Chapter 163: Civil Strife Probably in order to get Kulichkov on the road early, only the next afternoon, 3,000 Polish troops arrived at the Russian barracks, and Kulichkov welcomed the Polish army on behalf of the Russian army, and stressed that Russia and Poland will always be the staunchest allies.
But after reviewing this Polish army, Kulichkov's heart was clouded with a layer These Poles, also called the army, are simply farmers, whether to talk about it aside, just looking at the guys in the hands of those Poles, Kulichkov is a headache.
Uncle, August sent a group of people called Hanako, the military uniforms are not uniform, and the guns are not to mention, most of them are old arquebuses and revolting muskets, these guns are not only short, small power, but also more painful is that their failure rate is extremely high, these guns are clearly burning sticks, Kulichkov became more and more dissatisfied with August's handling of things.
And none of these Polish soldiers is up to the glorious and great profession of cannon fodder.
But there is no way, something is better than nothing, Kulichkov still believes in the combat effectiveness of the Russian army under his command, as long as those Polish troops can do some simple auxiliary work, with 3,000 well-trained Russian troops are enough to defeat those Polish rebels who are few but lack training.
Kulichkov was very proud of the combat effectiveness of his army, but what he didn't know was that on the night of his meeting with August, information about the Russian army's imminent invasion of northern Poland and related personnel and equipment had been sent to Yevski overnight.
At the same time, August also ordered someone to hint to Yeviski that if at a critical moment, August could arrange for Yeviski to get in touch with the officers of the Polish army, and if necessary, he could arrange for the Polish army to help Yeviski achieve victory.
When Yevisky learned that the Russian army was about to invade on a large scale, he couldn't help but be shocked, but then he calmed down again, a total of 6,000 troops, and 3,000 of them were Polish troops in Cao Ying's heart, so that only the 3,000 Russian troops directly under Kulichkov could fight with their own side with all their might.
And presumably Kulichkov didn't know that the allies around him could become his enemies at any time, so that he would still have a good chance of winning if he was prepared and unprepared.
The northern part of Poland was turbulent, and the atmosphere of war outside Königsberg was as great as ever, and the battle between the two armies was in full swing.
The war has been carried out at this moment, whether it is the Prussian army or the Russian army, the wounded soldiers in the barracks of both sides are lying all over the ground, at this moment any plan is to no avail, now the fight is the stamina of both sides, whoever can't support it first, who will fail.
The Prussian army is slightly better than the Russian army, after all, because William is here, the officials in the rear do not dare to slack off at all, and on the other hand, the Russian army, although the grain and grass can still last for more than ten days, but the medicine carried by the army when it set off has basically run out.
On the battlefield, medicine is an extremely important strategic resource, sufficient medicine can make the lightly injured recover quickly, so as to quickly return to the battlefield, and if there is no medicine, then not only the seriously injured soldiers can only wait for death, but also the injuries of those who are slightly injured will gradually deteriorate and can only resign themselves to fate.
The officers of the Russian army have told Kutuzov more than once that the original 20,000 Russian troops are now only more than 6,000 people still fighting hard, and the rest are either dying in battle or waiting to die in the barracks, completely losing the ability to fight.
The Polish army that was coerced was even more miserable, because on the fourth day of the battle, the Russian army stopped supplying medicine to the Polish army, and the Polish army as cannon fodder suffered more casualties than the Russian army.
When Kutuzov's herald proudly informed the Polish officers that the next day's attack would continue to be led by the Polish army, the long-standing resentment of the Polish officers erupted after repeated requests to no avail.
An impulsive Polish officer immediately drew the short sword at his waist and stabbed Kutuzov's herald, perhaps the herald never thought that there would be anyone in the Polish barracks against him, and subconsciously narrowed his eyes when he saw the light reflecting on the short sword, and then heard the sound of a sharp blade piercing his body.
Kutuzov's herald died, and died in the Polish barracks, and when they saw the herald slowly lying on the ground and began to sob, no one was willing to lend a hand, and the officers gathered him in a circle and watched as he gradually stopped breathing.
The Polish officer, who had stabbed the herald to death, said loudly to the officers in the tent: "Those Russians have treated us Poles like cannon fodder, the supply of medicine has long been cut off, everyone listen to the wails of our Polish soldiers in the barracks, and even the food Russians give us the worst.
Bullying people can't be bullied like this, is it true that when we Poles are a dog raised by the Russians, Lao Tzu doesn't care, my soldiers have died enough, and the meanness of those Russians has made me feel cold, if any of you are willing to continue to work for the Russians, then go, anyway, Lao Tzu will never go.
If those Russians want to take revenge, then come, Lao Tzu is waiting for them, it's a big deal to break the net with them" The officer's words resonated with the rest of the tent, and everyone followed the officer to say that they would never use their own Russians as pawns again.
However, the rulers of the Polish army are not these Poles in the tent, because Kutuzov does not trust these Polish officers, so Kutuzov has arranged for many Russian officers in the Polish army to be responsible for monitoring the Polish army in peacetime, and if there is any change, they will immediately eliminate the "hidden danger".
The Polish officers in the tent were all junior officers in the army, and although they could not change the position of the entire Polish army, they also represented a considerable number of Polish soldiers.
These officers assassinated Kutuzov's herald, and of course the matter would not end so simply, and perhaps after a while, the Russians would come to the door, and when the time came, the body of the herald would be found, and none of the Polish officers in the tent could escape.
After careful consultation, the Polish officer, who had assassinated the herald in the first place, came up with an idea, and said to the people in the tent: "Anyway, it's already like this, if the Russians find out that we killed a Russian soldier, they will definitely deal with us, the purge some time ago, I think everyone knows why, in this case, it is better to do the opposite, every soldier represents a Polish family, here we have killed more than 10,000 comrades-in-arms, more than 10,000 families in the whole of Poland have lost their loved ones, we can't make more families fragmented, we have to bring our compatriots home, They can't be allowed to die here for the ambitions of the Russians" The officer's words resonated with everyone, everyone has their own relatives, everyone has something that cannot be parted with, this war has lost too many lives, and the Poles have shed too much blood.
At this moment, "we are going home" became the consensus of the Polish officers in the tent.
The most important thing at the moment was to gather the army and inform all the Polish soldiers of the goal of "we are going home", presumably all the Poles would not be willing to continue to shed blood and tears with the Russians.
After a while, what was originally just a tent instantly expanded to a camp, and then the whole camp resounded with the roar of the Polish soldiers "We want to go home", and the Russian officers in the Polish army panicked about this, but this did not mean that they would watch the riots of the Polish soldiers.
The nearby Russian military camp reacted instantly, and groups of Russian soldiers were called up from their beds and gathered in the Polish military camp.
But these Polish soldiers broke out with extremely strong force at the instigation of the junior officers, and the Russians' idea of entering the Polish camp was resolutely blocked by the Poles, and then as the situation escalated, I don't know who fired first, anyway, the Polish army and the Russian army began to exchange fire.
In the chant of "We want to go home", those Polish soldiers who usually behaved timidly seemed to be equipped with something at the moment, and the Russian offensive not only did not achieve results, but was caught off guard by the Polish soldiers.
Many of the Russian soldiers who hurriedly woke up from their sleep did not carry enough ammunition, they just hurriedly put on their clothes and picked up their weapons, and they didn't care about anything else.
Kutuzov, who was not far away, held up a telescope and looked at the chaotic scene in the Polish military camp, and his beard was smoking.
But as time went by, the fighting in the Polish barracks did intensify, more and more Polish soldiers entered the battle, and many Polish soldiers rushed to the Russian army regardless of the serious injuries on their bodies.
Kutuzov was concerned about the battle in the Polish barracks, and on the other hand, he had to pay attention to the movements of the Prussian army not far away.
It had been more than half an hour, and there was not a trace of unusual movement in the camp of the Prussian army, as if there was a huge noise in the camp of the Russian army, and they did not care.
But because of this, Kutuzov will be more careful, who knows what those Prussians are thinking, maybe now those Prussian generals are discussing the movements of the Russian camp and fiercely.