The enemy having in line opposite the 78th Landwehr Regiment, the sector was very quiet, though the British did what they could to liven things up in the way of artillery shoots and indirect machine gun fire at night on the roads behind the enemy lines.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
The fortress of Schweidnitz would screen their retreat, and the Landwehr of Silesia would make good the gaps in their ranks.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Napoleon had bidden Oudinot, with his own corps and those of Reynier and Bertrand, in all about 70,000 men, to fight his way to Berlin, disperse the Landwehr and the "mad rabble" there, and, if the city resisted, set it in flames by the fire of fifty howitzers.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose