195 Christian Brotherhood
"Your Majesty, things are not good, a large-scale popular uprising broke out in the cities of Kleva, Grodno, Minsk and the surrounding towns, the local nobles of the Livonia region formed a coalition of more than 10,000 people, launched an offensive against the territories of the Knights of the Holy Sword that had just been restored, the Russian Empire officially declared war on the kingdom of heaven, and sent more than 50,000 troops at one time, and the troops arrived in the Kiev region in three ways, and the Ukrainian Cossack rebels in the city of Chernihiv have become allies with the Russian Empire, With a large number of firearms supported by the Russian Empire, he gathered manpower to act as the vanguard of the Russian army.
At the same time, the main Polish forces, which were entrenched in the Zhytomyr region and were reluctant to advance to engage our troops, also advanced towards the Kiev region, forming a two-sided attack with the Russian Imperial Army in the north.
According to the information obtained by Jinyiwei, the nobles of the Polotsk Territory and the Pskov Territory have also been in frequent contact recently, recruiting a large number of troops, and it seems that they also plan to send troops to make a profit in this war. ”
Zhao Yan, who was also Hong Tiancheng's military secretary, reported to Hong Tiancheng with an anxious face.
Since Christina was placed under house arrest by Ketler, the situation has developed in favor of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the rabble in Lithuania loyal to Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir has been defeated in the face of the elite purge of the Taiping army, and has been divided into a semi-encirclement by the Taiping army, and the various departments have lost contact with each other, and it is only a matter of time before they are completely wiped out.
The Knights of the Holy Sword, which was supported by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Livonia, under the leadership of Ketler, an old man with both wisdom and prestige, raised an army of 5,000 in just three months, and there were also uncountable armed men of the nature of the peripheral militia, whose power had surpassed that of any powerful nobleman in the Livonian region.
However, before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was ready to subdue the Livonian region and pacify Lithuania, the foreign enemy, who had already agreed on the time, suddenly attacked and gave the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a beautiful combination punch.
The counteroffensive of the Russian Empire, the Poles, the aristocratic coalition of Livonia and even the remnants of the inconspicuous Ukrainian Cossack rebels was not unexpected, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already prepared for such emergencies, but the three major cities in the hinterland of Lithuania suddenly broke out in a large-scale popular uprising, and it was successful!
That's a bit of a weird thing......
How could it be possible to plot an uprising of this magnitude in three large cities, the only 'legitimate' Lithuanian national rebel army in the Lithuanian region, the diehards loyal to the outrageous Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir, who had been beaten into dogs, and who were all too busy to take care of themselves?
The most important thing is that these three cities are all fiefs controlled by the Lithuanian nobles who took the initiative to surrender to Cheng, they are not short-sighted civilian armies, and they know very well that with the location of their fiefdoms, once they make any moves to cross the line, they will attract the main force of the Taiping army to encircle and suppress them in minutes.
What's more, the lords of these three cities and the fiefdoms of the surrounding towns have already handed over a large number of private soldiers and even guardian knights to serve as local security forces, obeying the command of the Taiping Army to suppress the Lithuanian national resistance led by the Grand Duke of Janusz Rajvir, I don't know how much blood of the Lithuanian people has been stained in their hands, and they have completely offended the resistance nobles on the side of the Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir.
Even if Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir was willing to take the blame for the past, I am afraid that he would watch with joy as the main force of the Taiping army besieged the three cities in a crushing posture and swept away the surrounding rebel town fiefdoms......
The Lithuanian nobles who were forced to hand over their elite troops and played the role of doglegs under the knife of the main force of the Taiping Army, they should not have rebelled and rebelled, and fools can see that with the powerful military strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the first time will inevitably extinguish the uprising led by the three major cities in the deep hinterland, that is to say, at the moment of the uprising, these three cities are the cannon fodder chess pieces of the foreign enemy delaying the rescue of the main force of the Taiping Army.
Let a group of unscrupulous Lithuanian nobles who treacherously defect to the alien regime of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom become righteous people who destroy themselves and sacrifice their lives for foreigners to be cannon fodder, unless God and his old man really send down miracles!
Obviously, there is no such imaginary God as God.
Hong Tiancheng asked Zhao Yan with an inexplicable expression: "Tell me specifically what happened to the popular uprising led by the three major cities of Ske, Grodno, and Kleva, and did the 'Heavenly Honor Nobles' in these uprising areas also commit treason?" ”
According to the latest Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Act, all the local nobles who took the initiative to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were collectively referred to as the Honorary Nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom, and the honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom needed to bear a certain amount of tribute and military service according to the size of the reserved fiefs.
For example, when the Kingdom of Heaven is short of food, the tribute of the honorary nobles of the Kingdom of Heaven will increase the proportion of grain, and even pay all of the grain if necessary, and so on, all according to the needs of the Celestial Kingdom.
Military service is the shackles used by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to control the military power of these Heavenly Kingdom honorary nobles who have fiefs, in addition to the necessary guards, the rest of the private army and guardian knights must take turns to go to the occupied areas directly under the Heavenly Kingdom to serve as security servants, so that even if the Heavenly Kingdom honorary nobles want to rebel one day, there will be no one available, not to mention that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will also arrange inspectors and brocade guards to spy on both light and dark in the fiefdoms of the Heavenly Kingdom honorary nobles.
It was precisely because the monitoring conditions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were so harsh that Hong Tiancheng did not believe that those honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom with weak knees were willing to risk the risk of losing their heads to raise the flag, could it be that it was so boring to eat, drink and have fun all day long plus enjoy the first night rights of the serfs?
Do you have to play a thrilling rebellion game to try how hard your brain is?
"Your Majesty the Heavenly King, none of the Heavenly Honor Nobles participated in the rebel army in these regions, on the contrary, according to the secret agents of the Jinyi Guards who escaped, all the local Heavenly Kingdom Honorary Noble Lords were slaughtered by the people armed with sharp weapons on the day of the uprising, and the little guards of the Heavenly Honor Nobles could not stop the large number of rebels at all.
Leading the popular rebel army is an extremist religious organization that has recently emerged among the people, the Christian Brotherhood!
Because of the conversion of the Taiping Army and the study of Han culture in the Heavenly Kingdom, the fiefdoms of the honorary nobles of the Heavenly Kingdom who were not garrisoned by our army had a crisis of faith, which led to the rapid development of extremely violent organizations such as the Christian Brotherhood, so there was a vicious incident such as a large-scale uprising. ”