The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Although Yanush made the decision to send troops early, it was already August 4th that the army led by General Alexander Okinsky actually set off from Werner.

During this time, Yanush made the most adequate preparations. He provided all the artillery he could collect to Alexander's army, including seven mortars, 42 three-pounders, eighteen twelve-pounders, and one twenty-four-pounder. In addition, Janusz ordered Boguslav to go to Warsaw immediately to make amends to Karl X and Christina, and station his army between Werner and Vizh, in case Saperga takes advantage of the Prince’s army. Sneak attack on Werner during the siege of Lida Fort.

On the other hand, Yanush continued to spend a lot of money to purchase a large amount of food and military supplies from the German region. Almost every German arsenal received an order from Yanush. The order items ranged from swords, spears, guns and artillery Warhorse armor has everything. The musket alone cost Prince Yanush 50,000 Taylor. These materials will continue to be shipped to Werner in the future.

Obviously, Yanush has realized that as his opponents continue to increase, the war in Lithuania will not be over in the short term, and he must be prepared for a protracted war.

Watching the last flag of the army leaving Lida Fort disappeared on the horizon, Yanush, who was standing on the Werner Castle, retracted his gaze. Beside him, Lonzinski stood around.

"Lonzinski, how long do you think it will be for Alexander to capture Fort Lida?" Yanush asked casually.

Regarding this question, Lonzinski was a little embarrassed. In this era, the technological revolution of gunpowder is far from leaving behind the revolution of castles. With the popularization of bastions and other fortification techniques, the defenses of various fortresses and cities against artillery have been greatly enhanced, and a siege will often be reduced to a protracted siege. After that, in the absence of foreign aid, the outcome is to see which side runs out of food and energy first. And this time is often calculated in units of months. Lonzinski has never been to Lida Fort, so it is difficult to estimate the degree of Lida Fort's defense.

"Don't know?" Yanush didn't want to get the answer from Lonzinski either. Perhaps he was asking himself more about how long he hoped to end the war.

"The subordinate feels that as long as the situation does not change, General Alexander should be able to capture Lida Fort within two months." Longzinsky gave Yanush an estimate for 60 days.

For sixty days, this was almost the same as Yanush's own judgment. So Yanush slowly went downstairs. Just when he reached the first step, Yanush's chest tightened sharply, and he staggered and almost rolled down the stairs. Fortunately, Longzinsky responded in time to support him.

"Prince!" Longzinski asked worriedly, holding Yanush's arm with one hand.

"Quickly, go find Thrall." Yanush's lips began to pale, and he didn't even have the strength to speak.

And in Cheerchen's mercenary group, there was also a man who was sick and didn't even have the strength to speak.

"My dear nephew, I seemed to see an angel yesterday, and he came to pick me up." Piedro said weakly, lying on the carriage with a cold water bag on his forehead.

"Stop talking nonsense, dear uncle. Didn't Dr. Sarben tell me, you have a fever." Cheerchen persuaded Pidro.

"I don't believe that guy now, a quack who relies on leeches to cure diseases and bleed." Piedro said, shaking his head.

He felt that his head was full of paste, the kind of pulpy.

Two days before the start of the army, Pidro fell ill unexpectedly. Cheerchen quickly invited Sarben to see Pidro. After Salben's diagnosis, Pedro just had a fever, and it will be better in a few days. Sarben also suggested that Pidro stay in Werner and not participate in the battle against Lida Fort. But Pidro was relieved to go to Chechen, although he believed that his nephew would not leave him to take refuge in Jan Sobieski or Pavel Sapega, but he was not there, in case Fedot and Yeli Shay said that he missed his mouth, and his nephew learned that he had kidnapped Father Spasokukotsky. That would not be a big deal. Therefore, Pidro insisted on following the mercenary group. In order to recover as soon as possible, Pidro also accepted Sarben's suggestion and implemented bloodletting therapy. But I didn't expect that the condition is getting worse now.

"Then you take a good rest, and when I get to Fort Lida, I will find a local doctor to show you."

Listening to Cheerchen's words, Pidro nodded.

"Also, Uncle is sick now, and there is no way to direct the battle, you have to fight hard, don't play tricks." Pidro warned Chechen.

Cheerchen quickly said that he would never, he would obey the orders of General Alexander Okinsky.

This was actually used to comfort Pidro ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ In fact, Cheerchen had already thought about it, and when he arrived at Lida Fort, he applied to the general to do logistical security work. This time with an army of 12,000 people, merchants, craftsmen, and prostitutes from various countries are also on the march. These people rely on a variety of commodities, skills, and bodies to be ready to serve soldiers and buy troops at low prices. Loot.

This was also a common practice in the war at that time. Since most of the army had no logistical supplies, they could only rely on local supplies and merchants accompanying the army to replenish supplies. This also gave birth to a huge group of vassals. A long siege would often set up a town-scale bazaar around the siege party, where everything was prepared for Taylor, who squeezed out the soldiers.

Of course, such a bazaar needs to be managed and maintained. In the past, the army tended to use merchants to manage such bazaars. However, the officers later discovered that the merchant's profit-seeking nature could easily allow them to be bought by enemy spies and saboteurs, so that poisoning and assassination of their own officers occurred in the bazaar. Later, the generals learned to be smart, and they would specially allocate an army to manage the bazaar and collect taxes, so as to ensure safety and inflate the money bags of the officers.

However, the main thing Cheerchen fancy is that this position does not need to participate in the siege. This freed him from the trouble of continuing to grudge with Mihav and others (Chechen didn't know that Jan Sobieski and Mihav belonged to Sapersh not the same group).

Although it was an exaggeration for the army of several hundred people to keep the mercenary group of 1,000 people to protect it, Cheerchen was sure to take this position. Because he had stuffed enough Taylor into the pocket of General Alexander's adjutant. For the first time in his life, Cheerchen bribed his superiors.