246 Two-legged sheep
"Shousuke-sama, are we going to carry out the original plan?" The deputy commander of Jinyiwei asked in a low voice.
Zhang Juzheng smiled and shook his head: "Since Jobs did this, it means that he doesn't want to fight with Heaven at all, most of the main forces of Heaven are fighting outside, and it is difficult to intercept the main force of the Christian Brotherhood by relying on those militias and garrisons, with Jobs's cunning personality, if he doesn't want to fight us, we can only follow behind his ass and eat ashes."
The Christian Brotherhood is nothing more than a group of rogue armed forces, relying on religious fanaticism to support their fighting morale, and their foundation is not even as good as the kingdom of heaven, and it is not a big hidden danger if the main force is defeated once.
Moreover, there is nothing to do with the Christian Brotherhood, and now that the Christian Brotherhood is gone, our arrangements can be used against the others. ”
Zhang Juzheng paused, stood up, came to the combat sand table, and nodded to the Masovia area.
"Masovia's army was hit in front of our fortifications, and suffered great losses, and they thought that our army would not launch a counteroffensive by virtue of their superiority in strength, and I would like to wonder if Masovia's army could stop it when the gift package we were going to give to Jobs suddenly appeared on the position, and we carried out a flank counterattack against them?"
"Lord Shoufu is really wise, there is a regiment of elite Taiping Army headquarters as the backbone, tens of thousands of garrison troops and militia troops launched a counteroffensive, the Masovian army with serious battle losses and declining morale in the past few days will inevitably be defeated, and when the time comes, we can go all the way into the Masovia region and expand the territory!"
The deputy commander of Jinyiwei hurriedly patted his ass.
"No, no, no, our current strength is slightly insufficient to expand the territory, and the current Masovia region is not within the strategic indicators of His Majesty the Heavenly King, it is not easy to occupy it, relying on a regiment of Taiping Army and tens of thousands of garrison troops and militia, may not be able to withstand the crazy counterattack of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, not to mention that we still have the Christian Brotherhood in our own country, and this gang of rogues is pulling people to join the union everywhere.
If our main force were caught in the quagmire of war with the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, that Jobs might have the courage to do something out of the ordinary, and I don't want to send a letter asking for help to His Majesty the Emperor during my reign, such as the country's focus today is on a full-scale war with the Russian Empire, and other things can be considered later.
After the complete defeat of the Masovian army, the elite infantry regiment of the Taiping Army at our border line can be liberated, and it is enough to arrange for some garrison troops to replace them, and with this mobile elite infantry regiment, it can be used to prevent the Christian Brotherhood from 'crossing the line'.
The bottom line of our kingdom of heaven is that no matter how much the countryside outside is eroded, we are not allowed to lose any of the great cities occupied by our army! ”
With Zhang Juzheng's order, a large number of garrison troops composed of Swedish town militia and Polish musketeers in Polish scythe-hand uniforms, and a small number of security militia armed forces composed of Lithuanians, drove to the front-line battlefield.
At the end of 1652, after storming the Taiping defensive line for nearly a month, the Masovian legion could not help but fall into a period of weakness, and the large number of casualties caused the initially high morale of the Masovian legionmen to drop significantly, and there was a general feeling of war weariness.
At some point, news spread among the soldiers that the Christian Brotherhood had betrayed the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and had moved into the Black Rus' region.
In the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, due to the existence of the Jinyiwei and the backwardness of the communication conditions of this era, the spread of news was very difficult, and the scouts and messengers of the Masovian legion were sniped by the Jinyiwei more than once in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it was impossible to know the movements of the Christian Brotherhood.
This is also the reason why the course of the Christian Brotherhood has long since changed, and the Masovian regiment is still self-righteously fulfilling its promise to storm it.
The spread of this news was obviously not the conscience of the Christian Brotherhood telling the 'allies' that Jobs was eager for the Masovian Army to fight the main force of the Taiping Army on the border to the end of the world, so that he could co-opt bandits who opposed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Lithuania, forcibly recruit strong men who believed in Christianity to join the church, and purge the countryside of the 'white traitors' who worshiped the Taiping Religion.
Without the containment of the main force of the Taiping Army, the strength of the Christian Brotherhood led by Jobs was restored very comfortably, and it was naturally impossible to kindly remind the betrayed teammates.
At the beginning, in order to arrange and mobilize the garrison troops and Lithuanian militia forces lurking in the rear, the Taiping army did not tell the Masovian army, and watched them crash headlong in front of the carefully built fortifications of the Taiping army, and hit them with a big bag.
Until this moment, the main force of the Taiping Army, which had been arranged in place, spread the news and further reduced the already war-weariness in the camp of the Masovian Legion.
As soon as the news of the betrayal by the Christian Brotherhood came out, it immediately attracted a curse from the commander of the Masovian regiment to the small soldiers, and completely lost the intention of attacking, and began to think about retreating.
However, just as the Masovian Army was preparing to withdraw, the Taiping Army Front, with the elite infantry regiment of the Taiping Army as the core, and tens of thousands of garrison troops and Lithuanian militia as the auxiliary, launched a surging all-out counteroffensive!
Relying on the strong strength of the Masovian Legion, the Masovian Legion boldly sent troops to fight in the field, but it was defeated at the first blow, and was massacred in a large number of pursuits all over the mountains, and the entire large battalion of the Masovian Legion was wiped out in just one day and one night, including tens of thousands of miscellaneous servants.
With hundreds of nobles killed or captured, the main force of the Taiping army broke into the Masovia region like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, plundering and slaughtering in the countryside and towns without city defense.
It was as if the white civilians of Masovia had come to an end, with men being reduced to slavery or killed, women being trophied by the Taipings, and children and the elderly not being heard from!
All useful supplies were looted, and those who could not be moved were burned to the ground, and the Masovia region, except for the large cities with high city defenses, was plagued by the main force of the Taiping army like hell.
According to later historians, the plundering and massacre of the Masovia region by the Taiping army directly and indirectly (starved to death) caused the loss of nearly 200,000 people.
The Masovians who were plundered into slavery alone exceeded 30,000!
The Taiping soldiers tied up white slaves in strings and dragged them back to Lithuania like cattle and sheep, and the Taiping soldiers laughingly called the plundered white population 'two-legged sheep'.
Since then, the Masovia region has no counteroffensive for several years!