Ka cika wannan magana: A shekara ta 1655, Sarki Charles X Gustav ya soma
yaƙin neman zaɓe a kan Yaren mutanen Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth don tilasta wa Sarki John II Casimir Vasa ya yi watsi da duk wata da'awa ga kambin Sweden, da kuma cin nasarar lardunan Poland na Courland da Prussia. Za a faɗaɗa daular Sweden, yayin da za a ƙarfafa ikon cinikin tekun Baltic mai riba. Duk da haka, yakin da Poland ya yi a hankali. Duk da nasarar da aka samu a fagen yaƙi, ciki har da mamayar Warsaw, Charles X Gustav bai iya kawo ƙarshen yaƙin ba. 'Yan Poland sun yi tsayayya da sojojin Sweden, waɗanda' yan tawaye na Poland ke ci gaba da kai musu hari. Maƙwabtan Poland sun yi barazanar shiga cikin yaƙin. Dukansu Austria da Netherlands sun aika da taimakon soja zuwa Poland, kuma tsohon abokin Sweden, Brandenburg-Prussia, ya canza bangarorin a lokacin rikici. A shekara ta 1656, sojojin Rasha sun ƙetare iyaka zuwa Livonia ta Sweden kuma suka kewaye Riga.