The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

If it were in the past, such a modest defeat would not have much impact on the morale of the army.

But this is in Konotop, in a pro-Russian region. The defeat of the Yeliseis made the local Cossacks and militias in the bastion inevitably shaken again, and even the Cossacks of Bratslav, led by Lian Chechen, were also affected. Because all the Cossacks are a family, they are sitting together and talking, it is easy to spread pessimism, disappointment and dissatisfaction to other people.

On the square in Konotup Castle, a young Cossack musician sat cross-legged. He pulled up the lyre and sang softly with a lark-like voice: "You stop, turn around, and take a look. Look, think carefully, you already have too much, and you still can’t fill your extravagant desires. If others have nothing, you will be just like him. The merciful God rules everything, knows everything and is omnipotent. He will put everything in the world on the balance. He will It’s fair to divide misfortunes and blessings among everyone. Since you have wisdom and can fly high in the sky, you should use your cleverness to think farther... You stop, turn around, take a look, think carefully, you This man was born to like to fight so much, using bows and arrows, gunpowder, swords, and guns. How many knights and cavalry died in front of you. Whoever fought with swords would die under the sword! Stop and turn. Turn around, take a look, think carefully, quickly drive that arrogance out of your heart, turn around, and take a look, Potok is your hometown, but you have come to the remote place of Slavuta. Innocent. You grab your ears and deprive him of freedom. You have no king, no parliament, and dominate the king. Hey, you are sober and sober, don’t go crazy, because you are the commander in command, the scepter is in your hand, you Forget about it, do whatever you want, you have turned the whole Poland upside down."

This song "Lord of Potok" was originally used to satirize the Polish nobles, but at this time Cossacks sang it, and it was clear who it meant.

Beside him, the faces of the sitting Cossacks in the light of the campfire make people know at a glance-their faces are indifferent and indifferent.

Even Bratzlaff's Cossacks are no exception.

It was as if the Cossack musician was not ironizing their chief, but a stranger.

At the end of the song, the Cossack musician played the last long note on the strings. There was a lingering sound, he was about to play another song, but at this moment, the lyre in the hands of the Cossack musician was suddenly taken away.

The Cossack musicians and the audience were caught off guard. When they raised their heads, they saw an officer in mirror armor holding a lyre glaring at them.

Yelishei, Yelishei.

He learned from his population that the main idea of ​​the song was that Yelishei was angry at this person's slander Chechen, so he grabbed the lyre and threw it to the ground and smashed it to pieces. He grabbed the Cossack musician by the collar again, and glared at him, yelling, "Do you dare to slander the leader!"

The Cossack was completely scared by Yelishei's sudden appearance. He quibbleed himself: "I...I don't."

"No!" Yeliche gritted his teeth, and knocked the man to the ground with a punch.

At this time, Yelishei's actions aroused public anger.

This young Cossack was very fond of other Cossacks in Konotop, and he was a personal favorite. The Cossacks of Konotop were angry with their enemies. They helped up the downed Cossack musicians, and then clashed with the German two-handed swordsmen behind Yelishei.

Cheerchen was in the room, and Piedro was drinking with him to relieve his boredom. At this moment, Cheerchen walked out when he heard the quarrel coming from outside.

"Xie Miao, what happened?" Chechen asked.

As soon as the words were spoken, Cheer Chen remembered that Xie Miao had been sent to **** Fatima.

"Captain, Yelishei, he is fighting with Konotop's Cossacks," said Viscount Hessian, who temporarily replaced Xie Miao.

"This Yelishei, why is he so uncomfortable!"

Chechen stomped angrily. He was wearing a single shirt, and he didn't care about wearing clothes at this time. He picked up the saber and went to the square with Pidro.

On the square, Company Commander Khvadki and Company Commander Dimochev have controlled the situation.

Company Commander Hevadki originally drank in his room with two company commanders from Bratislava.

At that time, although none of the three of them spoke, they were just drinking, but anyone could feel it, and the atmosphere in the room was dull. Regarding Chechen's defeat, although Jamid Popovich and Dimochev did not say anything, they slowly lost their confidence in holding Konotop.

If you can't handle even 10,000 people, how can you deal with 60,000 people?

This is how the Cossacks are. When you are strong and victorious in all battles, countless people will follow you; and when you are defeated and show signs of decline, they will leave you again, and even knock you down and hand you over to the enemy. In exchange for their own survival.

Of course, although the two Cossack company commanders from Bratzlaff are increasingly losing their confidence, they are not yet ready to sell their friends for glory.

When Yelishei and the Cossack luthier clashed in the square, Jamie Popovich, who drank the most, had already crossed his hands on his abdomen, half of his face was on the table, and he fell asleep and snored.

Company Commander Hvadki ordered his subordinates to live, and Yelishei was also taken by Fedotra.

"Yelisey, the head of the team is here." Fedot, who held Yelishey's arms tightly, said when Cheerchen had finally passed by.

Cheerchen walked to Yelishei's front.

Under the fire, Cheechen saw Yelishei's mouth break and his cheeks were bruised.

Seeing that his subordinates were injured, Cheerchen was also distressed. But he resisted and asked, "What happened?"

Ye Lixie wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth and said: "Head, these people sing songs to slander you."

"Your Excellency, the team leader, my brothers are just in a bad mood because of the defeat."

At the same time, he opened his arms to protect his man behind him. The meaning is obvious, if Cheerchen wants to punish them, he must step on him.

Dimochev looked at Hevadki and Chechen, in a dilemma.

Hwadji is undoubtedly a good officer who loves his subordinates.

If it weren't during the war or Konotop, Cheerchen would undoubtedly love Hervadki. But now, there are more than 10,000 enemies gathered outside the city, and there are more than 50,000 Tsarist Russian troops coming soon. There are only 4,000 people in Konotop. There are no united and united people. Faith is undoubtedly impossible.

Hewadji's soft-heartedness and weakness undoubtedly contributed to the local Cossack's cowardice and fear of war. If this atmosphere is not curbed in time, it will spread to Bratzláv Cossacks like a plague.

No, it has started to spread.

"Commander Hevadki, I once said: If anyone doesn't want to stay or if they are interested in Russia, they can leave, but only for those three days. But now there are people shaking the military spirit. I have to use military methods. "

At this time, Cheerchen had already decided to kill a hundred.

The Cossack was different from the mercenary group he had brought. Cossacks are unrestrained and adoring powerful people; to restrain them and convince them, it is not enough to have gentle blessings, but also to rely on whips and sabers.

Hearing Chechen's tone so determined, Hwadji understood that the Bratzlaff team leader was murderous. He argued: "Your Excellency, the team leader, they are my subordinates. Even if they make a mistake, I have to punish them!"

"I am now the highest officer of Konotop." Cheerchen didn't mean to compromise at all.

At this time, the Cossack musician, Hwadji's subordinate, saw Cheerchen with a firm tone, expecting that he would never end up in his hands. He said loudly: "You heresy. I don't know how Bratzlaff's Cossack brothers chose you as team leader, but I'm not convinced by you. Our Cossacks and Russian brothers have the same beliefs and share the same Blood, why should we kill each other! We should kill Lech together!"

These words are no longer as simple as shaking the military's mind.

Chechen's right hand was clenched into a fist. As long as he raised his hand with a wave, Yelishei and the mercenaries behind him would swarm up and take down the bold Cossack musician.

He can only do this, and he must do it.

Because Chechen saw the Cossacks around him, many people, not only the Cossacks of Konotop, but even the Cossacks of Bratzlaff showed their sorrows.

Just as Cheechen raised a right hand and was about to order the forcible take down of the Cossack musician, the guard on the wall suddenly shouted: "Team leader, company commander, come and see!"

The shout was so anxious and uneasy that Chechen and Hwadki both thought it was the Russians who had launched the night attack. The two of them didn't care about the swords they had just fought with each other, and they hurried up the city wall with their men.

When they came to the city wall, Cheechen and Hwadji realized that things were not what they thought.

Vasily Sheremetev did not send troops to make a surprise attack.

Of course, he did not wait for the arrival of Prince Alexei under the city. His army was setting fire to looting everywhere in accordance with the "fine traditions" of the Tsarist Russian army.

Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks regarded the Russians as brothers, but the Russian soldiers did not have the consciousness of treating brothers.

Those Ukrainian peasants who returned to their homes to welcome the Russian brothers were knocked to the ground by Russian soldiers who broke in. Their wives and daughters were humiliated, their grains were wiped out, and their livestock were taken away. Finally, Even the thatched huts on which they lived were burned.

Although the Cossacks in Konotop Fort could not see the three things that happened before, the dark night that reflected the horizon into the light of daylight undoubtedly told them that these things must be happening.

Hervadki's heart was bleeding. At this time, the warrior's heart of the weak old company commander was gradually recovering.

"I want to work with these beasts." The old company commander said to himself in his heart.

At this time, Captain Hevadki finally shook his spirits, and the old tigers reappeared on him-roaring like a awakened sleeping lion, running like a fierce wolf on the grassland. Company Captain Hevadki held the token in his hand. With his white hair scattered, he punched his chest with his fist, and with a thunderous voice, he let out a cry in his heart: "I want to **** these beasts!"

"Fuck them!" The Cossacks on the side raised their sabers and responded in unison.

Cheerchen glanced at the old company commander with cracked teeth.

At this time he even thanked Vasily Sheremetev a little, the Russian general finally did a "good thing" to unite the Cossacks on his side.

"Guard, you go and bring up the troubled Cossack musician just now, and bring him up to see how his so-called brothers treat your own people." Cheer Chen ordered so.

The Cossack musician was brought up, and with him there were more than a dozen Cossacks who participated in the fight.

"You can see it, sir." Cheechen turned around and pointed at the flames outside, and said to the Cossack musician, "Go and talk about love with such enemies, they won't even let them go!"

The Cossack musician and his companions were stunned by the fire.

"My home is there and it's burning." Someone said.

"My Monica, Monica." Someone shouted ~www.readwn.com~ The Cossack musician panted, and he said, "Bastard, beast! What a beast! I'm so blind! I'm so blind! Treat the devil as a brother!"

After cursing, the Cossack musician suddenly calmed down.

He turned his head to look at Cheer Chen.

"Your Excellency, the team leader, did you just want to execute me?"

"Yes, because you violated discipline." Cheerchen said.

The Cossack musician nodded.

A smile appeared on his face.

"Then I accept the punishment. But before that, can I speak to you alone?"

This is a very strange request.

Yelishei was worried that this Cossack musician wanted to take the opportunity to hold Chechen, so he showed a vigilant look.

And Cheerchen originally thought that the Cossack musician wanted to plead for himself, but from his eyes, Cheerchen didn't see the desire for life, only indifferent and peaceful.

Finally, Cheerchen said, "Come with me."

Then he and the Cossack musician walked into a dark wall.

After a while, the two came out.

"Put him in custody and execute him tomorrow." Chechen ordered Yelishei.

Company Captain Hevadki thought Cheerchen would forgive the child, because he had realized the mistake, and the mistake was not irreversible. But Cheerchen didn't, which made the old company commander sigh involuntarily.

Dimochev patted the old company commander on the shoulder, trying to comfort him.

Yelishei cuffed the hands of the Cossack musician. When he escorted him past the companions standing by, the young Cossack musician smiled and said: "I ask the leader of the team to forgive you, don't learn from me, I was wrong. The leader of the team is with us. Brother, the Russians are not. They are wolves in sheep's clothing and our enemies."