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@title=Invasion of the comonwealth.
10 July:
The Polish Parliament decides to start preparing for a Swedish invasion, the proclamation is obeyed very slowly, the treath isn't taken seriously by the polish nobles and King Jan Kazimierz himself said:
"The %STRING0 isn't as dangerous as the cowards try to make him seem".
Nobody expects a swedish invasion until atleast a year in the future.
The recruiting of soldiers didn't begin until the beginning of June and at the 11 June the polish nobles are called to arms (the "call to arms" was hardly more than an invitation to help, the weak polish state couldn't tell the nobles what to do).
If someone that day would visit the little village of Falkenberg in west Preussia, he would hear the sounds from trumpets and the rattling and creaking from thousands of wheels.
Should he dare to travel closer, a peculiar and frightening sight: A long, long winding row coming out of a nearby forest, a row of seemingly endless waving pikes and musket muzzles, and a large throng of flags and standards,
not to mention horses, horses and yet more horses...
And wagons: baggage carts, cannonball, armor, karett, pontoon and petard wagons, and artillery: light regiment pieces, heavy storm cannons, long necked kartovs and short necked mortars.
And people: footsoldiers, riders, servants, smiths, maids, merchants, cooks, cleaners, whores, babies sons, daughters, sisters, brothers and wives.
That was the Swedish Army crossing the Polish Border.
Meanwhile in %STRING1 the preparations for a support fleet is being made.
The swedish army is entering the Comonwealth!