The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

This meeting, held in the capital of the Crimean Khanate Beghtsale in the early winter of 1656, was clearly a successful and united meeting. At this meeting, Muhammad Glyy got Pirikop; the nobles no longer have to worry about being purged by Muhammad Glyy as suspects in the assassination of Chechen; next year, "the steppe nation's The “harvest” will unfold in the borders of Ukraine and Tsarist Russia at the same time as never before. The Tatars will harvest a good harvest, as long as they prepare leather ropes and sharpen swords in the cold winter; Ley once again promised that as many as five thousand Tatar cavalry will be sent to Lviv in the form of mercenaries next year, and the first five hundred will immediately return to Poland with the mission.

All in all, in this meeting, almost everyone got what they wanted. The only person who suffered was the Tsarist General Yakov Cherkasky who was claimed by Chechen to send his assassin to assassinate him.

Although this lie is full of loopholes (the biggest loophole is that Yakov Cherkaski has been on the front line of Pskov under Prince Alexei, how could he send an assassin to assassinate Chechen not far away), but this It does not prevent the Crimean Khanate from Khan to Mirza, using this as an excuse for war against Tsarist Russia.

Everyone who walked out of the Bergzisalay Palace was filled with a satisfied smile, and even Natalie's face finally had an expression of relief.

"Miss, it's really great. Cheerchen is still useful. The Crimean Khan announced his alliance with us in front of all the nobles this time. I will not regret it anyway. If the old duke knew I will definitely be happy too." Mickiewicz said happily.

Natalie stopped when she heard Mickiewicz mention Chechen. She didn't know that this was Cheerchen's credit. Deep down in her heart, Natalie started to forgive Cheerchen again.

"Should I wait for Chechen and thank him. Although the credit he has done now is far from compensating for his mistakes, he is repenting after all." Natalie thought in her heart.

"Miss?"

Seeing Natalie stop, Mickiewicz asked tentatively: "Are you waiting for Chechen?"

Seeing her thoughts were spoken by Mickiewicz, Natalie was about to refute instinctively, but behind her, Cheer Chen called her name: "Natalie."

Natalie turned her head, the two looked at each other, but neither of them spoke.

Mickiewicz stood awkwardly in the middle, and after a while he took a step back.

"Natalie, I want to talk to you."

After a while, Cheer Chen said to Natalie.

After speaking, Cheerchen walked towards the direction of the fountain of tears of Bergzisalay Palace.

Natalie looked at Chechen’s back, she hesitated and followed, and told Mickiewicz to return to the mission and tell the old duke of Crimean Khanate who was still lying in the hospital bed the good news that she had decided to send troops. .

Chechen leaned on the edge of the fountain of tears. At this moment, the winter sun spurted out the spring water and created a beautiful rainbow in the spring of tears, and every drop of water was crystal clear like a gem.

"Natalie." Cheerchen called Natalie's name.

"Cheerchen, thank you. I know that this time Muhammad Glyy agreed to form an alliance, you must have paid a great price." Natalie said to Cheerchen from a place five or six steps away from Cheerchen. Thanks. From a certain angle, the two seem to be standing at the opposite ends of the rainbow. Although they are close at hand, they are also far away.

That formula-like gratitude made Cheorhen anxious for a while. He didn't care about anything, he walked up to Natalie a few steps, and then ignoring Natalie's struggle, grabbed her hand.

"Natalie, I love you. This love has never changed! Please believe me. For you, I am willing to give no matter how much I give." Cheer Chen said affectionately.

Listening to this sincere love story, Natalie felt that tears were about to come out of her eyes. She kept yelling in her heart: "I know, of course I know. I love you too, my love."

But in action, Natalie broke away from Cheerchen's hand forcefully again, she turned around, leaving Cheerchen with a trembling back.

The girl did not dare to wipe her eyes with her hands, because she was afraid that Cheor Chen would know that she was crying weakly.

This move of Natalie made Cheerchen even more anxious. He shouted, "Natalie, dear. What do you want me to do before you turn around?"

"Give Christina to me." Natalie said.

"what?"

"Christina, the former queen of Sweden, give her to me. I want to take her to see the king." Natalie said.

Yes, this is a chance Natalie gives Cheerchen. As long as Chechenken surrenders Christina and she takes it back to Poland, then Natalie can be treated as if nothing happened. She could forgive Cheerchen, and even thank him for her life for Cheerchen's dedication.

But after Natalie made this request, Cheerchen's answer was: "Why?!"

"Because Alvar Chechen, between me and Christina, you can only choose one."

Cheerchen cannot give Christina to King Kazimierz, saying nothing.

"Sorry, I can't except for this." Cheerchen lowered his head and said.

Natalie's tears burst out like a bank.

"Then we are impossible." Natalie thought sadly.

Natalie didn't say this, and she didn't look back, but left in strides. And Chechen just kept standing under the fountain of tears in a daze until it got dark.

Early the next morning, Cheer Chen rushed to the residence of the delegation of the Republic of Poland. The delegation of the Republic of Poland will leave Bergzisale and return to Lviv tomorrow. When Chechen arrives, the entire delegation is preparing for the return journey.

This time Duke Goshenowski and Natalie's mission to the Republic brought back the coveted reinforcements, and the Crimean Khanate was able to send troops to Tsarist Russia, which finally reduced the pressure on the eastern front of the Republic.

This result was also extremely satisfactory to Duke Goshenowski, who was finally able to go back to the king of Kazimierz. So when Mickiewicz told the old prince the news, the old man who was dyingly ill was miraculously healed.

Cheerchen wanted to see Natalie again, but at the gate, Cheerchen ate behind closed doors.

"You go quickly, Miss, she doesn't want to see you." Mickiewicz said to Chechen abruptly.

He is angry when he sees Cheechen now, because Natalie never mentions why she would cry so sad when she comes back, so Mickiewicz guesses for herself, he thinks it must be Cheechen that made Miss sad again .

And Mickiewicz is even more speculative, wondering whether Miss has discovered Cheerchen's fancy. This is not groundless, because Cheerchen is indeed surrounded by many women (such as Oksana) when he arrives in Crimea.

"Mickiewicz, my friend. Please tell me again, I just want to say a word to Natalie, just one sentence." Seeing that Natalie didn't want to see herself, Cheerchen begged Mitz in a low voice. Kevich told himself again.

"Who is your friend! You are like a woman? Our lady said that she didn't want to see you because she didn't want to see you." Mickiewicz said loudly. His voice was so loud that even the servants who packed their parcels in the courtyard looked up.

"All right, Mickiewicz. I'm leaving now, please give this letter to Natalie."

After speaking, Cheer Chen took out a letter from his pocket. He didn't give Mickiewicz the opportunity to refuse, and squeezed it into Mickiewicz's hands.

Then Cheerchen turned and left.

Mickiewicz brought the letter to Natalie, but Natalie tore it to pieces without seeing it.

What she wanted was not a letter or an explanation; it was a person, Cheechen's prodigal son turning back.

Chechen and Natalie never saw each other until the ship of the Polish mission left Bergzisalay's dock.

On the day Natalie left, Cheerchen, who had always been restrained, got drunk. When Cheerchen wakes up, he can't even remember how he got back to his residence. Vaguely, Cheerchen felt a warm body hugging him, hugging tightly, tightly.

Soon after Natalie left, Christina also left. Cheerchen cheered up and went to the dock to see her off. In order to protect Christina along the way, Cheerchen asked Fatima to **** him all the way and waited for Rome to return.

After leaving the Polish mission, Christina saw Cheerchen's sluggish state. But Cheerchen didn't say anything, Christina didn't ask either. This younger brother is no longer a child. He has to rely on himself for many things, and no one else can help.

Christina gave Cheerchen a parting message: "Life is still going on. It won't stop just because we are sad, regretful, and desperate. In that case, what is the use of being sad, regretful, and desperate?? So No matter what happens, be sure to treat it with a smile, thinking that everything will pass quickly, and a new day will come soon.

Life is still going on, everything now is only temporary, you must believe in yourself, don't be sad for a little thing, don't regret something that has passed, and don't despair for any one thing. Because life will not change because of you, only you can change your life, but if you are always sad, regretful, and desperate, how can you change your life? In this way, you will always live in the past life and shadows, instead of living in the present. "

Throughout the winter of 1656, the Crimean Peninsula was preparing for war. The cattle and sheep were slaughtered again, the meat was made into floss and jerky for the march, and the fur was directly sewn into clothes.

Muhammad Glyy and the Pasha and Bayes of the Khanate have broken down the goals of the steppe people’s harvest one by one-from Bryansk in Tsarist Russia to Kursk and then to Cherkessk. From Poltava in Ukraine to Chernigov to Kiev, every Bey and Pasha has been assigned a target for looting.

The mission of the Polish mission was completed, but Chechen did not. Mohamed Glyy asked Chechen to serve him at least until the end of this year's "Crop of the Steppe Peoples". In exchange, he would send an additional 2,000 Tatar cavalry to support the Republic of Poland.

Cheerchen agreed, and the task assigned to Cheerchen was to destroy the Cherkessk Fortress.

Cherkessk is located on the right bank of the upper reaches of the Kuban River, across the Kuban River from the Azov Fort of the Crimean Khanate. The existence of this fortress severed the land connection between Azov Fort and Khanate, making it a lonely overseas stronghold for the Khanate.

The current commander of the Cherkessk Fortress is the leader of Naum Vasilyev. He is not a nobleman of Tsarist Russia, but a Don Cossack.

The emergence of the Don Cossacks can actually be regarded as an extension of the Zaporozhye Cossacks, that is, the refugees who fled from Ukraine, Moscow and even Crimea continued eastward, and finally settled on the Don River. However, unlike the Zaporozhye Cossacks, who have received considerable interference from the Republic of Poland, the Don Cossacks have actually been a group of free people trapped in a trivial area for a long time.

Unlike the Zaporizhia Cossacks, who were incompatible with the Republic of Poland, the Don Cossacks maintained a good relationship with Tsarist Russia under the bond of the common Orthodox faith. Many of them served as mercenaries for Moscow and contributed a lot to the eastward expansion of Tsarist Russia. For example, Yermak, who was later incorporated by Moscow and led his troops to destroy the Siberian Khanate, was the Cossacks that ran across the Volga and Don rivers in its early years. In the battle to wipe out the Kazan Khanate and Astrakhan Khanate ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the Don Cossacks appeared.

The early Don Cossacks, like the Zaporozhye Cossacks, were mainly infantry. But because in the era of great turmoil (the term of great turmoil is the term used by Russian historians to refer to the pseudo-Dimitri I to Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov, namely the throne of the Tsar, the general name of the history that took place in Russia in the middle eight years. .Because during this period of time, Russia has been subjected to unprecedented disasters and threats. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, political struggles, conspiracies and wars are the main theme of this period. The Russian nation once entered the most dangerous moment. In history, Russia was only able to do so during World War II. (Compared with the difficult times) The Don Cossacks at the time tried to support the youngest son of the pseudo-Dimitri II to become the Tsar. After Mikhail succeeded to the throne, he suffered military retaliation from Moscow. Many Don Cossacks were Exiled and deported to the depths of the grassland. Due to long-term contact with the surrounding nomads, the Don Cossacks learned to breed horses and became Cossacks on horseback. The Circassian Fortress was also built during this period.

In this wooden fortress, the leader of Naum Vasilyev has 1,200 Don Cossack cavalry and about 100 new Russian musketeers.

In order to conquer this fortress, Mohamed Glyy gave Chechen ten artillery pieces stored in the Bergzisalay Palace, and also assigned Karasimir to lead a 500-man Crimean Tartar. The Tatar Cavalry assists Tetsuchen.

After discussing with the officers of the mercenary regiment, Chechen decided that he would lead Yelisei and Fedot, and the returning Fatima, led the Hessian infantry, the Free Slave Corps, and Muhammad Gley to his Karachi. Mirza went to Cherkessk, while the others stayed at the Kalanchak Fortress that Muhammad Glyy temporarily rewarded himself.