"Attack!"

Under the orders of the commanders of the 1st and 300th units of the Taiping Army, hundreds of ragged and numb Polish slaves, carrying simple ladders, rushed towards the 5-meter-high Tuweizi city wall in the distance, which was closer to Zhytomyr and had stronger fortifications than Loren Town, and its population was comparable to Loren.

Today, Hong Tiancheng's notoriety has spread in the territory from Zhytomyr to Kiev, and the vast majority of Polish villagers scattered in various settlements and villages have migrated to their towns with their families, and capable Poles have even hired horse-drawn carriages to march to Zhytomyr.

Because of this, the town in front of Hong Tiancheng gathered no less than the population of Loren Town.

Forced by the swords of the Taiping soldiers, the Polish slaves had to carry ladders and dash against arrows and lead bullets thrown from the city, and erect ladders under a large number of stones and even gold juice (boiling dung).

Most of the families of these Polish slaves were kept in another team, and if they did not 'work' hard, not only would they be executed, but their entire families would be killed.

The Polish militia in the town obviously had no concept of showing mercy to their compatriots, and spared no effort to kill this group of slaves and cannon fodder carrying ladders.

Now that Hong Tiancheng's strength has thousands of senior musketeers, he naturally no longer needs to rely on the desperate fighting style before, while driving the worthless Polish slaves to attract firepower, and at the same time sending two senior musketeers of the Taiping Army with two hundred-man teams to cover the fire and kill the Polish militia at the head of the city.

Hong Tiancheng's attack on the town was no longer on one side, but on all sides at the same time, on the one hand, two or three senior musketeers of the Taiping Army's 100-man squad were assigned, and the Polish slaves carrying improvised ladders were first asked to come forward to attract firepower and erect ladders, while the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army behind took the opportunity to approach and constantly kill the Polish musket militia at the head of the city.

Hong Tiancheng was not in a hurry to enter the city, and the tragic losses in the siege of Loren Town made Hong Tiancheng understand that if he did not exhaust the living forces in the city as much as possible, and entered the narrow and complex terrain to fight in the alleys of the towns and alleys, he would only let his soldiers pay unnecessary casualties.

In fact, the image of the Crimean Tatars in the hearts of Polish civilians is too bad, and after Hong Tiancheng crossed over, he also gloriously carried this big black cauldron, but Hong Tiancheng did not have the slightest intention of improving the 'black cauldron', and even had the intention of carrying it forward......

Naturally, in the face of such a group of Tatar bandits, it is not difficult to understand that the Polish militia fought street battles or something.

However, Hong Tiancheng is reluctant to fight in the street and has a little scruples, the wealth in the attacked town has been regarded by Hong Tiancheng as his own private property, in case of street fighting, the loss of materials will inevitably increase greatly, and burning a warehouse Hong Tiancd will be distressed......

Even a burned Loren town can grab so many goodies, let alone an entire town?

Hong Tiancheng's Taiping Army's senior musketeers almost all relied on captured lead plates and black powder support, because the muskets in this era have been flooded to the extent that even the militia is popular, so the town often reserves a certain amount of black powder and lead plates, and the arms materials of a town are enough for Hong Tiancheng's thousands of musketeers to fight several high-intensity battles.

As for food, it is not a problem, Hong Tiancheng will only leave young men and women who are useful to him, which is equivalent to reducing the population by half at once, and the Polish slaves can only eat one meal a day under Hong Tiancheng's harsh treatment, maintaining a state of starvation......

Only before the battle will they be allowed to eat and drink, and if they win, these Polish slave cannon fodder may also be given meat, which is the only way Hong Tiancheng used to motivate the subjective initiative of Polish slave cannon fodder.

Slaves in this era are not synonymous with depravity and evil, a large part of the state tax revenue of the Crimean Khanate is dependent on the slave trade, they buy a large number of slaves from war-torn Eastern European countries, and then through the Black Sea trading ports, these white slaves are imported into Arab and other regional countries, earning a rich price difference.

White female slaves, especially the wives and daughters of aristocratic and wealthy merchants, have always been favored by the nobles of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Persian Empire because of their big hips, and even many North African chieftains also like this exotic taste, plus the countries of the Middle East have always retained the slave system, and there will be a large shortage of slaves every year, so that the Crimean Khanate has made a lot of profits.

Because of the slave trade in the Crimean Khanate, the Tatars were very keen on human plundering, which led to an additional hatred and hatred of the Tatars among the Polish populace.

Although slavery was forbidden in Christian countries, there were still some lords who lacked labor and occasionally bought serfs for production, so the slave trade had a certain market even in Europe.

In fact, serfs are also hierarchical, most of them belong to free serfs, similar to the tenants in ancient China, who have personal freedom on the surface, but are bound to the land for life to pay off debts.

There is also a category of private property of nobles and landlords, serfs with similar status as slaves, these serfs often rely on the noble castle to cultivate the land, and use their own sweat to provide for the luxurious life of the nobles for free.

Free serfs had to endure exploitation and taxes, but without free serfs everything belonged to their masters, including their lives and their children!

However, in the event of war, the noble lords were often more willing to conscript free serfs, because the noble lords did not feel sorry for how many of these people died.

Compared with the dark and barbaric Russian Empire and the Crimean Khanate, the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania can be regarded as relatively 'democratic', at least the way they oppressed the serfs remained at the level of taxes, not all of them......

Under the selfless dedication of the blood of the Polish slaves' cannon fodder, several improvised ladders were quickly erected on the Tuweizi city wall, however, the senior musketeers of the Taiping Army had no intention of climbing the ladder, they stood under the city in a neat firing queue, taking advantage of the Polish militia's urgency to try to overthrow or destroy the ladder, and carried out intensive slaughter of the Polish militia gathered on the improvised ladder.

This one-sided massacre was carried out on almost all four walls of the town, and Hong Tiancheng sent all the musketeers out at once, just to completely consume the Polish militia in the town.

It didn't take long for the Polish musket militia to move at the head of the city, and several simple ladders were erected on each earthen wall, and according to the normal offensive and defensive battles of this era, the victory or defeat of this battle was already known.