December 1792, the Rhine front.
Carl Ludwig Johann Joseph Lorenz rode his white horse, watching his soldiers confiscate a large amount of weapons and ammunition from French Army prisoners.
The battlefield, after a day of fierce combat, was strewn with burning flames and ascending thick smoke.
Austrian soldiers were patrolling amidst the corpses of the French Army on the ground, searching for any possibly overlooked French military flags.
Seizing military flags was an important means of tallying the number of enemy forces defeated at that time; typically, capturing one flag signified the dispersal of one enemy unit.
This was mainly because the organization and morale of armies in this era were relatively low; the loss of a flag generally also indicated that the officers' structure was disrupted, and it was often difficult to reorganize the troops.
