226 Imperial Expedition
A day later, Andrei left the Russian Expeditionary Force with his entourage, and the journey was quite safe, even if Andrei did not bring many guards.
This is the weakness of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Eastern Europe, because of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's sacrificial treasury system and foreign religious problems, no organization in Eastern Europe is willing to cooperate with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
It's not a question of money or not, it's a matter of principled bottom line, or rather, the survival of organizations in this land of Eastern Europe.
While the Taiping Army's sacred treasury system obtained a large number of war materials in a short period of time, it also declared a complete opposition to the European aristocratic class and the wealthy class, and no one with a little wealth would welcome the Taiping Army, because the arrival of the Taiping Army would mean their bankruptcy, and they would become the same as the poor people who once despised the bottom and had nothing.
Not to mention the aristocratic class, a large number of aristocratic privileges were deprived, except for fiefdoms, political and military independence were all lost, it can be said that the original European nobles were important figures who could influence the local political trend, and the honorary nobles ruled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were just rich people.
The only people who did not fundamentally contradict the interests of the Taiping army were probably only serfs and poor people who could not even eat enough, and even the common people in the burgher class who had no worries about food and clothing were full of fear and rejection of the Taiping army.
In order to protect their families and wealth, many people are still willing to respond to the call of the state or lord to join the army against the Taiping army.
Even if there is no fundamental conflict of interest with the Taiping army, the serfs and the poor class, they will not be friends with the Taiping army, although the population of this class is large, but it is a group of people who have no position, serfs are the main source of cannon fodder militia of the noble lords in wartime, and they are also enemies of the Taiping army when they are pulled to the battlefield, and the serfs at the bottom will not be told that the serfs can obtain a free status in the areas occupied by the Taiping army.
Not to mention the poor, as long as they are full, some of the poor broke their heads and joined the army against the Taiping army, so looking at it, basically all the classes in Eastern European countries are opposed to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom......
Of course, it does not matter whether they are antagonistic or not, a large number of enemies does not mean that the enemy is strong, and the aggressor side has never been recognized by the locals, which is the necessity of killing and conquering.
However, in terms of war, the antagonism between various strata and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not only reflected in the military strength, but also the local support, due to the particularity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, except for the occupied areas of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is difficult for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to develop subordinate institutions in other regions, and even organizations such as the Killer Guild that recognize money and people avoid the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because the Killer Guild does not dare to confront the aristocratic class of the entire Eastern Europe!
Therefore, if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to do something out of the ordinary outside the control area, the failure rate will definitely exceed 90 percent, and some basic intelligence gathering work is already at its peak......
As the Taiping army became stronger and stronger, the contradictions between the countries of Eastern Europe were gradually covered up, and compared to Hong Tiancheng, who was against the entire aristocratic class, the original old enemy was really nothing.
This is the confrontation between different political systems, it is the confrontation of ideologies, Hong Tiancheng wants absolute authoritarianism, and the political system of the European continent at this time is based on the feudal aristocracy, even if it is a truly centralized European continental state, it is also fundamentally different from absolute dictatorship.
Even in history, the probability of this kind of absolute authoritarianism is not high, except for some well-known founding kings, Napoleon, Stalin and other figures can reach that level.
And Hong Tiancheng's absolute dictatorship is more thorough because of his yellow identity, the conquered whites have no hope of even entering the core of the regime, and Krysztoff, who is the best mixed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is now just a puppet general, and the upper echelons of the European continent are naturally unwilling to sit back and watch the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
With the advance of the Taiping army in the Smolensk region, the entire Russian Empire began a nationwide mobilization in the real sense, from the Novgorod region, the Rzhev region, the Moscow region, the Central Asian control zone, the Urals region, etc., were asked to send troops to the war, and even the distant Siberian region was sent by Moscow to send messengers.
If the previous Battle of Kiev was only a local war for the Russian Empire, now the Russian Empire and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are a full-scale war!
Lao Maozi will not compromise with an empire built on duckweed, and the Russian intelligence agencies under the command of Andrei show the foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom everywhere, and it is easy to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and defeat the main force of the Taiping Army.
As long as the main force of the Taiping Army is destroyed, the powder keg of confrontation within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be detonated by itself, and at that time, the Eastern European countries outside only need to be gently pushed, and no matter how great the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has achieved before, it will be like a fortress on the beach, shattered into a slag.
The most important thing is that the Taiping Army's initiative to attack the Russian Empire completely ignited the 'patriotic enthusiasm' of the Russian nation, well, at least, that's what the Russian Empire officially propagandized......
Every day, young men who respond to the call, or in order to make ends meet, go into the recruitment points set up in various places, and every week there are newly formed recruits for intensive training, and every month a small group of troops who have completed the training of recruits will gather in Moscow!
Hong Tiancheng lamented more than once that this walk, which basically relies on the legs to transmit information, basically relies on the lag of the roaring era, if it were not for the speed of news and army deployment so backward, with the size of the Russian Empire, tens of thousands of troops would have gathered to rush over to extinguish the Taiping Army, which was a partial division composed of Lithuanians.
However, one thing Hong Tiancheng didn't expect was that the tsar of the Russian Empire didn't know what kind of trick he was pumping, maybe he was really afraid of losing the throne under his ass, and he planned to mobilize all the elite Moscow royal commanders to conquer in person!
This is also the reason why Andrei was urgently transferred back to Moscow, this time, the Russian Empire Tsar is really desperate, because he does not dare to imagine what will wait for him after losing the Smolensk region and defeating the Kiev battle.
Rather than anxiously waiting for news from the front line in the city of Moscow, and then one day being broken down by the gendarmes loyal to the Duma parliament, arrested and sent to the execution ground, it is better to take direct control of the military power in person.