"Your Majesty, do you have any urgent matters that I need to deal with?" Xue Taishen, who was suddenly called by Hong Tiancheng, asked with a solemn face.

Hong Tiancheng, who had just completed the exchange arrangement for the elite musketeers of a division of the Taiping Army, raised his eyes to look at the slender figure of Xue Taishen, who was wearing a tight-fitting special brocade guard command uniform, and said: "You tell me in detail about the current situation around the Kingdom of Heaven, we have an elite division of the main Taiping Army headquarters, and I need to determine the next action target." ”

Xue Taishen's eyes flashed slightly, and he replied solemnly: "Your Majesty, since the Russian Empire has issued a full-scale war mobilization order, there are a steady stream of small groups of Russian recruits and reinforcements in the Smolensk region, but because the time is still short, it has not formed a scale to change the situation of the war, and the reinforcements from the provinces that do not border the Russian Empire and the Smolensk region are all going to Moscow City, so the resistance that Lord Zhao encounters is limited.

Although the speed of Lord Zhao's attack has decreased slightly, the overall situation is still favorable to our army, but the battle losses are much larger than at the beginning, and according to the current casualty situation in the Smolensk theater, I am afraid that there will not be many Lithuanian militia left after the war.

In addition, because a large number of Lithuanian militia have been transferred, the control of the Kingdom of Heaven over the rural areas has decreased exponentially, and there have recently been three reported raids and looting of the Lithuanian National Resistance Front at the township level, in which more than half of the reported villages and towns have all the families of the Lithuanian militia been hacked to death by the militants of the Lithuanian National Resistance Front.

As for how many villages and towns that have not been reported have been 'sanctioned' by the militants of the Lithuanian National Resistance Front, we cannot count them at all, these rebels, who have been undoubtedly bandits, do not dare to attack the garrisons of our army and the towns where the security forces are stationed, and only take those villages that are not garrisoned by our troops, and the methods of doing things are very brutal, and the impact is extremely bad, and many Lithuanian civilians who have heard the rumors have either defected to the Lithuanian National Resistance Front or moved their families to large towns.

If the fertile soil is abandoned on a large scale, this year's harvest will probably be reduced by several percent. ”

"It's okay to block the news." Hong Tiancheng asked indifferently.

"That's natural, subordinates assure that no news from within the Kingdom of Heaven will reach the ears of the Lithuanian militia at the front."

"Well, that's fine, the output of the collective farms opened up by the officials and slaves of the Kingdom of Heaven is enough to feed tens of thousands of Taiping troops, and the rest of the land will only be starved to death by their own Lithuanians, and the wealth of our towns and big cities is enough.

There are no signs of danger in the north and west of the kingdom. ”

"Returning to His Majesty, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in the west has all its energy on the Battle of Kiev, the ambush battle their Polish hussar essence was wiped out in one battle, I don't know how many Polish noble knights died on the battlefield, the Council of Sem is trying to stop the loss of each other's skin and lick their wounds, and they have no energy to covet the territory of the Heavenly Kingdom.

The development of the Christian Brotherhood in the north is very rapid, they have just destroyed the Knights of the Holy Sword that have been useless to them, and killed the second son of Ketler who mastered the Knights of the Holy Sword on the battlefield, however, the Christian Brotherhood implements extreme religious rule in Livonia, as long as the civilians who do not believe in Christ, they will be excluded and exploited by heavy religious taxes, many people in Livonia believe in Orthodox Christianity and polytheism, although the Christian Brotherhood has accepted a large number of believers to enrich itself, But it also uprooted many people who did not want to convert to Christianity.

These people were absorbed by the remnants of the Holy Sword Knights, and the heirs of Ketler had been completely eradicated by the Christian Brotherhood during the war, and these remnants of the Holy Sword Knights did not have a clear backbone at all, and they could only rely on our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to survive, such as the establishment of several tuntian residences on the northern border of the Kingdom today to house the remnants of the Holy Sword Knights and the displaced people, and the remnants of the Holy Sword Knights and the young men among the displaced people are undergoing military training under the leadership of our soldiers, They will be the first cannon fodder in a war against a possible Christian Brotherhood.

With these people, the numerical disadvantage of the Kingdom of Heaven on the northern border has been greatly alleviated, and even if the expanded Christian Brotherhood wants to go south, it will not be able to break through the cordon set by the Kingdom of Heaven for a while. ”

"Well, let's talk about the situation in the battle of Kyiv." Hong Tiancheng bowed his head slightly and motioned for Xue Taishen to continue.

"Your Majesty, although our army won a brilliant victory in the Kiev campaign, due to the large gap between the enemy and our forces, the Kiev region has now become a mess, and the commander of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force, General Menderov, through the temptation of promising Ukrainians and Cossack warriors to establish a state, prompted the Ukrainian Cossack leader Ivan Hilko to call on all Ukrainians and Cossacks in the Kiev region to jointly oppose the rule of heaven. With the support of the Russians, Vygovsky formed and trained a group of Ukrainian national resistance troops with Ukrainian farmers as the main body.

The Ukrainian national resistance army uses all Russian-style equipment, receives regular army training from shooting instructors, and has the morale support of the founding of the country, although it is a local guerrilla force, but its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary bandits, and it has dealt a fatal blow to the logistics of the Taiping Army to which Xiang Dongqiang belongs.

In order to ensure the supply of the army, Xiang Dongqiang could only rely on local raids, but fortunately, the victory allowed the Taiping army under the command of Xiang Dongqiang to seize an inexhaustible supply of ammunition, and the weapons could still support it for a long time.

In order to reduce the casualties of attacking the Russian army's field fortifications, Xiang Dongqiang forcibly enslaved many local civilians as human cannon fodder, and at the same time, the supplies of the Ukrainian national resistance army that did not produce were also 'collected' from the local villagers.

In order to get as few supplies as possible for Xiangdongqiang, the Russians privately connived at the Ukrainian national resistance, and if they did not serve the Ukrainian national resistance, they would be labeled as traitors, and the end would be no better than being captured by Xiangdongqiang, and if this situation continues, the Kyiv region may be so rotten that it cannot be saved! ”

"It is impossible for the land to grow wings and fly away, as long as the city of Kyiv is in the hands of heaven, the restoration of local production in the Kyiv region is only a matter of plundering the population.

Xue Taishen, what I want to know is how the war is going in the battle of Kyiv. ”