At the behest of Hong Tiancheng, Kresztof began his first mission after defection, retraining his original subordinates and converting the more than 1,000 Polish prisoners of war into Taipingists.

Because of the 'criminal record' of the Taiping Warrior Battalion's repeated annihilation, in order to prevent these Polish prisoners of war from having bad associations, Hong Tiancheng banned the title of the Taiping Warrior Battalion at Krysztoff's suggestion and changed it to Taiping Christians, and naturally, he also spread the Taiping doctrine to them.

The Taiping Cultists were nominally part of the paramilitary organization of the Taiping Army, but in fact they were auxiliary soldiers of the Taiping Army, and they were only distributed a cold weapon.

In the 17th century, due to the complex ethnic composition of the territory, many civilians and soldiers who became Poles were not actually Poles of pure blood, but other ethnic groups that were annexed by the Kingdom of Poland in history, but the countries of these nations have been extinct for many years, and no one remembers, so foreigners refer to these people who have been ruled by the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania for a long time as Poles.

The reason why the Ukrainian nation has not been assimilated by the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and still retains its own national spiritual independence is mainly due to the fact that the Ukrainian nation has not been incorporated into the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom for a short time, and the Ukrainian nation has a large population and is geopolitically far from the political center of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom.

And most importantly, of course, Ukrainians are often socially oppressed by the Poles!

Most of the people in Shlakhta in the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom are Lithuanians and Poles, and they naturally do not care about the living conditions of Ukrainians......

This is the reason why the Khmelnitsky uprising was able to form such a huge scale in the Ukrainian settlement, and there will be oppression and resistance!

As for the Cossacks, it is even more remarkable, the Cossacks are not a people, the Cossacks themselves in the Turkic translation 'free people, brave people' has already explained their composition, the first Cossacks were a group of Tatars who longed for freedom to escape the war and the heavy taxes of the Russian Empire, and they migrated to the Dnieper and Don regions, which at that time were beyond the reach of the Russian Empire, and relied on nomadic life to reproduce.

Later, other low-level civilians who could not stand the oppression and yearned for freedom followed suit, and came to this vast and sparsely populated Eastern European steppe to survive, and as the number increased, they formed nomadic communities with family and regional concepts, because none of the people who fled here were good stubble, and these nomadic communities were almost equivalent to local military groups.

Over time, the Cossacks established autonomous villages, forming village-communal political institutions in which the minority obeyed the majority, and the individual obeyed the collective.

In order to unite their forces and eliminate the problem of multi-ethnic 'refugees', the Cossacks created a whole set of their own 'judicial' institutions.

The Cossack principle is that everything must be subordinated to the survival of the whole village community, and that the interests of the collective are above all else, as long as it is for the benefit of the collective, it is a matter of course to sacrifice the interests of the individual!

It has to be said that the Cossack village community had quite a concept of collective thought in later generations, and through this political idea of unconditional subordination of the individual to the collective, or else die, they formed a military organization in which all the people were soldiers.

Every Cossack family has the right to defend the interests of the Cossack collective, otherwise they are traitors and deserve to die!

Under this coercive collective interest, the Cossacks naturally fought bravely and unruly, because they fought for their own collective, and the political situation in which the Cossack minority obeyed the majority, and the distribution of the spoils appeared to be relatively fair, so the courage to fight was quite good.

It can be said that the Cossacks, which are based on collective interests and belligerent in the whole people, are a barrel of dynamite in any country, and the source of the outbreak of the uprising, at that time the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, which had the largest territory in Eastern Europe and controlled a large part of the steppes of Eastern Europe, was deeply poisoned by the Cossack uprising......

Because the Cossacks lived in such a poor situation, the harvest of their usual nomadic farming was not enough to live, and they had to occasionally make a cameo appearance as bandits, which was one of the reasons why the Cossack community had to maintain the collective interest above all else.

It is a pity that this kind of political situation similar to Datong society will not last long, with the increase of the Cossack ethnic group and the consolidation of the social structure, the Cossack village community has gradually formed a two-level division, but the Cossacks are all soldiers who can afford to carry knives and play with muskets, and the upper Cossack nobles do not dare to arbitrarily oppress the lower Cossacks.

The way for the upper Cossack nobles to maintain their luxurious life was very simple, when they took the lower Cossack warriors as mercenaries, or bandits, until Russia completely defeated the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and mastered the Cossack place of existence, it used the method of 'Zhao'an to quell the social turmoil brought by the Cossacks, and the Cossack knife also became the blade of the later Russian Empire's expansion to the south and east!

Of course, in Hong Tiancheng's year, the Russian Empire had not yet reached this point, and although the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania had declined, it was still one of the first-class powers in Eastern Europe, at least on the surface, and was in a three-country situation with the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden.

The Crimean Khanate was a second-rate power, and if it weren't for the support of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, it would have been beaten down by the Russian Empire......

Nowadays, neither Hong Tiancheng nor the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom takes the huge and continuous Cossack uprising in history seriously, Khmelnitsky does not show much strength, he just hit the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom by surprise, and now the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom is going to take it back with interest!

Naturally, the intelligence information came almost entirely from the Polish Hong Tiancheng, and he didn't know much about the hidden dangers of the Cossacks, Hong Tiancheng's impression of the Cossacks only stayed in the Russian eastward invasion troops in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Hong Tiancheng has learned through the news of the Poles that the Cossacks of today and the Cossack cavalry of later generations are fundamentally two concepts!

At this time, the Cossacks still belonged to the 'Freedom' organization, poor jingles, there were not many cavalry at all, the main force of the Cossacks was infantry, and because the population of the Cossacks was mainly refugees from various countries, the combat ability was not good, so almost all muskets were used.

A group of rebellious refugees with muskets, this is the impression that the Poles made on the Cossack warriors of Hong Tiancheng......