Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tare da babban bangare na sojojin Daular Faransa yanzu sun shiga cikin yaƙin Peninsular mai zub da jini, Daular Austriya ta yi imanin cewa mafi kyawun damar da za ta rama mummunan rashin nasarar 1805 a ƙarshe ya zo. Austrians suna neman kayar da Faransa da kuma dawo da tsohuwar tasirin su a Italiya da Jamus. A farkon 1809, shirye-shiryen yaƙin na Austriya sun yi ƙarfi sosai har Napoleon ya tilasta barin Spain ya koma Paris don sake tsara babban rundunarsa a Jamus. A cikin bazara, Nansouty saboda haka an sake kiran sa zuwa umurnin 1 na rukuni uku na dakarun sojan doki masu nauyi na Cavalry Reserve, wanda aka sanya a wannan lokacin a karkashin umarnin Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières. Lokacin da Yaƙin Haɗin Guda na Biyar ya ɓarke, ba da daɗewa ba aka cire rukunin Nansouty daga Ajiyayyen kuma an haɗa shi da Marshal Louis Nicolas Davout's III Corps, rundunar da aka ba da ayyuka mafi wuya a lokacin farkon ayyukan soja na wannan yaƙin. Kamar yadda Napoleon ya ba da umarnin a tattara sojojin a Ratisbon, an sake sanya sashin Nansouty a karkashin umarnin Bessières kuma aka aika don yin aiki tare da sojojin Bavarian. Bayan nasararsa ta farko a Abensberg da Landshut
, Napoleon ya tattara yawancin sojojinsa, gami da mutanen Nansouty, a Eckmühl, inda Davout ke jira.