111 The draw begins

Under Hong Tiancheng's command, the all-out war system quickly changed the troops at the level of division commander of the Taiping Army to the musket infantry regiment of the Taiping Army, and the establishment and official titles remained unchanged, only the name of the division commander was changed, which was called the regimental seat, just like the brigade commander became the battalion commander.

Four elite musket infantry regiments of the Taiping Army soon came out of the central cathedral of Kyiv City, and stationed and controlled the entire Kyiv City with battalions as the basic unit.

Now that Hong Tiancheng has sufficient infantry strength, he naturally no longer needs to rely on the cannon fodder corps composed of Poles, and naturally, there is no need to deliberately brainwash the civilians of Kyiv through the religious ceremony of recruiting heavenly soldiers and generals.

Hong Tiancheng, who is extremely utilitarian, is unwilling to do anything that has nothing to do with his interests, and he is not interested in the wasteful behavior of acting as a god stick, so it is natural that he did not hold a religious ceremony in the city of Kiev.

This is the strength of the people, all day long up and down to do things are often those who are not strong enough but want to rise to a high position, the real people in power are generally very stable and constant, the people who hold the power of the ruling power want to be stable and harmonious, as much as possible to suppress any accidents that may occur.

Because those who hold the power of rule do not have to do anything, they can sit peacefully above the heads of the people and enjoy happiness, and of course, the more stable and harmonious they are, the happier they are.

Hong Tiancheng's mentality at this time is similar to those ruling classes with great power, and now that the nine lottery opportunities have not been used, he has 10 independent battalions and four full regiments of elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, plus a thousand-person personal guard battalion, with a total strength of more than 16,000 people!

This is an elite veteran who is loyal and willing to die generously for Hong Tiancheng, and with military literacy alone, it is enough to be called an elite regular army among the first-class military powers in the European continent.

In the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom, where the army is heavier, the Polish hussars can be compared, but all the Polish hussars combined, there are only less than 30,000 people, and most importantly, in the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom, no one person or organization can gather all the Polish hussars.

The reason for this is simple: not all of the Polish hussars belonged to the state, and many of them were loyal to the great noble lords who gave them fiefs, not to the so-called kings.

What's more, the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania is so large, and it is impossible for the Polish hussars to be gathered to fight for their own interests, unless the country is about to fall!

In such a comparison, it can be said that the data of Hong Tiancheng's biggest enemy, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, can no longer crush the Taiping Army on paper, and the Taiping Army is no longer the bandit army that will disappear in the face of a defeat, but has grown into a free and independent warlord with real regional deterrence.

If it weren't for the fact that today's European environment does not allow it, in the Middle Ages, Hong Tiancheng could have established himself as a powerful lord and established an independent sovereign state such as the Duchy Boguo.

But in the 17th century, this was not allowed, because Hong Tiancheng was of a different race and did not have a prominent family background, if all the lowly nouveau riche could establish their own independent territories, wouldn't the aristocratic feudal order, which had been stable for hundreds of years, be broken?

Therefore, Hong Tiancheng is a warlord at best, and it is impossible for him to become a truly recognized lord, unless...... He shook the whole continent!

After having enough hard power to rival the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, Hong Tiancheng didn't care about the idea of civilians, and just accepted a group of low-level dignitaries in Kiev to take refuge and let them assist the political and religious personnel of the Taiping Army and serve as deputy managers of the city.

Although the Taiping Army is ****, it implements militarized management and the holy treasury system, but with the participation and support of local dignitaries, it can also save a lot of things, and Hong Tiancheng is just paying some inconsequential civilian deputy positions.

In cities under the control of the Taipings, all the locals were not able to act as important commanders with the right to stand alone, and Krysztof was a special case, because he was an example of surrender set by Hong Tiancheng against the Poles.

Kresztof is also the only military commander who has independent control of the armed forces of the Polish Servant Army, but the armed forces of the Polish Servant Army under his control can be used as security forces, and they are just cannon fodder at the militia level when they go to war, and sometimes they are even inferior to the mobilized Polish militia in terms of morale......

Hong Tiancheng is very satisfied with this benefit of the Taiping military system, he does not need to recruit a separate set of civilian government teams, and the Taiping army troops exchanged for are all subordinate teachers and civilian officials, and it is not difficult to establish an independent urban system under the management of army soldiers.

The only flaw is that the liberty and human rights of civilians in Kyiv are greatly deprived, however, this is precisely what Hong Tiancheng cares about the most......

The prisoners of war in Kiev became the 'official slaves' of the Taiping army, and all the restorative construction work in the city fell on them, and a series of chaotic tasks such as cleaning the battlefield and burying the corpses also collapsed on their heads, and the Taiping army completely used these prisoners of war as lowly coolie labor.

However, these driven prisoners of war did not have much resistance in their hearts, and they were very content if they were defeated in the hands of the Taiping army, who were said to kill people without blinking, and they could save a small life and not be pulled to the front line as cannon fodder.

In the 17th century, there was no idea of human rights, let alone liberalism, and the ideological realm of the lower classes of this era was really pure, and their requirements for life were also very low.

Of course, it is also better to manage, why did the once-invincible world empires collapse one after another in just a hundred years after the nationalist ideology flourished?

It was not the improvement of the ideological realm of the internal people, the desire to get more, that led to the collapse of the Nuoda empire one by one!

As a result, the American Empire, which was finally armed by the whole people and human rights became an unshakable part of the law, became the biggest winner.

Although the United States also has oppression, at least they have done a good job in terms of universal elections and national gun ownership, and how many countries in the world dare to let ordinary people take guns?

It is precisely because of the gun ownership in the United States that many human rights violations in the US government cannot be passed, and they dare not force it!

Public anger cannot be provoked in the United States, and it is a terrible thing for the government to have guns for all.

When the Taiping army was combing in the city of Kiev, Hong Tiancheng came to the camp established in the field before, where he would extract the army of the all-out war system of uncertain nature and use it as the main force for external expansion...... Cannon fodder!

"The draw begins." Hong Tiancheng commanded the all-out war system.