"The Taipings?"

The Zaporosh Cossack officers suddenly fell into an argument, and a bald Zaporosh Cossack officer with a somewhat short temper shouted directly to Khmelnitsky:

"Chief, we don't know anything about the Tartars of the Taiping Army, so we have the courage to send people over, can we succeed?

What's more, it is not certain whether the Taiping Army is an enemy or a friend! The Crimean Tatars have always treated us as knives, and the sky was blown before the uprising, and as soon as the main force of the Poles came, they disappeared and could not be seen, and the Tatars were a group of people who bullied the weak and feared the hard! ”

"No, no, no, listen to me." Khmelnitsky paused for a moment, slightly organized his own words, and explained in a deep voice: "Ever since the leader of the Taiping Army named Hong Tiancheng completely annihilated a regular Polish army of 2,000 men, I have been sending people to pay attention to this group of Tatar troops that suddenly appeared.

You should know that Zhytomyr is the territory of the first-class Koniecpolsky family of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, where nearly half of the elite of the Koniecpolsky family are gathered!

It was such a fortified city, but it was taken by a group of little-known Tatar Taiping troops, so it can be said that the military power controlled by Hong Tiancheng is already qualified to negotiate with us.

I have asked people to check that although Hong Tiancheng's group of Taiping troops appeared very suddenly, they have been fighting against the Poles since they appeared, and the ferocity of their methods is comparable to ours, and the only four large Polish towns in the Zhytomyr region have been looted by the Taiping army, and all the population has been taken away.

This Hong Tiancheng used religious demagogy to treat the coerced Poles as cannon fodder, and almost all the Polish armed forces controlled by the Taiping Army died in the war with the Polish regular army, which even we dare not come to nonsense.

What is amazing is that the Taiping Army, which has done such an angry thing, is getting stronger and stronger, and now they have all moved into Zhytomyr City, and that Hong Tiancheng even appointed himself as the general of the Taiping Army after occupying Zhytomyr City! ”

Khmelnitsky said that he first sighed, if he hadn't personally sent someone to confirm it again and again, he wouldn't have believed in the history of the rise of the Taiping Army, all this happened is too unbelievable, the biggest doubt is, where did Hong Tiancheng come from so many army sources?

Khmelnitsky took great pains to raise the army, not to work hard to pull out this bit of money.

Of course, Khmelnitsky did not explain the unscientific aspects of the Taiping Army to his henchmen, he felt that there was no need for that, and he did not want to be treated as a 'magic stick' by his subordinates.

"Chief, what kind of Hong Tiancheng can he be, dare to proclaim himself a general? Why didn't he just make himself a king himself, in one step! Colonel Bogon replied indignantly.

Due to the Crimean Khanate's refusal to save the city of Kiev, Colonel Bogun's perception of the Tatars was extremely poor, and he naturally hated Hong Tiancheng, who was born as a 'yellow-skinned Mongolian Tatar'.

Khmelnitsky silently glanced at Colonel Bogon, and replied word by word: "Because, Hong Tiancheng now has more than 10,000 troops!" And all of them are real troops, not people who have been temporarily pulled up!

In addition to artillery, the Taiping army has a very high rate of firearms, and the will to fight is extremely strong, it is rumored that in the small town of Beshev and Krysztof's tens of thousands of troops fought for a day and a night, from the early morning of the first day to the morning of the next day, from the offensive and defensive battles at the head of the city to the street battles, the corpses covered the walls and streets of Beshef, and in the end, the Taiping army, which was far less than the Poles, completely annihilated Krysztof's men and horses, and even Krysztof himself was captured!

What's more interesting is that Krysztov, a famous warrior of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup was poured by Hong Tiancheng, and completely fell to Hong Tiancheng's Taiping army, under his command ruled thousands of Taiping army disciples composed of Polish prisoners of war. ”

When Khmelnitsky's words fell, the hall suddenly became silent, and the Zaporosh Cossack officers looked at me and I look at you, with a look of disbelief, if these things had not come from the mouth of the Khmelnitsky chieftain, whom they respected and followed, they would have cursed the unashamed people with a lot of swearing......

After a long time, Colonel Bogon, who was the first to calm down, looked at Khmelnitsky seriously: "Chief, this Taiping army may really be the hope of our Kiev city to get out of trouble, the Polish army outside has suffered much greater losses than us under the strong attack for several days, at this time, if tens of thousands of elites of the Taiping army stick a knife in the back and cooperate with us inside and outside, the Poles will not have much power to fight back." ”

Khmelnitsky nodded and smiled: "You are right, the premise is that the Taiping army is willing to help us, you know, now we are besieged, and the Taiping army has tens of thousands of troops, and has just defeated all the troops of the Koniecpolsky family in the Zhytomyr region, and there is no Polish army entering the Zhytomyr region for the time being, Hong Tiancheng can be said to be proud of the spring breeze at this time."

Let me ask, why did we let Hong Tiancheng's Taiping army help us? ”

"Their Taiping army and the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania have become mortal enemies, the Taiping army's slaughter of the city and the people's practice is even more cruel than ours, Hong Tiancheng as long as his brain does not cramp, he must know that the Poles will never spare him, if he does not support the city of Kyiv, after our defeat, the next target of the main Polish force is Zhytomyr City!"

Colonel Bogon confidently analyzed.

The cunning color in the depths of Khmelnitsky's eyes flashed away, and he patted Colonel Bogon on the shoulder with a look of relief on the surface: "Bogon is worthy of being the resourceful 'military advisor' among us, and he has hit the nail on the head of the matter in one sentence, and this matter is very important, I wonder if Colonel Bogon is willing to deign to go to Zhytomyr City in person?" ”

Colonel Bogun was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then replied with a righteous and awe-inspiring chest in the eager and suspicious eyes of many Zaporosh Cossack officers: "That's natural, chief, please rest assured, this time I am eighty percent sure that I will pull in reinforcements from the Taiping Army, and I will definitely not disappoint the expectations of my brothers!" ”

After hearing this, Khmelnitsky gave a few words of encouragement, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the Zaporosh Cossack officers in the hall, and found that many of them were displeased with Colonel Bogon, who had stolen the limelight, and his eyes could not help but become more 'calm'.

Bogon, a colonel with outstanding military achievements, can only be a pawn in the eyes of Khmelnitsky!

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