"What? You say that the tens of thousands of horses led by my brother Krysztof were wiped out? Wiped out by a Tatar bandit army with less than 3,000 troops?! ”

General Stanisław Koniecpolsky, who heard the latest report from his subordinates, opened his mouth in disbelief.

General Stanisław Kniecpolsky expected the worst outcome to be Krysztov's defeat, after all, Krysztoff's command ability and superiority in strength were there, and it was really incomprehensible that so many commanders of the troops were captured and the entire corps was lost.

At least, General Stanisław Koniecpolsky could not figure it out.

"Could it be that Hong Tiancheng really has unpredictable abilities, not only to summon the army, but also to change the direction of the war?"

General Stanisław Kōniecpolsky, who couldn't figure out conventional thinking, quickly turned his mind in an unbelievable direction, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was likely to be 'true'!

"General, before the Taiping Army started the war, in addition to more than 2,500 core troops, there were thousands of Polish slave soldiers who were coerced and brainwashed, and if you count the number alone, the Taiping Army is only less than 2,000 people less than General Krysztof in terms of strength."

"Nonsense! Are the peasants who were forced to take up arms inferior to the lowliest recruits in Krysztoff's corps?

If that kind of farmer could be used, our Polish-Lithuanian kingdom would have unified the whole of Eastern Europe long ago!

Alright, you go down first. ”

"Yes, General."

General Stanisław Kniecpolsky paced back and forth in the living room, and his mind began to think about all kinds of demonic tales about the legends of the Church, and the 'theological' details that he had never taken to heart kept playing in the mind of General Stanisław Koniecpolsky.

After being silent for a long time, General Stanisław Konecpolsky, as if he had figured out one of the key points, called his attendants and told his subordinates to put in order to take everything they could take away, and planned to leave with all the personal belongings of the personal guards and Zhytomyr!

"Krysztof was captured by Hong Tiancheng, I don't have to do anything, he is finished, there is no obstacle for me to ascend to the position of the patriarch of the Koniecpolsky family, and my old father who is lying on the hospital bed can't resist for long, this Hong Tiancheng's ruthlessness, it's better to leave it to others to deal with.

Although the loss of Zhytomyr will bring shame to the Konietspolsky family, it is at least much stronger than smashing the family in this bottomless abyss, if the Taiping army is really as powerful as I speculated, maybe the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania should also change, and the Koniecpolsky family, under my leadership, must get the most out of this upheaval! ”

General Stanisław Kniecpolski, with a glint of ambition in his eyes, mentally reversed his plans and aimed at the city of Warsaw (the capital of Poland), which he had never imagined.

After Krysztov had taken out almost all of the army, the only cavalry of General Stanisław Koniecpolsky's personal guard and a few Polish hussars were left to fight, except for a few militiamen of a security nature who acted as city guards.

General Stanisław Konecpolsky, upon hearing the news of the annihilation of Krysztov's army, quickly ordered to pack all his belongings, load dozens of large transport wagons, and rush to the city of Lutsk with his own personal guard.

Of course, Lutsk was just a transit point for General Stanisław Koniecpolski, whose final destination was his family's direct domain, passing through many cities of the great Polish nobility along the way to make some 'mutually beneficial' deals.

Hong Tiancheng's Taiping religious ceremonies benefited from the backward means of communication of this era, and spread extremely slowly, and under the deliberate blockade of General Stanisław Koniecpolsky, it spread to other cities.

Therefore, in addition to Krysztov, the person who knows the Taiping Army best today is General Stanisław Konecpolsky, who, after realizing the horror of the Taiping Army, abandoned the city of Zhytomyr at the same time, but also thought of using the Taiping Army as a knife.

Most of the responsibility for the loss of Zhytomyr can be thrown to Krysztov, which has already been arranged by General Stanisław Koniecpolsky, who can also use Krysztov's defeat to get out of this counterinsurgency war to encircle and suppress the Ukrainian Cossacks.

According to the convention of the Council of Sem, the Konietspolsky family, which had suffered heavy losses, had the right to choose to withdraw from the counterinsurgency campaign, of course, if the Konietspolsky family did this, they would basically only be in the position of playing soy sauce in the subsequent distribution of loot.

Only the greater the victory in the battle and the greater the number of troops, the greatest spoils of war can be obtained, and under the aristocratic democracy of the Council of Sem, it is difficult for even the king of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania to favor his own people.

General Stanisław Kōniecpolsky's decision was a good thing for his family, to take a break from the strangeness of facing the Taiping army in time to preserve their strength, and wait for the tide of battle to covet the crown that could not have fallen on the head of General Stanisław Koniecpolsky, but it would be a disaster for the people of Zhytomyr!

It was impossible for General Stanisław Koniecpolsky to evacuate on such a scale from all strata of Zhytomyr, who, upon discovering the 'move' of the owner of Zhytomyr, General Stanisław Koniecpolsky, immediately set off a chain reaction and dragged his family to flee Zhytomyr with the troops of General Stanisław Koniecpolsky.

This mass exodus became even more serious when the news of the total annihilation of General Krysztof spread in Zhytomyr, and the town of Beshev was not far from Zhytomyr!

In this era of war, those who have a small fortune are the ones who suffer the most from war, because they have little influence, they have no military power, they do not occupy a majority in numbers, and they have no pressure to slaughter.

Therefore, whenever a city is breached by foreign and foreign troops, this group of people is often the first to attack, and it is a problem for those civilians to eat one by one, and the besiegers are too lazy to do anything to them......

Naturally, these people are also the most active in running away, people with small wealth are not like low-level civilians, they are like refugees when they leave their hometowns, helpless, even if they cause losses, but it is not a problem to survive at all.

Thus, the city of Zhytomyr showed a scene of escape!