I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 328 Miscalculation
Blücher kicked over the Italian-style carved chair, grabbed the collar of the signal soldier, and asked sharply: "What on earth is going on? How many French people are here?"

"About 1 or more..." the latter lowered his head and said tremblingly, "Their infantry line only launched one attack and broke through the Dutch battle line."

"Ten thousand people?" Blücher loosened his grip and let go of the communications soldier, but he still shook his head.

Even if the estimate of the size of the enemy army was wrong, the 5 Dutch troops, plus the cavalry and artillery sent by themselves, totaled nearly 7 people blocking the mountain pass.

With the defense lines deployed in advance, it shouldn't be a problem to withstand 1 French troops for a whole day.

But right now, they only lasted about an hour!

Could it be that the Duke of Brunswick was wrong in his assessment of the fighting prowess of the Southern Netherlands? Those guys are actually just weak losers...

its not right! Blücher immediately shook his head again. Those same people, carrying the Austrian army that far outnumbered them, fought extremely tenaciously, even surpassing the Prussian infantry in terms of morale.

"General," the staff officer on the side saw him wandering around and reminded loudly, "How should we respond now?"

Blücher suddenly came to his senses. Yes, now is not the time to worry about the fighting power of the Southern Netherlands. Your own army has been cut off in the middle by the French. If it is not handled properly, it is likely to be annihilated.

"We still have a strength advantage. As long as we fight steadily, we will definitely be able to repel the French on the frontal battlefield!"

"The Dietlinde Army must arrive here before two o'clock in the afternoon!" He clicked hard on the southeast direction on the map. After the French army broke through the defense line of the Southern Netherlands Army, it became the French army's back there.

After losing Witt's South Netherlands Army and part of the cavalry, Blücher still had 1 soldiers in his hands. If he joined the Prussian army stationed in the Wenssele area, his army would be close to 6 Thousands of people.

At this time, Blücher only needs to shrink the main force backward and the legions sent in the east and west directions to shrink inward, so as to form a pocket formation. Then, with the help of military superiority, the unfavorable situation was reversed in one fell swoop.

He tried to calm himself down, walked quickly to the map, pondered for a while, pointed to a position marked The regiment left 1000 men to keep an eye on Leo, and the other troops immediately withdrew."

Blücher took a deep breath at the end: "Maximi and his two regiments are delaying the French army here. The artillery and the rest of the infantry moved north to set up a defense line in the town of Wensele.

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Although Lefebvre also had a serious look on his face - he only had 2 men in hand, Leo's Austrian army was almost useless, and it would definitely be extremely difficult to deal with the Prussian army of more than 6 with cannons.

On a gentle slope a few kilometers away in the northeast, Leo looked at the gathering Prussian troops with a pale face, and said to Lefebvre in a trembling voice: "Major, there are about six or seven thousand enemies here, and they are also carrying cannon……

"Yes, general!" The herald turned around and walked out of the tent, quickly spreading his order to the entire army.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's troops haven't arrived yet. Should we retreat to the north first?"

But he shook his head firmly: "No, His Highness will definitely come to reinforce us before noon."

He immediately smiled again: "Even if His Highness hadn't come, I wouldn't have left here. Retreating is not an honor for soldiers."

Just when he was about to let the cavalry sneak attack the Prussians' cannon while they were organizing their formation, he suddenly saw a chaos in the enemy's position. He hurriedly raised his telescope and looked, and saw more than a dozen Prussian heralds riding horses back and forth in the military formation, obviously announcing some important orders.

Not long after, a hussar came over with a whip and shouted to him: "Master, the rear column of the Prussian army is turning and seems to be retreating."

Lefebvre's eyes immediately lit up, he patted Leo's shoulder hard, and laughed: "Look, let me tell you, Your Highness is here to help us!"

Although the latter's military rank was three ranks higher than his, he smiled and nodded indifferently at this time: "Yes, you are right. We are finally safe, oh, thank God! Praise to the heroic Crown Prince!

"Now I have to go back to the tent and have a cup of coffee to calm my nerves."

"Wait!" Lefebvre held him back, and at the same time raised his telescope to observe again, "If the Prussians retreated because of His Highness's attack, we cannot let them do what they want."

Leo was stunned for a moment: "You, what do you want to do?"

Lefebvre smiled: "We take the initiative!"

"No, no! Are you kidding..."

Lefebvre proved that he was serious with practical actions. Only half an hour later, his regiment and the two accompanying cavalry companies dragged the Austrian army and began to launch a fierce attack on Prussia on the opposite side.

The reason why Lefebvre wanted to bring the Austrian army was because he knew that the Prussian's target was Leo, so as long as the Austrian army was around, the Prussian attack firepower would fall more on them.

Altmann, the Prussian commander in charge of chasing Leo, never expected that the Austrians, who were absolutely inferior in strength, would dare to take the initiative.

However, Margrave Blücher's order was for him to immediately return for reinforcements. At this time, except for the 1 people at the rear, the other soldiers had entered a marching state.

He could only grit his teeth and urge the troops to withdraw quickly. The Marquis's deployment was the most important.

But before his main force had walked a kilometer, the sound of horse hooves came from behind - even if Lefebvre faced the same number of Prussian troops, he was sure of victory, let alone only 1 enemy troops.

He personally led the charge of the column, defeated the broken unit almost without any hindrance, and then followed Altman closely.

Murat looked at the winding Prussian marching column in the distance, feeling excited and excited. Today the Guards Corps has been on the defensive, and he has no chance to gain any merit in battle. Now he finally has a chance to make his boast come true - it is not impossible to kill ten of these unformed infantry.

Following the order from the commander of the cavalry company, Murat began to trot, and immediately waved his saber to kill the Prussian cavalry who hurriedly came to defend.

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Blücher's guards had just loaded his luxurious furniture onto the carriage and were about to urge their horses forward when they saw two hussars rushing past them like crazy, facing the cloth not far ahead. Lücher shouted urgently: "General, a large number of French troops are appearing behind us!"

(End of this chapter)