When Kolya, the guard of Udysk City at the top of the city, heard the call from the city, he thought like the soldiers that he had heard wrongly. Where did the Russians come from?
After confirming that the people standing under the city were five Russians with the same skin color and language as him, Kolya frowned and showed doubts in his eyes. After a brief surprise, a musketeer came to the city guard.
At the signal, start talking to the Russian below.【】
"Who are you? Why are you here? Who are the troops in the distance? Why are they surrounding us?"
There were four questions in a row, and Tekoloski didn’t know which one to answer first. He didn’t know the commander on the city’s front, nor did the Russians on the city’s front know him, because Tekoloski had stayed in the Guri River since he came to the East.
He has never dealt with officials from other places, and he has not even paid a visit to the governor of Nerchinsk. It is not that he is unwilling to go, but that the other party does not pay attention to him at all. In the past five years, except for official contacts,
He didn't even know what the governor looked like. The governor was like this, and he had no contact with officials from other strongholds. On the other hand, Kolya, the city guard, also didn't know the original city guard of Guri River City.
Master Korowski.
After thinking about it rapidly, Tekoloski decided to tell the compatriots at the top of the city exactly what had happened. It was up to them to decide whether to fight or surrender, and he could not choose for the other party. Because the four soldiers accompanying him were not his subordinates before.
, so Tekoloski did not dare to reply first. After discussing with the four people, the five people agreed to tell the truth and neither exaggerate nor deliberately conceal the situation of Guanning Army. Everything was decided by the people of Udisk themselves.
The four soldiers answered the city's questions with Tekoros as their representative.
"We are soldiers of the Cossacks of the Kwanning Army. Before that, we were all soldiers stationed in the east by His Majesty the Tsar. The army in the distance is the Kwanning Army. They are the troops of the Qing Dynasty. The reason why they surrounded this place is because they want to
Occupy this place. They sent us here to ask you to surrender. If you don't surrender, Guan Ning's army will attack the city immediately. After breaking the city, according to the rules of Guan Ning's army, they will massacre the city."
Tekoloski said so many words at once, fearing that the other party would not have a complete and comprehensive understanding. He glanced behind him and saw Captain Grifsky and a group of generals from the Guanning Army standing here.
Feeling guilty, he continued to shout: "Guri River, Yask and other places have been occupied by Guan Ning's army. Our officers and soldiers have either died in battle or been captured. Now, the owner of this land is no longer the great
Your Majesty the Tsar, these are the Qing people. Your Excellency, Commander of the City, the Guan Ning Army in front of you has a strength of 10,000 people. Although they do not have muskets and cannons, I can still tell you with certainty,
They are not a group of evil wolves, their hands are stained with the blood of hundreds of people. They will never be merciful to those who resist, but they will not kill those who surrender... Now, it is up to you to decide whether to fight or surrender.
As a soldier of the empire and the commander of Udisk, you have the right to decide everything, including the lives of your Excellency and all the defenders."
Tekoloski didn't actually know how many people there were in the Guanning Army that attacked Wudisk. He just came up with such a number of troops based on a rough impression. After saying all this, Tekoloski breathed a sigh of relief.
Standing there waiting for the city's reply. He didn't know what kind of reply he wanted to hear. Fighting or guarding were both painful for him. As a guard officer of the Eastern stronghold personally appointed by His Majesty the Tsar, he watched the imperial stronghold with his own eyes.
How frustrating and shameful it is to have everything lost but you can't do anything about it, or even act as an accomplice!
Emperor, it’s better to end all this as soon as possible and let me take my loyal Aleer back to Kiev. Thinking of the Cossack officer’s promise that as long as they serve for three years, the Guan Ning Army will release the Russian soldiers and let them return to their hometown, it’s so terrible
Loski felt a little warm in his heart. The sky in his hometown is so blue, the water in his hometown is so sweet, and his wife and daughter in his hometown are so missed...
Time passed by, and streaks of smoke rose from the rear of Guan Ning's army. From time to time, large trees in the forest were cut down and then quickly dismembered. Under the command of the officer, simple ladders were quickly built.
Zhao Qiang didn't seem to care whether Wudisike's defenders fought or surrendered. He stood comfortably on a large rock and admired the primitive beauty of the mountains in the distance. Liu De and He Manchuan, on the other hand, were nervous and asked the translator to ask questions from time to time.
Grifsky, did the Rakshasa people in the city respond? The two of them thought that surrendering the enemy's troops without a fight would be the best thing, but if the other party insisted on fighting, they wouldn't mind letting Udisk
Become a lesson for Tugursk.
On the city wall of Udysk, Kolya and several of his subordinates were also arguing. From the mouths of the sentry soldiers, they confirmed what the Russians below the city said, that is, they were surrounded by an army of more than 10,000 people. Three
The huge disparity in strength between the 150 defenders and the 10,000 invaders frightened every musketeer and officer on the city wall. The faces of the forced conscripts turned pale, and they were so timid that they lay on the ground.
It seemed as if the opponent's attack had already begun. In the past, those Russian musketeers would have scolded and beaten these cowards, but today, they had no energy to teach these cowards, and the city wall seemed to be shrouded in shadow.
The content of the dispute was not two, fight or surrender. There were two officers who agreed to surrender. One of them was Nicheka, the commander of the Cossack cavalry in the city. He had led his troops to fight with the cavalry of the Guanning Army and knew that these clearing troops were very dangerous.
They were very powerful. They were completely different from those Qing people he had seen before. They had the courage to fight. Of course, the biggest reason that made him choose to agree to surrender was that he went to Grifsky in the distance.
Fsky is no stranger to him, but this former follower seems to have become a high official now. He is doing well in the Qing army, Nicheka thought to himself. But there are three officers who insist on resisting, and more importantly,
, the supreme commander of Udysk, the city guard Kolya, was also one of the officers who chose to resist.
"If every stronghold chooses to surrender because it is afraid of the opponent's huge force, then we will lose the East forever!"
Kolya was not ignorant of the consequences of choosing to resist, but he had to do so. Although he was not a regular military service member, but a criminal who was exiled to the East for committing fraud, he was born with a strong interest in His Majesty the Tsar.
He had a sincere heart for the great Russia, and he would rather die in battle in Udisk than hand over the empire's stronghold in the east to the Qing people.
"The weapons of the Qing people are very backward, but we!" Kolya pointed at the musketeer's musket and shouted proudly: "With advanced weapons, I believe that as long as we face these invaders bravely, we will definitely win.
Victory! Soldiers, please believe that we will be able to defend Udisk! Please believe that our reinforcements will arrive soon. The Qing army is just a ragtag group. Their bows, arrows and spears are definitely no match for muskets.
!”
"Ula!"
The other two officers who chose to resist shouted loudly, and some musketeers who were unwilling to surrender also shouted. Seeing this, Nicheka and the officer who wanted to surrender had no choice but to no longer object. The situation was stronger than the others, and their
The second vote did not have an advantage in the vote. However, the two of them had their own thoughts. Nicheka was preparing for the wind before making the final decision. He did not believe in any reinforcements, so he glanced at Kohli, who was aroused by his own emotions.
Ya, Nicheka sneered: Don’t you know that we have lost contact with the outside world for a long time? Now that Udisk is surrounded, only ghosts will come to rescue! I hope these Qing people are really a bunch of rabble as you said
, if not, then don’t blame me.
But the officer was thinking, if the city guard says we want to fight, then we will fight, but if we can't hold Wudisk or can't hold it until the reinforcements arrive, then I have to fight for my own life.
I've thought about it, Kolya, I don't want to die in the East with you.
"People below the city, listen, our city guard has asked you to tell the Qing generals that Udisk will always be Russian territory, and no shameful invader can ever get it!"
"call!"
Hearing Cheng's reply, Tekoloski took a deep breath, glanced at him with a complicated expression, shook his head slightly, and silently took the four soldiers back to recover.