The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Chechen and Bao Hong just drank one cup after another, getting drunk. In the end, Chechen didn't know whether Bao Hong sent him or returned to the embassy.

Early the next morning, it was bright when Cheerchen woke up from his sleep. He was still full of alcohol and his head was dizzy.

Cheerchen shook his head and knocked again with his fist, making him feel better.

"Are you awake? Cheerchen."

A voice came from the door, and Cheer Chen fixed his eyes, and it turned out that Henrik was standing at the door.

"Sorry, I drank too much yesterday. Henrik, did the old man want to see me?" Cheer Chen asked when he got up from the bed.

"It was originally, but I don't need it now."

"why?"

Henrik pointed his head in the direction of the window.

"You can see it by yourself."

Cheerchen walked to the window and opened the curtain to look outside.

I saw a group of Cossack soldiers in dark uniforms standing outside the gate of the embassy. They were carrying guns and walking around in front of the gate.

Cheerchen looked at both sides again, and saw that there was also a group of Cossacks standing in front of the Russian embassy, ​​but not in front of the Swedish embassy.

"Are they from Bogdan Popovich?" Cheerchen asked.

"Yes," then Henrik also walked to the window.

"Today, my uncle was going to visit Vigowski, the Cossack clerk. But before he left the house, he saw this team of Cossacks blocking the door. I sent someone to ask, they said it was Feng Popovich's. Order to protect the safety of embassy personnel."

Cheerchen realized that they were under surveillance and house arrest.

"I'll go out and have a look."

Cheerchen said, putting on his clothes, and walked out of the door.

At the gate, Cheerchen asked a Cossack soldier, "Who is your head?"

A thick-bearded Cossack walked over.

"I am," he said.

Cheerchen revealed his identity. He asked: "I want to know why not let our people out?"

The Cossack captain smiled contemptuously at Cheerchen's half-year-old child. He asked, "Who are you?"

"I am the captain of the mission's guard." Cheerchen said sternly. Then he added another sentence: "It's also a friend of Bao Hong, the leader of your Cossack."

Perhaps it was Cheerchen's last sentence that worked, and the Cossack captain's face was a little bit solemn. He said: "Well, because you are a good friend of the team leader Bao Hong, I tell you-my commander, Colonel Bogdan Popovich, is worried that someone will be making trouble in Kiev while the chieftain is dead, so he sent us Keep you safe. You know, Poles are always unpleasant in Ukraine."

After speaking, everyone laughed.

Cheerchen asked the officer again before they finished laughing, "Then Colonel Popovich just asked you to protect our safety. He didn't tell you to keep our people from going out?"

"That's not true. But the colonel meant that the outside world is not peaceful, you better not go out." The Cossack captain said carefully.

"That's fine." Cheerchen clapped his hands: "I'll ask again, did Colonel Popovich send you to protect the safety of the embassy or to protect the safety of people?" Cheerchen asked.

The Cossack captain was taken aback when he heard the words, and he blurted out: "Does this make a difference?"

"Of course there is," Cheechen said slyly, "If it is to protect the safety of the embassy, ​​then you are protecting this house; and if it is to protect people, then you should protect our safety when we go out."

The captain thought for a while, he understood that Colonel Popovich meant to "protect" people.

"Of course it's a protector," he said.

"Well, the envoy of our mission, Stanislaw Potocki, is going out now. Please spare your manpower to protect us."

"Where are you going?"

"The mansion of Team Leader Bao Hong." Chechen said without looking back.

Then Chechen returned to the embassy. He went to the old man Stanislaw Potocki's room and told him the conversation between him and the Cossack captain outside.

Seeing that Chechen had made a mistake wherever he went, Henrik yelled: "God, are you still awake from the wine? We are going to Vigowski, not looking for some Baohong! "

"Of course I know, this is a trick I played."

Hearing Cheerchen's words, Henrik fell silent. He was about to ask Cheerchen again, but Cheerchen said to Stanislaw Potocki first: "Old sir Potocki, let's get in the car first. You'll be clear at that time."

The old man looked at Cheerchen confidently and stood up and walked towards the door.

When the three came to the carriage, Cheerchen looked left and right but did not see the Duke of Konitzki.

"The Duke is more drunk than you." Stanislaw Potocki knew what Chechen was looking for, he said.

The five Hessian cavalry guarded the carriage as soon as it left the gate, and the group of Cossacks surrounded the outside of the carriage. They left two and continued to watch the door, and the others followed.

Cheerchen saw that the Cossack captain whispered to one of them, and then the man ran away.

Obviously, he went to inform Bogdan Popovich.

With the "protection" of this team of Cossacks, Cheerchen didn't even need to ask for directions, they were taken directly to Bao Hong's mansion.

At this time, the front of Bao Hong's mansion was full of voices, and hundreds of Cossacks gathered around the door. These Cossacks were well-equipped and looked like a guard-level unit. Because so many people blocked the road, the mission’s carriage could not enter. So Cheerchen jumped out of the carriage and got in by himself.

And the captain of the Cossack who was responsible for "protecting" them hurriedly followed. He was afraid that Cheor Chen would slip out of his sight.

"I'm Bao Hong's friend, let me in!" Cheer Chen squeezed and shouted.

Blair happened to be at the door at this time. He heard Cheerchen's voice and hurriedly greeted him.

"Blair, is Brother Bao Hong awake?" Chechen asked.

Blair told Chechen that Bao Hong had been asleep since he came back drunk that night.

Cheerchen shook his head pretending to be regretful, and then he told Blair in a low voice that Popovich sent someone to follow him and restricted his freedom.

Blair's face turned cold when he heard it. At this moment, the Cossack captain also squeezed in.

Blair walked to the front of the Cossack captain and without a word, he grabbed his head and bumped it against a tree next to him.

"Asshole! Asshole! Who gave you the courage, even Bao Hong's friends dare to follow!"

The Cossack captain was slammed into a gold star, but he did not dare to struggle and fight back because he was afraid of Blair's reputation.

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! Colonel Popovich sent us to protect the Polish mission."

"The people in the Russian mission with the Tsar, but they don't protect the people in the Swedish mission." Chechen inserted a word beside him.

Blair became even more angry when he heard it. He grabbed a lock of hair on the other person's head and shouted, "Go back to me, dog stuff! I know too well what your master wants to protect!"

With that, Blair pointed at Cheerchen again.

"This Alvar Chechen is Bao Hong's good brother. If you dare to follow him, I will treat you as your father or mother."

After finishing speaking, Blair waved his hand sharply and threw the captain into the mud.

The people around roared with laughter. Obviously, they were gloating when they saw Popovich’s beating.

The poor captain got up in embarrassment, and fled with his own hands.

Those who drove Popovich away, Blair put his arms around Cheerchen’s shoulders and walked to the side. He said to Cheerchen: "Popovic is crazy now. He went to Anton Zidanovic last night. Odd, he asked him to hand over the military power of Kiev. The reason was that he was the man who was left by Bogdan Khmelnitsky to assist the government. Fortunately, Anton is a good friend of Bao Hong, and he decisively rejected this Requirement. Otherwise, Popovich can control the army in Kiev. I'm afraid he dare to show everyone who opposes him."

Chechen didn't expect Bogdan Khmelnitsky's death less than a day before that Colonel Popovich made such a big noise.

He looked at the elite Cossacks around him again, and he had a vague guess: "What about these people, are they?"

Blair confirmed Cheerchen's guess. He nodded and said: "These are all personal soldiers under the team leaders who left with Bao Hong and Shirko last night. These team leaders have come to Bao Hong to discuss countermeasures. Popovich made this trouble. Everyone felt the crisis. They were all worried that one day they would wake up and their house would be surrounded, and they would be in a different place with their wife and children. Everyone didn't want Popovich to continue like this. "

Cheerchen was a little scared about Blair's words "I don't want Popovich to continue this way". Because it probably means bleeding and death. But he knew that Blair was a typical Cossack, with a bold personality and straightforward speech. Blair said so, it is definitely not aimless.

"So do the team leaders want to do something to Popovich?" Cheer Chen asked hurriedly.

Blair spread his hands.

"I don't know about that. But Zolotalenko is here, Anton is here... Shirko is also here. Everyone has to see my master. They are still waiting in the living room. In short, I hope Bao Hong can make an idea. Hey, Bogdan just died, I didn't expect the situation to change to this immediately." Blair sighed.

Some of these names that Blair said, Cheerchen knew, some Cheerchen didn't. However, the names of Vasily Zolotarenko and Ivan Shirko Chechen are quite impressive, and being able to rank alongside these two are obviously also extremely important figures in the Cossack emirates. And Chechen was also shocked that they all hoped that Bao Hong would lead everyone to do it.

Suddenly, there was a loud roar from the room: "Anyway, I won't sit still. If you are afraid, let me do it."

"Lukyan Merzila, Shirko's fan." Blair said.

Chechen remembered the words that Bao Hong once said last night that he would unite those company captains who defended the Cossack tradition to oppose Yuri Khmelnitsky’s motion to succeed and elect the true chief of the Cossacks. .

Yesterday’s words are still in my ears, but I didn’t expect to be fulfilled today.

At this time, Henrik Potocki in the carriage grabbed the light stand on the side of the carriage and straightened and shouted Chechen, hurry up. Obviously, after the group of Cossacks were scared away by Blair, Stanislaw Potocki hurried to Vygowski.

"Uncle Hilko, if Brother Bao Hong really wants to fight with Popovich, you must be careful. If you need manpower, the Hessian cavalry in my hand is always subject to his call." Chechen told Blair road.

At this time, Cheer Chen didn't think about whether he was a member of the Polish mission to be involved in this matter.

After Cheerchen returned to the carriage, the carriage turned. In the car, Stanislaw Potocki asked Cheerchen what he had been talking about with Blair for so long. Chechen deliberately only picked some facts to tell Stanislaw Potocki.

Stanislaw Potocki closed his eyes after listening. Not long after, the old man sighed. He did not expect that as soon as Bogdan Khmelnitsky died, the Cossacks would split to such an extent, as if the civil war was about to break out.

At this time, Stanislaw Potocki thought: "Is Ukraine in a civil war better for the Republic?"

But immediately, Stanislaw Potocki gave up this idea. After all, although the Cossack Emirate of the Civil War can temporarily relieve the crisis in the eastern frontier of the Republic ~www.readwn.com~, it does nothing to enhance the power of the Republic. And whether Popovich or Baohong or Shirko wins, it is also a disaster for the Republic.

When approaching the Vygowski mansion, Stanislaw Potocki gave Cheerchen a stack of information about Wigowski. Cheerchen should take a good look. The old man wanted Chechen to accompany him when he met with Wigowski.

Cheerchen was a little surprised, shouldn't the old man take his nephew Henrik to see Wigowski?

"You and Henrik are with me." The old man said lightly.

The poor performance of the Duke of Konitzki and Cheerchen's wit today have once again turned Stanislaw Potocki's inner balance in favor of him.

Chechen lowered his head, and he began to read the information about Ivan Wigowski given by the old man.

According to the data, Ivan Vygowski was a Ukrainian nobleman in the Kiev region in his early years. He was proficient in many languages ​​and had outstanding literary skills. After being captured by Bogdan Khmelnytsky, Bogdan Khmelnytsky admired his talent, not only saved his life, but also made him his servant. After that, Vygowski served as the clerk of the Zaporozhye Cossacks for a long time and was one of Khmelnitsky's most trusted advisors. Moreover, Wygowski has always advocated treating the captured nobles well in the war against the Republic of Poland, and can be regarded as one of the few pro-Polish sects among the Cossacks.

From these words alone, Lian Chechen could judge that Ivan Wigowski is worthy of the Republic.

At about 14 o'clock in the afternoon, the carriage arrived at Vygowski's mansion, and the three got out of the carriage and prepared to meet with Vygowski.