The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

All those who were eligible to participate in the election flocked to Xie Qi. The three foreign missions staying in Kiev were not to be outdone. They followed the flow of people to Xieqi towards the fortress on the rocky beach in the Dnieper River.

Chechen walked with Bao Hong. This was specially arranged by Stanislaw Potocki. The old man made this for two reasons: First, Cheerchen and the Duke of Konitzki are not in harmony, and they cannot guarantee that they will not produce new nasty when they walk together. Although the old man had basically given up the Duke after the drunken incident, he did not want to have trouble in this troubled autumn after all, and the Duke of Konitzki was still the deputy envoy of the mission. Secondly, the old man also hopes that Cheerchen will win over Bao Hong through his personal relationship. Although the hope is slim, Cheerchen has always been good at creating miracles. This time, the old man also hoped that Chechen could do a miracle and draw Bao Hong to the side of the Republic.

Of course, Cheer Chen knew it was impossible. Bao Hong will not seek refuge in Poland...unless.

Although knowing it was impossible, Cheer Chen accepted the task happily. Because walking with Bao Hong and the others, listening to Bao Hong and Blair's legendary experience is a rare pleasure for Chechen during his journey.

Once, Cheer Chen asked Xie Qi and asked what kind of city it was.

Blair told Chechen that Xieqi is a free city.

Cossack freedom.

Although Xie Qi’s most important function is military, but there, Xie Qi’s people do not like to use military training to trouble themselves and waste their time; when the young people arrive there, there are no instructors and teachers, and they can only rely on experience. Educate and nurture yourself, because there is no day without war. If not, then go to the land of the Tatars. There are many Tatar gangs and raiders on the grassland.

The Cossacks thought that apart from shooting targets, horse racing, and hunting wild beasts, it was very annoying to engage in research on military regulations-just line up in two rows when marching, and rush forward when fighting. This is the military regulations.

In addition to these, all the remaining time is spent on entertainment. This is a sign of the broad display of the spirit of freedom. The whole thanksgiving is a continuous banquet, a never-ending ball after the noisy start. This universal feast contains something that confuses people, makes people forget their sorrows and drink wildly.

In Xieqi, most people wandered from morning to night, and the money in their pockets flowed into the hands of hotel owners and hawkers. If they were out of money, they would go to credit and take the money from the next tatar robbery as collateral.

Everyone who came to Xieqi had forgotten all the things, relationships, and ranks of the past. They called themselves and called others in a novel way of calling them "brothers" by the Cossacks.

There are people who came to Xieqi who previously regarded a taller as a great asset, but thanks to the care of the Jewish land tenants, they now flip their pockets without fear of dropping anything.

To Xieqi, there are all the students who can't stand the whip of the seminary and can't learn a Latin alphabet; at the same time, there are also those who know what Horace, Cicero, and the Roman Republic are.

There were many officers who came to Xieqi, and most of them later won prominent fame in the royal army of the king or the private army of the nobles. There are countless educated and experienced knights here. It's the same wherever you fight, as long as you fight, because it's not proper for a knight not to fight.

Many people came to thank Qi and came and left. But this is also the capital they will boast to others in the future: they have lived in Xie Qi and are already tried and tested fighters.

"There are all kinds of people in Xie Qi, except for those who praise women. This is Xie Qi." Blair concluded.

After saying this, Blair glanced at Bao Hong and whispered to Che Chen: "But Bao Hong is a stranger. He used to respect the Polish noble lady just like the Virgin."

Although Blair had deliberately lowered her voice, she still burst out loudly when she heard it. Bao Hong gave his old man a hard look.

After passing a place called Kudak, Cheerchen saw a spectacle created by nature that he had never seen before:

A series of seven stone beams traversed the width of the Dnieper River. The swarthy rocks stood on the water. They had been subjected to the impact of waves for many years and were cut by sharp edges. Finally, they split the stone beams, opened the gaps, and opened the channels. The water flow hit these stone beams with all its strength, and was bounced back, but it was unyielding, and again applied a more violent impact.

Hit back and go forward; hit back again and go forward. The sound was like a hundred cannons firing at the same time, and like howling wolves at the same time.

The river swirled here, not bottomless, like a faint dark eye, which made people dazzling.

Cheerchen couldn't help Zhuma leaning out and looking at the whirlpool, but Blair pulled him back.

"You don't want to die."

Blair told Chechen that there were unknown things hidden in the whirlpool. If anyone stared at it for a long time, he would eventually see something he didn't want to see, and he would lose his mind and go crazy.

These words made Cheor Chen's hair horrified.

"Silsky Stone Threshold Waterfall, Vohanne Stone Threshold Waterfall, Duke Stone Threshold Waterfall, Archer Stone Threshold Waterfall..." Blair pointed out the names of the waterfalls to Chechen.

When it comes to the last stone threshold waterfall named Nenasetec, Blair proudly tells Chechen that he wanted to become a Zaporozhye Cossack, if it weren’t for a single canoe to pass through these stone threshold waterfalls. That would not be treated as brothers. However, he was exceptionally tolerant of Nenasetec. Because of the jagged rocks protruding from the water, it has never been submerged by river water. No ship has ever passed. But one person passed the seventh waterfall.

"It's Bao Hong." Chechen guessed who the man was.

Blair nodded to confirm.

Chechen glanced at Bao Hong beside him, but he neither admitted nor denied.

Cheerchen wanted to go down and try to see how many waterfalls he could reach, but he took another look at the river that was like a rushing horse. He dispelled the idea-his own boat was not good at first. If it goes on, there may be no return.

After another two days, Chechen finally reached the shore of Shidao where Xie Qi was.

After crossing the rapids, the Dnieper River returned to calm here, and the water flickered in front of Chechen, drawing a bright ribbon. The river was originally restricted by rapids in the upper reaches, but when it arrived here, it finally entered the world of freedom and began to rush and overflow. The surging waves did not meet the obstacles of the cliffs and the high ground, and they spread all the way to the ground.

Chechen and Bao Hong boarded the ferry and finally arrived at their destination-Xie Qi after more than three hours of sailing.

From the time he boarded Xie Qi, Cheer Chen felt the unusual and freedom that Blair was talking about here.

As a military fortress, although there are countless Cossacks dressed like this, no one will ask you "Where are you from? Who are you? What are you here for?", as if everyone had returned to their own. Homelike.

And when you are looking for a place to stay, when you ask where there is a hotel, others will say: "Hello, do you believe in Christ?"

"letter!"

"Do you also believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit?"

"letter!"

"Will you go to church?"

"will go."

"Then make a cross."

After drawing the cross, the person will point to an open space, "Go, find a place to live by yourself."

Immediately, someone sent you a sickle and an axe for felling trees-everything here requires you to have enough food and clothing.

All in all, Xieqi, the source of the Zaporozhye Cossacks, has a different lifestyle than anywhere else.

Cheerchen was quickly attracted. He devoted all his attention and energy to understanding Xie Qi, into this slutty and mysterious ocean.

Everything here makes him so novel. Xie Qi does not have that strict law, everything here is simple and clear. For example, if a person commits the crime of theft, even if it only steals a trivial thing, it will be regarded as a shame for all Cossacks. People will tie this disreputable guy to a pillar in the square to show the public. Everyone who walks past him can hit him with a stick on the side until he is beaten to death; and if a person owes a debt, people will Will chain him next to a cannon until someone promises to redeem him.

And Xie Qi's organizational structure is even more rudimentary. Sheqi is composed of thirty-six battalions, and each battalion has a battalion captain. The battalion captain is in control of everything, and he is called "daddy" by his subordinates. "Daddy" has money, clothes, and food. He allocates everything to his "children" as needed. When conflicts arise between two battalions, a duel is the only way to resolve the conflict. Everyone greeted each other's waist and eyes fiercely, with a swollen nose and swollen nose, and when one party won, the other party seemed to quickly forget the hatred and drank wine together with the winner.

On the bank of Xieqi's river, Cheechen also accidentally found a stone stele buried by weeds. By reading the Latin text on it, Cheechen knew that the stone was originally erected by the builder of the First Metabolic Deed. The following is signed by Dmitro Vichnevitsky.

This aroused Chechen's interest, because the prince Mihav also had the surname Visnievitsky. Chechen asked Stanislaw Potocki who was coming later, and he knew that Dmitro Visnievitsky was the ancestor of Prince Mihavu.

Between 1553 and 1554, Dmitro Vishnevitsky, the representative of the Polish king at the time in Ganev, assembled a part of the Cossacks and established a fortress on the island of Khortica. A large number of fortifications were built, and even special turrets were built. It was from that time that Dmitro Vishnevitsky united the Cossacks that were scattered around Zaporozhye into an organized group. All Zaporozhye Cossack camps are located on the island. Since then, the camp has formed its own unique military-political organization. From then on, the Cossacks here also began to be called "Zaporizhia Cossacks."

Dmitro Vishnevitsky has set up 36 sub-teams underground in the entire Zaporozhye camp, usually stationed in their respective towns for production activities (the name of each team comes from the city where it is stationed) , When Geitman issued a general mobilization order, he must quickly assemble in the Seqi main camp to stand by.

Only then did Chechen know that Xie Qi's thirty-six camps corresponded to the thirty-six teams that were originally established.

After Stanislaw Potocki finished talking about the secrets, he seemed to sigh with emotion: "Who would have thought that the establishment of the Zaporozhye Cossacks was a member of the Vishnevitsky family, and In 1648, the most ruthless person who suppressed the Cossack riots was also the Vichynevitsky man, that is, Jarime Vichynevitsky. It can be seen that God's will is really unpredictable."

Chechen is quite comfortable with Xie Qi's life because of the novelty, but not everyone can adapt to Xie Qi's life.

"Is this the ghost place above? And, is this human? It's not as good as a pig kennel!" Konitzky pointed to a low wooden house and said.

This wooden house is about 50 square meters on the edge of the assembly hall of Seqi ~www.readwn.com~. Four beds are built with logs. The beds are covered with thick thatch and there is a large area on the grass. Rolled sheepskin.

Because it was a foreign mission, Cheerchen and the others were treated specially-Xie Qi's supervisor did not bring them sickles and axes, but directly arranged houses for them.

Of course, in the eyes of the Duke Konitzki, who is used to living in large houses, this so-called house is not even as good as a pig nest.

Cheerchen didn't think so. Because as a mercenary, it is common to have meals and sleep in the open air. This kind of environment is already very good, at least it can shelter from the wind and rain. Besides, most of the Cossacks here are not as good as themselves.

Cheerchen saw that most of the local Cossacks' residences were wooden houses made of large oak slats. These wooden houses are surprisingly short, and the tallest are only half a person above the ground.

The windows of these houses are also very small, wide on the outside and narrow on the inside, just like gun holes in a bunker. The black smoke of cooking and heating came out from the gaps in the thatched canopy.

The old man Stanislaw Potocki couldn't stand this kind of environment, but the old man didn't show it.

Upon seeing this, a Polish dragoon hurriedly lifted off the sheepskin and thatch, took the old man and the duke of Konitzki's quilt in and laid it on.

"Henrik, Magnus and Tubrin are the two ambassadors?" Stanislaw Potocki asked his nephew as the dragoons made their beds.

Henrik replied: "Uncle, the two ambassadors of Sweden and Russia have also stayed."

The Duke of Konitzki closed his mouth and blushed-even two foreign ambassadors could tolerate such conditions, what he has to complain about, and what qualifications he has to complain about.