Of the five million troops that Zhao Rang planned to use, three million were Ural troops and two million were Russian reserves.

This was the first time that Zhao Rang had commanded an army of this size, and his previous command ability was at best a million, and his performance was very clumsy, and this time it was a challenge for him.

But he has a professional military department to cooperate with him, and the level of the military department in the Urals will never be lower than that of the staff headquarters of other countries, because the military department of the Ural Kingdom is the staff headquarters.

The biggest difficulty is that the march is mainly in Russia, so he needs to master the Russian railway transportation, although there have been exercises before, and there are also a large number of railways in the Russian railway network controlled by Chinese railway companies, but it is certainly not as good as fighting on the mainland, just like the Prussian army in France, it is certainly not as good as the transportation in Prussia, all kinds of accidents can happen at any time.

Zhao Rang had ample time margin, and the Urals' army could be assembled within a month, and this mobilization speed was not lost to any country in the world, and according to the speed, it could reach Moscow within ten days, but Zhao Rang planned to use three months to complete this rescue and five months to complete the encirclement of Moscow.

This is obviously not strict enough, more than 20 years ago, when Yang Ke encircled and annihilated the Kazakh Russian army, the only requirement was to be fast, but Zhao Rang asked for stability. This would leave Konstantin a lot of time to concentrate his forces on Moscow, and he could continue to strengthen his forces and recruit troops in the rear. It was also possible to withdraw the siege before the arrival of the main enemy forces, and in short, Konstantin had plenty of time to deal with it.

Zhao Rang's plan is based on the current situation that the Constantine rebels are not united in their hearts and must seek speed, but time is a test for both sides, and people's hearts will change at any time. Moreover, the changes in the outside world are also difficult to predict, and the Germans are clamoring so fiercely that the possibility of German intervention cannot be completely ruled out.

In fact, just after the Ural army entered Russia, Germany began to mobilize in Poland, which was nominally not part of the German Empire. Poland was united with Prussia, but the Prussian part of the United Kingdom belonged to the German Empire, but the Polish part was not part of the German Empire, and the Polish part did not send members to the Reichstag and did not obey the command of the Reich. Just as in those days, the Duchy of Brandenburg was a German state, and the Prussian part was loyal to the Polish king.

Therefore, the mobilization of Poland cannot be regarded as an act of the German Empire, but as an act of the United Kingdom of Prussia in Poland, and the Prussian part of the United Kingdom, which belongs to the German Empire, is a complex and buffer action.

Even so, after the mobilization, Poland did not march its troops into Russia, but deployed them along the Neva River in the border area, which made the Baltic Front, loyal to the female tsar, dare not go south for a while, and could only stay here to confront Poland, just as the American Northern Union did not dare to attack the south in a big way after China deployed troops on the border.

Bismarck only needs to mobilize Poland to contain millions of Russian troops and provide Konstantin with huge support.

After Konstantin stormed Moscow for a month, he found that it was indeed impossible to capture Moscow in the short term, so he retracted his forces and transferred part of them to the Pripyat River on the northern front to resist the southward movement of the Baltic Front and defend Kiev, which was close at hand; Part remained in Moscow to contain it. Nearly half of the troops were transferred to various parts of Ukraine to strengthen control over Ukraine, after which Konstantin announced a general mobilization in Ukraine, and he needed the support of Ukrainian reserves.

In the entire territory of the Russian Empire, Ukraine is a region with the best agricultural conditions, so the population density here, agricultural output, are relatively dense, the population of the whole Ukraine is about 15 million people, accounting for a quarter of the population of Russia is weak, if the maximum mobilization, two or three million troops can be mobilized, but with Konstantin's appeal, I am afraid he does not dare to carry out such a proportion of mobilization, can arm a million reserve army, probably is Konstantin's limit, too much is not to recruit himself, but to bury mines for himself.

With the fight against the Ural army, Konstantin discovered a serious problem, the betrayal of the soldiers. He did have the support of the vast majority of high-ranking officers, but among the middle and low-ranking officers who directly commanded the army, there were not a few who supported the female tsar, so that when the opportunity arose, they would throw down their weapons, and even take them with them, and run to the opposing positions in formation.

On the contrary, in the contact between the north and the Baltic Russian army, the situation can be better, not that there are no troops on their own side to surrender to the enemy, but that many troops on the other side have surrendered, and in the entire Russian army, there are forces that support Konstantin, and there are also forces that are effectively loyal to the female tsar, and there are more and more officers loyal to the female tsar, which is also the reason why Konstantin has to do it, because with the time of retirement, the number of people loyal to him can only become fewer and fewer, and after the retirement of a number of high-level elites, he will lose control of the army.

As a result, in the counterinsurgency, the female tsar's own army became more and more unreliable and could only rely more and more on the Ural army, but this would make the army dissatisfied, and Konstantin hyped the female tsar as a puppet of the Chinese, so that the nationalists began to oppose the female tsar, because the nationalists could never accept China, which had seized the vast territory of Russia.

In the second month, the battle in Moscow was still going on, Konstantin was still bombarding Moscow with the steel cannons provided by the Germans, but there was actually little hope for a direct attack on Moscow, the Urals army had not yet launched a general offensive, but the comprehensive encirclement of Moscow by the Konstantin group had to be terminated, and the troops east of Moscow were withdrawn on their own initiative, because if they did not retreat, these troops could not be withdrawn, and could only be eaten by Moscow and the peripheral Ural Army.

The siege of Moscow was immediately resolved, but the Russian heights west of Moscow were still in the hands of Konstantin, and the cities of Tula, Kaluga, and Vyazma were still in the hands of the rebels, and occupied a favorable position, and the Ural army, which had not yet arrived in the main force, was not yet able to launch a full-scale counterattack for a while.

Zhao Rang led his command team into Moscow and took over the command of all the Moscow troops from Muravyov, while Muravyov was ordered by the tsaress to rush to St. Petersburg to take full charge of the mobilization of the Russian army reserves and the command of the Baltic Front.

After the arrival of Muravyov, the female tsar began a comprehensive reorganization of the Russian army, and now the troops who have been in contact with Konstantin's troops on the front line are screened one by one, and all officers who have served under Muravyov are temporarily suspended. But these officers did not defect to the enemy, so the female tsar could not blame them.

A large number of young officers who had graduated from military academies and had no complicated backgrounds in the army, and the female tsar personally received them.

"Now your sacred mission is not to fight against Prince Konstantin, but to eliminate those rebels who dare to wave a butcher's knife at Holy Moscow and open fire on Holy Moscow. By the time Konstantin ordered his troops to fire the first bullets, the first shells at Moscow, he was already not a prince of the Russian Empire, but a rebel of the Russian nation, a degenerate traitor! ”

A large number of young officers were promoted, their experience was still very poor, but their loyalty was guaranteed.

The best of these officers take over the command of the front-line troops, while the average leads the newly formed reserve forces.

Under the dispatch of Muravyov, the Russian army is rapidly forming combat effectiveness.

On Konstantin's side, it was impossible to identify those officers who were loyal to the tsar, because of the withering of the old elite, so that in Konstantin's troops, the middle and low-level officers were mainly officers from the civilian class, which made Konstantin unable to judge whether these people were interested in the tsar, after all, his only advantage was only a male heir, but Russia had a precedent for the empress to rule.

This is also why, in the battle of Moscow, Konstantin never dared to confront the Ural army head-on, focusing only on defense, retreating if he could not hold it, and maintaining his vital strength.

In terms of the reserve army, on the contrary, the army from the Principality of Moldova is more loyal, the Principality of Moldova has always been the female tsar as the Grand Duke, but the Russian troops stationed belong to the Black Sea Front, the Moldovans are very dissatisfied with the rule of the female tsar, they are a nation-state, and there have always been political forces fighting for national independence.

Konstantin promised that by expanding their autonomy, the Moldovans would have all the power, and would not even need to pay taxes to the imperial government, with a degree of autonomy comparable to that of Finland, and that in the future the imperial government would only send a symbolic governor to Moldova to exercise the power of the monarch on his behalf, so the parliament of the principality of Moldova chose to swear allegiance to Konstantin.

Moldova, with only three million people, formed a reserve army of four hundred thousand people, has already carried out the most thorough mobilization. But this was only a reaction in the case of self-preservation, because the Ural army loyal to the Tsaress, or finally the husband of the Tsaress, had entered the Principality of Moldova, stationed in the Dobroga region on the border with Moldova.

The 300,000 Dobroga Ural army, mainly composed of Chinese soldiers, crossed the lower Danube, and if Moldova did not want to lose access to the sea, it had to fight for itself, so they carried out a general mobilization, but 400,000 against the 300,000 well-equipped Ural army, even if they could protect themselves, even if they succeeded, there was no way to provide support to Konstantin.

Therefore, the troops of the Konstantin front were still in retreat, and in the third month, the main forces of the Ural were assembled and a full-scale counterattack was launched. Tula, Kaluga, Vyazma and other cities around Moscow were recovered one by one.

Without foreign aid, Konstantin will still fail, and he will not last for more than a year. This was a situation that some could not accept, so foreign aid came in, and the Polish army marched into Russia.

The Tsaress immediately demanded that France send troops to Germany under the terms of the Franco-Russian Secret Treaty, "when France is attacked by Germany or Italy, or when Russia is attacked by Germany or Austria-Hungary."

However, France refused on the grounds that Poland could not represent Germany, and promised that if Germany or Austria-Hungary sent troops, France would support it.