After the defeat of the German Confederations in the Holy Roman Empire, the offensive on both flanks was quickly surrounded by the main forces of the Taiping army in the middle and retreated.

However, what the commanders of the German coalition forces on both flanks did not expect was that the Taiping divisions on the two wings, which were originally only in a defensive posture and far less powerful than them, took the initiative to attack, just to delay the retreat of the German coalition forces on both flanks!

The German coalition forces on both flanks were not soft persimmons, and a small number of Taiping troops tried in vain to launch an attack with a small number of troops, and paid an extremely heavy price, but the combat objectives of the Taiping troops on both flanks were successfully achieved.

In order to prevent the Taiping Army's partial divisions attacking on both flanks from crushing their own side when the army retreated, the German coalition forces on both flanks had to stop and attack the Taiping Army's partial divisions on both flanks who took the initiative to attack.

Therefore, although the Taiping divisions on both flanks paid an extremely heavy price, they successfully waited for the main force of the Taiping Army to come from the middle road.

In a fierce battle that lasted for nearly a day, the German coalition forces on both flanks were completely defeated, and a large number of German soldiers had to lay down their arms and become prisoners of war of the Taiping army.

What awaited them was the official collective farms in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, where a lifetime of serfs provided food for Hong Tiancheng's war machine.

In fact, the lord-style farming system and yeoman farmers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have completely collapsed, and the long-term war and the oppression and massacre of the white ethnic groups by the Taiping army have greatly reduced the number of white people, a large number of families have been broken and disappeared, and the remaining white ethnic groups can only convert to Taiping doctrine under the racial hierarchy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, work hard to learn Chinese, and become a vassal group of the Han people.

Even the remaining white vassals have to bear various war taxes on weekdays, and the sacred treasury system has been abolished by the Taiping Heavenly State because it is too damaging to people's enthusiasm for production, as long as you believe in the Taiping doctrine and learn Chinese, you do not have to be legally 'plundered' by the sacred treasury system.

However, there is no holy treasury system, the Taiping army also has to collect more than half of the income of the whites, and the tax in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is collected according to the percentage, whether it is a merchant or a helper to cultivate the land, the higher the tax is paid if the income is more, and the tax is lower if the income is low, and Hong Tiancheng also set a personal income tax, according to the personal income within a certain period of time, set an income standard, and every time a standard is reached, the percentage of tax collected will be increased once......

In this way, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was flattened all of a sudden, for the simple reason that the more money you earned, the more taxes you pay, and it is naturally difficult to become a real rich class.

The only way to get rid of this heavy tax is to be loyal to Hong Tiancheng and become a member of the local security regiment or the Han Army, after the white people join the Han Army, the treatment is the best, and the benefits of the local security regiment are secondary, and the young men of the local security regiment have to take turns to return to their own fields to work in agriculture or help in the handicraft workshop.

Only when the white man participates in the Han Association Army will he become a professional soldier and completely break away from production, but the danger of the Han Association Army is also extremely great, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fights almost every year, and the Han Association Army is a standard cannon fodder corps, and the death rate is extremely high.

The main force of the Taiping Army is often only responsible for the frontal battlefield and the suppression of large-scale rebellions, and the main body of the territory and logistics transportation that has been defeated is in charge of the Han Army......

It was this military-based oppressive system that led to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's large territory, but the productivity could not be restored for a long time, so in order to provide a large number of Taiping soldiers with food, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself established a large number of official collective farms on a large amount of confiscated fertile soil.

In the collective farms, there were a large number of prisoners of war serfs and prisoners who had violated the laws of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and most of them were young and strong, and their work efficiency was quite high.

The perimeter of the collective farm was surrounded by a wooden wall, and at intervals there was a guard tower and arrow tower, and from time to time a large number of Han troops patrolled and guarded.

Every serf was recorded, and if he escaped, the guards were punished very severely, and in the worst case, they were removed from the army and demoted to the position of serf.

And once the escaped serfs are caught, they will be performed in front of the public by the ten torturers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in turn, if they can all persist and not die, congratulations, you are free!

So far, there have been no cases of immortality......

Escaping from the collective farm and being caught is worse than death, in the farm is just a hardship and fatigue of life, and it is not a problem to have enough to eat, how to choose the serfs inside, there is naturally a b number in their hearts.

In fact, the treatment of serfs in the official collective farms of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was similar to that of the oppressed aristocratic serfs in the feudal period, and it was really nothing to the low-level white people who were accustomed to hardship and hard work in this era.

However, these official serfs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were nicknamed 'red cattle' by the white guerrillas and whites from the outside world in private, implying that the humble and shameless people who toiled to death for the Taiping army, accustomed to wearing the iconic red turbans or military hats, lived like animals.

From the beginning to the end of this decisive battle, it took three days to complete, and there was not much time for the actual battle, most of which was consumed on the pursuit of the router.

The Taiping army was still quite fond of capturing prisoners, because the number of prisoners of war determined the productivity of the official collective farms in the rear.

Generally, the junior officers and soldiers captured by the Taiping army were thrown into the collective farms to work, and only the middle and high-ranking aristocratic officers were treated differently, especially if the commander or even the king was caught.

The different treatment here is that the Taiping army will rebel against them, and if the rebellion fails, they will squeeze out all the information they know, and then click the matter......

Of course, the Taiping army also allowed the ransom of aristocratic prisoners of war, but the Taiping army often slaughtered people with a wide opening and demanded payment in kind.

Even so, the Taiping army also restricted the ransom of prisoners of high-ranking enemy aristocratic generals, and those noble generals with strong command ability, very high popularity and high political significance in the country, the Taiping army would not put them back.

If the other party surrenders to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, everything will naturally be easy to say, otherwise they will never go back.

Hong Tiancheng did this mainly to weaken the enemy's war potential, and it was difficult to find a general in a thousand armies, and killing and rebelling against a well-known and outstanding general in the enemy country or an important leader with political significance was extremely beneficial to the Taiping army's next offensive plan.