One of these 11 divisions did not participate in the war, but was responsible for maintaining the logistics line of the army and guarding the occupied areas in the eastern part of Europe, while the regular army of the Taiping Army was mainly responsible for guarding against the emergence of large-scale rebels, and the small groups of guerrillas and bandits that were everywhere in the Balkans were handed over to the Han Army.

Hong Tiancheng is not at ease to let the Han Association Army transport valuable ammunition, but it is still possible to suppress bandits.

The Han Association Army is also a 'regular army sequence'.

After those Balkan regions, Hong Tiancheng reorganized the regular army troops that the Balkan countries were willing to surrender to the Han Army, of course, it was also a voluntary principle, the Han Association Army needed to pay salaries, and the establishment was too large to be a big burden on the poor economic capacity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so the Taiping Army did not force people to pull people.

In fact, with the patrol police, the Taiping Army no longer needs the Han Association Army, and the existence of the Han Association Army is mainly for those officers and soldiers who want to continue to carry guns to eat, and are willing to be loyal to Hong Tian.

It can also share the pressure of law and order in the chaotic areas that the Taiping Army has just occupied.

In the newly occupied Balkans, a large number of stragglers were left behind, many of whom were originally veterans of the regular armies of various countries, with muskets in their hands, which could not be suppressed by the patrols.

Therefore, the Han Association army needs to be better equipped to suppress it.

When the main forces of the Han Association Army and the Taiping Army have almost wiped out the bandits in the Balkans, they can be handed over to the patrol department.

It is never the civilians who take up arms that are really dangerous to a stable society, but the fugitive soldiers who have experienced the war!

Even if an ordinary civilian is given an AK47, he probably doesn't even have the courage to confront the patrol force......

The most important thing is that civilians generally do not touch weapons, let alone fight, just like those peasant rebel armies in history, no matter how many people are coerced, they will collapse at the touch of a few champions, until this peasant rebel army continues to turn into battle and fight, and a group of veterans have been trained on the battlefield, there will be a real threat.

Even so, in the end, the peasant rebel army, which really came to a large size, actually absorbed a large number of surrendered officers and soldiers, and its combat effectiveness rose to the same level as that of officers and soldiers.

There are also small bandit guerrillas in the western, central, and southern regions of Europe controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but because there are few of them who have actually served as soldiers, even the patrol police dare not confront them head-on, so it is impossible to become a climate at all.

In mid-1685, after several months of material build-up and troop movements, 10 German divisions of the Taiping Army, which were front-line combat units, entered the area controlled by the city of Istanbul.

20 75-mm rapid-fire guns, 200 Maxim heavy machine guns, and 200 grenadiers were also put into use.

Each of the rear areas was guarded by a full division of troops, and no Maxim heavy machine guns were needed.

Such a large piece of land cannot be defended by a small number of Makqin heavy machine guns, and this kind of large-scale killing weapon is more cost-effective to use in a centralized manner.

The influx of the Taiping army soon aroused the alarm of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

By this time, the Ottoman Empire had gathered more than 80,000 new troops, and after the complete fall of the Balkans, the Ottoman Sultan transferred more than 30,000 new troops in training from Asia Minor into Istanbul to train and serve as a strategic reserve.

The remaining 20,000 recruits who have not been transferred are recruits who have just been conscripted, and the organization has not been properly organized, and the weapons are not complete, so they stay in place and continue to be reorganized.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire took out hundreds of years of savings and purchased a large number of Mini rifles from the anti-Han alliance, and only then did it reluctantly arm 80,000 new troops and more than 10,000 Sultan's personal guards, and this was still under the condition that the anti-Han alliance sold them at a discount.

The anti-Han alliance purchased the Mini rifles to the Ottoman Empire almost at cost, hoping that these infidels would plunge the Taiping army into the quagmire of war.

The remaining 20,000 recruits of the new army, which are being reorganized, have not yet been installed because the Ottoman Turkish Empire cannot afford cash and is borrowing money everywhere to buy them.

Although the Ottoman Turkish Empire claimed to have mastered the technology of the Mini rifle and even made a decent prototype gun, it was still a long way from being put into mass production, so it could only rely on outsourcing.

In terms of national productivity, the Kingdom of England was able to shake off the eight streets of the Ottoman Turkish Empire......

Even the French Bourbons, who had been driven to the Indian Peninsula, were more efficient than the Ottoman Empire!

This is also a helpless thing, who told the Ottoman Sultan to refuse to equip the old army with Mini rifles?

The domestic political game was the biggest obstacle to the Ottoman Turkish Empire!

Of course, Hong Tiancheng did not know these things, at most he knew that the internal political system of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was rotten, compared to the Ming Dynasty that had fallen in the East......

However, no matter how corrupt the Ottoman Turkish Empire was, its attitude towards the Taiping Army was still very consistent, because the feudal lords of the Ottoman Empire naturally stood on opposite sides of the political philosophy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

The feudal lords of the Ottoman Empire were not much different from the noble lords of Europe, each of them had a large fief and their own army, once the Taiping army came over, the proper fief was confiscated, the army was disbanded, and the tax revenue was seized!

It's no wonder that the Ottoman feudal lords didn't fight hard!

Fortunately, this was only the idea of the Ottoman upper class bosses, and in the middle and lower classes of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the resistance to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not high, not because they were willing to accept the dictatorship of the Han Chinese, but because they felt that the Ottoman Turkish Empire could not defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom......

What if you can't beat it?

Draw a knife and fight one without losing two to make a steady profit?

Don't kill me and don't pull me!

Of course, the morale of the old Ottoman army and the servant armies of other nationalities such as Asia Minor was very low, and although Istanbul had more than 100,000 old armies and servant troops in the overall defense, all the Ottoman bigwigs, including the Ottoman Sultan, did not use them as their own bargaining chips in defending the city......

Even a meat-selling bitch in Istanbul knows that none of the Ottoman army and servant soldiers want to fight!

The only thing that the Ottoman Turkish Empire can rely on is the new army and the Sultan's personal guards, of course, including the personal guards of those military leaders and the great feudal lords, the personal guards are not much individually, but together, it is also a terrifying number, more than 10,000 Sultan personal guards, more than 80,000 Ottoman new troops, plus loyal personal guards, Istanbul has gathered more than 110,000 troops that can fight!

In addition, there are more than 100,000 old armies and servant armies that are difficult to count specifically, and after the Taiping army entered the Istanbul area, the Ottoman Turkish Empire pulled up tens of thousands of citizens to arm!

To take an imaginary number, Istanbul has gathered more than 300,000 troops and is growing over time!