At this time, the Tsarist Russian troops took the opportunity to counterattack!
Their cavalry regiments gathered together and launched a general attack on the Prussian troops. They fought against the Prussian troops until six o'clock in the afternoon!
The Prussian infantry and cavalry were all paralyzed.
Upon seeing this, Frederick II wanted to save the outcome of the war. He carried the flag of the Prussian troops and shouted to the defeated soldiers: "If you are still brave soldiers, follow me!"
However, this time, no one answered.
All the soldiers were exhausted, and the fear of death in battle had occupied their numb hearts.
It was completely impossible to continue fighting. They collapsed and gave up resistance.
As for the Tsarist Russian commander Naresh on Fort Yudenburg, he also put down his telescope at this moment. He no longer needed a telescope to see clearly the scenery on the highlands in the distance.
The originally green high ground was now dilapidated. The artillery fire had turned over the soil on the high ground over and over again. The soil was mixed with blood red to form a terrifying color.
Looking around, there are corpses everywhere.
He didn't know how much damage their troops had suffered in this battle, and he didn't know whether they would win this battle, let alone whether the Prussian troops still had the ability to attack.
He threw all the pessimistic predictions behind him and said to the generals behind him: "Soldiers and generals, congratulations on your victory, a complete victory!"
At this time, the cavalry of the Tsarist Russian troops was still chasing the remaining Prussian troops.
After experiencing such a battle, Frederick II had to continue fleeing north.
The remaining troops assembled at Fort Mill were making a final stand, trying to buy their troops a little time.
However, under the Tsarist Russian army's Drew howitzers, Unicorn artillery and their fierce infantry, this remaining force of only 600 people was quickly annihilated.
Frederick II, who continued to flee, was unable to help the remaining troops.
Behind him are the Tsarist Russian troops who are constantly pursuing them. If they are caught, Prussia will be doomed!
At this time, dangers abounded, and Frederick II encountered the 49th Infantry Regiment who came to support.
Although they are an infantry regiment, they are also equipped with muskets. Although they are a new infantry regiment established through the restructuring of engineers.
But these new soldiers who had just arrived on the battlefield formed a phalanx and fought tenaciously like veterans until they were crushed by the Tsarist Russian troops!
At this time, Frederick II and his few followers were hiding behind these heroic recruits.
Keep praying that they can stop the Russian army.
However, the enemy's fierce attack soon engulfed these brave soldiers. Even on the way to escape, two of Frederick II's beloved horses were killed in battle.
He himself also suffered great injuries, and even a bullet hit him in the chest. Fortunately, there was a cloth bag there, and inside the cloth bag was his gold snuff box.
It was this snuff box that saved his life, but on the way in, the most vicious force, the Cossack cavalry, met him unexpectedly like a shadow.
Two squadrons of his Guards regiment were wiped out!
The commander was captured, the flag was seized, and the entire unit lost at least half of its strength. If it had not been for the timely support of Saito's hussars, he would have been captured alive by the Cossack cavalry!
When Frederick II recalled this experience, he lamented that although he had encountered countless crises, this one was the most humiliating one for him!
But later, after he knew who the founder of this Cossack army was, he felt even more absurd about his fate.
The strongest Cossack cavalry team in Tsarist Russia was actually one of the few legacies left by Marshal Minih of their German nation.
At this time, night has fallen, and the gods in the sky seem to be fighting in a melee, emitting rolling thunder and lighting up everything on the battlefield.
After the battle ended, the Tsarist Russian troops began to search for injured soldiers on the battlefield, kill them, and get their belongings. This was a plunder from hell.
Of the 50,000 soldiers gathered by the Prussian army, only 3,000 fled under the command of Frederick II.
They had thrown away all their supplies, and hunger, thirst and exhaustion were like sticky monsters wrapped around them, telling them with the simplest touch that they were still alive.
But it would be better to die.
The living soldiers have to endure the hunger in their bellies and listen to the wails of their compatriots around them. They evaluate themselves this way: they are ghosts in hell, and everything around them has long become numb.
However, all this is not the most desperate. For the Tsarist Russian troops, they won the victory and were temporarily relieved from the war.
But for the Prussian soldiers, they were not even halfway through the war.
Even in this state, Frederick II, who wanted to quickly leave the battlefield and reorganize the army, still adhered to Prussia's most stringent military regulations and used active and strict military discipline to restrain this army that had lost its fighting spirit.
And to make a comeback again.
He also requested that Major General Fleming strictly inspect the defeated soldiers, and that no one except senior officers and wounded personnel should be reorganized on the spot.
This situation made the soldiers who were already suffering even more pain.
After Frederick II was out of danger, he immediately handed over the command of the remaining troops to Lieutenant General Augustus and ordered him to swear an oath of allegiance to his successor William II!
After everything was done, he rushed back to the West Bank front and continued to gather troops to join the army.
This war is far from over. He needs these remaining troops to defend his country.
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In this war, the Prussian troops dispatched a total of 53 infantry battalions, 95 cavalry squadrons, 140 heavy artillery pieces, 100 light artillery pieces, and a total of 50,900 people including artillery and engineers. , the loss after the war was 19,100 men and 170 artillery pieces!
The Tsarist Russian troops dispatched 86 infantry battalions, 71 cavalry squadrons, 248 artillery pieces, a total of 59,500 people, and lost 15,500 people after the war!
The Prussian army could be said to have suffered a disastrous defeat, but the cost of victory paid by the Tsarist Russian army was also extremely high. After this battle, the entire Kungetron Valley was stained with blood, and the fields were covered with the corpses of soldiers.
After this battle, for a long time, the Prussian troops and the Russian-Austrian coalition forces were temporarily unable to continue fighting.
The Russian and Austrian forces temporarily gave up their plan to attack Berlin. They needed to revise and did not further expand their results.
During this period of time, Frederick II relied on soldiers and civilians from various places to supplement the defeated troops and regroup the scattered troops.
His troops actually quickly reached 35,000 troops again.
This should have been a happy thing, but for Frederick II, he was still pessimistic because the life span of his troops had been extended from days to weeks.
Everyone knows that this is obviously impossible.
This war is far from over.
And they must regroup their forces and continue to attack towards their respective goals.
