Lakeside - Danube Battlefield, evening of October 12, 1700 AD.
The script rustled across the land stained red with blood, across the layers of corpses, across the discarded and broken guns and bayonets, across the discarded and destroyed artillery and vehicles, just always moving firmly towards forward!
One hundred thousand Austrian officers and soldiers, ranging from Archduke Henry to the lowest-ranking soldiers, could only see infantry phalanxes and groups of cavalry groups, facing the Ottomans who were still resisting on the land filled with golden dusk light. The Yenicherry Army marches forward with great strides!
Cannonballs and bullets swept past like wind, and people fell to the ground from time to time, but the army's advance never stopped.
Several Austrian red and white battle flags were held in front of the queue, dancing in the wind, and covered with smoke and bullet marks, as if to tell how fierce the Battle of Lakeside-Danube was today!
Today's victory belongs to Austria and to the great Archduke Henry!
At this moment, the mountains and plains of Austria seemed to be cheering for Archduke Henry and his victorious army! Because this "Grand Duke Banker" and his army, which looked a bit chaotic no matter how you looked at it, used a whole day of bloody fighting to completely defeat and defeat the Ottoman Empire's army, which exceeded his own by 50%. With an annihilating blow...
After today's bloody battle, the Jenicheri Legion, which the Ottoman Empire was proud of, not only lost its prestige, but even almost ceased to exist!
The carefully organized attack by Mustafa Koprulu and Mustafa Kara completely hit the iron plate! The right flank of the Ottoman army fought bloody battles with the two Austrian infantry divisions commanded by Count Eugen for a full 12 hours, starting at three in the morning and lasting until three in the afternoon.
The elite troops commanded by Mustafa Koprulu and the two Austrian infantry divisions commanded by Count Eugen fought back and forth for several rounds. By around two o'clock in the afternoon, the Ottoman Jenicheri Army had suffered heavy losses. , began to retreat steadily under the pressure of the Austrian army.
Unwilling to fail, Mustafa Koprulu decided to give it a try and invested thousands of Tatar cavalry. With the support of artillery fire and the Yenicherry Army, he launched a fierce attack... But the result of the attack was far beyond Mustafa Koprulu's expectations. The Tatar cavalry, who are good at mounted shooting and can also attack, and are able to compete evenly with the Poles and Cossacks on the Eastern European steppes, were actually shot by two rows of Austrian chasseurs (using rifled guns) arranged in a "thin line" Return!
The roaring Tatar cavalry encountered the first salvo of the Austrian chasseurs 300 yards away! Nearly 1,500 cork rifled bullets rotated and flew towards the Tatars' bodies and the horses under their crotches with a very stable trajectory. In the first salvo alone, more than 300 people were killed! And the second and third rounds of volleys that followed shot down nearly 500 more people... If it were a highly disciplined modern cavalry that launched the attack, the casualties of more than ten to twenty percent would still be barely enough. Tolerable. But how can the prairie cavalry have such endurance? Three volleys of rifled guns completely stunned them. How could the surviving Tatar cavalry dare to charge forward? It's too late to escape!
So the Tatar cavalry, whose original formation was a bit messy, suddenly fell into complete chaos!
Count Eugen immediately seized the fighting opportunity and invested the only 1,000 light cavalry he had on hand. He chased the retreating Tatar cavalry and launched a counterattack, instantly scattering the Tatar cavalry who were accustomed to escaping.
Without the cover of the Tatar cavalry, Mustafa Koprulu's Yenicheri infantry suddenly fell into crisis. Originally, there were thousands of Tatar cavalry protecting them, but Count Eugen could not use his hands and feet. Now that there are no Tatars in the way, Eugen's two infantry divisions can let go of the attack.
Moreover, the 1,000 light cavalry on hand by Eugen can also be used to attack the scattered Yenicheri Infantry Regiment... Under the repeated attacks of the Austrian infantry and light cavalry, Mustafa Koprulu's men The infantry regiments collapsed one after another. In the end, Mustafa Koprulu could only pack up the remaining troops and withdraw from the battlefield southward.
As soon as Mustafa Koprulu withdrew, Count Eugen's two divisions were immediately liberated. Instead of pursuing Mustafa Koprulu's defeated army, he led his two divisions to attack eastward and began to attack the left flank of the Ottoman army in the center.
When Count Eugen's two divisions defeated the Ottoman army's left army and began to attack the Ottoman army's center, the center army commanded by Mustafa Kara Pasha was also on the verge of collapse.
The pretty boy John Churchill was actually very good at fighting. He first faked defeats one after another to attract Mustafa Kara to follow, and then used the woods in front of the Pozno Fortress to set up an ambush - killing 5 regiments of Jenichery infantry and a group of infantrymen. More than a thousand Tatar cavalry led into the woods, using the trees to disrupt their formation, and then deployed a division of infantry to the north of the woods, inflicting heavy casualties on the Jenichery infantry and Tatar cavalry...
However, Kara Pasha, who had suffered a huge loss, was still holding on, gathering his remaining troops and relying on the field fortifications left by the Austrian army to confront John Churchill who had reoccupied the woods.
John Churchill had few troops, so he had no choice but to help Mustafa Kara, but Count Eugen's two divisions launched an attack on his left wing, causing him to lose his position!
In order to resist Count Eugen's attack, Mustafa Kara had to send all the troops at hand.
And just when Mustafa Kara was trying to resist the pincer attack by Count Eugen and John Churchill, the right wing of the Ottoman army was defeated by three divisions commanded by Archduke Henry and Count Daun... I don’t know what kind of bad luck this Archduke Henry had? The few people under my command don't look like famous generals, but on the battlefield, each of them is more capable than the other!
The short and frustrated Count Eugen could fight, as could the pretty boy Churchill. Even Count Dawn, a handsome Germanic guy with blond hair and blue eyes, turned out to be very good at fighting... The Ottomans' right wing was barely able to fight under his attack. After holding on until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I couldn't hold it anymore, and just like the left wing commanded by Mustafa Koprulu, it also collapsed!
However, Earl Daun did not attack Mustafa Kara's right wing. He had a bigger heart and wanted to eat Mustafa Kara's entire army in one go. So he, Archduke Henry, and Archduke Henry's son Karl led their troops to attack Kara Pasha's back. As soon as their retreat was tight, Mustafa Kara's army would of course have no choice but to flee!
By this time, the outcome of the Lakeside-Danube Battle was completely decided.
In this decisive battle, 100,000 Austrian troops defeated as many as 150,000 Ottoman troops!
The situation in Central Europe, no, the entire Europe, will be completely changed because of this battle!
Now the Lakeside-Danube Battle has not yet completely ended. The Austrians have mustered up their greatest energy and launched a full-frontal pursuit!
Now is the best time to destroy the enemy!
Archduke Henry and his son Carl von Mancini were also among the pursuing team. One hundred thousand troops surged forward like a tide. This overwhelming momentum made Archduke Henry almost forget his original intention—— Why Archduke Henry and not Henry the Great?
The Great Emperor... isn't it only for those who have strong soldiers and horses?
The Austrian Army looks really capable!
Moreover, Earl Eugen, John Churchill, and Earl Daun also seem to be quite capable of fighting... They have strong soldiers, strong horses, and brave generals, and they also have money and can govern the country. Why can't they be emperors?
Great Emperor, would you rather have the seed? When Henry thought about this, he felt something was wrong: The Emperor...had the guts! And I am the emperor’s seed!
Isn't my father the great emperor of the East?
When Henry was having a fever, his son Karl suddenly galloped to the side and shouted loudly in Chinese: "Sir, my child wants to learn the history of the Song Dynasty!"
"Song Dynasty?" Henry was stunned: What was so good about the Song Dynasty? I'm so cowardly, if you want to learn, just learn the history of the Ming Dynasty!
Karl nodded and said: "I want to learn the history of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin...how did he become the emperor?"
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