The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

After dinner, everyone rested. Cheerchen gave Natalie a thick roll of linen, but he climbed onto the tree.

From the depths of the forest, across the trees and bushes, there was the howling of wild animals; from time to time, a gust of wind blew away the smoke from the campfire, causing the black and ridiculous land to whistle.

The night was dark, and the bonfire was faintly extinguished, making the originally silent surroundings even quieter, and the silence atmosphere deeper and heartbreaking.

Cheorchen laid the musket flat on a tree trunk. He snapped a small piece of branch and bit it in his mouth, and the bitter juice poured into his mouth, which made his somewhat drowsy mind sober.

At this time, there was a sound of climbing under the tree.

Natalie sat beside him.

"Natalie, haven't you slept?" Cheerchen took the twig out of his mouth and asked strangely.

"I can't sleep." Natalie said.

She sat across from Cheerchen and covered her and Chechen's lap with the linen blanket.

"My father wants me to marry." Natalie said, looking up at the sky.

"Oh, with whom? Do you like him?" Cheerchen's heart palpitated when she heard Natalie say that her father wanted her to marry. Cheer Chen didn't know why his heart throbbed suddenly, could it be because he also liked Natalie a little?

"With the children of those families with high authority in the Republic." Natalie didn't name anyone.

"You should choose the person you like. This is the right granted to you by God. I think that with people you don't like, this life will be very painful." Cheerchen said carefully.

"Thank you." Natalie said.

"Tell me about you, Alvar." Natalie called Chechen by the fake name he used when he was in the monastery.

Cheerchen let out an "um".

"Why are you going to Crimea? Is it because of Fatima?" Natalie asked. Natalie blushed when she asked this, and she felt like she was competing with other women for men. But the fact seems to be the case.

"It's not just because of Fatima," Cheerchen said.

This made Natalie's heart relieved.

"Why is that? You may not know that the Tatars in Crimea are robbers, horse thieves, and shameless traffickers. At the Khmelnitsky rebellion, the Tatars and the Cossacks united and wreaked havoc on the whole Ukraine. Thousands of people have been captured and made slaves. In Kaffa, even one arrow can be exchanged for three slaves. These pagans are enemies of Christ, and you are a righteous person. You should not go with them. ."

After being relieved, Natalie persuaded her heartily.

She thinks Cheerchen was blinded by that Fatima before he listened to her and made the decision to go to Crimea.

"I want revenge, Natalie." Cheer Chen said with a sigh.

What Natalie said was only seven or eight years ago. He also heard Mihau talk about it. How could Cheerchen not know the stigma of the Crimean Khan.

Compared with these, the Tatars' opposition to Tsarist Russia is also real. The **** feud between the two countries can not be washed away even when the water of the Black Sea is exhausted.

Since its establishment, the Crimean Khanate has not stopped its invasion and raid on the southern regions of Tsarist Russia. As far back as Ivan IV, the Crimean Khanate united with the Turkish Allied Forces in 1552 and dispatched more than 7,000 cavalry. , Hit near Tula, but was repelled by the local defenders.

In 1571, Crimea’s greatest Khan Devlet gathered 40,000 soldiers from the Khanate. In addition, he recruited the Circassians of the Nogai Khanate and the Caucasus, and sent troops to Tsarist Russia again. Soon, the coalition forces of the Crimean Khanate arrived in the hinterland of Tsarist Russia and occupied the land south of Moscow.

The Devlet Khan came to Moscow. On the way to the Northern Expedition, Devlet Khan received a small amount of intelligence brought by the Russian army who came to take refuge in him. Intelligence showed that not only did Tsarist Russia cause political turmoil due to the elimination of the vassal domination, but also a large-scale outbreak occurred this year. In addition, a plague broke out. There were hundreds of thousands of people due to starvation and plague. The city of Moscow is no longer able to fight the Crimean army. So Devlet Khan immediately decided to attack Moscow with all his strength.

Devlet Khan sent a small number of troops to attack the fortress Serpukhov, the south gate of Moscow, which was heavily defended by the Russian army. There were only 6,000 defenders in the southwest of Moscow. The 40,000 tatar cavalry rivals were quickly wiped out. After that, Devlet's army did not encounter any effective resistance and went straight to the city of Moscow.

The Russian army, unable to resist the Crimean army, withdrew from Moscow. Ivan IV also fled hastily in the rebellion. He was almost captured by the Tatars, and finally fled to Rostow, north of Moscow, under a handful of imperial troops. Husband city.

Moscow, which had abandoned its defense, was completely wiped out by the Crimean army. The Tatars and Allied forces robbed Moscow and all the towns south of Moscow. The population finally set off a fire and burned Moscow to ashes. Except for the stone-built Kremlin, the entire Moscow city was submerged in a sea of ​​fire and eventually turned into ruins.

In this battle, the Crimean Khanate severely damaged Tsarist Russia, and the army in Moscow and southern Moscow was basically annihilated. The total number of deaths in Tsarist Russia in this war exceeded 80,000. In addition, the Crimean coalition forces also captured 150,000 when they withdrew.

These histories are all the homework that Cheerchen did after deciding to go to Crimea, and Yelishei and Fedot told Cheerchen.

"Vengeance?" Natalie was puzzled.

"My hatred with Yakov Cherkaski." Chechen said in a deep voice.

Natalie knew how deep Cheerchen's hatred was just from the tone of her teeth gnashing.

"I am actually a coward. Although I have always said that I want revenge, I am getting further and further away from Yakov. If I really have the courage, I should go to Smolensk, to Riga, and give that with a gun or a dagger. The villain comes all of a sudden. But I don’t have the guts~www.readwn.com~ All I think about is revenge by relying on the strength of others. Yanush Laziviu’s, Crimean Khan’s." Chen said to Natalie what he had never said in his heart, and while speaking, Cheerchen buried his head on his chest.

Natalie emerged from the blanket. She stuck her head out and lightly nodded with her lips on Cheerchen's forehead.

Cheerchen was a little stunned by such a sudden intimacy.

After the kiss, Natalie drew back quickly.

"Don't think too much, coward, just a comforting kiss." Natalie said blushing.

Hearing this, people feel a little bit overwhelmed.

Cheerchen touched her forehead, she felt Natalie's fragrance still in the air.

"Chechen, you are not timid, and your choice is correct. The assassination is just the courage of a man, and it is disgraceful. If you seek revenge from Yakov for justice, then you should defeat him on the battlefield upright. . But even so, don’t you go to Crimea, okay? The Tsar is a vulture that eats people, and the Khan is a hungry wolf that bites people. With the power of the Tatars, it is no different from the tiger's skin. Nowadays, the Republic is peace. Tsarist Russia ceased the war and became an ally. But this is only temporary. When the Swedes are driven out of our country, the benevolent King Kazimierz will not let Ukraine and Smolensk leave the jurisdiction of the Republic." Natalie persuaded.

Cheerchen was silent again, he was actually thinking about Natalie's words.

But when Natalie saw Cheorchen not speaking, she thought that this reason might not prevent Cheorchen from going to Crimea.

Natalie looked at Cheer Chen, as if she had made a lot of determination:

"If I say, because I like you, you don't want to go to Crimea, would you?"

The small branch in Cheerchen's hand fell gently.