Krakow is a majestic city. The classical buildings in the city are filled with medieval styles and have long been known as the most beautiful city in Poland. The scenery here is colorful. As the central square of Europe's largest city, it is surrounded by churches, monasteries, bell towers and square towers, as well as a series of Gothic houses built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Countless flat streets paved with red bricks extend from this central square and extend to the foot of the city wall.

Like other Polish cities, the city of Krakow is filled with many parks, with fountains and iron fences everywhere. The ancient and tall, vibrant oak and beech trees are like loyal soldiers guarding the city, arranged on both sides of the road.

Since Desai and his Guards Division arrived in Krakow in the evening, the next day, on a clear and cloudless morning, the Grand Duke of Warsaw ordered his army to hold a grand military parade and parade in the central square.

At 8:10 in the morning, in the square where countless citizens gathered, countless drums were clattering, and 36 young drummers walking in the first formation took the lead in starting a majestic military parade; followed by a brass band, with various metal instruments flashing the brilliance of the sun, and the melody was loud and long; flutes and piccolos sounded at the highest point of this music, just like a lark with a tongue singing happily on it; while the horn roared under it, informing the world of their own existence...

At the end of the military band, two large bass drums announced the appearance of the soldiers in gorgeous parade dresses behind them. Of course, there were various military flags representing the Guard Division, the First Silesian Army and the Garrison, as well as veteran General Mokronovsky, who was riding tall horses with golden ribbons, spike belts and grand medals of honor on his chest, and feathered hats.

Following the general and the military flag, to meet the passionate performance of the military band, soldiers in the square formation were wearing brand new and shining blue tops and trousers, wearing standard military boots, carrying rifles on their shoulders, and moving forward at the same rhythm. The bayonets that kept shaking on the military cap emitted dazzling cold light under the golden sunlight.

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Spilansky and General Dongbrovsky accompanied the Grand Duke of Desai, standing together on the balcony on the second floor of the town hall facing the chief of the center, with a smile on his face and inspecting the oncoming parade troops.

Behind them and on both sides, there were the city nobles, municipal officials, and parliamentary representatives of Krakow, and their expressions were the same: their awe, obedience and surrender to the monarch.

Two months ago, when the Russian defector Spelansky arrived in Krakow as the Southern Tour Commissioner of the Grand Duke of Desay, the aristocratic bureaucrats of the city only gave some kind of etiquette respect, but were extremely despised by the Russians in their hearts. As for the affairs of releasing serfs, they all seemed perfunctory and unwilling to cooperate hard.

Spelansky didn't seem to care much about this. He was so happy that he attended the invitations to dances, banquets, evening parties and concerts given to him by the nobles on time, and felt that he enjoyed the living environment in Krakow very much.

Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly changed. Just 7 days ago, a French lieutenant colonel named Penduwas came to Krakow, and near the University of Jagelon, a chilling "Gendarmerie Command" sign was erected in front of an inconspicuous granite building.

At the same time, General Mokronovsky also led a 18,000-man army to openly enter the eastern suburbs of Krakow, and successfully took over the city defense responsibilities of the garrison troops without a single shot, and retrained them.

At noon that day, General Mokronovsky and Lieutenant Colonel Penduwas, two or less officials, visited Commissioner Spelansky. No, it should be said that he was the Governor General of Spelansky.

The six days after that belonged to the tragic day of the noble bureaucrats of Krakow.

Two-thirds of government officials were angrily rebuked by the new governor, and Spelansky revealed the facts of these people's fraud, embezzlement of public funds, full of food all day, and doing nothing;

During this period, the 38 officials with the most serious crimes and the 12 nobles involved were arrested on the spot by Lieutenant Colonel Penduwas, and they were never able to leave the military command alive;

There were once a bold and dissatisfied man who wanted to launch a riot, but was noticed by the gendarmerie that had been wary of it. With the cooperation of General Mokronovsky's troops, the rioters were completely killed before they could launch it.

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When passing the balcony of the city hall, the military band suddenly changed the repertoire and then played the "Ode to the Polish Free Legion". For a time, the entire square and the streets, the parade soldiers and the onlookers spoke in unison, singing the song "Poland will never perish."

"As long as we still have a breath, Poland will not perish!

Raise the sword and regain the lost ground!

Go forward, go forward, Dongbrovsky!

From Italy to Poland, under your leadership, we will be as close as a family;

We crossed the Vistula River, crossed the Valta River, and became a real Pole…”

In the majestic singing, Dongbrovsky's eyes were wet and his vision was hazy, and he felt that he had returned to the past:

In 1792, Dongbrovsky left Dresden and went to Warsaw to participate in the Polish War against Russia;

In 1794, in Krakow, Dombrowsky participated in the anti-Russian uprising led by General Kosciusk;

In 1795, Poland was divided for the third time and its country was destroyed. Dongbrovsky chose to die out of Paris. The following year, he organized the Free Polish Legion in Italy, but was under the command of the French;

In 1801, the Polish Legion performed outstandingly in the war of Napoleon's conquest of Italy;

In 1802, Dombrovsky was ordered to lead his troops to become the newly established Italian state, first the Nether Alps Republic and the Lombardy Republic, and later the newly established Italian Republic to defend France's honor;

In 1806, Dombrowsky accepted Napoleon's order to form troops in Poland to oppose Russia and went to the Poznan region. At the end of the same year, Dombrowsky organized a large army and became the defense force of the newly established Duchy of Warsaw.

In 1809, Dongbrovsky led his army to resist the invasion of the Austrian Empire in Galicia.

It was also in this year that the Polish army led by Dongbrovsky encountered a serious crisis in southern Poland. Due to the war and man-made influence, they lost food and fodder for several days, and the baggage convoy stayed in the suburbs of Warsaw forever and could not be used.

Soon, the last serving of potatoes was finished and the residents ran away. The people who stayed were worse than beggars. Nearly half of the troops lost due to hunger and disease in the army, and soldiers were everywhere with fever and swollen due to poor food. However, the soldiers still insisted on fighting against the invaders from Austria under the leadership of Dombrowsky and never retreated.

After noticing the strange expression of Dombrowsky, Grand Duke Desai said: "My general, on holidays, the Polish soldiers will sing this song to St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna!"

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After the military parade and parade ceremony, Grand Duke Desai publicly announced to the outside world that he would stay in southern Poland for a long time and set up the Warwick Castle in Krakow, the palace of Polish kings, as his camp palace.

In early December, when Desai returned from the Carpathians inspection, he sent a guard to receive his wife, Princess Maria, from the Wazinki Palace to the Warwick Castle in Krakow. In addition, with the Grand Princess to Krakow, there were diplomatic ministers or secret envoys from France, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Catalonia, and Britain.

At the welcome banquet, Grand Duke Desai raised his wine glass and declared to the mission that the Duchy of Warsaw or Poland's many territorial appeals in Central and Southern Europe in the future have been completely over. Therefore, this civilized land that is suffering from turmoil and disasters should be rested for a long time!
Chapter completed!