It is foreseeable that if all the white militia are really transferred, it may not have an impact on the core cities of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or even the wealthy towns, but those rural soldiers and farmers who have lost the protection of the white militia are likely to be attacked by Christian diehards who have fled into the mountains.

At that time, the countryside will become a plagued Shura field, and even if the remaining military farmers have their own cold weapons to defend themselves, they will inevitably fight against the Christian diehards who are plagued by hunger and even the Lithuanian national rebels.

When the white militia who had been transferred returned home after the war, and saw the tragic situation of their families, I am afraid that they will no longer be able to maintain the calm state of mind they have now.

The implication of Zhang Juzheng's words is nothing more than that if the white militia is consumed on the battlefield as cannon fodder, all of them will be transferred, and if they want to be used for a long time, it is best to only transfer 10,000 people without affecting the public order work in the local countryside.

For a normal country, it is natural to choose long-term use is more prudent, and it is well known that the longer the time passes, the more benefits the families of the white militia will get, and the stronger the loyalty will be.

However, that will inevitably limit the speed of development of the Taiping Army, and without enough cannon fodder, no matter how much the Taiping Army can fight, it will be impossible to annihilate the main Polish forces and the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force in a short time!

At most, the siege of Kiev City will be solved, and then it will fall into a scorching war of attrition, and the Eastern European countries that have fully seen the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army will inevitably avoid the decisive battle of the main force as much as possible without absolute certainty.

Hong Tiancheng's eyes flashed, and he glanced at his thoughtful henchmen, for him who has a full-scale war system, this choice is not difficult to make, even if the white people are all dead, Hong Tiancheng will not shed a single tear, there is an essential difference between 50,000 cannon fodder and 10,000 cannon fodder!

"Since Zhang Juzheng has brought such a big 'surprise', we naturally can't waste it for the sake of the great cause of heaven, with 50,000 people, we can not only re-compete for strategic advantages in the Kyiv region, but also open up a second battlefield!"

Hong Tiancheng's fist slammed on the military map on the table: "Zhao Yan, I will give you 10,000 white militiamen and two regiments of elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, can you take the Smolenskos territory and the Verkhov territory of the Russian Empire?" ”

Zhao Yan glanced at the map, took a deep breath and replied: "Your Majesty, although the Russian shooting army in these two territories has been transferred a lot, their city defense construction is good, and they have several big cities, and there are two regiments of the main force of the Taiping Army, and it is difficult for the Russian troops in the Smolensos territory to confront our army in the field, and most of the battlefields are likely to take place in urban offensive and defensive battles, so I need more siege militias (cannon fodder)." ”

After Hong Tiancheng heard this, he squinted his eyes at Xiang Dongqiang, the commander of the first main division of the Taiping Army, who was in charge of the direction of Kiev City.

The Taiping Army now has four regiments and a full division of the main elite, and the remaining Swedish urban militia and Polish sickle men have to maintain the internal defense of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and cannot be used, so there are so many troops, and there are more white militia cannon fodder in the direction of Smolenkos, and there will naturally be fewer white militia cannon fodder used to cooperate with the first main force division to attack Kiev in the direction of Dongqiang.

In fact, if Zhang Juzheng hadn't broken the news that there were 50,000 white militia cannon fodder available, with the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he could only maintain one offensive battlefield at most, that is, the Battle of Kiev, but Hong Tiancheng was eager to complete the temporary task of the king of Lithuania in the all-out war system and get the full reward, so he launched two campaigns at the same time with abundant troops.

Moreover, once the Taiping Army has the upper hand in the Battle of Kiev, as long as the Kingdom of Sweden and the Crimean Khanate are not fools, they will inevitably join the battle and drag down the expansion of the Taiping Army, and even, the Holy Roman Empire and the Duchy of Prussian Brandenburg in the west may move their eyes here.

Instead of facing the unknown dilemma, it is better to launch two battles at the same time, take the territory of Smolensia and the territory of Verkhov, and then win the battle of Kiev to conquer all the lost territory, Hong Tiancheng can really expand the territory to the area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at its peak, and perfectly win the task of the king of Lithuania given by the all-out war system.

This is also the reason why Hong Tiancheng temporarily put aside the Livonia region, after all, the Livonia region is not within the territory of the Lithuanian King's mission.

"Your Majesty, the main force of Poland and the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force are now on the attacking side, and occupy an absolute superiority in strength, when the battle of Kiev is about to be won, it is impossible to be scared away by more than 10,000 people in our military district, I predict that our army will inevitably have a field battle with the main Polish force and the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force, these white cannon fodder may not dare to have strange thoughts in the siege war in which our side has an advantage, but in the field battle with the disadvantage of the enemy and our forces, I am afraid it will be easy to break down.

Therefore, my demand for white militia is not high, as long as the number of logistics miscellaneous soldiers is enough, even if it is used for cannon fodder consumption, 10,000 people are enough, and the rest can be assigned to Lord Zhao Remnant for arrangement, and there will never be less cannon fodder in siege warfare. ”

"Haha, that's of course, in the face of the Russian city fortress, I don't know how many people will die if you want to climb the city, these white militias are naturally more and better."

Zhao Yan replied with a smile, and then turned his head to Hong Tiancheng and saluted: "Your Majesty, with the assistance of 40,000 white militiamen, I will definitely be able to take the territory of Smolenskos and Verkhov, however, I don't know if these 40,000 white militia can guarantee to follow orders, after all, the main force of the Taiping Army in the two regiments is less than 5,000 people, and if you control 40,000 people, it is a bit unsatisfactory." ”

Zhang Juzheng replied lightly: "Lord Zhao, please rest assured, since I said the number of 50,000 militiamen, I will naturally not hand over 50,000 unorganized and undisciplined peasants, in order to ensure that they maintain local security, I have already trained them into a basic army, and managed them in accordance with the officer system of the Taiping Army, with white people who have passed a certain Han culture assessment and loyalty test as grassroots officers, civilian education personnel from the Taiping Army as high-level officers, and meritorious veterans in the Swedish urban militia as middle-level officers.

It took a lot of effort to prepare for the establishment of this group of white militia veterans, who were called militias but did not have enough war experience and the official name of the kingdom of heaven to accept their fate, and the training and the subordinate of officers were carried out according to the standards of the regular army.

The only drawback is that the musket armament rate is relatively low, and the firearms in the kingdom of heaven are basically rationed to our 'own people', so these white militias can only use cold weapons to make up the numbers. ”