Chapter 844 I can't stop at all
Sirte only felt that all this was as accurate as his pocket watch, except for the soldiers who might have worked hard - they were all going to have supper, now But you have to cross the river before you can rest.
The east bank of the Zeer River was silent, and only the small village in the distance had occasional lights jumping. In a trance, Sirte felt like he was returning to the Rhine River.
The next day, a total of 16,000 troops from Surte and Udino began to march towards Trier.
Until this time, the entire Archdiocese of Trier had realized that France had launched a full-scale counterattack and was the first prey.
Sirte shook the reins lightly, looked at Udino with shock in his eyes: "You mean, in order to lure the enemy into depth, His Royal Highness personally rallied his horse in front of the Prussian position and loudly ridiculed Ferdinand in front of the Prussian position?"
< br> "It's true that it was the inscription of Colonel Massena who told me in person." Udino waved his whip and spitted everywhere, "Ferdinand was so angry that he ordered more than 3,000 Prussian Hussars to rush towards His Highness, His Highness But he led the Royal Third Cavalry Battalion to counterattack on the spot, killing the Prussians to a defeat..."
He was on the west bank of the Sauer River at that time, and what he heard was second-hand news.
In the minds of French soldiers, the prince must have been more than just luring the enemy into the deep, so he casually added something he thought was "reasonable".
Sirte looked full of reverence: "The courage of the crown prince is really admirable. There is no doubt that he is the soul of all French soldiers!"
"May God bless His Highness the Prince."
Udino crossed his chest and soon talked to Sulte about the deployment of attacking Trier: "Our primary goal is Te Fortress Lille.
"I've been there a few times, and if the Triers are ready for defense, we have to pay a lot of casualties to conquer it. "
Surtit head: "There are also the Roman-era walls left in the city. Only a few hundred soldiers garrison on it will cause us great trouble..."< br>
【Trier's Old City Wall】
Just as the two of them were discussing countermeasures with serious expressions, two Rangers rushed towards each other and shouted excitedly from a distance: "Sir, the City of Trier has surrendered!"
Su Erte and Udino looked at each other in surprise, their eyes full of disbelief.
"You confirm that they surrendered?"
A cavalry lieutenant gestured: "Our forward is still 5 kilometers away from Trier City, and Archbishop Trier opened the city to surrender. "The remaining city defense forces immediately opened the city gate when they saw our flag from afar. ”
Trier is an archbishop, a small state ruled by the church, and his military power is originally relatively weak. Previously, at the request of Franz II, Trier's most combative bishops' guard and the Swiss guard were sent to Luxembourg, and at this time there were only more than 1,000 soldiers left in the city.
And the French army came too suddenly.
Article Clemens was enjoying breakfast when he heard the news of "tens of thousands of French troops attacking". He had no idea of resistance at all, so he ordered to give up resisting surrender.
Sirte and Udino did not expect it to be so smooth. Amid the cheers of the soldiers, the two of them had just discussed it briefly and reached an agreement-the entire army continued to march northwards urgently. , capture Koblenz before other German states react!
Kobrenz is the most important ferry in the northern section of the Rhine River. Taking over this place is like holding a sharp blade that can penetrate the hinterland of Germany at any time. And starting from Koblenz, you can reach Mainz, another major crossing on the Rhine River, in just two days.
After controlling these two ferries, the main passage from the mainland of Germany to the Rhineland was cut off!
Two and a half days later, the French raid troops rushed 85 kilometers and arrived at the outskirts of Kobrentz.
Up to this time, no German state sent troops to reinforce Trier, and Kobrentz's defenders had only more than 1,000 people.
This cannot be blamed on the surrounding Mainz, Nassau and other countries for not coming to help. The French army is moving too fast.
Just like Nassau, they received a request for help yesterday morning, and now they have just completed the assembly of troops, and they will not be able to arrive in Koblenz as soon as possible.
Sirte first asked the messenger to hand over Archbishop Clemens's letter of surrender to Kobrentz's defenders. After waiting for a long time, he saw that there was no response, so he ordered the artillery to start attacking Ellen. Brightstein Fortress - Koblenz, as the most important ferry on the Rhine, has built a large fortress group over hundreds of years, the most important of which is.
However, the fortress lacking troops to defend does not play much role. The French army's cannons had just fired seven or eight rounds, and a white flag was raised from the fortress.
Sirte asked Udino to stay in Kobrentz, and at noon the next day he led his army to continue to march southward towards Mainz.
They had already completed the scheduled combat mission, but the battlefield situation was really good - most of the German troops were concentrated in Luxembourg, and the French army was almost uninhabited in the Rhineland region. , This made Sirte unable to stop even if he wanted to.
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A day later, the Sirte army encountered a Mainz unit north of San Goa - probably rushed to Kobrentz for reinforcements.
Sirte defeated the Mainz army with less than 3,000 people without much effort, and then continued to go south, and the next day, the soldiers occupied Mainz with almost no defensive forces without bloodshed.
At this point, after 8 days of crossing the Zere River by Sirte and Udino, their legions have swept nearly half of the Rhineland area.
And because of controlling two important ferries, both Palatinate and Yulich have been cut off from the east coast of the Rhine and have almost become fish on the chopping board.
On the day Sirte and Udino met, Massena's main force also launched a full-scale counterattack against the coalition forces.
70,000 French elite direct legion soldiers attacked at the same time from both east and south.
The coalition forces were chasing the French prince for several consecutive days, resulting in a messy formation. There are even many legions that don't even know where the Duke of Brunswick are.
When the French army, who had been holding back for a long time, suddenly rushed over, the loose coalition was powerless to resist and was driven to Werz in just one day.
The Duke of Brunswick had never expected a defeat and hurriedly set up a defense line in Werz, but after only less than half a day, he was once again captured by the French army.
He was already in power at this time, so he had to leave Tao Enqi'en to cut off the rear and ordered the main force to retreat to Trier immediately.
Just less than ten minutes after his retreat order was issued, a pale-faced apologist came to report to him: "Master Marshal, the French army has controlled the entire territory of Trier. Advancing towards Mainz. "
(This chapter ends)