The Germans had a natural line of defense on the Elbe River in the east, but in the south near De Bern, they also relied on the Freiberg Mulder and Jahna rivers to create a line of defense. However, this line of defense was not as good as the conditions of the Elbe Line, and the Germans needed to build a line of defense on large areas of flat farmland that could hinder the enemy, so this line was almost impossible to defend. What the Germans could do was to dig trenches and fortifications in important locations, and organize local populations that favored the Germans to enhance their ability to gather intelligence.

At least half of the German troops guarding the defense line were newly replenished troops, and the German army did not dare to easily draw troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness from the Elbe River defense line, because the Prussian commander Karl I was obviously also a person who knew how to fight, and after suffering defeat, he quickly adjusted his troops, and stimulated the combat will and shameful spirit of the troops, in order to cover the Austrian army, the Prussian army did a lot of actions in the Elbe defense line. The Germans also did not know whether Karl I really intended to cross the river again, or whether he had a false shot. In this way, the Germans did not dare to slack off, and still needed to leave a considerable part of their forces on the Elbe defense line. The Germans on the Debern Line were units of the 2nd Division, and Blucher personally took charge of them in order to deal with the Austrians.

The Austrians were very confident, and when they came to the battlefield, they did not rush to launch an offensive against the German line, but conducted all-round reconnaissance to understand the movement of the German line and the composition of the defense line on the line. Prince Hohenloch, who commanded the Austrian army, led his troops to press up, and put up Austrian artillery to shell the German troops on the defensive line.

The number of artillery pieces of the Austrian army was not more than that of the German army, and Prince Hohenloch lined up only more than 30 guns, and these guns were not short, almost all of them were 12-pound field guns, which means that these were smoothbore guns with a very close range. However, the artillery of the German army on the defensive line was not as strong as on the Elbe line, and although there were howitzers, there were only 36 on the entire line, and the rest were more 81 mm and 60 mm mortars.

The Austrians directly pushed the artillery to a position of about one kilometer, and then opened fire fiercely, although the German artillery in this direction could support, but the firepower did not have a significant advantage over the Austrian army, and the Austrian army also had a large number of infantry to cover, which also put the German army in a disadvantageous position as soon as the war began. (To be continued.) )