Chapter 2025: Pursuit and Attack

At this time, on the European battlefield.

Due to the failure of the war, although Frederick II quickly assembled a force of 32,000 men.

However, another unit of the Austrian Army was on a different battlefield, forcing 12,000 soldiers of the Puluosi Budui to surrender.

Having experienced successive defeats, Prussia could only choose to passively shift into defense.

And on the Hanover battlefield.

The British commander learned belatedly that their opponent, the French force led by Prince Soubise, had long since been routed by the force led by Ling Chen.

Only at this moment did they realize the terrifying nature of the force led by Ling Chen.

The information about Prince Soubise's split-force march was also something they had just learned.

But the Longyan Army seemed to have known it long ago, and had already set an ambush in advance to launch an attack.

From this perspective, France's defeat was not without reason; Britain could now only be astonished at the speed and accuracy with which the Longyan Army obtained intelligence.

By comparison, their own acquisition of war intelligence seemed so insignificant.

With the French force resolved, the western battlefield of Prussia temporarily gained peace.

This provided a great stabilizing effect for Prussia, though Longyan and Britain were currently only helping Prussia maintain this one place, Hanover.

They would absolutely not intervene in the battlefields of other regions.

And at this time, the total force capable of combat for Prussia on the entire European battlefield was only 110,000 men, not even as many as the number of the Austrian Army on the southern battlefield.

And at this time, the 12,000 men deployed by Prussia in Xilixi could not withstand the attack of the Austria Jun and were ultimately completely annihilated.

Far away on the front line, after Frederick II learned of this news, his heart, numbed by defeat, trembled.

But the crisis they were facing now was also extremely huge.

Frederick II had already discovered the Russian-Austrian Allied Forces secretly following them.

He had to shake off this Russian-Austrian Allied Forces following them as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, what awaited their unit could be a devastating blow.

Frederick II used the jungle to confuse his opponents.

He split his troops, creating the possibility of marching in multiple directions within the woods.

General Laixi, who was leading the Russian-Austrian Allied Forces in close pursuit, received a report from his scouts.

"Report, General, the Prussian force appears to be marching in multiple directions; shall we pursue?"

Hearing this information, General Laixi frowned, though it was within his expectations; it was normal for the opposing force to have discovered their tracks.

Even if a force of 20,000 men were perfectly hidden, the march of such a large group of people.

It was impossible for there to be not the slightest movement.

"Bring the map."

Two soldiers brought over a table and spread the map out flat on it.

This area was a jungle along a river; for the sake of a stealthy march, General Laixi had not followed Frederick II's force too closely.

He only ensured that the opposing force did not move out of his force's field of vision.

However, this was only an expedient measure; to facilitate General Laixi's observation, the scouts marked Frederick II's march route on the map.

General Laixi looked at the chaotic march routes; they appeared to have no pattern, but if one were to extend them along these march routes.

It was not hard to see that every route was a decent path of advance; no matter which one was chosen, these march routes were all real.

General Laixi had no way to deduce from such march routes which one was the true march route of Prussia.

His brows slowly furrowed; if he were to let his own force all go to follow, that would disperse their strength.

If they were to encounter an attack by the Prussian force during this process, that would be a failed operation.

After thinking of this, General Laixi decided to give up tracking the Prussian force and instead turn to intercept them on their inevitable path ahead.

This was his last chance.

After thinking of this, General Laixi immediately mobilized his force.

Although the march routes of the Prussian force were exceptionally messy, the final offensive target of the Prussian force was very easy for people to know.

At this time, the main force of the Russian-Austrian Allied Forces was attacking Xilixi.

This was the most important place for Prussia so far, and the entire war was also unfolding around this region.

Xilixi was simply too wealthy; Frederick II could not watch this region fall.

Therefore, he decided to intercept the Prussian force on the inevitable path leading to Xilixi.

After the interception force led by General Laixi made its plan, Naleishi reinforced their force.

By the time General Laixi began his operation, their force had already reached a strength of 40,000 men.

And Frederick II had a force of 32,000 men at his disposal.

This looked like the odds of winning were a bit greater for General Laixi.

But the reconnaissance techniques Frederick II had learned from the Longyan Army came in very handy.

Their force was the first to scout out the tracks of General Laixi intercepting them.

Frederick II decided to strike first and use greater speed to shake off General Laixi's interception.

He made his decision.

"We will ambush their current supply column, forcing them to have to seek supplies, and we can take advantage of the time to shake off their force."

According to General Laixi's plan, their supply column was marching in the lead, keeping a distance from the main force.

This formed mutual support between the two units, avoiding a surprise attack while in this jungle.

They were not very familiar with the terrain of this jungle.

However, this gave Frederick II an opportunity.

Having long since obtained General Laixi's march movements, Frederick II launched an attack on Laixi's force without the slightest hesitation.

Their forces split into two armies to launch the attack.

Frederick II personally led the main force into an "accidental encounter" with General Laixi's main force.

Upon seeing the main force led by Frederick II, General Laixi immediately made the decision to attack the Puluosi Budui; this battle was already unavoidable.

With this battle, their encirclement plan completely collapsed.

The strength of Prussia was far inferior to the troops led by General Laixi.

Seeing that Frederick II had discovered his troops, General Laixi was surprised to find him abandon the fight and lead a group of defeated soldiers in a mad dash into the jungle, not even noticing the Marshland beside them.

Seeing the state of Frederick II's troops, General Laixi did not harbor any suspicions.

Ever since Longyan decided to stop providing military aid to Prussia and only provide financial and weapon assistance.

Their troops had been suffering defeat after defeat.

Even now, the total force they could mobilize was only 110,000 men.

Such a force was simply pitifully small.

These defeated soldiers were likely the last of Frederick II's troops.

Thinking of this, it was even more impossible for General Laixi to let them go; they immediately launched an offensive, attacking the fleeing Puluosi Budui.

However, General Laixi overlooked one thing: they were not that familiar with this jungle.

The distance between their main force and their supply troops was growing larger and larger.

And at this moment, the Puluosi Budui, which had long been hidden in the shadows, launched an attack on General Laixi's supply troops.