Vasili selemedev\'s letter is full of the arrogance and arrogance of the Russian aristocracy.

He wrote: "Your Majesty the Almighty czar has many soldiers and horses, which can be compared with the leaves in the forest and the sand on the beach. When you don\'t understand what a terrible force it is, you should look up to the stars and see the stars in the sky. Those stars are the projection of the campfire of the Czar\'s army in the sky. I alone have brought twice as many soldiers and horses as you. Behind me, There are countless armies. You know, what his majesty hates is only stubborn people. He is extremely tolerant of those who wake up. And I, Vassily selemedev, will also give mercy to those who kneel down and surrender, so that they will not be killed by knives and axes. But if he resists tenaciously, I guarantee that konotop will leave no chickens and dogs, and there will be nothing left except land and water Down! "

Hearing such threats, commander hwadeki was shocked and inexplicable. His Adam\'s apple wriggled up and down, and he could even hear the sound of swallowing.

Among the officers of the mercenary regiment, some were frightened.

Chechen doesn\'t think so.

Similarly, even more ferocious threats than this, he did not know how many he had seen, and he had long been immune.

He whispered to Pedro.

Pedro listened, his face shining like a chrysanthemum. He straightened up and walked out of the conference room.

Among the officers, viscount Hesse saw Pedro leave, and he followed him quietly.

Seeing that Cherchen had read the letter, the messenger said, "captain of the Alwar regiment, my general is waiting for your reply."

"Don\'t worry, I\'ll give you a reply right away." Chechen said.

Outside the door, viscount Hesse stopped Pedro.

He asked Pedro, "deputy head, what did the head tell you?"

As Pedro had a good relationship with Viscount Hesse on weekdays, he told Viscount Hesse what Cherchen told him without any hesitation.

After listening to Pedro\'s reply, viscount Hessen\'s face turned black.

Pedro did not notice the change in Viscount Hesse\'s face. He said with a smile, "look, my nephew, although he is married and has children, he still does things like an urchin."

Viscount Hesse recovered. He was about to talk to Pedro, but he saw that Pedro had gone four or five steps away.

The Viscount hurried to catch up three steps and two steps, and then stopped in front of Pedro.

"Deputy commander, I don\'t think we should do that," said Viscount Hesse seriously.

Pedro stopped when he saw that Viscount Hesse, a friend of his own, was so serious.

"Why?" asked Pedro.

Viscount Hesse pulled Pedro aside.

He looked around and saw that there was no one around. The Viscount said to Pedro: "deputy head, I don\'t think the head\'s doing this will have any effect except to annoy the messenger and Vassily selemedev."

"That\'s what my nephew thinks," nodded Pedro. "He wants to be angry with Vassily selemedev."

Viscount Hesse said anxiously, "it shouldn\'t be so, deputy head. The head\'s being so emotional will ruin the great event."

At this point, viscount Hessen paused, because he suddenly realized that he said so, especially in front of Pedro.

He hurriedly explained, "I\'m not questioning the leader\'s decision, but that since our task is to hold konotop for two months, we should delay time as much as possible. To delay time, we can not only rely on swordsmen, but also rely on wisdom."

Pedro looked at Viscount Hessen without blinking. After a meeting, it was about time to say the Lord\'s Prayer twice. He understood the Viscount\'s meaning.

"You mean?" asked Pedro.

"I mean, the commander can reveal his willingness to surrender to a false Messenger, and then propose a truce between the two sides for two to three weeks, and tell the other party that during this period, we will send someone to Kiev to ask vikovski to allow us to surrender and wait for his will. What will happen in the future depends on God\'s gift."

Pedro said to himself, "it\'s wonderful. It seems that he promised something, but he didn\'t promise anything. Especially the last sentence" all by God\'s gift "is a stroke of God.

"I\'ll go back and talk to my nephew now," said Pedro, who had already run to the door of the conference room.

Pedro pushed the door of the conference room through a crack.

"Captain, come here. I have something to say to you."

Cherchen was waiting for Pedro to get back what he needed. He saw Pedro empty handed and said something to himself. Although he was unhappy, he stood up and said "sorry" to the messenger, and then went out.

Outside the door, Pedro told Cherchen exactly what Viscount Hessen thought.

He thought that Che Chen would be happy to hear this, but Che Chen just said to him: "Uncle, your idea is terrible. Think about it, the Russians have come to occupy konotop. They have waited for half a year. Now it is possible to give us a truce for two to three weeks because of our word? Even if Vassily selemedev suddenly makes a fool, don\'t forget that Prince Alexei will arrive soon. Will he also make such a fool? Won\'t he Do you know that what he needs most now is time? "

"If he doesn\'t agree to a truce, the situation won\'t be different from what it is now!" Pedro spread his hand disapprovingly.

In this regard, Che Chen had to say: "Whoever prays for a truce is clearly exposing his fear and weakness to the enemy. The enemy will smell our lack of confidence from our words, and the loss will be immeasurable. I asked the messenger to bring that thing back to arouse the anger of Vassily selemedev. Their forward did not carry artillery, and I want him to lose his mind So that his infantry and cavalry attacked the city and hit his head and blood on the wall of konotop. "

Pedro finally understood the true meaning of Chechen\'s doing so.

Pedro stopped talking. He immediately brought the item as Chechen said.

Near the granary in konotopu, Pedro threw a black dog to the ground.

Call two Cossacks and ask them to hold the black dog\'s head and legs respectively. Pedro lights out his knife.

The knife glowed in the sun.

The black dog\'s eyes showed fear and prayer.

"Sorry," Pedro said to the black dog.

Then, with a flash of light, Pedro\'s knife struck the black dog.

A wail rang through the whole konotopu fort.

The messenger in the meeting room also heard the sad dog cry outside, and he instinctively looked back.

After a while, Pedro came back with a dog tail in his hand - it was cut from the black dog in the castle.

Throwing the dog\'s tail in front of the messenger, Chechen sat up and said, "this is my answer."

The messenger\'s face turned blue, and he was obviously greatly insulted.

On the other hand, the Cossack officers such as Jamie Popovich smiled forward and backward. It was obvious that Cherchen\'s rude behavior was very suitable for their taste, while Viscount Hessen\'s face darkened again.

The messenger finally didn\'t take the dog\'s tail, but left without saying a word.

And Cherchen was looking forward to, hoping that his actions would provoke Vassily selemedev and let him attack the city in anger after the messenger brought him back.

But on April 22, Vasili selemedev\'s move not only did not go with Cherchen\'s heart, but exacerbated Cherchen\'s worry.

On this day, Vasili selemedev led a pro guard cavalry around konotopu fort. Among the people accompanying Vasili selemedev were several guys obviously dressed as foreigners - maybe French or Italian. They observed the fortress, moats and earth embankments, constantly pointed and painted.

These are obviously foreign engineers in the Russian army. They are looking for the weakness of konotopu fort.

Aware of the identity of these people and that Vasili selemedev was not angered by himself, Cherchen quickly sent yelisi and jamid Popovich to drive them out.

With the attack of the cavalry, the fire and thunder on the triangle fort and konotop Fort fired the first shot of the defense war.

Although the accuracy of this round of artillery fire was not ideal, all six shells landed near the enemy\'s horse team, which was enough to make the other party disheartened and flustered.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, yelisi and jamid Popovich divided their forces in two ways. They tried to defend and destroy Vasili selemedev with a pincer attack.

If this is done, it is undoubtedly more inspiring than repelling an attack by the enemy under the castle. However, although Vasili selemedev\'s personal guards are few, they are all elite. Seeing yelishei and Jamie Popovich attack, they did not have a trace of cowardice, but launched a counter charge. With excellent armor and better personal fighting skills , they fought back and forth with the dominant Cossack cavalry.

Yelisi zema approached Vasili selemedev, and the two had a fierce confrontation.

Vassily selemedev, dressed in golden scales and pointed helmets, looked like a tuna. When he saw yelisi running towards him, the Russian general raised his saber and chopped at yelisi\'s right arm.

Yelishei quickly raised his steel shield block.

The saber hit the center of the steel shield. At the moment when Vasili selemedev gathered the strength on the saber and passed it to yelisi\'s arm, yelisi fiercely tilted the shield and unloaded the strength on the saber.

Then Yeltsin held up the page hammer in his left hand and hit Vassily selemedev on the head.

When Yeltsin swung the page hammer half way, Vassili sheremmedev\'s big hand grabbed Yeltsin\'s left wrist.

Yelisi felt a deep pain in his hand. He felt that his bones were broken by Vasili sheremmedev.

But yelishei was a warrior after all. Taking the opportunity of the cross of two horses, he endured the pain, grabbed Vasili selemedev\'s throat with one hand, and tried his best to drag him to his side.

People\'s throat is far more fragile than their wrists, and Yeltsin\'s strength is no less powerful than Vasili selemedev. Soon, Vasili selemedev\'s face turned red and his eyes protruded. His hand holding Yeltsin\'s wrist became weaker and weaker.

But at the critical moment when yelisheyi was about to strangle Vasili selemedev, the belly band of his saddle suddenly broke due to excessive force, and the two fell to the ground from their horses at the same time.

Cavalry from both sides rushed up. One side is protecting Vasili selemedev, while the other is defending yelishei.

At this time, the infantry in the Russian camp heard the sound of artillery and finally rushed to support. Seeing that it was impossible to kill Vasili selemedev before the enemy\'s reinforcements arrived, yelishei whistled and signaled jamid Popovich to retreat quickly.

The two cavalry troops immediately formed another group and retreated towards konotopu fort.

Vasili selemedev, who almost died in yelisi\'s hands, of course would not let his attackers escape so easily. His Scepter pointed in the direction of konotopu fort and ordered the Russian cavalry to pursue immediately. But when it was close to the triangle fort, all the guns in the triangle Fort suddenly roared and opened fire,

Under the cover of their own artillery fire, yelishei and jamid Popovich immediately prepared to return to fight. But the pursuing Russians obviously knew that it was unfavorable to fight the Cossacks under the eyes of the triangle fort. They turned their horses and retreated along the pursuit road without hesitation and returned to the base camp.

Such an invincible first battle can neither satisfy Vasili selemedev nor Cherchen.

So Chechen decided again to lower the Russian army\'s spirit and stimulate the morale of the konotop garrison before the main force of Prince Alexei arrived in konotop city.

He came up with a plan to lure the snake out of the hole. According to this plan, yelisi will lead the only team of zaporoze Cossack cavalry in konotop fort to pretend to be reconnaissance soldiers as bait to attract Vasily selemedev\'s army to konotop\'s residential area.

There, Chechen will set up a large number of fences, barrels and other obstacles to block the access, and then ambush a large number of musketeers.

The narrow road will make it impossible for the Russians to exert their quantitative advantage, while the Musketeers can shoot calmly, thus causing a lot of casualties to the enemy.

The plan was a perfect plan, but there were mistakes in its implementation.

After the cavalry led by Yeltsin left the city, the pro Russian farmers of a nearby farm reported their whereabouts to Vasili sheremmedev. As a result, yelisi was expelled by the elite Boye cavalry sent by Vasili selemedev when he arrived at the Russian camp.

Although zaporoze\'s Cossack cavalry is the top and best equipped cavalry in the Cossack chieftain, compared with the Boye cavalry of Czar Russia, the gap is not a bit, not to mention the number is not dominant this time. As soon as the two cavalry fought, the zaporoze Cossack cavalry was killed. A man turned his horse and pretended to be defeated. Even yelishei was almost injured.

After leaving nearly half of the men, yelishei and them fled back to konotopu in a panic.

Chechen\'s plan to lead the snake out of the cave was also broken.

In a day or two, the main force of 50000 Russian troops will arrive in konotop.