The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

On May 23rd, King Kazimierz's army in Lviv marched towards Warsaw according to the original plan.

The nominal commander of this army is His Majesty the King, but the actual commander is Marshal Lubao Macki. In the marshal’s side, it can be said that the stars are gathered: General Stefan Czarnetsky, Colonel Jan Skrzeduski, Colonel Alexander Casimir, Colonel Jan Zenovic, K. General Zhisztov Grzymutovsky, Count Casimir Teshkevich and many other generals of the Republic. The total number of this army also exceeds 30,000.

On the way to march, Marshal Lubao Macki also fully demonstrated his love for vanity and extravagance. In this army, the marshal and his accompanying attendants used a total of 60 6-horse horse-drawn carriages, while other private servants serving him occupied another 10 6-horse horse-drawn carriages, and the marshal’s kitchen Staff and sleeping security personnel use 35 4-horse carriages. This is not his full set of pomp, at the end of the team, the marshal still has 50 horsemen drove 100 precious thoroughbred horses.

It can be said that all this alone occupied 660 military horses. These horses are enough to arm an elite cavalry regiment.

Correspondingly, the Marshal provided King Kazimierz with only fifty horses and one hundred and ten followers.

But Lubaomackey didn't care at all, what he wanted was such a jaw-dropping effect.

While in Lublin, General Jan Zamois came to meet King Kazimierz. Prior to this, the general has worked hard to stick to Lublin. King Kazimierz also highly praised the general's achievements. But at the Marshal, Lvbao Maz was angry that Jan Zamois went to meet the king first. He asked the general to stand outside the camp tent for an hour before meeting him.

During the conversation between the two of them, Lvbao Macki was also extremely arrogant, and he played the role of a marshal. This resulted in Jan Zamois returning to Lublin and sending only five thousand troops to Warsaw with King Kazimierz, but he refused to go.

This incident certainly made King Kazimierz and Stanislaw Potocki very dissatisfied, but in order to regain the overall situation in Warsaw, Potocki persuaded the king to bear it down. At the same time, Potocki also wrote a letter to Jan Zamois, comforting him with gentle words in the name of the king.

The army from Lviv continued to set off. At this time, together with the noble armed forces that joined all the way, the army has swelled to 40,000. Every day, many rebels join in. For the rebels who joined, if its commander was a nobleman, Marshal Lubao Macki accepted it, and if it was a civilian or a peasant, the Marshal expelled him directly. And Stefan Czarnetski incurred all these rebels that were not valued by the marshal, and did not care about the marshal's sneer.

Such a massive military action certainly attracted the attention and vigilance of the Swedes. The commander-in-chief of the Swedish army staying in Warsaw, Arvid Widenberg, urgently ordered the Swedish defenders and the Imperial Army to withdraw to Warsaw, and sent people to Prussia to revise the book three times within one day, requesting King Carl X to take the lead immediately. Army back to aid.

In the direction of the Brest Fortress, Baron Gustav Wrangel’s army was the furthest away from Warsaw and was the latest to receive the order to retreat. When the baron gathered the army and left the Brest fortress not long after, the forward of the army of the Republic of Poland had reached a place less than five miles away from him. The forward commander is Colonel Jan Skrzeduski, whose wife and children were taken away by Bao Hong.

This colonel, who suffered from the pain of losing his wife and son, was full of hatred towards Cossacks and Bao Hong. Now that Bao Hongyuan is in Warsaw, he vented his anger on Baron Gustav Wrangel.

The first contact with Baron Gustav Wrangel was the Polish cavalry with the colonel as a scout. These Polish cavalrymen are equipped with simple equipment, but they are not afraid of death. Relying on their horses and swords, they rushed directly to the army of Baron Gustav Wrangel, trying to cut the marching Swedish army into two.

A squadron of Swedish infantry greeted them. They used their spears to form a spear formation and entangled with the Polish cavalry. The two sides fought on the dry plain. If one party is not wearing a gray uniform and the other is wearing a blue uniform, it is really impossible to distinguish who is whose enemy and who is whose comrade-in-arms.

Every Polish cavalry was armed with sabers and pistols. They bypassed the front of the long spear array, trying to consume the strength and will of the Swedes with their pistols. But under the protection of the pikemen, the Swedish musketeers responded with stronger firepower to the Polish cavalry. It was the first to be unable to withstand casualties and retreated beyond the range of the musket.

Although the first battle was successful, Baron Gustav Wrangel did not dare to stay long, nor did he dare to expand the results. Because he knew that more enemies were coming to him.

Sure enough, less than half an hour before the troops led by the baron, the main force led by Skrzeduski also rushed over.

Skozheduschi was a winged cavalry commander. Among the cavalry he brought was the old winged cavalry who had fought the Cossacks and Tatars under the command of Prince Jarimé.

Skrzeduski led the cavalry at high speed and changed from marching to offensive formation~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The wing cavalry spread out with the colonel as the center, and the armored Cossack cavalry guarded the Guss on the two wings. Baron Taf Wrangel rushed over.

This time, although the Baron's infantry also quickly opened the defensive formation, they did not resist the cavalry charge of the Wing Cavalry. After a blast of lance and breastplate, the formation of the Swedish army was torn apart, and the two armies fell into a melee.

In the melee, winged cavalry and armored Cossacks began to show their great power. As the Swedish soldiers gathered together, the Polish cavalry's saber cut left and right, and the spear picked up and down stabbed, and almost no one failed.

Of course, the Swedish infantry is also extremely brave. Although they were disrupted in their formation, they gathered into a small square in twos and threes. In the small phalanx, two soldiers wielded short broadswords and one soldier used a long halberd. Whenever the halberd dismounted a cavalry, the soldier holding a short broadsword jumped up to kill him. Some brave guys even launched a counter-charge and tried to encircle and kill Skrzeduski.

In the end, the Swedish army's efforts were in vain. The guards around Skrzeduski drove the Swedes back. Afterwards, the Polish artillery hurriedly blasted the small phalanx with three-pounder guns.

Knowing that fighting to death was meaningless, Baron Gustav Wrangel gave the order to retreat. But this order, not all soldiers have heard it.

Finally, Baron Gustav Wrangel fled hastily with more than 800 wounded soldiers. More than two hundred Swedish soldiers were killed in battle and three hundred were taken prisoners. Among them was Karlsson.

The Brest Fortress also opened the door for the Republican army. Further west, it is Warsaw.