Chapter 694: The Silver Eagle Defense Battle

Gdansk is located on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea.

After "Partitions of Poland," Prussia had already occupied all the cities surrounding this port, turning this place into an enclave of Poland.

Horn was in such a hurry to attack Gdansk not because he thought it was hard to conquer and needed to be strategically prepared in advance. On the contrary, all of Prussia now believed that as long as they sent any military force, Gdansk would be easily obtained.

Horn's target was the valuable goods of the Polish merchants in the port and the Polish merchant ships.

The news of the war would quickly reach Gdansk, and he had to get there as fast as possible to catch as many "big fish" as he could.

Therefore, he even left behind the cumbersome artillery battalions and only brought the Royal Brandenburg Corps and more than a dozen cavalry squadrons, totaling over 13,000 people, in a forced march northward.

Gdansk Port.