Polish nobles are a strange bunch.

No, it should be said that they are a group of weirdos who continue to grow under the influence of the hotbed of the aristocratic republic and the cowardly Polish royal family. The entire history of Poland can be summarized in one paragraph, how a group of weirdos became.

In Ulyanovka, a large number of nobles who came over formed an alliance before arriving, and used their cavalry to continuously show off their power to us and force us to agree to their conditions.

To be more informed, we need to ensure that taxes are reduced. By the way, I hinted that there is a river near the territory and a few fields are occupied by the town of the next village, but it is their territory ancestrally. I hope the empire will sit in arbitration or something. To be more straightforward.

The nobles would directly name a certain piece of land or a village near the territory as a reward for sending troops, and their families would manage their own territories. As nobles, they and their serfs would be tax-free.

Some Polish nobles did not ask for territory or rivers, but their statements made people feel even more unreasonable. They did not allow imperial officials to enter their territories. In their private territories, they had the highest judicial power and did not need the empire to send officials.

Management, anyway, every New Year's Day, they will send people to deliver two or three carts of grain and one or two bags of zloty as a year's tax. In the future, if the empire calls for war, they will lead the men and horses to kill it. This will be fine.

It is simply a replica of the Siegmund family.

One Siegmund family died, and then countless Siegmund families emerged, and the Siegmund families were united together. The requirements of the Siegmund family were also all kinds of strange. But the center revolved around one point, that is, even if they merged

When entering the empire, they must also ensure a certain degree of independence, or even complete independence.

As a subjugated slave, but without the self-consciousness of a subjugated slave, this is the deepest realization I have had during these ten days. No wonder Valens was angry. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I issued a message to the Polish cavalry gathered in Ulyanovka.

Request, a very reasonable request, out of the need to identify ourselves and the enemy, the Empire will reorganize the Polish Hussars in Ulyanovka!

"Where can we find a leopard?"

"What is a leopard?"

"We don't have breastplates, how about you provide them? Hahaha, that's good."

"Feathers are expensive!"

These were the reactions of the Poles. Regarding the reorganization of the Hussars, they bluntly stated that as long as the empire provided money, nothing would be a problem.

As for the Polish problem, I think it can be easily solved.

Are there leopard skin cushions?

That's easy, just find a piece of cloth.

Breastplate, who said that hussars must have breastplate?

Feathers, this is even simpler. Nowadays, birds with beautiful feathers have become rare commodities. Feathers are indeed expensive, but there is a rule that hussars must be equipped with feathers! Chicken feathers can also be used!

"Using chicken feathers? Isn't that bad?"

"No need for chicken feathers. Well, please go home. We don't need cavalry in different uniforms to avoid being accidentally injured."

Therefore, before the arrival of the Fifth Spartan Army and the Tenth Reinstein Army, I armed 2,375 famous Polish Hussars, but the leaders and those with a little money hired their own people.

Bird feathers. The most classic image of the hussars who once roamed Eastern Europe is that they wear a Chiskage helmet on their head, wearing half body armor, a large black feather wing ornament on their back, and covered with leopard skin or leopard skin pattern.

Cloak, holding a lance with a spear flag, a saber in a scabbard, and a long sword next to the saddle. But in the era I lived in, when people mentioned hussars, they basically jumped out immediately, a person riding on a horse, with more behind him

The image of two rows of bird feathers. In fact, to put it bluntly, the two rows of bird feathers are actually winged cavalry.

When I got here, I saw those Poles sitting on their saddles with their chicken feathers trembling, and the Polish Hussars, who had been powerful for two centuries, made me do it again. I hope those Poles can understand that they are no longer the Poland that the empire was afraid of in the past.

United Kingdom of Lithuania, they are just a bunch of wretches who are nothing.

Many people understood what I meant. The Poles are not fools. Some people chose to restrain themselves and spoke in a lower tone. The serfs who built the ferry stronghold in Valens were finally replenished during this period.

When the time came for the arrival of the 5th Spartan Legion and the 10th Reinstein Legion, the two legions arrived at Ulyanovka on time, one after the other. After joining the two legions and letting them rest for a day, we

He took the Polish hussars who came forward to help or hinder them and headed towards Kiev.

The person in charge of this march of more than 10,000 people was the one-eyed old general I met by chance on the Augusta Square Avenue in Constantinople. The old man asked me to call him Cleisthenes.

On the way, Uncle Tzimischia gave us good news.

After five days of forced march, the main army walked 180 kilometers. Before the Russian army Lukic's troops received the news and retreated to Kiev, they took a step ahead of him and sent cavalry to block the opponent's retreat. Lukic was there

A small town called Uzin was bitten. The Russians launched two breakouts, but they were blocked by the besieging advance troops. After Uncle Zimischia and his main force arrived, Lukic fiercely

He abandoned the infantry and successfully broke through with a small number of cavalry. The rest of the entourage was either killed or routed.

In this battle, Lukic's Russian army lost 1,200 people, and the cavalry sent by the major landowners in northern Poland to assist them killed more than 2,000 people, with no prisoners taken. Lukic's army numbered at least 5,000 people.

, there were no prisoners, which is unreasonable, unless the Poles took melatonin that day and all of them were brain-dead, unless...

On the eleventh day of the march, we passed by Uzin and saw a messy battlefield. As a battlefield and the only way through Kiev, the big trees in the wilderness were full of Russians. Poland, which belongs to Russia,

Corpses of cavalry.

One or two Polish nobles who thought that with more people they could play republican tricks in front of their king were frightened. After this small victory, the situation was not a small good, but a big good.

The lords of the swinging towns of Tarasha, Volodarka, and Skvela on the Dnieper Highlands sent their eldest sons to the empire and brought their family cavalry to join the empire's camp to symbolize their loyalty. These people

It doesn't matter their combat effectiveness, but with their allegiance, the supply transportation along the way from Ulyanovka to Kiev has an extra layer of guarantee, and its strategic significance is extraordinary.

Lukic returned to Kiev, and the people he brought out were one-third of the defenders. Most of them were lost, and there was a serious shortage of troops in the city. In order to further consume the defense power in the interior of Kiev, Tzimis, who had an army of 18,000

Zia did not launch an onslaught on Kiev at the outset.

Three artillery companies were deployed in the south of the city, five artillery companies were on the high ground in the northwest, and eight-pound cannons from two artillery positions fired continuously into the city day and night.

He organized a night attack on the second night of the siege, but the target was not the city of Kiev. Instead, he set up a pontoon bridge on the north bank, letting two infantry battalions protect two artillery batteries, cutting off Kiev's connection with the outside world on the right bank, and secretly

Five Chasseur battalions and two infantry battalions were ambushed on the right bank. After daybreak, Lukic saw that the road on the right bank was occupied, and saw that the empire had sent two battalions and two artillery companies. Sure enough, they moved.

Greed.

The Russian army sent out a surprise attack in the early morning of the fourth day. However, Lukic did not rush directly to the artillery position. Instead, they used their brains. They pretended to raid the infantry camp, but they divided the troops into two groups and tried to attack the camp by the pontoon.

It was enough for the men sent by Emperor Lukic to attack the two artillery battalions and two artillery companies at night as they were crossing the bridge. However, because the troops were divided into two groups, they had to attack five Chasseur battalions and four infantry battalions on the ground.

Next, more than a thousand Russians were killed on the spot.

The Kiev garrison was originally small, with only more than 6,500 garrison troops. Lukic took out more than a thousand dead, and now more than a thousand have died. The casualties are not unbearable. From that day on, the Russian troops in Kiev

The military fusiliers didn't know whether it was because of too many casualties or because they were completely afraid. In short, they ignored the outside of the city. They usually came out and fired a few cold shots, but now they didn't even dare to show their heads. But

Basically, whenever someone shows up now, the Empire will fire more than a dozen flintlock guns at them, either killing them or scaring them half to death.

On the sixth day of the siege of Kiev, more than 10,000 of our backup troops arrived.

Uncle Tzimischia immediately held a military meeting and briefed us on the situation of the Kiev Front after two small victories.

The number of casualties of the Russian army was only 3,000, and the casualties of Russia's Polish vassals were more than 2,000. We had 1,300 killed or seriously injured and lost combat effectiveness. The casualties of the three legions are also vivid on the paper. Several Chasseur battalions suffered the most casualties and were full.

The number of men dropped from 2,750 to 2,423. Almost one battalion was wiped out. Each of the infantry regiments of the three legions suffered damage. When divided, each battalion suffered an average of twenty or thirty casualties. One six-pounder gun was lost, and two howitzers were lost.

Although they were damaged, the number of horses captured was as high as 538, which was considered a very good victory.

_________________________________________Put eggs into the boots. This is the secret recipe for the large corps to invade Russia during the Napoleonic War and keep the soles of the feet while traveling 70 kilometers a day... The foreigner's analysis is: the lubrication of eggs can prevent the soldiers' soles from being worn and peeling.

...To put it simply, it is probably similar to the necessary lubricant between men and women. If it is too dry, not only will men feel uncomfortable, but women will also feel pain...
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