After Hong Tiancheng heard Zhao Yan's explanation, he nodded suddenly.

This can be regarded as an oversight that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had to leave behind, the Lithuanian national resistance army loyal to Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir in Lithuania shared a large amount of the energy of the main force of the Taiping Army, and the Taiping Army was also responsible for the maintenance of the occupied areas and the confrontation and deterrence in the border areas, who called the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom so many enemies?

Naturally, there was no way to belong to the army in the middle of the feudal fiefdom of the honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom, and a series of measures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom eliminated the possibility of rebellion of the local nobles, but ignored the power of the people at the bottom.

Of course, in any era, it is difficult to prevent the outbreak of the people at the bottom, not to mention that the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has no policy of benefiting the people at all, and starvation may not make the people desperate, and the local honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom did not let the people starve to death on a large scale.

However, the erosion of faith and the discarding of culture and language really touched the bottom line of the hearts of local white civilians, who did not understand what the national spirit was, but the white civilians were unwilling to change their belief in the gods they had believed in for most of their lives!

Most importantly, why should they suddenly be asked to decide the ownership of land by learning a difficult foreign language and Han culture that they have never heard of?

If it was in the occupied area directly under the Taiping Army, this kind of voice would naturally not come out under the muzzle of the gun, but the honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom did not have the strength to put an end to this idea that was in line with the people's will!

In other words, the Taiping army did not allow these foreign nobles who surrendered to have such military power.

There are not enough troops to defend it, and the conversion examination system that subverts common sense and cognition of local civilians will naturally attract a large number of civilian dissatisfaction, and the Taiping army is a foreign invader, without any reputation of benevolence and righteousness of 'no crime in autumn', either burning or enslavement, this dissatisfaction will of course explode in geometric terms.

At this time, a group of warriors who fled out of nowhere took advantage of this sentiment of the people to preach the importance of Christianity, that all those who preached Christianity were brothers and sisters, and that they would take up arms together against the tyranny of the infidels, and finally conclude that God would guide them to victory, and it would be enough for the ignorant white commoners!

In this era, the most demagogic thing is not the essence of freedom and democracy, but the beautiful picture of religion, bread, and resistance to oppression for a better life.

The core leaders of the Christian Brotherhood were clearly themselves from the lower ranks of the people, who knew what the civilian population needed most, and who knew how to deal with such people, so the Brotherhood grew extremely fast and gained strong support from the Poles who were looking for cannon fodder.

Weapons, bread, and zlotys (Polish currency) were secretly transported into war-torn Lithuania and became the financial basis for the development of the Christian Brotherhood.

As a result, the Christian Brotherhood, which did not seek to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for profit, victoriously 'liberated' the three major cities that were not occupied by the Taiping Army, as well as the surrounding fiefdoms of honor and nobility!

The powerful Celestial Honor nobles in Lithuania were almost uprooted in this uprising, which was cleaner and more complete than the Taiping Army's purge of the Lithuanian hostile nobles, because the Celestial Honor Nobles did not have the time to react at all.

The white Crusader flag became the symbol of the Christian Brotherhood, and the Christian Brotherhood soldiers, armed with scythes, pitchforks, swords, shields, muskets, and other miscellaneous weapons, held the banner in a fanatical manner, marched back and forth along the main roads in the cities and towns they occupied to celebrate the victory, and lost no time in addressing the low-level people who did not participate in the uprising.

The eradication of the infidels became the glorious slogan of the Christian Brotherhood, and the victorious Christian Brotherhood grew rapidly in size under the common hatred of the enemy, and the workshops and blacksmiths in the city worked overtime to build weapons and blades to arm the people, and for the first time in Lithuania showed the trend of a national war.

The nature of the Christian Brotherhood is obviously different from the Lithuanian national resistance led by Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir, the Christian Brotherhood can participate in it regardless of origin and ethnicity, as long as it is a believer in Christianity, and the banner of the crusaders held high is where their swords point!

Because the outbreak of the Christian Brotherhood was too violent, it belonged to a newly established organization, and there was very little information, and the Jinyi Guards of the Taiping Army did not even know who the leader of the Christian Brotherhood was.

It is only known that the soldiers of the Christian Brotherhood are all maintained by a militarized administration, and although they call each other brothers, they have a clear hierarchy and adopt strict official positions such as captain, ten-commander, centurion, battalion commander, regimental commander, etc.

The invasion of the Taiping Army also brought the military structure of the Taiping Army to the Lithuanian region, and it is the instinct of the weak to learn from the strong, and the Christian Brotherhood cannot learn the military organization of the Taiping Army in its entirety, but it is not a problem to learn some skins, and the official positions of battalion commanders, regiment commanders and even division commanders are derived from the official titles of the Taiping Army.

It's a pity that the initial purpose of the Christian Brotherhood is good, the reality is always much more complicated than imagined, after the uprising, all parties appear one by one, although the army of the Christian Brotherhood still adheres to the division and battalion system, but each uprising area does not belong to each other, at most it is an alliance.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon, such as the inflated ambition of the core members of the Christian Brotherhood who are responsible for leading the uprising and are unwilling to continue to obey their original superiors, and the core members of the Christian Brotherhood who are responsible for leading the uprising are seized power by the 'boss' of the local rebel army because of their lack of prestige and merit in the uprising.

Fortunately, the hidden leader of the Christian Brotherhood in Minsk City is broad-minded enough, he does not need the rebels in other regions to obey him, and forcing orders will only break people's hearts, the leader who single-handedly founded the Christian Brotherhood only gave one instruction, all the rebels who are willing to fight the Taiping Army are the true brothers of the Christian Brotherhood!

This act of generosity quickly won the favor of the leaders of the Christian Brotherhood rebels on the hills, and at least, they openly expressed their political purpose of expelling the Taiping army and destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the general direction.

The ignorant leaders of the rebels had no idea how powerful the Taiping army they were facing!

At the beginning of January 1651, under the strict orders of Hong Tiancheng, the main force of the Taiping army turned its spearhead and reassembled in the direction of Vilno.

The mighty Christian Brotherhood uprising was about to usher in its first real war.

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