101 The scuffle begins
"Colonel! Captain! The big thing was not good, the 500 Taiping troops who entered the city suddenly opened fire on our people, and the head of Khmelnitsky and many generals who went to meet them in the church square were all killed! ”
A hurried and embarrassed Cossack fighter ran to the command office of Colonel Bogun with a look of great distress and reported.
Colonel Bogun was the second most prestigious general in the Cossack rebel army led by Khmelnitsky after the supreme leader Khmelnitsky, because Colonel Bogon had led his men and horses alone to defeat the Polish regular army many times during the Cossack rebel uprising, and the Cossacks admired bravery and attached importance to military merit, so naturally, Colonel Bogon won the support of most of the low-level Cossack soldiers.
Khmelnitsky was a man of great ambition, and when he perceived the possibility of Colonel Bogon posing a threat to his position, he began to suppress him in many ways.
Of course, Khmelnitsky did a very stealthy job, ostensibly maintaining a 'brotherly relationship' with Colonel Bogon, and even showing extra prominence on some occasions.
However, what Khmelnitsky didn't expect was that the envoy who was only regarded by him as a rescue move and did not have much confidence to succeed in winning over the Taiping army to rescue the city of Kiev was actually done by Colonel Bogon!
As soon as the Taipings arrived, the siege of Kiev was broken, and the Polish army under King Jan Kazimierz Vasa became the weaker side, raising Colonel Bogon's popularity among Cossack warriors to a new level.
Naturally, Khmelnitsky was more defensive of Colonel Bogon, and on the 'big day' when the Taiping army entered the city to finalize the alliance, he deliberately used Colonel Bogun as the main general of the whole city to coordinate the defense of the whole city and guard against the Polish army.
This important position was naturally fine with Colonel Bogon's qualifications, but it also meant that he was almost excluded from cooperation with the Taipings, and of course, Colonel Bogon did not mind this, since he had walked around the city of Zhytomyr, Colonel Bogun was full of disgust with the Taiping Army's forcible and violent distribution of social wealth.
Colonel Bogon was a very pure Cossack warrior, and his revolt with his men was simple: to free the Cossacks from the oppression of the Polish nobility!
Therefore, Colonel Bogun naturally stood on the opposite side of the deprivation of the people's freedom of private property.
Therefore, Colonel Bogon had no resentment about Khmelnitsky's arrangement, and he thought about things from different angles, and naturally saw different problems, and even Colonel Bogon was fully responsible for the head of Khmelnitsky who entrusted him with the defense of Kiev City, which was an affirmation and importance of his ability.
However, now that Khmelnitsky, who had the 'grace of appreciation' for Colonel Bogon, he had become a corpse, and his brothers, who were also from Zaporozhye, also died in humiliation at the welcoming ceremony...... It's really infuriating!
"Someone! Inform all the young and Cossack fighters of the militia of the city of Kiev that we want blood! Debt! Blood! Repay! ”
Colonel Bogon's blood was churning, and his eyes were red and he roared angrily from his chest, which immediately aroused the feelings of the Cossack officers around him.
"Kill all the treacherous Taiping dogs, long live the Cossacks!!" The Cossack officers and guards beside Colonel Bogun drew their scimitars and shouted at the same time, then rushed out of the door and rode on their horses and ran to their men.
Although the high-ranking Zaporozhye Cossack officers in the city of Kiev were almost dead, there were still many middle- and low-level Cossack officers, and after the Taiping Army suddenly opened fire, some of the middle- and low-ranking Cossack officers led people to resist nearby, and most of the Cossack officers came to Colonel Bogon's command office to wait for orders to clarify the situation.
Although Colonel Bogun didn't understand why Hong Tiancheng dared to merge with a mere 500 people when there were Polish troops outside the city, this did not prevent him from laying the tone for the first time to comprehensively encircle and suppress the Taiping army entering the city!
The Cossack rebels in the city had thousands of armed forces at their disposal, and even if the Taiping took the lead by surprise and fought against thousands with 500 men, Colonel Bogon thought that they had no chance of defeat.
Most of the Cossack officers actually thought the same way, before they encountered the Crimean irregulars who suddenly turned their guns and aimed them at themselves......
The Crimean irregulars were originally responsible for the border and guarding the city walls with a part of the Cossack soldiers and the Kyiv militia, but after a series of gunshots in the city, the Crimean irregulars soldiers, under the leadership of the low-level officers, immediately pulled the trigger on the Kyiv militia and Cossack soldiers around them!
Everything happened so suddenly, the Cossack soldiers and the militia of the city of Kiev were killed and hacked to death by their own men on the side and behind them, and they could not understand why the Crimean irregulars, who had been fighting side by side on the battlefield a few days ago, suddenly mutinied......
The most important thing is that the situation in Kyiv cannot be reversed by the less than 1,000 people in the Crimean irregular military district, who will soon be engulfed by the Cossack rebels, who are far outnumbered in Kyiv, except for taking the lead and killing all the friendly troops around them.
The huge gap in the number of people, even a lowest-level soldier Gazi knows it in his heart!
Of course, these inexplicable 'logic' no longer make sense to the dead Cossack fighters and the militia of the city of Kiev, where the gunfire was supposed to take place only near the main road and the church square, where the Cossack rebels led by Colonel Bogon were gathering their men and horses to attack in an orderly manner.
Thousands of people surrounded and beat 500 people in the street battles of the city, and even slow grinding was enough to wipe them out.
Unfortunately, the gap between reality and ideals was too huge for Colonel Bogon, who had just given a series of orders to gather troops to attack, and the next moment there was an organized large-scale rebellion of the Crimean irregulars!
In less than half an hour, the Kiev militia and Cossack soldiers around the city walls garrisoned by the Crimean irregular army were swept away, and the battlefield of fierce fighting instantly spread from the small main road and church square to the entire city of Kiev, and many troops of the Cossack rebels who had just begun to assemble fell into a state of confusion and confusion, because there were enemies in front and behind them!
The most important thing is that although the Crimean irregular army and the Taiping army guard battalion were small in number, the momentum of the offensive was very fierce, and the combat effectiveness that suddenly broke out in the vanguard unexpectedly interrupted the organization and battle plan of the Cossack rebels, and the city of Kiev officially fell into a melee.