After three days of siege by the rebels, the walls of Bialysk were damaged in many places, and Ferdinand was faced with a huge problem, namely the massive damage to the army's artillery and the severe shortage of shells.
In the early stage of the development of guns, due to the backward level of technology, the inner wall of the barrel of guns was often rough and not processed enough.
Early guns could use solid, lead, spherical projectiles.
Therefore, the pound system to measure the power of guns was created.
The so-called pound system is to make an even number of equal spheres from one pound of pure lead, just enough to let a small ball pass through the gun chamber, that is, named after the number of small balls.
Prussia's army was usually armed with three-pounder, six-pounder, and twelve-pounder guns, and because the Silesian garrison was not a first-line army, they were only armed with a small number of twelve-pounder, and upon arrival in Bialysk, Ferdinand's army was given another cannon in the city.
However, we need to know that the artillery made by Ki's process still has various defects, which will erupt after a long battle, such as exploding the chamber.
This phenomenon occurred in the defenders of Bialysk, a large number of artillery pieces were damaged due to the long battle, which led to a serious decline in the defensive firepower of the city, and the reserves of shells have also been consumed a lot, with the current situation, the shells in the city can last for three days at most.
Ferdinand's mind swelled a little after learning the news, the rebel artillery did not last long in the offensive in the past few days, and it was often the Cossack cavalry that drove some civilians into the artillery to consume the artillery ammunition in the city.
Ferdinand believed that Morakot must have waited for his city to run out of shells, and then launched a massive artillery bombardment to break the morale of the city's army, but Ferdinand had no good way to solve the problem, all he could do was to order the artillery to conserve ammunition and put the enemy into the muskets above the city walls to attack.
Just when Ferdinand was worried about artillery, there was an undercurrent in Morakot's army.
Some of the nobles who had been forced to agree to Morakot's uprising felt regret, they did not understand Morakot's intentions, but they knew that the Prussian soldiers in the army could no longer stand the arrogance of the Cossacks.
Ever since the hired Cossack cavalry came to Morakot's army, the Cossacks had never given the rebels a good face, and these Cossacks had been very dishonest when they came to the ground in East Prussia.
Not to mention being dishonest, these Cossacks could be said to have entered East Prussia without any people, and the Cossacks completely unleashed their hands and feet, and they broke into the civilian quarters without Morakot's order, robbing them of everything of value they saw, and then these Cossacks intensified after Morakot's order to drive the civilians to Bialysk.
Houses were burned to the ground by the strange laughter of the Cossacks, and everything they could see of the Prussians became a tool for the Cossacks to vent their anger, and if they did not comply, the Cossacks' sabers would bring the heads of dissidents to the ground.
So everything the Cossack cavalry saw groaned under their torment, and every day these Cossacks would form a group to find amusement among the civilians who had been driven here in the barracks, and they had no shame, and when they saw a woman with the slightest gesture, they would turn into beasts, and they would do beasts in public, but anyone who dared to step forward to stop them would be stabbed by the Cossacks.
All this not only made the civilians in the army full of anger at these Cossacks, but even the soldiers in the rebel army, as well as some nobles and generals, could not look at it.
The trigger for the incident occurred on the fourth day after the siege, and in the evening of the same day, after a day's mission, the Cossacks again came to their paradise of pleasure, and after arriving at the place where the refugees were staying, one by one the Cossacks turned into demons, and they insulted the women and beat the men among the refugees, despite the cries of the old people and the cries of the children.
While the Cossacks were laughing like demons, a nobleman walked in surrounded by a group of attendants, and looking at the scene in front of him, the nobleman frowned, and then he walked up to an old man and asked: "Do you know where Viscountess Kolia is?"
The old man just looked at the nobleman in front of him numbly and didn't speak, the nobleman had to repeat it again helplessly, at this moment, there was a scream in the nobleman's ears, and when he heard this voice, the nobleman suddenly hit a spirit.
He hurriedly walked in the direction from which the voice came, and a team of attendants hurriedly followed behind him.
When the sound stopped abruptly, he stood outside a shabby stable, where several Cossacks were climbing down from the haystack with their trousers in their belts, and cursed as they tied them: "It's a slut, I can't help playing at all, but it's only been a few days since I'm dead" The Cossacks on the side laughed and said: "Vvinolsky, this woman has been served by you a lot these days, I don't know if you won't be able to get on the horse tomorrow" When the vvinsky heard this, he scolded: "I discovered this woman first, I kindly took you to share, but you didn't take it easy, and now you're dead, and if you want to find such a good product, you can't find it" Saying that, a few Cossacks giggled and walked into the distance, and the nobleman named Ivanovich ignored the frolicking sound in his ears, he just looked at the pair of calves exposed in the haystack as if he had lost his soul, and he slowly walked to the top of the haystack.
On the haystack lay a woman, who lay motionless without a single strand on her body, her white body covered with whipped marks and filthy liquids, and her empty eyes seemed to tell the people who came her misfortune.
Seeing the woman's face, Ivanovic's heart seemed to be clenched tightly by a pair of invisible big hands, he knelt down beside the woman, hugged the woman's head, and choked: "Klya, what's wrong with you, talk, talk" But for Ivanovich's culture, women don't have any answers, because women have no way to answer.
Touching the woman's snort, not feeling a breath, Ivanovich knew that his heart was dead.
But just for a while, Ivanovich's mouth let out a wolf-like howl, and the hand holding the woman unconsciously tightened tighter and tighter, and at this moment Ivanovich had only one voice in his heart, that is, to avenge the woman, no matter who stood in front of him.
Ivanovich looked at the faces of the few people who had just gone out of here, thinking of this, Ivanovich picked up some weeds and piled them on the woman's body, then turned around and waved his hand and walked out with the attendants, he wanted to settle accounts with those people.
Speaking of Ivanovich and Kolya are still quite famous in the area near Bialysk, these two have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and when they grow up, the two are even more secretly in love, and Kolya is a well-known beauty, but just when Ivanovich finally said that his parents were ready to propose to Kolya, he got a bad news.
In order to keep his position from being affected by the military reform, Kolya's father, a Prussian officer, betrothed Kolya to his superior, a man who was more than 30 years older than Kolya.
Ivanovic was devastated when he heard the news, and he tried to get Kolya back countless times, but his parents kept him under house arrest in order to prevent him from messing around, and it was not until Morakot's rebellion involved Ivanovic's father that Ivanovich was able to do so After that, Ivanovich kept asking for news about Kolya, until someone reported to him a few days ago that he seemed to have seen Kolya among the refugees, so there is today's scene.
In fact, soon after Morakot's rebellion, Klya's husband arranged for several attendants to send Klya to Brandenburg in order to prevent Klya from getting involved, but on the way Klya and his party were taken by a group of Cossacks, and after seeing Klya's appearance, these Cossacks were shocked, and then the Cossacks took Klya captive to the refugee point in the army
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