Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2475 Lesinski

April 1703, 4, Danzig County, sunny.

A few wisps of cooking smoke curled up, and in a certain village by the sea, a group of soldiers with live ammunition were having dinner.Strictly speaking, the place where they are located is no longer within the scope of the original Free City of Gdansk, but within the territory of Poland, which has even penetrated more than ten kilometers.

From the military uniforms and attires on them, it can be seen that this is a group of soldiers from the east bank, with a number of about 20 people, which is almost a platoon establishment.And if you know more about current affairs, you can even know that they come from a unit named the Fourth Mixed Regiment. Its regiment leader, Lieutenant Colonel Yang Chengdong, has often made remarks in newspapers recently. He is a very active officer and is in charge of The Free City of Gdansk—well, now renamed Danzig County—has the power of life and death for tens of thousands of residents.

All 5000 members of the Fourth Mixed Regiment came to Danzig County, including the specially strengthened artillery before leaving.The reason why he is so cautious is mainly the offensive remarks made publicly by the Polish King Lesinski.Poland needs an outlet to the sea, but it was supported by the Swedes. It is impossible to say that going to the Swedes requires an outlet to the sea—to be fair, the Kingdom of Sweden probably has the longest coastline on the south coast of Poland, and most of them Some of them are just a small piece of long and narrow territory along the coast, but they just block other countries from gaining access to the sea, which is very eye-catching and cheap.

Lesinski didn't dare to make demands on his master, so he could only find a way to get back the Free City of Gdansk.Once this matter is successful, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth will not only gain access to the sea, which will be of great economic significance, but Lesinski himself will also gain huge political capital, and the throne will be relatively stable.Many nobles in Poland are still patriotic. They hate the vulgar Russians—hey, hey, you have been bullying the Russians throughout history—hate the pagan Turks, the barbaric Swedes, and the capricious The villain Prussians, in short, hate everyone who hurts them, and now the East Coast people are added to this list, a New World country that robbed them of their only access to the sea.

There is a reason why Poles hate East Coasters.It can be traced back as far as the purchase of Polish slaves captured by the Crimean Tatars in large quantities. For this reason, the two countries once cut off trade ties.And don't forget that the East Coast government has always supported the Green Christian Turks and Tartars, both of whom have caused great suffering to the Kingdom of Poland.Now there are new charges. They even took away Gdansk, Poland's only seaport. How dare you!

The "tragic situation" in Gdansk has also spread to Warsaw, Krakow and other core Polish cities, which has aroused the anger of many people.The Free City Council of Gdansk was brutally disbanded, citizens who opposed the East Bank were brutally suppressed, and nearly a hundred people died tragically under the butcher knife of the East Bankers (when they reached Warsaw, they had become East Coasters and slaughtered tens of thousands of Polish residents) .Not to mention, after directly ruling Gdansk for several months, the 100th Mixed Regiment of the East Bank Army directly attacked, expanded eastward and southward, occupied a lot of land, and directly expanded their control area from more than 300 square kilometers To more than [-].Many Polish nobles ran to Warsaw crying for their fathers and mothers, begging King Leszinski to uphold justice, because the people on the east coast disbanded their private armed forces and declared that this is the territory of the east coast, requiring them to pay taxes and obey the laws of the east coast .

Lesinski was furious when he heard the news.He hasn't come to trouble the people from the east bank yet, but the people from the east bank actually started messing with them first!Now I am the king of Poland, you are really deceiving people!Therefore, Lesinski resolutely gathered a coalition army of nobles regardless of the fierceness of the war, and then—well, he went to consult his Swedish father.As a result, the Swedish father just sold a section of coastline from the Free City of Gdansk to the west bank of the Vistula River to the people on the east bank in exchange for [-] flintlock rifles and [-] artillery pieces. The meeting allowed Lesinski to make troubles at will, and asked him to reorganize his troops and prepare to fight August.

Lesinski was naturally very angry. He returned to Warsaw, discussed with the nobles and staff for a while, and finally gave up.The Swedish father can't afford to be offended. His throne was given by Charles XII as a phone bill—er, no, it was given after defeating August.If you offend the king of Shangguo because of the people on the east coast, it's really not worth it.

However, not openly seeking revenge on the East Bank does not mean that Lesinski will not make small moves in private.He first found the nobles and military officials who had escaped from Gdansk, gave them weapons and funds, and asked them to find a way to recruit people and fight against the people on the east coast.There are a lot of funds and weapons, enough to arm thousands of people, and in Lesinski's view, enough to make people on the east coast drink a pot.

Of course we all know that this is Leszinski's imagination.In fact, these hastily armed Polish troops were very good. Although they had the advantage of being familiar with geography and people's conditions, they were defeated after fighting against the fourth mixed regiment: In November 1702, more than two thousand soldiers led by Pavel Cak The people were defeated on the banks of the Vistula River, and the desperate Poles jumped into the river one after another, causing heavy casualties; in January 11, Vistek took more than 1703 horses and camped in a village more than ten kilometers south of Gdansk. The army came on a snowy night and was wiped out after a bayonet assault; in March 1, Olesinski led more than 1000 people across the Vistula River to attack the farms established by the people on the east bank who confiscated the land of the fugitive nobles. The four mixed regiments intercepted them, and after a great battle, the whole army was wiped out.It is worth mentioning that in the above three wars, the losses of the people on the east coast were very small, and the number of casualties was only about two hundred, which was not in the same order of magnitude as the losses of the Poles.

Lesinski was also very surprised by the fighting power of the people on the east coast.This old hat has never fought against people from the east coast. He used to think that the Turkish army was already one of the most powerful troops in the world. Later, when he met the extremely brave Swedish army, he immediately knelt down unconditionally.Now he found out that the army on the east bank was so capable of fighting!He actually defeated three troops in a row with a total of 6000 troops. Although most of them were second-rate troops temporarily recruited (with some veterans), they were not comparable to the "elite" in his hands, but they could only cause 2000 casualties on their own side (you know, exaggerating enemy casualties , so as not to be too embarrassing), such a series of victories under the circumstances is enough to prove that this is a force with strong combat effectiveness, and it cannot be easily provoked. Lesinski was persuaded again.

However, he did not dare to directly discuss peace with the people on the east coast, which would shake his political foundation.So, after thinking about it, he decided not to send a large number of people to Gdansk, but instead asked the local nobles to contact the Poles living in Gdansk, and asked him to provide information secretly, and then with dozens of A group of people (no more than a hundred people at most), fast in and fast out, attacked officials, technical personnel, businessmen and even ordinary immigrants from the east coast who came to the local area.

It should be said that Lesinski's trick was quite effective. He correctly played his own advantages and minimized losses.Right now, the East Coast Army, which is working as a cooking group in this village, came after a group of Polish bandits. There were about [-] people in that group, and they attacked a farm run by the Danzig County government, killing and injuring them. killed four Indian laborers working in the fields.After hearing the news, the nearby army outpost quickly dispatched and killed several gangsters, and then bit them all the way, killing several people until the rest of the gangsters fled into the beach, which was taller than a person. In the barren meadow.

The platoon leader who led the team saw that there was nothing he could do, so he simply led the troops to withdraw.In the battles along the way, they didn't kill or injure a single person, but killed seven Polish bandits, which was enough to make those people's memory grow.But he also knew that these people could never be killed, never could be killed!Unless you face the source directly and destroy the puppet government in Warsaw—yes, that’s right, it’s the Resinski puppet government. People on the east bank have always believed that it is a puppet of the Swedes, so that Charles XII’s army can squeeze Poland.

But it is not an easy task to eliminate Lesinski, and the thousands of people in the Fourth Mixed Regiment alone are not enough.The road to Warsaw is mostly flat land, which is good for the Polish cavalry and not good for the people on the east bank.Moreover, it is impossible for the fourth mixed regiment to attack with the whole army. At least more than 1000 people should be left to guard their hometown, right?This troop strength is not enough. It is best to have another regiment of troops, and it will be almost stable.

The reinforcements of this extra regiment could not be the Sixth Mixed Regiment, which also had heavy combat missions, but the No. 9000 Mixed Regiment that had almost left the mainland at this moment, that is, the children of the capital commonly known as the "Yamei Regiment".Only when they arrived in Danzig smoothly and the two armies merged into one, then eighty-nine thousand troops could be mobilized to go straight to Huanglong and completely bring down the clown Lesinski.

Well, well, that's for later.Before that, the realistic way is to contact the Swedes through diplomatic channels, and let Charles XII put pressure on Lesinski to restrain this crazy behavior a little bit.It just so happens that the Russians have been very "powerful" recently and have won consecutive battles. Charlie XII probably doesn't want Lesinski, a fool, to make trouble.

(End of this chapter)