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==Battle Plans== [[File:Eckmuhl April 21.jpg|thumb|Location of forces as of Midnight, 21–22 April 1809]]With the seizure of the bridge at Regensburg, Archduke Charles no longer needed to defend the Landshut bridgehead and instead moved to concentrate his remaining forces so as to envelop and destroy Davout's corps. FML [[Friedrich Franz Xaver Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen|Prince Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Hechingen]]'s III A.K. (15,700 men) and FML [[Prince Franz Seraph of Rosenberg-Orsini]]'s IV A.K. (21,460 men), were ordered to hold the Austrian left, pinning in place Davout's corps, while FZM [[Johann Kollowrat]]'s fresh II A.K. (28,168 men) and the elite [[grenadiers]] and [[cuirassiers]] of G.d.K. [[Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein|Prince Johann of Liechtenstein]]'s I Reserve A.K. advanced south from Regensburg and deployed against Davout's exposed left flank. Inexplicably, no orders were issued to G.d.K. [[Count Heinrich von Bellegarde]], so his powerful I A.K. (27,653 men) remained on the north bank of the Danube and played no role in the subsequent fighting.{{sfn|Rothenberg|1982|p=173}} For his part, Napoleon was intent on enveloping and destroying the Austrian forces retiring Southwest to Landshut and its bridge across the [[Isar]]. The II and IV Corps (App. 57,000 men under the overall command of [[André Masséna, duc de Rivoli, Prince d'Essling|Marshal Masséna]]) were directed to cross the Isar upstream from Landshut and block the Austrians from crossing to the South Bank. Meanwhile, under the overall command of [[Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello|Marshal Lannes]], Lannes' Provisional Corps, the VII (Württemberg) Corps, a division from VII Corps and two cuirassier divisions (App. 51,000 men) were to closely pursue and destroy the defeated Austrians. The mop-up of what Napoleon thought was a "curtain of three regiments" was left to Davout, even though more than half of the III Corps' original units had been detached to create Lannes' task force.{{sfn|Gallaher|2000|p=185}} Despite Davout's reports to the contrary, Napoleon ordered him to attack the Austrians on his front in the morning, with the proviso that Lefebvre's equally depleted corps would support him if he needed help (A total of approximately 36,000 men for both corps).{{sfn|Gallaher|2000|p=185}}
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