Blücher hastily issued a string of orders, preparing for a decisive battle against the approaching French Army.
The Prussian Army stood ready and waited for nearly three hours. Only when the Hussars returned and reported to Blücher that there were merely three thousand or so French troops on the northwest side did he realize he had been fooled. He immediately cursed and ordered the advance to continue.
Yet after they had gone less than four kilometers, the Prussian Army's left flank came under artillery fire again, forcing the army of tens of thousands to halt once more and prepare to meet the attack.
But the French Horse Artillery on the hillside promptly hitched up their horses and withdrew.
The Blücher Legion spent the entire day stopping and starting amid repeated small-scale harassment. By nightfall, they had advanced only six kilometers.
The next day, Blücher decisively adjusted his tactics, ordering Tauentzien to lead five thousand Hussars ahead to clear out the small enemy forces lying in ambush along the route, while the main force followed behind.
The move worked exactly as intended. With the cavalry driving them off, the French Army could no longer carry out any harassment.
A day later, when Tauentzien reached a point seven kilometers south of the town of Wädenswil, an Infantry Line of French troops suddenly appeared ahead of him, numbering six or seven thousand men.
Tauentzien did not dare charge them head-on. Just as he sent someone to report to Blücher, more than two thousand French cavalry came charging at him from the east.
Tauentzien was greatly alarmed and hurried south to evade them, only to be met by fierce bombardment from more than a dozen Cannons that had been waiting there all along.
Fortunately, Blücher's main force was not too far away, and the