In the car array, the thick black smoke was like the blood of the big fat fish in the sea, and those bloodthirsty sharks soon surrounded them.

Two Cossacks, riding on horseback, stopped at a distance of more than a hundred paces.

The people in the car formation were busy acting. A few men were carrying felled timber, and some were peeling birch bark there, as if they were about to hurry to make a few small boats.

Some people are around the campfire, as if they are going to roast the rhubarb and tea leaves that have fallen into the water. The rest of the men held arquebuses and looked warily at the Cossacks outside.

With a whistle, those who were busy "building ships" and "baking goods" all jumped into the simple defensive similar car formation.

A dozen people raised arquebuses at the same time and aimed them at two Cossacks riding in the distance.

A Cossack waved at the men in the car and shouted: "Are you merchants?" Do you know Russian? Are you Chinese or North Korean? ”

The Cossacks, who shouted with great courage, slowly approached the chariot with the reins, and found that it was not so much a chariot formation as a defensive ring surrounded by wood, and the chariots had no wheels, and many of them looked like scraps of simple boats.

The interpreter next to him signaled to answer, and the interpreter stood up and shouted, "Get out, Cossacks." We have a lot of people. ”

As he spoke, he shook the arquebus in his hand, and gestured at the Cossack on horseback as if he were demonstrative, signaling him to get out.

The Cossack took two steps back in amusement, laughed and shouted: "Don't be afraid, we are good people." If you want, I can bring some people over and help you get the goods there. What do you all have with you? ”

The interpreter did not seem to believe him, and pretended to mumble a few words to the arrogant Bustu, and then he said: "Thank you, Cossack." We don't need help anymore. Our ship was built quickly, in fact a lot has already been built, and we are about to leave. Our gunpowder was in barrels, but it wasn't wet. We didn't carry tea and rhubarb, just some groceries that you wouldn't need. ”

As they spoke, several people quietly put the rhubarb and tea leaves that were placed outside to dry backwards. The rest kept a vigilant eye on the Cossacks outside.

Apparently, the Cossacks had an outwardly "good-hearted" reputation.

The Cossacks on horseback drew a cross at the crowd and shouted: "Okay." Good luck. ”

With that, the horse and the companion who had come with him galloped wildly into the distance.

As soon as the person left, the interpreter asked, "Master Shu, can this work?" What if he's really a good guy? ”

With the words taught by Liu Yu, Jiao Lao Butu said with a smile: "Don't worry, good Cossacks are honestly farming in Ukraine." ”

Lord Liu said. If we have hundreds of people guarding us, they will be good people. Let's just order people, they must be bad people. ”

"Everyone!"

"Check the arquebus, gunpowder. Prepare to reject horses and wooden deer. Cheer me up for a while, we are not alone, Lord Liu is waiting on the side with someone, don't be afraid. When the time comes, we will be the first to conquer the Rakshasa Castle in the future, and we will directly share half of the goods and money. ”

These people had long known that Liu Yu was leading people to ambush outside, and the arrogant Lao Butu had money to boost their morale, and they immediately thundered with joy.

The horses and wooden deer who had been prepared for a long time were all brought out to resist the battle, and the various sentries began to check the muskets of the team. Two bonfires have also been raised in case the fire ropes are extinguished.

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Inside the Russian fortress, the atmosphere of mourning still remains. In the cemetery outside the castle, the cornflowers left behind by the grave have not yet been completely dried.

In the moat, there were still garlands made by unmarried girls, and the candles used for prayer on them had been burned.

Next to the Orthodox church, decorated with birch branches and bracken, several old ladies are praying there. In front of the houses, bracken and birch branches are hung upside down, which looks like wormwood from the Dragon Boat Festival.

Outside the castle, the rye had already pulled out its ears, and most of the Cossacks were mowing the grass in the pastures assigned to them with deathly scythes, preparing to store up winter fodder.

The faint bitterness of hops and the scent of cut grass wafted around the fortress.

The Cossacks who worked looked no different from the peasants to the south. But when two Cossacks on horseback ran to the pasture and loudly announced their discovery, these industrious peasants instantly turned into wild bandits.

The women laughed and asked how many goods there were and how many rubles they could get. The child chased after him and asked if there was any candy in the goods.

The man threw away the scythe in his hand, jumped on the horse on the ground, and galloped in the direction of the castle. They are going to fetch their sabers and muskets.

In the castle, Hannibal looked at the Cossacks who were in a hurry and couldn't help but curse.

These barbarians, when they were asked to dig trenches and build cities, they were very reluctant and even disobeyed orders. This kind of thing doesn't need any orders, and everyone is excited.

Hannibal could not control these Cossacks, and unlike the gray cattle soldiers who recruited serfs, many of the Cossacks were serfs who fled to the steppe, choosing autonomy and refusing any constraints.

Many Cossacks were "recruited after the rebellion", and many of the Cossacks on the banks of the Heilongjiang River were simply fugitives, but Peter pardoned them for their crimes.

Nominally, Hannibal had the rank of brigadier general and was the supreme commander here.

But in fact, these Cossacks had their own commissars, chieftains, and they would not have listened to all of Hannibal's words. Hannibal's only 100 troops were the 100 men, some of whom maintained trade order, and the other part of which were the archers who had been liquidated to the frontier for participating in the coup d'état.

Hannibal found a captain who was quite prestigious among the Cossacks, pointed to the unfinished section of the wall, and said: "The other day, I asked the Cossacks to repair the wall, and the Cossacks said that it was the season to mow the grass, and they said that when the horseshoe violet orchid bloomed, it would be too late to cut the grass and the horses would not eat. Now you are not mowing the grass, why do you not have time to build the wall, but you have time to do such things? ”

The Cossack captain bit his mustache, grinned, drew his saber and shouted: "The Cossack harvest is not ploughed and ploughed without a sickle, but ploughed and cut by sabers and horses' hooves." ”

"We're not going to dig holes and build walls like prairie dogs. The Cossack horseback is the best wall. We're not Hohor who built a city! ”

After saying that, he ignored Hannibal again, kicked the horse's belly and ran away.

Hannibal was helpless, he couldn't manage it, and the Cossacks didn't have the slightest respect for him.

I don't know how many times, he heard the Cossacks talking in the back.

It is also said that Emperor Peter also liked such things, so he let a black man be a brigadier general, and the reason why he married a Polish military chicken as an empress was to hide people's eyes......

In high society in Petersburg, he was Peter's godson, a nascent aristocrat; In the high-end salons of France, he was the black eagle in the mouth of the Enlightenment scholars.

Hannibal looked at the Cossacks outside the city who had begun to assemble in whole formations and shook his head.

I thought to myself, I don't know when the fortification work of the castle here will be completed?

I shouldn't be here for long, though.

The other day he had received a secret letter from Petersburg, in which he told Hannibal that Menshikov, who was now in power, was fabricating that he himself was a descendant of the Rurik family, implying that he also had the right to claim the tsar...... The old nobles were dissatisfied with the "regent" of the Peter Gang and were secretly contacting the Praetorian Guard. Tell Hannibal not to be discouraged, and soon things will turn around.

Seeing that the Janissaries were about to coup again, Hannibal felt that this Russia really looked like the Third Rome.

Hannibal, who had been thinking of continuing to do some business after being exiled, was completely deflated after receiving this letter.

Originally, he had grown up in the court, and he didn't like these barbaric frontier atmospheres at all. Together with these Cossack vulgar messages, he was unhappy every day here.

Except for drinking and robbing, the people here do not understand the spirit of the law, the contract, and the rights that the upper class talks about; I don't drink coffee either; Not to mention perfume; Cutlery is also not expensive Chinese porcelain; There is no hair cover on the head, but dirty braid crawling with lice; Nor is the opening elegant courtly French; There is no dance party for evening entertainment...... It's just an uncivilized bunch of savages.

Seeing that the Cossacks who were out of step with him had been completed in a whole group, Hannibal just shook his head.

Close the window, sit back in your chair, and continue reading Locke's A Theory of Human Understanding.

Before that, he really wanted to renovate the fortress, and he was exiled, and he was still worried about his country far away from the rivers and lakes. But now, building a fortress is just a hobby to kill time in exile.

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"It's coming! Here it comes! The Rakshasas are coming! ”

Far away, you can hear the rumbling hooves of horses.

Jiao Lao Butu stood on the tree and looked at it for a while, and roughly calculated, there were really a lot of people coming.

The Cossacks did not stupidly immediately charge, some dismounted and began to form a group on the orders of several officers.

Others were still on horseback, albeit ready to charge.

The Cossacks formed a standard horizontal formation, and they did not need to worry about the flanks, but only needed to maximize their firepower.

In their opinion, their "reputation" was well prepared, and the men of these caravans were well prepared to guard against them.

The horses were irritated by the horses and the wooden deer outside the cart formation, throwing some wood in front of them, and some traces of digging horseshoe pits.

The cavalry could not charge immediately, and some Cossacks needed to dismount and fight on foot, open the rejection of horses in front, and create confusion in hand-to-hand combat.

As veterans of the tactics of chariot formations in the steppe, the Cossacks naturally also had a way to deal with such improvised fortifications.

Two small cannons were mounted on the sides of the ranks, the Cossacks unloaded several wagons, and the rest cut trees beside them.

Soon, several wagons were loaded with some wood, and the Cossacks packed some dirt in cloth bags and piled them on the carts.

A group of six Cossacks, pushing wagons full of dirt bags and wood, slowly moved forward. They were followed by some of the strongest, heavy axes.

The remaining Cossacks began to advance slowly, and they had to advance close enough to shoot at a distance. After the cross-fire, rely on the two wagons full of dirt as cover, so that the good hand fighters can rush to the front of Mulu and the rejection of the horse, and then the cavalry can launch an attack.

A cart full of dirt bags was useless in a general battle with many field artillery. It can only be used to bully an enemy who has no artillery, or who can't use it, or who can only defend and not attack. It's very effective to deal with the caravan of the car formation.

Rumble...... Rumble......

The two small cannons finally sounded, white smoke rose, and the attack officially began. In other words, the Shun-Russian War officially began.