"Your Majesty, the Russian army has been deployed layer by layer on the line from Moscow to Rzhev, built a large number of fortresses and fortifications, and stationed far more troops than our army to defend, if our army attacks in an all-out way, even if it can be pushed under the city of Moscow, it will lose a large number of troops, and when the time comes, before the Russian Empire is defeated, other opposing countries will probably attack the kingdom of heaven from other directions like wolves that smell fish."

War Minister Zhao Zan, pointing to the operational map and analyzing.

Today, three of the four full-fledged infantry divisions of the Taiping Army are deployed on the border of the Russian Empire, confronting the Russian Imperial army, and constantly driving the unstable Lithuanian militia to fight a war of attrition against the Russians, while the remaining Taiping Army Line Infantry Division is stationed in the Kiev area as a mobile force.

Although Hong Tiancheng didn't care about the casualties of the Taiping soldiers, he didn't want to be blown up by many parties behind his back, the local power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had just been fully taken over by ordinary administrative officials loyal to Hong Tiancheng, and he didn't want his territory to be turned into a blank field due to the war.

Don't look at the current Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's territory is quite large, in terms of territorial area alone, it has surpassed the former Eastern European overlord Poland and Lithuania, and the Kingdom of Sweden does not want to give more, second only to the Russian Empire.

But most of the Siberian region occupied by the Russian Empire was uninhabited by humans and not much was developed.

However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have much population support in its vast territory, and the territory occupied by the Taiping army may have been a densely populated plain, but with the ravages of several years of war, the local white civilians were either killed by the soldiers, or they became refugees and fled to other countries, and of course, many joined the guerrillas who were similar to the bandits or were coerced by the Christian Brotherhood.

Both the guerrillas and the white civilians who were taken away dragged their families and families together to engage in the 'great cause of rebellion', mainly because they were afraid of the ambitions of the Taiping army, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was never soft on its enemies.

As a result, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a strong army, but did not have enough war potential to support a long battle.

When the Taiping Army just emerged, it won large-scale battles one after another, and it could meet its own ammunition consumption by capturing alone, but now the leaders of Eastern European countries know the strength of the Taiping Army's field warfare, and they are no longer willing to easily fight a large-scale decisive battle with the Taiping Army, which is also the reason why no country dares to invade during the period when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is sorting out its internal affairs.

Of course, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which has a withering population and an economy on the verge of collapse, must try its best to avoid a long-term war of attrition, and in this era the war is all about two legs, and the blitzkrieg is simply impossible to achieve, and the enemy country is an internal line of troops, as long as it is not inefficient to the point of outrageousness, no matter how you look at it, it can react faster than the Taiping army of the attacking side, that is, it can always intercept the attacking Taiping army.

The Taiping army wants to make a detour, so many people's march will definitely not be able to hide, the invaded enemy country can naturally rearrange the defense line, the Taiping army detour time is enough for the enemy country to build a simple fortification, and every town and settlement, theoretically can build a fortification, with the determination of the Russians, this situation is really likely to happen......

After all, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stood on the opposite side of the entire aristocratic group, in this era, the aristocratic group was equivalent to the potential of national mobilization, almost ninety percent of the soldiers and mercenaries were directly or indirectly dependent on the aristocratic group for food, those serfs may not matter, but the serfs will not play much role on the battlefield......

Besides, as long as the nobles are willing to pay their old capital, motivated by money and freedom, and even the status of the knightly reserves, they can easily mobilize a large number of poor Russian gray cattle with only one life left.

Hong Tiancheng can use money and land to win over local white civilians to serve him, and of course those Russians can too!

In the face of the crisis of national annihilation, nothing is impossible.

Xue Taishen looked at Hong Tiancheng who was contemplative, and reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the messenger I just received yesterday reported that the army of the Kingdom of Sweden has reached an agreement with the Christian Brotherhood, and they have begun to land on the coast of Livonia!" ”

Hong Tiancheng raised his eyes and looked at Xue Taishen's delicate and beautiful face, and said to several people present: "The battle is extremely unfavorable for our army, the old foundation of the Russian Empire is still there, and the combat quality of their elite troops themselves is not much different from that of our army. ”

Hong Tiancheng's finger swiped to the Red Rus' region of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom on the battle map, and tapped it twice.

"The elite troops of the Poles have been almost beaten by us, and the standing army system that has been formed has not yet been completed, and the whole country is supported by a group of recruits who have just walked out of the training ground, although they have learned the tactics of the Russians and built a lot of fortifications on the border line, but they are guarded there by a group of farmers who have just picked up arms, I think, with the combat effectiveness of the Taiping warriors, it should not be difficult to break through the Polish defense."

"Your Majesty, although the standing army of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania has nothing to show for it, after all, they are numerous, and even if they attack with the strength of a line infantry division alone, it is easy to be outflanked by the Poles, and we need at least two line infantry divisions to attack at the same time to ensure that nothing goes wrong."

Zhao Yan said.

"It's simple, just transfer a line infantry division from the Russian border, and the vacancy will be filled by the local garrison."

"Your Majesty, in this way, our positions on the Russian border will become weak and insufficient, and the Russians will soon know our hypocrisy, and once we launch an offensive on the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the Russian Empire will most likely launch an attack on our defensive line with only two linear infantry divisions, and then we will face the pressure of fighting on two fronts."

Zhao Yan said worriedly.

"Take the initiative? Hehe, that's exactly what I need, as long as I can lure out the elite of the Russian Empire who are staying in the strong fortress, it is completely necessary to make some sacrifices, if the Russians dare to come out and take advantage of the fire, we will fight a decisive battle with them head-on, and completely eliminate the last stumbling block to our attack on the Russian Empire! ”

In the field, the main force of the Taiping Army never disappointed Hong Tiancheng.