Stockholm is the political, economic, cultural, and transportation center and main port of the Kingdom of Sweden, as well as the official palace of the Swedish government, parliament and royal family.

Stockholm is located on the east coast of Sweden, near the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of Lake Mälaren. The city is spread over 14 islands and a peninsula, and more than 70 bridges connect the islands, earning it the nickname "Venice of the North". The city of Stockholm is part of Greater Stockholm.

The island, which houses the palace of the Swedish royal family, is called 'King's Island' by the Swedish citizens of Stockholm.

Stockholm was once plagued by pirates, but since the rise of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 17th century and the construction of a grand palace complex in Stockholm, the famous and rich port city of Northern Europe has been safe and quiet until the day of the Swedish Civil War in 1657!

Stockholm is the political center of the Kingdom of Sweden, and naturally it is also the city where the Swedish royal family is most powerful, so the current king of the Kingdom of Sweden, Karl X, who has taken refuge in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, still has many loyal supporters in the capital of Stockholm.

Stockholm, as the capital of the Kingdom of Sweden, also had the largest number of royal guards loyal to the individual of Karl X.

Because of this, the entire Kingdom of Sweden set off an uprising against Karl X's traitorous defection, and the Kingdom of Sweden rebels peacefully liberated more than eighty percent of the Swedish cities that were not garrisoned by the Taiping Army at the first time, except for Stockholm, which fell into a fierce battle!

The 5th Elite Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army, which escorted Karl X, was mainly divided into two parts, under the strong demand of the Swedish military and civilians, two regiments of the Taiping Elite Grenadier Division were stationed in Stockholm, with a total of only about 5,000 people, and the other parts were stationed in Helsinki and Vyborg, near the Russian border.

The purpose of this was that Karl X and the 5th Elite Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army did not want to anger the Swedish military and civilians too much, and also gave Karl X's supporters a step down to successfully bring Karl X back to the capital of Stockholm and continue to be the Swedish king.

Hong Tiancheng obviously underestimated the support of Karl X in the Kingdom of Sweden, after he returned to China, even if he brought a large number of Taiping soldiers, he still firmly controlled the government, and did not let the Kingdom of Sweden go to the abyss of civil war, although there was a deterrent effect of the Taiping Army, those opposition and militant Swedish nobles did not have the certainty of defeating the Taiping Army and the Swedish royal guards, and did not dare to easily set off a rebellion, but it was Carl X and his family who played a greater role in controlling the domestic political situation.

This is why the surface of the Kingdom of Sweden also leveled off until the return of Karl X to Stockholm City.

Unfortunately, the entry of the Christian Brotherhood and the independent Russian army instantly broke this balance, and the 5th Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army in Helsinki and Vyborg was besieged by a large number of local militias and garrisons of the Kingdom of Sweden.

However, compared to the glamorous battlefield on the border, the fighting in Stockholm's capital presents a tragic chaos.

The royal guards in support of Karl X, the wavering musketeers of the Stockholm capital, the rebel army of the townspeople, and the constant influx of rebels led by the Swedish opposition aristocracy have turned the beautiful city of Stockholm into a slaughterhouse.

After the outbreak of the civil war, the royal guards in the Stockholm court stood firmly on the side of Karl X, but the Musket Corps of the Guards of the Stockholm capital, which was supposed to be loyal to the royal family, was in the midst of important divisions and infighting during this period!

You must know that although the royal guards that mainly protect the palace are good, they are not numerous, and the main military force of Stockholm City is the Musket Corps, which is also a force similar to the nature of the Royal Forest Army led by the King of Sweden when he went on an expedition.

Such an army was in rebellion and infighting at such a critical moment, and fell into cannibalism, one can imagine how bad Karl X's reputation was among the nobility of the Kingdom of Sweden!

Since the rise of Gustav the Great, the Kingdom of Sweden has only fought wars, and has never been defeated to the point that even the king has taken the initiative to surrender, and even introduced foreign troops into the domestic capital!

This was a challenge to the collapse of the worldview of the traditional Swedish aristocracy, and the most important support group of the Swedish royal family was precisely these traditional military aristocrats, who made up the majority, and their defection quickly led the civil war of the entire Swedish kingdom to an absolutely unfavorable situation for Karl X.

On the other hand, the intentions of the Swedish people became insignificant, and whether or not they supported the civil war to overthrow the rule of Karl X, Swedish commoners would be recruited into the army by the Swedish nobles, armed and trained, and then pushed into battle.

However, the first wave of Swedish rebels who fought against the supporters of Karl X and the Taiping army were the private army owned by the Swedish nobles themselves and the local standing army of the Kingdom of Sweden, as well as a large number of mercenaries with combat experience.

Sweden is also a region rich in mercenaries, and the cold and difficult environment has tempered many men with strong willpower, which is also a factor in the Swedish army's ability to fight.

The entire city of Stockholm was divided into more than a dozen small-scale war zones, and you and me had you and you killed each other, along with the citizens of Stockholm who were not soldiers, and were also involved.

Because many of the citizens who opposed Karl X joined in arms, the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army and the Swedish soldiers loyal to Karl X could not effectively separate the citizens, especially in the melee!

So, there are many innocent Swedish citizens who have been killed as rebels in the war, and of course, no one cares about the dead bodies of civilians in the streets.

The number of supporters of Karl X and the elite grenadiers of the Taiping Army in Stockholm was limited, but the Swedish rebels from outside continued to pour in.

Street fighting, a term that does not often appear in modern times, became common in Stockholm, and in the face of the rebel army of the Kingdom of Sweden, which outnumbered him, Karl X had no choice but to withdraw from the capital of Stockholm, which had been reduced to ruins, after a month of resistance.

With the family flag of Karl X being plucked and burned over the Stockholm court, it heralded the end of Karl X's overall rule over the Kingdom of Sweden.