To these enter Count Tertsky.
TERTSKY.
Joy, General; joy! I bring you welcome tidings.
WALLENSTEIN.
And what may they be?
TERTSKY.
There has been an engagement
At Neustadt; the Swedes gain'd the victory.
WALLENSTEIN.
From whence did you receive the intelligence?
TERTSKY.
A countryman from Tirschenseil convey'd it.
Soon after sun rise did the fight begin!
A troop of the Imperialists from Fachau
Had forc'd their way into the Swedish camp;
The cannonade continued full two hours;
There were left dead upon the field a thousand
Imperialists together, with their Colonel;
Further than this he did not know.
WALLENSTEIN.
How came
Imperial troops at Neustadt? Altringer
But yesterday, stood sixty miles from there.
Count Galas' force collects at Frauenberg,
And have not the full complement. Is it possible,
That Suys perchance had ventur'd so far onward?
It cannot be.
TERTSKY.
We shall soon know the whole,
For here comes Illo, full of haste, and joyous.