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Chapter 291 Wild Attack (53/103)

The infantry sent by the Prussian Legion to unfold the encirclement finally gathered together, but like a weak giant tong, it only grabbed a fishtail of the Habsburg cavalry. More than a hundred soldiers were besieged, and most of the remaining soldiers fled.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

Keiros shouted three times, and his anger had reached its peak, but he could not do much. Even if he sent cavalry from the legion to pursue it, it would be too late.

Besides, the number of cavalry in his legion was too small, and even if he chased him, he might not get much benefit.

In the end, the infantry regiment surrounded and killed more than a hundred Habsburg cavalry. The battle was temporarily terminated. Prussian soldiers shuttled back and forth in the military camp, counting the number of casualties, and dealing with the damaged camp.

The cavalry in Habsburg not only killed people when attacking, but also set fire. A small half of the tents in the camp on the left were burned, and some soldiers who slept so hard that they were even burned to death in the tents.

After all this trouble, it was not until dawn that the Prussian army could barely stabilize. After the post-war statistics, this enemy attack caused more than 4,700 casualties to them, and less than two hundred Habsburg cavalry were surrounded and killed by them.

This sudden attack was like a loud slap in the face, slapped hard on the confident face of the Prussian Legion.

Victory seemed to be at your fingertips, but now, the Habsburg defenders used a sudden attack to declare that they were not a group of soft eggs that could be kneaded at will.

Before the siege battle began, the number of attackers dropped sharply by nearly 5,000, and most of these 5,000 people were archers with very important status in the siege battle.

Even Keiros, who has always been calm and steady and has outstanding command ability, couldn't help but feel a little angry at this moment.

"Send the order, don't wait until noon. When the sun rises, we will start an attack immediately!"

In the camp, Keiros said angrily.

"But, sir." At this time, a general standing below whispered: "The soldiers are already very tired after many days of hard work, which is really not conducive to the battle. Moreover, we have made an agreement with Saxony to attack at noon. If we suddenly attack in advance, the Saxony people may not cooperate."

This suggestion was very pertinent. After this man finished speaking, the other generals agreed and nodded.

However, at this moment, Keiros was already upset by the battle last night, and his head began to ache from the moment he woke up last night. Until now, the pain has not improved, but has become more and more intense.

All these things combined make Keiros almost completely unable to listen to the advice of his soldiers.

At this moment, he suddenly stood up from the chair, pulled out the long sword from his waist and waved it in the air, shouting angrily: "The soldiers of the Hohenzollern family are not cowards! We will start the attack now, and we can hold a banquet in the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna in the evening. You all shut up and execute the orders. As for the damn Saxons, it would be fine if they came to help. If they didn't come, when they captured Vienna, we would turn around and kill them all!"

As he said that, Keilos took a big step and walked out of the tent. While walking, he said to the servant beside him: "Prepare horses for me, I will go to the battle myself!"

The Prussian generals looked at each other. They did not expect that Keilos would be so powerful, which was very different from what they remembered him, especially when commanding the battlefield, Keilos had always been famous for his plan.

However, Keilos had given orders after all, and they had no choice but to follow them. The general who had made the suggestion before sighed helplessly and had to follow Keilos out.

Other generals also walked out of the tent and returned to the troops they commanded to arrange the battle. Everyone had some worries on their faces.

The soldiers under his command rushed for two days in a row and were already in a state of exhaustion. They were still disturbed by a sudden attack last night. If they attacked at this time, the combat power they could use was really worrying.

In any case, amid the low horns, the huge war machine of the Prussian Legion was finally mobilized, and a group of soldiers began to rush out of the camp and gathered on the open space in front of the camp.

Tens of thousands of people gathered together, heavy infantry, sword and shield infantry, spearmen, archers, musketeers, and even heavy siege tanks assembled in hardwood and iron, all of which were gathered together to form huge battle formations.

The atmosphere above the battle formation seemed to be solemn. The strong wind of last night had stopped by the early morning, dust was scattered, and the plants stood still, and there was a narrow and depressing atmosphere around it.

Today is not a good weather. There are several thick clouds accumulated in the sky, and most of the sunlight is blocked, and only a few tiny beams of light are projected through the cloud curtain.

It seems that there is a rainy rain brewing, but I don’t know when it will come.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the huge Prussian army was about to launch a full-scale siege. The huge battle formation formed by 55,000 people gathered a terrifying power. From a distance, you can't see the end of the battle formation at all.

Just when I looked closer, the soldiers in the battle formation were not as terrible as I thought. They all had depressed expressions on their faces, as if they had not woken up.

Some people even took advantage of the short time of forming a formation and squinted their eyes and started to rest.

The spear in the hand of the spearman pressed against the ground, and his whole body was supported by the gun rod, and his eyelids were closed up and down from time to time.

The shield in the sword and shield soldiers' hands also looked listless. The heavy infantry's face was covered in their helmets, and they could not see their expressions clearly, but from their loose standing posture, they could also see that they were in poor spirits.

At the edge of the battle formation, several Prussian soldiers were chatting in places that their generals could not see.

"Hey, why are you going to start siege suddenly? Didn't you start attacking at noon?" A soldier supported his body with a crutch in the flagpole and asked a companion who was the squad leader next to him.

The companion was wiping his blade with a rag. Hearing this, he shook his head angrily and said, "How did I know? I heard that it was because of the attack he was attacked last night that angered our General Keilos."
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