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"Russian?"

When Kolya, the guard of Udysk at the head of the city, heard the call from the people below, he thought that he had heard wrongly like the soldiers. Where did the Russians come from?

After confirming that the people standing under the city were five Russians with the same skin color and language as himself, Kolya frowned, showing doubts in his eyes. Under the signal of , start talking with the Russians below. 【】

"Who are you? Why did you come here? Who is the army in the distance? Why are they surrounding us?"

There were four questions in a row, and Teklowski didn't know which one to answer first.He didn't know the commander on the front of the city, and neither did the Russians on the top of the city, because Tekolowski had been staying in Gulihe City since he came to the east, and had never dealt with officials from other places. The governor of Nerchinsk has never visited him. It's not that he doesn't want to go, but that the other party doesn't value him at all. In the past five years, he didn't even know what the governor looks like except for his official contacts.The governor is like this, and the officials in other strongholds have no contact at all. The equivalent is that Kolia, the city guard, also does not know Lord Tekoloski, the former city guard of Gulihe City.

After a quick brain turn, Tekolowski decided to tell the compatriots at the head of the city what happened. It is up to them to decide whether to fight or surrender, and he can't choose for the other side.Because the four soldiers who accompanied him were not his subordinates before, Tekolowski did not dare to reply first. After discussing with the four of them, the five of them agreed to tell the truth without exaggerating or deliberately concealing the situation of the Guanning Army. , everything is decided by the people of Udysk.The four soldiers took Tekolos as a representative to answer the city's questions.

"We are the soldiers of the Cossacks of the Guanning Army. Before that, we were all soldiers sent by His Majesty the Tsar to the east. The army in the distance is the Guanning Army. They are the army of the Qing people. The reason for surrounding here is because they want to Occupy here. They sent us here to ask you to surrender. If you don’t surrender, the Guan Ning army will attack the city immediately. After breaking the city, according to the rules of the Guan Ning army, they will massacre the city.”

Tekolowski said so many words in a fit of anger, fearing that the other party would not have a complete and comprehensive understanding, he glanced back and saw Captain Grivsky and a group of generals of the Guanning Army standing here, Feeling guilty, he continued to shout: "The Guli River, Yask and other places have been occupied by the Guanning Army. Our officers and soldiers were either killed or captured. Now, the owner of this land is no longer the great Your Majesty the Tsar, but these Qing people. Your Excellency, Commander of the city, the Guanning Army in front of you has a strength of 1 people. Although they do not have firecrackers and cannons, I can still tell you with certainty, They are not a pack of vicious wolves, their hands are stained with the blood of countless people, they will never be kind to those who resist, but they will not kill those who surrender... Now, it is up to you to decide whether to fight or surrender, your body As a soldier of the empire, commander of Udisk, you have the right to decide everything, including the lives of your Excellency and all the defenders."

Tekolowski didn't actually know how many Guan Ning troops were attacking Udisk, he just got such a figure based on his general impression.After saying all this, Tekolowski heaved a sigh of relief and stood there waiting for Cheng's reply.He didn't know what kind of answer he wanted to hear. It was painful for him to fight or defend. As the guard officer of the eastern stronghold personally appointed by His Majesty the Tsar, he could do nothing to see the empire's strongholds being lost one by one. How embarrassing and shameful it is to even act as an accomplice!

God, it's better to end all this earlier and let me take my loyal Ale back to Kiev.Thinking of the Cossack officer’s promise that the Guanning Army would release the Russian soldiers and let them return to their hometown after three years of service, Tekolowski’s heart warmed up. The sky in his hometown is so blue, and the water in his hometown is so blue. So sweet, my wife and daughter in my hometown are so missed...

Time passed by every minute and every second, smoke rose from the rear of Guan Ning's army, big trees were cut down from time to time in the forest, and then quickly dismembered, under the command of the officer, a simple ladder was quickly built .Zhao Qiang didn't seem to care whether Udisik's defenders fought or surrendered. He stood comfortably on a boulder, admiring the primitive beauty of the mountains and fields in the distance.On the other hand, Liu De and He Manchuan were very nervous, asking the interpreter to ask Grievsky from time to time if the Raksha people in the city had answered.The idea of ​​the two is that it is the best thing to be able to surrender soldiers without fighting, but if the opponent insists on fighting, they don't mind letting Udysk become a lesson for Tugursk.

On the city wall of Udysk, Kolya and several of his subordinates were also arguing. From the mouths of the guard soldiers, they confirmed the words of the Russians in the city, that is, they were surrounded by an army of more than 350 people. The huge disparity between [-] defenders and [-] intruders made every musketeer and officer on the city wall feel terrified, and the forced conscripts turned pale, and the timid ones lay on the ground directly. It seems that the opponent's attack has already begun.If it was in the past, those Russian musketeers would definitely scold and beat these cowards, but today, they have no energy to teach these cowards, and the city walls seem to be shrouded in shadows.

The content of the quarrel is not two, war or surrender.There were two officers who agreed to surrender. One of them was Nicheka, the commander of the Cossack cavalry in the city. He led his troops to confront the cavalry of the Guanning Army. Different, they have the courage to dare to fight.Of course, the biggest reason why he chose to agree to surrender was that he had gone to Grivsky in the distance. As a fellow countryman, he was no stranger to Grivsky, but this former follower seemed to be a high-ranking official now. It turns out that he did well in the Qing army, Nicheka thought.But there were three officers who insisted on resisting, and more importantly, Kolia, the supreme commander of Udisk, was also one of the officers who chose to resist.

"If every stronghold chooses to surrender because of fear of the opponent's huge army, then we will lose the East forever!"

Kolya is not ignorant of the consequences of choosing to resist, but he has to do so. Although he is not a regular military member, he is just a prisoner who was exiled to the East for committing fraud, but he is born to respect His Majesty the Tsar. Having a sincere heart with the great Russia, he would rather die in Udysk than hand over the stronghold of the empire in the east to the Qing people.

"The weapons of the Qing people are very backward, but ours!" Kolya pointed to the muskets in the hands of the musketeers, and shouted proudly: "Having advanced weapons, I believe that as long as we face these invaders bravely, we will surely gain victory." Victory! Soldiers, please believe that we will be able to defend Udisk! Please believe that our reinforcements will arrive soon. The Qing army is just a mob, and their bows and spears are definitely no match for muskets. !"

"Ula!"

The other two officers who chose to resist yelled loudly, and some musketeers who did not want to surrender also yelled. Seeing this, Nicheka and the officer who wanted to surrender had no choice but to stop opposing. The situation was stronger than others. Two votes do not prevail in the vote.However, the two of them had their own thoughts. Nicheka was preparing for the direction of the wind before making the final decision. He didn't believe there would be any reinforcements. He glanced at Kolya, who was mobilized by his emotions, and Nicheka sneered: Don't you know that we have lost contact with the outside world for a long time?Now that Udysk is besieged, ghosts will come to the rescue!I hope these Qing people are really a bunch of rabble as you said, if not, then don't blame me.

But the officer was thinking, if the city guard says we want to fight, then let's fight, but if we can't defend Udisik or the moment when the reinforcements arrive, then I have to fight for my own life Consider it, Kolya, I don't want to die with you in the East.

"Listen, people below the city, our city guards tell you to tell the generals of the Qing people that Udysk will always be Russian territory, and any shameful invaders will never get it!"

"call!"

Hearing Cheng's reply, Tekolowski let out a sigh of relief, glanced at him with a complicated expression, shook his head slightly, and silently led the four soldiers back to report.