It has become a fact that the Swedes are on the opposite side of the Russian Empire, and in such a situation it is impossible for both sides to deceive themselves even if they want to, because the mouth of the world will not be easily blocked.
Kutuzov led a group of his guards all the way to Daugavpils, a city in Latvia close to Lithuania that can be said to be the last stronghold of Kutuzov and his rebels, but despite fleeing back to the city, the morale of Kutuzov's army could not recover at all, after all, seeing that there were only a thousand people left in the tens of thousands of troops, no matter who they were, they would feel lost or even hopeless in their hearts.
But fortunately, Kutuzov has been quite generous to the guards around him over the years, and it is precisely because of the preferential treatment of the old lord that Kutuzov's personal guards did not betray Kutuzov, otherwise just by virtue of Alexander's generous reward for killing Kutuzov as a marquis, there may be how many people will get rid of Kutuzov and then quickly.
Even so, Kutuzov, who fled to Daugavpils, was still not able to settle down, and even the rebels in the city of Daugavpils began to pack their bags, and no one thought that there was any future to say if they continued to follow Kutuzov, and Kutuzov himself was the same.
Although Kutuzov has not collected the people's fat and ointment like other warlords in recent years, as a lord of the party, Kutuzov also collects a lot of benefits every year in addition to taxes, so although the current Kutuzov is about to collapse, if Kutuzov can leave immediately and flee to a place that can accommodate him.
Then with his savings, the wealth of the Kutuzov family can still be guaranteed.
And just when the people in Daugavpils were panicking, a team of Swedish fast horses came to the city of Daugavpils.
When the Russian soldiers guarding the city wall saw these Swedes appear, everyone looked at these Swedes with complicated eyes, after all, in the big war, if the Swedish army could have arrived on the battlefield earlier, then the rebels would not have ended up like today.
However, the main reason for the defeat of the battle was still to blame the rebels, so although there was a lot of criticism about the Swedes, this kind of psychology was not on the table after all.
Got the news of the arrival of the Swedes.
Kutuzov met with the Swedes as soon as possible.
This team of Swedes was sent by Ostein, and Ostan's role can be said to be quite important in Sweden's strategy for the whole of Eastern Europe.
Austin was not only the governor of Swedish, Lithuania, and Poland, but also the supreme commander of the Swedish Eastern European Front, which had a total strength of 40,000 men.
Although Sweden's expansion in Poland was not going well at the moment, the rebels in East Lithuania against Sweden were not only aided by weapons, but also by the Prussians, who deliberately obstructed them.
Even the Prussians sent low-ranking officers in the army through some channels to help these rebel forces train their soldiers.
It is precisely because there are Prussians who are secretly dragging their feet.
Therefore, in addition to the troops guarding the various places, Austin could only draw less than 20,000 troops at most, which is why Austin only led 10,000 troops to participate in the Battle of Rezekne.
The Swedes were suspicious of Prussia's covert activities, but so far, the Swedes had not grasped the Prussians' handle, so no matter how suspicious they were, they could only endure it in their own hearts.
The Battle of Rezekne ended with Kutuzov's defeat, but this did not mean that the Swedes were going to abandon Kutuzov.
On the contrary, in the opinion of the Swedish high-top.
A Kutuzov who had lost almost all of his army was better able to control them than a strong Kutuzov.
"Your Excellency Marshal, General Osstein of our country expresses his deep regret for the defeat of the battle, and at the same time, General Osstein has entrusted me with a message that the Swedes will not abandon their allies, and Marshal you are undoubtedly our most sincere friend of Sweden, so General Osstein has decided to lead a large army to help you resist the attack of St.
Petersburg!"
The Swedish courier's words made Kutuzov's heart ripple again, but Kutuzov also knew that there was never a free lunch in the world, and the Swedes must have made such a promise for their purpose.
Sure enough, the messenger was heard saying: "Our country hopes that His Excellency the Marshal will be able to regroup and cooperate with the palace of our army, and at the same time, our high-level leaders have decided to officially declare war on Russia after research!"
For Kutuzov, this news is undoubtedly like a Russian presence in half of the stormy sea.
Kutuzov didn't expect that what he had been hoping for before would turn around after he had almost lost all of his confidence.
The Swedes declared war on Russia, then the Swedes had to have someone familiar with the situation in Russia to help them, and Kutuzov was undoubtedly a very suitable candidate.
Previously, the Swedish high-level had analyzed and discussed the possibility of declaring war on Russia, but because the situation in Russia was quite critical at that time, in order not to destroy Russia, a powerful Sweden appeared in its east, so Prussia used its influence to force Sweden to suspend the declaration of war on Russia.
But for the time being, the Russian Empire has regained some strength, which is very reluctant for both Prussia and Sweden, because if Russia quells the rebellion at home, then both Sweden and Prussia will be under great pressure from their powerful neighbors in the East.
Prussia was temporarily ill-equipped on the Western Front, so only the Swedes were able to stop Russia's current momentum.
King Augustus of Sweden had already met with the Prussian government on the matter, and Prussia had agreed to help the Swedes stabilize the situation in Eastern Lithuania so that the Swedes could deal with the Russians.
Not only that, although there are only 40,000 troops under Ostein's command at present, a new round of troop increase has been reached in Sweden, and Sweden will begin to increase its troops in Eastern Europe within this year, and it is planned that by next year, Sweden's total strength of the Eastern European Front will reach 70,000, which is almost double the original base of the Eastern European Front.
In the eyes of the Prussian leadership, with the success of Prussia in Central and Western Europe, the previous national policy of preserving Russia must be radically changed, and supporting Sweden's declaration of war on Russia, and even the complete overthrow of the St.
Petersburg government, relying on the current situation is completely more beneficial than disadvantageous for Prussia.
It is precisely because of such a resolution at the top of Sweden that Ostein will quickly send people to Daugavpils, after all, Kutuzov has suffered such a fiasco, and Ostan cannot guarantee that Kutuzov will not change in his heart, if Kutuzov quickly flees to an unknown place and then hides incognito, it will not be easy to find him again.
The envoy sent by Ostan could be said to have understood this, because when he entered Daugavpils, he found that the rebels in the city had completely lost what an army should be, and the soldiers and their families were packing their bags, and the families who had lost their relatives in the battle of Rezekne also fled from Daugavpils with their children and old, and Kutuzov did not make any resistance to this, which in the courier's opinion, was exactly the rhythm that Kutuzov wanted to give up.
After the battle, Austin also led his army back, but he did not flee to Daugavpils in one fell swoop, as Kutuzov did, and Austin stopped when he led his Swedish army to the Malta region of Latvia.
Since Sweden had not yet declared war on Russia, Bagration demanded an immediate attack on Austin's headquarters, but this order was vetoed by Alexander.
In Alexander's view, although the Swedes launched an attack on the Russian army in the Battle of Rezekne, it has already exposed their position, but since the Swedish government has not declared war on Russia, there is still a little room for things to turn around, whether Alexander is willing to admit it or not, but it turns out that this is just his wishful thinking.
And Bagration, after Alexander's veto of his proposal, had no choice but to do so, after all, the Russian emperor was Alexander, not him, and unless he blatantly violated Alexander's orders, he could only stop troops east of the Malta region.
For this reason, Alexander also had a small contradiction with Bagration, and Bagration's attitude of daring to contradict also made Alexander's impression of Bagration even worse.
In early August 1793, Sweden sent an official envoy to St.
Petersburg to deliver to the Russian government a declaration of war written by King Augustus of Sweden.
This was a bolt from the blue for the entire government in St.
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Petersburg, which had previously celebrated the annihilation of Kutuzov's rebel army, but now these government officials could not laugh at all.
Not only that, but even the Swedes' declaration of war on St.
Petersburg made the already determined princes of the Russian Empire hesitate again, and the threat of the Swedes on the Eastern Front was completely superior to that of Kutuzov before, and although the current Kutuzov rebels were completely annihilated, the Blankov rebels entrenched in Moscow were respite because of Rumyantsev's serious injuries, and the counterinsurgents were temporarily unable to continue to clear Blankov because of Rumyantsev's injuries.
This makes a considerable number of people look at St.
Petersburg's market again.