"Granval, have you ever experienced such a battle?"
Rostislav, who couldn't sleep, sat by the fire and asked the captain of the janissaries.
The captain of the guard was sharpening his Danren long ax with a grindstone. Hearing the prince's question, he paused for a moment, then continued to sharpen, while he began to answer the master's questions.
"I have experienced many wars, but today's war is the first time. The battle with the largest number of troops I participated in was during the suppression of the Polish Uprising. I still remember that at that time, the vast number of Polish farmers were overwhelming.
We rushed in and smashed our heads against our shield wall."
Rostislav couldn't help but become interested in this. After coming to this era, he often heard people mention the great Polish uprising. The entire Kingdom of Poland was overthrown by this uprising. Members of the Pisyat family (Polish royal family) had to
Not escaping their kingdom in embarrassment.
Near the bonfire, many people were also awake. They were also chatting or polishing weapons. They used this behavior to kill time and wait for the battle to come.
The makeshift outpost was covered with sentries. They looked in the direction of the enemy camp with vigilance, their hands on their horns, alert to all possible attacks.
Further away is the military camp where soldiers sleep. Most people still choose to sleep. After all, there will be a fierce battle tomorrow. For many people, this may be the last peaceful night. After all, there is no need for dead people to sleep. They just sleep forever.
This is a land that has gone through countless battles.
"Granval, it's still a long time before dawn, tell me about this uprising. I've been listening to my father talk about his martial arts in this war since I was a child, but I never knew the cause of it all."
"Don't you know? Presumably, you were still young, and Bishop Luca has never been interested in worldly things outside of Russia, and he will not take the initiative to tell you this."
Granva was a little surprised at first when he heard that Rostislav didn't know about the Polish Uprising, but he soon felt relieved. He didn't feel any emotion at all, but directly explained this uprising with great influence to his master.
"Do you know how the Piast family became the king of Poland and established the Kingdom of Poland? What we are going to talk about starts from here."
Rostislav shook his head. How did he know about the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland? Even in his previous life, not many people cared about ancient Poland.
"The Piast family's method of establishing the Kingdom of Poland was very simple, that is, they kept fighting, fighting with the Slavic tribes, fighting with the German Empire, and fighting with us. Over the past hundred years, the monarchs of Poland have changed several times, but the war never stopped.
, the characteristics of these monarchs are that they are good at battle formations and never leave the battlefield."
The words of the captain of the soldiers reminded the prince of the incident when his grandfather was driven out of Kiev by the Poles more than 40 years ago. Fortunately, the villain supported by the Poles died not long ago, otherwise it would be difficult for his grandfather's poor military level to fight with the Poles.
The war madmen fought against it.
"The long-term war has made everyone very tired. The Polish royal family can only comfort everyone with the spoils and slaves brought by the war, and then continue the war, which is like a snowball getting bigger and bigger, but the dissatisfaction of the people always exists.
The war only temporarily suppressed these dissatisfactions."
"About 1034, the king of Poland died in mysterious circumstances, which led to riots across Poland. This became the trigger for the uprising. Slaves, farmers and surrendered tribes all launched resistance.
They killed nobles and officials and attacked the Holy Church."
He was very interested in what Gvalan said about Rostislav. This was the first time he heard such detailed information about the uprising.
However, he is not surprised at all by the direction of the Kingdom of Poland. According to the description, the Kingdom of Poland is purely driven by war, so once the war stops or problems arise, an explosion is inevitable.
"The current King of Poland, Kazimierz, fled Poland in embarrassment. After seeing the massive uprising behind him, we and the German Empire both chose to end the war with Poland and help Poland suppress the uprising. But at that time, we
All we wanted to do was contain the chaos at the border, and after we succeeded, we stopped the war and allowed the chaos in Poland to continue."
"Everyone's opinion on the peasant rebellion is really unified."
Rostislav looked at the bonfire in front of him and said sarcastically, "That's what feudal rulers are like." Then he was stunned for a moment, wasn't he a feudal ruler? This was really ridiculing his head.
He shook his head and smiled to himself, but Gevalan didn't say anything when he saw this, and just continued his topic.
"What changed was that after the exiled King of Poland married us, Kazimierz married the Grand Duke's sister. In response, your uncle married Kazimierz's sister."
"Uncle's wife is the sister of the King of Poland?"
This surprised Rostislav and subconsciously moved his feet by the campfire. He did not expect that his uncle actually had such a relationship with Poland, but he thought that this could explain the Polish knights in his team.
"Yes. But let me continue to talk about the war in Poland. After the marriage was arranged, the Archduke led his army into Poland to suppress the rebels, and King Kazimierz also led the knights given by the exiles and the German emperor.
Poland. I followed your father to participate in that military operation. I only remember that we marched and fought endlessly, and enemies were everywhere. Fortunately, we finally won the final victory, and everyone was still alive.
After making a fortune, King Kazimierz promised us that we could capture all the traitors as slaves, and the slaves we brought to Kiev directly caused the price of the slave market to drop three times a day."
When Gvalan talked about how to capture and sell slaves, his face was full of pride and satisfaction, while Rostislav only had a complicated look in his eyes and then controlled his expression without showing any abnormality.
After the war in Estonia, Rostislav has adjusted his mentality. Anyway, this is the case in this era, and no one thinks there is any problem with it, so just go with the flow and do your best.
"It seems that this battle is generally very easy."
Rostislav said that Gvalan did not mention anything about a hard fight, and it seemed that the fight went smoothly.
"Yes, most of the traitors have no power to resist our army at all. The Mazovia people are more troublesome. They are the earliest and most tenacious resistance force..."
In this way, Rostislav and Gvalan chatted about the past wars over the bonfire. They were very absorbed in the conversation. Both parties were very interested in these things, and the time passed little by little in their chatting. Finally,
The sun appeared on the horizon, which also announced that the war was about to begin.