After the decisive battle of East Prussia, Frederick and other German nobles fled directly to the territory of the German region in Central Europe with their cronies, and when they came, they had more than 60,000 troops, and when they returned, they couldn't even gather 600 people......

Most of the soldiers who fled did not return to their original posts, and only a few natives of East Prussia were absorbed by the local garrison and became the main force to resist the Taiping offensive next.

Although the regular army of East Prussia was annihilated, every city and fortress had its original garrison, and due to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's unsparing attack on the white aristocracy, many local nobles in East Prussia chose the road of resistance.

It's a pity that even if the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army suffered huge losses in the decisive battle, there were still more than 10,000 people left, plus the help of 10 12-pound mountain howitzers, it was almost a god to block and kill the Buddha.

The 12-pounder mountain howitzer can be used not only in field warfare, but in siege warfare, where artillery is most widely used.

As long as 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers are set up and bombarded at the head of the city, the defenders in the city will inevitably collapse, and then with the combat power of the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army, they can be taken in one go.

General towns and fortresses, often after the 12-pound mountain howitzer bombardment, they surrendered directly to fate, did not kill a few Taiping elite grenadiers, but there are also a few tenacious cities and noble castles, after the city wall is lost, in the city to organize dead soldiers and professional troops, and the Taiping army elite grenadiers to fight tragic street battles, until the entire city is killed into a sea of corpses and blood, can be taken!

Even many civilians, inspired by the nobles defending the city, took up arms and fought fiercely against the elite grenadiers of the Taiping army!

The reason why the commoners of East Prussia responded en masse was not because the local nobles were famous enough, but because the Taiping army had too much black history......

The Holy Treasury System, the Taiping Doctrine, the Compulsory Chinese Test of the Fourth and Sixth Levels, the Racial Grading System, etc., have an extremely bad negative impact on the white civilian class, if no one takes the lead, in order to survive, the white commoners will accept their fate, but under the rich benefits given by their own nobles and lords, and under the slogan of preaching victory, the ignorant foolish people will naturally take up arms to resist!

Such a rebellion is the end of a river of blood......

More than 100 years later, the revolutionary forefathers armed with the advanced "Gongchan" ideology were slaughtered by the Prussian army that entered the city, almost slaughtering the whole of Paris and extinguishing the flame of revolution.

Not to mention the die-hard elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army?

As this recalcitrant street fighting caused great casualties to the elite grenadiers of the Taiping army, the Taiping army, in order to retaliate and warn other cities, carried out a bloody slaughter campaign against all recalcitrant cities and castles.

Sure enough, after the news of the massacre spread in East Prussia, the number of cities resisting immediately decreased geometrically, and it turned out that the people who were afraid of death still accounted for the vast majority......

In this way, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army and 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers, in the way of slaughtering the city, regained the strong attack all the way and took the whole of East Prussia.

Because the resistance of East Prussia was very tenacious and had no intention of fighting guerrilla warfare, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army suffered great losses, and after the full occupation of East Prussia, only more than 5,000 troops remained.

After the complete occupation of East Prussia, the local guerrilla resistance force was very small, and there were no guerrillas who were named, at most some bandits who took advantage of the fire to rob their compatriots under the banner of guerrillas......

For the logistics convoy and soldiers of the Taiping Army, they did not dare to do anything at all, this is the deterrent power brought by the bloody massacre!

To put it simply, the diehards have all died on the battlefield, and there is a group of people left who are reluctant to steal their lives, so they naturally dare not jump out and find themselves uncomfortable.

After the pacification of East Prussia, the remaining 5,000 elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army were reorganized into an independent reinforced regiment, which was temporarily stationed in East Prussia to assist the administrative officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom system who later felt that they would transfer power to the local area, and the recruitment and training of the local security regiment.

At the same time, the Han Concord Army, which was formed by East Prussians, also began to be formed.

Of course, a series of policies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will also be implemented one by one, such as the concept of racial hierarchy, the Chinese level 4 and 6 exams, and the conversion of the Taiping Church.

East Prussia was run by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a native country, which is why the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army dared to be ruthless during the attack on East Prussia.

After taking East Prussia, Hong Tiancheng received a phased reward for territory and decisive battles in the all-out war system, and received 2,000 points of personal prestige and four points of national prestige.

Two points came from the victory in that decisive battle, and two points from the actual occupation of East Prussia.

The main reason for such a high reward this time is that the resistance of East Prussia was strong, which led to a lot of tough battles for the Taiping army, and that decisive battle with fewer victories was highly evaluated in the all-out war system!

Therefore, the Total War system issued phased rewards after Hong Tiancheng received only one piece of East Prussia.

Hong Tiancheng exchanged four points of national prestige for two Tianwang Guards divisions, and the two elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army became more than 5,000 people, in exchange for 2,000 prestige points plus two fully manned Tianwang Guards divisions, which can be described as a big profit!

The most important thing is that after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took East Prussia, the territory of the mainland was completely connected into a single territory, and the territory in the west expanded directly to the Baltic Sea coast!

For Hong Tiancheng, the capture of East Prussia not only made the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom intact, but more importantly, the main force of the coalition forces of the German opposition led by Frederick had been destroyed, and in a short period of time, they were no longer able to organize a group of elite field corps.

In Brandenburg, Saxony, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Hanover, Mainz, Cologne, Hamburg and other German states, there are still many sources of reservists, but most of these reservists have not completed the training course of line infantry, but they are only a little stronger than the newly recruited recruits, and their combat strength is not comparable with the German allied officers and soldiers led by Frederick in the Battle of East Prussia.

Against the Taiping army, at most, they can only defend the city......

In the face of such a large piece of fat, how could Hong Tiancheng let it go?

The 5th and 6th Guards Divisions and 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers gathered on the border of the Duchy of Brandenburg under the orders of Hong Tiancheng, ready to attack at any time.

On the other hand, Hong Tiancheng fulfilled his covenant with Leopold I and personally led the 1st to 4th Heavenly King's Guards divisions to press the independent areas of the Czech national uprising.

At the beginning of 1664, after the integration of East Prussia was completed and preparations for war, Hong Tiancheng and King Leopold I of Austria issued a joint statement to impose sanctions on the 'rebels' in the Kingdom of Austria.