After the coalition of the Polotsk nobility was defeated, the main force of the Taiping army never encountered a decent battle again, and although the Polotsk people showed strong resistance to the entry of the Taiping army, these so-called emotions were so pale in the face of muskets and swords.

The brutal Taiping once again demonstrated their way of ruling over the newly conquered lands – to live on their knees or to die standing up!

For this reason, many young and strong towns in the Polotsk region, unwilling to accept the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's conversion and cruel exploitation policies, ganged up and ganged up under the leadership of some 'acquaintances' to pack their bags and wade through mountains and rivers to the hidden recruitment points set up by the Christian Brotherhood.

Under the slogan that God must return to the land of Eastern Europe, a large number of Christians and even village priests have taken the initiative to become members of the Christian Brotherhood, they may not be able to take up arms to fight, but they can provide a lot of convenience to the Christian Brotherhood in private.

intelligence, material purchases and transportation, and the delivery of 'young men who are not afraid of death' to the receiving points of the Christian Brotherhood.

Therefore, what is not clear to the ruling classes of Eastern Europe is that after the fall of Polotsk, the biggest beneficiary, except for Hong Tiancheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was the founder of the Christian Brotherhood who was hidden behind the scenes!

The entry of the Taiping Army drove out a large number of aspiring young men in Polotsk in disguise, and continued to increase the strength of the Christian Brotherhood.

Of course, these are inconsequential details at the national level, just like when the Christian Brotherhood was preaching, everything was carried out in private among the people, and for the upper nobles and even Hong Tiancheng who were all focused on the war and the Taiping Army, it was difficult to screen the civilians at the bottom, even the energy of the Jinyi Wei spies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was more focused on foreign wars and internal suppression, and there was no additional strength to investigate the civil forces of the Christian Brotherhood.

At the beginning of 1652, the discipline of the European aristocracy was once again 'tested', and the city of Polotsk surrendered in a very dignified manner after three days of symbolic resistance......

Because they don't want to try the beheading knife of the Taiping army to slaughter the city after the Taiping army enters the city!

In fact, after the lords of Polotsk City ran away, the morale of the Polotsk resistance collapsed, and the commander who remained was just a junior officer, and the only reason why he was promoted was because he was the 'first man' to resist resolutely without fear of death.

The fleeing lord of Polotsk apparently did not want the Taiping army to take the rich city unharmed, so he forcibly brought up the staunch resistance in a triple jump, only to be killed in his house by other officers who were greedy for life and soldiers who were also afraid of death.

It's okay if you're not afraid of death, but it's your fault to drag everyone to die together, so it's better to send you to hell.

After the fall of Polotsk, the entire Polotsk region fell in less than two weeks, and the remaining Polotsk nobles either became honorary nobles of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, handed over their private soldiers and a certain amount of supplies to help the Taiping army manage the Polotsk region, or died in their own castles.

However, more than half of the Polotsk lords have chosen to flee this option, the honorary nobles of Lithuania have been washed clean by the rebels, these nobles do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, the Taiping army's 'procrastination' when the honorary nobles are attacked, everyone sees it, except for the kind of noble lords who are desperate enough to think that the Taiping army is invincible, the rational nobles have chosen to flee.

When the Taiping Army invaded the Polotsk territory, the war in the Kiev region also escalated further, and the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force paid the price of tens of thousands of people to finally clean up the outer defense line of Kiev City, and then hit a big bag under the perfect Kiev city defense system.

At the same time, the main Polish forces on the other side of the Kiev region also successfully poured into the Kiev region, and after the Taiping army in Kiev City contracted its strength, they marched all the way to take a large number of ruined towns and villages without a single soldier, and finally, on a high ground west of the outskirts of Kiev, successfully joined the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force......

At this point, the entire Kiev region fell except for the city of Kiev.

Kiev, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, seems to have become the enemy's pocket!

This situation undoubtedly gave the white people who were oppressed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hope of liberation, and indirectly increased the number of members of the Christian Brotherhood.

However, unlike the fall of the land in the southern part of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the progress of the Taiping forces in the north has been smooth, except for the entry of the Polotsk territory, the Knights of the Holy Sword in the Livonian region, with the help of two battalions of the Taiping Army headquarters, successfully gathered thousands of Livonian noble coalition troops, and severely damaged the resistance of the Livonian noble coalition army.

The control area of the Knights of the Holy Sword has expanded to nearly half of Livonia at once!

For the first time, the strength of the Holy Sword Knights really overwhelmed the Livonian aristocratic alliance, and the Taiping Army headquarters of those two battalions were withdrawn as a result.

In order to make up for the establishment, the Kingdom of Heaven reorganized the main force of the Taiping Army into four full regiments, which just made up for the death of a large number of officers and the shortage of soldiers.

After Hong Tiancheng took the Polotsk region, he finally ushered in the reward hint of the long-lost all-out war system.

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