"Your Majesty, the reason for the annihilation of the 'grass' squad in the Livonian border area has been ascertained, and it was done by a group of knights and nobles living in Livonia."

The commander of the Jinyi Guard made Xue Taishen hold up the 'murder weapon' that he was proud of, and reported to Hong Tiancheng with a calm gaze.

"Huh? The nobles of Livonia still have the strength to prevent us from going to collect supplies? Didn't we have two battalions of the headquarters of the elite of the Taiping Army confronting the Livonian noble alliance? Hong Tiancheng frowned and said in a deep voice.

The loss of more than a dozen elite musketeers of the Taiping Army and hundreds of white servants cannon fodder is nothing, but the reason for this incident must be clarified by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the small detachment that wants to eliminate the Taiping Army cannot be a wandering guerrilla scatter, God knows if this will be a symbol of the next military operation of the great nobles of the Livonia region.

Therefore, after the Taiping army detachment did not return for many days, the Jinyi Guard, who had just entered the right track of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, sent capable men to investigate the cause of its disappearance.

If the nobles of the Livonia region really don't want to do something on their own, Hong Tiancheng would rather sit back and watch the national resistance army in Lithuania temporarily grow, and also transfer the main force of the Taiping army to suppress the rebellion and suppress it, and bulldoze the noble castles in the Livonia region!

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was able to steadily develop and suppress the popular rebellion in Lithuania under the indignation of people and gods, precisely because the Taiping Army was as strong as a mad dog, and as long as the surrounding hostile forces did not have overwhelming strength, they did not dare to act as the first bird to the peak of the Taiping Army, and the fall of Lithuania was a good example.

In this era, communications and military deployment are extremely backward and inefficient, and if you want to wait for the surrounding countries to gather troops to respond, I don't know how long you have to wait, once the Taiping army ignores the main force gathered to attack a neighbor around it, even if other people want to rescue, I am afraid it will be too late, at most to carry out a flanking attack on the occupied areas of the Taiping army, and carry out so-called mutual harm......

Obviously, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as a foreign invader, did not care about the repeated ravages of war in the occupied areas, and it was not surprising that the Taiping army would give up first and then hide back in a scorched earth with the urine nature of the Taiping army.

In the case that they were not willing to be the first birds, the Taiping army was naturally arrogant, and the grass threshing team sent abroad to collect materials was a naked contempt and encroachment on the surrounding neighbors.

The armies of those hostile local nobles can only be used to guard the essence of their hinterland, and they can only helplessly watch the Taiping army's expatriate detachment wreak havoc on the vast border, not because they don't have the strength to annihilate this Taiping army's expatriate detachment, but because they don't want to touch the sensitive and fanatical nerves of the Taiping army.

The two sides can also be said to maintain a kind of 'peace' in a state of war, and the real nobles' own fiefdoms were not plundered by the Taiping army, and the real sufferers were the commoners and farmers in remote areas.

"Your Majesty, it was not the famous nobles who confronted our army in Livonia who annihilated our army, but a group of remnants of the former Holy Sword Knights, after the dissolution of the Holy Sword Knights, some of the members of the Knights who were willing to accept the rule of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania were allowed to stay, relying on the original few fiefs for a living, these people are basically natives of the Livonia region, and they have a certain prestige in the local area, and the original Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom also agreed to appease the people in the Livonian region."

"Are they strong? Why fight with our squad? Hong Tiancheng asked suspiciously.

He had already figured out the so-called discipline of the knights of this era, they were not much different from the big aristocratic groups, and under the packaging of courage and honor, there was also a deep instinctive evil desire of human nature.

Even if the Taiping army squad really swept into a knight's territory, this knight could take a small amount of family property and horses and gallop away, and he couldn't fight with the Taiping army squad at all, because the Taiping army's combat effectiveness had spread all over the Eastern European steppes, and few knights were willing to fight with the fierce Taiping soldiers for the lives of a group of untouchables, and most importantly, their absolute strength was not dominant!

The knightly class is not afraid of sacrifice, they just don't want their sacrifice to be meaningless, and it is clear that sacrificing their lives for a group of untouchables is of little value in their eyes.

Anyone can shout the slogan of saving the country and the people, but in wartime, the most people who die are often civilians, and it is obvious that the slogan is a slogan after all, and there is still a big gap with reality.

"Your Majesty, the Holy Sword Knights have long since disappeared, and this group of people is almost the last 'martyrs' of the Holy Sword Knights, as for why they are resolutely fighting with our small team, it seems that they are escorting a person of noble status, what is the specific identity Since we do not control the intelligence network of Livonia, we do not know, only know that it is a young noble woman."

Hong Tiancheng bowed his head slightly and fell into contemplation, he didn't take the noble woman to heart, as long as he wanted to, he could wave his hand and call a dozen noble ladies to give him a and pose in various poses by the way, "What's that", he was thinking about the identity of the last martyr of the Holy Sword Knights.

The word martyr is not qualified for everyone to be detained, it is impossible for Xue Taishen, who is capable and accurate, not to know the meaning of this word and use it indiscriminately, martyrs often have one thing in common, they are willing to fight for a certain ideal or 'delusion' and are willing to protect and fight at the expense of their own lives!

The Holy Sword Knights have been wiped out for decades, and the biggest enemy cannot be the Taiping Army, and the remnants of this group of Holy Sword Knights naturally cannot regard the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as their biggest enemy, and the martyrs will not be the so-called saviors because of the life and death of ordinary people......

According to normal logical reasoning, the martyrs of the long-dead Knights of the Holy Sword Knights have nothing more than two goals: 1. To re-establish the legacy of the Knights of the Holy Sword; 2. Revenge!

These two goals were easy for the Taiping army, and there were many reasons for the fall of the Knights of the Holy Sword, including the Kingdom of Sweden, the former Grand Duchy of Moscow, the current Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

These three countries are precisely Hong Tiancheng's biggest enemies!

On top of that, the remnants of the Knights of the Holy Sword are native to Livonia and have a good reputation in the local area!

"Xue Taishen, maybe we can find a more labor-saving way to completely take Livonia, and it will become more stable after the war."