262 Complete King of Lithuania
Jobs went very smoothly, because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under the order of Hong Tiancheng, the strategic goal has changed from destroying the enemy to driving away the enemy, and the land occupation in the mission objective of the king of Lithuania has been achieved, as long as the hostile army in the territory is driven away, Hong Tiancheng can perfectly end the task of the king of Lithuania, and open a new chapter of hegemony under the substantial improvement and reward of the authority of the all-out war system!
Compared with Jobs, who took the initiative to leave, the Russian aristocratic cavalry led by General Menderov was much more embarrassed, and Menderov and his party, who originally wanted to stay in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for a while longer, waited for news from Moscow with war, were pursued by a large number of Cossack cavalry, and could not stop fleeing at all.
The arrogant Russian aristocratic cavalry naturally did not allow the scum-like Cossack cavalry in their eyes to pursue and kill them, and after fleeing for a week, they found an open terrain suitable for cavalry charges, intending to have a good battle with the Cossack cavalry who came.
As a result, the Russian aristocratic cavalry stopped and the Cossack cavalry also stopped, there was no intention of a duel, both sides were riding war horses, the Cossack cavalry belonged to the light cavalry arms such as rangers, and the frontal combat ability was average, but the escape ability was absolutely first-class, and the Russian aristocratic cavalry wanted to pursue the Cossack cavalry in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was tantamount to a fantasy.
Menderov and his party realized that the Cossack cavalry was only driving and monitoring them, and after waiting for reinforcements from the Taiping army, they could only reluctantly continue to embark on the road of escape.
Menderov thought that the Cossack cavalry would not dare to take the initiative to attack, and in order to maintain the supply of the Russian noble cavalry, he sent troops to fight the grass valley.
The food consumed by thousands of Russian noble cavalry is not a small amount, and it is not something that a few villages can make up for, not to mention that Lithuania has already suffered from the civil strife of the Taiping Army, the Christian Brotherhood and other forces, and has been impoverished to a new level.
It's a pity that that kind of city is not at all something that the Russian aristocratic cavalry with full cavalry can collide with, and the pursuers behind will not allow it.
Therefore, in order to collect enough supplies, the only way to collect them is to disperse as many small units of Russian noble cavalry as possible to expand the area of collected supplies.
In this way, the Cossack cavalry was given a great chance.
The Cossack cavalry group battle is naturally not the opponent of the Russian noble cavalry, but this kind of collision of small forces is what the Cossack cavalry is best at, and this is in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Jinyi Guard spies will provide some necessary information to the Cossack cavalry.
As a result, the Cossack cavalry, which had sufficient supplies, could always catch the Russian noble cavalry fighting in the grass valley with more and less fighting!
Even if the Russian aristocratic cavalry can fight against the Cossack cavalry one by one, it can't stand the number of Cossack cavalry!
In the attrition of such small forces, the Russian noble cavalry suffered a lot, and the elite cavalry was bullied to such an extent by a group of stragglers, that Menderov and others really realized how naïve they were to want to mess around the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom......
The Christian Brotherhood can run rampant in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, mainly because the main force of the Taiping Army has no time to take care of anything else, and the main force of the Christian Brotherhood has a complete range of infantry and cavalry, and it can fight a frontal battle.
However, General Menderov's Russian aristocratic cavalry was a single fleeing force, and was targeted by a large number of targeted Cossack cavalry, and there was a regiment of Taiping infantry in the rear to chase after them.
The Russian aristocratic cavalry did not have enough ammunition, let alone artillery to accompany them, and a frontal battle against the elite of the Taiping army, who had been fought in a hundred battles and was not afraid of death, was undoubtedly a dead end, which made Menderov unable to be as comfortable as the Christian Brotherhood before him.
Now, even the troops fighting in the grass valley have lost unaccounted for, and if the Russian aristocratic cavalry continues to play like this, I am afraid that they are really all planted here!
In the end, Menderov had no choice but to resort to his final plan and flee to the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.
Along the way, because the Russian noble cavalry needed to collect food everywhere, the small group of troops and the Cossack cavalry never stopped, and there were casualties almost every day.
The Cossack cavalry was much more difficult than General Menderov had imagined.
The Russian aristocratic cavalry is confronting the Cossack cavalry with the advantage that the Cossack cavalry is best at in the way they are not good at fighting, and they are still on the side of intelligence disadvantage, and they have not been broken their backbones, which has already shown that the individual combat ability of the Russian aristocratic cavalry is strong.
Thus, after weeks of suffering, the cavalry of the Russian nobility finally entered the area under the present control of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, broke away from the Cossack cavalry, and was greeted by the local Polish defenders.
When the commander of the border garrison of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania saw the tired and scrawny Russian aristocratic cavalry, he almost thought that he had encountered a mob of beggars......
Of the thousands of Russian aristocratic cavalry, less than 2,000 of them escaped in the end, and for Menderov and his party, the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force was actually not much different from the total annihilation.
If nothing else, the military career of Menderov and others will basically mean the end after returning to Moscow City, whether it is the tsar or the Duma, it will not let a commander who has buried tens of thousands of troops have a good end!
The only thing that Menderov and the others were glad for was that Moscow was busy gathering forces to fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there was no time to worry about their defeated generals for the time being, and the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom and the Russian Empire had been effectively divided into two by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Even if Menderov and others want to return to Moscow, it will not be easy.
After driving away the Russian aristocratic cavalry, the main forces of the Taiping Army of the two regiments, together with a large number of white militia, launched a vigorous encirclement and suppression campaign against the armed groups left behind by the Christian Brotherhood in Lithuania and lined with hills.
Hong Tiancheng didn't need to wipe them all out, as long as the armed forces left behind by the Christian Brotherhood hurried into the mountains and forests and routed them.
As long as the regular army was not formed and stationed in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it could be recognized by the all-out war system.
This encirclement and suppression war went very smoothly, and all the troops that the Christian Brotherhood could really fight were taken away by Jobs, and the remaining crooked melons and cracked dates were useless except for increasing the achievements of the Taiping Army!
In late 1653, Hong Tiancheng finally received a reminder that the task of the king of Lithuania of the all-out war system was completed, and the overall improvement of military strength was placed in front of Hong Tiancheng!