Chapter 177: Outside Warsaw Kutuzov jumped up from his seat and said to Kulickov: "Kulichkov you are right, it is not yet the end, we cannot give up hope, now you come and tell me about our current situation" Hearing Kutuzov's answer, Kulichkov was also a little relieved, and then answered loudly.
When Kutuzov and Kulichkov were talking, the news of the defeat of the front-line army quickly spread among this small branch of the Russian army, and the soldiers did not believe in the defeat of the front-line army, but when they saw that the person who claimed to be Kutuzov was respected by Kulichkov, the soldiers were in an uproar.
After a battle with the rebel army, the original 3,000 Russian troops under Kulichkov are now only more than 1,600 people, many of whom are wounded.
After breaking through the encirclement of the rebel army, it is obvious that there is no way to go to the rear, and now their only way to survive is to go to East Prussia to find the main force of the Russian army, but now the main force of the Russian army has actually been defeated.
It's like seeing hope and then dying out in an instant, the huge gap is enough to make people mad.
The Russian army soon alarmed Kutuzov and Kulichkov, who were discussing, and after learning the reason, they were very anxious about this situation, and then Kutuzov came up with an idea, and after thinking for a while, he decided to state the current situation to all the Russian soldiers, and told the soldiers the pros and cons.
————————————I'm the dividing line—————————————— The news of Kulichkov's defeat quickly spread back to Warsaw, and August's intelligence officers informed him of the news as soon as possible, although Kulichkov still fled, but now he was pursued by the Polish army and the rebel army behind him, and the defeat of this battle also made Kulichkov lose his logistical baggage, so in general, this result, August is still acceptable.
At present, there are only 2,000 Russian troops left outside the city near Warsaw, and these Russian troops can no longer pose much of a threat, and August decided that the opportunity is rare, and he is ready to launch.
Later that day, the private troops of the major nobles of the Kingdom of Poland, including the royal family, began to gather outside Warsaw, but this operation was secret, and they had to take them down before the Russian army outside the city could react.
In order to make this operation smooth, August took out the 6,000 troops at the bottom of the box, which was the most advantageous weapon under August, even when the Russians were most rampant in Poland, August also withstood all kinds of pressure to cultivate this army, and at the same time awarded this army the banner of the Royal Guard.
And because August's obedience to the Russians also made the Russians turn a blind eye to his behavior, after all, the Russians mainly have to support August, otherwise if Auguste is overthrown by the domestic nobles, the Russian Empire will be disgraced!
Now was the time for this army to use force, and it was not only August's 6,000 troops outside Warsaw, but also August's army of more than 12,000 men outside Warsaw, so that the Polish army gathered outside Warsaw was more than 18,000 men.
With such a large army to deal with only 2,000 Russian troops, I have to say that August is really cautious.
In fact, in Auguste's heart, he is very happy to use a cannon to fight mosquitoes, because as long as this annoying mosquito can be completely killed, then it is worth paying more.
Early the next morning, the 2,000 Russian troops who stayed outside Warsaw discovered that something was wrong, because the ban issued by Kulichkov before his departure made the remaining generals of the Russian army slow to react to the abnormalities in Warsaw during this time, and it was not until countless unknown troops under various banners appeared near the Russian army station, that the Russian generals left behind felt that something was wrong.
In order to avoid leaving a tongue afterwards, this time the Polish army did not directly show its own flag, and their flags were changed to the banner of the rebel army in the northern region, of course, this move was undoubtedly to cover up the bell, because although the flag has changed, the military uniforms worn by the Polish soldiers have not changed.
And in order to prevent the Russian army from escaping, this time the Poles adopted the tactics of encircling on all sides, and the Polish army was nine times more than the Russian army, and the abundance of troops was enough for the Polish army to surround the Russian army on all sides.
Nearly 20,000 Polish troops surrounded the Russian garrison, during which there was no other sound except the sound of commanding the army and morale-boosting music, and all other voices in heaven and earth seemed to have disappeared.
"The whole army is on alert, the enemy will open fire as soon as he enters, and the artillery in the rear will be ready to wait for my order" The remaining generals of the Russian army hurriedly issued orders one after another, and these Poles in front of them were clearly not good.
Looking at the decorations of those Poles, it is clear that there are organized forces, especially in the middle, there are about five or six thousand decorations that are the same as the regular armies of various countries, and the remaining generals of the Russian army understand that once those Poles attack, then it will be a difficult battle.
There were no routine questioning or exchange of envoys, and after the armies had been prepared, the commander of the Polish army gave the order to attack.
With a shout, countless Polish soldiers flocked to the Russian camp like ants, and in the process, the difference between the regular army and the private army could be seen, Auguste's 6,000 men set up an offensive formation according to the pattern of the regular armies of various countries in the present era and approached step by step, while those large forces composed of a large number of aristocratic private armies rushed up in a chaotic manner as soon as they heard the order, and there was no command at all.
But the threat to the Russian army is also obvious, there is no machine gun in this era, although the power of the platoon gun has been fully exerted on such an occasion, but the enemy is too much in front, and the soldiers in the back quickly rushed up, for the entire battlefield, it seems that the Russian army has not changed the Polish army at all, and there is not much difference between more than 18,000 people and 16,700 people.
Some of the private soldiers of the Polish nobles did waver under the Russian army, but the rewards offered by the nobles were too generous, as long as they got the head of a Russian soldier, then they could get a reward of an acre of land, and such a generous reward made all Polish soldiers go crazy with excitement.
And the result is not unexpected, under the impact of the Polish army like a wave, the defense line of the Russian army was quickly broken through, and then the cavalry attack in the Polish army made the Russian army even worse, although the Russian generals intended to send cavalry, but Kulichkov took away the last cavalry of the Russian army when he went out, and now there is no cavalry in the Russian army at all.
In such a situation, the defeat of the Russian army was already doomed, and sure enough, shortly after breaking through the Russian garrison, although the Russian army resisted very bravely, it was still divided into small areas by the Polish army to exterminate them, and by the time Rì fell on the West Mountain, the Russian garrison had become a scorched earth, and those Russian soldiers who were captured because of their injuries were also under the heavy reward of the Polish nobles, and the Polish soldiers cut off their heads and took them to receive the reward.
The battle outside Warsaw touched the hearts of countless people in Warsaw, and when the dust fell, the nobles in Warsaw celebrated with crowns, and August couldn't stop laughing.
With the annihilation of the Russian army outside the city, August's prestige was undoubtedly raised to a higher level, and August himself was ready to take advantage of this opportunity to do a great job.
There were still some areas in the Kingdom of Poland that had not been divided, but because of the ambitions of the Russians, the Russians had installed their own officials, and basically those regions had broken away from the rule of the Kingdom of Poland, and August's next target was those regions.
Of course, the Russian Polish region, which had been divided by Russia, was not in August's ambitions for the time being.
Although most of the Russian troops outside Kulichkov and Warsaw were wiped out, the garrisons in Courland, Ukraine, and Russian Poland were still hanging around August's neck like a sharp sword, and more importantly, at this time, the intelligence in East Prussia had not yet reached August's hands, and if Kutuzov had won, the 40,000 troops in his hands would be enough for August to eat and walk around.
August has always liked to keep a hand for himself, in fact, this is also a last resort, if August was not cautious enough, maybe the Russians would have ousted him from power a long time ago.
Although Kulichkov's defeat is not unrelated to the Polish army, and August can be said to be the black hand behind the scenes, but August can completely shift the responsibility to others, he can be said to be the collusion between the Polish army generals and the rebel army, and the elimination of the Russian army outside Warsaw can be pushed to the Russians, although the Russians will know for sure that August is behind all this as long as they investigate, but August did not leave himself with a handle that can be deduced on the surface.
Of course, the violence of the Polish army in Kutuzov's army was definitely not at the behest of August, because there were no Auguste men in that army at all.
August couldn't help laughing out loud at the thought of being proud, but I'm afraid he didn't know the news that Potemkin himself had come to Poland with 50,000 troops, and if he knew, he would have to cry out loud.
After leaving St.
Petersburg, Potemkin led his army all the way to a hurry, and finally met up with the Russian troops drawn from Kurland and Ukraine less than five days away from Poland.
After meeting the reinforcements, Potemkin made an exception and announced that the army would stay here for a day to rest, there was no way, if it continued like this, even if it arrived in Poland, I am afraid that these Russian ** teams would become soft-footed shrimp, let alone deal with the complicated situation.