198 Kill two birds with one stone

There were no 'accidents' in the campaign to encircle and suppress the rebellion of the Christian Brotherhood by the main force of the Taiping Army, and after three months, everything developed as the outside forces and the Kingdom of Heaven itself inferred, and the Christian Brotherhood, which had nothing to offer except its numbers, rose up quickly and did not fall slowly.

It is not so much that the Taiping army has been fighting for three months, it is better to say that the Taiping army has been suppressing bandits, and eighty percent of the time has been wasted on the march and cleaning up after the war......

The main force of the Taiping army pursued the remnants of the Christian Brotherhood from west to east like a sheep, and the corps of the Christian Brotherhood failed too quickly, and not many people dared to be prisoners of the Taiping army.

For the sake of their own supplies and hatred for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, these routed soldiers can be said to have met a heavenly honorary nobleman along the way to bulldoze one, and the castle fiefdoms of these nobles can provide food, grass, materials, and weapons and equipment for the defeated soldiers of the Christian Brotherhood, and can also take revenge and eradicate traitors, so the Christian Brotherhood has done a very thorough job.

The main force of the Taiping Army was fully capable of carrying out a large-scale roundabout encirclement and annihilation of the Christian Brotherhood, but it had a purpose and direction to drive away the large number of routs of the Christian Brotherhood, and its purpose was self-evident.

The Christian Brotherhood arose in a very short period of time, and uprooted the local celestial honor nobles in just a few days, so that Hong Tiancheng and his party saw the opportunity to 'peace' clean up a large number of Lithuanian nobles.

In order to maintain its title of 'benevolence' and righteousness, which favors those who surrendered, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could never be ruthless to the honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom, and could only use restrictions and supervision from all sides to prevent them from rebelling.

Since the Christian Brotherhood was happy to purge the Celestial Honor of the Noble Lords, it was natural for the Taiping Army to 'help' to the end, which is why three months had passed, and the Christian Brotherhood showed no signs of being completely wiped out.

Not all the fiefs of the honorary nobles of the heavenly kingdom have rebelled, and these local Lithuanian nobles still have lords with good civil reputation, and the lords in these fiefs have a good impression of the lords, so they will naturally not rise up because of a few words of flickering from the Christian Brotherhood.

As a result, these places became the hardest hit areas for the Taiping army to drive the Christian Brotherhood to pass by 'accidentally'.

The remnants of the Christian Brotherhood, who have lost their roots and their homes, are like a pack of hungry wolves, abandoning the inherent moral character of human beings, not to mention that it is a matter of course for them to take revenge on this group of lackeys who have defected to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In this way, the Taiping army drove a group of Christian Brotherhood troops to sweep away the fiefdoms of the honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom in Lithuania, and at the same time conquered a large amount of lost land, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

In three months, the Taiping army recovered all the big cities and surrounding towns and countryside except Minsk, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not care about the appearance of these lands being scourged, and Zhang Juzheng was even very pleased with this, because these areas that had experienced the scourge of the Christian Brotherhood uprising had been reduced to a blank sheet of paper, which could be painted perfectly according to the laws of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have a perfect noble succession law, and the honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom who reinforced the troops died, it was natural that their fiefs were nationalized by the Heavenly Kingdom, and then became the new land of the white grading system.

The main reason why the city of Minsk was not subdued was because the leader of the uprising in Minsk was the mysterious leader of the founding Christian brotherhood, and he had a group of elite veterans who had experienced the influence of war and whose combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the regular army of the powerful country, and its organization was more tight, and a large number of civilian soldiers had undergone systematic military training in the regular army, and their combat effectiveness was comparable to that of ordinary militia.

In addition, the city of Minsk is located in the easternmost part of the area of the uprising of the Christian Brotherhood, the farthest away from the main force of the Taiping army, and the Taiping army was busy recovering lost territory and driving the remnants of the Christian Brotherhood to cleanse the honorary nobles of the Lithuanian region.

In the same way, Minsk is an important city on the northeast border of the area actually controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with Polotsk territory to the north and Russian Empire territory to the east.

Interestingly, when the Taiping Army used the remnants of the Christian Brotherhood to purge the occupied areas and make the interior more pure, the founders of the Christian Brotherhood also took this opportunity to gradually realize the true leadership unity of the originally disintegrated Christian Brotherhood.

Although the Taiping Army's partial division could not capture the city of Minsk, it could cut off the way for the Christian Brotherhood to flee here, but the founding leader of the Christian Brotherhood in Minsk did not care about the regret of not being able to collect the defeat of the Christian Brotherhood, but was very active in sending messengers to contact all parties of the Christian Brotherhood to defeat the army, asking them to unify their allegiance in the direction of Minsk!

In this era, the European continent attaches great importance to allegiance, from soldiers to knights, once they betray the lord without any reason after being loyal, they will be spurned, of course, in theory, allegiance cannot be forced, otherwise the character of the lord and nobles will also be doubted.

Of course, as a superior person, even if he blatantly forces his subordinates to be loyal, there are 'soft methods' to make them truly loyal.

The head of the Christian Brotherhood in Minsk gave little real benefit, but he gave a very realistic dream to the desperate Christian Brotherhood to rout like a lost dog.

Coupled with the fact that the founding leader of the Christian Brotherhood himself occupied the righteousness and had the covert assistance of the Russian Empire, the remnants of the Christian Brotherhood, who were forced to purge the honorary nobles for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, openly held allegiance ceremonies to the head of Minsk City, at least, on the bright side, the Christian Brotherhood, a fragile organization with a short development period and an unrepeatable opportunity for its rise, achieved a unified recognition of leadership at this moment.

This was enough for the founder of Minsk, who needed only the 'uniqueness' of the Christian Brotherhood from beginning to end.