Marshal Lacy was suddenly bewildered. Hadn't the entire French Army gone to support Leao at Ratibor, and their Crown Prince was still encircled by the enemy at Oberon, so where did these people come from?
Even more confused than him were the Prussian Cavalry tasked with the pursuit.
Previously, they had been eagerly pursuing and killing the routed Austrian soldiers without scouting the vicinity—after all, an army of fifteen thousand in disarray, with countless dead and wounded, who would think the Austrian Allied Forces would ambush their own troops behind them?
Yes, Joseph had ambushed the Guard Corps behind the Austrian line of defense.