Chapter 1693: Oblique Order Tactics

The Saar River basin.

Frederick II set up his front-line command post among the mountains of the Saar River basin, making it convenient to receive various changes in the situation on the battlefield.

This time, when commanding the battle, Frederick II did not bring Little Peter along.

This would be a fierce battle.

At this moment, Frederick II watched the front line among the mountains advancing bit by bit; the oblique order tactics successfully kept the Austria Jun in check.

However, the Austria Jun still possessed more than twice the troop strength of the Prussian Army.

Prussia currently still lacked all kinds of Weaponry and Equipment, and the situation remained grim.

On the other side of the battlefield.

The commanding general of the Austria Jun had not expected at all that the Prussian Army would actually fight them head-on.

According to his intelligence, the current state of the Prussian Army was that they could barely even eat, they had no Weaponry and Equipment, and their troop strength was extremely sparse.

In such a state, the combat effectiveness of the Prussian Army must be low.

His crushing offensive, the Line Infantry Tactics, should have been able to achieve a one-wave crushing sweep; the Prussian Army should have had no ability to block it at all.

But the current situation completely exceeded his expectations.

The Prussian Army was actually fighting the Austria Jun head-on, and they were not losing the upper hand; this type of combat method of Frederick II directly checked the offensive momentum of their Austria Jun.

And because it was point-to-point combat.

He thought the Prussian Army no longer had any combat effectiveness, but in this duel, these Prussian troops erupted with astonishing combat power.

The individual combat capability of the Austria Jun was simply inferior to the soldiers of the Prussian Army.

A slight reversal appeared on the battlefield.

Upon seeing this, the Austria Jun commander immediately issued an order: "Split into four detachments, attack the Prussian Army from the mountain forests on the left and right sides, and achieve an encirclement!"

"Yes!"

Four detachments split off from the Austria Jun and advanced from the mountain forests on the left and right sides.

But what they did not know was that Frederick II had long anticipated such a situation and had set up an ambush in the mountains in advance.

The four Austria Jun detachments entered the mountains.

They soon clashed with the Prussian Army.

The Prussian Army utilized the Longyan Cannon exchanged from Ling Chen; this type of cannon, which was extremely suitable for mountain warfare, also exerted great power at this moment.

Cannonball after cannonball was fired, and the Austria Jun had absolutely no ability to resist.

The Austria Jun commander's plan to launch a surprise attack on the Prussian Army from the left and right sides ultimately suffered a heavy blow.

The situation on the battlefield fell into a brief stalemate.

Seeing his plan fail, the Austria Jun commander frowned deeply; if he could not think of a good Method, then this battle would end in a final victory for Prussia.

And at this time, while Frederick II was leading the Prussian Army in heroic combat against the Austria Jun.

He completely ignored the crisis coming from the sea.

The Swedish Army and the westward-expeditionary Orthodox Holy Crusade formed a United Army, setting out from the Baltic Sea and entering Pomerania.

Originally, the British army was fighting the Swedish Army in Hamburg.

They provided protection for Prussia's maritime defense line.

But the Baltic Sea was a sea that rejected the British Fleet.

Britain did not have a single port, and no ships were capable of passing through a sea surface that was almost entirely surrounded by land.

Regarding the United Army of the Swedish Army and the Holy Crusade attacking from the Baltic Sea, Britain did not receive any news.

The United Army was unimpeded on the sea surface.

Pomerania was land that the Swedish Army had long coveted; it possessed fertile soil and weather that was not too severe.

Although Sweden was a powerful country,

the weather in the region where it was located was truly too harsh.

This resulted in Sweden's population being very sparse; they needed a piece of land conducive to population development, and Prussia's Pomerania was a very good choice.

Moreover, at this time, Prussia was suffering the pain of war and had no ability to attend to its maritime defense line.

Although Pomerania was an important city for Prussia, it did not have many troops stationed there, which allowed the United Army to land successfully with ease.

At this time, on another battlefield in Europe.

The Saxony battlefield.

The 50,000 Longyan Army led by Liu Zheng was in the Halei Mountain, and one could say they were having a wonderful time.

Although they were fighting in a foreign land, the Longyan Army led by Liu Zheng fought with the feeling of a tour group.

On the contrary, the Saxony troops were conversely kept in check by the Longyan Army.

It was not that the King of Saxony had not thought about wiping out these Longyan Army troops led by Liu Zheng, but because the price to pay was too high, he had to switch to passive defense.

After all, Saxony only had this tiny bit of family assets.

If they were all destroyed by the Longyan Army, they would lose their status in Europe.

At this time, Liu Zheng looked at the map of Saxony.

Confronting each other like this every day was actually a very disadvantageous thing for the Longyan Army.

After all, this was Saxony's territory; the Longyan Army was able to live comfortably until now entirely by relying on the Longyan Army's intelligence system, and such frequent mobilization of the intelligence system very easily exposed problems.

Liu Zheng absolutely would not allow the intelligence system that Longyan had operated here for a long time to lose its effectiveness.

The Longyan Army had to take action and destroy the industrial zones of Saxony completely.

Although Liu Zheng was trapped on the mountains of Saxony, he knew all the news about the European battlefield.

Ever since Prince Soubise captured Berlin and retreated helplessly after staying for one day, Prussia has been in turmoil.

Frederick II has been dealing with a constant stream of crises.

The Austria Jun attacking from Xilixi and heading straight for Berlin is definitely not good news for Frederick II.

Although he has pinned down the Saxony troops, he lacks the ability to pin down the Holy Cross Army of Soubise; although this Holy Cross Army is small in number, it requires the cooperation of the Saxony troops.

However, it is capable of flexible combat.

Liu Zheng's true target is the Holy Cross Army of Prince Soubise!

He cannot continue to wear down the Saxony troops.

Liu Zheng looks at the map; they are on a mountain, and the heavy industrial zone at the foot of the mountain is gathered with a large number of Saxony troops, while the Longyan Army has only a meager fifty thousand men.

A frontal assault is impossible.

For the Longyan Army, they can win countless times, but if they lose just once, it is a total defeat with no possibility of victory.

Liu Zheng falls into deep thought regarding how to launch a surprise attack on the heavily guarded Saxony troops.

He thinks of the war documentaries he watched in his previous life; when facing a heavily guarded defense, there is no Method to break through on the ground.

Then he must find a Method to break through from the sky.

"It's a pity there are no Engines now, and no way to manufacture airplanes..." Liu Zheng smiles, but suddenly a flash of brilliance sparks in his mind.

Who says an air raid must require airplanes?

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