Tsar Alexei took advantage of the Russians' cold resistance in winter to launch a war of attrition to encircle and annihilate the remnants of the Taiping Army in local areas, and also had the intention of luring Hong Tiancheng to send troops.

All of Europe knows how much advantage the Russian Empire had in the winter to fight on its own soil!

Tsar Alexei sent cannon fodder troops to besiege the remnants of the Taiping army, but he himself returned to Moscow with the Moscow Janissaries, and then used the rights of the Tsar in wartime and the Moscow Janissaries who were loyal only to him to force a series of bills in favor of the Tsar in the Duma parliament.

At the same time, minus the wings of those opposition nobles, the great nobles themselves Alexei Tsar could not move, once the butcher's knife was raised against the big nobles, it was easy to cause civil unrest in Russia, especially when the Tsar's personal prestige was not good.

But there was not much problem in removing the wings, and Tsar Alexei wanted to use this opportunity to completely deprive the opposition nobles of the ability to compete with him.

In the spring of 1655, all the remnants of the besieged Taiping army were killed, and Tsar Alexei succeeded in restoring the supremacy of the former tsar in Moscow, but at this moment, one bad news after another came to the city.

The Kiev Guard Division and a Taiping Army Line Infantry Division, together with 10,000 elite Guanning Iron Cavalry, attacked the Smolensk and Verkhov regions in two directions with almost invincible troops.

The mercenaries and second-line troops left by Alexei Tsar there were basically defeated by the Taiping army in one face, even if they relied on the city defense offensive, it only made the Taiping army pay some more casualties, and the Taiping soldiers who were not afraid of death were really terrible!

Smolensk and Verkhov, which the Russian Empire had regained after months of bloody battles and a large number of elite losses, all fell in just over a month......

Hong Tiancheng Bingfeng pointed directly at the Moscow region!

The reason why the Taiping army is progressing so rapidly is mainly because most of the troops that the Russian Empire can fight died in the previous bloody battles, and the rest were merged into the Moscow Janissary Corps by Alexei Tsar and brought back to Moscow City.

In the end, those second- and third-line troops of the Russian Empire simply fled in a organized rout......

When Hong Tiancheng's men captured the city of Tula, Tsar Alexei in the Moscow Palace could no longer sit still!

The opposition of the great nobles who had just been suppressed took advantage of the fact that the front was repeatedly defeated and intended to rebel, but fortunately it was bloodily suppressed by Andrei and the Moscow Praetorian Guard, but the impact afterwards was extremely bad, and Tsar Alexei lost almost all the prestige among the nobles, because in the process of suppression, Andrei's hands were stained with the blood of the nobles!

This has touched the bottom line of the Duma parliament, the Russian nobles who did not participate in the rebellion in order to protect themselves, united to denounce Andrei, and even the Moscow Praetorian Guard Corps has shown signs of instability, no one wants to fight another civil war when the Taiping army invades foreign enemies!

In the end, Tsar Alexei was forced to step down from all his positions in the face of his right-hand man, Andrei, under domestic pressure, leaving him at home for a while, and Tsar Alexei planned to wait until he had overcome this crisis before reactivating Andrei, which was also a common practice in the court.

Andrei stepped down very naturally, because he knew in his heart that as long as Tsar Alexei did not fall, he would have a chance to make a comeback, not to mention, the wealth he looted during his tenure was enough for him to enjoy a rich life, and it was a big deal to go home for a vacation to avoid the limelight.

Andrei's resignation eased the internal contradictions in Moscow to a certain extent, and those Duma nobles who did not participate in the rebellion also accepted it, because they knew that it would be difficult to trip up Tsar Alexei, let alone fight a civil war under the guns of the Taiping army.

After the turmoil in Moscow subsided, Tsar Alexei and the Grand Duma nobles, who had temporarily put aside their contradictions, did their best to mobilize more people to take up arms, and at the same time reorganized and restored the combat effectiveness of the Moscow Janissary Legion, and actively deployed defenses, claiming that they would live and die together in Moscow.

Alexei Tsar and the big nobles in Moscow knew very well in their hearts that if Hong Tiancheng was really desperate, he might not be able to destroy Russia, but the probability of the fall of Moscow was definitely more than half.

Tsar Alexei was inferred mainly from the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Taiping Army, who were not afraid of death.

So, with the intention of trying it out, Tsar Alexei sent a peace envoy after gaining the approval of the majority of the Duma parliament.

If you can't fight, you can negotiate peace, this is also an old routine of European wars, after all, it is not comfortable for the Taiping army to fight, and fighting will kill people!

The most important thing is that Karl X of the Kingdom of Sweden has taken advantage of the beginning of spring to launch another offensive, even if it is not as brilliant as the Taiping army, it is still steadily advancing towards the city of Vilno, and only that Jobs, for some reason, has always been training troops on the border, constantly sending new soldiers to rub against each other with the local garrisons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Alexei Tsar's peace intentions were rarely agreed to by Hong Tiancheng, but they were only conditional peace talks, such as unequal treaties such as the non-return of the areas occupied by the Taiping Army, which is easy to understand, at least Hong Tiancheng did not ask for war reparations, anyway, the Russian Empire has fought the war for so long, and there is no money to compensate......

But there was one request that made Tsar Alexei feel a little strange, and Hong Tiancheng asked Tsar Alexei to have a 'friendly meeting' with himself in front of the two armies.

God's friendliness!

After carefully inspecting the location and steps of the meeting between the two sides, Tsar Alexei found that only Hong Tiancheng and him were in a closed room during the meeting, and they could not carry weapons......

What's more, whether it was in front of the two armies, or close to the Moscow front, once Alexei Tsar himself was in danger, the Russian army could completely open fire so that Hong Tiancheng would not return.

After many parties confirmed in Moscow, Tsar Alexei had to agree to Hong Tiancheng's request, Hong Tiancheng clearly pointed out in the terms of peace talks that if the armistice agreement was not signed by the two in person, it would be an insult to him......

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