[Temporary Prestige Mission: Capture the city of Krakow, the capital of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.]

Mission Description: The Taiping army, which has captured two large cities in a row, has been listed as a henchman by the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the threat level will soon be raised to the same level as the Cossack rebels by the Sym Council of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, so it is a wise ruler's choice to strike first.

The Polish-Lithuanian kingdom had much more potential than it had shown at this time, and the reason why he only mobilized a mere tens of thousands of troops to besiege Khmelnitsky, the leader of the Cossack rebels, was only because the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom was limited by the military system dominated by the military aristocracy, and when the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom faced the danger of annihilation, it was possible to break out with terrible war potential.

Therefore, the host needs to capture the political core of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom of Sulm Council - Krakow City with a thunderous blow while the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania is still immersed in the dream of a great power!

Taking the city of Krakow can not only disintegrate the foundation of the existence of the Council of Sem and make the Polish nobles who are already at odds with each other fall apart, but also seriously damage the self-confidence of the middle and lower military aristocracy of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and make them lose their faith in fighting.

According to the historical assessment data of the Total War System, if Krakow fell, more than half of the powerful nobles of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom would choose to preserve their strength for their own interests, a quarter of the Polish nobles would probably choose to invest in their close-knit neighboring powers, and the rest would become two sides of the wall without a clear political orientation.

At that time, the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom is likely to be in the face of a situation in which it will exist in name only, and when the Council of Sem loses its authority, the entire Polish-Lithuanian kingdom will be in disarray.

Quest Reward Situation: Capture the capital of Krakow in any way, you will receive an additional fixed reputation reward of 200 points, and the amount of other rewards will remain the same; Before capturing Krakow, capturing Vladimir, Lublin, Sandomierz, Lviv, and Przemysh will give you an additional reputation bonus (you can't get reputation rewards for capturing capital-level cities normally), and you can get an additional 50 reputation points for each city captured!

Mission completion period: half a year (after half a year, it is enough for the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania to turn the spearhead and go all out to encircle and annihilate the Taiping Army.) ）】

"Krakow?" Hong Tiancheng frowned deeply and once again skimmed through the prestige mission prompt information given by the Total War system in his mind.

After the capture of Zhytomyr, Hong Tiancheng's men captured a number of Polish merchants and forced them to draw a rough sketch of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.

Naturally, the city of Krakow, the capital of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, is the focus of the map, and at this time the city of Warsaw was only the capital of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and its political status was far less important than that of Krakow, and the base camp of the Council of Sym was also located in the city of Krakow.

The city of Krakow is in fact the 'place of the rise' of the Polish nation.

The reason for Hong Tiancheng's worry is very simple, Krakow City is too far away from Lutsk City!

Far away is nothing, with the Taiping Army's combat strategy of 'robbing the rich and helping the poor to feed the war', marching on the fertile Polish Plain did not have to worry about food and grass at all, but the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania was not a third-rate European country in the 17th century, but a first-class Eastern European power!

Think about it with your ass and know how many troops will be intercepted by the Taiping army as long as they put on a posture of marching to Krakow!

As for the capital-level cities listed in the temporary prestige quest with five additional prestige bonuses, which happen to be the five major cities that Lutsk City passed through on his way to Krakow, it is obvious that the Total War system wants Hong Tiancheng to lead the Taiping army to attack the city and plunder the land......

"This is completely a battle to destroy the country......" Hong Tiancheng thought depressedly.

He is just a big man salted fish who wants to ride on the head of the white man in Europe to make a fortune, and it has only been less than half a year since he started, so he will launch a war to destroy the country, and it is a country that can be regarded as a big country in Europe that will be destroyed!

Even if the country's internal political system is rotten and backward, the feudal system is rampant, and the aristocratic democratic veto power makes the Sem Parliament a table for the great nobles to exploit the interests of the people of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania......

It is conceivable what class will be targeted by the passed bill!

Unable to recover the benefits from the great nobles, the Council of Sem could only increase the oppression of the lower classes of the common people and the exploitation of the conquered aliens, which was the reason why the cavalry units of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania were remarkable for their combat effectiveness, and there were always desperate peasant and Cossack rebellions in the territory.

If the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom wants to suppress the rebellion, it must rely more on the Polish aristocracy that controls the military aristocracy, give them more rights, and then the Polish nobles who have more rights and interests can better oppress the people and aliens to make their own brains full......

In this way, they fell into a vicious circle, if there were only peasant uprisings and Cossack rebellions, they would naturally not be able to defeat the Polish military aristocracy who were fighting for their own interests, but when foreign powers intervened, it would be a disaster for the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom!

It is ironic that even at the moment of the great success of the Khmelnitsky uprising, the great nobles of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom were not aware of their own crisis, or they did not believe that such inconsequential 'details' could really upset the entire Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.

Both the rising Kingdom of Sweden and the Russians, who annexed the legacy of the Mongol Golden Horde, were once in the hands of the Polish hussars, and Prussia, the successor to the Teutonic Knights, was not taken seriously by the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and the phenomenon of self-reliance of lords in the Holy Roman Empire was even more serious than that of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and of course it would not be regarded as a great enemy......

Of course, the Sym Council of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, which thought that there was no danger of annihilation, was still embarking on the road of exhaustive militarism, allocating most of the military expenditure to the great nobles of the Sym Parliament, who had a small number of military nobles, and then the money that should have been able to form more armies finally either went into the pockets of the great nobles or made the equipment of the Polish hussars look more gorgeous......