137 Voluntary resignation

"Your Excellency Marshal, the remaining strength of the Taiping Army is less than 5,000, and there are only 300 cavalry left, why don't we continue to attack?!"

"That is, our Lithuanian warrior blade has not yet been soaked in the blood of Hong Tiancheng's magic stick, if you Poles are afraid of death, you can hand over the command, we promise to let you escape back to Mozyri City safely, haha~~~"

Along with this rough and hostile voice, the surroundings were suddenly filled with rampant and contemptuous laughter, and the remaining Polish generals either looked at Marshal Jan Skrzetuski with embarrassed faces, or watched silently with expressionless eyes, but none of them stood up to support Marshal Jan Skrzetuski's decision - a temporary withdrawal of troops!

After a series of battles in the morning, the soldiers on both sides were eating the military rations they had brought with them, and the military formations of the two sides on the battlefield had no intention of retreating, and they were waiting for each other to confront each other.

Since most of the dead in the morning's combat effectiveness were hussars and military aristocrats from Poland itself, and the remaining elite cavalry of the Lithuanian nobles and Lithuanian hussars occupied an absolute numerical advantage, coupled with Marshal Jan Skzhetuski's sudden and unjustified retreat, this opposition suddenly exploded under the banner of the commander of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army.

Many Lithuanian nobles have separated from the Polish aristocracy, but the Polish aristocracy has always occupied a dominant position, and their strength is also higher than that of the Lithuanian aristocracy, and many Lithuanian nobles do not want the country to split and support the Polish parliamentary system.

However, Marshal Jan Skzhetuski gave the order to retreat, which completely deprived the Polish nobility of their superiority.

Not to mention the Lithuanian nobles who have suffered a small loss, even many of those Polish nobles are not willing to retreat so easily, many of their subordinates and followers were shot by the Taiping Army musket team in the previous combat effectiveness, and now there are more than 4,000 people left in the Polish-Lithuanian combined cavalry team, and the infantry elite has not been damaged at all, and no one cares about the casualties of those cannon fodder.

On the other hand, the Taiping Army, the entire two elite Taiping Army headquarters elite musket infantry regiments were all killed, and the cavalry side was only 300 Nakel heavy cavalry, and the remaining two Taiping Army elite musket infantry regiments also suffered losses in the previous battle, even if the personal guard battalion around Hong Tiancheng was added, the number of troops was only more than 5,000.

Comparing the data on the surface, the nobles with a little military knowledge know that their side has an absolute advantage, even greater than the advantage before the war!

You know, the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army has not lost a single artillery!

In such a dominant situation, let them retreat in disgrace, how can the proud and honor-worthy noble generals of the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army agree?

Marshal Jan Skzhetusky was not the commander of the army group in later generations, and had great power to make a decision, Marshal Jan Skzhetusky was just a 'generalissimo' elected by the Council of Thamm with temporary command, and once defeated, he would be removed from the post of marshal when he turned back, and even had to pay a lot of other costs.

Coupled with the fact that each noble general had his own subordinate soldiers, and completely obeyed the orders of the various lords on the battlefield, rather than directly following the orders of Marshal Jan Skzhetusky, these noble generals were not afraid of being convicted for contradicting Marshal Jan Skzhetusky.

After all, this was a collective act of noble generals, and not an individual provocation.

The Lithuanian aristocratic generals couldn't help but become more arrogant when they saw that none of the Polish aristocratic generals around Marshal Jan Skrzetuski stood up to speak for him, and everyone collectively took a big step in front of Marshal Jan Skrzetuski, pressuring:

"Your Excellency Marshal, please also ask you to retract the order you just gave and continue to attack after the soldiers have finished eating, the hollow phalanx of the Taiping army has only taken us by surprise, we have already studied, although the hollow phalanx is effective against cavalry charges, but it has almost lost the ability to move on the march, and can only be guarded in a fixed place.

When the time comes, as long as we bombard the Taiping army's infantry hollow phalanx with artillery in a large area, and then use infantry musketeers to fire intensively, the Taiping army's infantry hollow phalanx will be their graveyard!

May I ask Your Excellency Marshal, what reason do we have not to attack!

We all have great respect for your past achievements and hope that you will think twice about this matter. ”

Marshal Jan Skrzetuski shook his head with a wry smile, glanced at the noble generals in the audience, and knew that he had offended the anger of the people, or rather violated the interests of many noble generals.

In this battle, it is in the interest of these noble generals to achieve victory at all costs, and as long as they can win, they can get everything they want!

However, Marshal Jan Krzhetusky wanted to take away the victory in their eyes under the condition of 'the situation is very good', and was not immediately torn off the horse by this group of noble generals, which already shows that Marshal Jan Skzhetusky has a very high prestige.

"Well, since everyone thinks that this battle must be fought, let's attack after noon, but this time the attack, I will no longer be the generalissimo, hehe, anyway, in your eyes, I am no longer the generalissimo, am I?"

Marshal Jan Skzhetusky's self-deprecation made most of the noble generals present embarrassed, and many Lithuanian nobles who were stepping up to pressure retreated with some embarrassment, they were not aimed at Marshal Jan Skzhetusky, when Marshal Jan Skzhetusky really took the initiative to resign from the post of marshal in wartime, they would inevitably have a trace of guilt in their hearts.

It's just that this guilt will not change the interests of the noble generals present, at most it will make them have a certain amount of favor and apology for Marshal Jan Skzhetuski personally, so it didn't take long for the Polish-Lithuanian coalition army, which no longer had a 'marshal', to start the subordinates before the offensive more coordinated.

The Lithuanian nobles and generals who were separated from Germany were ashamed and no longer had trouble with the Polish nobles, and the Polish nobles, whose strength had been greatly damaged, had to rely on the strength of the Lithuanian nobles and generals to win the victory, and the two sides cooperated sincerely at this moment.

Marshal Jan Krzetuski's step back was the greatest possible elimination of the gap between the Lithuanian and Polish nobles, and at least there would be no unnecessary friction between the two sides until the end of the battle.

The common interests and the slightest debt will be the best lubricant for the two sides to cooperate and fight.

In the dull sound of trumpets, the combined Polish-Lithuanian forces that merged into one show pushed the artillery to the front again!