Eckhard gazed upon the destruction with a sense of overwhelming disdain. Since he had begun his defense of the Teutonic State, the Eastern Coalition had thrown wave after wave of men at his defenses only for them to be continuously shredded apart by the overwhelming volume of fire that the Austrians unleashed upon them.
By now, the leaders of the Eastern Coalition had learned a valuable lesson. A frontal assault against the Austrian army was the equivalent of suicide. Since they could not capture the fortifications or the cities that once belonged to the Teutonic State, they had begun to raid the local villages.
