Chapter 161: Yevisky Speculation is always speculation, and how things are done depends on reality.
Kulichkov did not stop a step after leaving the Polish palace, and hurried back to the Russian camp outside Warsaw, at the city gate, he happened to meet his guard captain with 3,000 Russian troops hurrying over, after the rendezvous, Kulichkov did not say much but immediately returned to the camp outside the city with the army.
After returning to the barracks, Kulickov immediately convened a meeting of the Russian generals in the army, of course, the content of the meeting is unknown, but after the meeting, the Russian generals all looked worried.
In the days that followed, the gates of the Russian camp were closed, and August sent several invitations to Kulichkov, but the Russians refused.
Seeing that his plan might not succeed, Auguste became a little anxious, and he sent his emissaries to the north again to contact the rebels.
The leader of the rebel army was named Yevisky, whose ancestors were nobles in the Kingdom of Poland, but because his father had been involved in the former Bal League for more than ten years, after the alliance was defeated, the Yevisky family was stripped of their noble titles, and his father and family relatives were brutally executed by the Russians.
Yeviski, who was still a teenager, was saved by the sworn protection of the servants of his family, but since then the great changes have been, after the collapse of the Bal Union, Yeviski has joined the camp of Polish nationalists incognito, and through his performance in recent years, he has gradually achieved the position of leader among these nationalists.
Although the Bal League was short-lived, its influence still spread throughout Poland, especially the family members of the upper echelons of the alliance are still scattered throughout Poland.
After firing the first shot at the northern Polish city of Kriston, Jeviski's army grew to 20,000 men in just a few days, and more importantly, with the support of the Prussians and the Polish king, Jeviski was hopeful for the future.
If you ask YeLaBeouf who he hates the most, he will definitely tell you without hesitation that he hates the Russians the most, and this hatred has been deeply imprinted in Yevisky's blood.
When August sent an envoy to contact Yevisky for the second time, Yevisky agreed without hesitation in the face of August's conditions.
August's task for Yevsky was simple, asking Yevsky to lead his army of rebels in the Russian logistics line in East Prussia, and at the same time hoping that Yevsky would send troops to move into Russian Poland, and August would give Yevsky a manor and the title of marquis within a radius of 100 miles, and the other high-ranking members of the rebel team would also receive titles and domains.
Of course, these things will not be fulfilled in a short time, and these conditions will only be fulfilled when August really reigns in Poland, but Jeviski does not care about this.
Originally, even if August did not ask for it, Yevisky would have sent people to the logistics line of the Russian army, and as for the Russian Polish region, it was just a matter of raising his hands, as long as the bulk of the uprising team was pulled to the border of the Russian Polish region.
August's envoy couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw Yeviski so cooperative, you must know that the bottom line that Auguste gave him was the title of duke and a large area of northern Poland, but soon the envoy returned to normal, he thanked Yeviski on behalf of August, and then left Krishton in a hurry.
After August's emissaries left, Yevisky called a meeting of the top brass of the insurrectionary ranks, at which Yevsky stated August's demands and conditions, which aroused the resurgence of the top brass of the rebel army As mentioned earlier, many of the rebel ranks are remnants of the Baal Alliance, and what these people dream of is nothing more than to restore the glory of their ancestors, and many of the other part of the people are also in order to have a better future, of course, it is not excluded that there are still some people in the uprising team who sincerely want to contribute to the country and the nation, but how many people can have such thoughts.
And the task given by August is not so difficult, the Russian logistics line only needs to send some small teams, and the threat to the Russian Polish region does not need to go directly to war with the Russian army, just need to put on a posture, so the task is relatively easy.
Under these circumstances, the meeting unanimously adopted Jevisky's proposal, despite the opposition of a small number of people.
Under these circumstances, the ranks of the insurgents were divided into two parts, one of which went to the Russian logistics line to begin, and the other part to the Russian Polish region to take up an offensive posture.
Although the Prussian army is a native war, and William is also on the front line to make the logistics of the army worry-free, but because East Prussia is almost scorched because of Morakot's rebellion, the logistics of the war have to be transported from West Prussia and even Potsdam, which increases the space and time for transportation.
The situation of the Russian army is similar to that of the Prussian army, the Russian army's supplies depend on the recovery of the Polish region, but because of the uprising of the Polish people in the northern region, the difficulty of material transportation has undoubtedly increased a lot, of course, this situation was only discovered by the Russian army logistics officials in the past few days.
Because the army carried enough logistics supplies for a month when it went out on the expedition, when the supplies in the rear were not transported in time, the officials of the Russian army did not feel that something was wrong, they just felt that it was possible that the transport team was dragging on the road or was a little late because of the road.
But when not a single bag of grain was delivered from the rear for five or six days in a row, these Russian military officials in charge of logistics panicked, and they instinctively felt that things were too big, even because of the road, they couldn't go without a truckload of things for five days.
So these logistics officers rushed to Kutuzov and reported the situation to Kutuzov.
On the fourth day of the offensive, several officers of the Polish army made it clear that they were about to launch a war, even if Kutuzov threatened twice or three times, those Polish officers were unmoved, and in this case, Kutuzov was determined to order the purge of those Polish officers who did not obey the order.
The landing of more than a dozen heads not only frightened the Polish officers, but also made the Russian officers fight again, but the development of the war did not develop on the good side.
The Prussian army's defense line seemed to be an iron fight, no matter how fiercely the Russian army attacked, the Prussian army remained unmoved, which made Kutuzov feel as if he had punched the cotton, and there was no focus at all.
But just when Kutuzov was feeling depressed, William was also having a headache, it seemed that the Prussian defense line was impregnable, but only those who felt it knew that because of the onslaught of the Russian army regardless of the dead and wounded, the losses of the Prussian army were also increasing.
The original Russian army of more than 30,000 has shrunk to more than 25,000 people during this time, and the loss of more than 5,000 people in such a short period of time, if you add the wounded soldiers, then the total number has reached 10,000, which is extremely tragic in the history of European warfare.
You must know that although the war in the 18th century was a line of shooting, in the battle, the average army often suffered two or three percent of the losses and then retreated, and even the strong armies of Prussia and Russia often collapsed at a casualty rate of about fifty percent.
Face-to-face combat is inherently a test of a soldier's psychological quality, and when he sees his familiar comrades fall one after another, there is no doubt that fear will appear in the soldier's heart, and this fear will increase with time.
When the fear gathers to a certain extent, then the psychological bottom line of the person will be broken, and the collapse is inevitable.
Therefore, when the casualties were severe, William ordered the soldiers to be provided with an appropriate amount of wine at each dinner, and in order to relieve the fear in the hearts of the soldiers, William ordered the officers to soothe the psychological wounds of the soldiers during rest.
At the same time, in order to motivate the soldiers to fight bravely, at the end of each battle, the well-behaved battalion will not only have dinner with William, but also give material rewards such as money.
William hoped to reduce the psychological burden of the soldiers in this way, and his method did pay off, and on the first day of the method, William not only had dinner with the most courageous battalion of the day, but also canonized the two barons on the spot, and sure enough, the morale of the Prussian army rose to a new level the next day.
The resistance of the Prussian army was fierce, and the Russian army, as the attacking side, suffered even heavier losses.
The casualties of the Russian army directly under Kutuzov were about 6,000, while the casualties of the Polish army, which was a vassal, were about 10,000.
After the battle, many Polish soldiers had no way to overcome their psychological fear, they just launched wave after wave of attacks under the drive of the Russian army with empty eyes, and they could not see tomorrow, because if they slacked off on the battlefield, they would be ruthlessly dealt with by the Russian army behind them with military law.
Just yesterday, a Polish soldier had a nervous breakdown when he returned to the camp after a battle, and after the collapse, the Polish soldier aimed his musket at his forehead and then committed suicide.
This kind of situation is not an isolated but a common occurrence, and there are not a few soldiers who commit suicide because of psychological breakdowns, and some soldiers have set their sights on their comrades.
As the war intensified, the number of shootings and fights in the barracks continued to increase, and every day the military judges of the Russian army had to put a pile of thick documents on their desks, so that the military judges of the Russian army did not look at the contents of the documents at all, but directly glanced at the list of soldiers on the documents and then announced that they were shot.