(I know I have said this before, but I REALLY want this timeline to go off and for that I might make minor to major mistakes, but that's what I need your guy's help for. ANY mistakes, you find. PLEASE tell me, so they can be corrected..Oh and the POD is that after the Second Schleswig War, Denmark makes up for it's loss by getting more colonies..)
3 July 1864
Lundby:
"Men, re tell the current situation to me.", Lieutenant Colonel H.C.J. Beck asked of his one hundred sixty men, who one stepped forward and explained to him.
"Lietuenant Beck, it seems the fight in Jutland has really been given up. The army has been severely weakened due to our defeat at Dybbøl in April and a couple days after the defeat, we were displaced from Als. The remaining forces have withdrawn north of Limfjorden and are currently being evacuated from Frederikshavn. Sir.", The solider stated as the Danish Lieutenant absorbed the information given to him and nodded, before reaching for his rifle and looking over his men, he retorted.
"As, I'm sure you all know, The First Regiment under me has been left behind here in Nørresundby to hide the retreat as long as possible, secure the sea-inlet crossings and - if possible without disproportionate risk to our selves - advance southwards. Is that understood?", Beck asked as his men all snapped to attention and saluted.
"YES SIR!"
On the next day however, some scouts had been spotted by the Prussians which lead them to The scouts had been seen by the Prussians who had gone in cover with about 70 out of 124 men behind an earth dike in Lundby's southern edge.
"From Kongehøj about 500 meters south of Lundby,, a long flat hill slopes down to the town.I want Hammerich to launch a bayonet charge at the Prussian ranks!" Beck ordered the company commander, Captain P.C. Hammerich who had no choice but to comply.
On the way there, several locals offered to lead Hammerich's company easterly through a ravine or westerly where some fences would be able to give cover to the Danes, but Beck refused the offer, as his company was not to be led by a 'mere farmer' , and also because the straight road was the shortest.
With cheers and more, the company ran forward in half columns. The Prussians with their breech-loading rifles fired 3 salvos at the Danes , stopping their attack 20 meters in front of the earth dike behind which they had taken cover.
It would be a disastrous defeat for the Danes who total casualties out of the original 160 men rounded up to 70 men, so three-quarters of their force, against three wounded Prussians.
The Prussians for some odd reason did not take the chance to possibly exploit this victory to chase and kill/capture the remaining Danes which had fled. Instead they broke formation and went to Hobro bringing both their own and Danish wounded along with thirteen dead. It was evident by this point that after this battle, had caused such deaths to Denmark's forces, this would be the last battle in the war.
14, July 1864
"General Falckenstein pray tell, what are you doing?", A curious Prussian solider asked, as his general had just finished writing his name in the church book in Skagen which was located at the northern tip of Jutland. Now, with that said all of Jutland, the Danish mainland, was occupied by the Germans. Now also the Danish islands were also endangered by threat of invasion, and the Danish government had to again accept armistice and open for peace negotiations, now under clearly more difficult conditions although.
29 July 1864:
The Prussian army managed to occupy Als and to the Danish government, this was the last strike. They had to open up peace talks now, for they knew they could no longer hope to drive Prussia out..
On the first of August in 1864, Christian IX renounced to all his rights in the two duchies in favour of the Emperor and king of Austria and Prussia respectively. But the war did not officily end until the Treaty of Vienna was signed October 30, 1864 between the Austrian Empire, The Kingdom of Prussia, and The Kingdom of Denmark. Based on the terms, Prussia would administer Schleswig, while Austria did the same for Holstein. Once the news that the war had ended reached the soldiers who were on their way to Copenhagen, they were not surprised that they weren't greeted with the same joy that they had received the last time Prussia and Denmark duked it out. Christian was also reasonably upset by the crushing defeat his country had suffered.