In the city of Warsaw, controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration, Leopold I and the German noble generals, who were significantly smaller in number, gathered again, but this time in stark contrast to the previous spirits.

Field Marshal Stefan Czarnetsky, the supreme leader of the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army, did not attend the gathering, not because he did not hold a grudge against Leopold I's allies and deliberately gave them a look of face.

In the face of national interests, that little personal face is nothing at all.

Field Marshal Stefan Czarnetsky did not attend the first military meeting after the defeat of the main German forces, mainly because the entire line of defense became full of holes as the entire line of defense became full of holes as the Holy Roman Empire's German Confederation forces of more than 100,000 troops on the front line collapsed.

Field Marshal Stefan Czarnietsky could only go to the front in person, use his prestige to reunite the hearts and minds of the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army, and build a defensive line to better resist the Taipings.

You can't do nothing, collapse at the touch of a button, and then give up the Polish mainland that you have recaptured with great difficulty to Hong Tiancheng......

Field Marshal Stefan Charnietsky thought that more than 100,000 German elites from the Holy Roman Empire, even if they were defeated, would return some help to help the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army jointly defend Poland proper, but it was not expected that Leopold I was so defeated that they only brought back a group of German cavalry to protect them......

With the exception of a lucky few who escaped from the battlefield, almost all of the German infantry was annihilated in the decisive battle.

Even tens of thousands of German cavalrymen and thousands of German knights fell into this battle.

Such huge losses were related to the eagerness of the German allied command class led by Leopold I, and the biggest mistake made by Leopold I and his entourage was to put themselves on the side of the strategic offensive rather than the strategic defense......

As a result, all the battle plans were drawn up around how to break through the military formation of the Taiping army, and those reserve battle plans were also plans for various counteroffensives and smashing troops to crush the enemy.

The result can be imagined, on the battlefield, the main force of the German coalition army smashed all the troops that could fight, including all the new forces, into the flesh mill that was consumed against the Taiping army in waves, and the Taiping army's will to fight to the death broke the bottom line of Leopold I and his party again and again.

From an objective point of view, the entire battle plan is undoubtedly correct, the main forces of the German coalition army occupy many advantages, except for the will to fight, they can almost completely crush the Taiping army, and it is still on the field battlefield that is beneficial to the attacking side!

The result of excessive offense is that the loser is ruined!

More than 100,000 troops of the German Confederation of the Holy Roman Empire were wiped out, and the only advantage of fighting on multiple fronts at the same time was that the six main divisions of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army were divided into two......

In addition to the most tragic battlefield in the middle lane, the two wings are also a major battle with a scale of far more than tens of thousands, and the connection between the middle lane and the two wings of the battlefield is constantly happening with local moderate battles, and there are dead people everywhere!

The rout of the German main force in the middle suddenly hit the seven inches of the vital point, causing a series of domino effects on all battlefields, and the 100,000-strong army was wiped out.

After the war, Hong Tiancheng once again merged and rectified the main divisions of the Taiping Army that were disabled, and the six elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army were fully staffed, and in the end, only the first and twelfth numbers were left, barely reaching the standard line of 13,000 people.

In other words, after the first battle, the Taiping army fought more than 70,000 people to less than 30,000......

After the end of the war, the death rate of Taiping soldiers was not so high, but under the toxin infection of lead bullets, almost none of the seriously wounded survived, and there were many cases of infection and death of the lightly wounded.

Of course, they didn't know about this news Leopold I, and all they could find out was that Hong Tiancheng took the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, which were organized into two full divisions, and continued to drive in the direction of Poland.

At this time, in front of the Taiping Army, only a rabble led by Marshal Stefan Calnetsky - the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army......

The number of the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army is quite large, with an actual strength of tens of thousands, and it is claimed to be 100,000 to the outside world, but the vast majority of soldiers do not even have a musket, and they still use outdated cold weapons and even dung forks!

There was not a single artillery, and even if there was before, all of them were requisitioned by the main forces of the German coalition, and all of them were destroyed in that decisive battle.

In the eyes of Leopold I and other German aristocratic generals, the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army was nothing but a seemingly good morale for the restoration.

Therefore, in the eyes of Leopold I and the German aristocratic generals, it was only a matter of time before Poland proper fell again, and the Poles themselves were unwilling to face reality......

After the fall of Poland, who will be Hong Tiancheng's next target?

The answer is self-explanatory!

"Ladies and gentlemen, the war seems to me to be over, and I admit that it was the biggest mistake of my life to start a war against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but now the situation is very serious, and we must first make up for this mistake, and we, the Habsburgs, are willing to pay the price."

Leopold I's weak tone had already expressed his position that he was willing to negotiate an armistice with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a vanquished!

All of you here are human spirits, so you can naturally hear the meaning of Leopold I's words.

"Your Majesty, if Hong Tiancheng insists on invading the territory of the Empire, what should we do?" Frederick asked.

The enclave of his East Prussian territory, after the fall of Poland proper, will be encircled by the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and with Hong Tiancheng's greed for land, he will easily swallow this piece of East Prussia no matter how he looks at it......

Therefore, Frederick was the least likely to negotiate peace with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and East Prussia was the guarantee that Frederick, Archduke of Brandenburg, would be able to maintain the title of King of Prussia.

Frederick did not have the title of king in the Holy Roman Empire, and the so-called King of Prussia was just a title given by Frederick himself when he ascended the throne in East Prussia.

Legally, after the loss of East Prussia, Frederick's title was only the Archduke of Brandenburg......

The double blow of reputation and strength made Frederick naturally stand on the opposite side of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was also the main reason why Frederick was most keen to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.