The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Cheerchen and Fatima finished their final farewell and said to the sky, "It's nothing." In the camp of Tsarist Russia, Prince Alexei also said to a person in front of him: "It's nothing."

Prince Simon Pozharsky, the supervising army sent by the Tsar, is now uniting several generals of Tsarist Russia to speak to Prince Alexei, asking the Prince to abandon his plan to take Konotop and turn to The long-term siege of small groups of troops, the large forces continue to march towards Chernigov or Kiev.

"Alexey, my best friend." Prince Simon Pozharsky said: "We have shed too much blood in Konotop. If this is Kiev or Shechi, then I don’t Will come to ask you, because those must be captured. But Konotop, to be honest, most of us have never heard of the name of this city before coming. But right here, the loyalty of nearly ten thousand czars The dog died. And perhaps more people are going to die here, or just like General Vasily."

Prince Alexei was bruised by what Prince Simon Pozharski said. If it was someone else or someone who had said this kind of swaying military spirit, he would have beaten him out, but this person is Simon Pozharsky, who has the honor of a prince, and he is still a tsarist sect. Give your own supervising army the right to deprive yourself of your military power at a critical moment.

The prince knew that he had to convince people with reason, persuade him and let him know the importance of taking Konotup.

It is one thing to think, but another thing to do. With the character of Prince Alexei, how can he be patient and reasonable?

"It's okay," Prince Alexei said as soon as he opened his mouth, he was full of gunpowder. He said in an indifferent tone: "His Majesty the Tsar gave me sixty thousand troops, and in order to take Konotop, I would even throw in another one. Ten thousand lives!"

This plain tone not only shocked Prince Simon Pozharsky, but also the generals behind him.

Although in the eyes of the prince or the generals, the soldiers are like "gray animals" and they don't care how much they die, but Prince Alexei's words clearly included their noble nobles. Among those ten thousand people.

After a few twitches, Prince Simon Pozharsky finally couldn't help but yelled: "Alexei Krubetskoy! You are crazy!"

Prince Alexei’s huge palm slammed the table, shaking the objects on the table torsion and disarray. He didn’t care about any reason to convince people, but said in the same loud tone: "Simon Bo Zarski, I’m not crazy! You only saw us killed and injured 10,000 people, but you didn’t see the people in Konotopuri. Could Alvar Chechen and the others have fewer casualties?"

Of course, Simon Pozharsky knew that his side had suffered such a heavy loss when its forces and weapons were superior, and Alvar Chechen and the others must have done the same. But at this time, he was already shaken and shaken by the **** battle, and he was already panicked. In his heart, he just wanted to get away from this **** **** early, instead of thinking about the issue of exchange ratio.

The shock of being slapped on the table by Prince Alexei quickly reduced Prince Simon Pozharski’s courage. He did not dare to look directly into Prince Alexei’s eyes, but bowed his head and wriggled. There came a sentence: "Of course I know that the enemy must have lost more than half, but we really don't have to fight hard. Wouldn't it be better to surround this place and starve them to death?"

Even when Simon Pozharsky had said such words, Prince Alexei could only lament that this old friend had been scared and lacked basic military knowledge.

Fort Konotop is a nail that traverses the way forward. If this nail is not pulled out, how can he move forward with peace of mind?

Although the Russian army had a large number of cavalry in this battle, it was mainly infantry, and soldiers marched on foot. Once Konotop is bypassed, it will inevitably extend the marching line, and the long-distance journey has a great impact on the physical strength of the soldiers. What is even more frightening is that long-distance transfers will greatly consume logistical materials. The combat effectiveness of a unit is often tied to the logistics support and the physical strength of the soldiers. Besides, to enclose a fortress with thousands of people airtight, how many people need to be left here? If the enemy cannot be prevented from attacking, then the defending side will occupy a favorable position. For their encircling troops and food transport teams, they can either sneak attack or follow along. Big kill. Therefore, the only strategy to deal with this kind of strong city is: if you don't want to fight, choose another offensive direction before the war starts. Once the battle is over, it will either end up desperately or fall back the same way.

This is the reason why Prince Alexei would win Konotop even if he sacrificed 10,000 people.

One more thing, Prince Alexei took into account the hearts of the Cossacks.

Now that he has the two cards of Yuri Khmelnitsky and Ivan Hilko in his hand, there are only a handful of Cossacks who surrendered to him.

Obviously, most of the Cossack leaders are watching and carefully weighing which side is stronger between himself and Vygowski. In this sense, failing to win Konotop Castle is a failure of its own, a failure of Tsarist Russia; and the victory of Konotop Castle is a victory of Wigowski, a victory of the Republic of Poland. Those who are still on the sidelines and the fencers will rush to Vygowski, making it more difficult for Tsarist Russia to occupy Ukraine~www.wuxiaspot.com~Prince Alexei is wise, he almost judged Everything is right. But he would not think about it. It was the Russian soldiers' atrocities in Ukraine that made it difficult for Tsarist Russia to occupy Konotop and Ukraine, which made these brothers of the same faith turn to the death against them.

Prince Simon Pozharski did not think so much. After he was suppressed by Alexei for a while, he finally remembered his authority to supervise the army. He said in a categorical tone: "If you refuse, then I can only use the power given to me by the Tsar to force you to order."

Using the power of the tsar is something that no one wants to see.

"Simon," Prince Alexei realized that he had spoken too much. He was waiting to explain the necessity of taking down Fort Konot when his French engineer Raphael rushed in.

Immediately, Raphael felt the tension in the big tent, and he was about to quit, but the prince stopped him.

"Raphael, are you here to report something important to me?" Prince Alexei asked.

Raphael bowed slightly, and he said, "Yes, Your Royal Highness. I'm here to report to you that the tunnel will be excavated no later than tomorrow."

Nothing else could make Prince Alexei happy. He ignored the quarrel with Prince Simon Pozharski just now and his nastyness, and took the Prince's shoulders and pulled him out of the big tent.

"Simon, believe me, trust me again." Prince Alexei pointed to Fort Konotop in the distance and said: "The day after tomorrow, I will let you stand on Fort Konotop the day after tomorrow."

Looking at the confident Prince Alexei, Prince Simon Pozharsky hesitated and nodded.

"But only this time."