The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

On the second day of the battle, the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry led by Andrzej moved concealedly to a distance of one kilometer in front of the main camp of the Swedish army.

In fact, as early as the first day of the battle, before the main force of the Swedish army arrived, the Lithuanian cavalry led by Anjey had already moved around here. They ambush in advance in accordance with the plan led by Sapega, so that the Republican army will surprise the coalition's logistics base from the rear when the main force of the Swedish-Prussian coalition is in a fierce battle.

In the decisive battle with Yanush Raziviu, the leader of Sapega defeated the prince’s army with this trick, but the purpose at that time was to give the traitor a fatal blow from behind, and now the leader Repeat the old tricks on the battlefield in Warsaw, with the goal only to destroy the enemy's supplies.

Or perhaps it was God’s will. The attack route chosen by King Kazimierz and Sapega for Andrzej was along the Vistula River, while the army of Karl X was on the side of the forest, which made the two The troop made a mistake. Otherwise, the army of Karl X, who was maneuvering at night, would inevitably crash into the ambush Lithuanian Tatar cavalry led by Andrzej. The Swedes' flanking flank may fail, but Andrzej and his Lithuanian cavalry faced dozens of times more than their own. The enemy army will be doomed to escape.

The 2000 Lithuanian Tatar cavalry showed extremely high quality. They drove their war horses and fell to the ground to hide, without making any sound.

Anjay led Oshka to continue concealed advancement. They lay down on the dew-covered grass, crawling forward, and came to a place less than 50 meters away from the Swedes’ camp.

Through the mist in the early morning, Anjay vaguely saw that the Swedes’ barracks were filled with grain, grass and supplies. There were about two hundred Prussian soldiers guarding the scene, and two squadrons of black-shirted cavalry went back and forth. On patrol.

After finding out the situation of the enemy's heavy camp, Anjay and Oshka crawled back.

200 meters behind them, two horses were lying quietly on the ground.

Anjay stroked the warhorse's neck like a lover, and his mount got up from the ground. The two rode on their war horses and returned to the hiding place of the large army.

Anjay held a handful of oats and fed it to the mount. He said to the officer around him: "The number of enemies is not large. When the Swedes are in a fierce battle, we will attack."

"Yes, sir!" A group of Tatars responded in poor Polish to the officers, and then returned to the team.

After the horse finished eating the oats on his hands, Anjay patted the residue on his hands. He looked into the distance, where his compatriots and the invaders fought.

Before the sun came out the next day, the elector was worried about the possible offensive launched by the Polish army, because one night was not enough for him to build a strong defensive position. But until dawn, the Poles did not launch an offensive, so that the elector had enough time to reinforce the position. He even ordered a team of Prussian infantry and artillery under the cover of the cavalry to capture an important high ground in front of him, and 4 A cannon mounted on the high ground. And this highland is precisely what the Poles have overlooked. It will play an important role in future battles.

At exactly 9 o'clock in the afternoon, the Polish army began to recover from yesterday's binge. When they discovered that the coalition had set up artillery on the opposite high ground, the Polish artillery immediately began to shell the high ground. They tried to expel the coalition artillery from the high ground through fierce artillery fire. This was immediately hit back by coalition artillery fire.

At this time, from King Kazimierz to the soldiers, they still regarded the opposing emperor as the main force of the coalition army.

The artillery battle between the two armies lasted more than one hour. After the Polish army transferred the artillery in the forest, it gained the upper hand with its obvious number of artillery firepower. The artillery of the coalition forces on the high ground could not lift their heads, but even Under such fierce artillery fire, the brave artillery still chose to stand on the high ground.

At 10:30, seeing that the main coalition forces did not launch an offensive against their own positions as they did yesterday, King Kazimierz was a little anxious. He decided to attack first, and then induced the Swedish-Prussian coalition forces to collide with his position through the offensive.

Thus, King Kazimierz ordered Jan Sobieski, who was in charge of the right wing of the position, to attack the left wing of the coalition forces, and the Polish infantry under Jan Sobieski began to advance to the coalition positions. When the Polish infantry advanced to a distance of 300 meters from the coalition line, they were shot by a large number of intensive grape shells from the artillery on the high ground. The first infantry team killed 57 people on the spot. In the next 10 minutes, the Polish infantry suffered heavy casualties and they had to retreat.

Jan Sobieski's first attack failed.

The defeated Jan Sobieski's subordinate immediately launched a second attack after a short break.

This time, Jan Sobieski learned the lesson of the last time. He ordered Pidro to lead a mercenary regiment to destroy the artillery of the coalition army and relieve the threat, and a cavalry of more than 500 men was also assembled. They would replace the artillery to attack the front of the coalition army. After the breakthrough was formed, the infantry would follow Enter.

The high ground is not high, but as soon as a squadron soldier of the mercenary regiment climbed halfway up, he encountered a fierce counterattack from the coalition forces. A group of swordsmen wearing full body armor and holding two-handed swords rushed towards the infantry squadron of the mercenary regiment. Their two-handed swords are extremely powerful in close combat. They can often kill three soldiers and three swordsmen in one slash. Can create a **** storm. Although the mercenary group is large in number, it has no advantage. The swordsmen firmly entangled the melee infantry of the mercenary regiment, preventing the musketeers from having a chance to fire.

The frontal assault of Jan Sobieski's cavalry on the coalition forces also failed. As expected by Karl X, the narrow battlefield also restricted the charge of the Polish cavalry. More than 500 Polish cavalry were divided into five echelons, with more than 100 people in each echelon taking turns to launch the offensive. Under the attack of the "Gustav Thunder" and the Pikemen’s phalanx, these cavalry were unable to break through the position of the coalition forces in several assaults. The arrogant cavalry fell one by one on the charge.

At 12 o'clock, King Kazimierz withdrew Jan Sobieski and his army. As the commander-in-chief, Sapega personally directs the offensive.

At this time, the feint attack of the Polish army has become a real attack. The war is like a bull with red eyes. Once it runs, it cannot be stopped.

The commander of Sapega ordered all units on the position that had not participated in the war to attack the coalition front at the same time. Polish soldiers braved the overwhelming artillery and bullets to advance forward, and the artillery of the Polish artillery provided the greatest degree of support. Some small artillery was even pushed out of the position, approaching to support the infantry's offensive.

Soon, the figures of Polish soldiers were buried in the dust from both sides' artillery fire.

The left wing led by Colonel Jerzy Khaletsky was disintegrated by the artillery fire of the coalition forces, but the infantry team of General Alexander Okinsky who replaced the right wing Jan Sobieski successfully moved to the coalition forces. Before the line, after paying a great price, they eliminated the swordsmen defending the high ground and destroyed all the four artillery on the high ground. The cavalry regiment of Mikhav Vorodjavsky as the reserve team also advanced to make up for the gap left by the collapse of the left wing of Colonel Jerzy Khaletsky.

When the Polish soldiers approached the frontal position of the coalition forces, the elector, who knew the situation was critical, immediately ordered all the soldiers to launch a hand-to-hand charge. This is a wise decision, because in the face of an absolute number of opponents, hand-to-hand combat is much better than firepower. The two sides fought together. Black-shirted cavalry wearing black leather breastplates jumped off their horses, and they fought like infantry; the cut-off heads and limbs of coalition soldiers overlapped with the pierced body of the Poles.

Despite suffering heavy casualties, the elector led the coalition forces to finally stabilize the line and retake the high ground with a hand-to-hand battle. They repulsed the Polish soldiers and even captured a cannon that the Poles moved too far forward.

The furious King Kazimierz threw his hat on the ground fiercely. He even decided at one point to take out one of the thousand winged cavalry that had been reserved as a reserve team, preparing for a decisive raid. At this time, King Kazimierz had already determined that he was facing all the coalition forces led by Karl X.

A thousand winged cavalry came out of the gap in the position. This was the total strength of the 6 winged cavalry company. Four of them belong to the special jurisdiction of King Kazimierz, while the other two belong to the Lithuanian ruler Sapega.

When the battle just started at 10:30, near the coalition’s heavy camp, Anjay, who heard the sound of guns, signaled the soldiers not to act rashly. At this time, the battle had just begun, and it was far from the time when he should launch a surprise attack.

At 12 o'clock, Anjay saw a group of coalition soldiers escorting supplies to the front line. He knew the time had come.

Anjay made a gesture to mount his horse. The cavalry and war horses who were lying on the ground stood up. They set up an offensive formation and waited for Anjay's order.

"Grab money, grab food, take everything you can go!!" Anjay shouted.

He knew that these real things could arouse the fighting spirit of the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry more than the nihilistic patriotic enthusiasm.

He was the first to leap forward and flew towards the enemy's barracks.

Suddenly, a large number of Lithuanian Tatar cavalry quickly surrounded the main camp of the Swedish-Prussian coalition army. These medium cavalry, wearing long robes and holding strong bows, moved so quickly that they appeared in front of the garrison's garrison Hans von Konismark in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the front and rear concepts learned by Hans von Königsmark in the military academy are all invalid, because any direction is a huge number of enemies.

Fortunately, Hans von Königsmark was not lost in panic. He hurriedly ordered his German pikemen to block the gate of the camp, while the pikemen hid behind the heavy trucks and supported the pikes in front of them with firepower. Soldiers.

The Lithuanian Tatar cavalry with a Tatar bow in their hands greeted the Germanic pikemen who used their spears to stop them from advancing. The pikemen in front of the gate were almost covered by arrow rain, with feather arrows stuck in them ranging from two or three to seven or eight. Fortunately, this first wave of the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry's blow was shot at a longer distance. Most of the feather arrows lost their strength after penetrating the Germanic pikemen's breastplate, except for very few because of the throat and face. Arrow, the German Pikemen had almost no casualties.

Seeing that the first wave of blows did not destroy and defeat the enemy, the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry at the beginning showed their superb riding skills. They almost swept past the tip of the enemy's spear, and then scattered to the left and right. Some cavalry who was good at bowing left and right turned around, preparing to give the Germanic pikemen a fatal blow at close range.

At this moment, Hans von Konismark saw the opportunity, and he ordered the Musketeers to open fire.

A fierce salvo stunned the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry in Andej, many of them were shot and dropped off their horses.

A German ensign shouted the battle cry and led the pikemen out. They jabbed the unrecovered Lithuanian Tatar cavalry with their long spears, and then quickly retreated and regrouped together. The whole process adjusted quickly, and nearly twenty Lithuanian cavalry companies and horses lay down around the gate in a semicircular shape.

A Lithuanian Tatar cavalry led by Andrzej met the black-shirted cavalry who came to support in front of the camp. Anjey ordered a squadron of Lithuanian Tatar cavalry companies to evacuate and use "Lava tactics" to surround the enemy. This is an informal cavalry tactic of the steppe nation, and it is also a masterpiece of the Tatars. However, under the continuous pistol fire of the black-shirted cavalry, the encirclement of the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry was unsuccessful~www.readwn.com~ So, Andrzej ordered a squadron of Lithuanian Tatar cavalry to form a group of two horizontal teams. The intensive formation launched a charge, but because the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry were not adapted to this tactic and were only equipped with sabers and bows, they could only stretch their arms as far as possible, and the sabers went over the horse's head and pointed straight ahead.

However, a squadron of the black-shirted cavalry also lined up in the same formation, and under the cover of the other squadron, they collided with the Lithuanian Tatar cavalry.

The difference between professional and amateur is straightforward. The Lithuanian Tatar Cavalry Squadron failed to charge and was defeated again.

Two attacks failed, and Anjay became anxious.

For Andrzej, the current situation is imminent. Although the enemy is divided and surrounded by its own huge number of cavalry, the enemy's reinforcements may come at any time, and his mission is to destroy the enemy's luggage. Success or failure here will be directly related to the battle ahead. Only success can not fail. In desperation, he ordered a cavalry to drag the enemy's team. He himself urgently selected three warriors, let them strap grenades on their battle horses, and then rushed forward at full speed, just like an ancient attack. Like a city hammer, it smashed into the German pikemen's team, and broke away the infantry in front of the gate.

Although the German Musketeers tried their best to shoot and killed two war horses and the people on them, one war horse still rushed to the gate. The knight on the horse let out a cry mixed with despair and excitement, and then there was a loud noise.

The entire gate was blown apart, and the Germanic pikemen guarding the gate disappeared into the flames in an instant.

When other Lithuanian Tatar cavalry saw this, they galloped up immediately. They put down the Tatar bow in their hands, raised their sabers, and prepared to slash the remaining coalition soldiers in the barracks.