One day in January 1666, a four wheeled carriage, escorted by a team of Hessian cavalry, entered vidava under the cover of night.
At midnight, the town of vidava was dark. There was no one above the street, only a few wild dogs were digging through the garbage in the corner.
The sound of the wheels of the carriage and the hoofs of the horses broke the silence of the night. A black and white wild dog raised its head and ears from the garbage. It made a protest like cry in the direction of the sound.
But the cry had no deterrent to the comers. Swedish heavy armour pistol cavalry escorting the carriage passed by the wild dog. They didn''t look at the "enemy" with their eyes.
The wild dog finally stopped shouting. For carriages and cavalry came from the darkness and disappeared into the darkness.
Finally, the carriage stopped at the door of Pedro''s manor. A Swedish heavy armour pistol cavalry jumped off his horse and opened the door of the carriage.
A man in a black cloak came down from the carriage. She is slim and obviously a woman.
When she got off the wagon, all the Swedish cavalry got off the horse, and they stood in two rows from the wagon to the gate of the manor.
It was in such a tight human wall that the woman came to the gate of the manor. When she stepped up the stairs, the door was opened. Pedro and Fatima stood behind the door. With infinite joy, they said to the visitor, "you have finally come, Queen Christina (sister)."
It was Christina who had been away from Cherchen for six years after she became the Regent queen of the kingdom of Sweden.
With the help of Cherchen and alvid wiedenberg, Christina successfully became the guardian of Carl Xi and took charge of the government of the kingdom of Sweden. Christina continued the peace treaty with the Republic of Poland and implemented the national policy of recuperation, which slowly restored Sweden''s national strength.
After Chechen left Stockholm and returned to Poland, he and Christina did not break contact. From time to time, they told each other''s thoughts and interesting stories of their respective countries through letters.
When Cherchen and Natalie''s child was born, Christina gave a ruby necklace as a gift. The queen wanted to congratulate herself. But her identity is too sensitive, and she also knows that Natalie doesn''t welcome herself, so she can only send Colson to express her blessing to Cherchen on her behalf.
This time, Christina also came in secret. She received a letter of help from Pedro and Fatima, which led her to Poland from Sweden.
It is Chechen who deserves the help of Pedro and Fatima to Christina.
Things will start in September 1660.
After the end of the three-month holiday, Cherchen followed Pedro''s advice and took the initiative to apply to King Jan kazimizh to go to Ukraine to fight against Russia. At this time, Vasili selemedev, who succeeded Prince Alexei, followed the order of the Czar and led about 18000 soldiers and 35000 Cossack allies to take Lvov, an important town in the southeast of the Republic and the hometown of the lubaomatsky family.
The situation was so critical that even lubaomatsky had to put down his contradiction with the king and humbly asked the king for help.
Chechen volunteered, and King Jan kazimiz certainly wanted it. He ordered Che Chen to lead the whole mercenary corps, plus the powerful military strength of 12000 people, including 200 wing cavalry, 3000 armored Cossack cavalry and 3500 dragon cavalry.
After being reinforced by Chechen, lubaomatsky was ecstatic. He immediately began to organize a counter offensive.
At this time, the reinforcements of the Crimean Khanate as an ally and 1500 Cossack troops led by Kiev governor vikovski assisted the war, and the total number of federal troops reached an unprecedented 40000.
In this battle, Cherchen took the lead. The mercenary regiment led by him occupied the positions of Russian Cossack allies and blocked the retreat of the Russians.
The next day, lubaomatsky ordered the whole army to surround the Russian camp. Although the number of the two armies was still almost the same at this time, the Polish army was significantly stronger than the Russian army in terms of sharpness and the number of artillery. Moreover, the retreat was blocked, and the morale of the Russian army had already fallen to the bottom. On September 17, many Cossacks began to run away. In desperation, selemedev hoped to bribe the Tatars, but Nahai, the commander of the Tatars, directly handed the bribe letter to Cherchen.
At Cherchen''s suggestion, lubaomatsky opened a gap to lure the Russians to break through. This move was indeed effective. Selemedev left the fortification and broke through in the direction of chudnov. Lubaomatsky ordered the pursuit, and the Polish cavalry quickly cut off the connection between the retreating Cossacks and the Russians, and then defeated the Cossacks.
The rest of the exhausted Russian army was forced to stop on a plain and surrounded again. After several failed breakouts, especially after the breakout troops were ambushed by Tatars, selemedev decided to surrender to the poles.
Lubaumatsky accepted the Russian request for surrender. The Russian army laid down their arms and flags, and pereyaslav, Kiev and several other cities occupied by the Russian army were returned to the Republic. After leaving the eight most prominent Russian nobles as hostages to implement the conditions of surrender, unarmed Russian soldiers and officers who laid down their weapons were released.
In this war, the Polish Army wiped out nearly 10000 Russian troops and captured more than 10000 at the cost of about 5000 casualties.
Undoubtedly, the greatest hero of this war is Chechen. Lubaomatsky liked Cherchen more than anything. He treated him like his own eyes.
And completely returned the favor and pledged allegiance to the marshal.
The news of victory ahead inspired Jan kazimizi''s fighting spirit. The next year he assembled the Republic''s strongest army since the Bogdan hemelinitsky riots. Nearly 70000 troops plus 30000 Tatar reinforcements marched to the East.
King Jan kazimizh was ready to complete his full service and recover all the towns in the Dnieper River Basin occupied by the Russians at the beginning of the war. At the beginning, the military operation was very smooth. Borispol, klemenchuko, lohvica, lubni, Romney and several other Ukrainian cities were recovered by the Republic one after another.
But at the end of January, Prince Alexei changed his strategy. He ordered all Russian troops not to fight with Polish troops in the field, but to stick to the city.
As a result, the cavalry advantage of the Polish army could not be brought into play. Due to the lack of supplies required for long-term operations and serious winter losses, the Polish army failed to attack the city in several areas. As a last resort, King Jan kazimiz was forced to retreat that summer.
Objectively speaking, there are many reasons for the failure of the counter offensive, not just the responsibility of a general. First of all, at the beginning of the war, Russia attacked the west by tearing up the treaty and suddenly declaring war. The main army of the Republic was restrained by the Cossacks of Ukraine. Except for Smolensk, the defense force of the Republic in the eastern Castle group was extremely weak, resulting in the Russian army conquering a large number of castles almost without soot blowing. Eight years later, the Republic reluctantly assembled an army to launch a counterattack. During these eight years, the Russians further strengthened these castles and sent a large number of soldiers and sufficient materials to garrison them. Therefore, to attack the same castle, the poles would have to pay a hundred times the price of the Russians eight years ago to succeed.
Despite his military defeat, King Jan kazimiz successfully took advantage of this opportunity to remove lubaumatsky from the post of field marshal on the pretext of defeat. At the same time, he removed his military power and forced him to live in seclusion.
The result of this punishment caused an uproar in the Republic of Poland. Because in this counter offensive, the leader of Jan sobesky and Pavel sapega and even the king himself suffered a defeat no less than that in the battle of miatelsk, but no one has been punished so heavily.
For a time, it was wildly spread all over the country that the king and queen were seeking personal gain and revenge.
Wind from nowhere is not without cause. Because at this time, Queen ludwiga, who stayed in Warsaw, was further promoting Poland''s reform to achieve her political goals. Queen ludwiga began to reduce or even cut off Poland''s dependence on the Habsburg family, a traditional ally, and shifted Poland''s diplomatic focus to France, which completed a high degree of autocracy. She tried to make the French court more influential in Poland, and let her nephew Prince kondai Henry Jules de Bourbon become the Elector of the next Polish king. Lubaomatsky is precisely the biggest opponent of this matter.
Because of the new defeat, and the dignitaries and elders of the Republic such as Stanislaw pototsky, Pavel sapega and Stefan charnietsky stood on the king''s side, lubaomatsky had to accept the punishment.
At this time, Chechen did something unexpected to everyone.
When everyone was afraid to avoid the convicted lubaomatsky, they completely took the initiative to offer lubaomatsky to escort him back to Lvov.
Although Cherchen''s move was to take care of the fighting friendship between him and lubaumatsky, it undoubtedly made king Jan kazimiz and queen ludwiga doubt that he had become a member of the old school.
At that time, Natalie happened to be training the new army in Brest and was not around. Pedro, the "spiritual conservative" who saw the importance of the matter, was happy to see the success of Chechen''s move.
So Chechen escorted lubaomatsky back to Lvov.
Although lubaumatsky was forced to live in seclusion, Queen ludwiga still felt that lubaumatsky''s survival was a great threat. In 1664, she finally wanted to eliminate the disease forever and physically destroy lubaomatsky.
Once successful, the old school will have no leader, and her and her husband''s great cause of reform will take a big step forward.
However, Lu Bao marzki served as the Minister of intelligence, and the whole country was covered with his eyeliner, which was leaked ahead of schedule.
And in Bratslav, Chechen "happened" to learn that someone was going to assassinate lubaomatsky, so he ran to escort again "confused".
At this time, even if Natalie tried to defend Cherchen, the king and queen no longer trusted Cherchen.
A year later, under the control of Queen ludwiga, the reformist nobles headed by Jan sobeski sued lubomatsky, accusing the latter of treason.
The lawsuit went to the Polish Supreme Court, and most members voted for the queen.
On December 29, 1665, the court issued a judgment against lubaomatsky: the crimes of the great noble YeGe Sebastian lubaomatsky include incitement to plot against the king, attempt to seize power, bribery and treason.
Lubaomatsky was sentenced to exile, confiscation of all property and loss of all honor.
Just when everyone was silent, Cherchen said a fair word and complained for lubaomatsky at a reception in Bratslav.
These complaints were transferred to Prince mihau, who was on the side of King Jan kazimiz, who secretly learned that he impeached Chechen in front of King Jan kazimiz.
After Chechen''s repeated support for lubaomatsky, King Jan kazimiz finally couldn''t bear it. He also decided to punish Chechen for the crime of Lvbao matsky''s followers.
Of course, before punishing Chechen, King Jan Kazimierz gave him a chance to "reform" because he thought of Natalie and Chechen''s many merits: as long as Chechen separated from lubaomatsky and made a clean break with him, Jan Kazimierz would punish him lightly.
Cherchen naturally refused. He was not the kind of person who fell into a well. Moreover, in the court where he was sentenced, Cherchen openly expressed his support for lubaomatsky and praised lubaomatsky as a hero who was defeated but still glorious and a great man who rebuilt the Republic.
In this way, Cherchen broke with the king and queen.
The king not only dismissed him from the army, but also from the post of governor of Brest, and asked him to return to vidava for reflection.
And because of this, Natalie and Cherchen quarreled constantly. After a quarrel, Natalie angrily returned to the territory of the kishka family and was separated from Chechen.
This blow is undoubtedly heavy for Cherchen. Once she lost everything, Natalie left him again - at this time, Cherchen was undoubtedly decadent. He became like a walking corpse - even if Uncle Pedro and Fatima were around him day and night to comfort him, they couldn''t cheer him up.
Seeing Chechen''s weight loss day by day, they were anxious in their heart, but they couldn''t think of it. At this time, Ingrid thought of Christina in Sweden.
For Chechen, in addition to his family, Bao Hong and Christina are the people he respects and trusts most. In a sense, they are still the mentors of his life. If Christina can come and solve, Cherchen will cheer up again.
After hearing Ingrid''s words, Pedro thought so. He also thought Christina was his nephew''s only hope.
So Peter wrote a letter to Rome and asked the messenger to take it to Stockholm.
Christina replied quickly. She said she would leave for vidava immediately.
This is the Queen''s visit to vidava.