The last day of 1648 was a memorable day for Kiev, at least, as the leader of Khmelnitsky thought at this time, because on this day, the supreme commander of the morgue, Hong Tiancheng, who called himself General Taiping, personally entered the city with 500 battalions of guards to 'join the Cossack rebels' in victory.

In Khmelnitsky's eyes, Hong Tiancheng only brought a mere 500 personal guard battalions into Kiev to discuss cooperation with him, which was a symbol of the Taiping Army's sincere cooperation against the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom.

Since the rise of the Taiping Army, the external state forces have basically figured out its general management structure, and the leader Hong Tiancheng is an absolute dictatorship in the Taiping Army, which is no longer a secret in Eastern Europe.

Khmelnitsky was well aware of the fatal weakness of this kind of army maintained by one person, and it can be said that once Hong Tiancheng had any accident, the Taiping army would be separated and disintegrated in an instant, and the Taiping army's light race included the Swedes, the headquarters of the self-proclaimed Han Chinese, the Lithuanian Tatar warriors, and the Polish servant army that surrendered.

Because of this, Hong Tiancheng personally entered the city of Kiev to negotiate, showing the full sincerity of the Taiping Army!

You must know that the Taiping Army was only a free army that suddenly sprang up, not a country, with no fixed inheritance system and laws, and there were many similarities with Khmelnitsky's Cossack rebel army, which began in the last minute.

In the Ukrainian Cossack Insurgent Army, Khmelnitsky was a spiritual leader, and no one in the rebel army could replace him, and naturally he could not do without his unified command.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Taiping army was similar in nature to the Cossack rebels, and they rose up quickly and perished quickly.

If Khmelnitsky dies unexpectedly, the will to fight of the Cossack rebels will immediately drop by a rank, and the high-ranking officers within them will also deviate from morality in the struggle for power and profit, and even internal strife, which is a common problem of the low-level rebel army in the past.

On this 'big day', the main road of Kiev was completely emptied by the Cossack soldiers, and groups of heavily armed soldiers of the Taiping Army Guards Battalion slowly marched into the city under the friendly gaze of the Cossack soldiers.

And Hong Tiancheng, who was in the lead, had already come to the square of the Kiev city church where Khmelnytsky greeted him.

With a sword hanging from his waist and a splendid ceremonial armor, Khmelnitsky stood in the middle of the square with a smile on his face, followed by most of the senior Cossack officers of Zaporozhye who had fought with him from the end of the day.

As a sign of respect, neither side rode a war horse in front of the meeting, Khmelnitsky and his party did not ride a horse in the first place, and Hong Tiancheng handed over the war horse under his crotch to the soldiers who led the horse after entering the church square.

Hong Tiancheng followed behind in a dense formation, holding a flintlock pistol of the Taiping Army's elite musketeer guard battalion, Zhao Yan rarely did not follow Hong Tiancheng, because he had a more important task in his body!

There were hundreds of elite musketeers of the Taiping Army in the personal guard battalion who accompanied Hong Tiancheng into the church square alone, and a team of 100 people followed behind Hong Tiancheng's side.

On the opposite side, Khmelnitsky and his party were also quite numerous, but Hong Tiancheng's side, except for himself, were all officers and soldiers of the personal guard battalion, while most of the people on Khmelnitsky's side were Zaporozhye core Cossack officers, and there were only a few Cossack warrior guards armed with arquebuses hanging Cossack scimitars.

In Khmelnitsky's eyes, the city of Kiev is his base camp, and Hong Tiancheng's 500 people are unlikely to make any waves, and he himself has come in, is it possible that there will be any big incidents?

Although Khmelnitsky showed sincerity and generosity on the church square and did not arrange too many guards, a large number of troops were ambushed around the city gate in advance, not those militia who were full of young people when defending the city, but real Cossack soldiers and Crimean irregulars!

The Cossack fighters in Kiev suffered great losses when fighting with the main forces of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom, so Khmelnitsky on this special day also pulled out the Crimean irregular army to fill the number.

Of course, this was just a cautious measure set up by Khmelnitsky, and he did not think that Hong Tiancheng, who had brought a mere 500 people into the city, would dare to do anything, not to mention that the two sides were natural allies.

The Taiping Army has become mortal enemies with the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and Hong Tianben himself was offered a sky-high reward by the Polish king, not to mention the Ukrainian Cossack rebels led by Khmelnitsky, not to mention that it itself wants to cede the Ukrainian ethnic enclaves and Cossack nomadic areas from the hands of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, and try to establish an independent state based on Cossack force - the Cossack United Emirates!

And he, Khmelnitsky, naturally, was the first big chief of the Cossack United Emirate!

The chieftain of this era was not a derogatory term, but an honorific title given to the supreme chief by the Cossacks and Tatars.

After all, most of the Cossacks and Tatars were still stuck in the tribal union system, although they used muskets and even artillery, but the essential political system was not much different from the tribal system, although the senior Cossack officers had many privileges, but they could not arbitrarily exploit the lower ones like the monarchs and nobles of other feudal countries in continental Europe.

The tribal-like system is more egalitarian than the feudal system, except that the Cossacks are equal internally and vicious externally, and in the eyes of the Cossacks, there are only two kinds of people - friends and enemies!

As long as they are not friends of the Cossacks, everyone is an object they can rob, naturally, that is, the so-called enemy.

"Your Excellency the General is really as rumored, majestic and domineering!" When Khmelnitsky saw Hong Tiancheng and his people coming, he embraced Hong Tiancheng with a very open embrace, expressing his 'sincere' friendship in the manner of a Cossack.

Khmelnitsky really wanted to cooperate with the Taiping army to win a battle, at least, in the face of the army led by King Jan Kazimierz Vasa of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom outside the city, Khmelnitsky sincerely cooperated with the Taiping army to attack.

For this reason, Khmelnitsky tried to make a good impression in the heart of Hong Tiancheng, who met for the first time, that it is actually a good thing that the ally is a dictator, because as long as the dictator is satisfied, everything is not a problem!

Hong Tiancheng looked at the unsuspecting Khmelnitsky, and the corners of his mouth suddenly drew a strange arc.