In fact, months before the news of the rebellion in various parts of the territory came, the Polish-Lithuanian Federation had already begun to be unstable in many parts of Russia. In order to avoid annihilation of the troops under the cover of the local population, the occupation forces stationed in Poland and Russia had to concentrate their limited forces of about 50,000 men on several important axes from Moscow to Warsaw, and most of the grassroots control was effectively in hands. However, outside the territory of this era, except for places like England, there were not as many county towns as in the East, and even if most of the area was not in the hands, there would not be a big shock like "losing the city".

When the news that the army was preparing for an expedition and had begun to assemble in the northwest had passed through some smuggled Hu merchants to Eastern Europe, a massive counterattack had just begun to retreat from Moscow.

The garrison stationed in Moscow was about 20,000 troops of a reinforced army, which was much larger than the garrison around Smolensk or Warsaw, but because it was farther east, and the choice of retreat direction was also the most favorable when withdrawing, it became the focus of the 100,000 cavalry corps of the rebellious Polish-Russian army.

Unlike the rebels of the past, these combined Eastern European armies were now armed not only with horses and sabers or some very rudimentary arquebuses, but also with a number of light field guns. Artillery skills also seem to have improved significantly compared with before, and it seems that under the influence of the occupying forces, they have gradually learned to select more suitable shotguns for firing at different combat targets, and even conduct sufficient verification tests on the trajectory of artillery, and to select personnel who have been specially trained in ranging measurement.

In order to resist the excessive damage caused by the fire of thousands of light cavalry guns, the army, which had just left Moscow, had to loosen its formation to avoid possible threats.

However, because many heavy artillery firepower and even gunners have been transferred back to China, the efficiency of firepower seems to have been significantly weakened when resisting the continuous onslaught of the Combine cavalry. Especially at this time, the Combine also learned to use the cavalry to cover the front with shields, so that the horse team could avoid casualties as much as possible. Under such circumstances, in order to ensure the lethal effect, the battalions and regiments had to mainly use solid bullets and even heavy shotguns as the main means of destruction. The 20,000 or so troops carried more than 300 light artillery pieces with a 100-pound tube in the march of the withdrawal also reflected the biggest problem in the allocation of artillery and ammunition in the past.

Although it can continue to fire at the beginning, it can also fire thousands of shotguns in the face of well-defended enemy troops in each round of fire, bringing one or two hundred casualties to the opponent at a time. However, the sustained power of the ammunition was obviously insufficient, and after an hour or so of fierce fighting and confrontation, the gunners of each team also began to face ammunition problems, so they had to put their opponents at a closer distance in order to deploy fire more efficiently.

At this time, the artillery shells of the Combine began to open fire more fully and without regard to it, and when the Combine began to realize that they should concentrate their forces on the artillery bombardment, the car shields of at least a hundred paces of battle were quickly scattered under the continuous bombardment of seven or eight pounds of heavy bullets, and under the cover of continuous arquebus fire, the cavalry assault of the Combine Army was soon launched.

If this kind of attack is facing the elite of the volunteer army, as long as there are one or two thousand core archers, under the fierce and accurate rain of arrows, even tens of thousands of cavalry horses of a low level will not bring much threat at all. However, the remaining troops stationed in the Moscow area were relatively weak among the newly established armies of the revolutionary army, and the relevant organizations of the Romans Society, which were diluted to the army, had little impact. The main projectile firearms were heavy arquebuses, and they were not prepared to deal with shock cavalry.

What started out as decent resistance soon fell into complete passivity due to the depletion of artillery ammunition, and the battle began to descend into one-sided slaughter after the Combine broke through the defensive line.

However, at this time, the reinforcements from the south finally forced the Combine to abandon the cleaning of the battlefield, and despite the great defeat, thousands of people escaped by playing dead.

It turned out that when the army first began to move, the permanent army in the central direction began to reinforce the cavalry march in the direction of Eastern Europe, and although the 50,000 or so men and horses were not many, the combined army, which had suffered a certain number of casualties, did not have the determination and confidence to win in a short time, and at this time, no one was sure whether there would be reinforcements from opponents from other directions.

However, according to the previous strategy, the main task of the first batch of reinforcements from the Central Asian direction was not to encircle and suppress the combined forces in Eastern Europe, but to assist other remaining troops stationed in Eastern Europe to complete the strategic transfer to the west and finally realize the strategy of first fighting the westernmost part of Europe.

Obviously, the westernmost part of the entire world island is much more densely populated, and the strategic space is even narrower, which is obviously more meaningful for strategic encirclement and suppression. At this time, because of the long-standing religious and ethnic estrangement, there was no truly unified civilization in Europe, which had many plains and few mountains, which also brought more convenience to the concentration of troops.

In this way, the first forces from Central Asia did not care about the retreating main enemy group, but successively merged with the remaining troops in Smolensk and even Warsaw, and finally reinforces in the direction of Western Europe as spring gradually approached.

At this time, not only Eastern Europe was in danger of losing ground, but even the situation in France was not stable. The main force of about 100,000 people could only garrison the area around Paris with a reinforced army of more than 20,000 people under the condition of very limited troops, and the main force group of 70,000 or 80,000 people defended along the Rhine River to prevent the resistance forces in France from fleeing westward.

After more than a year of development, the Catholic Union Army in France now has a strength of about 200,000 or 300,000 men, and the training and armament are no longer as bad as before. The commander of the Combined French Army, who was in command of the army, did not think that it would be too difficult to retake the capital with the strength of this time, and it was enough to pay attention to the dispersion of forces as much as possible during the attack, and to attack during the day to avoid the threat of a demolition attack. Relying on the better conditions of the remnants of Western Europe at this time, the Catholic coalition forces attacking the city of Paris and the newly built "new capital" were not only a few cavalry and light artillery like their Eastern European counterparts.