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Then he went on: "I should say we might give out that we are three Saxons who, having been forced at Pirna to enter the Prussian army, had been taken prisoners at Hochkirch and had been marched down with the others to Vienna; and that there, on stating who we were and how we had been forced against our will into Frederick's army, we were at once released, and are now on our way back to Saxony; and are tramping through Bavaria, so as to avoid the risk of being seized and compelled to serve either in the Austrian army or the Prussian; and that we are working our way, doing a job wherever we can get a day or two's employment, but that at present, having worked for a time at Vienna, we are able to go on for a bit without doing so.
When, however, ho is completely humbled, when, to this great victory at Hochkirch, we add new triumphs, when we have taken Silesia and revenged Saxony, then he might die; then we will seek a sure hand which understands the dagger and its uses. Until then, silence and caution; until then this contest must be carried on with every weapon which wisdom and craft can place in our hands.
"A good deal more, major. It looks as if the Austrians were beating up our quarters in earnest." "It does indeed." When they reached Hochkirch they found the troops there astir. The cavalry trumpets were sounding to horse, and the clamour round the village told that the troops encamped there were getting under arms. "Do you know what is going on to the right, sir?"
The orders were that, as soon as Hochkirch was taken, the rest of the army, sixty thousand strong, were to march against Frederick, both in front and on his left, and so completely smash and crumple him up. Frederick had no premonition of the storm that was gathering.
And settles within two miles of Bautzen; his left being at Doberschutz, on the strong ground he held after Hochkirch, while Daun, two years ago, sat watching so quiescent.
Retzow, who had been restored to his command, had ten or twelve thousand men lying in or behind Weissenberg, four miles away. Frederick's force, with that of Keith, amounted to twenty-eight thousand men, and Retzow's command was too far away to be considered as available. Daun's force, lying within a mile of Hochkirch, amounted to ninety thousand men.
Prince Maurice of Dessau, riding in the dark till within twenty yards of the Austrians, was badly hit; and the storm of case and musket bullets that swept the approaches to Hochkirch was so terrible that Frederick's battalion had to fall back. "The first thing is to find the marshal," Fergus said, as he rode out of Hochkirch. "He must be somewhere to the right."
The Prussians have vedettes, pickets and small outposts of Free-corps people scattered about within their border of that Austrian Wood, the body of which, about Hochkirch as everywhere else, belongs wholly to Croats.
The king with the main body arrived at Bautzen on the following day, and halted there, to see what Daun was going to do. The latter was, in fact, obliged to abandon his stronghold; for the Prussians, at Hochkirch, menaced the road by which he drew his provisions from his magazines at Zittau.
Are to wait for the stroke of five in Hochkirch steeple; and there and then to begin business, there first; but, on success THERE, the whole 90,000 everywhere, and to draw the strings on Friedrich, and bag and strangle his astonished people and him. The difficulty has been to keep it perfectly secret from so vigilant a man as Friedrich: but Daun has completely succeeded.
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