When King Yu inspected the Imperial Krai, in the Nordic region, the Great Northern War also reached its climax due to the arrival of summer and autumn.

According to the plan he formulated, Russian Tsar Peter left only a small number of troops to assist the Polish army in defending the Polish region, and then selected the main force, set out from St. Petersburg, and invaded Sweden's land. King Charles XII of Sweden returned to China to rectify the army's resistance, which was actually to sell the interests of the Eastern European region to his ally Prussia.

However, the Prussian king had maintained his steady style and did not assemble the main force and march rapidly as required by Karl XII, and directly advanced to Russia's mainland, attracting the main force of the Russian army to return to China. On the contrary, he slowly advanced until June, and did not annihilate many Polish troops. After watching the Russian army penetrate deep into the Scandinavian Peninsula and occupy the entire Poland, his troops headed straight to Stockholm.

The third country participating in the war, the Ukrainian Federation, was the same. It only sent a small number of cavalry and used the advantages of high maneuver to fight deeply in Poland. Its main resources were placed in the south, and gradually eroded Polish territory. Its advantage of the federal system and slowly expanded its territory. Faced with the demands of Karl XII, Mazepa, who was elected president, ignored it at all, and even ordered the army to no longer expand in the direction facing Russia.

The Prussian and Ukrainian federations each had their own plans. Whenever Karl XII made a request for cooperation in the march, they used one reason to make excuses, that is, the empire had not participated in the war yet.

The result was that the Russian army advanced rapidly on the Scandinavian Peninsula, while the coalition forces were still stranded in Poland and fought a low-intensity war with them.

In July and November of the 42nd year of the empire, two large-scale battles broke out, which determined the direction of the Great Northern War.

In July, the Battle of South Kfalken broke out. This is the strait between the Bay of Pondia and the Baltic Sea. The Bay of Pondia is in the east of the Bay of Pondia and the Sweden is in the west. If the sea control power is not obtained, the Russian army can only bypass the narrow Bay of Pondia and attack Stockholm, an important Swedish city.

But the Russian Baltic Navy is almost worth mentioning, without any decent warships, while the Swedish Navy is the second largest navy in Europe of this era.

Even so, the Russian army still caused heavy damage to the Swedish Navy, and the secret weapon it used was mineboats. Because there were no steam-powered ships, all these mineboats were paddle boats. Taking advantage of the foggy days that were very common on the Baltic Sea, the Russian Baltic Fleet raided the Swedish Navy fleet.

In the narrow strait, the steering of Swedish warships was restricted. Russian minecraft attacked with the help of fog and sank a Swedish warship and severely damaged two. The Swedish navy suffered heavy damage, and the Russian Baltic navy also suffered huge losses. Most of the minecraft were temporarily recruited for ships in the local area. The explosives in the front were too powerful, resulting in many of the attacks becoming suicide attacks.

The Swedish warships were equipped with many light guns, which had excellent killing effects on mineboats. After the early failures, the subsequent several sea encounters ended with the victory of the Swedish Navy.

The Russians believed that they had found a means to fight for sea control, but the Swedes experienced naval battles and believed that they were still the masters of the Baltic Sea, which directly affected the decisive battle of Vasa in November.

The Swedish navy is powerful, but it is still not worth mentioning when facing Mother Earth. In October, the Gulf of Pondia is about to enter the freezing period, and the Swedish navy dare not go too deep. That is, in October, Peter personally led the main force to set off from Helsinki and marched north on a large scale. Vasa is the narrowest place in the Gulf of Pondia and is also the last port controlled by the Swedish army in Finland.

Karl XII hoped to use the vast land in Finland to delay. As long as the war was delayed until winter, Russia's advance would be restricted. By the spring of the following year, Sweden could launch a counterattack through the navy and recruitment system.

But Peter was obviously better. The Swedish army had no intention of fighting. He was the same. Before the winter came, he swept across Finland, collected a large amount of livestock and food, and then drove the Swedish army and Finns into Vasa City, consuming its food and fodder.

Facts have proved that this is extremely effective. The grain stored by the Swiss army was used for more than 40,000 troops to spend the winter, and more than 100,000 people poured into Vasa City. Among them, the Russian army infiltrated took the opportunity to burn two grain warehouses, which made the supply worse.

After the Gulf of Podenia was completely frozen, the supply from Stockholm needed land transportation, making it even more difficult to replenish.

In November, when the sea was completely frozen, Peter personally led an army to cross the Bay of Podeniya in the Vasa area, destroying the townships and camps in Sweden that provided supplies to Vasa, seizing a large amount of supplies, and directly besieging Vasa.

From the perspective of material consumption alone, the siege of Vasar will be consumed until at least January next year, which can give Karl XII time to rescue the army. In fact, Karl XII's order to the trapped Vasarri army was to control material consumption and wait for rescue. He himself went to Prussia in person and requested the Prussian army to send troops.

Old William did not expect Sweden to encounter such a failure. If the Vasa defenders were completely wiped out, Sweden would definitely fail, so he quickly came up with a rescue plan. However, the Baltic Sea immediately entered the freezing period, and the main force of the Prussian army was in the hinterland of Poland. It took time to mobilize. According to the Vasa defenders' material reserves, they could support the arrival of the Prussian army, but the problem is that Peter will not wait until that day.

After receiving the king's order, the Vasa defenders immediately formulated a strict system of distribution of materials, and only soldiers and those who provide labor can get enough food. The rest, regardless of men, women, young and old, only have one meal a day. The calories provided by this meal only ensure that they will not starve to death before the next meal arrives.

What you need during the winter is not only food, but also keeping the cold. Vasa was originally just a small port town with less than 10,000 people. More than 40,000 Swiss troops were stationed in, and more than 100,000 refugees were poured in, and there were not so many houses at all. The wood for heating had to go out of the city to get it, which would have to face the Russian cavalry and muskets.

On November 7, the city was completely besieged and after the Vasa material control order was issued, something that the Finns could not accept at all.

Men have to dig trenches under the cold wind with the humiliation and whip of the Swedes, while their wives and daughters have to get into the Swedes' beds and lose their precious chastity in order to survive. What's more hateful is that there are people who are frozen to death and starved to death everywhere, and the Swedes have no mercy.

In just five days, a rumor broke out, saying that the Swedes were going to starve the Finns to death and use their bodies as food. The Finns broke out, and the man holding shovels and hoes wrestled with the Swedish army. The mad Finns, both men, women, and young, rushed to the warehouse controlled by the Swedish army. The whole city fell into chaos. At this time, Tsar Peter led the cavalry into the city.

The Swiss army, which had lost its organization, fought fiercely, but after losing its fortification defense, it was quickly defeated. The Battle of Vasa ended in one day. More than 1,000 people were killed in battle and more than 42,000 were captured. The Finns, who were robbed of all their property by the Russian army last month, cheered and welcomed the Russian army with the enthusiasm of the liberators. As a result, they put their warm faces on their cold butts.

The Russian army controlled the warehouse, but did not provide food to the Finns, but drove them out with bayonets and bullets. The Russian army would rather share the food to the Swiss army, who became prisoners, than give the Finns even a piece of bread.

The reason is simple. Peter strives for victory to end the war. The only way to end the war is to negotiate. In negotiations, the living Swedish soldiers can become bargaining chips, and as for the Finns, Carl XII will not care.

This winter, at least 60,000 Finns died of hunger, severe cold and massacres by the Russian and Swiss armies, which was called the Vasa tragedy by the Finns. This was an unignorable national hatred for the Finnish nation, which had only 500,000 people at that time. After that, the Finns launched a national liberation movement and finally gained independence after World War I.

After the Battle of Vasa, Peter sent his troops to cross the sea and entered Sweden again, advancing southward, and attacking Stockholm from the east and northward directions with the troops crossing the sea from the strait.

Karl XII was alone and could only stay trapped. Fortunately, Prussia, who knew that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold, took advantage of the opportunity to help Vassa assemble his troops and attacked Livornia despite the severe cold and threatened St. Petersburg.

But Northern Europe still entered the harshest winter. Sweden was severely damaged. Ukraine actually founded a country, Prussia occupied a large area of ​​territory and gained reputation. Peter also hoped for peace, so peace should come.

After the results of the Battle of Vasa came out, Britain, France and the Netherlands took the lead in proposing peace negotiations and stopping the war, which was considered a first prize, but at most they were advocates. In terms of crucial mediation, the three countries unanimously proposed that the empire mediation.

So Prince Rong Li Su of the Empire came forward and sent envoys to Moscow and Stockholm to ask if mediation was needed. But Li Su also assembled troops to Zhenbei and Xijin. The reason was very simple. Peace negotiations may not necessarily achieve peace. The empire would never accept Russia's occupation of Stockholm. If the negotiations fail, send troops immediately next spring.

The only party involved in the war, Sweden, refused to mediate, which other countries did not want to see. The Tsar even sent people to suggest that Li Su was an arrogant person. If the Russian army was allowed to break through Stockholm, perhaps he could calm down and sit at the negotiating table.

But this was rejected by Li Su, and he sent people to Prussia. After the discussion of Old William, Prussia decided not to send a soldier or a soldier to Sweden to put pressure on this ally.

On December 6, Karl XII, who was patrolling the defense outside the city, was seriously injured by Russian troops. After panic in Sweden, Sweden was eventually forced to sit at the negotiating table.

Although various countries had various proposals, Li Su finally decided that the negotiation site was located in Xijin, and the empire served as a neutral country to mediate to resolve the Great Northern War and the Polish issue.

Karl sent his most trusted minister, Reinstred as the plenipotentiary envoy, while the Prussian king and his crown prince came to Xizin, and Tsar Peter sent Meschkov. It can be said that representatives of all countries have arrived, with the only exception being Poland, which in fact is the most troublesome.

Because Poland is now divided into two parts, except for a small number of Polish nobles who joined the Ukrainian Federation, the other Polish nobles all supported their Russia or Prussia. The other party who joined Ukraine said that the key is that Prussia and Russia each supported a Polish government and a Polish Parliament.

The Polish king in the hands of the Prussians had been captured by the Russian army. It happened that the Polish king supported by Peter died of illness. The Sum Conference had not yet chosen a new king. Therefore, the problem arose. Two delegations from Poland came to claim to be the diplomatic group of the Sum Parliament and believed that they could fully represent the entire Poland.

Each delegation had more than one hundred people, the two largest among all delegations that came to visit the peace talks.

"His Royal Highness of the Prussian King and Duke of Myschkov, I would like to ask you two to manage your allies well. I don't want this to happen again today." At the first meeting of the peace talks, Li Su made a request to both sides helplessly.

There was no Polish representative to attend this meeting. In fact, this time, the question of who represents Poland must be solved.

"I'm sorry." Mensukov said actively.

The Swedish representative who was watching the fun said: "This is what the Poles are like, like a group of sheep with flies, buzzing endlessly."

Jiang Xianyun, who was originally in charge of diplomacy, went to entertain these Poles. However, he found that although the two delegations had completely different political views, they were really too Polish. Although they were negotiating on behalf of Poland, they were all packed in large packages. After arriving in Xijin, they sold the goods they brought without considering customs and taxes at all. And while selling, they purchased them on the market, and had conflicts with many merchants. They were not here to negotiate, they were simply here to purchase goods.

When Jiang Xianyun went to stop him and organized them to discuss how to participate in the negotiations, some idiot threw a bottle and smashed Jiang Xianyun's head.

Li Su knocked on the table: "Okay, let's discuss who represents Poland. I have already combined the opinions of all parties, and I don't want to adopt your suggestions, but I have made a suggestion, which was discussed with diplomats from Britain, France and the Netherlands."

"Okay, please say it."
Chapter completed!