In the city of Riga, Livonia, a large number of disheveled Christian Brotherhood leaders gathered in the hall of the city lord's mansion, and Jobs, dressed in military uniform, stepped up to the front desk with a sword in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Warriors under the light of God, the evil leader of the Taiping Army, Hong Tiancheng, has led his main army out of Vilno and marched towards the Smolensk region, and God's revelation to us has appeared.

Take advantage of the inner emptiness of the evil Taiping Army, break through the cordon they have placed on the border, retake the Lithuanian land polluted by the Taiping Army, and let the glory of God return to the land of Lithuania!

Now I declare the official start of the Lithuanian Revenge Campaign! ”

As Jobs's fist fell, the leaders of the Christian Brotherhood in the audience suddenly let out a series of 'huha' sounds, and the boiling voices that erupted seemed to be about to say that the roof was about to fly.

After his pre-war preaching, Jobs walked to his lodgings and asked his cronies, "Sabonis, haven't the Poles yet agreed?" ”

"Chief, the Sem Council of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom has become a mess, the Polish king who lost power seized the defeat in the Battle of Kiev, vigorously attacked the authority of the Sem Parliament, and tried to regain control of the military and political power of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom.

The defeat of tens of thousands of people in the Battle of Kiev and the loss of the essence of thousands of Polish hussars greatly damaged the vitality of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and at the same time pushed the prestige of the Sulm Parliament off the 'altar', since the rise of the Taiping Army, the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom has been defeated repeatedly, not only the Polish aristocracy, but also the Polish civilian class is also full of pessimism and disappointment about the Sulm Parliament.

This became the reason for the incitement of the Polish king and certain great Polish nobles who wanted to rise to the throne, and Krakow, the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom, had already seen more than one civilian march and riot, which could not have happened without the people behind it.

Even many junior officers of the regular army were unwilling to obey the orders of the Sulm Council of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, they felt that the Sulm Council had treated them as cannon fodder consumables, and that defeatist sentiments had already grown within the army of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and that if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had not been under pressure from the outside world, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania would have actually been defeated in this duel......

The Poles made only the most basic promise, that the Masovia region would send their troops to confront the Taiping army on the western border of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and that it would be impossible to attack them if their energy was restrained. ”

Jobs paused and looked back at Sabonis: "Poland's Som parliament has been in chaos to this point?"

The Sem Council represented the interests of the entire aristocratic class of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, and it is understandable that the Polish king tried to seize power, but some of the great Polish nobles you mentioned also questioned the Sem Council, why is that?

Could it be that they still want to be independent? Hehe. ”

"Chief, most of the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania has been lost, and the lessons of repeated defeats have led some Poles to believe that their political system is the reason, and many Polish nobles have put forward the idea of emulating the centralized monarchy of Western Europe, and they believe that it is the power of the Council of Sulm that is higher than that of the king, which has led to the vast majority of the power of the huge Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom not being effectively used, and even being lost out of thin air in internal strife.

The Poles were impressed by a general mobilization order of the Russian Empire, which halted the overwhelming offensive of the Taiping army in the Smolensk region, and the political trend in Poland, including the great Polish aristocracy, was to worship the centralized feudal system rather than the loose union and feudal system of the Diet of Tsem.

Of course, these monarchical Polish nobles were not the current Polish king, Jan Kazimierz Vasa, who was also very dissatisfied with the defeat of King Jan Kazimierz Vasa before, believing that Jan Kazimierz Vasa was not a wise monarch, which led to the formation of three political forces in the current Polish Sem Parliament.

One was a supporter of the original Polish-Som parliamentary system, a loyal follower of King Jan Kazimierz Vasa, and the last was a monarchist who wanted to re-elect the Polish king and change it to a centralized monarchy.

The followers of King Jan Kazimierz Vasa had similar political views to the initiators of the monarchy, except that they supported different Polish kings, among whom the original defenders of the Sym Council of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania were the most powerful, and the followers of Jan Kazimierz Vasa and the initiators of the monarchy often united against the defenders of the Sym Parliament.

Interestingly, both the followers of Jan Kazimierz Vasa and the proponents of the monarchists objected to the system of rights in the Sem parliament at the time of the meeting.

Although I was born in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, the political system of this country is too backward, the medieval feudal system is no longer applicable to the current world, but the Sulm parliament of Poland has always adhered to tradition, even without the sudden rise of the Taiping Army, the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania will be dismembered sooner or later. ”

Sabonis commented with a disdainful look on his face.

"Those high-ranking nobles have their own reasons, the Sym parliamentary system may be a bad thing for the country and the people, but it is very beneficial to the aristocratic class itself, there are hussars composed of nobles and knights themselves in the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the reason why the morale of the battle is so strong, and the Sym parliament system is inseparable, the Sym parliament gave them enough freedom and rights, so those hussars are willing to sacrifice their lives to maintain the continuation of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.

It's a pity that the total annihilation of the Polish hussars in the Battle of Kiev sounded the alarm for the nobles in the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the era of relying on elite cavalry to dominate the world has passed, and courage and heavy armor can't stop the volley of cheap muskets, and the big nobles of the Polish nobility who oppose the parliamentary system of Sem should have seen this.

In fact, the Russians did a good job, in addition to the well-known shooting army, the standing army system that was being implemented in the Russian Empire was also very perfect, and the offensive of the Taiping Army was delayed, which was inseparable from the military system of the Russian Empire's standing army.

The rise of the Taiping Army was a disaster for the countries of Eastern Europe, but it was a rare opportunity for low-level people like you and me. ”