In a village on the border of the Polotsk territory, a large number of soldiers in various armors sit and rest on the grass, and crusader flags with a white background stand in the middle of it, fluttering in the wind, annotating their true identities.

The original civilians of this village have long been dispersed, and the whole village has become a camp of thousands of people, and the soldiers are doing their own things with calm faces and expressionless faces, not at all like a 'defeated army' that has just retreated.

From this point, it can be seen that Jobs and others have already reached the point of perfecting the morale of the soldiers, and it is not difficult to withdraw from Minsk in advance, but if you want to maintain normal morale while retreating, it is not something that ordinary people can do, and only soldiers who really have faith or have a clear purpose for their own battles will maintain a leisurely attitude when this situation is unfavorable to themselves.

I have to say that these Christian Brotherhood Guardian Guards brought out by Jobs have reached a level of spiritual level with certain national guerrillas in later generations, and as long as they can fill their stomachs, no matter how bad the combat situation is, they will persevere!

Because the soldiers are not fighting for a certain person or an abstract nation, but for themselves, to be precise, Steve Jobs' Guardian Guard for their own beliefs!

In the eyes of Confucian-influenced Orientals, religious beliefs are as illusory as myths, and most Orientals have a respectful attitude towards religious beliefs, fearing gods but not really believing in them, let alone giving their lives for their beliefs......

However, in the Western world with a strong religious atmosphere, faith is a very serious topic, as long as people of different beliefs are slightly short-tempered, it is easy to fight during conversations, and there are countless religious wars that have broken out because of faith, even if most of the purposes of the wars are for land and wealth, but the superiors can use religious beliefs to gather a large number of troops, and successfully mobilize the courage of soldiers on the battlefield, which has shown the importance of religious belief in the life of the civilian people at the bottom!

Obviously, Jobs' elite cathars are the selected devout believers in Christianity, they are not blindly fighting for Jobs personally, they are for their own beliefs, for the continuation of Christianity in their homeland to take up arms, they are even willing to give their lives for this cause when necessary!

As for the Taiping Army's hierarchical system and plundering of civilians, these Christian soldiers saw it as merely a factual argument to prove that they had chosen the 'right' choice.

Compared with the Taiping Army, Christianity is more benevolent and tolerant, and as for the exploitation and corruption of the high-level clergy of the Christian Church, these low-level pious soldiers naturally do not know!

What a person does depends on his broad knowledge, and there is nothing more than right or wrong here, but there are different levels of looking at things.

"Chief, our blatant entry into the Polotsk territory will definitely arouse the vigilance of the Polotsk lords, will we really not cause trouble by doing so?"

In the big tent in the center of the camp, Sabonis, a henchman of Steve Jobs, the core leadership of the Christian Brotherhood, asked with a worried face.

The question he asked is exactly what the core members of the Christian Brotherhood are concerned about today.

Among them were revanchists whose relatives and friends died at the hands of the Taiping Army in pure revenge, there were fugitives whose wealth was plundered by the Taiping Army, and there were also devout Christians who were really dissatisfied simply because the Taiping Army treated Christianity differently and forcibly used the examination system to force the majority of white civilians to convert, and so on.

Whatever the purpose for which they gathered around Jobs, they all had a common goal - to overthrow the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

As long as they can cause trouble for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they will put 100% enthusiasm into it, which is why the Christian Brotherhood has been in business for only a few months, but it has an unprecedented level of cohesion, and when people have a common goal that they desperately want to accomplish, the whole group will burst out with terrifying motivation.

This is why Jobs had the audacity to refuse the aid of the Russian Empire for his own interests, he fought the Taiping army face to face, and even made an in-depth analysis of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom system in his fugitive career, he knew very well that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom belonged to foreign invaders, and it was also a system of overbearing minority ruling the majority, no matter how wise the leader ruled, such a government must cross a threshold in the early stage - the bloody accumulation of primitive capital.

People are not worth much in this era, but weapons and equipment and even all kinds of daily necessities that people eat and chew must be available, and the army is often tens of thousands of people, and trying to feed an army is enough to drag the richest merchant family into bankruptcy, so the strength of one person or one family alone is simply not enough to support the long-term operation of an army.

The Taiping Army's alien status and unwillingness to share core power with the local white aristocracy doomed them to be unable to reasonably receive a large amount of material support, so if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wanted to maintain its army for a long time and even expand its troops, it would inevitably embark on the road of squeezing the occupied areas.

If the Taiping army wants to continue to oppress, it must eliminate the rebels, which will cause a large number of deaths, not to mention that the Taiping army still implements a very complete legal system that will cause the nine ethnic groups to be cut down and eradicated.

So many people were executed by the Taiping army, and naturally a large number of people who were dissatisfied with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were created, so the opportunity for a revenge careerist like Jobs came!

People will become, Jobs's original intention to develop the Christian Brotherhood was just for revenge, he was the eldest son of a wealthy aristocratic family that relied on business, and he was also a middle-level officer with a high position in the army, with a worry-free life and good future prospects, as a result, as soon as the Taiping army came, his family was defeated and fled, and the whole family died clean except for him!

How could he not hate?

However, when Jobs got to know the system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and tried to develop the Christian Brotherhood, he suddenly found that things were going unexpectedly well, and it could even be said that they had reached the level of a hundred responses!

Based on the defeated troops he brought out, he soon expanded the Christian Brotherhood in various cities that the Taiping army did not directly occupy, and created a huge uprising! 8)