In the early winter of 1656, the conference held in begzisala, the capital of the Crimean khanate, was clearly a successful and United conference. At this conference, Mohamed gley received pirikop; The nobles no longer have to worry about being purged by Muhammad gley as a suspect in the assassination of Chechen; Next year, "the harvest of grassland people" will be carried out at the same time in the territory of Ukraine and czar Russia. The Tatars will harvest a good harvest, as long as they carefully prepare leather ropes and polish sharp swords in the cold winter; The Polish mission has also received a renewed commitment from Mohamed gley that up to 5000 Tatar cavalry will be sent to Lvov as mercenaries next year, and the first 500 will immediately return to Poland with the mission.
In a word, at this meeting, almost everyone got what they wanted. The only one who suffered was the Czar Russian general Yakov cherkaski, who was claimed by Cherchen to have sent his assassins to kill himself.
Although this lie is full of loopholes (the biggest loophole is that Yakov cherkaski has been under the command of Prince Alexei. On the front line of Pskov, how could he send assassins to assassinate Chechen), this does not prevent the Crimean Khanate From Khan to Mirza from using this as an excuse to wage war against czar Russia.
Everyone who walked out of the palace was filled with a satisfied smile, and even Natalie''s face was finally relieved.
"That''s great, miss. Chechen''s guy is still useful. Crimean Khan will not go back on announcing his alliance with us in front of all the nobles this time. If the old lord knows, he will be happy," said mitzkavic happily.
Natalie heard mitzkevich mention Chechen, and her original steps stopped. She didn''t know that it was Chechen''s credit. In her heart, Natalie thought of forgiving Chechen again.
"Should I wait for Cherchen and thank him? Although the credit he has done now is far from making up for his mistakes, he is repenting after all." Natalie thought in her heart
"Miss?"
Seeing Natalie stop, mitzkevich tentatively asked, "are you waiting for Chechen?"
Seeing that her thoughts were said by mitzkevich, Natalie was preparing to instinctively refute, but after listening to her, Chechen called her name: "Natalie."
Natalie turned her head. They looked at each other, but none of them spoke.
Mitzkevich stood awkwardly in the middle. After a while, he took a step back.
"Natalie, I want to talk to you."
For a while, Chechen said to Natalie.
With that, Chechen walked in the direction of the tearful spring in the begzisalai palace.
Natalie looked at Chechen''s back. She hesitated and followed him. She asked mitzkevich to go back to the mission and tell the good news that the Crimean khanate, still lying in the hospital bed, had decided to send troops.
Chechen leaned on the edge of the spring of tears. At this time, the winter sunshine ejected from the tear spring, and made a beautiful rainbow on the spring water. Every drop of water was as crystal as a gem.
"Natalie." Chechen shouted Natalie''s name.
"Chechen, thank you. I know you must have paid a great price for Muhammad gley''s agreement to form an alliance." Natalie thanked Chechen five or six steps away. From a certain point of view, they seem to be standing at both ends of the rainbow. Although they are close, they are also far away.
The formula like thanks made Chechen anxious. Regardless of anything, he walked up to Natalie in a few steps, and then grabbed her hand regardless of Natalie''s struggle.
"Natalie, I love you. I''ve never changed this love! Please believe me. I''m willing to pay more for you." Chechen said affectionately.
Listening to the sincere love words, Natalie felt that she had tears coming out of her eyes soon. She kept shouting in her heart, "I know, of course I know. I love you too, my love."
But in action, Natalie broke away from Cherchen''s hand again. She turned and left Cherchen a trembling figure.
The girl didn''t dare to wipe her eyes with her hands, because she was afraid that Che Chen knew she was weak and cried.
Natalie''s move made Chechen more worried. He shouted, "Natalie, honey, what do you want me to do before you turn around?"
"Give me Christina," Natalie said.
"What?"
"Christina, the former queen of Sweden, you give her to me. I''ll take her to the king," Natalie said.
Yes, this is Natalie''s chance for Cherchen. As long as Cherchen is willing to hand over Christina and bring her back to Poland, Natalie can be treated as if nothing has happened. She can forgive Chechen, and even appreciate him all her life because of Chechen''s pay.
But after Natalie made this request, Cherchen''s answer was: "why?!"
"Because, aleval Chechen, you can only choose one between me and Christina."
Chechen can''t give Christina to King kazimiz and can''t say anything.
"I''m sorry, but I can''t do anything except this." Chechen lowered his head and said.
Natalie''s tears burst out like a levee.
"Well, we can''t," Natalie thought sadly.
Natalie didn''t say this, and she didn''t look back, but left with a big step. And Chechen, just stupidly, continued to stand under the spring of tears until it was dark.
Early the next morning, Cherchen rushed to the Embassy of the Republic of Poland. The mission of the Republic of Poland will leave bergzisarai and return to Lvov tomorrow. When Cherchen arrives, the whole mission is preparing for the return journey.
This time, Duke goshenovsky and Natalie sent envoys to the Republic to bring back the coveted reinforcements, and the Crimean Khanate was more able to send troops to czar Russia, which finally reduced the pressure on the eastern front of the Republic.
This result was also extremely satisfactory to the Duke of goshenovsky. He was finally able to go back and make an appointment with king kazimiz. Therefore, when mitzkevich told the old Duke the news, the old man who had been terminally ill miraculously recovered.
Cherchen wants to see Natalie again, but at the gate, Cherchen shuts the door.
"You go quickly, miss. She doesn''t want to see you." mitzkevich said to Chechen.
He was angry when he saw Cherchen now. Because Natalie never mentioned why she cried so sad when she came back, mitzkevich guessed by herself. He thought it must be Cherchen that made Miss sad again.
And mitzkevich is more open-minded to speculate whether Miss Chechen has found the flower heart. This is not groundless, because after Cherchen arrived in Crimea, there were many women around him (such as Oksana).
"Mitzkevich, my friend. Please inform me again. I just want to say a word with Natalie, just one." seeing Natalie doesn''t want to see herself, Chechen whispered and begged mitzkevich to inform herself again.
"Who''s your friend? You''re like a woman. If our lady says she doesn''t want to see you, she doesn''t want to see you." mitzkevich shouted. His voice was so loud that even the servants packing packages in the courtyard looked up and sideways.
"All right, mitzkevich. I''ll go now. Please give this letter to Natalie."
With that, Chechen took out a letter from his pocket. Instead of giving mitzkevich the chance to refuse, he shoved it into mitzkevich''s hand.
Then, Chechen turned and left.
Mitzkevich brought the letter to Natalie, but Natalie tore it to pieces without looking at it.
What she wants is not a letter, not an explanation; But people, the prodigal son of Chechen.
Chechen and Natalie never met again until the Polish mission''s ship left the wharf of bergzisala.
On the day Natalie left, Cherchen, who had always been abstemious, got drunk. When Chechen woke up, he didn''t even remember how he got back to his residence. Vaguely, Chechen felt a warm body hugging himself, hugging tightly and tightly.
Soon after Natalie left, Christina also left. Chechen cheer up and go to the dock to see her off. In order to protect Christina along the way, Cherchen asked Fatima to escort her all the way until she came back to Rome.
After leaving the Polish mission, Cherchen''s malaise was seen by Christina. But Chechen didn''t say, and Christina didn''t ask. This brother is no longer a child. He has to rely on himself for many things. Others can''t help him.
Christina said to Cherchen, "life is still going on. It won''t stop because we are sad, regretful and desperate. In that case, what''s the use of sadness, regret and despair? Therefore, no matter what happens, we must treat it with a smile and think that everything will pass soon and a new day will come soon.
Life is still going on. Now everything is only temporary. You must believe in yourself. Don''t be sad for a little thing, don''t regret for something that has passed, and don''t despair for anything. Because life won''t change because of you. Only you can change your life. However, if you always spend in sadness, regret and despair, how can you change it Change your life? In this way, you will always live in the past life and shadow, not in the present. "
Throughout the winter of 1656, the Crimean peninsula was preparing for the war. Cattle and sheep were slaughtered again. The meat was made into meat floss and dried meat for marching operations, and the fur was directly sewn into clothes.
Mohamed gley and Pasha and Bei of the Khanate broke down the harvest goals of the grassland people one by one - from the vast areas of Bryansk, Kursk and cherkesk in czar Russia, from Poltava, Chernigov and Kiev in Ukraine, each Bei and Pasha were assigned plunder targets.
The mission of the Polish mission was completed, but Cherchen''s did not. Mohamed gley asked Cherchen to serve at least until the end of this year''s "harvest of grassland people", and in exchange, he would send two thousand more Tatar cavalry to support the Republic of Poland.
Chechen agreed, and the task assigned to Chechen was to destroy cherkesk fortress.
Cherkesk is located on the right bank of the upper reaches of the Kuban River, opposite the Azov fort of the Crimean Khanate across the Kuban river. The existence of this fortress separated the land connection between Yasu fort and the khanate, making it a lonely stronghold of the Khanate.
The current commander of cherkesk fortress is leader naum Vasiliev. He is not an aristocrat of Czar Russia, but a Cossack of the Don river.
The emergence of the Don River Cossacks can actually be regarded as an extension of zaporoze Cossacks, that is, the refugees who fled from Ukraine, Moscow and even Crimea continued to move eastward and finally settled in the Don river. However, unlike the zaporoze Cossacks, who suffered considerable interference from the Republic of Poland, the Don Cossacks were actually a group of free people sandwiched in a three no matter area for a long time.
Unlike the zaporoze Cossacks who were incompatible with the Republic of Poland, the Don Cossacks maintained good relations with czar Russia under the bond of common orthodox faith. Many of them served as mercenaries for Moscow and made great contributions to the eastward expansion and neutrality of Czar Russia. For example, yelmark, who was later incorporated by Moscow and led troops to attack and destroy the Siberian khanate, was a Cossack crossing the Volga and don rivers in his early years. In the campaign of eliminating Kazan Khanate and Astrakhan khanate, Don Cossacks appeared.
Like the Cossacks of zaporoze, the Don Cossacks in the early years were mainly infantry. But because of the great turmoil (the term "great turmoil era" is the general term used by Russian historians to describe the history of Russia during the eight years from the pseudo Dimitri I to Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov, the Shah throne. Because during this period, Russia has been subjected to unprecedented disasters and threats. Natural and man-made disasters, political struggle, conspiracy and war are the main melody of this period. The Russian nation Once entered the most dangerous moment, in history, Russia can only be compared with the difficult times during World War II) At that time, the Don Cossack leader tried to support the young son of pseudo Dimitri II to become czar. After Mikhail Tsar succeeded to the throne, he was subjected to military retaliation from Moscow. Many Don Cossacks were exiled and expelled to the depths of the grassland. Due to long-term contact with the surrounding nomads, Don Cossacks learned to breed horses and became Cossacks on horseback, while cherl Kesk fortress was built during this period.
In this wooden fortress, leader naum Vasiliev had 1200 don Cossack cavalry and about 100 Czarist Russian new arms gunmen.
In order to capture the fortress, Mohamed gley gave Cherchen ten guns stored in the begzisalai palace, and assigned karazimi to lead a Crimean Tatar cavalry of 500 people to assist Cherchen.
After discussing with the officers of the mercenary regiment, Chechen decided that he would lead yelishei and fedot and the returning Fatima to lead the Hessian infantry, the free slave corps and the karazimir allocated by Muhammad gley to cherkesk, while the others remained in Muhammad gley''s kalanchak fortress for the time being.