In the camp of the Russian Chinese army, Andrei reported to Tsar Alexei in military uniform: "Your Majesty, Hong Tiancheng has personally led nearly 30,000 people to the front line on the outskirts of Bryansk, will we continue to attack next?" ”

Tsar Alexei, who had just regained power, said with a spring breeze on his face: "Our war is over, isn't it?" ”

Andrei, who had been with Alexei for more than ten years, had a strange glint in his eyes, and he was not sure: "Your Majesty wants to make peace with Hong Tiancheng?" However, with Hong Tiancheng's character, his two elite divisions of the Taiping Army were almost wiped out by us, and he will not give up. ”

"Didn't we still surround the last remnants of the more than 2,000 Taiping troops? This is our bargaining chip with Hong Tiancheng, as long as he is willing to cease fighting, even if it is only for three years, we will let these Taiping soldiers who are surrounded in the cities of the Smolensk region leave with guns, the Smolensk region and the Verkhov region are the territory of the Russian Empire, we just take back what belongs to us, what is Hong Tiancheng dissatisfied with?

Now that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is fighting on the third front, and there is not a single main force of the Han people in the direction of Karl X, they can only rely on a group of second-rate local garrisons to hold on. ”

Alexei Tsar explained as a matter of course.

"In that case, why doesn't Your Majesty continue to maintain the offensive and completely defeat the sworn enemy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? Hong Tiancheng's popularity in his territory is extremely low, as long as the Taiping army is wiped out, he will have to step down in minutes, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will naturally disappear. Andrei puzzled.

Tsar Alexei turned his head to look at Andrei with a strange expression: "Do you think that if we want to fight for the more than 20,000 Han elites in Hong Tiancheng's hands, what price will we pay?"

The previous war has proved that the troops composed of professional Han soldiers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are all madmen who do not want to die, we have just swallowed and digested those elite remnants of the soldiers, and controlled the absolute right to speak in the Duma, I don't know how many people are waiting to take revenge on you and me!

You say, once the Janissaries in Moscow, which we believe to be, were crippled in the war with the Taipings, would we still be able to maintain our current power?

This seizure of power has offended all those who can be offended, and I must not lose the only reliance I have now, and what I want most now is to return to Moscow safely with the Moscow Praetorian Guard, and take advantage of this rare opportunity to thoroughly implement the authority of the Tsar and eradicate all those heads and tails.

As for Hong Tiancheng, it is enough to hand it over to the careerist of Karl X to deal with, doesn't he want to expand the territory? It just so happened that we withdrew and let the Kingdom of Sweden have a good fight with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In any case, the Moscow Praetorian Guard will not be able to set foot on the battlefield anytime soon, and we will need time to re-establish its prestige in the Moscow Praetorian Guard, which has been replenished with a large number of veterans from other units. ”

After hearing this, Andrei nodded approvingly, the appearance of the Moscow Praetorian Guard Corps looks like the soldiers have returned to their peak, and there is even a little surplus, but the interior is filled with a large number of other veterans who have been added after the abolition of the establishment, whether it is to run in with each other or establish the authority of the tsar, it will take time, and this is not a problem that can be solved by a simple oath ceremony.

What's more, this kind of corps, which has just integrated veterans from other units, will also have a lot of combat capability, and it will need some training before it can regain its combat effectiveness.

Of course, even so, the Moscow Praetorian Guard Corps is an old qualified unit after all, and the quality of the soldiers is also very high, and with a large number of other second- and third-line troops, it also has the ability to confront Hong Tiancheng, especially in defensive warfare, those second- and third-line troops can undoubtedly play a higher role.

"Your Majesty, I will send a messenger to consult with Hong Tiancheng, but it is only the ...... of the Duma Council"

Tsar Alexei waved his hand indifferently: "Don't worry about the Duma, they are now toothless tigers, many of them have even lost their own lives, as long as the Moscow Janissaries are still there, they will not be able to turn the sky." ”

At the end of 1654, the Tsar's secret envoy of the Russian Empire secretly went to Hong Tiancheng's camp to conduct peace talks, but unfortunately, Alexei Tsar's idea was too self-righteous, if Hong Tiancheng did not have the support of the all-out war system, he might agree to an armistice with Russia, but Hong Tiancheng, who had a full-scale war system, would be afraid of war?

The most important thing is that losing the city and land will reduce the prestige of the country!

After the authority of the Total War system is upgraded, the settlement method is changed to the strategic level, once Hong Tiancheng agrees to a truce, the Total War system will automatically settle the gains and losses of the war with the Russian Empire, and the loss of the two large territories of Smolensk and Verkhov, Hong Tiancheng can think of what a pitiful system reward he can get with his ass......

If Hong Tiancheng agreed to temporarily return these two pieces of land to the Russian Empire, it is foreseeable that the achievements of the two infantry divisions of the Taiping Army, which had been almost completely annihilated, would be in vain.

The final outcome is likely to be that Hong Tiancheng lost two infantry divisions of the Taiping Army in vain, but only received a symbolic consolation prize......

Of course, Hong Tiancheng will not allow this kind of loss-making transaction to happen!

What's more, Hong Tiancheng still has a killer weapon that has not been used, and the 10,000 elite Guanning Iron Cavalry who are waiting for the day have not yet entered the battlefield.

Hong Tiancheng was unwilling to give up Smolensk and Verkhov, and the Russian tsar was even more unlikely to withdraw his troops from the two places in order to maintain his authority and achievements, and of course, the Russian tsar did not have the heart and strength to launch an attack.

At this time, the climate has entered winter, whether it is the Kingdom of Sweden or the troops of Russia and Hong Tiancheng, they are forced to stop the large-scale offensive, Russia's winter is no joke, fighting in this cold climate, more people are frozen to death than killed.

Although Lao Maozi was more resistant to frost, the Russian tsar did not have the strength to attack, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.

However, Tsar Alexei was very angry at Hong Tiancheng's refusal to reconcile, and ordered a large number of cannon fodder troops to repeatedly besiege the remnants of the more than 2,000 Taiping Army infantry units besieged.

The more than 2,000 infantry of the Taiping Army were scattered in three cities, and they might not starve to death for a year by besieging and running out of food, because the Taiping soldiers would not hesitate to drive out the white civilians who consumed food before the food crisis, and with the number of remnants of the Taiping Army, it was enough to hold out until Hong Tiancheng launched a new offensive.

Therefore, in order to retaliate, Tsar Alexei could only use cannon fodder troops to take turns to consume the remnants of the Taiping army.

Without reinforcements and ammunition supplies, even a group of Russian militia was enough to encircle and annihilate the Taiping army.