The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

The reason Chechen didn't join in the cheers was because he heard Pogreše say that in Lithuania, Prince Yanush was defeated and was trapped in a small castle. This means that the mercenary group led by his uncle Pidro is likely to have suffered heavy losses, and he is now worried about the safety of the mercenary group's companions.

To clarify why Prince Yanush was defeated, the time has to go back one month ago. At that time, the defense of the Great Bright Mountain Monastery had already begun, and in remote Lithuania, the fateful battle between Yanush Raziviu and Pavel Sapega was also about to start.

This is a real decisive battle between the two. The Swedish army led by Marshal Brahe Wichensburg, who was supposed to be the protagonist of the battlefield, had to beg to return to the division due to the sudden intrusion of the Russian Russian army into Sweden and surrounding Riga.

The 20,000 people of Boguslav, who could have been the prince’s help, were forcibly taken away by Brahe Wichensburg, including 10,000 people, including Prince Boguslav. The other 10,000 people were surrounded by Sappega’s 20,000 troops and could not move.

So on the battlefield, the two former Lithuanian commanders and deputy commanders unexpectedly ended their grievances with the same number of troops.

Yanush Laziviu brought out 20,000 people from Werner. Before the war, the hero knew that this was his last possession, and he knew the weight of the opponent. Although Sapega’s troops were not comparable to his mercenaries in quality, the generals available to the opponent were better than those of his mercenaries. He has a lot of himself, so he changed his arrogance and marched cautiously all the way.

And Sapega is also cautious. What he did not expect was that Alexander Odinsky's army would return from Lida Fort so quickly that Yanush had a fresh force of 8,000 people. Therefore, while advancing slowly, he methodically captured the whistles around Werner one by one. When the Allies attacked twenty miles away from Werner, the two armies met.

At that time, when Sapega marched west and the front of the troops directed at Werner, Yanush also marched along a parallel marching route to the south of the Confederate army, preparing to seize the opportunity to flanking the Confederate army. The two sides met in the plain, Yanush defended, and Sapega also defended.

The defensive position occupied by Yanush's army faces north, with forests on both sides. In that era, fighting was generally not in the forest because it was not easy to carry out firepower. However, in this battle, both sides broke the convention and fought fierce battles on the edge of the forest at both ends of the battle line. The gap between the two forests is a flat land, where Yanush built a strong field fortification and carefully arranged it so that the artillery fire in the two wing forests could cross the center, forming a fire trap. On the front line, Yanush’s army consisted of fourteen mercenary companies with more than 14,000 infantrymen, commanded by Alexander Okinsky.

On the second line, the nine squadrons led by Yanush, with a total of 2,700 cavalry, lined up behind the central defense line. There are eighty cannons in Yanush's army. And Fyodor Obukhović, the formerly idle general, was also used by Yanush this time (and from this to defend Yanush in case that there are not many generals who can stand alone), he was placed on the front. The rear of the militia, together with three companies adapted from the militia, served as a reserve team.

Yanush believes that in such a favorable defensive terrain, the Prince's army is absolutely geographically advantageous, and it is impossible for Sapega to cope with him under the same conditions of force. But Yanush overlooked one point: the far end of the forest on his left, there is a gap outside the battlefield. If Sapega sends out a surprise soldier, he will go far back to the back of the prince army, with Feodor’s cowardly character, can he persist Live.

The leader of Sapega didn't want to touch the rocks with eggs. But the arrival of a new force changed the situation on the battlefield. Originally surrounded by Tsarist Russia’s army, Mihav Laziviu, this Yanush’s same clan got out of trouble due to the armistice agreement between the Republic and Tsarist Russia. After rest, he brought 10,000 people to support Sapesh. Command. The patriot also selflessly handed over his army to the command of Sapega, without any intention of fighting for power.

As a result, Zhengtongren and Sapega finally had the confidence to attack.

As for the Allied forces, Anjay Kmicicz, as the vanguard, contrary to his previous style, he did not rush to lead a 7,000-man cavalry army to contact the Prince's Army, but did not immediately launch an offensive. He waited for more than an hour, and the price was to allow the Prince's Army to greatly strengthen the fortifications.

Although this is not in line with Andrzej's personality, there are reasons for it. Because Mihau's three thousand cavalrymen were still on a winding road, he had to keep pace with Mihau.

When the army and artillery forces led by Pavel Sapega and Mihau Laziviu finally stepped out of the defensive position, Anjay was finally able to launch an attack on the central position of the Prince's Army. Sapesh led an army of 10,000 to sit in the center, cooperating with Anjay's 10,000 troops to press in.

Four thousand people led by Colonel Jerzy Khaletsky were on the left flank, attacking the position held by the right wing of the Prince's Army. Curiously, his front happened to be the mercenary group led by Piedro. Captain Sgmund Lukash commanded the right flank of 6,000 Allied troops and attacked the enemy's position on the other end. Sapega’s plan is similar to the strategy of Marshal Brahe Wichensburg in the Battle of Lidaburg: first use the two-winged fierce attack to attract the central forces of the Prince’s army and firmly nail it to death. All of Hawu’s auspicious soldiers hit backstabs after finishing the naming.

The two armies exchanged fire at 7:30 in the morning, and the roar of artillery was earth-shaking.

Nearly eight o'clock, the two wings of the Allied forces began to attack. Jerzy Khaletsky's left wing was stubbornly resisted by the mercenary group led by Pidro. When the enemy meets, they are extremely jealous. Colonel Khaletsky launched three shocks in one hour, but they were all blocked. Both sides rushed repeatedly, with heavy casualties. In a recoil led by Yelisei, the colonel himself was grazed by a bullet on his left cheek, and blood was dripping, but Colonel Khaletsky refused to bandage, and loudly rebuked the retreating soldiers around him, saying that I would die and have to Destroy the **** mercenary group.

Captain Sgmund Lukash wore a winged cavalry armor decorated with huge wings on his back. He was very eye-catching in battle. As a result, the captain was hit by three bullets in the melee, but the bullets were either slid away by the winged cavalry armor, or Failing to hit the point, the nearby Confederate army and the Prince's army were astonished, thinking that he was protected by the gods.

By about 11 o'clock at noon, the 17,000 Allied troops on the front line had almost taken the three lines of defense of the Prince’s army despite heavy casualties. Yanush was forced to throw his cavalry commander into the battlefield. These cavalrymen protruded from the central line of defense and fought with Anjay.

The 10,000 main force commanded by Sapesh also saw the opportunity, and the whole army pressed on, putting more pressure on the Prince's army.

At this time, Captain Rukash's luck came to an end. When he broke through to the third line of defense, he was bombarded by an artillery position of the Prince's Army hidden in the dense forest. As a result, his horse was first killed, and then he himself was seriously injured. The remnants of the Confederate army had to retreat in chaos, and almost all of the officers were killed.

Under such favorable circumstances, the three mercenary companies under Alexander Okinski did not launch a favorable counterattack, but stopped after returning to the second line of defense. After learning that the right wing had almost collapsed, the commander of Sapega took over the command of the central front near noon. He dispatched Anjay and led two thousand people to rush to help, and ordered the right wing to suspend the offensive, only to make an offensive at any time. The situation has nailed the troops of the Right-wing Prince's Army on the ground.

At 12:30 in the afternoon, the three thousand cavalrymen of the Allied Forces led by Mihav finally broke through the forest barrier and suddenly appeared behind the Prince's Army. This gave Feodor Obukhović a great shock. Although this cowardly general made a deterrent, he hid in the last row of the battlefield~www.readwn.com~ which greatly affected the morale of the three militia-adapted companies. Mihavu's cavalry smashed through Fyodor's three companies like a hot knife slicing butter.

At this time, Yanush showed the battlefield response of a brilliant commander. He transferred his troops from the center and formed a line of defense parallel to the main position urgently to block this new threat. Then he personally rushed to the right wing to prepare for an offensive.

Now it's up to whoever fights through the battlefield first. If Mihau breaks through the central defense line of the Prince's Army earlier than Yanush, the Prince will be defeated; on the contrary, if Yanush is allowed to penetrate the Allied forces from the right, the Allied forces will be destroyed.

At this moment, a battlefield unexpectedly appeared. Yanush Laziviu suddenly fainted on the horse and fell off his horse. Losing the command of the commander-in-chief, the prince's army was in chaos. Okinsky, who replaced Yanush's command, did not have the prestige of Yanush. The mercenaries refused to obey the orders and fled one after another.

The Confederate army had won the victory so inexplicably, which made Sapega couldn't believe it. He could only attribute this to the blessing of the protector of the country.

In the battle, the Confederate Army suffered 6,000 casualties, and the Prince’s Army suffered 2,000 casualties, but 6,000 were captured.

If Yanush did not faint at the last moment, even if the Allied forces broke through the prince’s battle line and occupied the battlefield, the prince should be able to lead a large force to retreat. According to the diary written by Sapega himself, if we suffer two more victories like this, then the Allied forces themselves will also be destroyed.

I can only say that God does not bless Yanush Raziviu. After that, Lonzinski guarded Prince Yanush and some of the defeated soldiers fled to the castle of Tykozin. The Allied forces encircled the castle shortly after occupying Werna, and Yanush, who was trapped in the isolated fort, was at the end of the road. .