The siege of the army is not an impenetrable encirclement, but the blockage of the main external routes, the march of the army and the personal travel are completely two concepts, a single or several pedestrians, in a hurry, can drill a forest and jump a mountain stream or something, but the army is in a hurry, if you want to cross from the mountains and forests, it is a big 'project'.

Therefore, in a military siege, individual messengers can often take advantage of the darkness to get out, but it is extremely difficult for the army to break through.

When Hong Tiancheng received the news that the town of Beshew was besieged, the nearest Polish army was still miles away, which of course highlighted one of the weaknesses of the Taiping army - the weakness of intelligence gathering.

After Hong Tiancheng discovered that none of the Polish spies sent out had come back to report, he gave up the idea of training spy personnel.

Human nature is selfish, especially for Polish traitors, Hong Tiancheng originally thought that mastering the families of these people would prevent them from completely breaking away from the Taiping Army, but he didn't think that after these people got out of the control of the Taiping Army, there was no news, and the Taiping Army became blind again.

Due to the extreme shortage of horses in the Taiping army, the only horses used to pull the logistics materials are not enough, and the best war horses have long been requisitioned by the Polish military.

Of course, the scouts of the Taiping army itself can only rely on two legs, and the scouts are not just sent a few people to finish the job, they need to be spread out in all directions, and at least hundreds of military horses are needed to properly cover the territory where the army is located.

The shortcomings of intelligence and scouting caused the Taiping army to not discover the enemy's location until it was ambushed by Samuel Waschi, and the intelligence of the Taiping army was weak, of course, Krysztof also knew about it, so the army he led took the town of Beshev as soon as possible and surrounded Hong Tiancheng's Taiping army!

This is the disadvantage of fighting in a different place, for the Polish army, any Polish civilian will provide them with information, and Polish refugees will not deliberately hide from the Polish army, but will walk around the route of the Taiping army as if they were a plague.

Almost all of the information obtained by Hong Tiancheng came from captured Polish traitors, and of course the intelligence was a big step behind.

But this is also a helpless thing, the Poles and the Han people of the Taiping Army have a natural estrangement, even if they believe in the Taiping doctrine and join the Taiping Army, the Polish traitors are also for the sake of life and life......

However, even if the intelligence is weak, the real decision on who is the boss still depends on the strength, the strength of the inflated Hong Tiancheng was once again filled with the confidence of the delusion, the salted fish mentality broke out again, and the high-spirited order to fight with all the arms, unashamedly claimed to annihilate the main force of Krysztov in the small town of Beshev!

Hong Tiancheng, whose strength has recovered and swelled, is like the villain boss in the classic justice film and television drama, wearing an extremely luxurious special battle jacket inlaid with gold and silver, just like the ancient generals of the East who came out of the cos in the 21st century, and later ordered someone to collect the best fabrics and forced the Polish tailor to make a red cloak by hand.

With a Han-style general helmet forged from 100 steels on his head, because the style template was provided by Hong Tiancheng according to the memory of later generations, it is still a style made by cos......

Hong Tiancheng's image is placed in later generations, it is a proper cos template of the Han general, but the materials are more expensive, and there are rough traces of pure hand-made everywhere.

Although the half-body cuirass was dead, Hong Tiancheng, who was based on the principle of the greatest life in the world and the earth, gritted his teeth and put on a special cuirass like a scale, stepped on bearskin combat boots, and rarely climbed to the top of the city to observe the enemy army formation opposite.

This, of course, was mainly due to the fact that the Polish army was several miles away from the earthen walls of the small town of Beshew and was not equipped with bulky artillery......

Although the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania also attached great importance to the development of firearms, its main focus was on the construction of cavalry, because most of the territory of the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania was in the Eastern European Plain and steppe, and the population was very scattered.

Therefore, in order to maintain its rule, the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania had to have a large army of mobile cavalry, and later, as the power of the Council of Sem exceeded the power of the Polish crown, the power of the local military aristocracy became stronger and stronger, and the proportion of cavalry units, mainly composed of Polish-Lithuanian military nobles, in the regular Polish army naturally increased.

The military aristocracy of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom (mainly the soldiers and officers of the Polish hussars) in order to protect their own interests and reduce their tax burdens, the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom voted by the Parliament of Sulm that the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania belonged to the plains, and only needed to maintain an invincible and elite cavalry force, and did not need to be armed to support too many ordinary standing infantry.

As a result, when the countries of the European continent began to attach great importance to the construction of infantry troops on a large scale because of the development of firearms, and desperately expanded their troops and increased their military expenditures, the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania reduced their military expenditures by a large margin, greatly reducing the country's standing infantry, and the regular army of the whole country only relied on more than 30,000 cavalry to support the scene!

You know, in the 17th century, any European continental power could casually pull out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of standing regular troops, not counting the extra mobilization in wartime!

Because of this, the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania is one of the largest countries in Europe, with a large population and a large territory, but in the end it was gradually weakened, but the Polish hussars are indeed very capable of fighting, in the case of a small difference in numbers, the Polish hussars were rarely defeated in field battles, and their prestige spread throughout the continent, and the French were the first country to form a modern cuirassier unit following the example of the Polish hussars.

Krysztof's tens of thousands of troops, in fact, more than half are responsible for logistics miscellaneous and ordinary militia, the core of the Polish hussars is only more than 2,000 people, the infantry is mainly composed of mercenaries, because the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom does not attach importance to the construction of infantry troops, so the infantry of the Polish army often relies on militia and mercenaries in wartime.

Naturally, the Polish army also rarely carried bulky artillery in field battles, and the Polish army valued mobility and basically did not carry heavy artillery as long as it was not necessary to attack a decisive battle in a large city.

In the Polish army, light and small artillery was not yet available.

This is mainly because the small cannons that are convenient to carry in this era are too powerful, and they are often the objects of slaughter in front of the cavalry in field battles.