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Chapter 369

    The weather has been fine since the 16th. Alvid wiedenberg''s act of shooting messengers regardless of morality and morality also completely angered king kazimiz. Now, he no longer imagined that the Swedes in Warsaw had surrendered, but devoted himself to how to liberate the city by force.


    Therefore, because of the terrible incident of Wittenberg killing the messenger, the Polish army began to shoot at the tall wall of Warsaw with small caliber artillery before the heavy artillery arrived. Marshal lubomatsky excavated tunnels from the Bank of the visva River to the east wall of Warsaw city to build underground bunkers and earth embankments, The brave Polish warriors braved the fierce gunfire of the Swedes and gradually pushed forward to a place only 30 meters away from the moat.


    From there, Polish artillery began to fire on the walls and inside the city. The magnificent kazanovsky palace near the east city wall has become a ruin. No one regrets it, because the people living in the palace are traitors rajyovsky. Even some polish artillery, out of hatred for the traitors, deliberately raised the muzzle so that the shells could cross the wall and hit there. They hoped that one of the shells would hit the traitor.


    However, the wish is doomed to be impossible to achieve, because rajyovsky had long expected that he would be hated by his compatriots outside the city, and his home would also be the focus of Poland''s attack. Rajyovsky had long moved out of his home and lived in kazimi RI palace.


    The silent poor palace bore all the anger. The snow-white palace walls were riddled with holes, and almost all the windows were broken glass. The windows were empty, regardless of the wind and rain. The falling bullet rain fell on the gorgeous balcony and garden day and night, destroying the gypsum fountain and the precious flowers in the garden. Rajeyuevsky''s pets used to run around in the garden full of craters. They told their misfortune with sad cries.


    Although small caliber artillery can destroy the crenels on the city wall, it can not destroy the main body of the city wall. The Polish army encountered the same problem that the Swedes encountered in chenstohova.


    General Stefan charnietsky is a general who knows military well. He refuses to let the soldiers launch unnecessary attacks before the artillery opens the gap. But some people ignore it and insist on attacking the city immediately. These are the leaders of the rebel and militia and their soldiers.


    These rebels and militia are not good at attacking a city at all. They see attacking a city as simple as sneaking into a Swedish grain collection team or patrol in the countryside. Especially when they heard the refugees from the city talk about the mountains of gold, silver and jewelry plundered by the Swedes in Warsaw City, they just wanted to be the first to come into contact with the treasures gathered by the Swedes.


    These people launched several representatives to go to King kazimiz and tell their requests. At first, King Kazimierz refused. Kazimierz, who had fought with his father and brother when he was young, was no stranger to the difficulty of attacking the city. But he could not stand the repeated pleadings of these representatives. At the same time, the king''s heart hoped that there would be a miracle, and Warsaw city was conquered by a drum.


    Finally, when the representatives left the king''s camp, they received a warrant issued by kazimizh allowing them to attack the city.


    The commander of charnietsky made the last effort. He painstakingly told them in the tunnel that the city could not be captured until the gap was opened with heavy artillery. Not only can the militia and the rebel army not attack, but even regular infantry attack is futile. But these people did not listen to the goodwill of the general army. They took out the king''s warrant and forced the general army to release them.


    On the afternoon of that day, more than 6000 carefully selected soldiers of the rebel and militia groups prepared ladders, ropes, sandbags and hooks. Most of them have only a saber and a pistol as weapons. Many people don''t even have an armed suit. Instead, they tie thick straw tightly in front of their chest as protection.


    6000 people secretly gathered on the tunnels and earth embankments and secretly approached the moat under the cover of these fortifications. When everyone entered the battle position, after a gunshot, all the soldiers gave a terrible cry, rushed towards the moat like a group of ants climbing out of the ground, and the soldiers with sandbags in front began to fill the river. The Swedish soldiers who woke up from a dream shot them fiercely with lethal firepower composed of fire guns and artillery, Fierce fighting took place across the east of the city.


    The soldiers were many and powerful. Under the cover of small artillery, they filled the moat in an instant. Then, Bing Yong made an appointment with the moat and jumped at the wall in disorder.


    As Bing Yong began to climb the wall, the covered artillery had to stop firing. Next, only God can help them.


    But the bravery of these people did not get good luck. The soldiers did take the ladder and climbed it recklessly. The skill and speed of climbing the ladder were like an ape. Perhaps even apes may not surpass them.


    However, Swedish soldiers shot deadly bullets at the visitors from the towers and enemy platforms of the city wall. Some who survived and climbed the crenels of the city wall were also shot in the face by Swedish pistol cavalry hiding behind.


    The Swedish soldiers also threw the prepared rolling logs and stones at them. Under the impact and heavy pressure of the rolling logs and stones, the ladder broke and became fragments; The warriors who climbed with ropes also fell with the boulders.


    But even so, after the first wave of attack was retreated, the warriors of the militia and the rebel army organized a second charge. This time, many people climbed up the wall, but this time they faced the gun forest of the Swedish long spearmen. The long spears could stab and push the siege soldiers bravely, but the sabers of the Polish warriors could not deal with such a long spear. The Polish warriors cut the gun forest in vain, But after splitting one, three or four long guns stabbed them. What''s more terrible is that they encountered the same experience as the skzedusky commandos, that is, they were cross attacked by the towers on both sides of the city wall... More than 500 most brave and tenacious rebel and militia soldiers died under the city wall, and their blood stained the city wall of Warsaw. The rest of the people were finally desperate. After the enemy''s continuous shooting, they retreated, crossed the moat and went back to their own tunnels to hide.


    Skzedusky, who was whipped, also saw the tragedy under the city wall. His eyes were broken.


    "Why did I forget to tell your majesty!" skzedusky regretted.


    Although skzedusky''s sneak attack ended in failure, this failed sneak attack was not without any results. The sacrifice of the commandos made skzedusky clear that due to the lack of troops, the Swedish garrison did not focus on the long city wall, but on the towers between the city walls, and accumulated countless ammunition. The reason why skzjdusky''s commandos lost so much was that after closing the gate of the tower, the Swedes strafed the whole section of the wall with shotguns and shotguns.


    Skzedusky asked Ma Bian to carry him to King kazimiz.


    "So the key to whether we can capture the walls of Warsaw is whether our artillery can destroy these towers we built ourselves." skzedusky lay on a marching bed and told the king and marshal the information obtained with the soldiers'' lives.


    When skzedusky finished, King kazimizz excitedly took skzedusky''s big hand. Compared with skzedusky''s bronze hand, King kazimiz''s hand looks so white and soft.


    "My soldier, your information will save many people''s lives. Alas, I shouldn''t be so impulsive to you..." King kazimiz said emotionally.


    His implication was that if scorzedusky could tell himself the information earlier, he would completely forgive his whipping.


    Skzedusky smiled affectionately. But his smile seemed to affect the wound on his back, making his smile so ferocious and painful.


    "Your Majesty, I''m really too impulsive. I''m blinded by my hatred for Bao Hong. I really deserve to be punished. And if I had told you earlier, those warriors might not have died," said skzedusky.


    Skzedusky''s attitude of self-criticism moved king kazimiz for a while.


    After a while, King kazimiz stood up.


    "My marshal, did you hear it?" King kazimiz turned and asked marshal lubaumatsky.


    "Yes, yes," said marshal lubaumatsky, wiping the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief.


    King kazimiz nodded. He squatted down again, comforted skzedusky, and then left with the marshal.


    In the next few days, the Polish Army temporarily gave up the strong attack. Taking advantage of the hard won fine weather, the engineers of the Republic made preparations for the general attack against time. They blocked the canal from the moat to the visva River, and then dug an underground canal to drain the moat. The next task is to fill the moat.


    According to the order of the marshal, the artillery attacking the city did not bombard the tower until the heavy artillery arrived. Although the Swedes have made sufficient preparations to defend these towers, and sandbags are hung on the outside of the tower wall to reduce the damage of artillery to the towers, these defense means are so valuable in front of the absolute number of artillery occupied by the Republic Army.


    Polish artillery first broke the sandbags around the tower with small caliber guns to make the sand flow out, and then made a fatal attack on the tower with large caliber cannons.


    In front of the large caliber cannon, the tower was like paper paste, and a big hole was hit by a shell.


    Once again, a shell blessed by the military priest even penetrated through the firing port of the tower, hit the powder keg inside, and overturned the whole tower to the sky. This was occasionally seen as a miracle by the soldiers, and the morale of the army was even higher.


    On the 21st, the army of the Republic of Poland launched a tentative attack.


    Before the attack, Polish artillery had trampled down an entire section of the city wall and cleared the surrounding towers.


    King kazimizh threw an entire infantry regiment of Colonel Alexander kasimir into the battlefield. The colonel and his German mercenary corps have always been known for daring to fight hard battles.


    But when Colonel Alexander Casimir commanded the infantry regiment to attack the city along the ramp made of ruins, they unexpectedly found that the Swedes had built a second wall on the inner side of the wall. The inner wall was 50 meters away from the outer wall. The Swedish Musketeers in blue uniforms and the Swedish guards in yellow uniforms, who had been waiting behind, saw the Polish Army rush in and immediately launched a volley.


    As they were unprepared for the appearance of the inner wall, they were forcibly repulsed by the defenders in the first round of attack. It was a team of German mercenaries and long Gunners who finally drove them out of the gap.


    In the next 10 hours, lubaomatsky, who did not give up, sent various units to attack in turns. Taking part in the attack were the armored Cossack company of Jan zenovich, the Polish long Gunners of count teshkovic, the Polish militia and dare to die cavalry led by the general army of Stefan charnietsky, and Alexander otkinski''s troops pardoned by King kazimiz, but in front of the strong position carefully built by alvid wiedenberg, All the attacks ended in a fiasco. The cunning alvid wiedenberg even cut off all the inner crenels of the outer wall before the war, so that the Polish Musketeers who climbed the wall could shoot at the Swedish Musketeers without shelter. The dead and wounded who fell from the wall blocked the way of attack, making it more difficult for the latecomers to attack.


    At the height of the battle for the city wall, the cavalry of the Swedish army launched a counterattack from the flank. They broke in quickly from the side and got entangled with the attacking Polish infantry. Due to the terrain constraints, both sides could not maintain the formation well, and the battle soon became a battle between cavalry and infantry. The well-equipped and powerful Swedish pistol cavalry often gained great advantages in close combat. Often seven or eight Polish infantry could not cope with the attack of a Swedish pistol cavalry.


    The Polish winged cavalry under the king and marshal wanted to join the regiment and compete with the Swedish pistol cavalry, but they were rejected. Because both the king and the marshal knew that the strength of the winged cavalry was charge, and the scuffle was not their strong point. Neither of them is willing to consume the Republic''s most powerful assault force meaninglessly.


    In that day''s battle, the Polish Republic left thousands of bodies under the walls of Warsaw.


    When night fell, both sides had a tacit understanding and stopped. The Polish Army abandoned the meaningless outer city wall and returned to the offensive position, while the Swedish army did not repair it. They hope to turn this gap into a bleeding wound of the poles and drain all the blood of the Polish army.
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