If it were in the past, such a small defeat would not have much impact on the morale of the army.
But this is in konotop, a pro Russian region. The defeat of yelisheys inevitably shakes the morale of the local Cossacks and militias in the fort again, and affects the Cossacks of blazlav led by Lian Chechen. Because all Cossacks are one family, they sit together and talk, which is easy to spread pessimism, disappointment and dissatisfaction to others.
On the square in konotop castle, a young Cossack musician sat cross legged. He played the lyre and sang softly in a lark like voice: "Stop, turn around, have a look, and think carefully. You have too much and are not satisfied with your extravagant desires. Others have nothing, and you will be like him. The compassionate God rules everything, knows everything, and he will weigh everything in the world on the balance. He will divide the misfortunes and blessings equally. It is very fair. Since you have wisdom and can soar high in the air, you should go with your wisdom Think deeply... You stop, turn around, have a look, think carefully, you are born to love war, with bows and arrows, gunpowder, swords, and guns. How many knights and cavalry have lost their lives in front of you. Whoever fights with the sword will die under the sword! Stop, turn around, have a look, think carefully, and drive that arrogance out of your heart, turn around Turn around and look, Potok is your hometown, but you come to slavuta, a distant place. You hold your ears and deprive innocent people of their freedom. You have no monarch, no parliament and dominate the king. Hey, you are sober and don''t go crazy, because you are the commander-in-chief. The scepter is in your hand. You forget yourself and do whatever you want. The whole Poland is controlled by you It''s turned upside down. "
This song "Lord of Potok" was originally used to satirize the Polish nobles, but at this time, it was clear who the Cossacks meant.
Beside him, the faces of the Cossacks sitting in the regiment were known at a glance under the light of the campfire - a face of indifference and indifference.
Not even Bratslav''s Cossacks.
It was as if the Cossack musicians satirized not their chief, but a stranger.
At the end of the song, the Cossack musician played the last long note on the string. The aftersound was winding. He was going to play the next song, but at this time, the lira in the Cossack musician''s hand was suddenly taken away.
The Cossack musicians and the audience were caught off guard. When they raised their heads, they saw an officer in mirror armor glaring at them with a lyre in hand.
Yelisi, it''s yelisi.
He learned from his population that the main idea of the song was that yelishei was angry with this man for slandering Chechen, so he grabbed the lyre and fell to the ground and smashed it. He grabbed the Cossack musician''s collar again, glared at him and shouted, "you dare slander the leader!"
The Cossack''s face was bloodless with fear of yelisi''s sudden appearance. He insisted: "I... I didn''t."
"No!" yelisiah clenched his teeth and knocked the man to the ground with one punch.
Now, yelishei''s actions have provoked public anger.
The young Cossack was very popular with other Cossacks in konotop and was a man loved by everyone. Konotop''s Cossacks shared a common hatred. They helped up the fallen Cossack musician and clashed with the German double handed swordsman behind yelisi.
Chechen was in the room, and Pedro was drinking with him to relieve his boredom. At this time, he heard the quarrel outside, and Chechen went out.
"Xie Miao, what happened?" Chechen asked.
As soon as the words were spoken, Chechen remembered that Xie Miao had been sent by him to escort Fatima
"Captain, yelishei, he''s fighting with the Cossacks of konotop," said Viscount Hessen, who temporarily replaced Xie Miao.
"This yelishei, how can he be so angry!"
Chechen stamped angrily. He was wearing a single shirt, but he couldn''t care about his clothes at this time. He picked up his saber and went to the square with Pedro.
In the square, company commander hwadeki and company commander dimosev have controlled the situation.
Company commander hwadeki was also drinking with two company commanders from Bratslav in his room.
At that time, although none of the three spoke, but drank hard, anyone could feel that the atmosphere in the room was dull. Although Jamie Popovich and dimosev didn''t say anything about Cherchen''s defeat, they slowly lost their confidence in sticking to konotop.
If you can''t even deal with 10000 people, how can you deal with 60000 people?
Cossacks are like this. When you are powerful and victorious, countless people will follow you; when you lose the war and show decline, they will leave you, and even drop you and hand you over to the enemy in exchange for their own survival.
Of course, although the two Cossack company commanders from Bratslav are losing more and more confidence, they are not going to sell their friends and seek glory.
When yelisi clashed with the Cossack musician in the square, Jamie Popovich, who drank the most, had already crossed his hands on his abdomen, half his face on the table, fell asleep and snored.
Commander hwadeki ordered his men to live, and yelishei was also occupied by fedora.
"Yelishei, the head is coming." fedot, who hugged yelishei''s arms, said loudly when he saw that Chechen finally came.
Chechen went to yelishei.
In the light of the fire, Chechen saw that the corners of yelishei''s mouth were broken and his cheeks were bruised.
Seeing his subordinates injured, Chechen was also distressed. But he held back and asked, "what happened?"
Ye Lixie wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth. He said, "Captain, these people sing songs to slander you."
"Team leader, my brothers are in a bad mood just because they lost the war. Let''s listen to a little song to relieve the boredom." hwadeki explained to his subordinates.
At the same time, he opened his arms to protect his people behind him. That means obviously, if Chechen wants to punish them, unless he steps on him.
Dimosev looked at hwadeki and Cherchen, in a dilemma.
Hwadeki is undoubtedly a good officer who cares for his subordinates.
If not in wartime, not in konotop, Chechen would undoubtedly like hwadeki. But now, there are more than 10000 enemies gathered outside the city, and there are 50000 czars, and the Russian army is about to arrive. There are only 4000 people in konotop fort. It is impossible to hold here without the belief of unity and unity.
Hwadeki''s tenderness and weakness undoubtedly contributed to the timidity and fear of war of the local Cossacks. If this atmosphere is not contained in time, it will spread to blazlav Cossacks like a plague.
No, it''s already spreading.
"Commander hwadeki, I once said: if anyone doesn''t want to stay or want Russia, they can leave, but only for those three days. But now someone shakes the morale of the army. I have to use military law."
At this time, Chechen has decided to make an example.
The Cossack was different from the mercenary regiment he had brought. The Cossacks were bold and unrestrained and worshipped the strong; To control them and convince them, it is not enough to rely only on tenderness and grace, but also on whips and sabers.
Hearing Chechen''s voice so determined, hewadji understood that the captain of Bratslav regiment was moved to kill. He argued: "team leader, they are my subordinates. Even if they make mistakes, I have to punish them!"
"I''m the supreme officer of konotop now." Cherchen didn''t mean to compromise at all.
At this time, the gosak musician, one of hwadeki''s subordinates, saw that Chechen was determined and expected that he would come to no good end in his hands. He said loudly, "you heresy. I don''t know how Bratslav''s Cossack brothers chose you as regiment leader, but I just don''t believe you. Our Cossacks and Russian brothers have the same faith and blood. Why do we kill each other? We should kill Lech together!"
This is no longer as simple as shaking the morale of the army.
Chechen''s right hand became a fist. As long as he raised his hand and waved it, yelishei and the mercenaries behind him would rush up and take down the brave Cossack musician.
He can only do it, and he must do it.
Because Che Chen saw the Cossacks around him, many people, not only the Cossacks of konotop, but also the Cossacks of blazlav, showed their feelings.
Just as Che Chen raised his right hand and was about to order to forcibly take down the Cossack musician, the guard on the wall suddenly shouted, "regiment captain and company commander, come and have a look!"
The cry was so anxious and uneasy that Chechen and hwadeki thought it was the Russians who launched the night attack. Ignoring the tension between them, they hurried up the wall with their men.
When they came to the wall, Chechen and hwadeki found that things were not what they thought.
Vasily selemedev did not send troops to raid.
Of course, he did not wait for Prince Alexei to arrive in the city. His army was setting fire and looting everywhere in accordance with the "fine tradition" of the Czar''s Russian army.
Ukrainian farmers and Cossacks regarded the Russians as brothers, but the Russian soldiers did not have the consciousness to treat brothers.
Those Ukrainian farmers who returned to their homes to welcome the arrival of Russian brothers were knocked down to the ground by the Russian soldiers who broke in, their wives and daughters were humiliated, their food was scraped away, their livestock were taken away, and finally, even the thatched cottage they lived in was set on fire.
Although the Cossacks in konotop castle could not see the three things that had happened before, they undoubtedly told them that these things must be happening by reflecting the horizon into the fire of the day in the dark night.
Hwadeki''s heart is bleeding. At this time, the weak old company commander''s warrior heart was gradually recovering.
"I want to work with these animals," the old company commander said to himself in his heart.
At this time, commander hwadeki finally perked up, and the old tiger power reappeared in him - roaring like a awakened sleeping lion and running like a fierce wolf on the grassland. Commander hwadeki held the token in his hand. With his white hair scattered, he beat his chest with his fist and shouted in his heart with a thundering voice: "I want to work with these beasts!"
"Work with them!" the Cossacks raised their sabers in unison.
Che Chen looked at the old company commander with his teeth bared and eyes cracked.
At this time, he even thanked Vassily selemedev. The Russian general finally did a "good deed" to unite the Cossacks to his side.
"Guard, go and bring up the Cossack musician who made trouble just now and show him how his so-called compatriots and brothers treat their own people." Chechen ordered.
Cossack musicians were brought up, along with more than a dozen Cossacks who participated in the fight
"See, sir." Chechen turned and pointed to the fire outside and said to the cossacker, "go and talk about love with such enemies. They even don''t let go of their own people!"
The Cossack musician and his companions were stunned by the fire.
"My home is there. It''s burning," someone said.
"My Monica, Monica." someone shouted.
Gasping for breath, the Cossack musician said, "beast, beast! What a beast! I''m so blind! I treat animals and demons as brothers!"
After scolding, the Cossack musician suddenly calmed down.
He turned his head and looked at Chechen.
"Team leader, did you just want to execute me?"
"Yes, because you violated the discipline," Chechen said.
The Cossack musician nodded.
There was a smile on his face.
"Then I''ll be punished. But before that, can I have a word with you alone?"
This is a very strange request.
Yelisheyi was worried that the Cossack musician wanted to take the opportunity to hold Chechen. He showed his vigilant eyes.
But Chechen thought the Cossack musician wanted to plead for himself, but from his eyes, Chechen didn''t see the desire for life, only indifference and calm.
Finally, Chechen said, "come with me."
Then he and the Cossack musician walked into a dark wall.
After a while, they came out.
"Put him in custody and execute him tomorrow." Chechen ordered yelishei.
Commander hwadeki thought that Chechen would forgive the child, because he had realized the mistake, and the mistake was not irreparable. But Chechen didn''t, which made the old company commander sigh.
Dimosev patted the old company commander on the shoulder, trying to comfort him.
Yelishei handcuffed the Cossack musician. When he escorted him past the companions standing aside, the young Cossack musician smiled and said, "I asked the team leader to forgive you. Don''t learn from me. I was wrong. The team leader and we are brothers. The Russians are not. They are wolves in sheep''s clothing and our enemies."