Chapter 1966: Collapse Operation

It was Lieutenant General Platen who took over command.

After Lieutenant General Platen took over command, he immediately led the troops to engage the Russian Army in combat.

He led the Prussian Army to launch an attack from the front of the valley, while the infantry of the Russian Army formed tight ranks, crushing the Prussian troops in battle.

The intensity of this battle had already made Naleishi feel like he was breaking down; he had never imagined that the Prussian troops would be so fierce.

Looking at the soldiers who had already died in battle ahead, the blood flowing from their bodies was about to converge into a river flowing through the valley.

Although Naleishi had experienced countless battles, he had never once experienced anything as tragic as today.

The battlefield had already seen three changes of generals, and his main forces had all been thrown into the fray; such a battle had stained even the lush green valley a deep crimson.

He was a believer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and upon seeing such a tragic situation, this benevolent general even dismounted, knelt on the ground, raised his hands, and prayed to the Lord in front of many generals.

He begged Him to help him escape this disaster and desperate situation, and to save his soldiers from the quagmire of death.

For those simple and unadorned peasant soldiers of the Russian Army, this was Naleishi, the general they had always trusted and loved!

Such an act undoubtedly added endless courage and confidence to them.

At this time, the troops under Boerniefu were guarding the Dashipici Highlands, relying on the geographical advantage of the Kungelunte Valley, and he was bombarding his enemies with cannons!

The Dashipici Highlands and Ermier Fort faced each other from afar, and were now heavily blockaded by dense arrays of Russian Army Musket Teams and artillerymen.

They intercepted all the Prussian troops.

Prussian soldiers who participated in this battle later recalled the details of the fight, unable to help but say: "It was a nightmare. The Russian troops formed lines eighty or even a hundred men deep on the highlands. They were a disorderly crowd, yet they were protected by fifty cannons spitting out a rain of grapeshot. We did not launch any attack on them, not even the slightest bit!"

"Their attacks let us see what Hell is, while our cannons let them see what the devil looks like."

The Russian Army Musket Teams knelt on one knee and fired continuously!

After one row fell, the row behind it would quickly fill the gap, as if it were endless; they did not know what retreat meant.

In fact, perhaps they also knew that retreating might mean being able to survive, but under such circumstances, not a single Russian soldier retreated.

They were like madmen, crouching there and frantically attacking the Prussian troops with the muskets in their hands.

Perhaps there were some who could not bear such a summons from Hell and truly closed their eyes and lay down, only to be dragged to the rear by their comrades behind them.

After they were routed, they let the soldiers of the Prussian Army step over their 'corpses'.

Then they would leap up and fire a bullet that could take their lives at these relaxed Prussian soldiers.

But this was not the most painful thing the Prussian soldiers encountered.

Although the individual weapons of the Russian Army were relatively inferior and of various calibers, this time, a large number of guns firing heavy lead bullets appeared in the hands of the Russian troops.

It is worth mentioning that these types of guns were originally developed by Longyan.

But now such guns suddenly appeared in the hands of the Russian troops; these muskets were powerful, but they were not very lethal weapons.

Once hit by a heavy lead bullet, it could make the Prussian troops temporarily lose their ability to fight, but it would not take their lives.

This would make them endure tremendous physical pain for a very long time.

But despite this, many in the Prussian Army crossed the valley floor, only to be wounded—but not killed—by the heavy lead-bullet muskets on the opposite side.

After they lost their ability to fight, they could only watch helplessly as they were pushed into the Kungetong Deep Valley by the Russian troops without any resistance.

In such a battle, soldiers on both sides fell into a state of extreme pain, and the battlefield was already full of corpses.

It was not just the frontal battlefield; due to the terrain of the Kungetong Valley and the disadvantage in firepower.

Fenlanke, who was trapped in the huge quagmire to the north, launched two large-scale diversionary attacks and gained nothing.

Instead, he left behind a large number of corpses.

His final result also ended in failure!

The stalemate between the two armies, as time passed, eventually led to one result.

The Prussian troops were in a state of total disadvantage.

Lieutenant General Platen, wanting to make a desperate attempt, made the decision to use all cavalry to launch a general attack without consulting Frederick II!

Under his leadership, the Prussian cavalry set out from the south side of Kunesdorf Village, attempting to bypass the Dashipici Highlands and strike westward to crush the Russian rear.

He wanted to turn the tide of the battle in this way, but obviously, this plan did not succeed.

I do not know if the Prussian troops had such a consistent tradition, but in the sky that was about to darken, General Platen could barely see anything.

The cavalry troops he led were the same; they did not notice at all that the area near the south of the Dashipici Highlands was covered with ponds, which was not conducive to marching at all.

Moreover, the five cavalry squadrons at the very front of the Prussian Army array mistakenly entered the fire coverage area of the artillery positions on the Dashipici Highlands.

These five cavalry squadrons were almost destroyed, and before the remaining Prussian cavalry troops could regroup, they were caught by a sliver of opportunity by General Laodong, a Russian Army general who came from a background of commanding light cavalry.

He immediately ordered the elite cavalry that had long been ready to launch an attack: the Russian Crown Prince's Cuirassier Regiment, the Third Cuirassier Regiment, the Kiev Cuirassier Regiment, the Kazan Cuirassier Regiment, the New Troitsk Cuirassier Regiment, the Ryazan Cuirassier Regiment, the Tobolsk Cuirassier Regiment, the Krakowiak Cuirassier Regiment, and the Liechtenstein Dragoon Regiment!

These cavalry regiments had a total force of twenty thousand men, and in less than half an hour, the Prussian cavalry, which had already been battered, was routed in one fell swoop!

The Prussian cavalry regiments, once invincible across Europe, could now only flee in panic through the ponds of the Dashipici Highlands.

Some Prussian cavalrymen were so dazed by the beating that they even gave up fleeing and plunged headlong into the ponds!

Some Prussian cavalrymen charged into their own infantry who were in the midst of fierce fighting.

Disrupting the ranks of their own troops.

On the other side, the Russian cavalry troops did not stop at all, continuing to drive the fleeing Prussian cavalry toward the Prussian infantry, making them disrupt their own ranks.

This situation left the Prussian soldiers, who had been fighting for sixteen hours and had seen thousands of their comrades die, stunned by their own cavalry fleeing in panic!

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