Slugging it Out!

Baron Hunchmausen's hussars advance to his left. The intention is to try and  pin the enemy but counter-charge if attacked.

The baron's jager arrive on the track. He orders them to work their way round to the right. Hopping off the road, they begin pushing through the trees. The dragoons have already moved off ahead. The Ostmarck battalion then arrives.

The Gelderland dragoons push forwards rapidly, taking up a position at the bottom of the low hill, and hemming in the Bachscuttel troops. They are, however, outside of charge range at this stage.

Surveying the situation, Colonel Goethe-Nockenshoppes reaches a typically Bachscuttel conlusion - to scuttle backwards. 'Pull back!' he orders. 'Disengage!'. He intends to move north east in the direction of Humpe (ie towards the main force), retiring in stages by squadrons and companies. He gives explicit orders to avoid contacting the enemy.

'Hmmmm', says Baron Hunchmauson. 'Chumpbumpy, those Bachscuttelers are suddenly surprisingly agile'.
'It's Czernazmije, sir', says Czernazmije. 'And indeed, sir, from being more sluggardly than a sluggish slug, they now have really got a wiggle on'.
'Like a wiggly slug', says the baron.
'Indeed, sir. If such a thing exists'.

 

'Excellent!' says Colonel Goethe-Nockenshoppes. 'I didn't realise that the men had it in them!'
'Indeed, colonel', says Lt Colonel Klaus von Hammertheim, 'Sometimes, all the men need is an opportunity to take what's inside, and then get it out, and wave it around a bit'.
'It is the Bachscuttel way, Hammertheim. Now, have you answered the message that we received from Colonel Zeigler?'
'Yes, sir, I did'.
'Excellent'.
'Also, I scented the message with some cologne'.
Nockenshoppes considers this. 'Does that set the right tone, Hammertheim?' he asks finally.
'We may be at war, colonel, but we are still gentlemen'.
'Yes, but it was a military message, Hammertheim - I wasn't asking him out to dinner'.
'Well, sir - you never know'.