288 Lithuania Collapse Crisis
Thus, Jobst's Christian Brotherhood and the depleted Polish-Lithuanian kingdom completed a win-win deal, with one side providing supplies and equipment, and the other providing troops.
In this way, the Christian Brotherhood, which had been expanding its strength and did not have a hard fight with the Taiping army, suddenly pulled out tens of thousands of troops, passed through the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and directly attacked the defense line of the Taiping army's infantry stationed on the first line of Red Rus'.
At the same time, a large number of local militia units of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania assisted the Christian Brotherhood, and Jobs' men even contacted the leaders of the partisans in the territory occupied by the Taiping Army in Poland, and after the main offensive began, they jointly attacked all the towns where the Taiping banner could be seen!
The Taiping troops stationed in the Red Rus' area had less than 5,000 main line infantry and no more than 10,000 white servants, and at the beginning of the offensive, the Christian Brotherhood launched an encirclement of the Taiping army with absolute superiority in strength.
The Christian Brotherhood was not a temporary standing army of recruits formed by the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, they trained their soldiers in the same way as the Taiping Army, armed them with revenge and religious fanaticism, and they were often able to face the Taiping Army's platoon gun initiation on the battlefield, and they fought with great ferocity.
During this period, the training of the Christian Brotherhood was a real achievement, and with the support of weapons and equipment from the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, it was even more powerful.
As a result, only a week after the start of the battle, the Taiping army's battle line was cut off piece by piece, and the logistics and transportation lines were completely cut off by the guerrillas.
Under the elite leadership of the Guardian Guard, the white servant army, which did not have much will to fight, was not an opponent at all, not to mention the news of the defeat of the main force of the Taiping army kept coming from the front line.
In this way, the main force of the Taiping Army, under the absolute numerical inferiority, was quickly encircled and annihilated to death by the Christian Brotherhood regardless of the cost, which is the reason why Hong Tiancheng's less than 5,000 Taiping Army line infantry on the books of the total war system completely disappeared.
However, the most interesting is about the second half of intelligence.
After the Christian Brotherhood completed the encirclement and annihilation of the main force of the Taiping Army, the white servant army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Red Rus area collapsed and quickly recovered the lost territory in Poland, but the Christian Brotherhood vigorously absorbed the original guerrillas here, advocating the glorious spirit of the Christian Brotherhood to be invincible and fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the end.
The members of the guerrillas who participated in the rebellion against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were more or less at odds with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Christian Brotherhood was powerful, so Jobs quickly made up for the loss of the main force of the Taiping Army on Polish soil, of course, only the number of recruits.
If you want to train to the level of the Guardian Guard, it will take a long time and real battles.
The Christian Brotherhood's ability to pull out tens of thousands of soldiers worthy of World War I is inseparable from the bloody training of the local garrisons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the border.
The battlefield is the best place to hone.
It's just that the main combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army is too strong, and the recruit troops are often defeated in the face of the Taiping Army with a salvo and a round of bayonet charge, so in Jobs's eyes, those local garrisons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom composed of systematic soldiers as the backbone are the best training objects, with a certain combat effectiveness, but the will to fight is not good.
The Christian Brotherhood recruited troops in Poland proper, without any regard for the face of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, but the Guardian Guard, the core elite of the Christian Brotherhood, returned to Masovia with Jobs.
Jobs's behavior of not being nostalgic for Polish territory made the Sym Council of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania breathe a sigh of relief from top to bottom, and they turned a blind eye to Jobs' acquiescence to the raid on Polish youth.
Anyway, the expansion of the power of the Christian Brotherhood was also to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the so-called enemy of the enemy was a friend, so the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania tolerated this kind of digging behavior of the Christian Brotherhood.
You know, in the 17th century, population was a benefit in itself.
In particular, most of the young men poached by the Christian Brotherhood were young men, whether they were farmers or soldiers, they were indispensable assets for a country.
However, from a rational point of view, being recruited by the Christian Brotherhood is also much better than being slaughtered by the Taiping army.
The Red Rus region and the Puertoria region were wiped out by the Taiping Army, and a large number of young and strong guerrillas hiding in the deep mountains and old forests were absorbed by the Christian Brotherhood......
Of course, for both sides, which are on the verge of death and at war, no one cares about the lives and deaths of the people in these two areas......
In addition to the loss of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, Hong Tiancheng also faced an even more serious problem.
While he was attacking the Russian Empire and helping the thousand to occupy the magpie's nest against Alexei Tsar, the main force of Karl X had already attacked the city of Vilno, the political center of the Lithuanian region!
If it weren't for the fact that the Vilno city defense system had been repaired by a large number of white men driven by the Taiping army, I am afraid it would have fallen long ago.
The city of Vilno was besieged, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rule over the entire region of Lithuania was about to collapse, and many of the unfortunate system administrators had to flee the towns they were running to save their lives.
Because under the attack of the Swedish army, many local juniors mobilized the masses to try to rebel, causing a lot of civil unrest.
Fortunately, these civil unrests did not succeed much because they did not have a unified command and the support of other forces.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's ban on civilians from possessing firearms and weapons that exceed the standard cold weapons has curbed the outbreak of civil unrest in the local area.
Hong Tiancheng, who traveled from the 21st century gun ban country, knows very well how important it is to prohibit the private ownership of weapons as a means of suppressing civil unrest!
Once the city of Vilno fell, the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Lithuanian region would completely collapse, which Hong Tiancheng would never allow.
Therefore, Hong Tiancheng only sent the infantry division of the Taiping Army, which was less than 10,000 people, to Poland to recover the Red Rus' and Podonia regions, where the main force of the Christian Brotherhood had left, and he himself led five elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army to kill Karl X with great momentum.
This time, Hong Tiancheng vows to make the perverted king of the Kingdom of Sweden, who likes to 'fuck' his sister, regret his decision to start a war!
Thanks to the obscene Admiral for the 100 starting coins