In the lush woods, hundreds of Lithuanian soldiers wearing linen robes and wearing red turbans in the style of the Taiping Army slowly searched forward.

"When we were fighting, we were at the front, and when we were camping, we had to serve those Han masters, and now even the normal march requires us to go through the front of those Han uncles!

Mother, I'm starting to regret my decision to work for that king for a few acres of land! ”

"There is no regret medicine to take in this world, your wife and children have taken the land rewarded by heaven, and now you quit, that is treason, in heaven, you and I know what this crime means, brother, look at the point, there are wars everywhere these years, it is good to be able to eat a full stomach and let the family have a piece of land to support the elderly, the noble lords who have been high above in the past two years don't know how many have died, the Han people of the Taiping Army are much more powerful than the noble lords, we can't offend casually."

"That's right, but I always feel that I can't go back with the army this time, this ......"

Before the Lithuanian soldier could finish complaining, a lead bullet was shot into his open mouth, and a hole was punched in the back of his entire head!

As the Lithuanian soldier fell to the ground on his back, gunfire rang out like firecrackers.

"Enemy attack! Battle formations! Fight back on the spot!! ”

The "politically solid" grassroots officers among the Lithuanian soldiers shouted hoarsely, but unfortunately, the Lithuanian militia was okay to suppress the mob forces, and it was a little powerless to deal with these enemy's well-trained regular troops, and the neat shooting sound stunned the hundreds of Lithuanian soldiers who opened the way at the first time.

Immediately afterwards, among the Russian soldiers who had just emerged and leaned against the trees, several expensive rifled flintlock pistols were stretched out, and under the aim of the carefully selected 'marksmen' among the Russian soldiers, the Lithuanian grassroots officers who shouted were named one by one, and fell to the ground lying on the ground blindly.

A large number of junior officers were shot, further adding to the confusion of the Lithuanian militia, which was already not very effective in combat, and the ambushed Russian soldiers completely destroyed these hundreds of Lithuanian soldiers in less than 5 rounds of shooting!

After the Lithuanian soldiers broke and fled, the ambushed Russian soldiers quickly rushed out of their hiding places, put their arquebuses and smoothbore guns behind them, and killed them with Badish tomahawks in both hands.

Obviously, there was not only one Lithuanian soldier who was ambushed, and all the Lithuanian soldiers who were used by the main force of the Taiping Army to explore the way in the forest were all ambushed or strongly blocked!

After less than an hour of fighting, the entire vanguard of Lithuanian soldiers was routed and fled towards the place where the main Taiping army was marching, most of whom did not even know where their weapons had been lost.

The Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force successfully used the support of the locals and the advantage of waiting for the rabbit, and beautifully used a forest and hilly area on the road that the Taiping army had to pass through to fight a beautiful ambush battle, at least, the beginning was very beautiful, and thousands of Lithuanian regiments were crushed without even killing double-digit Russian soldiers!

The whole forest was full of Lithuanian soldiers who had collapsed and fled, like lambs to the slaughter, slaughtered wantonly by the pursuing Russian soldiers, and it didn't take long for the Russian noble cavalry to send two thousand people to outflank the retreating Lithuanian soldiers from all sides, the cavalry in the forest was not easy to play, but the Russian cavalry could block the exit of the forest, and the entire terrain was not covered with dense jungle everywhere.

These gentle, open-air lands were the best places for Russian cavalry to slaughter Lithuanian soldiers in a rout.

The commanders of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force would not let the Lithuanian troops flee back, because they knew very well that these soldiers were not familiar with the Kiev region, and they would inevitably choose to flee to the headquarters of the Taiping Army, and when they arrived, they would definitely be used by the Taiping Army again to regroup and put into the battlefield.

The families of Lithuanian soldiers have received the land granted by heaven, for the safety of their families' lives and property, they rarely make the decision to desert, after all, most of these Lithuanian soldiers are from the bottom, and their lives are rotten.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom clearly stipulated that the families of Lithuanian soldiers who died fighting for the Kingdom of Heaven could receive an additional piece of land, and the quality and area of the land would be verified according to the importance of the battles in which the fallen soldiers participated, military merits, official positions, and other information.

After all, in the backward era, the statistics of military merits and even whether the statistics are killed or not is a lot of work, only the body of the Lithuanian soldier whose face can be clearly identified by the body can be found will be judged to be 'sacrificed for the country', and the rest of the Lithuanian soldiers can only be judged as missing persons, if they are found to be alive in the future, it is a proper deserter, and when the deserter of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is to be punished by the nine tribes!

In fact, it was only after the victory of the battle that the Lithuanian soldiers who could not be found had a chance to be judged as missing, and if the battle was unfavorable to the poor performance of the Lithuanian corps, the angry Taiping officers would sentence all the missing persons as deserters.

This further discouraged the Lithuanian soldiers from taking chances, at least, they would try to be real soldiers as much as they could.

The Russian aristocratic cavalry, who won the first victory, slaughtered the unarmed Lithuanian soldiers while driving them like sheep in the direction of the main force of the Taiping army, these routs did not come from one direction for the main force of the Taiping army, and the Lithuanian vanguard corps sent by the Taiping army were spread all over the front and left and right directions, mainly to prevent the risk of being outflanked by the left and right in the narrow field of view of the terrain.

Therefore, the defeated and slaughtered Lithuanian corps also swept backwards from the previous left and right directions.

A mere 2,000 cavalry of Russian nobles drove thousands of Lithuanian troops into a surging tide towards the main corps of the Taiping Army, which had just changed its marching form.

This is the first tentative attack of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force on the main division of the Taiping Army, as long as these two thousand Russian noble cavalry open a gap, the follow-up Russian infantry will frantically pour in, tearing the main division of the Taiping Army into two halves!

At that time, the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force would have completely taken the upper hand in a decisive battle.