As mentioned earlier, the four-nation alliance of France, Austria, Switzerland, and Russia besieged Prussia, and Frederick the Great was defeated by Austria at Colin, and the indestructible golden body was destroyed.
Prussia at this time could no longer defeat Austria before the allies were on the front lines. By the end of September 1757, the Four-Power Alliance had reached most of its designated positions. On October 16, 1757, a small force of the Austrian army marched to Berlin to scare the Prussians, and the Prussians did not know the truth, so that the Austrian army extorted a sum of money and fled, in fact, the Austrian army had only 3400 hussars.
The four-nation coalition was originally fighting with each other and wanted to reap the benefits, and the composition of personnel in the armies of various countries was also very complicated, so the troops of various countries often did not cooperate in place. At this time, the Russian general Arpraksin Jr., mistakenly believing that Tsar Elizabeth I was seriously ill, actually withdrew his army from East Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad, we are familiar with Königsberg). You know, it is difficult for the Russian army to come out of the country once. Frederick the Great was now free to pack up the French in Saxony. He led a tired division of 21,000 men to the vicinity of Rosbach, west of Leipzig, and encountered a coalition of about 41,000 French and Holy Roman Empires.
Frederick the Great faced a coalition of many people, but many of them were Protestants, the same as Prussia, and the Holy Roman Empire was the first German Empire, and many Germans did not want to fight the Germans. The quality of the armies of the holy Roman Empire and the French army was also uneven, the generals were not very familiar, and the execution of orders was always inadequate, which led to a fatal problem, that is, the disjointment of the march. The Allied general, Marshal Subiz, wanted to block prussian communications and supply routes and force the Prussians to retreat, so the Allied forces were always at war with the Prussians.
Frederick the Great's army, though tired, was highly trained and marched uniformly. On 5 November, as the Allies continued to circle with the Prussians, the armies of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire, were disconnected from the French army as they marched. Frederick the Great, who was watching the battle on a roof in Rothbard, immediately seized the fighter and ordered 3800 cavalry to attack and crush the right wing of the coalition army with thunder. Before the enemy could regroup, seven infantry battalions of Prince Henry, the brother of the King of Prussia, burst into the center of the French army, and within 90 minutes the Battle of Rothbard was over.
With just 550 Prussian casualties, the Allied forces lost 7,000 men. King George II was overjoyed, and at this time he finally unified the opinions of the various ministers, and the alliance with Prussia was more secure. On January 24, 1758, firecrackers were set off on the streets of London, and the citizens opened fire in the air to celebrate Frederick the Great's 46th birthday. But Frederick the Great was not in the mood to celebrate at all, because the Russian army on the Eastern Front had returned.
After the initial defeat of the war, Frederick the Great shined in Rothbbach, contributing the classic example of winning more with less. What is the fate that awaits Frederick the Great? Let's wait and see.
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