"Your Majesty, if you do that, the two line infantry divisions stationed on the Russian border line will suffer heavy losses and be disabled, and the three divisions will have no numerical advantage against the elite of the Russian Empire, and after transferring one division, our army will be in an extremely bad situation in terms of strength."

"Do you think the Taiping soldiers will take a step back on the battlefield?" Hong Tiancheng asked rhetorically to Zhao Yan, who spoke up.

"Of course not, every soldier of the Taiping Army is willing to sacrifice his life for His Majesty!"

"So, what do you think the elite of the Russian Empire will have to pay if they want to eat two entire divisions of the Taiping Army Line Infantry Division in a field battle?

Even if the Russian Empire did it, do you think they still have the strength to continue the offensive?

Our local garrison troops, which we have formed with a backbone of soldiers loyal to heaven, are not an ornament, not to mention that more than 10,000 people of the Kyiv Guard Division can go to the battlefield at any time. ”

After Zhao Yan heard this, he didn't make a sound again, although what Hong Tiancheng said was very cruel, but it was very reasonable!

How can there be immortals in war? It's just a matter of whether the dead are worth it.

Didn't the Soviet Union consume the German elite with a large number of casualties during World War II?

In the Battle of Stalingrad, the average life expectancy of Soviet soldiers who entered Stalingrad was no more than three days, and the casualties of 2 million soldiers and civilians have already illustrated the cruelty of war.

After the general direction of the attack was set, Zhang Juzheng, who was not good at military affairs, stood up and asked: "Your Majesty, can the direction of the attack on the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania be placed in the Masovia region, where the main force of the entrenched Christian Brotherhood poses a great threat to our Lithuanian region.

Forgive the incompetence of the ministers, the local garrisons in Lithuania are not strong enough to confront the cathars of the Christian Brotherhood. ”

A group of white armed men who had been co-opted with land and money, coupled with a group of second-rate soldiers, naturally could not defeat the military system that had been tempered by the war and established on the elite model of the main force of the Taiping Army, and armed the spiritual and ideological Christian Brotherhood Protector with religious fanaticism.

This is the reason why Zhang Juzheng rarely took the initiative to make a request at a military meeting.

The current Christian Brotherhood is much stronger than it used to be, and in the rise of the Taiping Army, all the enemies who confronted Hong Tiancheng head-on have been greatly weakened, but this Christian Brotherhood, which avoids the importance and never fights hard with the Taiping Army, is getting stronger and stronger, I have to say, this is really an ironic fact......

"Never." Without waiting for Hong Tiancheng to answer, Zhao Yan took the lead in standing up and retorting: "There are a large number of main forces of the Christian Brotherhood in Masovia, and Jobs took advantage of the local people's hatred of the Han people, and raised a large number of militias with reckless force, which can be said to be a soldier of all the people against our army.

Once our army enters, it will inevitably be mired in war, and with the Guardian Guard of the Christian Brotherhood eyeing us at the side, and the fact that it is too close to Krakow, the capital of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and where the last elite Polish hussars of the Poles are stationed, it will be difficult for us to achieve our goal of a quick victory.

On the other hand, the Red Rus region has not been poisoned by war, and there is no large number of elite troops stationed there, after our army invades, the supply problem is easily solved, and it can be used to quickly advance in the way of war and warfare, and logistics only need to be responsible for transporting a certain amount of ammunition and supplies. ”

In this era, due to the worrying firing speed of the front-loading flintlock pistol, with the tactics of the Taiping army, it was rare to fall into a long period of fire, and after a battle, each soldier fired an average of 2 to 3 bullets, which was still the first-line soldiers, and the soldiers in the reserve may not fire a single shot to wait until the end of the battle.

Therefore, the dependence of warfare on ammunition supply in this era is very low, and it is more like the era of cold weapons, which requires a large supply of grain and grass, and the consumption of food in a day is not a small amount for an army of tens of thousands of people.

Once the food problem can be solved on the spot, the Taiping army only needs to send a small convoy to transport logistics and ammunition materials, not to mention, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania is also a country that has entered the gunpowder age, and it must be able to capture a lot of black powder and lead plates, and the soldiers can make ammunition on their own.

It is also advantageous that weapons are backward, there is no need for a systematic supply of industrial bases in the rear, and the soldiers who loot supplies in the occupied areas can make murderous weapons themselves.

The Mongols advanced so quickly back then, burning and looting all the way, the logistics were about equal to nothing, and they laid down half the world!

After Zhang Juzheng heard Zhao Yan's analysis, he frowned slightly, and his eyes drifted to Hong Tiancheng.

"At least tens of thousands of local garrisons can be pulled out of the Lithuanian region, once the Christian Brotherhood enters, the military achievements of the soldiers of the local garrison will become a bubble, as long as the local government does a good job of mobilization and propaganda, these white soldiers can still fight a dozen defensive battles in order to protect their property, which is also one of the purposes of my formation of local garrisons.

I don't need local garrisons to repel the Christian Brotherhood, as long as they can get deep into the Lithuanian region, Zhang Juzheng, the Kiev region is the foundation of the country today.

I'll let the head of the Vilno garrison do everything in his power to hold there. ”

After Hong Tiancheng's flat voice settled the controversy on the outcome, there was no doubt about the strategic planning of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After discussing some details of the battle, the next day, a clear military order came from the city of Kyiv, and a large number of messengers rode war horses to start a new round of warfare.

The tyrannical Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not dare to move for the time being, and Hong Tiancheng's military movements had been carried out safely and steadily, but the information on the large number of Taiping army movements was sent to the desks of the heads of government of the Kingdom of Sweden, the Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania with great efficiency.

Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom carried out in-depth management of the occupied areas, due to the alien status of Hong Tiancheng and his soldiers, as well as the Taiping army's not only humane conversion and forcible indoctrination of Han culture, many local whites dared not speak out, which provided a good place for foreign spies to play.

Most white civilians turn a blind eye to suspicious foreign spies, and it is difficult to really put an end to this situation with just a thousand Jinyi guards.

Jinyiwei's responsibility is more to maintain the grassroots stability of the kingdom of heaven and prevent the occurrence of civil uprisings.

Of course, Hong Tiancheng doesn't care that the enemy country knows about his military movements, and the division and regiment of tens of thousands of people can't be concealed no matter what, and inducing the Russian Empire to take the initiative to attack is also an important step in Hong Tiancheng's strategic plan!

In the spring of 1654, the temperature gradually warmed, and the first round of offensive of the Taiping army was ushered in!