In May, the Baltic Sea gradually began to thaw. If you stand in front of the window facing north of Elizabeth Palace, you can already see the broken ice drifting everywhere on the Neva River.

"Hey-oh, 5, that's great!"

In a medium-sized room in the Elizabeth Palace, Peter and Catherine are playing a 'board game' on horseback and fighting.

It's really a board game! This was Peter's favorite indoor pastime, with a large long table with an army of tin models and toys arrayed to kill.

As a prince who grew up in the German court, he liked the training methods of the German army very much, and admired the famous Prussian king Frederick the Great very much, so he often fantasized about fighting with the emperor.

The traverser Guo Zijing still has some understanding of World War I and World War II, but he only stays at some brief deeds about the wars before the twentieth century, such as Napoleon, the god of war, the master of strategy, Clausewitz, and the Austrian god general Karl who defeated Napoleon. As for Marshal Kutuzov of the Russian Empire and the like, he basically knows a name, but he has no impression of the specific life deeds.

However, there was really little entertainment at the court. Although Peter is very talented in music, is a master violinist, and likes to write and act in operas and mimes, Guo Zijing doesn't like it, and occasionally plays pretending to be in case others don't think he's impersonating, so it's better for him to play tabletop war games.

Of course, in the past, Peter only liked to fiddle with beautiful queues, and as for the real war, he had no concept at all, how to march and fight, how to logistically replenish, and how to communicate with various troops.

There was no way, Guo Zijing had to refer to the table game method of later generations, plan the sand table into many hexagonal grids of the same size, and then set the action, attack, defense, impact, damage range, etc. of each class, and then play the game in a turn-based system of shaking dice.

This kind of very complicated gameplay, the court adjutant or the attendant guards don't know anything at all, only Catherine, who has a relatively good brain, can play with him. This is also a very helpless move, in case he cultivates the military talent of the future empress, he is the green hat king...

"Oh no, there is a punishment for the cavalry to rush the mountain, quickly put that cavalry down!"

"No, cannons can't rush into the mountains! Even the cavalry can't pull the cannon, do you think the cannon has long legs on its own? ”

Under Peter's loud instruction, Catherine had to withdraw the pieces that had been played.

To be honest, Catherine is also helpless, if she wants to maintain this marriage, she must maintain normal contact with Peter until the child is born. Although they had slept for two months, their bellies had not grown, and I was afraid that some predictable criticism would soon spread secretly in the court, which she did not want to hear. So, if you can make Peter happy, if you can play with him, you will have more opportunities to sleep with him...