Chapter 12: Battlefield Breaks

At the time of the vigorous reorganization of the Heixingen Development Company, the situation on the battlefield in Schleswig was scorching.

After the successful retreat of the main forces of the Danish army to Flensburg, the new commander of the Danish army began to direct the Danish cavalry to delay the march of the coalition army.

In order to pursue the retreating Danish army and deal with the attack of the Danish cavalry, the Prussian cavalry continued to attack, and the two sides began a scramble pursuit on the vast snowfield.

With villages, woods, farmland and scattered buildings, the Danish cavalry was elusive, often coming out of unexpected places for the German coalition.

In some narrow terrain, the Danish cavalry could even completely annihilate small coalition forces, causing problems for coalition forces.

The allied commanders began to gnash their teeth at the Danish cavalry, and the command gave the order.

The large cavalry of the coalition army, which had been preparing for a long time, finally entered the field.

The previous positional battle was not the home of the cavalry, and the cavalry officers could only watch their infantry colleagues reap military merits.

Now that they could finally show their skills on the battlefield, the cavalry units quickly assembled and attacked.

Faced with several times the coalition cavalry, the Danish cavalry began to be unable to parry, and the Danish cavalry general commanded the cavalry to fight and retreat.

Because of their familiarity with the terrain, the Danes could always find a breakthrough point, and although the allied cavalry had a numerical advantage, it was difficult to completely annihilate the Danish cavalry.

The Allied cavalry commander was ruthless and began to disperse his troops, forming several columns to pursue the Danes.

As long as the retreat of the Danish cavalry could be delayed, the Danish cavalry units could be inflicted heavy losses.

With the advantage of numbers, the coalition forces quickly discovered the movements of the Danish cavalry, and after communicating with the relevant troops.

The allied cavalry quickly seized the position of the Danish cavalry, and the two sides engaged in a brutal encounter.

The Prussian cavalry and the Austrian cavalry, which had galloped on the European continent for many years, were obviously hard stubble.

Whether it is equipment, horses, including personnel quality and experience, the coalition forces have a clear advantage.

Led by the battle-hardened Prussian cavalry generals, the coalition forces easily solved each other's tricks.

The allied armies, especially the cavalry generals of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, had great command skills.

On the snowy field, a full-scale charge was launched against the Danish cavalry, and in just half an hour the Danes lost more than half.

The Danish cavalry generals had to give the order to retreat, but it was clear that the coalition forces did not intend to let them go.

The Danish cavalry, who fled for their lives, were heavily damaged by the Allied cavalry during the retreat, and only a small number fled to Flensburg.

Soon after the victory of the Allied cavalry, the main force of the infantry also caught up, and the Allied forces launched the Battle of Flensburg.

On the 7th, the Danish army, which felt that it was difficult to resist, withdrew from Flensburg and returned to Danish territory, and the allied forces advanced the battle line to the Danish border, and the war came to an end.

On 18 February, Prussian troops occupied Kolding. The Danes tried to form a new line of defense with the help of all available buildings and terrain, but time was too late.

But the Austrians sent assists to the Danes, Schleswig was already completely in the hands of the coalition forces, the Austrians did not want to move on, and a brief truce was formed.

The Austrian Empire was originally a passive participant in the war, because the Austrian Empire understood that even if the Austrians did not join the war, Prussia and the German Confederation could complete the victory over Denmark.

However, if Austria did not join, it would inevitably lead to the expansion of Prussia's influence in the German region.

Austria was in danger of being abandoned by the nationalists, and Prussia offered to relinquish the leadership of the war with the Austrians.

Bismarck even took out the Duchy of Holstein to lure the Austrians into the war, and after the war ended, the Austrians could gain the dominance of the Duchy of Holstein.

Under the guidance of this form and interests, the Austrian Empire sent troops, and now that the war had recovered Schleswig, the Austrian Empire no longer wanted to continue to expand the scope of the war.

While Prussia and Austria were negotiating, Allied forces were repairing on the Danish border.

Kane, an ordinary Austrian peasant, was forcibly conscripted into the army by the lord of his village when the war came.

Kane took part in the Battle of Kingdom Hill and later the Battle of Flensburg, and now rests in a makeshift position on the Danish border.

The surrounding soldiers and colleagues are all acquaintances of Kane Village or nearby villages, and the officer leading the team is the head of his own village.

"Kane, do you still have cigarettes?" A fellow villager asked.

Kane lay on the mound of dirt, his hands behind his back, his head resting on his arms, crossed Erlang's legs, looked at the sky with his eyes, and replied, "No, I finished smoking yesterday." ”

"Alas, I don't know when the war will end, and my family doesn't know what will happen." Another of Kane's colleagues felt it.

"Lads, don't worry, the scale of this war is nothing, when I joined the Imperial Army and resisted Napoleon, a war of that scale was really terrible, the crowd was full of people, and there was no end in sight. You can only rush forward with your companions. "It was the village chief who spoke.

The village chief was an old man who had fought in the war against France when he was young.

"Uncle Morey, how did Napoleon's army compare to the Danes?" Kane asked, calling out the village chief's name.

"O Napoleon! He was a great man, and I knew his name before I even joined the battlefield. ”

Morey recalled thoughtfully, and then said: "At that time I thought that Austria was the most powerful country in the world, but His Majesty the Kaiser's army was still defeated by Napoleon, and I learned later when I joined the army that the whole of Europe had united to defeat Napoleon, the thief. ”

Morey told everything he knew, and of course, as an old farmer, Morey had also heard a few words from his superiors when he was young.

"At that time, the war was much more cruel than it is now, France was in full swing, and it was rumored that Napoleon's officers would be demonic, and the French soldiers would rush forward without fear of death under the demonic law!" Morey took advantage of the gap between his words to take out a cigarette out of nowhere, lit it, and took a puff.

"My unit collided with the French in a place called Garrytown (fictional), and the French, under the leadership of Napoleon (in fact, other French officers) rushed towards us." Morey took a deep puff of his cigarette and exhaled a cloud of smoke.

"The Frenchman on the other side was like dying, and my colleagues fell around me one by one, some of them lost their arms, some of them lost their legs, and the worst of them even lost half of their faces!" Morey seemed to go back to the memories of that long war.

"Fortunately, the reinforcements arrived in time, we saw the strength of the people, and drove the French back, at that time, every day was fighting, and the people around me changed into new faces within a few days, but fortunately, I survived because of my great life......"

Morey recounts his own experiences as a young man, and the boys around him listen to the "story" with bated breath.

Welcome to a new war.