In the vast city square, groups of Swedish town militia, led by officers, went to the gates of the warehouses where equipment was distributed to register for new equipment.

The initial equipment of the Swedish town militia was really bad, and after confirming their basic loyalty, Hong Tiancheng immediately issued an order for a full redress, and the weapons and equipment were all ready-made, the armor and weapons that could still be used in the previous battle of Mozili by the Taiping army and the Polish-Lithuanian army that were killed in the elite.

The firearms replaced by the Swedish town militia were mainly long-pole flintlock muskets from the advanced infantry of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who had fallen in battle, and the types of melee weapons used were more varied.

There are at most two pieces per person, which are basically long and short weapons, and after the selection, you can go to the scribe of the Taiping Army to register.

The armor is uniformly distributed, after all, most of the captured armor has been damaged, and there are not many intact armor screened from it, so naturally the Swedish town militia is not allowed to pick and pick again.

Originally, the 1,000 Cossack chieftain guards also needed to be replaced with iron armor, but because Hong Tiancheng temporarily changed his mind and wanted to bring them to the Cossack colony to develop LinkedIn new Cossack chieftain, he canceled the idea of changing clothes.

The outwardly dressed Swedish town militia did not look much different from the elite musketeers of the Taipings, as most of the armor worn by the elite musketeers of the fallen Taipings would not be assigned to them.

Better quality armor was issued to elite Ottoman Sultans.

All Swedish town militias wore the iconic red turbans of the Taiping soldiers after their change, and even the iron helmets they wore were tied with red feathers that represented the identity of the Taiping Army.

Under Hong Tiancheng, mercenaries of any ethnic country are required to wear symbols of the Taiping Army, if it is a mercenary with a high degree of honor and self-awareness such as the Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers, in order to ensure their combat morale, Hong Tiancheng will allow them to keep their beliefs and flags, but when fighting, the army of the Ottoman Sultan's personal soldiers also waives the crescent moon flag and the Taiping army battle flag at the same time.

Of course, for the Swedish urban militia, a cannon fodder regiment of a law and order nature, they will not display their own flag, they only have the flag of the Taiping Army.

After receiving their own equipment and completing the registration, the Swedish town militia walked to the temporarily emptied houses, where there were some living materials and marching food prepared by the Taiping army logistics personnel, these houses were all owned by people, and were forcibly requisitioned by the Taiping army, but they were not permanent, they only needed to be requisitioned for a few days, and after these Swedish town militias completed the redressing and material arrangement, they would set off to various towns in detachments under the leadership of their respective officers, Go and replace the few elite Taiping musketeers stationed there.

The Taiping Army's practice of temporarily requisitioning houses and exchanging them for Polish civilians seems to be relatively 'mild', but the Taiping soldiers are only responsible for requisitioning, but will not arrange the aftermath, and those civilians who have been kicked out of their homes for several days can only take refuge with relatives in the countryside or simply sleep on the streets, with a pair of frightened eyes watching the streets and alleys that have become a large military camp after Hong Tiancheng's redemption is completed.

A large number of Taiping soldiers who go back and forth to sort out and change their clothes are the best deterrent weapons, even white civilians who are not at odds with their hearts will be more honest than good citizens in this situation.

In the plan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the towns occupied by the Taiping army in the Polesiye region would be garrisoned by Swedish town militia ranging from dozens to hundreds, depending on the size and population of the town.

In addition to the 3,000 Swedish urban militia loyal to Hong Tiancheng, there are also a large number of local nobles who took the initiative to take refuge in the past due to the strength of the Taiping army, the composition of these local nobles is very complex, and even the ethnic composition is different, there are local primitive indigenous nobles, Lithuanians, Poles, etc., but these small ethnic groups have long been assimilated under the long-term rule of the Poles. It didn't seem out of place.

Only the Lithuanians, who had a certain degree of independence, did not buy the accounts of the Polish nobility, and the number of Lithuanians in the Polesye region was originally outnumbered by the Poles, and this was the land of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was only under the rule of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom after the merger of the Kingdom of Poland, and the later Polish nobility took root here.

Originally, the Poles in the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom were powerful, and even if the number of Polish nobles was much less than that of the Lithuanian nobles, they could achieve some kind of balance or even advantage, but as soon as the Taiping Army came, the Polish nobles of Polesiye suddenly lost their biggest supporter, and the Polish nobles who took refuge in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had become Polish traitors, and naturally they could no longer rely on their local power, and as a result, they were more or less suppressed and bullied by the more powerful and more numerous Lithuanian nobles on weekdays.

If it weren't for the fact that Hong Tiancheng had no good impression of the Lithuanians at all, and clearly ordered and warned the Lithuanian nobles who had surrendered, I am afraid that the weak Polish aristocracy in the Polesie region would have been kicked out long ago.

Hong Tiancheng belongs to the heroic figure who has risen strongly by relying on the army, at least that's what outsiders think......

Therefore, the Swedish town militia he sent to enforce the law belonged to the kind of 'occupation army' that was high-minded, and the real responsibility for patrolling the streets and policing was mainly the 'Han Army' composed of locals.

Those local nobles who took refuge more or less had some private servants at home, and the powerful Taiping Heavenly Kingdom naturally would not allow itself to retain the loose feudal system of the former Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, even if Hong Tiancheng was short of troops before, now he has an army of nearly 20,000, how can he allow the existence of a 'country within a country'?

After the elite musketeers of the Taiping army were greatly expanded, they immediately marched towards the castles of various towns and nobles' territories, and even pulled over the captured bulky city defense guns, and used guns to gather all the private soldiers of the local nobles who submitted to them.

In this way, the Taiping Army spent more than a month and successfully pulled out a group of Han Xie troops with some combat effectiveness.