() Pomerania, which means coastal country in Latin, is the coastal area of ​​Germany that borders the Baltic Sea after the Ridland Peninsula. As early as the 11th century, Pomerania, which produces seafood, was

Territory of the Kingdom of Poland. But later, with the arrival of the Teutonic Knights, the Teutonic Knights' assimilation of faith into the Prussian natives resulted in Pomerania becoming the territory of the Teutonic Knights and becoming part of Prussia.

Then in the next few hundred years, Pomerania passed through the hands of several vassals of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. However, no matter how much trouble happened around the territory of Pomerania, it seemed that

It is all a matter between the Holy Roman Empire and the Poles. As for how it fell into the hands of the Swedes, we have to start with the inevitable separation of beliefs in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Catholic die-hards led by the Habsburgs and the religious reformers led by the Netherlands fought a bloody battle within the Holy Roman Empire. The sun, moon and stars covered their faces and they could not see their fingers. Anyway, it was very tragic.

Then, the Dutch religious reformers, who could not defeat the Habsburgs, successively looked for helpers, first the Danes, then the Saxons, and then the Swedes.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and rivers bring out unruly people, just like the high mountains of Anatolia in Rome, the ice and snow in Sweden is the most suitable place to train warriors with explosive combat effectiveness. If nothing else, a group of Vikings appeared 700 years ago.

The soldiers burned, killed, and plundered all the way from Norway to Constantinople.

Dimburg, during which he also conquered London and Paris. In the seventeenth century, King Carl IX of Sweden, who was not Gustav, but was the reincarnation of Gustav, came out of Sweden again with a group of unruly people, full of people.

The Swedes of Viking descent are destined to shock the whole of Europe.

Then, then... the entire Holy Roman Empire's war situation was like a reappearance of the Thirty Years' War. The King of Sweden and his group of Swedes drove the Catholic League headed by Habsburg to a river of blood. That ended

The war swept the entire Holy Roman Empire, almost all surrounding forces joined in, and fought for more than 20 years, so it was called the Twenty Years' War.

Karl IX, whose commanding skills were comparable to Gustav's, had a different fate than Gustav. Karl XII's great-grandfather survived the battlefield and then began his path to dominance in Northern Europe.

, Sweden, under his leadership, first started from the end

In the Vienna Agreement of the 20 Years' War, the principalities of Schleswig and Holstein were merged into the Kingdom of Sweden. Then, while the princes of the Holy Roman Empire and France were greatly weakened, the king of Denmark was killed in the 20 Years' War and returned to the country.

Childless time, Sweden defeated

The two competitors, the German Principality of Hanover and Brunswick, annexed Denmark and Norway, and in the name of Mecklenburg helping the Principality of Brunswick, sent troops to Mecklenburg to occupy the former Pomerania. But the former Pomerania

Before Rania changed hands to Mecklenburg, the place

The other side belonged to Prussia. A few years later, the Swedes invaded Poland. Prussia followed the Swedes and snatched Pomerania from Poland in the Polish King's War. However, the West Prussia promised by Sweden did not

Instead of giving it to the Prussians, they took it for themselves.

In short, the territorial disputes within the German region were a mess, and the Pomerania region kept changing hands between Poland and the German princes several times. People often captured it as soon as there was development, and all the construction results were lost.

I have to do it all over again. However, due to the prestige of the Swedes, dozens of people ruled in Sweden

In 2008, the former Pomerania ushered in a rare peace and accumulated wealth. Therefore, when our army of nearly 30,000 people entered the former Pomerania, we were still able to see the plains.

The former Pomerania region has seen a lot of vitality, although not as much as the Prussian Brandenburg region.

The Swedes did not station too many soldiers in the former Pomerania area. Along the way, Moritz and his brother, who were the vanguard, did not encounter any decent resistance at all. After asking the locals, it turned out that we had

After leaving Berlin and before leaving the territory of the Kingdom of Prussia, the Swedes had already evacuated their soldiers from various places to a port city called Rostock.

That night, we spent the night in a small town we were passing by.

The relatively clean hut blocked the wind and snow outside, and the pillars inside were hung with oil lamps. All the generals gathered around the map provided by the Prussians.

I explained my current options: "The Swedes should have given up the former Pomerania and retreated to Rostock in an organized and disciplined manner. Now we have two options, either divide our forces and occupy the entire region one by one.

important towns, and finally besiege Pomerania, or leave only one force here to control our retreat, and the rest will all go to Rostock. What do you think?"

"The Swedes retreated directly without resistance. I think everyone has no objection to the judgment that they had premeditated it. They gave up the entire Pomerania. I think their move should be to ask us to divide our troops. After dividing our troops, we will

We have to use part of our troops to maintain local security, and if we gather together again, it will take a lot of time." Constans said with a smile.

By giving up Pomerania, Karl XII did kill two birds with one stone. Not only did he disperse our forces, but he also delayed our actions. However, this reaction also suddenly changed the conclusion of Karl XII that I had originally deduced based on Constans.

The strategic layout has received great evidence.

Old Count Schwerin sighed with emotion: "So, the Swedes are really planning to raid Berlin again."

"Everyone knows that the Baltic Sea will freeze for a period of time before February, and the Swedes will not be able to transport soldiers between the two places by sea ships. This is the best time for us to attack, and the Swedes also know it. So it is not difficult to imagine

, once we divide our forces and occupy the former Pomerania according to his vision, then what will be waiting for us."

"If we had no idea about this, we would have panicked when we received the news that the Swedes were attacking from behind. In order to prevent Berlin from being threatened, we must return to Berlin to face the Swedes. The build-up of troops alone will consume us a lot.

time, so we have to keep the soldiers who were originally sent to occupy the former Pomerania. I am afraid that as soon as we enter Prussia, Sweden will be waiting for us and start a decisive battle with us. At that time, we

It doesn’t matter if I fight, it doesn’t matter if I don’t fight!”

After telling the serious consequences of falling into the trap, while others were still thinking, Moritz stood up and said: "Then let's go directly to the siege!"

The second son of the Prince of Dessau was a good commander on the battlefield, and his courage was commendable, but he still lacked proper thinking in other aspects.

"I think we can speed up the main force's advance and go straight to Rostock, but that doesn't mean we won't occupy any place." Schwerin is an old guy who has been fighting for most of his life. His words, I

Love to listen.

"Why? Didn't I just say that occupying territory means spreading out the troops?" Moritz shouted.

"We have laid siege to Rostock. The surrounding local squires and nobles, if they are not too stupid, will understand that we are the masters here before the Swedes come back. If anyone does not cooperate, we can rob them of everything. As long as we set up

A few examples, I think they can help us maintain local order very well. I think General Schwerin means the same, right."

Schwerin did not deny: "Yes, the local indigenous people of Pomerania are a force we can win over, and their help will be very helpful for us to control the former Pomerania."

I added something to Schwerin's idea and implemented it immediately.

On the afternoon of the second day after they invaded Pomerania, which was also the afternoon of the eighth day after leaving Berlin, the army appeared outside the city of Rostock. This shocked the Swedish defenders inside the city.

After setting up camp that night, we sent out large groups of soldiers on the next day during the day, pretending to set off to the countryside and control the local area. But in fact, these soldiers only had one destination, and that was to return to the villages and towns we passed.

There, Schwerin will hold a village chief meeting to bring together all the local gangsters. In addition, Schwerin will also be responsible for purchasing the cheapest food from local people to feed the 4,000 Hessian prisoners of war.

Speaking of these Hessian prisoners of war, they are really goods that grandma doesn’t care about and uncle doesn’t love. The Saxons made it clear that they didn’t have the money to pay the ransom, so we didn’t ask for it from the Saxons. The Swedes were still at war.

I didn't even mention it. As for

Over to the Principality of Hesse, we raised the money. Not only did we raise it, but we also asked them to return the payment given by the Otto Party. However, the stingy Duke of Hesse said that if you don’t want money, you will lose your life. Come on, thousands of people are eating with their mouths open.

The mouth was stuffed and given to us.

So far, the role played by the Hessian prisoners of war is to eat barely enough food to survive and do the hardest work. Such a cheap engineering team cannot be found in the whole of Europe.

And I will not waste money on feeding them with food from Philetria. I brought this group of people to Pomerania. We will feed them whatever Schwerin can buy from the locals.

Whoever made their duke go back without ransoming them.

Schwerin took 2 infantry regiments and more than 3,000 Hessian prisoners of war to the rear to stabilize the area. Since most of the local diehards were in Rostock, the local cowards who were summoned were very respectful, but just

As in all occupied territories, there will always be a few people with evil intentions who come out to inform.

Any one of the local people may be the Swedish spy, which is why I did not gather the army, but deliberately arranged the army on the only way for us to return. There are informers, and Rostock has

It is a port city. Basically all our actions can be said to be under the nose of Rostock.

Next. Without a navy, the army in the port city of Rostock would be able to withdraw whenever they want in normal times. But before the spring season, the Swedes in Rostock will not even think about leaving this place. We only need to surround it well.
Chapter completed!