"Your Excellency Kulopatkin, your plan has been approved by His Majesty the Tsar, and you are perfectly free to plan the entire Polish theater of operations according to your own plans. "www.biquge.info An officer said after delivering a document to Kurupatkin.

"Really? If that's the case, that's great! A smile tugged at the corner of Kulopatkin's mouth. But this smile is a catastrophe for some! "Now, let's get moving! We're running out of time! ”

When Kulopatkin was authorized by the highest authority, the first thing he did was to forcibly conscript civilians in Russian Poland to build various military installations for Russia. And the second thing is the planned forced relocation of personnel from the regions of Russian Poland! Under the oppression of the batons of the Russian police and some Polish nobles, a large number of Poles left the place where they had lived for generations and migrated in the direction of Belarus and Ukraine. The journey was full of blood and tears, but in Kulopatkin's opinion, it was totally worth it.

"Russian Poland is only 128,000 square kilometers, but it has a population of 10 million! Most of them were Poles, which was completely undesirable and would have had a huge impact even on the empire at war. Kulopatkin said this more than once at military meetings. What he said also has a certain truth, the Poles are not honest, this is what the experience of Russia, Germany and Austria over the past few hundred years has taught them, the Poles have a chance to become independent, and if they have no chance, they must create an opportunity to fight ......for independence. And in the event of a war, the Poles will definitely not be honest, so it is normal for Russia to reduce the Polish population in this region and stabilize the society.

Secondly, from the point of view of economy and supply, the reduction of the population of the Polish regions is also inevitable, firstly, Russian Poland itself cannot be self-sufficient! Poland imports large quantities of grain from the rest of Russia every year. This is certainly not a problem in peacetime, but think about the fact that once the war starts, more than 1.5 million Russian troops will be stationed here, the food gap in the region will be even greater, and more food input is needed, and Russia's transportation capacity cannot be compared with Western Europe, in order to transport military supplies during the war, even the transportation of resources will be greatly reduced, in this case, Poland's huge population has become a burden on transportation, according to Kulopatkin's words, why don't we drive the Poles to Ukraine and let them eat nearby, Instead of using a train to run hundreds or even thousands of versts to deliver food to them?

The second reason is to deploy more troops in peacetime. A group of high-ranking Russian troops, including Kulopatkin, know that if the Germans are serious, in the positional warfare, the Russians can't beat the Germans, which is certain, especially the Bavarian Army, although Rupresit's secrecy work is very good, but the Russians can still see some of it, after all, the Russians bought a lot of military equipment in the Russo-Japanese War, and the excellent performance of these weapons left a very deep impression on the Russians. In the Boer War and the war in North Africa, the appearance of the Bavarian Legion from time to time can also make the Russians have a high opinion of their opponents.

"Our corps would not even be able to hold out for long in positional warfare before it would have been routed if the two sides were equal in strength, the artillery of the Bavarian Corps was outrageously numerous in both number and caliber, and the infantry was very well armed, their machine-gun armament rate should have been the largest among the armies of the great powers, and at least a third of the infantry were armed with semi-automatic rifles. In the event of a war, the same number of Russian troops will be easily overwhelmed by their bullets. ”

"So, if we're going to deal with this force, then we'd have to concentrate twice as many forces to keep it down, and considering that the Bavarian Army would have at least five or six corps in wartime, with a total strength of more than 250,000 men, we had to deploy two army groups against the Bavarian Army. Then there were 2 armies against the East Prussian Corps, and 4 armies against Austria-Hungary, so that we would have to concentrate at least 8 armies, at least 70 infantry divisions and 21 cavalry divisions at the beginning of the war. Brusinov wrote this in a document to the General Staff.

According to Brusinov's plan, this scale is already much stronger than in history, in history, at the beginning of the war, the Russians deployed 2 fronts on the entire Eastern Front, namely 2 armies of the Northwest Front with a total of 17.5 infantry divisions, and then 4 armies of the Southwestern Front, with a total of 34.5 infantry divisions, adding up to only 52 infantry divisions and 21 cavalry divisions.

The fundamental reason for such a huge gap is that the Russians have determined that the Bavarian Army will fight on the Eastern Front, and the Russians are not stupid, he can easily calculate the strength he will face, East Prussia cannot be completely handed over to the Bavarian Army for defense, so there will be at least one army group, the Bavarian Army is a large army, and it is well equipped, in order to suppress it, it only needs 2 army groups, although Austria-Hungary is more coffee table, but there is no problem at all in making up 4 army groups.

In this way, the Russians must deploy 8 army groups, and the Russians are also self-aware, they know that according to the agreement with the French, if they wait until after the war to mobilize and deploy, it is impossible to come out with 8 army groups at once!

According to the internal requirements of the Entente, Russia had to complete mobilization within 18 days, but if it were to deploy eight army groups, even in the most optimistic scenario, it would still take Russia a full month to 40 days to complete the deployment. So in the end, the Russians passed the first phase of the plan, which reduced the Polish population in Poland by 2 million in exchange for a proposal to increase the regular garrison on the border by 250,000 and reduce the logistical pressure, which is what Kuropatkin is doing now. And if this plan can be realized, there is still hope that the Russians will reach the strength of 8 army groups through pre-war deployment and wartime mobilization.

The front-line strength of 8 group armies, 70 infantry divisions and 21 cavalry divisions, such a scale can already be described as terrifying. Although after a series of optimized deployments, the Russians overdrew their forces in advance, (historically, some second-line troops mobilized and entered the battlefield very late, and this time the Russians were equivalent to deploying some troops that originally needed to be mobilized from the rear in advance by increasing the garrison first.) So that the entire Russian army on the Eastern Front reached a new peak!

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