Chechen did not join the cheers because he heard bogglexie say that Prince yanush was defeated in Lithuania and was trapped in a small castle. This means that the mercenary regiment led by his uncle Pedro may also have suffered heavy losses. He is now worried about the safety of his companions.
To figure out why Prince yanush was defeated, it will take a month back. At that time, the defense of Daguangming Mountain Monastery had begun, and in distant Lithuania, the fateful battle between yanush raziweu and Pavel sapega was imminent.
This is a real duel between the two. The Swedish army led by field marshal Brauer weixingsburg, who should have been the protagonist of the battlefield, had to take yanush''s bitter plea to return to the division because the Czar Russian army suddenly broke into Sweden and surrounded Riga.
The 20000 people of boguslav, who could have been helped by the prince, were forcibly taken away by braue weixingsburg, including 10000 people, including Prince boguslav. The other 10000 people were surrounded by sapeki''s 20000 troops and could not move.
Therefore, on the battlefield, the two former Lithuanian commanders and Deputy commanders unexpectedly ended their grievances with the same number of troops.
Yanush raziwiu brought 20000 people out of Vilna. Before the war, the hero knew that this was his last possession, and he knew the weight of his opponent. Although sapega''s troops could not be compared with his own mercenaries in quality, the other party had more generals available than himself, so he changed his arrogance and marched carefully all the way.
And sapega is also careful. What he did not expect was that Alexander otkinski''s army would return quickly from Lida fort, and yanush had a new force of 8000 people. Therefore, as he advanced slowly, he methodically captured the outposts around Werner one by one. When the Allied forces attacked twenty miles away from Werner, the two armies met.
At that time, when sapega marched westward and the front pointed directly at Werner, yanush also marched south of the alliance along a parallel March route, ready to seize the opportunity to flank the alliance. The two sides met on the plain, with yanush defending and sapega defending.
Yanush''s army occupied the ground of the defensive array to the north, with forests on both sides. At that time, when fighting, it was generally impossible to enter every forest because it was inconvenient to carry forward firepower, but the two sides broke the Convention and launched a fierce battle on the edge of the forest at both ends of the front. The gap between the two forests is a flat land. Yanushi built strong field fortifications here and carefully arranged so that the artillery fire in the two wings of the forest can cross the center to form a fire trap. Yanush''s army in the front line is up to 14 mercenary companies with more than 14000 infantry under the command of Alexander otkinski.
On the second line, nine squadrons led by yanush, with a total of 2700 cavalry, lined up behind the central defense line. Yanush''s army also has 80 cannons. Fyodor obkhovich, a general who had been idle, was also used by yanush this time (yanush was also defended in case there were not many generals who could be independent). He was arranged behind the front and served as a reserve team together with three companies adapted by the militia.
Yanush believed that in such a favorable defensive terrain, the prince''s army had absolute geographical advantages, and sapega could not cope with himself under the condition of the same force. However, yanush ignored one point: there was a gap outside the battlefield at the far end of the forest on his left. If Sapei added a strange soldier and made a far-reaching detour to the back of the prince''s army, with fiordo''s cowardly character, could he hold on.
Commander sapega didn''t want to hit a stone with an egg. But the arrival of a new force changed the battlefield situation. Originally surrounded by Czarist Russian troops, mihau raziweu, yanush''s colleague, got out of trouble due to the armistice agreement between the Republic and Czarist Russia. After recuperation, he came to support commander sapesh with 10000 people. The Patriot also selflessly handed over his army to the commander of sapega, without any desire to fight for power and profit.
As a result, sapega, who has a good government and a harmonious people, finally has the strength to attack.
On the Allied side, as a pioneer, Anjie kemitz reversed his previous style. He did not rush to lead a 7000 strong infantry army to contact the prince''s army, but did not launch an attack immediately. He waited for more than an hour, and the price was to enable the prince''s army to greatly strengthen the fortifications.
Although this is not in line with Anjie''s personality, it happens for a reason. Because the 3000 cavalry led by mihau are still on the circuitous road, he wants to keep pace with mihau.
When the army and artillery led by Pavel sapega and mihau raziwiu finally stepped out of the defensive position, Anjie was finally able to attack the central position of the pro King army. Commander sapesh led 10000 troops to the center of the town and cooperated with Anjie''s 10000 troops to press in.
Four thousand men led by Colonel Jerzy haretsky attacked the positions held by the right wing of the prince''s army on the left. Strangely, his front was the mercenary regiment led by Pedro. Captain Sigmund rukash commanded the right wing of the 6000 allied forces to attack the enemy position at the other end. Sapega''s plan is similar to the strategy of field marshal braue wickensburg in the battle of Lida Fort: first attract the central forces of the pro King army with fierce attacks on both wings and nail them firmly, and then the special soldiers of mihau finish naming and hit the back stab.
At 7:30 in the morning, the two armies exchanged fire, and the roar of artillery shocked the world.
At nearly eight o''clock, the two wings of the Allied forces began to attack. The left wing of Jerzy halletsky was tenaciously resisted by the mercenary regiment led by Pedro. When enemies meet, they are particularly jealous. Colonel halletsky launched three attacks in an hour, but they were all blocked back. The two sides repeatedly rushed and killed, resulting in heavy casualties. In a counter charge led by yelisi, the Colonel''s left cheek was wiped by bullets and blood flowed like a flood, but Colonel haretsky refused to bandage and loudly scolded the retreating soldiers around him, saying that even if I die, I will destroy the damn mercenary regiment.
Captain Sigmund lukash wore a winged cavalry armour with huge wings on his back. He was very eye-catching in the battle. Therefore, the captain was shot three times in the scuffle, but the bullets either slipped away by the winged cavalry armour or missed the key. The nearby allies and Prince''s army were surprised and thought he was protected by gods.
By about 11 noon, 17000 troops in the front line had almost captured the three lines of defense of the prince''s army despite heavy casualties. Yanush was forced to put his cavalry into the battlefield. The cavalry stood out from the central line of defense and scuffled with Anjie.
The 10000 main forces led by sapesh also saw the opportunity and put more pressure on the prince''s army.
It was at this time that captain rukash''s good luck came to an end. When he broke through the third line of defense, he was bombarded by a prince''s artillery position hidden in the dense forest. As a result, his horse was killed first, and then he himself was seriously injured. The remnants of the Allied forces had to retreat in chaos, and almost all their officers were killed.
Under such favorable circumstances, Alexander otkinski''s three mercenary companies did not launch a favorable counterattack, but stopped when they recovered to the second line of defense. After learning that the right wing was almost collapsed, commander sapega took over the command of the central front near noon. He sent Anjie to lead 2000 people to rush to the rescue, ordered the right wing to suspend the attack, just made a situation that it would attack at any time, and nailed the troops of the right-wing Prince''s army to the position.
At 12:30 p.m., the 3000 cavalry of the Allied forces led by mihau finally broke through the forest barrier and suddenly appeared behind the prince''s army. This gave fiordo obhovich a great shock. Although the cowardly general blocked, he hid in the last row of the battle, which greatly hurt the morale of the companies adapted by the three civilian regiments. Mihau''s cavalry cut through fiordo''s three companies like hot knives cutting butter.
At this time, yanushi showed a wise commander''s battlefield response. He dispatched troops from the center to urgently form a defense line parallel to the main position to block this new threat, and then rushed to the right wing to prepare for attack.
Now it depends on who gets through the battle line 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 break through the alliance from the right, the alliance will be destroyed.
Just then, a battlefield appeared unexpectedly. Yanush raziwiu suddenly fainted on his horse and fell off his horse. Without the command of the commander, the prince''s army was in chaos. Okinski, who took over the command of yanush, had no prestige like yanush. The mercenaries refused to obey the orders and fled one after another.
Sapega could not believe that the Allied forces had won such a victory for no reason. He could only attribute it to the blessing of the goddess of national protection.
During the war, the Allied forces suffered 6000 casualties, while the prince army suffered 2000 casualties, but 6000 were captured.
If yanushi did not faint at the last moment, even if the Allied forces broke through the prince''s front and occupied the battlefield, the prince should be able to lead a large force to retreat. According to the diary written by commander sapega himself later, if we suffer two more victories like this, the alliance itself will be destroyed.
It can only be said that God does not bless yanush raziwiu. After that, longzinski escorted Prince yanush and some defeated soldiers to tikeqing''s castle. After occupying Werner, the Allied forces surrounded the castle. Yanush, who was trapped in the isolated castle, was at a dead end.