The day after the ceremony, Bao Hong and Vasili zolotalenko accompanied the prince\'s messenger to the camp of Czar Russia.

Prince Alexei\'s camp is located in rudnia, which has been swept clean by czar Russian soldiers. The villagers of rudnia were either driven to Smolensk or strangled and hung on a tree in front of the village.

When the three came to the village of rudnia, what they saw was the corpse hung upside down on the branches with frozen popsicles, and what came into their ears was the cry of women from the camp.

The messenger looked at them with embarrassment. The young messenger was a nobleman in Moscow. His ancestors had been Boye for generations. Like all traditional nobles, they pay great attention to honor. At present, they show such an ugly side in front of zaporoze Cossacks who are regarded as barbarians by czar Russian nobles, including themselves. They really want to find a hole in the ground.

"Gentlemen, please wait a moment. I\'ll go to see the prince first." the messenger accused him of the crime and beat his horse into the camp without their consent.

Bao Hong and Vasili zolotalian sent messengers. From time to time, they could see him waving his whip to the left and right, followed by a scream and a cry of pain.

Bao Hong and Vasili zolotalenko did not start chatting until the messenger disappeared in their eyes.

"No wonder poles call these people \'gray animals\', which is no different from wild animals," said Vasili zolotalenko.

"So Smolensk must not fall into the hands of the Czar," Bao Hong said.

"You have fought with the army of Czar Russia before. How about their combat effectiveness?"

Among the Cossacks in zaporoze, Bao Hong is a rare person with cavalry combat experience, and his cavalry experience is mostly accumulated in the battle with czar Russia and Crimean Khanate. So Vasili zolotalenko would ask.

"What do you say?" Bao Hong thought briefly before saying: "The army of Czar Russia is composed of two different classes: one is these gray animals in your eyes. They use the worst weapons and eat the worst food, but they can break out amazing combat effectiveness when defending their land. They are often fearless until they fight to the last person; the other is the aristocratic class like the messenger just now People are often the second and third sons of the family. They do not have the inheritance right of the family, so they are often aggressive in order to fight for money and land. "

"That\'s an expert in civil war and an outsider in foreign war?" Vasili zolotalenko summarized Bao Hong\'s words. Such a brief summary is not true, but it is not far away.

Bao Hong was about to speak when a horn rang from the camp. Then, teams of infantry and cavalry rushed out.

At the front is a group of infantry in red Kaftan uniforms. In czarist Russia, they are called the shooting army. They hold a firerope gun in their hands, and the long bullet belt is hung obliquely from their left shoulder to their right waist. Behind each soldier is also carrying a long handled axe, which can be used not only as a support for the firerope gun in wartime, but also as a melee weapon to chop down close enemies.

Behind the shooting army was a team of cavalry. These cavalry were lined up in two rows with ten people in each row. They also wore red clothes, but their weapons were more sophisticated than those of infantry - western style breastplates outside their uniforms and steel helmets. Their weapons were a saber and pistol, and the war horses sitting down were carefully cultivated and raised Good horse.

Finally, there are the elite of the Czar\'s Russian army, the Boye cavalry composed of nobles. These Boye cavalry wear pointed helmets or dome helmets, and wear family owned mirror armor. This armor is based on the lock armor, with disc-shaped goggles on the chest and back, which is better than the traditional armor.

These three teams of infantry can be regarded as a typical example of the elite of the Czar\'s Russian army. Prince Alexei sent them out, obviously with the intention of demonstrating.

But neither Bao Hong nor Vasili zolotalenko was easy. They rode their horses and entered the gate. They did not look at these troops and went straight to the innermost big tent. Their arrogant behavior made every soldier in the formation gnash their teeth.

The big tent was built in the middle of the village. It was originally a house in ludnia village, but now it can\'t see its original appearance except for a few ruins.

The former owner was also skinned by the current owner. Those savage soldiers tortured the village head and rent collectors in order to interrogate the food stored in the village, even after these poor people confessed.

Prince Alexei stood in front of the tent and watched the two Cossack leaders riding towards him. The prince had the appearance of a traditional rose noble: his eyes were deep, his eyes were sunken, and his wrinkles were cut like the most exquisite Mason\'s knife and axe; the prince\'s thick beard made people unable to see his joys and sorrows, and his huge hooked nose made him look powerful Yan Zisheng.

"This is the grace of God, the czars and dictators of Russia, Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir and Novgorod; the czars of Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia; the kings of Smolensk, Ryazan, Rostov, Yaroslavl, belojor, udolia, obedoria, kondia, Vitebsk, mszislav and the whole northern region His Royal Highness Prince Alexei, uncle of the Lord of Nizhny Novgorod. "

The messenger who accompanied Bao Hong and Vasili zolotalenko was standing at the bottom left of Prince Alexei. When the two Cossack leaders got off their horses, they loudly introduced the prince.

To be fair, except that the last paragraph belongs to the prince, this long list of titles is the exclusive title of Mikhailovich Romanov Czar, but the prince forced the messenger to add it in front of him in order to appear more powerful in front of the two Cossack leaders.

But Bao Hong and Vasili zolotalenko not only did not fear this long list of titles, but provoked stabbing.

"I think, your highness, Smolensk is still the territory of the Republic of Poland," said Vasili zolotalenko.

"Perhaps our incomparably powerful prince can open the gate of Smolensk by a messenger. After all, the Czar is the monarch of Smolensk." Bao Hong also ran.

Seeing that the two Cossacks offended themselves so much, the arrogant Prince snorted with a squint. Then Prince Alexei turned back and opened the door of the tent without any indication.

The messenger looked embarrassed again, but since the prince didn\'t say anything else, it means that the prince doesn\'t want to make a rigid relationship. So the messenger raised the curtain of the tent and invited the two leaders in.