"This is one of the reasons why I propose to take the initiative to negotiate an armistice with Hong Tiancheng, we no longer have the strength to continue to hold on to Poland, it is better to give Poland as a bargaining chip to Hong Tiancheng in exchange for peace, even if it is a peace for a limited time!

Ladies and gentlemen, we need time to rebuild our strength, and although this decisive battle has exposed many problems, such as the weakness of traditional knights on the battlefield, at least we are on the right path - universal use of flintlock pistols and training in line combat!

Hong Tiancheng's practice of equipping the soldiers of the Taiping Army with bayonets and grenades is also worth learning, especially the kind of detachable bayonet, which is simply a revolution in military history, it is a good combination of spearmen and musketeers, since then, we can eliminate the expensive pikes hand-to-hand combat, and specially recruit musketeers to deal with the war, which is a happy event for logistics and army formation. ”

Leopold I's words made the German nobles and generals present nod their heads frequently, obviously agreeing with his remarks.

"Your Majesty, I think that in the future battlefields where muskets are rampant, heavy armor can also be completely eliminated, so that military spending can be greatly reduced, so that we can recruit more soldiers with the same money.

Especially for a class similar to the Black Knight, it's a waste of resources, so what if you can prevent lead bullets?

In the crowd, that number will not help at all, and the size of the army involved in the future war will inevitably become larger and larger, and the attack power of muskets has surpassed the protective power of armor, so that more soldiers can be recruited and equipped with more muskets in order to have an advantage in future wars.

Of course, there is also the indispensable morale, although I don't know how Hong Tiancheng made his soldiers fight to the end without fear of death, but this does not prevent us from learning from him, in order to avoid being poisoned by the Taiping army in the future, we should also give more money and improve the treatment of soldiers so that they can fight better. ”

Frederick added.

"Yes, although the mercenaries are easy to use, in the war environment where the casualties are getting more and more serious, their morale is really worrisome, even the mercenaries with the best reputation, they are fighting for money on the battlefield, we might as well spend more money on forming a standing army, at least, in terms of fighting the Taiping army, our position is the same."

Leopold I said in a flat tone.

"If no one makes any objections, I will arrange for a messenger to go to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to negotiate an armistice, and I hope that time will be on our side."

"Your Majesty, what if Hong Tiancheng insists on carrying out the war to the end?" A German aristocratic general asked what everyone was saying.

"If it's really that bad, we will go back and dig out our money to prepare for war in an all-round way, and we will also vigorously support the unfriendly Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army, and drag the Taiping Army in Poland as much as possible.

Many Poles still dream of great power, and this will make the Poles voluntarily shed more blood. Leopold I said with a grim face.

After Hong Tiancheng's victory in this decisive battle, he received 2,000 points of personal reputation and 2 points of national prestige.

This is not a phased reward, but an additional single campaign reward for a great victory with more than 100,000 men, and only this kind of decisive battle that ends in a short period of time with more than 100,000 enemy regular troops will have an additional reward after victory.

In addition, this kind of decisive battle will also achieve a certain reward increase for future stage rewards.

And the next time Hong Tiancheng gets the stage reward, the criterion is to reoccupy the Polish region!

Hong Tian became this target, and directly exchanged those 2 points of national prestige for the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army of a division of the army.

The three elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army carried out a period of post-war reorganization, and after replenishing military supplies, they once again drove to Poland proper.

A large number of flintlock pistols left on the battlefield and the weapons left behind by his own soldiers after the death were enough for the Taiping soldiers to replace the damaged flintlock muskets, and the ammunition of those dead soldiers also saved a lot of production capacity in the factories in the rear of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The huge gains after the decisive battle made Hong Tiancheng can't help but have an illusion - it is easier to make a fortune by fighting a war than by grabbing territory......

Because the main force of the German coalition army was defeated as a whole, the front-line ammunition and materials stored in the temporary camp were all cheaper than the Taiping army, and the lead bullets and black powder captured by the Taiping army were even enough to use the day when Poland was drawn!

However, the advance of the Taiping Army had just pulled out several strongholds of the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army, and Hong Tiancheng received a peace negotiation letter written by Leopold I himself.

After reading this letter from the Holy Roman Emperor and the German princes who ruthlessly sold the Poles praying for peace, Hong Tiancheng said only five words to the messenger of the Holy Roman Empire: "Surrender or die!" ”

Hong Tiancheng was full of disgust for the fact that when he was busy fighting Sweden, he suddenly stabbed him in the back, and even the German states of the Holy Roman Empire, which were killed by the obedient and useful Polish puppet king and his family.

In Hong Tiancheng's words: you can choose when to go to war, but the time of the truce is up to me!

After receiving Hong Tiancheng's reply, Leopold I and the German noble generals simply left Warsaw and returned to their own territory, leaving only a few second- and third-rate mercenaries for Field Marshal Stefan Charnietsky of the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army.

Support for Poland was much more political than practical......

Leopold I and other German nobles did not mean to support the Polish-Lithuanian Restoration Army in large quantities at all, but only used them as cannon fodder to delay the footsteps of the Taiping Army on the spot, and then gave aid to the Poles in the name of supporting the 'War of Resistance'.

Because the German states of the Holy Roman Empire set off a wave of rebuilding and reorganizing the new army, most of the old cold weapons have lost their usefulness.

The German blacksmith used the sample of the bayonet left on the battlefield of the Taiping soldiers to imitate the bayonet, so that the German army completely entered the era of line infantry!

On the battlefield of more than 100,000 people, in addition to frontal battles, small-scale local battles are happening all the time, and it is inevitable that a small group of troops of the Taiping Army will be eaten, as long as there is a bayonet used by the Taiping Army is obtained by the enemy, the simple production process of the bayonet is no longer a secret.

It is precisely for this reason that the situation of mutual copying of weapons technology between countries on the European continent is so serious, and it is impossible to recover all individual weapons on the battlefield.