The Commonwealth, under its newly elected King…
January 1633 CE
The Commonwealth, under its newly elected King Wladyslaw IV, organizes a relief force.
The Sejm officially sanction a declaration of war and authorize a large payment (six and a half million zlotys, the highest tax contribution during Wladyslaw's entire reign) for the raising of a suitable force in spring 1633.
The intended relief force will have an effective strength of about twenty-one thousand five hundred men.
Over ten thousand of the infantry are to be be organized based on the Western model, previously not common in armies of the Commonwealth.