The situation at around 3:00 p.m. on the afternoon of the 6th September. It will be noted that at this stage of the battle if Oudinot had used his own initiative and marched to assist Reynier with his whole corps then, given the overwhelming French force available, Borstell and Krafft would have been defeated and Bülow’s position turned, but Ney may have had another reason for concentrating his own efforts on the French right wing?