With the arrival of winter, the official year of Jesus' birth in 1656 began.

Under the desire for life and the desire for power, Karl X finally agreed to a series of overlord clauses of Hong Tiancheng, and in the interests of the country and family, Karl X made the general choice of the aristocratic class.

As for Christina's lifelong sexual sacrifice, it became the most inconsequential, and Karl X's love for his sister was still too thin compared to death and power.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Karl X is getting older and has long passed the flowery age of pursuing youth and romance.

The most important thing is that the attack on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not provoked by Karl X and his family, and Karl X believed that he should not bear the punishment for defeat alone, and according to the principle of fairness and justice, it was reasonable for the big guys to bear it together, and the entire Swedish kingdom should pay for it.

This is also the greatest consolation of Karl X in his heart, when people make negative choices, they will always try to find a reasonable excuse to comfort themselves, without him, just for their own heart to be more comfortable.

It's like a person who stands on the moral high ground always takes it for granted and does the right thing to kill others, but on the contrary, he will feel empty and afraid that others will know.

The result is the same, but people's attitudes are very different.

In the winter of 1656, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom basically ceased all warfare, and with the exception of small-scale local and guerrilla raids, Eastern Europe ushered in a rare peace.

The Han Association Army and the local security regiments cooperated with each other and became the main force in the fight against the small number of local guerrilla bandit forces who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

These guerrilla bandits hiding in the mountains and forests are not subordinate to each other, and have temporarily lost the weapons and material support of foreign forces, and their combat effectiveness has declined very much, and the veterans who are really capable of fighting have already fled from the areas occupied by the Taiping Army and gone to join the Christian Brotherhood, leaving behind either people who are nostalgic for their homeland or poor people who have no ability to escape.

More or less all of them had relatives and friends who died at the hands of the Taiping army, and some were devout believers in Christianity, who were unwilling to convert to the Taiping doctrine of the Han people, let alone learn Chinese language and culture.

In fact, these guerrillas were extremely rare in the number of muskets, let alone looting in all directions, and even the security regiments led by a small number of Han Xiemen troops could not defeat them......

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a reward for the encirclement and suppression of the guerrillas, so the work enthusiasm of the local security regiment and the Han Association Army is quite good, bullying the soft and fearing the hard has been the most enthusiastic thing for these two dog soldiers to do since ancient times, the guerrillas are malnourished and unable to eat, and they hold broken copper and iron, so they stay in remote places, and the white soldiers of the Security Corps and the Han Association Army naturally like to use their heads to make their lives better.

Of course, this kind of guerrilla situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was inseparable from the decisive victory of the Taiping army in foreign wars, and the main army had a brilliant record.

In addition to the petty fights between the local guerrillas and the security regiments, Hong Tiancheng reorganized the five elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army under his command, and the original remnants of the line infantry were filled into the Kiev regional guard division to make up for their losses, and the establishment of the line infantry division was completely cancelled.

The line infantry was divided into two, one part was added to the Kiev Guard Division, and the other part was formed into a new Vilno Guard Regiment, which was strengthened from the original one, with more than 3,000 men.

The main force of the local field warfare, composed of the elite of the Taiping Army, one in the south and one in the north, together with the Security Regiment and the Han Association led by Kryshtov, formed the main defensive force in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After the war, the five elite grenadier divisions of the Taiping Army were field divisions specialized in foreign wars, and the fifth grenadier division made great contributions in the battle to intercept the Swedish legion, but the losses were great.

The Swedish Legion led by Karl X was an elite corps of the Kingdom of Sweden, and in the head-to-head duel and the subsequent breakthrough of the war of attrition, the 5th Grenadier Division suffered great losses in soldiers, and if it were not for the die-hard soldiers of the Taiping Army, it would have collapsed long ago.

Therefore, Hong Tian became a reward for the 5th Grenadier Division of the Taiping Army, and when more than half of their establishment was missing, the 4th Grenadier Division, which had not suffered much loss, was directly separated, and most of the men and horses rushed into the 5th Grenadier Division.

The establishment of the 4th Grenadier Division was abolished, and a small number of people were filled into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grenadier Divisions to replenish their personnel to full strength, and the rest were all filled into the 5th Grenadier Division, forming a strengthened field grenadier division, and the number of the 5th Grenadier Division directly exceeded 17,000 men, which was a full two regiments more than the other divisions.

The reinforced 5th Grenadier Division will be used as a special dispatch garrison to accompany Karl X through the borders of the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of Sweden.

In order to keep the 5th Grenadier Division up for the battle, Hong Tiancheng filled in a large number of captured old 17th-century guns, and added many white slaves to transport them.

Scattered together, the Taiping army that was about to enter the Kingdom of Sweden had more than 20,000 people, of course, only the 17,000 people of the Fifth Grenadier Division had real combat effectiveness.

Hong Tiancheng knew very well in his heart that in this era, the so-called spirit of contract was all typed, otherwise it was just an empty white paper, Karl X was Hong Tiancheng's golden signboard to extend his power into the Swedish Kingdom, and strengthening the Fifth Grenadier Division was a guarantee to ensure that this golden signboard would not be smashed by the Swedes.

Hong Tiancheng's instructions to the commander of the 5th Grenadier Division are very clear, after arriving in the Kingdom of Sweden, it is of course the best outcome for Karl X to fulfill all the promises in the contract, in case of internal changes in the Kingdom of Sweden, the minimum requirements will drag the Kingdom of Sweden into a state of civil war!

Hong Tiancheng was not much interested in the remote and cold place of the Kingdom of Sweden, but the Kingdom of Sweden belonged to the so-called 'military-industrial power' in the 17th century, so in order to prevent the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from facing a multi-front war again, he could only preemptively disarm the Kingdom of Sweden.

The Russian Empire in the north of Eastern Europe has fallen under the control of Hong Tiancheng, and as long as the Kingdom of Sweden is brought down again, the great north of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will become completely stable.

At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not have to face the military threat from the north, and would concentrate all its efforts to expand to the south, and in any case, a single-line battle would be much easier than a multi-front battle.