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with the river and the trees and hill, that southern Gun is not as unsported as it looks, I can't get to it

the northern one, now, that is a hassle, it is unsported, but his Cav has charged my hilltop, I can't get around his cav, so while not really supported, it is as good as, plus it is in range of my line

I moved a little fast in the south, and the enemy reacted to it, stronger then I expected, but, it also keeps his Cav away from my open Cav up north, and I got more coming

oops, as you may see, that is the Corps du Chasse that came in, a good unit

and my back area, most of that Inf is tried and is resting, the march to the front was too much for them, plus I got a gun of my own

lots of shooting with the Spanish gun, then I was able to chase away the protecting Cav and get a charge of my own in, I break the gun, but go disordered and am trying to get out of town

other charges are squareing up the enemy inf, and one, breaks though, and shatters the Enemy, while disordering my Cav

by the top, I got a lot of cav going disordered

more and more, the enemy moves his other gun foward, my troops behind the line were able to get there boys out, but those across the river are not as well trained and have a poor chance, if they fail the chance in a treatened zone, they will go disordered, so can't take the chance, and order a charge, the first fails, the 2nd breaks the guns, and both Inf go disordered, my other cav is falling back behind the lines

(top line, I have 8 of 22 units disordered, this is no way to fight a battle, but it is doing it's job, the enemy can't break my lines)

start to move my Inf closer, he still has a gun in good order right in front, his cav, charges my new Spanish Gun, and then works over my two Inf, one ends up losing some 6500 men

battle is getting confusing, charge and counter charge, Inf pinned and Inf on the march, Cav trying to get to the rear, or to the open flanks, so they can get back into formation, going to be a long day and they need to get back into the action

more charges and another gun takes a hit, don't think this one broke, this is the one that got away, as I couldn't follow up my last attack on it

routed, and wow, I misspoke, it lost more then I said, and may lose more if I don't do something about it

as I said, a mess, and confusion all around, up north, you see I got disordered Cav and the Enemy does too, sitting right next to each other, and over all, while disordered is bad, they are still in the fight, and after all of that, the enemy is not really hurt (but what is hurt is importent, he has lost 3 of his 4 guns)

night has fallen, my boys got a chance to rest and to get back into formations and to advance, and get ready for daybreak, this is going to be a steamroller now (hmmm, don't think they had those back then ? so this is going to be a oxcart with a upset Ox leading the way)

well, the real goal is to destroy the Spanish Army, so time to begin the pockets

my Cav is basicly a blocking force, while my Inf mops up and moves forward

well, by this point, it is now numbers vs a weak punchless force, there guns are gone, and most of there good Inf is trapped, and they will not be able to use the terrain like I was, I got more cav and can move, the terrain will help me

it was a slaughter the rest of the way

the map for Feb

the Spanish Army is gone, and in Russia, those are not really any real troops, just what is left of the containers, Gurrillas are main issue now, along with winter and garrison troops

finally, Russia Caves in, I was getting worried about them

154 of 166, I am closing in

time to make a treaty with the Russian, main goal now, will be to make sure we stay at peace, enforced peace for 2 years, will do it (well, really that is over kill, I got 18 months of peace to start with, and if I can't defeat the Spanish in 18 months, it is time for me to hang it up)

I have never seen that many Surrender points, I knew I been hurting them, but didn't know it was that badly

these are the POWs I released, that is a decent sized Army, with some good Generals, they went form nothing to a major player over night

and as they say, it is all over but the shouting

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