Kiev City, as a large city similar to the capital of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, naturally attaches great importance to the reconstruction of the city defense system, and after Hong Tiancheng took it, he drove a large number of white officials and slaves to carry out protective transformation to adapt to the era of firearms, and naturally it will not be easily blown out of the gap that cannot be plugged.

This made the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force and the main Polish forces have to use the most primitive siege method - ant siege and artillery cover bombardment.

Perhaps, with the progress of the times, the countries of Europe will develop large siege artillery that can destroy the star fortress with a few cannons, but in the 17th century, the artillery that could pose a direct lethal threat to the star fortress fortress system has not yet been invented.

At least, there is no such terrifying cannon in this part of Eastern Europe.

Of course, even if it is an ordinary siege artillery, bombarding him for ten days and half a month, it can still achieve some achievements on the city wall, but, not to mention why the defenders occupy the geographical advantage why they will watch themselves be shelled, just the supply of siege shells from the siege side can drag down the entire expeditionary corps!

What's more, the defenders of the gap in the city wall can take advantage of the darkness to carry out a certain degree of emergency repair, if the siege artillery can't blast a gap in a day, it is too extravagant to simply want to use artillery to blast open the star-shaped fortress.

With the productivity of the 17th century, human life is in a way worth less than a shell!

"Your Excellency Andrei, I think we need to recruit more Cossack warriors to siege the city, the militia we have recruited from the mainland will only be slaughtered in close combat against the Turkish soldiers who defend the city, and only those Cossack warriors who are born as bandits licking blood can exchange for a good battle loss ratio in the competition.

It may not be a big problem for the militia to die too much, but the city has been broken for a long time, and it will be dangerous to you and me. ”

General Menderov, who was full of beard, put down his binoculars expressionlessly and said to Andrei, who was watching the battle beside him.

"You want to fight those Cossack bandits in the lower Dnieper?"

Now that the Ukrainian Cossack rebels and the Zaporozhye Cossacks who can fight are almost all hired by the Russian army to fight, the other scattered Cossack tribes obviously will not attract the attention of General Menderov, who commands tens of thousands of people, and he wants to continue to recruit Cossack fighters, and now only the Cossack bandit army in the Dnieper valley has recently been brought out.

"Your Excellency Andrei is really wise, the Cossack tribe has no fixed place, and a Cossack tribe can't provide many Cossack warriors, and the nearest large Cossack group that is useful to us is the one in the lower Dnieper, and it just so happens that almost all the Cossack tribes in the lower Dnieper have been called Sari. The conquest of the Cossack leader of Assman also made it easier for us to find trouble with the Cossack tribes everywhere, as long as we sent someone to communicate directly with the Surrey chieftain.

Power, wealth, women, and even the statehood that the Cossacks craved the most, we can all agree for the time being, and this is the area in which His Excellency Andrey is good at, and I will not take the axe, what do you think? ”

Andrei's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked rhetorically: "Did the Duma parliament in Moscow agree?" ”

"Of course, I don't have the audacity to mention this to you privately." General Menderov shrugged his shoulders and replied.

With the authorization of the Duma Council, Andrei naturally obtained the status of a plenipotentiary recruiter, and the tsar would not refuse this proposal.

"I've sent someone to investigate Sarri, who has risen to prominence in the last year or two. Assman, he is a murderous and rebellious person, only talking about rules and righteousness to the Cossacks themselves, and has been preaching the idea of independence within the Cossack tribes, many Cossack tribes are running to establish the gimmick of the Cossack United Emirate to join him, such a person, the empire is probably difficult to control, and his strength is much stronger than the outdated Ukrainian Cossack rebels, do not see the actual benefits, Sarry. Assman is not going to help. ”

"The practical benefits? Could he have refused even the temptation of Cossack statehood? ”

"Do you think if we tell him that we can build a state, he will believe it?" Andrei glared at Menderov with some annoyance.

"Surrey. Assman's level should be well aware of the position of our Great Russian Empire in Eastern Europe, not to mention the fact that his territory borders on the territory of the Russian Empire, and without the permission of our Russian Empire, he thinks he can establish a state? ”

Menderov replied proudly.

"It's a pity that our Russian Empire is mired in a war with the Taipings, and I sent someone to test Surrey. Assman, guess what? ”

Andrei paused, and without waiting for Menderov to speak, he sighed: "The people I sent were delivered to the nearest gate of the Russian town center the next day!" ”

Menderov frowned slightly, and said in a probing voice: "Your Excellency Andrei, what do you mean?" ”

"I'm interested in buying Maurizio Sarri. Assman has no opinion at all, but I have already tried this kind of thing once, and failed completely, so I don't think I'm up to the job, of course, if General Menderov wants to appease him, I will fully cooperate, after all, the army's logistics and materials are in the hands of the Duma Council. ”

Andrei replied meaningfully.

For the unmastered Sarri. Naturally, Assman was reluctant to take a big gamble at a loss and wanted to appease Sarri. Assman, he must pay enough weapons and equipment and other materials, this money is not a small amount, Andrei does not want to add additional pressure to the Tsar boss behind him, and he has never checked Sarri. Assman's details, for people and things that he can't really grasp, Andre instinctively doesn't want to provoke, of course, the most important thing, Sarri. Assman wasn't an option he had to choose.

On the contrary, General Menderov needs the support of Cossack warriors even more, because if he continues to fight like this, the Russian aristocratic cavalry under General Menderov will personally go into battle to cut people!

When General Menderov heard this, he was extremely unhappy with Andrei's insistent tone, and after thinking about it, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and wanted to talk to Sarri. Assman, a foreigner, is indispensable for the manpower support of Andrei, the head of Russian intelligence, and he can't offend the other party!

"Okay, recruit Ansari. I will take over the matter of Assman, and I will explain the specific matters to the Duma Council, and I hope that His Excellency Andrei can provide enough manpower to support the empire and Surrey. Friendly exchange with Asman. ”

"Of course, for the sake of the Empire, I Andre should do my best." Andrei responded with a smile on his face, someone pays for this kind of thing that is beneficial and harmless to the empire, so why not support it?