The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

In the early morning of May 24, on the second day when Prince Alexei ordered Ivan Shirko to persuade him to surrender, Ivan Shirko took a small group of entourages holding the white flag and tremblingly from the defense of the triangle fort. Poke his head behind the fortifications.

He fired a shot in the air and ordered his entourage to keep shaking the white flag, indicating that he was here to negotiate.

The answer to this renegade Cossack team leader was a shell fired from the Konotop Fort.

The cannonball fired from Ivan Shirko's side, scaring him to hide behind the fortifications.

After a while, an old Cossack with white beard and hair was pushed out. He held the white flag and walked along the passage to Fort Konotup, and then stopped at the suspension bridge connection.

Perhaps it was his old age that made the guarding Cossack feel compassionate. No one shot at him and the suspension bridge was lowered.

Yelisei greeted him and blindfolded him. This old brother Sack was brought to Cheerchen's front. Cheerchen met the old Cossack in the dungeon of the castle. There are airtight walls on all sides, which can ensure that the reality in Konotop Fort is not seen by it to the greatest extent.

The old Cossack handed a letter to Cheerchen. The above is Prince Alexei's renewed terms of surrender.

To be precise, this is no longer a condition of surrender. Because, Prince Alexei stated in the letter that the defenders of Konotop Fort can safely leave Konotop Fort with all personnel, property and artillery, and go wherever they want to go.

It is impossible for Chechen to surrender, nor to give up Fort Konotup. Even Prince Alexei's credibility has always been there. After reading the letter, he wanted to sternly refuse, but one thought made him hesitate—that is, whether he should use Prince Alexei's opportunity to make peace to pretend to negotiate, delay the time by delaying the troops, and buy time for the defenders to strengthen the castle.

But after weighing the pros and cons, Cheer Chen gave up this idea. At this time, the reason why the defenders in Konotop Fort were gritting their teeth and insisting was that Vasily Sheremetev’s atrocities made them believe that surrender would not end well. Only by persisting. There is a way to survive. At this time, any hint of negotiation will seriously affect the determination to resist.

Compared with confidence, the time gained through conspiracy is insignificant.

When the old Cossack saw Cheerchen stay silent for a while, he mistakenly thought that Cheerchen was heartbroken. The old brother Sack persuaded in a hoarse voice: "Child, surrender. How can you be the opponent of the Russians? This opportunity is so rare and the conditions are so good, and the leader of the Shirke team has repeatedly Said that he will use his honor as a guarantee to ensure your safety."

Cheorchen twisted the letter into a ball of paper.

He said word by word: "Go back and tell Prince Alexei that Alvar Chechen and the defenders of Konotop will never surrender."

After that, Cheerchen ordered Yelishei to cover the old Cossack's eyes again and take him out of Fort Konotup.

When the old Cossack returned to the triangle fort, Cheerchen used a cannonball to express his attitude.

The Russian army fired back artillery fire.

The next day there was a dramatic event that greatly encouraged the morale of the defenders-Vasily Sheremetev was severely injured by his own artillery.

The result of this battle was the stone cannon of Tsarist Russia.

Why it hit the triangle fort is unknown, but the most likely scenario is that the gunner operating the stone cannon did not adjust the pitch angle. Perhaps he raised the angle of the cannon too high, or he raised the muzzle too low. All in all, the shells did not cross the triangular fort and hit the walls of Konotup Fort, but instead hit the triangular fort. Fragments of stone bullets flew across the triangle fort, and one fragment hit Vasily Sheremetev's waist. Although the mirror armor worn by Vasily Sheremedev played a protective role, he was seriously injured, and the fragments penetrated deeply into his back waist and fell to the ground. Vasily Sheremedev immediately fell into a coma. His tongue sticks out of his mouth, and blood is constantly pouring out from the wound.

Although the defenders of the Triangular Fort immediately lifted Vasily Sheremetev from the Triangular Fort and carried him secretly for treatment, the news quickly leaked out. This made some Russian soldiers and Ivan Shirko's Cossacks believe that this was the retribution of Vasily Sheremetev's cruelty.

There was a panic in the army for a while.

Facing the unstable situation of the army, Prince Alexei decided to use a general offensive to take down the castle in one go.

He first confirmed that Konotop Fort had been surrounded by water, and even a fly could not fly out.

Then, the Russian artillery fire on the triangular fort violently bombarded the chains that pulled the suspension bridge, and the passage between the triangular fort and Konotop was connected again.

After doing all this, on the day of June 1, Konotop Castle was attacked on all sides.

Under the cover of artillery and musketeers, thousands of people leaned the ladder against the city wall at the same time.

The muskets and rolling logs of Fort Konotop’s garrison were no longer able to withstand such a surging sea of ​​people. The walls were lost in succession, and more and more Russian soldiers climbed up the walls.

An unprecedented hand-to-hand battle erupted on the wall. The Russian soldiers tried to plant their flags on any land in Konotop, but their attempts were broken again and again.

On the two towers, the snipers headed by Fedot kept sniping the enemy troops who were climbing the ladder from the flanks, and they focused on the Russian Boyer cavalry wearing conspicuous armor.

A famous Russian Boyer cavalry fell from the ladder. On the city wall, the Cossacks wielded sabers and hawks, and German two-handed swordsmen wielded flaming swords and machetes~www.readwn.com~ They fought in a sea of ​​people and danced in a sea of ​​blood.

The fierce and high-intensity fighting made some people lose their minds. A Cossack whose shoulder was chopped off by a long axe rushed to the artillery, and he turned the muzzle to face the wall in the melee regardless.

With the sound of a cannon, the high-speed cannonball plowed a blood line on the city wall. On the path that the solid shell flies, whether it is a Russian, a Cossack or a German; whether it is a nobleman, a mud-legged or a mercenary, all turned into flesh and blood...

After more than five hours of **** battle, the offensive stalled. The exhausted Russians had to retreat, but Konotop Fort remained motionless.

In the afternoon sun, survivors crawled inside a rubble castle.

Company Commander Hwadki was killed in action.

In order to destroy the suspension bridge, the company commander carried more than a dozen bombs on his back. He jumped out of the city from the highest point of the city gate, and died with the suspension bridge and dozens of enemies on it.

Company Commander Jamed Popovich was seriously injured. The heroic company commander kept throwing bombs at the enemies who were climbing up like ants on the wall. A bomb that ignited the message exploded prematurely, his palm was bloody, and he fell into a coma on the spot.

Others-Yelisei, Xie Miao, Fatima were injured to varying degrees.

Cheorchen was commanding the battle in the center of the playground, and a grenade landed near him from the sky, and Cheorchen was stunned by the shock.

The corpses on the breast wall and on the training ground are all over the floor. It is no longer possible to bury the dead, and even moving the corpse is an impossible task.

The battlements on the city wall were all damaged, but the defenders had no spare energy to repair them.

Under the unbearable scorching sun, flies flew freely, and the pungent smell of stone powder and gunpowder and the stench of dead bodies were permeated everywhere.