Compared with only using artillery as a city defense weapon, the Poles attach great importance to the musket, and the musket equipping rate of the militia is not lower than that of the Russians, because the regular army of the Poles has a small number of foot soldiers, so a large number of militia are often needed when going to the battlefield.

This Polish tradition was also passed on to the Cossacks who lived in the steppes of the eastern part of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom, and these free-yearning Cossack mobs were almost always equipped with a musket!

All people are soldiers in the true sense of the word!

In the 17th century, the Russian Empire had not yet annexed the Don and Dnieper valleys, and naturally did not have the support of the Cossacks, who mainly lived in this region, so the Russian Empire at this time had not yet formed a large-scale Cossack cavalry that would later become famous in later generations.

Most of the Cossacks of the 17th century were poor and horseless, and they fought mainly on scimitars and muskets, rather than on the Cossack cavalry, as later generations believed.

The Cossack cavalry rose under the auspices of the Russian Empire, and after Khmelnitsky, the leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks, rebelled and was defeated by the Polish army, he turned to the Russians, and then the Russian army fought with the Polish army, and Poland was defeated, so the Cossacks gained nominal independence, in essence as a Russian protectorate......

Of course, at the time when Hong Tiancheng was in the limelight, Khmelnitsky was in the limelight, and the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania had just decided to raise troops to besiege the city of Kyiv, and even the main army was not ready.

Without Hong Tiancheng's intervention, the battle of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania besieging the city of Kiev would have ended with the victory of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

On the original historical trajectory, it was precisely because of the uprising of Khmelnitsky, a Cossack, that the Polish army not only fought with the Russians for several years, but was also pressed to the ground by the Swedes for more than ten years, and finally the Swedish army was defeated by the Russian army, but the devastated United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, once the largest territorial power in Eastern Europe, lost a full two-thirds of the population (most of them died), and even the king lost it......

The Poles call this turning point in the history of Greater Poland from prosperity to decline the 'Age of the Great Flood'!

Of course, this is just the original historical trajectory, with Hong Tiancheng's Western history as zero reserve knowledge, I don't know what will happen later, I don't know if Hong Tiancheng's small nail will break the original historical established ending?

Poland after the Flood era was weak, but Poland before the Flood had its last glory, a mere Zhytomyr city and the first-class nobles of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom could pull out tens of thousands of people to fight, you can imagine the richness of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom!

Hong Tiancheng, who was standing at the head of the city, was holding a red cloak fluttering in the wind, and he was holding a telescope with a serious face to look at the approaching Polish army.

Obviously, the Polish army, which had an absolute advantage in numbers on the opposite side, had no intention of setting up camp and slowly trying to make it happen, and with the earthen walls of the town of Beshew, there would not be much defensive bonus, at most the Polish hussars would have to dismount from their horses and fight on foot.

Of course, first of all, Hong Tiancheng must be able to carry it until that time!

"Ouch, this time the Polish lineup is quite large, this Polish army should be the main force of the nearby big city Zhytomyr." Hong Tiancheng exited seemingly casually.

The Taiping Army Commander who was in charge of patrolling the scouts outside the town on the side replied respectfully: "My lord, according to the information provided by the Polish scout captives we captured, the commander of this Polish army of tens of thousands is Krysztof Koniecpolsky, and the main soldiers are from Zhytomyr City, and Krysztof Koniecpolsky has pulled out almost ninety percent of Zhytomyr's troops. ”

"Well, the Poles have saved me a lot of effort, as long as I defeat this main force of tens of thousands of people, the capital city of the Zhytomyr region will be in my pocket!"

Hong Tiancheng, who put down the monoculars, waved his right hand: "Let each Polish soldier in the Taiping Warrior Battalion take care of a Polish slave soldier who goes out of the city and fights under the wall, and tells them that as long as this battle is won, all Polish civilian slaves participating in the battle can be freed from slavery, and the living ration will be raised to the level of the Taiping Warrior Battalion."

And the soldiers of the Taiping Warrior Battalion who participated in the battle, after the victory, the treatment of everyone, whether it was an officer or a soldier, was raised by one level! ”

Hong Tian became an incentive to work and combat the Polish Taiping Warrior Battalion, and divided the ration level into five levels, and only Kaspersky and Hamsbond, who had worked hard, were the fifth rank.

The supply of materials for the fifth level is the same as that of the senior Swedish swordsmen, and the Taiping soldiers do not need military salaries, so they are open to supply, so they naturally cannot be counted in the ration hierarchy.

The supply of goods is not expensive coins, only daily necessities and food.

It seems that in the Taiping Army system of Datong, the hierarchy is actually strict and ruthless. On the one hand, it was because Hong Tiancheng wanted to save the consumption of looted materials, and on the other hand, it was to encourage the 'enthusiasm' of the Poles.

In the Taiping Army, in addition to special major contributions, the only way to improve the level of material rationing is to make military achievements through war!

Under Hong Tiancheng's 'Chrysostom and Jade Words', the Polish slaves reluctantly accepted this combat mission, in fact, they did not have many choices.

With the exception of the Polish women who had been kept in the camp for military prostitutes, almost all of the Polish civilian slaves walked out of the city gates under the watchful eye of the Swedish veteran swordsmen and the Polish Taiping Warrior Battalion, and barely lined up infantry phalanxes under the walls.

The Polish slave soldiers used useless long weapons captured by the Taiping army, which were placed on the front line to withstand the first wave of impact, and the Polish Taiping Warrior Battalion was located in the second line of infantry phalanx outside the city, and the rear were Swedish veteran swordsmen.

On the wall of Tuweizi, there are dense layers of senior musketeers of the Taiping Army, providing fire support from a high position.

The Polish slave soldiers on the first line are cannon fodder used to attract the firepower of the Polish army, and the Polish Taiping warrior battalion on the second line is actually the cannon fodder supervision team, pointing at the backs of the Polish slave soldiers with weapons, and only the Swedish senior swordsmen on the last line are the hole cards that Hong Tiancheng uses to counterattack!

Yes, Hong Tiancheng never thought about simple defense, he not only wanted the Polish army to shed blood under the city walls, but also wanted this main Polish force to go and never return!

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