280 The Tsar's Acquisition and Annexation

Although the Russian offensive has been frustrated, there is no ceasefire in the combat zone between the two sides, and local skirmishes break out every day, but the Russian army rarely launches a 'Ula-style' charge with thousands of people at every turn.

As the Russian offensive became weaker, the Swedish Legion also encountered a strong enemy, and the Swedish Legion, which was slaughtering wildly, collided head-on with the Taiping Army led by the Vilno Garrison, and fought a field encounter with the Vilno Guard!

According to Karl X's estimates, his strength was more than ten times that of the opposite side, and there should be no suspense in the field battle, as a result, during the battle, the Vilno garrison left behind the local garrison as an auxiliary, lined up in a horizontal line and lined up in a phalanx to penetrate directly into the Swedish Legion, and collapsed one after another full Swedish infantry regiments!

It often only takes two rounds of three salvos at close range, and the Swedish musketeers in front will collapse, and the Swedish pikemen who are covering are even more defenseless in the face of the musket volley, and the Swedes have seen the tactics of taking hundreds of lives with one salvo for the first time!

Eventually, Karl X had to temporarily relocate the main camp of the Chinese army and send all his reserves to besiege the small Vilno Guard from all sides.

Realizing that the Swedish army would inevitably be defeated by musket shooting, it completely abandoned the musket firing tactics and launched a hand-to-hand charge from a distance of 100 meters, and even the Swedish musketeers changed to cold weapons to launch a charge.

Under this brainless charge, the Vilno Guard Regiment was finally outnumbered and swallowed by the sea, and after the war, the Swedish Legion suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, which is rare.

The musket salvo tactics pushed the war into a new era, and a single salvo of an infantry regiment could take hundreds of lives, and tens of thousands of people were lost in a dozen salvos......

The dense formations of this era, combined with the power of a volley of firearms, were nothing short of a massacre of soldiers!

Although the Swedish Legion completely annihilated the elite main force of the Taiping Army of the Vilno Guard Regiment, it had to stop to rectify and recover, the casualties in this battle were too large, the corpses were almost covered for miles, and the morale of the Swedish Legion was greatly damaged, so it could only stop and rest.

When the rest time of the Swedish Legion gave the local garrison in the direction of Vilno a rare respite, a large number of system administrators withdrew to the city of Kiev, and the local garrison relied on the town in front of the Swedish Legion and began to carry out large-scale civil fortifications and build field defensive positions to delay the offensive of the Swedish Legion.

After the war on both sides fell into a state of anxiety, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also came to the Kiev area with a main Taiping Army line infantry division drawn from Poland, and interestingly, the newly formed Polish standing army displayed in Przemyšl took advantage of the Taiping Army's withdrawal of half of the main force and launched an attack.

As a result, in the field battle, the whole army was defeated by the infantry divisions of the Taiping Army, which was less than 10,000 people, and if it were not for the last Polish hussars to save the field in time, I am afraid that the last armed force of the tens of thousands of Polish-Lithuanian kingdoms would have dissipated.

It's a pity that when the last Polish hussars came to the rescue, they fought fiercely with the pursuing Taiping Army line infantry divisions, and the casualties on both sides were very heavy, and in the end only more than 1,000 Polish hussars fled back, and the pursuing Taiping army was dragged back, not to mention, and lost thousands of troops, and finally there were less than 5,000 people left.

However, it was these less than 5,000 people that silenced the Polish standing army of more than 30,000 after the reorganization of the defeated army, and did not dare to go beyond the thunder pool by half a step.

This humiliating act of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom soon spread throughout Europe, and even the poorest people in the urban area knew that the glory of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom was a thing of the past......

Of course, the loss of the last Polish hussars also caused a series of political earthquakes in the political arena of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and the hearts of the people who had been hard to gather in the Council of Sem were shattered this time, and the Polish nobles, who were already very autonomous, had begun to find their own way out......

The more than 30,000 standing troops placed on the border line of the war zone, under the influence of the centrifugal detachment of the Sym Council in the rear, gradually became a simple appearance, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was too busy to do so, did not know about it.

Hong Tiancheng, who withdrew a Taiping Army line infantry division, once again drove the expedition in person, leaving only one Taiping Army main force regiment in Kiev City to garrison, with a total of more than 20,000 people from the Kiev Guard Division and the Taiping Army Line Infantry Division, plus tens of thousands of local garrisons and the white Heavenly Guard led by Kryshtov to the Russian border.

The marching speed of this era was very slow, and before Hong Tiancheng could start the army, the Russian Empire received clear news that the movement of the army was not a secret to the neighboring old empires.

This is mainly because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was an empire built on the heads of white aliens, and the popularity of the civilian class was very low, and Russian spies could learn about the movements of the army by asking a few random locals in the city of Kiev......

After all, with so many soldiers coming and going, only the blind can't see......

After learning that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was about to send reinforcements, the Russian army once again gathered forces and new recruits to launch a man-sea offensive against the Taiping army's defensive lines in Verkhov and Smolensk.

This offensive lasted until the arrival of reinforcements personally recruited by Hong Tiancheng, and after more than 30 days, ninety percent of the local garrisons on the defense line were defeated, and the remaining infantry division of the Taiping Army was finally beaten into an infantry regiment......

In fact, this Russian army's desperate offensive can be regarded as a success, the remaining infantry regiment was surrounded in three cities in the Smolensk region, and the Verkhov region has been successfully subdued by the Russian army, but the Russian army has also paid a great price for this, several elite regiments are all disabled, and even the last Moscow Janissary Army is also recruiting a lot of disabled veterans, barely maintaining the appearance.

However, this war was a rare good opportunity for the Russian Tsar, the most important armed force of the Duma Council, the Russian aristocratic cavalry, was almost completely wiped out, and several other elite regiments infiltrated by the Grand Duma nobles were also disabled and incapacitated.

After conquering the Verkhov region, the tsar immediately used the Moscow Praetorian Guard to annex the few elite legions that were left to fight, and took the remnants of the Russian noble cavalry into control and turned them into the cavalry of the Moscow Praetorian Guard.

After a series of political changes and official adjustments, the Duma parliament instantly turned into a purely political institution without military power, and many of the big nobles themselves died on the battlefield, and for the first time, Tsar Alexei truly controlled the military power of the Russian Empire and realized the dictatorship of the previous tsars!