Although Prince Alexei boasted that he would win konotop the day after tomorrow, he underestimated the impact of konotop\'s repeated attacks on the morale of the Russian army.

On June 3, when the prince ordered the army to launch a general attack on konotop again, the Russian soldiers at the bottom finally broke out the most fierce resistance in history.

Although these Czar\'s "gray animals" are different from ordinary people in endurance and endurance, and work hard most of the time, their endurance is not without a bottom line, because they are also human. So when konotopu Castle swallowed countless lives like a huge beast with a big mouth open, and the giant beast was still standing despite its scars, they were afraid. They would rather meet the saber and whip of noble officers with their chest than fight with the giant beast again.

In this anti war riot, three noble officers were killed on the spot and more than ten people were injured. Moreover, dozens of Ivan hilko\'s Cossacks secretly fled into konotopu fort. According to their words, they went to their Cossack brothers and lived and died with them.

Although Prince Alexei succeeded in calming the riot of the bottom soldiers by relying on the Boye cavalry and the announcement of a temporary truce, he was forced to abandon the attack on konotopu fort.

After spending countless money and abundant wine and food to feed the soldiers and boost their morale, the Russian army was finally able to resume its attack on konotopu fort. But this is five days later.

The night of June 8 was unusually clear, with a bright moon in the sky. Although the delay lasted for a long time, Prince Alexei was gratified that the tunnel excavated by Raphael from the triangle fort to konotopu Fort had never been found and damaged by the garrison.

Thousands of pounds of explosives were buried at the end of the tunnel, under the city gate, and detonated only at 2:00 midnight when the defenders of konotopu fort were sleeping.

On the side, Prince Simon pozalski reminded Alexei: "prince, this is the last chance. If you can\'t conquer konotopu Fort again, please listen to me and bypass here to Chernigov."

Prince Alexei did not speak. Not that he didn\'t hear it, but that he wanted to answer Simon pozalski with reality and let him see the St. George flag inserted into the tower of konotopu fort with his own eyes.

Prince Alexei nodded to Raphael when the pointer of his pocket watch pointed to two.

"Let\'s go," he said.

The engineers in the tunnel withdrew from the tunnel. Then the lead was ignited.

With a loud noise, konotopu fort was shrouded in fire and smoke, and the fragments of the burning fortifications abandoned high were clearly visible even a few miles away.

Looking at his masterpiece, Raphael commented in a professional tone: "no creature can survive such an explosion, and the north gate will collapse."

The shocking explosion and Raphael\'s confident words, even Prince Simon pozalski, who was afraid of war, could not help but ignite the hope of seizing konotop tonight.

When the smoke cleared, the flag bearer behind the two princes waved the flag with all his strength. With the help of the bright moonlight, dense steel helmets reflecting the moonlight poured into konotop like the Milky way.

Thousands of Russian infantry, including hundreds of the most elite Boye cavalry, rushed together.

At this time, none of them knew that many of them would never see the red wall of the Kremlin, the white poplar in the snow country and Katyusha waiting for their return.

At the moment, Chechen ran along the wall of the north gate like a ghost.

"Don\'t fire anyone. Wait for my orders!" he ordered as he walked past each soldier.

Prince Alexei believed that the garrison of konotopu Fort had long been shocked, dizzy and had lost the ability to resist. But I don\'t know that the information that the Russian army dug the tunnel under the back gate has already been brought to Cherchen by the defected Cossack.

Although the Russian engineers were all Russian, Ivan hilko\'s Cossacks were not involved in the excavation of the tunnel. However, due to the common love of vodka, this information has long been known to some Cossack drinkers.

Therefore, after combining the information brought by other defecting Cossacks, Chechen made a bold decision - that is, regardless of the time bomb under his feet, let the Russians detonate successfully, and then induce the enemy to make a surprise advance, so as to kill the enemy\'s effective strength and promote the collapse of his morale.

When Chechen put forward this plan, almost all the officers opposed it because it was too bold. They believe that the best way is to destroy the enemy\'s tunnels in the old way.

But Chechen finally persuaded everyone. He told the crowd that if the information brought by the Cossacks, that is, the information about the outbreak of riots in the Russian army camp, the tolerance of the Russians had reached the limit and almost reached the verge of collapse.

"We are exhausted and the Russians are exhausted. The key to victory and defeat lies in this last battle. As long as we can defeat the enemy again, even if Prince Alexei\'s will is as firm as steel, he will have to give up and continue to attack konotop under the pressure of the bottom, otherwise the angry soldiers will tear it to pieces." Chechen said.

"But what if there\'s another time?" asked Pedro. "And, Cherchen. Have you considered that Hessen defected, and now he\'s probably a guest of honor for the Russians. Then everything here is no secret to the Russians. They know that there\'s a trench behind the wall and that we\'re at our end."

What Pedro said was also what people were most worried about. Therefore, as soon as Pedro\'s voice fell, people said one after another: "yes, captain. This is the most terrible."

Cherchen did not fail to consider the possible consequences of viscount Hesse\'s defection. However, he was quite sure that Viscount Hesse did not take refuge in the Russians, or that his conscience did not die out and did not tell the Russians about konotopu fort.

"Everybody," said Chechen: "I believe the Russians didn\'t know about the inner trench. But it\'s not out of my trust in Viscount Hesse. There are two things to illustrate this: one is the tunnel dug by the Russians. If the enemy knows that there is another trench behind the north wall, they should dig the tunnel under the other three walls, because it will be more beneficial to their assault Secondly, the grenades fired by the Russians these days, I calculated that the grenades falling near the trench are not redundant. That means they don\'t know the existence of the trench, otherwise they should concentrate their fire to destroy here. "

Although Chechen\'s words are justified, they are still worried.

Seeing this, Che Chen shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, let those who have sworn take responsibility for their vows! I once promised vikovski and Henrik pototsky that I would hold konotop, and I must do it. Now the morale of the Russian people is shaken. We only need to hit them again, we may make them completely give up their plan to win konotop fort, but if they just destroy the tunnel , apart from destroying the tunnel, it won\'t help keep konotop. It may even give them more time to rest and rebuild their morale. Ladies and gentlemen, we have to stick to it for more than 20 days, not one or two days. To be honest, I\'m not sure about sticking to it for so long. "

After listening to Chechen\'s words, although they were in different emotions, they finally chose to believe Chechen\'s judgment.

More than a thousand soldiers with muskets hid behind the pre excavated trenches and formed a large wreath of the city gate gap formed by the explosion. Because of tension, many people\'s forehead exuded fine sweat. The palms holding muskets were also wet.

Before the war, everything was quiet. All I heard was the footsteps of Boye cavalry\'s iron boots, which moved rapidly on the gravel, like repressed thunder.

The closer the Russians are to the gap, the more confident they are, because many people believe that the defenders have lost their combat effectiveness in the explosion.

They ran to the moat and began to throw bundles of wickers, shrubs, branches, bags of cotton and bundles of wheat straw into the moat. In the blink of an eye, the moat was filled up for them.

Konotopu fort is still silent.

However, when nearly 30% of the enemy soldiers had stepped on the bedding thrown into the moat and entered the castle, a clear pistol shot sounded. Almost at the same time, a sharp and harsh voice shouted: "fire!"

Immediately, behind the trenches in the castle and on the intact walls on both sides, a long row of flames suddenly flashed, and there was the roar of artillery and the crackling sound of fireguns.

The shouts of the defenders and the cries of the attackers mixed into a turbulent wave. Just like Goliath, who was brave and invincible but was killed by King David with a pitching rope, the Russian soldiers, just like Goliath, were hit by David with a pitching rope on the head and tossed on the ground.

The defenders fired all their bullets and did not fail to shoot down an enemy soldier. The artillery filled with shotguns was even more powerful. One shell knocked the enemy soldiers to the ground, just like a sickle that would cut down clusters of crops on the ground.

The enemy soldiers who rushed into the city were terrified by the fire from three sides. They began to run in all directions in disorder. The dense people crowded on each other and fell down one after another, forming trembling human hills. Fedot on the wall threw down his fire gun. He personally operated a gun from top to bottom and poured shotguns over the heads of the dense crowd, As they began to flee, showers of lead and iron blocked the only way forward or back.

The whole line of the enemy\'s attack was repulsed, and the Russian infantry and Boye cavalry fled the castle. They roared in horror and fled like crazy people.

At this time, tarred cotton cloth and torches were thrown from the wall. These igniters ignited the wood and cotton in the trench to form a blockade.

The Russian soldiers who had no way to escape had to return.

Che Chen pulled out the saber around his waist. He shouted loudly and took everyone to fight back. Those Russian soldiers who were already dazed and had no intention of fighting knew that there was no way to enter the earth, so they began to fight to the death.

With the Boye cavalry as the core, the Russians formed a small group of three to five, relying on each other back-to-back, with long guns, axes, machetes or war knives in their hands. Panic, terror, self-confidence and death and despair evolved into a single violence in their hearts. The enthusiasm of fighting controlled them. Some enemy soldiers threw themselves at Columbia The sarks wanted to fight one-to-one, but in the blink of an eye, these people died under the pistols of the Cossack sailors. This was a fierce battle between two angry teams. The defenders of konotopu fort were full of anger at the enemy, relying on the psychological advantages of the ambush and the mixed use of cold and hot weapons, making the tragic defeat of the enemy soldiers expanding.

The fire lit up the scene of the Cossacks fighting the Russians: pulling their heads and pulling their beards. In particular, the Cossack sailors with a saber and a pistol rampaged and killed countless, like wild bulls.

At the end of the other wing, Chechen himself also threw himself into the battle. Especially at this time, he fought side by side with Fatima, which made his bravery better than usual.

Like a wolf getting into a sheep and biting it wantonly, Cherchen killed into the small army of Russian soldiers. Chop left and right, completely like a deadly ghost. His reputation has long been heard among the Russians who besieged konotopu fort. They learned from previous battles and from the stories of other Russians and Cossacks that he was skilled and brave; It is a common superstition among Russians that whoever fights with him will die; This failure has made this superstition deeply rooted and become a belief. Therefore, more than one Russian soldier in the small army or Boye nobleman suddenly saw him in front of him, even did not defend himself, but closed his eyes and said "God" in his mouth, and then died under the edge of his sword.

Finally, the resistance of the enemy soldiers became weaker and weaker. They completely lost their will to fight, closed their eyes and waited for death, and finally became prisoners

The defenders of konotopu Fort won, and the Cossacks won. They cheered and sang, panting and bloody, and returned to the city through the huge gap.

Then, the Russians reluctantly fired several shells from the triangle fort, and then there was silence.

Prince Alexei\'s longest planned attack ended again with the failure of the Russian assault.

After the battle, Fatima and Chechen hugged each other and wept. Fatima asked Cherchen, "I don\'t have to leave you, do I?"

Che Chen hugged Fatima\'s head and said, "yes, never."