give the matter further thought and discuss it later?
Chechen and Wittenberg looked at each other, wondering what the queen wanted to think about in the long run?
However, they didn''t ask much. Seeing Christina''s tired look, they took the initiative to leave and prepared to save the battle for tomorrow.
The next day, Christina didn''t summon Chechen and Wittenberg. While Chechen was waiting anxiously, Pedro and others arrived in Riga.
With Pedro and them came a thousand elite soldiers of the elector. This is not only the gratitude of the elector to Chechen and others for saving their wives and children, but also an investment.
Pedro grabbed Cherchen''s hand anxiously after seeing him.
"Has Warsaw made peace with Carl x?" he asked angrily.
Although surprised that his uncle got the news, Chechen said truthfully: "yes, King Jan kazimizh has made peace with Carl X."
Pedro grabbed his hair with his angry hands. He walked around the room, and the iron heel of his riding boots stepped on the wooden floor, and wood chips flew.
"I knew you would produce a moth every time you acted."
Then, Pedro told Cherchen that when he was preparing to leave in konisburg, a secret envoy claiming to represent the parliament found him, told him that the action was cancelled and asked them to return to Warsaw immediately.
Now, it''s Cherchen''s turn to be surprised.
"Then why are you still here?" he asked.
Cherchen himself knew the inside story of the peace talks between the two countries in advance and had a premonition that King Jan kazimiz might betray Christina. Therefore, after a fierce struggle in his heart, he had to win victor and the Duke of ovshane for his friendship with Christina''s sister. He didn''t expect his uncle to make such a decision.
"Because I suspect that guy is a fake," Pedro said "You think, I don''t know that person, and the king should always send someone you and I know for such an important thing. Now anyone claims to be a secret envoy with a superstition letter. Of course, I doubt it. So I don''t care. I packed the guy and threw him into the cabin, and then headed for Riga. I think if what he said is true, then Riga should fly It''s still the flag of Carl X. it''s not too late for me to sail at full speed. But I didn''t expect that guy''s story to be true. "
With that, Pedro grabbed his hair again.
"Now my vidava may have disappeared, and Brest must have been taken back by the king. You and I think only Bratslav can return. Alas, considering that we are old enough to be Cossacks, our uncle and nephew are really hurt by the king who changes every day."
Chechen was relieved to hear that uncle Pedro did not blame himself this time, but the king, because he was very worried that his uncle would resent him for losing his family business again.
But before he could relax, Pedro''s resentful eyes looked at him.
"And you go your own way every time and like to dance on the tip of the knife. Can''t you think of me and little Anna?"
"I was wrong, uncle." Chechen quickly apologized.
Pedro waved.
"Forget it, forget it. Now that the boat is done, my old bone can only help you. Let''s help Queen Christina defeat her evil cousin."
Then, Pedro mysteriously came to Cherchen''s ear.
"Don''t worry, when I got off the ship, I had yelishei and Xie Miao take people to guard the ship with all our family wealth. In case something can''t be done, we''ll flee to the new world."
"OK, uncle." Chechen was really embarrassed by Pedro''s plan.
The arrival of the elector''s 1000 elite soldiers also injected a boost into Riga. Of course, alvid Wittenberg would not miss this opportunity to boost morale. He ordered fedot and others to take reinforcements through the street for a military parade, and sent plain clothes to publicize in the crowd that Frederick William is about to cross the sea to help the queen.
Queen Christina also attended the military parade. Cherchen found that Christina''s face was haggard, as if she hadn''t slept all night. He was a little worried about whether Christina''s sister would be exhausted because she was worried about the coming war.
In the evening, around two o''clock in the morning, Cherchen was awakened from his sleep by Carlson.
"Her Majesty wants to see you," said Carlson.
Chechen thought it was an emergency. He quickly dressed up and arrived at the governor''s house as soon as possible with Carlson''s company.
Entering the conference room on the second floor of the governor''s office, Chechen saw that Wittenberg was also there. The difference was that the paper military map on the original table was replaced with a model.
Seeing Chechen coming, Christina hurriedly asked Chechen to come.
"I''ve been thinking these days that defense is inappropriate. I want to take the initiative to attack and declare war on Carl," Christina said.
Perhaps because of excitement, Christina''s nose kept playing back and forth.
Chechen looked at Wittenberg in surprise, and the other party smiled bitterly.
Wittenberg had just learned Christina''s idea and understood why the queen said to think long-term - it turned out that she didn''t agree with defense.
For Chechen, Christina explained her reasons: "Defense is impossible. Except for those volunteers, there are few nobles and generals in our camp these days. They are frightened by Carl''s great achievements and don''t report any hope for our success. Cherchen, your defense plan is very good. It can be said that there is no leak, but if you can''t break Carl''s army, the reinforcements all over the country will be far away The poles are not our allies, and the Danes are extremely afraid of Carl. Although the elector has helped us, a thousand people are a drop in the bucket after all. Therefore, our adherence will only become adherence. "
"But how can we defeat the army led by Carl X in the field? As we all know, the Swedish phalanx is not only powerful, but also indestructible." Cherchen said with some self-confidence.
As the next generation student of Gustav, the "Northern European lion", Cherchen knows the terrible of the Swedish army created by the God of war. He also benefited from his military system and wisdom many times in order to defeat his opponent.
And alvid Wittenberg is also on the side to persuade the queen to be cautious.
Seeing that they disagreed with their opinions, Christina had to say, "don''t worry, I won''t act rashly. I''ve been thinking about how to beat Carl these days, and I''ve also envisaged several schemes. Now let''s fight."
With that, Christina went to the other side of the table. She said to Chechen and Wittenberg, "now, I represent myself. And count, you are Carl. Chechen, you are the referee. Let''s deduce it on the sand table to see if I can beat Carl in the field."
Christina''s so-called deduction is to use warchess to simulate confrontation.
Before the emergence of war chess in the real sense, a board game simulating war - Indian chess has appeared in this era. It is the predecessor of Chinese chess and chess and the earliest war simulator of mankind. At this time, European countries have also begun to explore the use of sand table to simulate battles. Although the rules of these simulations are not very rigorous and primitive, their advantages are obvious Yes, that is, it can train officers'' War art and battlefield judgment in peacetime.
The model used by Christina was improved by his father Gustav. The battlefield was spread out on the sand table and divided into countless small cells. Each cell corresponds to 100 steps in reality - each "step" is about 0.76 meters.
At the same time, Gustav also adopted the round system, each round lasts for two minutes, and the opponent needs to make judgment in a limited time. What is more innovative is that the improved war chess introduces the concepts of war fog and random variables. In the battlefield of war chess, the belligerents have no God''s perspective, and they need to cover a certain area according to the rules, while dice are used to simulate random This means that, as in reality, one round of shelling may completely fail, but because of luck, the same shelling may wipe out a whole team of enemy troops in the next round.
Carlson put the chess pieces representing Carl X''s army in front of Wittenberg.
Their pieces are black, while Christina uses white.
According to Robert Douglas''s information, after the war damage, Carl X''s army still had more than 7000 people, including about 5 infantry teams and 20 cavalry squadrons, including 5000 infantry and 2000 cavalry respectively, as well as 250 Swedish heavy armored handgun cavalry led by him.
Wittenberg laid out the standard Swedish infantry tactics on the chessboard.
A total of three infantry teams are deployed in the center, behind them, and two infantry teams are used as reserves. Each team is in a T-shaped formation before the exchange of fire - the advantage is that the Musketeers in the first column can hide behind the long gun array when they are attacked by the enemy cavalry. After reaching the shooting position, the Musketeers will spread on both sides of the long gun soldiers Open up to six rows of deep shooting formation.
Wittenberg deployed 1500 elite cavalry on the right side of the infantry team and 500 cavalry on the left side. Chechen saw that Wittenberg wanted solid infantry to be responsible for the resistance line in the central position, and then carried out standard cavalry detour from both wings. The ultimate goal was to turn positional warfare into rout warfare.
Christina''s troops are slightly more than the army under Wittenberg''s command, with about 8000 people. However, the number of cavalry is seriously insufficient, only more than 200 people. And the combat power of the civilian regiment with a total of 3000 people is worrying.
Christina also deployed most of the infantry on the central front, with cavalry responsible for covering on both sides. In order to resist the surprise attack of the enemy''s flanking cavalry, Christina arranged 8 rows of long Gunners in depth in the infantry brigade, with about the same number of musketeers on both sides. Due to the advantage of the number of infantry, she can maintain sufficient depth and thickness. In addition, A German infantry regiment was left last by Christina as the general reserve.
After the beginning of a game, these arrangements will be handed over to Cherchen for him to deploy chess pieces on the map. At the same time, Cherchen will feed back the enemy''s intelligence and combat results to both sides according to the rules and war conditions. In addition, Cherchen has the right to add some random events to increase the variables in the game if there is a specific need.
At the beginning of the game, Wittenberg launched an attack. He pushed all his troops half a mile on the chessboard. Then the army stagnated in its present position.
"Shelling," Wittenberg said silently as he looked at the chess game.
The black army had about 28 guns, while the White army had 40. This is because Riga, as an important town of the kingdom of Sweden, Carl X and Magnus once again hoarded a lot of arms.
Wittenberg defined the shelling as three rounds, and Cherchen calculated the losses of both sides according to the quantity and quality of their artillery and the experience of their gunners.
After Carlson took the pieces judged to be damaged, Christina made a move.
From the beginning, Christina boldly sent all her cavalry to harass the right wing of the black army.
Faced with the provocation of such a small group of cavalry, Wittenberg, who did not open the perspective of God, immediately ordered his right-wing cavalry to trot forward without any hesitation. The cavalry of the White army fled quickly and led the cavalry of the black army to the central array of the White army. Here, the cavalry of the White army will hide behind the long Musketeers and Musketeers, and let the former welcome the cavalry of the black army with stormy bullets and long guns.
At this time, Wittenberg pushed the sunspot in front of him, all the infantry and left-wing cavalry of the black army were pressed, and the goal of the right-wing 500 cavalry was behind the White army.
The tactics of the Swedish cavalry were influenced by the Polish wing cavalry. They did not use the popular semi rotary shooting, but relied on charging and white-edge warfare to solve their opponents; The cavalry of the White army used semi rotary shooting.
Chechen seemed to see that pieces were incarnated into real Cavalry - the white cavalry with strict semi rotary shooting. After a meaningless volley, they were crushed by the black cavalry with their legs clamped to the belly of their horse and holding a shiny long sword and cavalry spear.
So the right wing of the White army collapsed. The 500 black cavalry not only easily defeated half of the white cavalry, but also detoured behind the White army.
After calculation, Christina had lost all her cavalry and most of her artillery in a short fight. The scale of victory seems to be falling completely to Wittenberg.
At this time, Christina opened the card hidden on the right-wing - the vehicle array established by the general reserve, that is, the German infantry team.
Lifting the fog of the battlefield, Wittenberg will find that the 200 cavalry of the White army were originally bait in order to attract their most entered Swedish heavy armor pistol cavalry into the battlefield.
250 Swedish heavy armour pistol cavalry were defeated by the German infantry team.
On the central front, the two troops also began to fall into a stalemate. The cavalry of the black army launched several attacks in succession, but they were defeated by their opponents. The infantry with the advantage of depth and thickness were not moved at all, and gradually gained the upper hand by relying on the advantage of number of people. As the black infantry joined the regiment, the cavalry began to lose the room to turn left and right.
At this time, Wittenberg had to use the reserve team and put two intact infantry teams from the left wing. But before they entered the battlefield, up to 7000 white infantry had launched a counterattack against only 3000 black infantry, and the two armies turned into a cruel white-edged war.
The situation is very unfavorable to us. The thin front has been squeezed and retreated, and the collapse is close at hand.
Seeing this situation, Wittenberg was anxious, but there was nothing he could do. He has no reserves available at this time. There was nothing he could do but to order the cavalry who had withdrawn from the right to attack again.
And they just hit the square of the German infantry team.
"Retreat!" cried Wittenberg.
"Stop!" shouted Carlson.
At this time, after Chechen calculated the loss, Christina and Wittenberg drew.