A day later, Hong Tiancheng sent someone to send Colonel Bogong away, and after Colonel Bogong left, Zhao Yan, who was equivalent to Hong Tiancheng's deputy, stepped forward eagerly and asked: "My lord, are you starting to prepare for the materials for the expedition to Kiev now?" ”

Hong Tiancheng squinted at Zhao Yan: "What's the hurry?" My agreement with Colonel Bogun was not to immediately send troops to support the city of Kiev, the Cossacks were a bunch of poor bandits, who could not squeeze any oil and water, and ordinary goods did not mean anything to me, so I naturally would not do my best to help Khmelnitsky relieve the siege. ”

"Forehead......" Zhao Yan was slightly stunned, and said, "My lord, then what should we do next?" The system of the Holy Treasury in Zhytomyr has been implemented to the final stage, our troops are very abundant, is it too wasteful to stay in the city like this, our soldiers are not producing, there are not many food and grass materials in the city, and the population loss of Zhytomyr is also very serious, and they will not be able to support us for long. ”

"Of course I know that, but I made a pact with Colonel Bogon." Hong Tiancheng said meaningfully.

After hearing this, Zhao Yan looked confused, just now his own adults said that they would not help the lord Khmelnitsky to relieve the siege, and now they say that they have made a covenant, which play is this singing?

I can't figure it out at all......

"Zhao Remnant, you send someone to inform the senior generals under your command, the supplies for the expedition are also ready, this time we are going to have a big game, the Cossacks have given me a real gift."

Zhao Yan saw the confused confidence on Hong Tiancheng's face, and couldn't help but be curious: "My lord, what covenant did you make with Colonel Bogon?" ”

"My agreement with Colonel Bogun was simple, Khmelnitsky's men needed me to send troops to relieve the siege of Kyiv, but they couldn't get enough leverage, so we chose a compromise way, the Taiping army used a sound attack to divert a part of the main Polish forces besieging Kyiv, and then after the main Polish forces separated, they returned to Kyiv.

And my request is very simple, when we rescue the city of Kyiv, allow me to lead my troops into the city to accept the food and grass they promised us, which is also considered the cost of the troops, and the two sides will form a brotherly alliance against the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom. ”

"My lord, this agreement seems to be our great contribution, we have to send troops to lure away the main Polish force in Kyiv City, and we have to send back reinforcements to help Kyiv City relieve the siege, Khmelnitsky only paid some food and grass materials and a covenant, this is ......"

Hong Tiancheng nodded without hesitation: "Yes, this agreement is the benefit of Khmelnitsky's Cossacks in terms of actual benefits, and during the negotiations, Colonel Bogon promised to be the main force in attacking the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania with the 'righteousness' of the Cossacks towards their friends, but who dares to guarantee this kind of thing?"

I agreed to this agreement only because the Cossacks allowed me to bring troops into the city. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Yan instantly understood, but asked with some worry: "Khmelnitsky is not a fool, the Cossacks will not let our army enter the city, otherwise whether the city of Kiev still belongs to the Cossacks is another matter, they must have set restrictions." ”

"Yes, the agreement with Colonel Bogun is that a maximum of 500 people will enter the city to receive supplies, and even if the city of Kyiv is attritioned by offensive and defensive battles, the remaining troops will inevitably exceed ours, so Colonel Bogun does not think that they will lose the city of Kyiv."

Hong Tiancheng stared at Zhao Yan seriously: "If these 500 people are the elite of the Taiping Army under your command who has experienced several major battles, do you have the confidence to compete for the time when the main force arrives at the city gate?" ”

"My lord, please rest assured, if it is our people who strike first, let alone the city gate, as long as the gate of the castle in the center of Kyiv City is open to us, it will be no problem to directly smash their lair!"

"I knew you would answer like this, and I knew that you wouldn't lie about this kind of thing, attacking the Poles was our next plan, and we had to seize it if we had one more opportunity to enter the city of Kyiv.

Okay, don't spread the word about this, although those mercenaries are very loyal, they will inevitably be not strict-mouthed. ”

"Yes, sir."

In December 1648, Hong Tiancheng, the leader of the Taiping army entrenched in the city of Zhytomyr, after proclaiming himself a general, led an army of 10,000 troops into Lutsk!

The Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, which misestimated the strength of the Taiping Army and regarded it as a large-scale outcast, only relied on the resistance of the garrison in the Lutsk region, and as a result, it was defeated and collapsed in less than half a day, and the Taiping Army's battle losses were only in single digits!

In the following days, the main force of the Taiping army was invincible all the way, and the troops came to Lutsk!

The Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania shook the whole country, and while recruiting local nobles to help form a new crusade army, it also mobilized the main force on the periphery of Kiev City, and sent an elite force of tens of thousands to rescue Lutsk City.

The emergence of the Taiping army relieved Khmelnytsky, who was on the verge of defeat, and the city of Kiev regained confidence and recovered its decline, blocking the last fierce offensive of the main Polish army under heavy casualties, and since then, the two sides have entered a phase of confrontation.

Just when the two sides of Kiev City were facing each other, Hong Tiancheng complained to himself 108 times in the camp outside Lutsk: "Turtle son, the all-out war system is really unsympathetic, it was a battle of tens of thousands of people, and it was just because the other side was a ragtag army, and the gap between the combat effectiveness of the two sides was too large, and I was not given any reward......

Isn't it best to fight a war by destroying an enemy with absolute superiority? ”

Hong Tiancheng had just finished complaining, and a report suddenly came from outside the battalion commander, and a herald walked in and knelt down on one knee and reported: "General, the siege equipment has been built."

"Well, tell Hakan. Suke was in charge of the main attack, and Ibrahim. Laceno took cover for the Swedish musketeers, and let the Polish slaves we were carrying forward to set up siege engines.

That's right, Jean Hakan. Suker and Eevee. Lasinowei told the soldiers that they would be allowed to move freely for three days and three nights after the city was breached! ”

Hong Tiancheng had already cleared two towns before and gained 2,000 sin points, but Hong Tiancheng found that after his authority was elevated, he could no longer obtain sin points by slaughtering ordinary small villages with less than 100 people, and only by destroying real towns could he obtain sin points.

Obviously, with the increase in the authority of the all-out war system, while giving Hong Tiancheng more benefits, the 'taste' has become higher and higher, and the small villages with less than 100 people are not taken into account by the all-out war system......

Coupled with the previous battle that was not a battle, Hong Tiancheng, who was 'thrift-oriented', was full of resentment......

Due to the expansion of the scale of the army, Hong Tiancheng felt the pressure of logistics, so the two thousand sin points were not exchanged for the army for the time being.