On the plateau between Tauber and Main, the federal troops were pushed back again on the 25th near Helmstadt and Uettingen and near Gerchsheim.

After the Prussian bombardment of the Bavarian troops in the Marienberg Fortress near Würzburg on 27 July, a local ceasefire was concluded, which was followed on 2 August by the general armistice.

An offensive by the southern German states opened up a better starting position for future negotiations.

In addition, there was still the possibility that France would intervene on the side of the southern Germans in the conflict in order to preserve its claims to Veneto.

On 21 July a joint action by the Federal Army against Aschaffenburg was decided in the headquarters of Prince Karl of Bavaria, as the Prussians were still suspected to be near Frankfurt.

After a successful campaign in the west, the Prussian Main Army marched into the federal capital of Frankfurt on 16 July.

The Prussians gathered there and marched on 21 July from Frankfurt to Würzburg in order, if possible, to prevent the unification of the Federal Army and to defeat it or at least to further threaten the borders of the southern Germans.

On 23 July there was a first battle near Hundheim, but the commander of the VIII Corps, Prince Alexander of Hesse, did not recognize it until the next day after the defeats in Tauberbischofsheim and Werbachthat he was facing the entire Army of the Main.

Because of the numerical inferiority of the Prussians, it was assumed that the Main Army would advance from Tauberbischofsheim and Werbach directly to Würzburg.

Corps after the Baden division, which stood there, broke off the fight the day before, gave up the wing without reporting and withdrew to Altertheim.

The 3rd division, led by Prince Luitpold, moved there from Hettstadt on 24 July, the reserves accumulated between Greußenheim and Waldbüttelbrunn and the 1st Division led by Johann Baptist Stephan, stood around Uettingen, Helmstadt and Holzkirchen, with the advance troops at Neubrunn, Kembach and Dertingen.

Together with the two other divisions that had meanwhile been called in, the VII Corps was now assembled and ready for the offensive against the Army of the Main.

Corps in the battle near Gerchsheim due to the fighting near Helmstadt and this then retreated against Würzburg made it a strategic success.

The Prussians involved in the battle set up their outposts in the direction of Uettingen and made their night camp near Helmstadt.

The Prussians led the fight much more flexibly than the federal troops, which had not yet formed to repel the attack because of the originally planned offensive against Aschaffenburg.

On the evening of the 25th, all divisions had contact in the event that a battle with the united federal army had broken out the next day.

On the Stuhlberg, due to the different affiliations to divisions, brigades and regiments, it was not possible to agree on a uniform approach.