While waiting for the reply from Duda, Oberst Trimbach charges the captain of his first company to detach an ensign, corporal to mark off 200 paces downstream, identify the likeliest spot to ford and return to the regiment's main body...With no fords being thought to lie within the vicinity ,Duda and Trimbach call their men forward. The water is crossed, the Saschen-Vindow forces break and the enemy routed. The Tradgardlanders pursue them and soon the Regiments are scattered across the countryside. Trimbach and Duda become separated from each other and from their men...
Nice work in routing the Saschen-Vindowers. Just be careful your troops don't become so scattered they open themselves to being ambushed or defeated in detail!
ReplyDeleteRitter von Trimbach permits his men pursuit to the nearest defiles and woods' edge before seeking out his standard-bearers and bugler to sound recall. Leaving his colour guard at the vacated wolf-pits, Ritter von Trimbach orders his bugle to continue sounding recall while riding forward with his subordinate officers to rally the men back to the colours.
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