The iron-inlaid solid boots made a crisp sound with the marble floor, and Xue Taishen swayed his slender figure into Hong Tiancheng's office under the military salute of the guards at the door.

"Your Majesty, accurate news has come from the Kyiv region, the main force of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force has launched a fierce attack on the outer defense line of Kyiv City, and nearly 10,000 people are fighting there every day.

Xue Taishen finished speaking, opened a round paper tube and put it on Hong Tiancheng's office desktop, and at the same time took out another round paper tube and said: "Yesterday, our Jinyi Wei secret agents who were operating on the border of the Polotsk territory found the Christian Brotherhood soldiers of the team, and contacted the nearest Chinese army scouts to intercept and capture them.

Your Majesty, we have sent professional scouts to investigate, and the rest of the information on this military map is fake, only the location of the main camp of the Polotsk aristocratic coalition is extremely accurate!

The commanders of the front line are waiting for His Majesty's next military order, whether to continue to pursue the main force of the Christian Brotherhood Protector Guard, or to turn around and go to the hinterland of the Polotsk territory to annihilate the main force of the Polotsk aristocratic coalition army in one fell swoop and expand the territory. ”

Hong Tiancheng took the documents submitted by Xue Taishen and read them carefully, and directly skipped the attack on Kyiv City, the departure of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force Hong Tiancheng had already learned that Kyiv City was also prepared for defense in advance, even if the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force attacked fiercely, it was not possible to capture it in a short time.

Kyiv City is a capital-level fortress city, the Taiping army took Kyiv City and relied on the back to stab the Ukrainian Cossack rebels in the back, and defeated the Cossack rebels from the inside, the outside offensive and defensive battles were not fought at all, the damage to the city defense facilities was not serious, and after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied a large number of slaves and white laborers were mobilized to repair and expand the work, the degree of protection of Kiev City was definitely the most tightly guarded city under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Therefore, in Hong Tiancheng's eyes, the onslaught of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force was nothing more than the Russians using their own soldiers' lives to quickly deplete the troops in the Kiev area with a loss of battle losses.

According to the report of the battle in Kyiv, the battle loss ratio between the Ottoman Sultan's personal soldiers and the attacking Russian soldiers can even reach an exaggerated 1 to 5, which means that 3,000 Ottoman Sultan's personal soldiers can leave at least 15,000 corpses of the Russian Expeditionary Force, which is absolutely a terrible loss for the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force with only 50,000 men.

What's more, this is only a battle on the outer defense line, as the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force gradually approaches the main city of Kyiv, the defense system formed by the arrow tower turret and so on will become more and more dense, and the battle losses of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force will only increase and not weaken.

This is the reason why Hong Tiancheng firmly believes that the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force will not be able to shake the city of Kiev in a short time.

Of course, Hong Tiancheng did not give no support at all, in addition to the loyal Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers, there were also a large number of Kyiv city defense forces composed of Polish traitors, and the supreme commander was the famous traitor general Krysztof Koniecpolsky of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom.

The Parliament of Cenm, Poland, has passed a unanimous resolution convicting Krysztof Koniecpolski of treason, and Krysztof has now been stripped of all family honors and titles of nobility, and has become an honorable wanted man with a head bounty of several thousand zlotys (the official Polish currency).

The zloty of the 17th century was not a paper money of later generations, but a genuine metal currency made of precious metals such as gold, silver, copper, etc., and it was extremely valuable!

After the outbreak of the Battle of Kiev, he would inspect the barracks of the white city defense army almost every day and supervise the combat discipline of the soldiers and officers, and these white Kiev city defense troops greatly made up for the lack of manpower of the Ottoman Sultan's own soldiers.

In addition, there are a large number of weapons and ammunition stored in the city of Kyiv, and even the white Kiev city defense army can reach a musket per person, mainly because the Taiping army has won many victories in previous battles and captured many people.

Grain reserves have looted more than eighty percent of the towns and villages around the Kyiv region, and even if all the outside passages are cut off, the grain in Kyiv is open to supply civilians and soldiers, and it can be eaten for more than a year.

Although the main force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not mean to support the city of Kiev, Hong Tiancheng also sent some scattered small units of Taiping troops into the city of Kyiv to assist in the defense, and they brought a lot of white mercenaries and aristocratic private soldiers who defected to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and even captured surrendered soldiers, the morale of these people in the field may be very poor, but it is still no problem to rely on the city defense system to shoot, which is also the reason why the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force suffered heavy casualties when attacking, and the white servant army fired more bullets than the Taiping army!

There is no shortage of traitors in this world who turn their backs on the country and the nation for their own interests, and even if only a small percentage of whites are willing to die for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is enough to make the attacking Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force suffer.

Of course, Hong Tiancheng is not worried about the capture of the city of Kyiv, and the biggest hole card is the potential pawn of the Cossack tribes in the lower Dnieper River basin, Sari. Assman, the rare hero of the lottery, is a seasoned natural Cossack leader.

Assman already has thousands of Cossack soldiers loyal to him, as long as there is a need, he can reinforce the city of Kyiv at any time, and give the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force a fatal blow at a key position, but if he does so, it will inevitably expose the 'ambiguous' relationship between Assman and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which will greatly reduce the prestige of the Cossacks who have just been established by Assman, and even trigger a rebellion of the Cossack tribes who hate the Taiping Army, so Assman will not rashly attack the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force unless he is forced to do so.

After skimming the report of Kiev City, Hong Tiancheng looked at the Polotsk intelligence and pondered for a moment, and asked: "What is the strength of the main force of the Polotsk aristocratic coalition army?" Are we sure that we will win a complete victory? ”

The front-line operations are almost all in the hands of the generals of the Taiping Army, and the unified coordination with each other is the responsibility of Zhao Yan, and only the general direction of the attack will be reported to Hong Tiancheng, so Hong Tiancheng does not know much about this kind of military details, after all, he has to spend a lot of time every day to enjoy beautiful women and delicious food......

Oh no, it's a lot of time to deal with other aspects of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!