The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1216: Driving the tiger away from the mountain
The answer is simple. Someone stole his seal and ink, forged the letter, and used the letter to successfully transfer the Warsaw garrison here to welcome him, the imperial envoy.

Khlekov wanted to say that the words above were not written by him, but at that time it was not uncommon to have someone write letters for you, especially for nobles and officials, and to some extent it was a very elegant behavior.

Now Khlekov knew only one thing: he could not wash himself clean even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

As for wanting to destroy the letter, it was simply a fantasy. It would be fine if nothing happened, but now they might regard the letter as more important than their lives.

"Damn it! Head towards Warsaw now! Take back Warsaw!"

Khlekov roared at the top of his lungs, thinking that this might be his only chance to clear himself of the crime.

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

After obtaining the imperial seal and forging a letter, the Polish restorationists sent it to the garrison headquarters outside Warsaw as quickly as possible.

Since the person who delivered the letter was an official of the Russian Polish government, and even the official himself might not have been aware of it, there were no mistakes.

Although the garrison commander Zhiznevsky was not happy, he was accustomed to the great nobles' love of ostentation and did not doubt it too much.

After all, the imperial envoy is a superior official, especially with the authority to inspect the four directions on behalf of the Tsar. There is no need to offend him over such a small matter.

The commander of the Warsaw garrison did not think too much and sent his two most trusted and most tactful generals with a large group of troops to serve as a facade for the Russian Governor-General's District of Poland.

However, not long after, a big fire broke out in the direction of Warsaw, and black smoke rose in the direction of Siedlce.

Zhizniewsky did not connect what was happening now with the rebellion; he really thought it was just an ordinary fire.

After all, fires in cities in this era are not uncommon, but fires in this season are rare.

However, he did not take it seriously until someone from the Governor's Office sent a letter saying that a rebellion had occurred in the city, and then he broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, the messenger from the Governor's Palace said that the situation in Warsaw had been brought under control, but the rebellion in Siedlce had a tendency to expand in scale and might be related to the Polish Restorers.

Zhizniewsky immediately became alert that this was an unusual matter. He carefully inquired about the size of the rebel forces in the direction of Siedlce, and the number of people was probably between several hundred and thousands.

However, a lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit. Zhizniewsky decided to lead 1830 main forces to suppress the rebellion. He did not want the rebellion to end up out of control like the one in .

Coupled with the lessons learned from Krakow and Hungary, he had to nip everything in the bud.

After Zhizniewski left, there were less than two thousand people left in the garrison camp, most of whom were civil servants and nobles who were just waiting to eat and die.

As soon as Zhiznevsky left, the people from the Governor's Office arrived again. This time, Venbetrovsky asked them to send people into the city to put out the fire immediately.

This request sounds reasonable, but it is very rude to the garrison officers because the two sides do not belong to the same system at all. Moreover, why don't they come when the commander is there, but choose to do so when the commander is not there? It is obvious that they look down on them, the low-ranking officers.

However, the higher the official, the more powerful he was, so they had no choice but to do it. Nobles and noble scholars would not do such rough and tiring work.

So the soldiers and junior officers were organized and sent to Warsaw. That night the garrison camp outside Warsaw was attacked.
This battle was a foregone conclusion. The defenseless and unwilling noble officers had no power to resist. They surrendered faster than the Poles could imagine, and only lasted a quarter of an hour. Of course, the Poles went to such great lengths not just to kill one or two thousand people, but to the largest arsenal in Russian Poland outside Warsaw, which contained enough weapons to arm hundreds of thousands of people.

On the other hand, Zhizniewsky rushed to Siedlce, more than ten kilometers away. However, when his army arrived, the rebellion had ended, with only a few scattered rebels still fleeing in the city.

As for the reason for the rebellion, he knew it very well, that was the matter of religious conversion. Zhiznevsky did not care about this, he just ordered the soldiers to cooperate with the police in the city to arrest people.

When everything was settled, it was already dark.

The mayor of Siedlce invited Zhiznevsky to stay in the city tonight and return to the station tomorrow. Zhiznevsky was not so noble, and he didn't want to suffer himself.

So Zhizniewsky moved into the city under the arrangement of local officials. The local officials forcibly dispersed the people and provided houses for the army to stay.

However, Zhizniewski did not feel any burden in his heart. After all, he did not regard those Poles as human beings.

Unfortunately, however, a fire broke out again in the city at night.

This time the fire burned fiercely.
But it was only the Russians who screamed. The city was full of flammable materials that easily produced large amounts of smoke. What was even worse was that all the wells were blocked by debris, making it impossible to put out the fire.

Soon the Russian troops in the city lost their discipline and ran wildly in the fire under the cover of night like a group of wild beasts. When they fled to the city gate, they found that the gate had been locked. Fortunately, the city wall was less than two meters high and many people could easily climb over it.

However, the sound of people falling into the water could be heard in the darkness, and the shallow moat outside the city became a nightmare for the Russian army.

If it were daytime, they would only need to stand up and walk back to the shore of the meter-deep ditch, but it was late at night, and they had just escaped from a fire, so it was abnormal for them to be able to make calm judgments.

Most people don't think much about it, they just want to escape, and even if someone notices something, there's nothing they can do to stop it.

When the sun rose again, the original team of 2000 people was reduced to less than people. But surprisingly, Zhizniewsky miraculously survived. At the age of nearly , he managed to escape from that terrible night.

Just looking at the team beside him, Zhiznevsky felt like running into a wall and dying.

Fortunately, he has lived long enough and experienced enough storms. The top priority now is to rush back to the military camp. As long as he gets there, everything can be solved.

Zhizniewski immediately ordered the army to stop gathering the scattered soldiers, abandon all those who were unable to move, and return to Warsaw immediately.

A team of nearly two thousand people was advancing slowly on the road. At noon, they suddenly found a team coming towards them. Both sides were dressed similarly, but a battle was about to break out.

After a fierce battle, more than one hundred people were killed on the spot, and the remaining Russian troops chose to surrender.

This time, the goddess of luck did not favor Zhizniewski. He was hit in the face by a stray bullet and died at the age of 58.

It was because of the commander's death that the Russian army completely lost the courage to continue fighting. His death also temporarily saved the lives of many people.

In addition to Warsaw, rebellions broke out in other major cities in Russian Poland, and the causes were roughly the same: a very harshly worded decree on religious conversion.

"All Poles must convert immediately or face confiscation of their property and exile to Siberia."