332 The Loneliness of the King
On the streets of Warsaw, a group of unkempt soldiers with flintlock pistols escorted King Stanisław Koniecpolsky, the only man on horseback, dressed in rich military uniform, walking forward with a deprecated face.
The Prussian and Saxon armies came so suddenly that King Stanisław Koniecpolsky didn't even have time to mobilize for war, and his family fiefdom fell, and then the Prussian army came to the city!
The Polish regular army, which had high hopes from King Stanisław Koniecpolski, did not expect to collapse in front of the Prussian Saxon coalition, making the time that the 1st and 2nd elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army and the main forces of the Habsburgs fought for no meaning.
King Stanisław Kniecpolski's only commendable thing was that he held on to Krakow for more than a month, personally urging the Polish soldiers to engage in fierce street battles with the Prussian and Saxon legions, and to beat Krakow to ruins......
However, when one by one, King Stanisław Kniecpolsky's cronies fell, the city of Krakow, besieged by the superior Prussian and Saxon forces, also fell.
What made King Stanisław Kniecpolski angry was that during the attack and defense of Kraków, none of the surrounding Polish regular troops came back to help, and when Krakow fell, the Polish army quickly collapsed and collapsed!
Many Polish soldiers went directly to their successor, Field Marshal Stefan Czarniecki, who held high the banner of Poland and Lithuania, a civilian general who only knew how to drill rat holes and fight guerrilla warfare, and was promoted from a clay leg to a nobleman!
The sudden change in the situation made the Polish king deeply understand the sad fate of the traitor, and when his authority was gone, the Polish soldiers would not hesitate to turn to his enemies and abandon him!
The Polish king's vision of saving the Polish people from war before his accession to the throne was so ironic that he now had only one thought left to survive.
"In another week's journey, I can enter the realm of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the combined forces of Prussia and Saxony suffered a lot of losses in the Battle of Krakow, and they should not be chased here again, and when I go to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to invite reinforcements, I will definitely let those who betray me know that life is better than death!"
The downcast Polish king gritted his teeth and cursed, and at this time he only had the strength to curse.
However, before the remnants of the defeated army could get out of the Warsaw territory, a large number of armed civilians armed with muskets suddenly appeared around them, surrounding the Polish king, who numbered less than 100 people.
The battle ended at the beginning, and there were so many people on the other side that the few remaining guards of the Polish king were killed by lead bullets from all sides before they could fire, and the rest of them immediately threw down their weapons and raised their hands.
Among them was the King of Poland, who was so frightened from his horse that he fell to the ground.
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I am the king of Poland, and I ask to see your chief, that I may pay the full ransom for myself! The King of Poland shouted as he watched the crowd approaching.
He hid a lot of gold in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and even if Hong Tiancheng didn't need him anymore, he could use that money to live a rich life.
Therefore, the king of Poland really did not want to die in this wilderness.
"Haha, King of Poland? Looks like we're in luck. A rough tenor voice sounded, and the Polish king, who was crying for help, was escorted to a familiar face by these armed militiamen armed with muskets, it was none other than Stefan Charnetsky, who he had been cursing a moment ago, and now the marshal of the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army!
At the same time, he was also a friend of the Habsburgs and a guide to the Prussian and Saxon forces.
Of course, this is all a status that Stefan Calnetsky has only recently acquired.
"It's you!"
"Yes, it's me, honorable King of Poland, haven't you always wanted to see me in person? Now you've got it. Stefan Charnetsky said sarcastically.
"Stefan Calniecki, I admit that I have wronged my defection to the Han Chinese, but is it not the act of a traitor that you are now helping the Habsburgs to steal the land of the Poles?
Hehe, or do you think the Germans can rule the Poles better than the Hanse? ”
When the Polish king saw Stefan Czarnetsky, he changed his tone of begging for mercy and sarcastically said to him as much as he could.
Because the Polish king knew that the marshal of the Polish-Lithuanian restoration army would never spare his life, when the Polish king surrendered to Hong Tiancheng, he presented the names of many Polish nobles, and Stefan Calnetsky's relatives were affected and sent to the gallows.
The hatred of the country and the family are counted together, and no matter how naïve the Polish king is, he will not think that he still has any hope of escaping......
"It is worthy of being the lackey leader of the Han people, this mouth's ability to reverse right and wrong is good, but it's a pity that your Han master didn't appear in front of you when you were suffering.
Hong Tiancheng is a yellow-skinned alien race, he came to this land to rob us of living space, and the Habsburgs are just to eliminate this sudden crisis, the conditions given by the Habsburgs are much stronger than Hong Tiancheng, the Holy Roman Empire is willing to restore the territory of Poland and Lithuania at its peak, can Hong Tiancheng do it? ”
Stefan Calnetsky was ostensibly speaking to the Polish king, but in fact to the armed militia around him, and he didn't want the Polish king's foul mouth to say something bad and circulate among the Polish-Lithuanian army.
"It's just a contract, something that the Habsburgs can tear apart at any time, and even a fool like you would believe it!"
The Polish king continued to speak hard-mouthed.
Stefan Czarnetsky shook his head, apparently losing interest in talking to the dying man in front of him, at the moment of the fall of Krakow, the Polish king, who had relied on treason to ascend the throne, actually lost his value, and killing him was only to set an 'example' for future traitors.
"It's a dead duck, but for your brother's sake, Krysztoff, I won't let people torture you."
"Krysztoff? How could he have anything to do with you?! How dare he have anything to do with you?! The King of Poland asked, dumbfounded.
"I don't have a deep relationship with him, Krysztof is just the one who revealed your whereabouts to me, otherwise, how would you and I have caught you accurately? The story of your brothers pitting each other is really interesting, maybe this is the family of traitors, haha. ”
When the surrounding Polish armed militia heard this, they laughed loudly, and the deeds of the two brothers who killed each other will be the after-dinner conversation they boast about for some time to come.
Since then, the Polish king has not been seen again.