sultan's crescent

Chapter 100

The Polish hussars easily tore through the phalanx of the Austrian infantry. Under the charge of a full [-] heavy cavalry, the Austrian army's defense line seemed so thin.

The infantry were quickly trampled into disrepair, and the deterrence of cavalry made it difficult for the Austrians to resist.

If Austria still has pikemen, they can actually resist the hussars.

After all, Gustav II of Sweden, Gu Erye has already demonstrated to everyone how to operate it.

But the pikemen had already been eliminated, and the fate of the Austrian army was doomed.

At the same time, the artillery coverage of the Austrian artillery was not good.

The speed of the opponent's sprint was too fast, causing a lot of artillery fire to miss. When they got close, the artillery had to restrain themselves because of their own infantry.

Seeing his own infantry being annihilated by the Polish infantry who once again put away the white flag, Franz bleeds with distress. These are all Habsburg elite light infantry.

Franz forced himself to calm down at this time. He had already withdrawn many infantry, and the damage the opponent could cause had been minimized by him.

Now it is to block the opponent's heavy cavalry to prevent the opponent from launching a second charge, and then wait for the opportunity to annihilate the opponent.

No matter how bad it is, he has to withdraw these troops back to Krakow.

Franz believed that he was caught off guard this time, and when he returned to Krakow to rest and fight another battle, he was still sure to win the battle.

Alandar Mustafa Pasha failed to have a second chance to charge, and Franz failed to find a chance to get stuck. Both sides ended the battle with regret.

In the Battle of Krakow, the Polish side had [-] participants and [-] casualties, while the Austrian side had [-] participants and [-] casualties.

But for Austria, this is nothing more than a failed battle, and at most they will pay a higher price in the subsequent distribution of spoils.

But for Poland represented by Kościuszko, this has disrupted their strategic deployment.

According to the assumption, in this battle, the main force of the Austrian army should be defeated, making the opponent unable to send more troops here in a short time, so that Kosciuszko can draw out troops to support Prussia.

But the current situation is that the Polish army has successfully repelled the opponent, but it is still far from severely injuring or even destroying the opponent's main force. This is doomed to Kosciuszko's inability to support the Prussian direction.

The hero sighed towards the sky, and the heavy clouds above his head were just like the situation in Poland at this time, which made it difficult for Kościuszko to let go.

The war situation is not only unfavorable in the direction of Austria, but also in the direction of Russia.

At the beginning of the war, the Polish army fell into an extremely passive and unfavorable situation.First of all, Tsarist Russia is in a state of crushing Poland in terms of manpower and materials
However, due to the perennial wrangling and the local confrontation with the central government, the preparations for the war can be said to be quite poor.

Although many veterans were temporarily recruited in the Polish Parliament, many of them were militia or no recruits without training.

The worst thing is that the Polish army is in a state of reorganization at this time. The allocation of serial numbers, weapons, and ammunition has not been completed, the military factories are lacking, and there is a lack of heavy weapons and sufficient logistical supplies.

In addition, due to the long-term infiltration and the active traitorous activities of the Tagovica Leading Party, the Russian army is well aware of the distribution of troops in Poland and other strategic intelligence, while the Polish army has almost no knowledge of the Russian army's initial movements.

The Polish army could only defend according to Kosciuszko's deployment, but Kosciuszko was drawing on paper after all.

Fortunately, the commander-in-chief of the Russian side at this time was Prince Joseph Poniatowski, a famous Polish general in the late eighteenth century, nephew of the contemporary King Stanislaw II.

After a field trip, he made changes.

The first battle was the Battle of Opsa. The Russian vanguard was crossing the Daugava River and preparing to attack the city of Braslav.

They were stubbornly resisted by the Lithuanian defenders in the nearby village of Opsa. The Russian army tried to surround the village, but the Lithuanian army broke through desperately.

Both sides lost about several hundred soldiers before the Russians occupied Braslov.

Subsequently, Minsk was occupied.

After that, Prince Joseph Peniastosky arranged Lithuania commander Birak to lead the Light Cavalry Legion and the Cavalry Cavalry Corps to cover the main retreat. Blind war.

The Tatar army was the first to break up, and the troops fell into panic. Seeing that failure was imminent, Bilak selected hundreds of elite cavalry to launch a desperate assault on the main force of the Russian army, and successfully stopped the Russian army's offensive momentum.

The morale of the Lithuanian army in the back was greatly boosted, and they followed the main general to launch a counterattack. The Russian dragoon regiment was forced to the river bank, and many fell into the water and drowned.However, the Russian follow-up troops arrived, artillery fire forced Bilak to stop the pursuit and retreat to Mirm, and the Russian dragoons were saved from annihilation.

The next day, the main force of the leading Russian army and the main force of the Lithuanian army fought in Mirm. At the beginning of this encounter, the Lithuanian army had nearly [-] people, and the Russian army had only more than [-] people.

However, the Lithuanian coach Juditsky made a fatal mistake. He did not follow the order of Prince Joseph Poniatowski and took advantage of the Russian army's unstable foothold to attack decisively. Instead, he held a lengthy two-hour military meeting .

During this time his troops came under heavy fire from Russian artillery, and the army of recruits began to panic.

The Russians took advantage of this precious respite as they waited for reinforcements to arrive and repelled the harassment of several small Lithuanian units.

Later that day, the Russian army had gathered nearly 1 people and tried to surround the Lithuanian army. Judetzki was forced to declare a breakout. Fortunately, the main breakthrough was successful. The main force of Lithuania was preserved and retreated.

Due to Zhuditsky's wrong command, the Russian army's military operations in Lithuania went smoothly, and Wilno was occupied without strong resistance.There, the Russian troops were warmly received by the Tagovica traitors.

The Lithuanian army did not suffer too many losses in the overall war, but the continuous retreat gave the Russian army the upper hand.

Prince Joseph Poniatowski was so outraged by this that he took away Zhuditsky's post of commander-in-chief and put him in command of the force himself.

On the Polish front, generally like the Lithuanian army, the Polish army avoided direct confrontation with the superior Russian army. The Russian general Morkov received Potemkin's command and prepared to attack the southeastern Polish town of Boloni.

Poniatowski decided to attack on the hills outside the town.

The Battle of Zrenice begins.

At [-] o'clock in the morning, the two sides engaged in an artillery battle, and the Polish recruits almost collapsed in the bombardment and the attack of the Russian infantry.

Poniatowski stabilized the front line and immediately led the infantry regiment to launch a counterattack. The Russian infantry was suppressed by more intense firepower and retreated with heavy losses.

Subsequently, Morkov sent the Cossack cavalry regiment to attack on the flank, but was blocked by the Polish cavalry, and the offensive of the Russian cavalry was destroyed and retreated.

Morkov threw more troops into the attack, only to be routed by Polish artillery and infantry counterattacks.

This made Potemkin very angry. He gave Morkov a death order, asking the other party to quickly take Boloni, severely damage or annihilate the Polish army that blocked the Russian army.

How dare Morkov neglect the orders of his boss.

In the early hours of the next morning, Morkov launched another attack.

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