Struggle in Russia

Just when Igorevich gave up Nizhin and prepared to escape in the direction of Konotop, new variables appeared on the battlefield.

The rebel army in Ichinia, southwest of Nezhin, suddenly moved northward and cut off Igorevich's westward escape route.

Not to mention Igorevich, even Dmitry and Li Xiao were shocked. By the time they received the news, Igorevich's men and Butin's men were already fighting.

"According to the report of the scout cavalry, about 8,000 people from Igorevich's army and more than 20,000 people from Butin's army are fighting fiercely. Although the specific casualties are unknown, the scale is quite fierce!"

Dmitri's mind was full of questions. Why did the rebels suddenly start fighting among themselves? Why did Igorevich provoke Butin? It doesn't make sense?

Li Xiao was actually a little confused, because according to pre-war reconnaissance, Butinin, who occupied the two cities of Icinia and Priluki, was very powerful and difficult to mess with.

But I haven’t heard of any conflict between him and Igorevich? Why did he suddenly fall into trouble?

However, Li Xiao felt that this was not a bad thing. It would be better if there was internal strife. He might as well just capture Nezhin without stopping and then try to flank Igorevich to eliminate him!

After this idea came up, he couldn't stop it. In Li Xiao's view, the most important thing to quell the rebellion in Ukraine was not to capture the city and regain the lost territory, but to eliminate the effective strength of the rebels.

The core issue of the Ukrainian rebellion is indeed the land issue, but the rebellion will not disappear once all the land is taken back.

As the saying goes, if you save the land and lose the people, you will lose both the people and the land. If the Ukrainian serfs' growing rebellion trend cannot be curbed, counterinsurgency will become like whack-a-mole, with the mole here just suppressing and the mole over there popping up again. In the end, I care about one thing and not the other. In the end, I can’t care about anything.

What's more, Dmitri's troops are limited. He only has 30,000 to 50,000 troops that can be used for mobile warfare. If he focuses on regaining lost ground, his mobile troops will soon be wasted. They were spread thin like pancakes and were finally defeated by waves of rebels.

The correct approach is to seize every opportunity to eliminate the effective forces of the rebels, especially those who take the lead among the rebels. Defeating them can serve as a deterrent, and combined with mind-attack tactics to win over those unsteady rebel leaders, a two-pronged approach can solve the problem.

Since Butinin has taken the initiative to cooperate, there is no reason not to deal with Igorevich severely, not to mention that the guy's strength is not large in the first place, so he can give it a try!

Under Li Xiao's persuasion, Dmitri finally agreed to annihilate Igorevich. It's just that he is very cautious and believes that safety must be ensured first regardless of the effectiveness of this operation. Once it is discovered that Igorevich counterattacked violently, or that the whole incident was actually the fault of Igorevich and Butin, he should retreat immediately and never let the battle end.

To put it bluntly, he just doesn't trust Butinin to be so kind to help. He thinks that the rebel leader may have other plans. Maybe his attack on Igorevich is fake, and attacking them and taking down Nizhin to seize the territory is real. of.

So why did Butin suddenly fall out with Igorevich?

This actually starts with Igorevich turning into a bandit. Back then, the guy killed his master Luocao in a rage and ran away. The superiors handed over the task of hunting him down to Sheriff Butning.

After Butening received this mission, he had to go to great lengths to pursue it because his superiors were forcing him to do so. As a result, Igorevich didn't know whether his life should have been cut off or whether he was born with a tough life. Even if he was once chased and cornered, he could always miraculously come back to life.

In desperate situation, he not only saved his life, but also found an opportunity to retaliate against Butin. He even attacked Butin's family. Although Igorevich was driven away after a deadly fight, Butin's wife I was also scared to have a miscarriage.

As a result, this conflict was forged, and after that, Igorevich's behavior became more and more extreme and cruel. At first, he only attacked the landlord, and later, no matter who met him, he would die.

This kind of approach is naturally very disgusting, and Butining must hate him more and more.

If things continue like this, the story will be nothing more than a feud between cops and robbers. But the outbreak of the serf uprising in Ukraine changed everything.

As a police officer and a senior sergeant, Butining was naturally assigned by his superiors to "suppress bandits." He did a good job at the beginning, and easily dispersed many "mobs." But as the scale of the uprising grew, more and more "mobs" participated in the riots. Even if he went around putting out fires day and night, it would not help.

What's worse is that the superiors don't care whether you are doing your best, they only want results, and the result will be more and more mobs, so naturally you, the police, are not doing your job well!

Especially when the rebel army became more and more powerful and Butinin could not defeat the police brothers, he was handed over as a scapegoat.

It's just that he was also a ruthless person. Seeing that he was about to be hanged by his superiors, he simply gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and rushed into the city hall. He killed a bunch of officials and declared an uprising.

So the former police chief Butnin suddenly became the leader of the rebel army. It must be said that gold shines wherever it goes. Butnin did have two brushes, and soon his team grew like a snowball.

And he is different from other rebel leaders. Although he also engages in zero-dollar purchases, the money and materials he grabs are not squandered. On the one hand, he distributed the fields to the rescued serfs to build up support. On the other hand, he also actively stocked up supplies, collected weapons and ammunition, and trained his troops. Moreover, his team did not rob everyone. He did not commit any crimes against ordinary people, at least. Won't hurt them.

As a result, the territory he controlled rarely became a safe haven during rebellions, and was much more stable than other places.

What's even more rare is that he is a very far-sighted person. He knows that the road to rebellion is almost impossible. Initially, he planned to find an opportunity to send the collected wealth and the brothers' families abroad together, even if they confessed , it can be regarded as ensuring that future generations can live a worry-free life.

But what Li Xiao and Dmitry did in Chernihiv gave him another kind of hope. If surrendering voluntarily could put the blame in the past and even get a ticket to the upper class, then why not surrender?

Of course, he had doubts at first. After all, it was normal for noble men to say one thing and do another, so he had to take a closer look. What's more, he is still far away from Chernihiv? Even if you want to surrender, you have to wait until someone comes over before saying otherwise.

But he never expected that Li Xiao and Dmitri would suddenly go to Nirvana, and he suddenly felt that this was an opportunity!