The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Stanislaw Potocki sent the armored Cossacks and Polish dragoons who had protected him to rescue Chechen. There were only 10 armored Cossacks left beside him, all of which were hidden by a pair of eyes on the left-wing mountain bag. In the eyes.

Company commander Ivan Mahera, a middle-ranking officer of the Zaporozhye Cossacks. Once, before Bogdan Khmelnitsky rebelled against the Republic, he was a registered Cossack who served under the command of Stefan Potocki, the supreme governor of the Republic in Kiev.

At the beginning of the Khmelnitsky Uprising, Stefan Potocki and another commander, Marcin Kalinowski, led an army of more than 3,000 people in the direction of Seci, trying to suppress the uprising. In the bud. This included 1,500 registered Cossacks, Ivan Mahla was among them, and Chechen and Pedro, the head of the fellow Franco who died in Smolensk, also participated in the battle.

On April 28, 1648, Stefan Potocki, who did not know that the German mercenaries advancing along the Yellow River was destroyed, met the Zaporozhye Cossack and Tatar coalition forces in the Yellow River area. The Tatars took the lead, but were repelled by the Polish Dragoons and Winged Cavalry. The situation develops in favor of the Polish side. But at this moment, Ivan Mahra led his Cossacks to launch a rebellion. After killing the Polish officers, he joined Khmelnitsky's side. Ivan Mahera’s rebellion was like the first domino to fall. The Cossacks who served under Stefan Potocki and Marcin Kalinovsky rebelled. In the end, the only remaining dominoes The Polish army was defeated. Stefan Potocki was wounded and captured, and died of wound infection within a few days.

Unlike Khmelnytsky who is for revenge and Baohong is for women, Commander Ivan Mahla's reason for rebelling is simple, he is for more money and greater power. At the beginning, he did what he wished. Bogdan Khmelnitsky did not treat him badly, and gave him the power to command a thousand-man army and Pavolochi, but Ivan Mahla did not treat him badly. There is no military talent like Bao Hong or Shirko. Soon, he showed his timidity in the battle with Yarime's army-Ivan Mahra's men and horses were wiped out by Yarime's army.

If only this is the case, Ivan Mahera may still have a chance to make a comeback. After all, at that time, the Cossack army that was maimed by Jarime was not one or two. But what Bogdan Khmelnitsky couldn't tolerate was that Ivan Mahla left his men and fled alone. Ivan Mahra, who escaped from the dead, was ordered by Bogdan Khmelnitsky to lock him next to a cannon. Originally, Bogdan Khmelnitsky wanted to lock him to death. Ivan Mahera was pardoned under the intercession of the Cossack leaders.

Although Bogdan Khmelnitsky did not deprive him of Pavoloch, he reduced his position to company commander.

In the following years, Ivan Mahera's position has never been promoted.

Ivan Mahra, who knew that he had no chance in the Cossacks, had considered returning to the Republic of Poland, and he also wrote a letter secretly. But his crime of betraying Stefan Potocki was too great, and no one in the Republic of Poland was willing to accept his surrender. As a result, Ivan Mahra began to desert himself and madly attacked the villages around Zbaraj. He is not only to make money, but also to get the sadistic pleasure from the process of slaughtering the weak.

This time, from the time the mission entered Zbarazh, Ivan Mahra focused on the mission’s carriage. Ivan Mahra judged that a big man like Stanislaw Potocki must be carrying valuables. He became greedy, he wanted to take these possessions as his own.

The frustration of official career has long left Ivan Mahra with nothing but money. He will not care about what kind of uproar will be caused between the Republic of Poland and the Cossack Emirate after the embassy is robbed, and what kind of disaster it will cause to the people of the two countries.

"This is what you owe me," Ivan Mahra had this thought hidden in his mind: "If it weren't for me, how could Khmelnitsky win so easily? But what did I get? There is only one Pavoloch! I am looting the Polish mission now, only to take what I deserve."

As a result, the company commander Ivan Mahra assembled all his staff. He forged Bogdan Khmelnitsky's order to attack the mission and led his men to attack Chechen and Stanislaw Potocki who entered the territory of the Cossack Emirate.

As an old Cossack who has experienced battle, Ivan Mahra early set a strategy of using a small number of troops to pretend to be the main force to attract the attention of the mission in the front~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and then the large troops to outflank the strategy. Unexpectedly, the guards of the mission were so powerful that the frontal feint troops suffered heavy casualties and almost collapsed with just one exchange of fire. At this time, the roundabout troops on both wings were not even in place.

As a last resort, he had to ride back from the left wing and brought back a cannon. Ivan Mahera personally motivated the newly defeated subordinates, and promised that after everything is done, one person will reward twenty talers.

Under the lure of heavy money, these people finally recovered their morale, and the arrival of the artillery gave them the courage to launch a second attack.

With the help of artillery, the attack this time was significantly better than the previous one, and even one shot attracted the cavalry from the enemy's defensive back.

But at this time there was another accident. The Cossacks in ambush on the right saw the enemy's cavalry leaping out, and they rushed out from behind the mountain bag without waiting for their orders, trying to block the cavalry. And the left-wing Cossacks under his command were also ready to attack, clamoring to attack immediately, thanks to the use of a whip to suppress the formation.

The pig-like subordinates irritated Company Captain Ivan Mahra. But Saiweng lost his horse and knew it was a blessing. With the exposure of the right wing and the breakthrough of the front, the Polish mission in front of him actually pushed almost all the troops up (actually to save Chechen).

In this way, Ivan Mahera finally waited for the best chance to strike.

"Brothers Cossacks!" Commander Ivan Mahra mounted his horse. He shouted to the 130 Cossacks under his command: "Fight against the enemy! For Ukraine, for Bogdan Khmelnitsky. !"

The Cossacks had long been unable to restrain themselves. At this moment, they heard the commander's order to attack, they let out a passionate shout, and then jumped out from behind the mountain bag and rushed towards the Polish mission, which had fewer than 30 people left.