Baron Werneck was overjoyed at once.
The French were so eager to attack that they had not even formed up properly. His own side had also deployed in haste, but at least they had already drawn up an Infantry Line.
So long as there were no mistakes in command, the French Army's surprise attack was simply delivering achievements into his hands!
He immediately issued a series of orders in a calm voice. "The Hussar Battalion is to disperse the enemy Artillery at once. "The Horse Artillery is to deploy beside the thickets to the south and attack the enemy's left wing. "The reserve force is to move south..."
After several officers departed with their orders, Werneck still did not feel secure enough. He took the Guard and rode to the front line, personally overseeing the Infantry Line's battle.
More than ten minutes later, the "loose and ragged" French Army attack formation had charged to within a little over two hundred paces of the Austrian vanguard.
Even now, Werneck had failed to notice that although the French Soldiers' formation was disorderly, the seven or eight thousand men had maintained the same pace of advance throughout, with almost no change in their relative positions.
That could only have come from long training.
Austria's Horse Artillery had also reached its designated positions. The soldiers hurriedly unhitched the wagons and prepared to begin firing.
Following Archduke Karl's military reforms, Austria had also established French-style Horse Artillery units. Their mobility could not compare with their French counterparts, but they were still several times faster than ordinary Artillery, capable of suddenly appearing at crucial points to launch attacks.
However, at that very moment, a force of six or seven hundred French Hussars charged up from the river valley to the southeast, only a little over three