Spies, Battles, And Polish Pwnage
In early February the spies of Poland ordered by the king began to infiltrate the Danzig/Gdansk area and incited desertion among the Teutons. This... worked and brought down the troop numbers in the Danzig area, where the 1st polish army was set to attack.
As the treasury grew small, time was growing short, so in August of 1954, war was declared between the falling Teutonic Order, and the new Kingdom of Poland. the people of Cyprus did not join the Polish king, mostly because they were an island in the Mediterranean, and really couldn't get to the Baltic where all the action was happening. This disappointed the King greatly, but he was also disinclined to have a war with people he didn't really know all that well.
The Lithuanians decided to pitch in though.
The first battle was in Plock, where the 2nd Polish Army of 1000 Cavalry and 1000 Infantry were bested by 2000 Cavalry, a siege was laid and several more battles were fought. the king was not pleased when Plock was eventually captured.
On the plus side the seige of Gdansk/Danzig was going well, even though there were trade embargoes from Riga as well as some of the Knights closer friends. nevertheless the Poles fought on, but the treasury ever dwindled.
The war dragged on and it wasn't until 1455 that the Polish 2nd Army, with new and improved cavalry mercenaries attacked Plock and Reclaimed it from the Germans of the sea (thats what the king called them, cause they were all crushed up on the border like.) It was around the same time that Kasimierz's sea side resort was repossessed from Germans who defaulted on their mortgage and had a nasty 2 year court battle, in which the Poles won by getting barrels of vodka, and setting them on fire. the Germans all died because they drank the burning vodka, because wasting good vodka is a sin in any country.
Somehow the Germans laid seige to Danzig again though, forcing the pulling of forces from Warmia to break the siege. The king said this time would have better been spent in his sea side fort, until the Germans kicked his sand castle over.
Several back and forth battles continued in Ostpreusen, but the king had thought the war had gone on long enough, and that it was time to build a sand castle. The teutons were forced to give up Danzig and pay 50 Ducats in reparation for polish suffering.
But peace would only last for so long...
it would be intersting
