Chapter 200: Everyone has a headache for supplies After another request to no avail, Yevisky had to give up the idea of entering the city of Warsaw, saying that although August had gone too far, it did not extinguish Yevisky's enthusiasm for serving the country, and Yevisky came to the castle east of Warsaw despite the opposition of his subordinates.
The castle is so old that it has fallen into disrepair and that the castle, called Kazakh Fort, could not accommodate Yevisky's 50,000 men.
In response to this situation, Yevisky immediately ordered his soldiers to start repairing the castle after entering the castle, and at the same time Yevisky ordered people to build a simple wall with a width of two meters and a height of three meters from the earth around the castle, of course, this is seen from the outside, if you look from the inside, the height of the wall is about one and a half meters.
In this way, if the enemy attacked, he must climb up with his neck on his back, while the Polish soldiers defending the city could easily condescend to the enemy, and most importantly, the enemy's horses could not jump more than three meters even if they jumped high.
Although not very tall, Yevisky believed that when war came, the improvised walls would have been of unimaginable use.
At the very moment when the walls were about to be built, the army of the enliedmen led by Khanbo*v appeared outside the Kazakh Fort.
After learning the news of the appearance of the Russian army, Yevisky, who was resting, immediately turned over and rushed to the highest point of Kazakh Fort to look out.
But what made Yevisky depressed was that the Russian army outside the castle was not at all like the Russian army he had encountered in the previous battle, although the flags and uniforms of the two were roughly the same, but in terms of the formation of the army and the evil spirit of the army, these troops simply could not be put on the table.
Before Yevisky could figure out what was going on, a cavalry suddenly rushed out of the Russian army.
This cavalryman waved a small white flag in his hand, and of course he did not come to surrender.
"Here is the herald under the command of General Hahnbo*v, here is a handwritten letter from General Hahnbo*v to the general of your army, please make it convenient."
When the knight rushed to the improvised wall, the Polish soldiers standing behind the wall looked at each other, and after a while an officer in the Polish army received the so-called handwritten letter from the herald.
"I'm sorry, even that Hahn Bo * Fu dares to call himself a general, and he is not afraid to bite his tongue" After Yevisky took the letter, one of the generals beside him scolded indignantly.
At this time, Yevisky had already gotten rid of the panic, no wonder that the army was not quite the same as the Russian army, it turned out that it was Khan Bo * V who led his army over, if you don't look carefully, you really can't see it.
If the Russian army comes, Yevisky may be a little more panicked, but since he already knows that it is Hahn Bomeevsky, he is undoubtedly 100% confident in defending the castle, of course, although the confidence is full, but this does not mean that Yevisky will despise his opponent.
Maybe Hahnbo*v is just a decoy released by the Russians, maybe there is a Russian iron cavalry lurking behind Hahnbo*v, who knows!
After reading this handwritten letter from Hahnbov, Yevisky's heart went up and down, although the people around him did not know what Hahnbov said in the letter, but looking at Yevsky's face must not be a good thing.
"This despicable villain, send someone to tell Hahnbo what tricks he is going to play, that my Polish people will never waver in their determination to defend their territory, that he Hahnbov is now a lackey of the Russians, and that he will be left behind for 10,000 years and become a figure nailed to the pillar of shame!"
Jevisky tore the letter to shreds, then shouted to the left and right.
At the time of the arrival of Khanbov in Kazakhburg, Wilhelm, who was far away in Königsberg, had also made a preliminary decision on the question of the Prussian army's rear defense area and the strength of the army.
After Morakot's rebellion and the war with the Russians, Prussia's standing army suffered great losses, and the redeployment of the army was imminent.
Wilhelm planned to have one division and three regiments in Lithuania, one in East Prussia, two in West Prussia, and two divisions each in Silesia and Bohemia and the Brandenburg region, making a total of nine divisions.
As a hub with Bohemia, Saxony also had to deploy three regiments of mobile troops, so that Prussia's standing army reached more than 90,000 men, not counting the 20,000 men sent to North America.
Compared with the previous eight divisions in Prussia, William expanded the standing army of more than 10,000 people in nearly two divisions, although Prussia received compensation of three million marks of silver from Lithuania and the Russians in this war, but compared with the reconstruction of East Prussia after the war and the pension of the army, these gains are a drop in the bucket, and Prussia's treasury is indeed not enough, so William needs to pay out of his own pocket.
William did not specifically calculate how much property the royal family had, because William handed over all the property of the royal family to Queen Mother Louise for safekeeping, so William did not know how much property the Hohenzollern royal family had.
After discussing with Henry and others, Henry gave William a reply, if it was carried out according to William's idea, Prussia would need to spend 8 million silver coins to adjust and expand the army in various places.
William was frightened by the offer, yes, scared.
In William's vision, it was just to expand the army of more than 10,000 people, and two million silver coins should be enough.
However, Henry told William that the two million silver coins were only enough to cover the soldier's settling-in allowance, and not yet the later salary, even if the soldier's salary was not included, military uniforms, weapons and ammunition and other equipment would have to cost money to complete.
Therefore, the price of eight million silver coins, the price code mentioned by Henry is still more realistic.
But in this way, the gap in funds is relatively large, and thinking of this, William's head in his previous life is also faintly painful!
In any case, Prussia is, after all, a country of Songun politics, and all social activities revolve around the premise of the army, and in the early stage, Wilhelm did not intend to fundamentally change this fact, perhaps Songun politics will lead to the relative backwardness of the domestic productive forces, but an army that can fight well and has a certain size is more important than anything else in this era. ...........................
It has been three days since Khanbov attacked Kazakhstan, but during these three days he has not made any progress at all, and perhaps in other words, he has suffered a great loss under Yevsky.
With more than 10,000 of the 20,000 enlisted troops left, Khahnbov couldn't believe what it would be like if Yevisky jumped out from behind the thin walls and fought himself.
The huge casualty rate made the whole army look useless, but fortunately there were Russian officers watching, otherwise, perhaps this army would have scattered and fled long ago, which deeply hit Khanpo*v, who wanted to behave in front of Potemkin, but he could not do anything but jump his feet.
Yevisky behind the city wall was also very uncomfortable, although it seemed that he had the upper hand in the battle, but Yevisky always had a hidden danger in his heart, that is, there was not much food, grass and ammunition in the Kazakh fort.
Because of this problem, he sent people to the city of Warsaw almost every day to complain, but he received nothing but a word of calm from August.
An army of 50,000 men was a huge expense just to eat and chew horses a day, and without the support of Warsaw, even the food and grass in the castle could only last for two weeks.
In fact, this time August was indeed more than capable of strength, of course he knew that the important thing for the Kazakh Fort Yevisky army was that without Yevisky in front, the city of Warsaw would be exposed to the Russians.
So after receiving Yevisky's request at the beginning, August called the official in charge of the treasury of Warsaw to send supplies, although August was not very concerned about the supplies, but this time because of the threat of the Russians, he needed to know how many supplies were still in Warsaw.
But the official regretfully told August that the supplies in Warsaw were only enough for 30,000 troops and the inhabitants of the city to feed for two months, and there was no way to supply Yevisky's 50,000 troops.
When August got the news, he grabbed the official and shouted: "Didn't the warehouses in Warsaw store enough food for the whole city of Warsaw to last a year!
Why is it only enough for two months now!
” "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that you took a batch of grain and grass with you when you sent troops from Warsaw, and since the uprising broke out in northern Poland, because the uprising quickly spread to the whole of Poland, not only have we not collected a grain of grain from all over the country in the past six months, but on the contrary, a lot of grain and materials have been allocated in the treasury to stabilize the situation in various places."
The official's words were like a slap in the face, and August was beaten to the ground.
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Auguste put down the hand that was holding the official in despair, and then asked: "If we use emergency controls, how long can our supplies last?"
"Your Majesty, if it's weapons and ammunition, there's a lot more in the warehouse, but if it's food, even if emergency control is implemented, it will last up to three months."
"I don't care, no matter what method you use, you have to take out a large amount of food, otherwise I want your life!"
August shouted angrily.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if you kill me, but the treasury really doesn't have so many supplies!
Unless, unless........"
"Unless anything, tell me clearly!"
"Your Majesty, since you asked me to say it, then I said that a large amount of grain has been stored in your palace and a considerable amount of materials have been stored in the homes of the great nobles in the city, you see..........."
I see, you go down."
With that, August waved his hand to the official to step down, the proposal just now was a good idea, but ............