Chapter 364: The war breaks out

The distance of 30 kilometers was not far. After receiving the news, it took only 3 hours to see the Austrian 9th Legion outside the city of Prague. At this time, the gate of Prague was closed and a large number of Bohemian soldiers were defending the city walls. Seeing this situation, General Gna, the commander of the Austrian 9th Legion, fully believed that Bohemia had made up his mind to leave the Austrian Empire. Although he did not know why Fredelic dared to do this? Especially when this situation was very tense, he knew that Fredelic must have a basis for it, otherwise Fredelic would not dare to joke with his life and Bohemian scene.

"Send an order to attack the city! Eliminate all those who dare to betray the empire." Gna directly ordered to avoid the night of long dreams.

More than 10,000 Austrian soldiers launched an attack on Prague under the cover of artillery. Although the Bohemian soldiers were far from the opponent of the Austrian regular army in terms of quality, Prague was a strong city, and the Austrian army lacked siege tools, so for a while, both sides fought equally.

When the Austrian army first started to attack the city, Fredelic learned the news. Although he knew that the matter was irreversible at this point, he still couldn't help but worry. After all, after being ruled by Austria for so many years, Austria's power had become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Fortunately, the Bohemia army blocked the attack of the Austrian 9th Corps, Fredelic was relieved.

"General, we lack the tools to siege the city, and it may be difficult to capture Prague in a short period of time." A major general of the 9th Austrian Army reported to Gner.

"Now we have no time to prepare siege tools. We must capture Prague as soon as possible and capture Fredelic and others, otherwise it will change later. We will pass the order, concentrate artillery and bombard the Prague walls." Gner ordered. Now he can only use the Benzene method. He believes that as long as the Prague walls can be destroyed, it will be very easy to destroy the Bohemia mobs with the army in his hands.

The intention of the Austrian army was quickly learned by the Bohemia army. In order to prevent the Austrian army from succeeding, the Bohemia army was forced to gather all the artillery and attempt to destroy the Austrian artillery positions. So an artillery battle began. In terms of the scale and quality of the artillery, the Bohemia artillery was at a disadvantage. The only thing that could have a little upper hand was that the performance of the artillery was a little higher than that of the Austrian army. As early as the preparation stage of the plan, France and Bohemia transported 20 75mm field guns from France through secret channels, by splitting the artillery and assembling it, to Prague, as one of France's free aid to Bohemia.

The artillery battle ended without a decision. The reason was very simple. It was already dark and Gner had to order the attack to be suspended. His army was not used to night combat, and had been running so far, and the soldiers were very tired after fighting for so long. But he believed that the longer the time delayed, the more unfavorable it was for him. He guessed that perhaps a large number of Bohemia reinforcements were coming towards Prague.

On the second day, the attack of the 9th Austrian Army of the 9th Austrian Army became much more fierce. In addition to retaining 10,000 people as reserves for emergency incidents, all others participated in the attack. Suddenly, the pressure of the Bohemian army increased a lot. The result of the artillery battle was gradually understood. After huge casualties, the artillery soldiers of the 9th Austrian Army of the 9th Austrian Army finally destroyed all the artillery of the Bohemian Army. Now they have enough time to bombard the Prague walls. Although the Prague walls were built with hard granite, I believe that under the full bombardment of dozens of artillery guns, I believe that his army could attack Prague in at most two hours.

The Austrian army launched a large-scale attack and the artillery was annihilated, which made Freidelki completely panic. In addition, the news of emergency kept coming, which made him completely useless and hurried to Kompeny's residence.

Seeing Fredelic's panicked look, Compenny looked despised in his heart. However, he was also a little happy, because the lower the Fredelic's ability, the better France will control Bohemia in the future.

Although Kompeni also knew that the current situation seemed to be unfavorable to Bohemia, he did not worry much. He believed that other troops were already on the way to Prague. Whether it was the French army or the 14th Austrian Army who had been controlled by Fredelic, as long as they could come before the 9th Austrian Army captured them all, they would be safe. According to time estimates, Kompeni believed that reinforcements would arrive at most until tomorrow, so there was nothing to worry about. He comforted Fredelic a few words, and then proposed to hand over all the command to General Devith, the commander of the Bohemian Army, and then he would not say much.

Dewit was considered a relatively talented officer. After discovering that the Austrian 9th Army began to attack with all his might, he ordered the soldiers to actively resist, and on the other hand, he was preparing for street fighting. He also knew very well about his mission. He didn't care whether Prague would be broken by the Austrian army. What he cared about was whether he could hold the Austrian 9th Army before the reinforcements arrived.

At 3 pm on March 13, the southern wall of Prague was blown open by the Austrian 9th Corps artillery, and a large number of Austrian soldiers rushed into Prague from there. Dewit saw the situation and knew it was difficult to block the gap. He decisively ordered the soldiers to give up defending the wall, retreat into various streets, and engage in street battles with the Austrian army, delaying time.

Street fighting was extremely cruel. The Austrian and Bohemians suffered great losses during the several hours of street fighting, but in general, the Austrian army still had the advantage. However, in fact, the most heavy losses were the innocent civilians. Because the incident suddenly happened, the citizens living in Prague had no time to escape from Prague to take refuge. Therefore, they suffered heavy casualties and injuries during the Austrian attack.

By night, the Austrian army had already controlled one-third of Prague, but it was still unable to completely destroy the resistance of the Bohemia army. The battle continued to stalemate. But Gner always had a very bad premonition, as if danger was coming.

On the morning of March 14, the 14th Austrian Army suddenly appeared in Prague and attacked the 9th Austrian Army with the Bohemia. Gner knew why he was uneasy. It turned out that the 14th Austrian Army had been mastered by Fredelik. No wonder, the 14th Austrian Army was originally composed mainly of Bohemians, and it seemed that they were normal to fall to Fredelik. The 9th Austrian Army, who had fought with the Bohemia for two days, was simply

Unable to resist the attack on both sides, and after seeing the hope of victory, Gna decisively issued an order to retreat. Since it was unable to succeed, the most important thing was to preserve its strength. The Austrian 9th Legion withdrew from the battle under Gna's order and taught a lesson to the pursuing 14th Legion. Then he got rid of the pursuit of the 14th Legion and retreated to the south. In this battle, the Austrian 9th Legion lost more than 10,000 people, but the Bohemia army suffered more losses, with casualties reaching more than 20,000.

While the Austrian 9th Army was fighting fiercely with the Bohemia, the French Iberian 2nd Army also launched an attack on the Austrian 12th Army, which was stationed in the Bohemia Mountains. Due to the huge gap in strength between the two sides and the French raid, the Austrian 12th Army suffered heavy losses as soon as the war started, and had to send people to ask for support and retreat to the Bohemia Mountains to defend the death.

On March 13, the 2nd French Legion attacked the Bohemia Mountains from the north, and the 12th Austrian Legion's rear route was completely cut off. Faced with the attack of more than 200,000 French troops, the 12th Austrian Legion had no courage to counterattack. After persisting for a day, they all stepped out of their positions and surrendered.

Afterwards, the 2nd Iberian Army entered the Principality of Salzburg and launched an attack on the Ens River defense line from west of Austria. Similarly, at the request of France, the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Thuringia also sent 60,000 and 30,000 people to attack Austria with the 2nd Iberian Army. Austria also invested four legions on the front line of the Ens River, totaling 160,000 troops, and with the Ens River, the French army was blocked tightly to the west of the Ens River.

The 2nd French Legion also launched an attack on Austria from Bohemia. Of course, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Kingdom of Saxony also sent one legion each, with a total of 80,000 people participating in the battle. At the same time, the 14th Austrian Legion and the 1st Bohemia Legion were also tied to French chariots. Several troops combined to reach 240,000 people, and launched an attack from north to south.

In addition, the main force of the Iberian 1st Legion and the Iberian 3rd Legion stationed in Italy also began to attack Slovenia, threatening Austria from the south.

The troops from France in three directions, plus the soldiers from the vassal state, reached a total of 600,000, which immediately put Austria in crisis.
Chapter completed!