Whoosh, jogging forward, the Crimean slave soldiers were in a very chaotic formation, but their housekeeping skills that they had practiced all year round were still okay, and they shot arrows at the Cossack soldiers who were loading arquebuses in the Cossack settlements, and the Crimean slave soldiers did not expect to hit, they just carried out projectile covering shots.

Since the Cossacks were rarely dressed in iron armor, the poor Cossacks, in addition to their bravery, bought mainly combat weapons rather than expensive talismans.

You know, a piece of plate armor is many times more expensive than a delicate arquebus!

Therefore, even if the bow and arrow of the Crimean slave soldier were only the simplest step bow, in the projectile state, it could hurt almost unarmored Cossack warriors, and if they were lucky, they could even kill them with a single blow.

The Crimean slave soldiers thought that these ambushes in front of them were just militia units formed by the locals, and in the process of slaughtering villages and looting grain and grass, the Crimean slave soldiers encountered many such militias composed of local young and strong people, and there would naturally be resistance in places where there was oppression, not to mention that the Crimean cannon fodder regiment was so desperate.

However, the army is an army after all, and even if the common people take up arms, they are still ordinary people, even if they do not mention the basic military literacy, even if they fight alone, the Crimean slave soldiers who have experience in the war and the more advanced Crimean standard-bearers can easily kill ordinary local young people one by one, and only those Cossack young people who have been bandits all year round have a certain degree of resistance.

It's just that all the Cossacks who could fight participated in the Cossack Rebellion, and the little Cossack youth who remained was not at all an opponent of the Crimean cannon fodder regiment.

This is precisely the reason why the Crimean slave soldiers saw that there was an ambush in the settlement, and launched a frontal assault without hesitation, in their eyes, no matter how many people took up arms, they were just a group of troublesome 'sheep', and killing people, wives, and food was the favorite 'daily life' of the Crimean slave soldiers.

It's a pity that this time this group of Crimean slave soldiers kicked the iron plate, and the four-kilogram Crimean cannon fodder regiment went deep into the Cossack rebel-controlled zone in the city of Chernihiv, how could the leader of the Cossack rebel army, Ivan Hilko, be indifferent?

He did not dare to send the remnants of the main force of the Cossack rebels to fight, because the essence of the Cossack rebels had already fought in the city of Kiev, and most of the remaining were recruits with no war experience and a group of Cossack soldiers who had changed their identities from bandits.

Ivan Hilko knew about his own family affairs, the Cossack rebel army seemed to be alive, but in fact the situation had been completely reversed, and the 8,000 Cossack elite gathered by Khmelnitsky was first besieged and consumed by the main Polish force in the battle of Kiev, and then almost annihilated in the city of Kiev by the Taiping army.

On the other hand, the newly rising Taiping army, without a single defeat, can defeat the main army that annihilates the Poles with fewer victories when it is weak, and thousands of Polish hussars have died in the hands of the Taiping army, all of which are hard-fought frontal battles!

In the face of such a glorious victory, Ivan Hilko's 'cowardice' is easy to understand.

But cowardice does not mean surrender, Ivan Hilko does not want to surrender to the Taiping Army, but he does not dare, most of the Cossack rebels from top to bottom have a blood feud with the Taiping Army, and the Taiping Army's treacherous slaughter of Cossack soldiers has aroused hatred in the hearts of the Cossacks, Ivan Hilko can think with his ass, as long as he shows the intention of surrendering, his head will be cut off by the people below the next day!

Ivan Hilko was not Khmelnitsky and was far from the status of a man of his word in the Cossack rebels.

So, after consulting with many Cossack generals, Ivan Hilko returned to his old profession again, giving full play to the advantages of the Cossack warriors - guerrilla and ambush tactics.

In addition to the necessary garrison troops of the Cossack rebels in Chernihiv, most of the experienced fighters were broken into pieces and dispersed into passes and settlements around the way of the advancing Crimean cannon fodder corps, mobilizing the locals to actively resist the Taiping army on the one hand, and on the other hand, depleting the Taiping army as much as possible.

The Cossack rebels under the leadership of Ivan Hilko did not know the difference in combat effectiveness between the headquarters of the Taiping Army and the Crimean cannon fodder corps, and in line with the strategic plan of attaching importance to the enemy, the Cossack rebels used all their strength to delay and consume the Crimean cannon fodder corps of the Taiping Army that was approaching.

The generals of the Cossack rebels led by Ivan Hilko had given up the idea of taking advantage of the opportunity of Hong Tiancheng's troops to meet the main Polish forces to fish in troubled waters, and they only wanted to crush the Taiping army of 4,000 troops during this time, and get a certain amount of respite to reorganize the rebel army and train new soldiers.

It can be said that the generals of the Cossack rebel army, led by Ivan Hilko, were completely frightened by the achievements of the Taiping army, and if they had known the essence of the Crimean cannon fodder corps, they would never have carried out the tactics of attrition in pieces.

For the Crimean slave soldiers and Crimean standard-bearers, which are not very demoralized troops, if they are defeated once in a frontal battle, they will irretrievably and completely disperse without any threat, and now the Cossack rebels with higher morale are instead consuming a little bit to bleed the Crimean cannon fodder corps, which inadvertently just hit Hong Tiancheng's intentions.

If the low-morale cannon fodder such as the Crimean slave soldiers and the Crimean standard-bearers could be attritioned one-to-one or even one-to-two with the battle-hardened Cossack soldiers, the Cossack rebels would definitely lose their strength and would not even be able to pose a military threat to the Taiping Army!

It's just that, in the eyes of Ivan Hilko, even if the strength of the Cossack rebels suffered a huge loss, it was much better than being defeated and destroyed in the battle, and the two sides started a long small-scale war of attrition in the villages and towns outside the city of Chernihiv!

After a few rounds of arrows, the hundreds of Crimean slave soldiers successfully stormed the Cossack settlement, and then, after falling into hand-to-hand combat, they suddenly found that the Cossacks in front of them were completely different from the Cossack militia in the past, and a fierce bloody battle awaited them!

After the Cossack rebel war of attrition was in full swing, such skirmishes were everywhere, and on average, groups of Cossack fighters and Crimean cannon fodder soldiers were turned into corpses every day.

Ivan Hilko, who had made a fatal strategic mistake from the very beginning, made the northern part of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom one less of a major threat.