Although his uncle Alekseev was mentally prepared for the difficulties that his troops under his leadership would encounter when they went south to the Liaodong Peninsula, when the bad news kept coming, he realized that he still underestimated the so-called Great Song Empire.

First, he boasted in front of the emperor's nephew that Haikou would definitely gain a lot of money in the local supply strategy, and slapped him in the face fiercely. The road from the Yanbian area of Jilin to the Liaodong Peninsula was sparsely populated, and even if this Tsarist Russian army could collect all the materials it could collect along the way, the number of those things would undoubtedly be a drop in the bucket for a force of more than 6,000 people.

Moreover, it is impossible for them to snatch anything from those who live by fishing and hunting in the wilderness, these people swoop into their sight, and then disappear again, and many times when the scouts sent by Maozi finally find their villages, they can only stare at the fires that still have residual warmth, and these hunters can even calmly dismantle their birch bark tents, leaving not even a single salt behind.

Then the Russian Foreign Minister brought another piece of bad news, the Japanese refused to allow the Russians to use the Yalu River waterway under their control to send supplies to Alekseev's troops. Although the Japanese had now completely withdrawn from the territory of China, they still controlled all the important towns on the Korean side of the Yalu River, and their river gunboats patrolled the Yalu River day and night. The Manchu Qing Dynasty, which signed the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty" with Tsarist Russia, had some garrisons along the line from Dandong to Jiuliancheng, but the Manchus, who lost almost all their ships in the Sino-Qing War, had no say in the Yalu River waterway.

In the end, to the emperor's despair, his emperor's nephew had been burned in Tianjin, and their original plan to go to Yingkou to receive the supplies had also failed, and Alekseev found himself in a dilemma. If they continue to go south, when they reach the Great Song people, they are afraid that they will face a situation where they are so hungry that they can't even lift a gun. It is not a wise choice to turn around and return to the territory of Tsarist Russia, after all, Tsarist Russia is also an endless barren land, where is there the material that can feed these more than 6,000 people?

In the end, the Emperor's wine and meat advisers suggested a quick trip to the Liaohe Plain, where the Great Song people were said to have traded with the locals for a long time, and there must have been a large stockpile of supplies. Taking a step back, even if the inhabitants were as cunning as the people they had met before, they could still get help from the Manchu garrison.

Now I can only go to the Liaohe Plain, and if I retreat, the horror will not reach the territory of Tsarist Russia, and my own troops will mutini because of the lack of supplies, Alekseev thought to himself.

It's not that Alekseev is not optimistic about his ability to manage the army, in fact, there are already many soldiers who have deserted along the way, and many soldiers have made their progress further south because they have left the marching army to hunt to improve their food. What's more, they directly took their horses as deserters, and those who escaped knew very well that on the way back to Russia, there would be no supplies for the thousands, but the wilderness in the middle of summer could feed their small number of deserters.

It's just that on the way to the Liaohe Plain, Alekseev's troubles are far more than the previous unbreakable predicament of lack of food and clothing. After dragging their feet for nearly a month, they finally encountered the troops of the Great Song people.

Well, well, to be exact, it was the attack of the Great Song people, as for the Great Song people, D, 60mm mortars are what have been annoying to the Russian army under Alekseev for the past few days, unexpected explosions, shelling with strange screams, constantly tormenting these demoralized Russian soldiers.

Their casualty figures are constantly being refreshed, but they can't even see the shadow of their opponent, and there is nothing more frustrating than this. Even the most courageous Kazakh cavalry were tortured to the brink of collapse, as much as they could only see the back of their attackers.

Coward! The people of the Great Song Dynasty are all bloodless cowards! Alekseev took this tactic used by the Great Song people as a sign of their fear of a head-to-head confrontation with Tsarist Russia. But no matter how much they despise this tactic they employ, it cannot change the fact that this tactic has a devastating effect on their own morale.

"Your Excellency, the harassment tactics adopted by the Great Song people just show that they are afraid of engaging us head-on, and we must go south as soon as possible! Maybe in the Liaohe Plain, there are still a large number of materials that the Great Song people have not had time to transport away waiting for us! "Uncle Huang's wine and meat advisers began to fool around again.

Well, it's not like these unlearned staff officers are fooling, and in their experience, the adversary is so frequently harassing that the task of harassment cannot be anything other than to consolidate his own defenses or buy time for retreat and diversion.

Yes, if we look at the problem from the perspective of our strength and weakness, we will inevitably interpret these harassment actions carried out by the Great Song people in this way. But if you look at it from another angle, you will find that the efficiency of these harassment operations is so high that it seems that it is not just slowing down the march of the Russian troops. The large number of wounded accelerated the consumption of supplies that were already about to bottom out, and in order to speed up the march, Alekseev also ordered the wounded to remain in the rearguard troops, which made it possible for the Great Song people to completely annihilate this army.

Of course, Alekseev and his drunken advisers would not consider this possibility, since the British knocked on the door of this ancient empire with naval guns, the white race has long since stopped considering the combat effectiveness of the yellow race as a key factor in determining the victory or defeat of the war.

With low morale, poor logistics and low IQ, Zhang Zuolin felt that if he didn't have a military order, he would definitely be able to bite off a large piece of meat from these hairs.

What kind of thing is Du Temeow, at this level, you want to occupy the Liaodong Peninsula? Lao Tzu's dwarf (IED) you haven't missed one, it's really a quasi-girl! And how many times have this mortar bombarded you, can't you lie down and defend against the artillery? At this level, what kind of big-tailed wolf are you going to charge, and let us return the Great Song Dynasty to the Liaodong Peninsula? Sincerely, as the chiefs said - vodka is a bad brain! Zhang Zuolin observed Maozi with a telescope from a distance, and then kept complaining in his heart about their incompetence.

I can't avoid the IED, I really can't blame Maozi for not being careful in the aisle, these improvised explosive devices with all kinds of tricks really make even the US military with modern detection equipment talk about tiger color, let alone Maozi at the end of the nineteenth century. Where could the delayed trigger device, all kinds of bizarre burial methods, and remote control devices for wires be imaginable by the regular army of Tsarist Russia at the end of the 19th century?

As for locating the landing point of the shell through the sound of the mortar shell's tail breaking through the air, that is one of the veterans' advanced life-saving skills, you don't expect these bronze hairs who have seen mortars for the first time to master this god-level operation, their current anti-artillery skills are still in the stage of relying on faith.

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