The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

In March, Pidro left Vidava with a 3,000-man mercenary group. Accompanied by nearly two thousand militia armed with sickles, spears, and flail—they are all peasants who love Bashit.

A group of people marched toward the Rhodes Castle mightily. This castle, together with Łódź, belonged to Count Casimir Tszkevich.

At Rhodes Castle, a private army of a thousand men led by the earl stopped Piedro and their way.

However, unlike what was expected, Count Casimir Tshkevich did not come to fight the mercenary group.

The earl’s messenger claimed that the earl was sympathetic to Bacht’s experience and was willing to lead his army to Beijing with Piedro to "redress grievances."

This is really a happy ending.

That is to say, he won allies without bloodshed, and Pidro hurriedly invited Count Casimir Teshkevich to his camp to have dinner with himself and the officers of the mercenary regiment.

Of course, Count Casimir Tszkevich’s sympathy for Bacht’s experience is nothing but an excuse.

In fact, the earl was also a victim of the king's reforms. He supported Pidro's march into Warsaw, but for his own benefit.

Count Casimir Tshkevich’s wishful thinking is like this: If Pidro’s mercenary group defeats the king or the king compromises with it, then as an alliance of the mercenary group, the king will naturally agree to his own. Appeal; if the king refuses or sends troops to destroy the mercenary group, then he will revolt on the battlefield or return to Lodz and surrender, asking for the forgiveness of King Jan Kazimierz.

In short, Count Casimir Tshkevich knows how to protect himself.

After a day's rest in Łódź, the mercenary regiment and its allies continued to march towards Warsaw. Along the way, many nobles brought their servants or private soldiers to Pedro with the same purpose, which caused the size of the army to expand to 6,000. And the few news they brought made Pidro immediately happy and panicked.

The two news are actually one thing, because they happened before and after.

This first news is about Lvbao Macki. More than half a month ago, after receiving the support of the Holy Roman Emperor, Lvbao Macki quickly formed a mercenary army and returned to his territory, Lviv. He raised the flag there, and the great nobleman of the Republic of Poland, the former Generalissimo declared a "legal rebellion." He has packaged himself as a fighter who defends the golden freedom of the nobles and opposes the evil despotism, and thus has won the support of many great aristocrats in the country. Even some little nobles and peasants were on the side of the marshal, and his army quickly reached 30,000.

The second news is about Stefan Czarnetski. The famous general of the Republic, a staunch supporter of King Jan Kazimierz and Queen Ludvika declared a rebellion in Lubaumacki, he immediately moved to Lublin and blocked Lubaumacki’s rebellion. On the march of the army into Warsaw, the two armies fought fiercely.

This second news made Pidro panic.

Although Stefan Czarnetsky was regarded as a traitor by the nobles because of his support for the reform of the king and queen, his prestige among the nobles was greatly damaged, but no one would doubt his outstanding military talents. Now he has seized the strategically important place in Lublin. If Golubomatsky fought against Stefan Czarnetsky in the Lublin area for a while, it would have extremely terrible and catastrophic consequences.

"If this is the case," Pidro thought, "Then I'm blind and bad luck. Lvbao Macki is really abandoned and hopeless by God!"

Pidro's view is that although Lvbao Macki launched a rebellion, his strength is limited. If he wants to win, he must advance to Warsaw as fast as possible and go straight to Huanglong. And entanglement with Stefan Czarnetsky in Lublin is undoubtedly the way to defeat.

The Zamosc fortress in Lublin was the fortress where Khmelnitsky and Karl X were killed. The fortifications here are very advanced, and there is no way to conquer it without spending years and months and a huge amount of manpower and materials.

Now, the fencers in the Republic are hesitant to wait and see. Although the conservative nobles everywhere are ready to move, they will not stop the battle before the royal army is still strong and the battle between Lubao Macki and Çarnetski is still unknown. The chips in their hands fell to the marshal's side.

Once a stalemate is reached, the longer Lübau Macki's time wasted in Lublin and the greater the loss, the more power the king can gather. When King Jan Kazimierz suppressed the conservative forces in Warsaw and led the king's army into Lublin, the failure of Lvbaumacki was almost inevitable.

"Should I change the course?" Pidro thought repeatedly, "If he does this brutally, his own army will turn. The offensive is not good, and it is easy to cause dissatisfaction and chaos in the army. Just like the Russians in Coro It's the same under the city of Top. Then this rebellion will soon be put down, and Lubao Macki will not be more terrible than a sword with a broken hilt."

"This fool!" Pedro cursed.

Pidro wondered whether he was going to Warsaw to seek "justice", and he did not formally join or support Lübao Macki's rebellion ~www.readwn.com~ and there is no evidence of the conspiracy between him and the marshal. Now Joining King Jan Kazimierz to help him put down the rebellion, although I can’t get as much as Lubao Macki promised himself, but it is obviously to ask King Jan Kazimierz’s forgiveness. It can be done.

Just when Pidro was going to turn his back on Lubao Macki, who was not in good fortune, Basit, Yelisei, and others, as well as Count Casimir Tshkevich, passed by.

They also heard about the battle between Lubaumacki and Stefan Czarnetsky in Lublin before they came to discuss countermeasures with Pidro.

However, the opinions of these two waves are not the same or even completely opposite.

Bashit and Yelisei believe that the mercenary group is going to Warsaw to seek justice, which is different from the rebellion of Lübao Macki. At this time the army should stop advancing or help the king quell the rebellion.

Count Casimir Tszkevich actively advocated going to Lublin to meet Lübau Macki.

The disagreement between the two sides made Pidro even more upset. He had to resort to a tactic of delay-waiting in place.

At this time, the army had arrived in the Plock area. Go on for another four or five days, as long as you cross the Vistula River, you will be Warsaw.

This wait is seven days. During this period, the mercenary regiment and the regular army of Casimir Tshkevich were able to maintain order, but the nobles and civilian regiments gathered in the ant colony caused a stir in the vicinity. These people who lack military discipline drank from morning till night, wandered in the streets, clamored, quarreled and fought with people from other provinces, cities, and counties; some members of the militia group controlled by Bachter were also affected by this abuse. Contaminated by the atmosphere, they ran to the countryside in droves to sneak pranks and molested women.