The distance of 30 kilometers is not far. After getting the news, it took only 3 hours for the Austrian 9th Army to appear outside Prague. At this time, the gates of Prague were closed tightly, and a large number of Bohemian soldiers were defending on the city walls. Seeing this situation, General Gener, head of the Austrian Ninth Army, fully believed that Bohemia had made up its mind to break away from the Austrian Empire. Although he didn't know why Frederick dared to do this? Especially when the situation was very tense, but he knew that Frederick must have something to rely on, otherwise Frederick would never dare to joke about his own life and the situation in Bohemia.
"Send the order, attack the city! Destroy all those who dare to betray the empire." Gener ordered directly to avoid long nights and dreams.
More than 10,000 Austrian soldiers attacked Prague under the cover of artillery. Although the quality of the Bohemian soldiers was far from the opponents of the regular Austrian army, Prague was a fortified city, and the Austrian army lacked siege tools. For a while, the two sides were evenly matched.
Frederick had heard the news when the Austrian army had just begun to attack the city. Although he knew that things were irreversible at this point, he still couldn't help being a little worried. After all, Austria had been ruled by Austria for so many years, and Austria's prestige had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Fortunately, the Bohemian army blocked the attack of the Austrian 9th Army, so Frederick felt relieved.
"General, we lack siege tools. I'm afraid it will be difficult to take down Prague in a short period of time." A major general of the Austrian 9th Army reported to Generhui.
"Now we don't have time to prepare siege tools at all. We must capture Prague as soon as possible and capture Frederick and others. Otherwise, things will change later. The order was passed, the artillery was concentrated, and the city wall of Prague was bombarded." Gener ordered. . Now he can only use benzene. He believes that as long as the city walls of Prague can be destroyed, it will be very easy to eliminate those Bohemian mobs with the army in his hands.
The intention of the Austrian army was quickly learned by the Bohemian army. In order to prevent the successful plot of the Austrian army, the Bohemian army was forced to gather all the cannons in an attempt to destroy the Austrian artillery positions. Thus, a artillery battle started. In terms of the scale and quality of the artillery, the Bohemian artillery fell behind. The only thing that may have the upper hand is that the performance of the artillery is a little higher than that of the Austrian army. As early as the preparation stage of the plan, France and Bohemia sent 20 75mm field guns from France to Prague through secret channels by disassembling and reassembling the artillery, as a countermeasure against Bohemia. One of the free aid.
The artillery battle ended without a winner, for the simple reason that it was already dark, and Gener had to order a pause in the attack. His army was not used to fighting at night, and after traveling such a long distance, the soldiers were very tired after fighting for so long. But he believed that the longer the time dragged on, the worse it would be for him. He speculated that perhaps a large number of reinforcements belonging to Bohemia were heading towards Prague.
On the second day, the attack of the Austrian 9th Army was much more violent. Except for 10,000 people reserved as a reserve team to deal with emergencies, all others participated in the attack. Suddenly, the pressure on the Bohemian army increased a lot. The result of the artillery battle was slowly becoming clear. After paying huge casualties, the artillery of the Austrian 9th Army finally destroyed all the artillery of the Bohemian army. Now they have enough time to bombard the city walls of Prague. Although Prague's city walls are built of solid granite, under the full bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces, it is believed that it will not last long. Gunner believed that his army could reach Prague in a maximum of two hours.
The Austrian army attacked on a large scale and the artillery was wiped out, which completely panicked Frederick. In addition, the urgent news kept coming, so that he had no idea at all, and hurriedly ran to Kang Penny's residence.
Seeing Frederick's flustered appearance, Campini scorned fiercely in his heart. But I am also a little happy, because the lower Frederick's ability is, the better it will be for France to control Bohemia in the future.
DeWitt can be regarded as a relatively talented officer. After discovering that the Austrian 9th Army had begun an all-out attack, he ordered the soldiers to actively resist while preparing for street fighting. He also understands his mission very well. He doesn't care whether Prague will be broken by the Austrian army. What he cares about is whether the Austrian 9th Army can be held back before reinforcements arrive.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon on March 13, the southern city wall of Prague was blasted by the artillery of the Austrian 9th Army to open a hole about 50 meters long, and a large number of Austrian soldiers rushed into Prague from there. When DeWitt saw the situation, he knew that it was difficult to block the opening, so he decisively ordered the soldiers to abandon the defense of the city wall, retreat into various streets, and start street fighting with the Austrian army, delaying time.
The street fighting was extremely brutal. Both the Austrian and Bohemian troops lost a lot in the street fighting for several hours, but in general, the Austrian army still had the advantage. However, in fact, it was the innocent civilians who suffered the most losses. Due to the sudden incident, the citizens living in Prague had no time to escape from Prague for refuge. Therefore, in the offensive of the Austrian army, they suffered heavy casualties.
At night, the Austrian army had controlled one-third of Prague, but it was still unable to completely destroy the resistance of the Bohemian army. The battle continued to stalemate. But Gener always had a very bad premonition, as if danger was coming.
On the morning of March 14, the Austrian 14th Army suddenly appeared in Prague and flanked the Austrian 9th Army with the Bohemian Army. Göner knew why he was uneasy. It turned out that the Austrian Fourteenth Army was already in Frederick's hands. It's no wonder that the Austrian 14th Army was originally mainly composed of Bohemians, and it seemed normal for them to fall to Frederick. The Austrian 9th Army, which had fought fiercely with the Bohemian Army for two days, could not withstand the two-sided attack at all. After seeing that the victory was hopeless, Göner decisively issued an order to retreat. Since it cannot succeed, the most important thing is to preserve strength. The Austrian 9th Army withdrew from the battle under Göner's order, and taught the pursuing 14th Army a lesson, and then got rid of the 14th Army's pursuit and retreated south. In this battle, the Austrian Ninth Army lost more than 10,000 people, but the Bohemian army suffered even more losses, with more than 20,000 casualties.
While the Austrian 9th Army was fighting fiercely with the Bohemian Army, the French Iberian 2nd Army also launched an attack on the Austrian 12th Army stationed in the Bohemian Mountains. Due to the disparity in strength between the two sides, and the surprise attack by the French army, the Austrian 12th Army suffered heavy losses as soon as the battle started, and had to send people to ask for support, and at the same time retreated to the Bohemian Mountains to hold on.
On March 13, the French 2nd Army attacked the Bohemian Mountains from the north, and the rear of the Austrian 12th Army was completely cut off. Facing the attack of more than 200,000 French troops, the Austrian 12th Army simply didn't have the courage to fight back. After persisting for a day, they all walked out of their positions and surrendered.
Afterwards, the 2nd Iberian Army entered the Principality of Salzburg and launched an attack on the Enns River defense line from the 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 respectively to attack Austria together with the Iberian 2nd Army~www.mtlnovel.com~ and Austria was in Enns Four legions, with a total strength of 160,000 troops, were also invested on the front line of the river, and by virtue of the Enns River, the French army was firmly blocked to the west of the Enns River.
The French 2nd Army also launched an attack on Austria from Bohemia. Of course, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Kingdom of Saxony also sent 1 army each, with a total of 80,000 people participating in the battle. At the same time, the former Austrian 14th Army, now the Bohemian 1st Army, was also strapped to French tanks. Several troops added up to 240,000 people, and launched an attack from north to south.
In addition, the main force of the Iberian 1st Army and the Iberian 3rd Army stationed in Italy also began their attack on Slovenia, threatening Austria from the south.
The troops from the three directions of France, plus the soldiers from the slave country, reached a total of 600,000 people, which immediately plunged Austria into crisis.
Before the French offensive began, Francis I was furious because of Bohemia's betrayal, clamoring to destroy the entire Bohemia. Also, order the three legions stationed in northern Austria to go north immediately to assist the 9th legion, and must suppress the betrayal of Bohemia. But then, the large-scale French offensive began, and he had to focus on dealing with the French offensive, while the three armies going north and the Austrian 9th Army and the French North Army launched in southern Bohemia. Fierce battle.