On 23 March, Saxony's army in Baden had increased from 5,000 to 8,000 men, and the remaining guards were routed at Ettheim. In the battle, Brion's army suffered thousands of casualties, but fortunately, Brion's military base had been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Rhine again.

The next day, the Saxon army had increased to 10,000 and completely annexed the Duchy of Baden, and the French authorities did not even say anything about seeing their vassal state being annexed by Saxony. Pishglu also ordered that all units of the Rhine Corps should be on standby collectively and not to take a single step beyond the Rhine. However, this kind of order could control the other troops, but not the 1st Division.

So while Brion was stationed in the Marc area, the divisions of the 1st Division were on the move. At MacDonald's secret behest, Skynet agents poured out of the nest, preparing to break the Saxon army from time to time. Even Alex Ferguson led his sniper unit to the Baden region, ready to await Brion's dispatch.

Brion stood on the other side of the Rhine, looking at his former territory with a telescope, with indescribable sighs and resentment in his heart.

In the past, Brion attacked the land only to expand its territory, but today it is a war to drive the enemy out of his homeland. But this feeling, Brion suddenly felt a touch of familiarity, is this an anti-war drama?

"General, the latest information from Skynet, the Austrians have sent three thousand troops to support Saxony, and it is still four days away from here. In addition, Saxony threw nearly 4,000 troops here, and it was still two days away. MacDonald, who was beside him, said cautiously.

Brion frowned: "Austria and the Saxons are not stupid, and they know how to use overwhelming forces to achieve victory. It seems that the Austrians are prepared for the worst if they can't kill me. ”

Brion was very confident when he received the news that 5,000 Saxon soldiers were attacking the Duchy of Baden. You must know that his Iron Guards plus Davout's cavalry brigade are not covered in combat effectiveness. However, when Saxony's army was stacked to 10,000 horses, Brion really began to hesitate.

With the national strength of Saxony, it is absolutely impossible to come up with so many soldiers at once, and the rich people behind this war must be the Austrians. If Saxony's reinforcements were still increasing, it meant that the Austrians had planned it for a long time. It is simply impossible to imagine that Brion wanted to defeat the enemy, who was approaching 20,000 with 5,000 troops and horses.

Fortunately, Skynet and Ferguson's sniper team also arrived here secretly, but it wasn't a big deal except for some small actions.

It's all Brion feeling a little sad.

"The only way to do this is to quickly annihilate the Saxon garrisons of the Duchy of Baden with a large force, and if we wait until the three armies are combined, then our army will definitely be defeated!" Although Briand's confidence in the combat effectiveness of the guards is still very high, the only thing he is dissatisfied with is the death of the French authorities.

At the same time, with regard to the Rhine Corps station, Pishgrew had received secret orders from the Minister of Justice Mopp and the Austrian mission.

Prior to this, the Austrian and French governments had reached a joint consensus that Austria would not be responsible for any political issues other than its obligation to support Saxony in the territory of Pakistan and other regions, and the French government also agreed to this peace plan, and ordered the commander of the Rhine Corps, Pisglou, to resolutely block the entry and exit of the 1st Division and block all troops that could support the Baden region.

And when Briand received this news, he was disheartened, it turned out that the French government just wanted him to die here.

In today's territorial issue, once the war starts, it will definitely be against him, and if he loses the war, then he will definitely follow in the footsteps of the Count of Baden and become a war criminal of Austria, perhaps all this is what Louis XVI and Archduke Charles are happy to see.

As the hour ticked by, Brion felt truly helpless, and this was a sign that the enemy's 7,000 reinforcements were on their way.

"Report to the division commander, the two support armies of Saxony and Austria have converged, and they are less than two days away from here!" MacDonald broke Brion's helplessness in the face of his predicament a few hours later, and his report immediately pulled Brion back from that negative state.

It was only now that Brion understood that danger had come, and after pondering for a while, he waved his hand firmly: "Gather the army!"

At 4 p.m. on the 23rd, Brion used harassment tactics to force the tens of thousands of defenders of Saxony to go out of the city to fight because the war had begun. But who knows, just as they were heading to the battlefield, Brion led his guards to deliver an almost devastating blow. Davout's cavalry brigade was on its way back to the battle with all its might because of its reconnaissance mission.

At 5:30, although the Saxon army suffered heavy casualties under the onslaught of the guards, they still used their numerical superiority to forcibly surround the guards. At this point, Brion realized that he was in danger, and Davout's cavalry never arrived. Even the commander of Saxony believed that the battle would be won, so he sent a herald to quickly inform the leader of the approaching reinforcements, Archduke John, to slow them down.

Due to the delay in the arrival of reinforcements, a large number of soldiers in the guard were desperate, and even MacDonald sighed regretfully: "If I knew that I would fight against 10,000 enemy troops, I should have waited for reinforcements to arrive and do the operation, the troops here are too weak!"

The two sides were fighting late into the night, although the fighting power had weakened due to the dark sky. However, the Predator Guards did not let this visual effect detract from their combat effectiveness, and instead they fought more and more in the dark of night and almost broke through the Saxon army's encirclement network, which gave Brion and his army a glimmer of life.

After more than an hour of fighting in the middle of the night, the Saxony side temporarily declared a ceasefire with Brion because of the imminent arrival of reinforcements.

The Saxon commander was also ashamed to say: "As long as we hold out for half a day, our 7,000 reinforcements will arrive! ”

In fact, fighting late at night gave the Brion Guards a great advantage in terms of strong mobility, and the Saxon army really couldn't stand this kind of mobile warfare of firing one shot at the east and one cannon at the west, anyway, it was already late at night, so it was better to simply cease fighting.

At three o'clock in the morning in the middle of the night, a dramatic scene occurred. The Davout Cavalry Brigade, which was supposed to have appeared yesterday afternoon, suddenly rushed out, and this rush went straight to the unprepared Saxon barracks. Dozens of soldiers who had just been out wandering outside had not slept just in time for the sabers of the Davout cavalry, and in a short time their waists were full of heads.

Then, as if slaughtered, they rampaged through the enemy barracks, and in a matter of seconds thousands of Saxon soldiers who had not yet figured out what was going on were stabbed by the dead.

In a few moments, a fire broke out in the military camp of Saxony, and there were few tens of thousands of soldiers left in the raid.

The young Saxon commander thought it was a deliberate attack by Briand and cried out: "What a disgusting devil!

Ironically, however, his envoy had just arrived at the residence of Archduke John, and was boasting to the brother of the unreasonable Archduke Charles about how many French soldiers his commander had annihilated and how much booty he had captured, which made the Duke of Austria even more arrogant.