"Well, the name of the Russian tsar is really useful." Hong Tiancheng nodded, quite agreed with the statement of a thousand faces, the Taiping army did not fight a lot of law and order wars, suppressed rebellions, Hong Tiancheng knew very well that 'name and popularity' These things cannot be seen or touched, but sometimes they can save a lot of unnecessary troops and reduce war losses.

As long as the majority of the Russian people still support the pseudo-tsar of Qianmian, when the Taiping army attacks those Russian rebels as allies, they will get help from the local people, and even get limited intelligence support.

"Your Majesty, as long as we can achieve superiority and victory in the frontal battle, I can use the name of the Tsar to recruit the defeated troops and civilians in the reconquest to re-establish a new army loyal to the Tsar, which is common practice in the Russian Empire, and the Russian civilians and serfs are more willing to pay allegiance to the Tsar.

In this way, even if the combat effectiveness of the new army is weak, it can help maintain the transportation routes and garrison law and order in the rear, and even cover the flanks of the main Taiping army when necessary, help establish a siege circle, and force those Duma rebels to fight a head-on battle with the Taiping army.

I believe that counterinsurgency warfare in the Russian Empire will be easier than previous invasion wars. ”

"Oh?" Hong Tiancheng raised his eyebrows and glanced at the Russian tsar in disguise, and bowed slightly: "Good suggestion, your current tsar is very important for us to control the Russian Empire, and the root of your rights is the Moscow Praetorian Guard Legion of more than 10,000 people, this legion is the foundation for you to maintain your authority, and it cannot be damaged too much in the counterinsurgency war, at least it can be used only after the new army is established."

The current Tsarist Army can't afford to toss, so it will be used to guard the logistics line and protect the flank of the main force of the Taiping Army for the time being.

It also proclaimed to the other monarchs of the European continent that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was 'good' towards its allies.

I want the whole world to know that if you follow my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, you will be able to enjoy the protection and support of the Taiping Army, and those who are unwilling to obey the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be severely punished by death! ”

After Hong Tiancheng and the puppet tsar of the thousand faces learned about the specific situation, the five full grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army stationed in the Moscow Region left the 10th Pacific Army Grenadier Division to garrison the Moscow Region, and the remaining four full grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army rushed straight towards the Novgorod Kingdom.

The Moscow Praetorian Guard Corps followed the elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army as a support force for logistical transport routes.

The Moscow Arsenal began to work overtime to produce black powder and projectiles, and the Russian puppet tsar ordered a wartime ban on Moscow, imposing heavy counterinsurgency taxes and looting food from Russian civilians to feed the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the main attack, the Russian Empire was responsible for logistics and supply, and the cooperation between the two sides without contradiction surprised the outside world, and many high-level nobles on the European continent speculated that the Russian Empire's Alexei Tsar was carried away by the rebellion that shook the country's foundation, and he was willing to be Hong Tiancheng's loyal lackey!

In the past, it was said that the Russian tsar was Hong Tiancheng's lackey, but it was a verbal insult to the Russian imperial tsar by dissatisfied, but this time it was really put on the table.

The Moscow Praetorian Guard, which is known as the most capable in the Russian Empire, nakedly served the elite grenadier division of the Taiping Army as a second-line logistics transportation brigade......

It can be said that the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, except for their own weapons, all supplies came from the hard work and sweat of Russian civilians in the Moscow region!

However, the Russian civilian population in the Moscow region was not much disgusted by the situation, and even the soldiers of the arrogant Moscow Janissaries did not clearly show their dissatisfaction!

The reason is very simple, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army eat and take cards so much in order to go to the front line to quell the rebellion for the Russians!

In the announced war arrangements, the soldiers and people of the Russian army all know that the elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army are attacking as front-line combat units, and they are facing an incalculable number of rebels of the Russian Duma League, and even the battlefield is on their own, so what is the Russian GIs dissatisfied with?

Is it possible that you have to carry a gun to the battlefield to be comfortable?

It's better to go hungry than to die on the battlefield!

Compared with the aristocrats of the Russian Duma League, who vigorously recruited young and strong civilians in their territories to enrich their armies to meet the battle, the common people of the Moscow region just paid more hard sweat and ate less black bread, which is nothing at all......

For the gray animals, as long as they don't die, there is hope in life!

The main force of the Russian Duma League coalition led by the Novgorod Kingdom confronted the four elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army in the Volga River valley from afar, and the rebels of the Duma League lords autonomous regions in the east and south of the Moscow region gathered men and horses to take advantage of the main force of Moscow City to go north and kill it from behind.

Of course, the premise is to first break through the front of the 10th Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army.

In order to gather more forces to fight against the Taiping Army, the Duma coalition led by the Kingdom of Novgorod withdrew all the troops that supported the Swedish Civil War offensive on Vyborg, which indirectly extended the survival period of the remnants of the 5th Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army on the front line of Vyborg.

After the troops of the Russian Duma League withdrew from the Kingdom of Sweden, Jobs, who did not want to lose too much of himself, also postponed the offensive, and as a result, the local troops of the Kingdom of Sweden continued to besiege Vyborg and Helsinki, two large cities where the Taiping army was entrenched.

Fortunately, the two newly independent kingdoms of Estonia and Latvia formed a close military alliance with the parliament of the Kingdom of Sweden, replacing the gap in the withdrawal of the combined forces of the Christian Brotherhood and the Duma League, and joining the siege sequence, so that the siege of Vyborg and Helsinki continued.

The armies of the two kingdoms of Estonia and Latvia, although small in number, were extremely popular forces, and Estonia and Latvia were nominally kingdoms, but in fact they had a national parliamentary system similar to that of the Kingdom of Sweden, and the power of the National Assembly was greater than that of the previous Kingdom of Sweden!

Therefore, the morale of the troops sent by these two small countries was also very high, which brought a lot of pressure to the Taiping army.

The main reason why Estonia and Latvia took out their old money to get involved in the civil war of the Kingdom of Sweden was to eliminate Karl X as soon as possible, so that the Kingdom of Sweden could be reunited and free to send troops to help them resist the pressure of the extremely aggressive Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.