At present, East Prussia has gathered more than 30,000 Prussian standing troops, and according to the arrangement of troops, there should be no problem in fighting a local war.
Welcome to Reading // But if the Russians really made up their minds, more than 30,000 troops were absolutely not enough, so William decided to expand the size of the kingdom's standing army, after thinking about the kingdom's financial situation, William decided to expand the Prussian standing army from 100,000 to 120,000, although the expansion of the army of 20,000 people will make the kingdom's finances more and more constrained, but not to the point of financial collapse.
Of course, regarding the specific matters of expanding the army, William still needs to discuss with Locks and the important ministers of the kingdom, so William urgently summoned Locks after thinking for a while.
William did not yet know that in East Prussia, the Wang** team had now fought with the Russians.
After the Russians retreated, Ferdinand left some of his men around the battlefield for the receptacle, and then returned to the barracks with the main force of his army.
While in the barracks, Henry and Ferdinand received a report from the army in Königsberg, which stated that Kleiman's mansion had become a sea of fire and that Kleiman himself was missing.
Most of the rebels in the city had been taken prisoner and taken into custody, and only a few were missing.
After reading the report, Henry hurriedly ordered his attendants to prepare their horses, and he needed to go to the city to find out for himself.
Seeing this, Ferdinand on the other side also wanted to go with Henry, but Henry stopped Ferdinand's action, and Henry said: "Ferdinand, you stay here, I'll go to Königsberg to see the situation, the Russians are watching us right now, you have to stay in the barracks and take charge of the overall situation" Hearing Henry's dissuasion, Ferdinand had no choice but to give up, but Ferdinand said to Henry: "Your Highness Henry, Königsberg has just been captured, there must be many diehards of the rebels in the city, you must be safe" Hearing Ferdinand's words of concern, Henry laughed, then took the reins from the hand of the attendant beside him, turned over and looked back and smiled: "Don't worry, Your Highness Ferdinand, those miscellaneous fish in the city can't help me" After saying that, Henry waved his horsewhip, and the war horse went out like a sharp arrow from a bow.
After Henry left, Ferdinand was left in the same place, puzzled, and Ferdinand always felt that something was wrong with the fact that Kleiman's mansion had been turned into a sea of fire and Kleiman's whereabouts were unknown.
Kleiman's mansion occupies a large area, one of the largest in Königsberg, and his mansion is surrounded by one of the most prosperous areas of Königsberg, where the Königsberg elite live.
The raging fire caused everyone to panic, and some of the nobles who had just surrendered were very excited to see their mansions about to be engulfed in flames.
The smoke from the fire at Kleiman's mansion made Henry, even a few streets away, feel a wave of discomfort in his throat.
When Henry saw the fire and smoke in the distance, and then looked at the dense houses around him, he hurriedly instructed his attendants: "Immediately pass my order to clear a clearing of land around Kleiman's mansion, set up a separation zone with earth and sand, send people to fetch water from the wells in the city, and empty all buildings near the mansion to get everyone out of the area."
As soon as Henry's words were finished, he heard a loud bang, and then saw that the four-story building that had been standing in Kleiman's mansion had collapsed, and Henry even felt a spark falling around him.
Seeing this, Henry decisively ordered everyone to stay away from Kleiman's mansion at once, and at the same time sent people to the large camp outside the city to draw troops, and Königsberg could no longer withstand any waves.
The Prussian army in the city was in full swing fighting the fire, but on a hillside outside the city, a stone was lifted from the ground very abruptly.
Kleiman pushed the stone from his head to the side, and climbed up with great effort, his body was all dirt, and Kleiman who climbed up took a big breath of fresh air, and the ghost knew that he was about to suffocate in the secret passage.
While breathing in the air, Kleiman turned his head to look around, and Kleiman noticed that there was a puff of smoke reaching into the sky to the southeast of him, and Kleiman guessed that it must be in the direction of Königsberg.
Although the taste of a lost dog is not very pleasant, but after all, he still escaped, and it is better to be a lost dog than to die, and Kleiman still has a lot of wealth in Poland, and he doesn't want to die yet.
But the escape was an escape, but this direction was not quite right, and if Kleimann had the best idea in his mind, it was better to have this secret passage to the east of Königsberg, so that he could be closer to the Russians, and now he was in the north-west, an area where the Prussian army was active.
Thinking of this, Kleiman felt that it was not advisable to stay here for a long time, in case he had worked so hard to run here and be discovered by the Prussians, it would not be too much for him to lose, Kleiman rolled over a carp, and then patted the dust on his face with both hands.
After a brief tidying up, he stripped off all his clothes and changed into a civilian outfit.
Kleiman found this costume when he ran to the attendant's room at home when he was in a panic, and Kleiman found that the clothes were a little small, but he didn't care, as long as he behaved more ordinarily at the moment, the better.
Thinking of this, Kleiman cursed secretly: Damn it.
If Morakot heard Kleiman's secret scolding, he would vomit blood in anger, but Morakot never thought that he would betray the Prussian kingdom, so when he built the secret passage, he set the exit in the northwest direction of Königsberg, so that he could get closer to the kingdom, so no one knew what the future would be.
After changing his clothes, Kleiman dug a hole in the suit he was wearing, and after doing this, he identified the direction and walked east.
Kleiman escaped, but some of the other rebel elites were not as good as him, and after seeing that the fire in Kleiman's mansion would not be extinguished for a short time, Henry took his anger out on the captured rebel leaders.
Of course, it was not practical to kill them, but these rebels were to be brought before His Majesty the King for personal trial, so Henry could only let them taste the punishment of the army.
The words of the rebel high-ranking rebel who cried for his father and mother did not make Henry's heart feel a little sympathy, but made him even more irritable, and he couldn't find Kleiman's exploits in this war at least one-third, of course, no one would go against his future and the upcoming reward, so after receiving Henry's order to see people alive and dead to see corpses, except for the soldiers who put out the fire, the remaining soldiers quickly started a carpet search in Königsberg.
Of course, this may not work, but it is much better than doing nothing, and the rebel top brass is dragged over one by one to torture to extract confessions, but even this high pressure does not allow these people to tell Kleiman's traces.
After seeing these rebels so hard-mouthed, Henry wondered if the punishment in his army was a little light, but when he looked at the tears and snot of those rebels, Henry understood that the punishment in his army was not light at all.
And all of them begged for mercy and told their innocence, not knowing Kleiman's whereabouts became everyone's common answer.
Thinking that these captives would be brought to William in the future, Henry thought about it and ordered them to stop their punishment, and took them down to heal the wounds caused by the torture.
Henry decided to change his tactics by sending someone to read aloud in every place where the captives were held: whoever could provide clues to Kleiman's whereabouts would be allowed to be convicted and his punishment would be reduced.
But even under such conditions, no one came out to provide clues to Henry, seeing this situation, Henry frowned, and finally he ordered someone to escort the attendants and servants of Kleiman's house, and he wanted to interrogate him personally.
But even Henry's own intervention did not yield, only Kleiman's former attendant said that he saw Kleiman with something in his arms and hurried to the study, and ordered everyone not to disturb him or the like.
And because Kleiman's mansion was also in chaos at that time, the squire didn't pay all his attention to Kleiman, but he knew that Kleiman went to the study and never came out, like.
Hearing this answer, a flash of inspiration flashed in Henry's mind, and he hurriedly asked again, so where was the mansion on fire first.
Henry's words made the squire very confused, this is from the fact that after getting Kleiman's orders, he did not care about anything else, but ran to the treasure room of Kleiman's house with some people to grab something, saying that the squire loudly confessed to Henry what he had robbed, and at the same time he also begged Henry to spare his life, he was willing to give everything to Henry.
Looking at the rebel holding his thigh, Henry couldn't help but laugh, but he still helped the man up and comforted him.
Henry then asked a few more people, and finally came up with the answer from the mouth of a maid who had been working as a maid in Kleiman's house.
Kleiman was not there, and there was a great deal of chaos in the mansion, so she hid in the garden of the mansion in order to avoid being harmed by the crazy crowd, because the garden was at the back of the study, so not long after she hid, he saw that there seemed to be a fire in the study, and then the fire grew bigger and bigger, so she was forced to leave the garden and run out.