The vast majority of the remaining Prussian Army chose to surrender. Crown Prince Frederick William was captured and permanently deafened in both ears, while Frederick Charles, the Prince of the Blood and commander of the Prussian First Army, was killed in action.
Karl Herwarth von Bittenfeld, commander of the Elbe Army, went missing. Of the ninety-three generals who took part in the battle, twenty-seven were killed, nineteen went missing, and another forty-seven were captured.
Of Prussia's 336,000 troops committed to the war, 43,000 were killed, 142,000 captured, and another 151,000 went missing.
Though the Prince of the Blood had died a gruesome death, at least his body could still be found. General Karl Herwarth von Bittenfeld's body could not even be located.
Franz did not yet know these precise figures. All he knew was that, according to telegrams sent back from the front, the Prussian Army's morale was remarkably steady, and the frontline forces were clearing the battlefield and carrying out the final cleanup.
Three hundred thousand rockets was indeed an astonishing number. Even more incomprehensible was that no one had known beforehand that Königgrätz held so many rockets in reserve.
That was naturally for reasons of secrecy. After all, the fewer people who knew such a secret, the better.
Of course, some clever people would think of an even more terrifying question: had Franz known all along that this would be the site of the decisive battle?
That could not help but set imaginations running wild.
After all, Franz had come from the future, so he understood the key points of the Austro-Prussian War rather well.
But he could not be certain that history would repeat itself. Still, after repeated analysis by the Austrian Imperial General Staff, the Empire's generals all concluded that Königgrätz would likely be the key