"The Russian government must provide 500 cavalry and at least 2,000 Don hippos and 300 carts! And responsible for the supply of food and consumables for the blue regiment, we can only supply ammunition and weapons. All the remaining munitions will have to be borne by the Russian side! Prince Leopold wrote in a letter to the German ambassador to Germany.

1,500 Bavarian officers and 300 Prussian officers and soldiers formed the main force of this army, but these people alone were not enough! They lack reconnaissance capabilities and perfect logistical supplies. Ruprecht's disapproval of the Qing State's logistical capabilities stems from history, while Prince Leopold distrusts it from the bottom of his bones!

It is simply impossible for Bavaria to deploy cavalry in the Far East, not to mention how difficult it is to transport horses for tens of thousands of kilometers, simple adaptation to water and soil is enough for Bavarian cavalry to become infantry! The Russians also have some garrisons in the Far East, and these cavalry divisions that the Russians should provide and must provide.

As for the 2,000 heavy loaded horses, it was to ensure the transportation of supplies from Vladivostok to the front line. You must know that there are almost no railways in the Northeast, and the supply distance from Vladivostok to the front line is hundreds of kilometers, and it would be good if 2,000 horses could guarantee it, and maybe a batch of supplies would be stockpiled on the front line in advance before the war!

Soon, the Russians replied very simply, saying that both auxiliary troops and supplies could be provided according to the requirements of the German side. After all, restricting Japan to Russia is the most helpful, the Germans are playing tickets and experimental, and have sent out nearly 2,000 troops, and the Russians are the main force, so there must be more troops participating in the war.

Although the Far Eastern Railway had not yet started at this time, and although it was probably more convenient for the Russians to transport supplies to the Far East by sea than by land, the Russians could still concentrate nearly 6,000 combat troops in the Far East! And this is because of the fear of the overreaction of the British and deliberately limited the number of troops, the battle losses of these troops can be replenished at any time, and the Russians also want to see the Japanese catties based on this battle!

After learning the news, Ruprecht was even thinking about what direction the land battles of the Sino-Japanese War would develop in the event that 8,000 Russian and German troops participated in the war! After all, although theoretically the Japanese have seven divisions and regiments to attack more than 100,000 troops, when the real fight starts, there are only about 30,000 troops at most in one direction, for example, in the Battle of the Yalu River, the Japanese troops are only more than 30,000, the size of an army. The troops were also distributed over a relatively wide frontage. Although the Qing army is very coffee table, it can also contain some Japanese troops! The 8,000-strong mobile unit can play a significant role.

Ruprecht tentatively asked his uncle, did the Russians plan to play big this time, and then directly help the Qing State win against Japan? You must know that these 6,000 troops are only the first batch, according to Ruprecht's memory, when Russia intervened in the Three Kingdoms to return Liao, it added nearly 30,000 troops to the Far East! On the one hand, the Japanese had to attack the Qing army and maintain the supply line from Korea to Liaodong, and on the other hand, they had to deal with the Russians who were eyeing each other, and this battle was not easy to fight!

"You're thinking too much!" Who knew that his uncle replied very simply: "The Russians need the defeat of the Qing State, and at the same time they need to contain the development of Japan, so Japan will definitely be able to defeat the Qing State on the battlefield." The purpose of the Russian army was only to wear down the opponent and make the Japanese make concessions in the face of Russia, nothing more! ”

"And judging from the level of the Russian army, I don't think that such a small number of Russian troops can pose a mortal threat to the Japanese army, the combat effectiveness of the Russian army may not be as high as we think, their soldiers are numb and lack a sense of honor, just passive obedience. And the command layer is rotten and ignorant, and a large number of incompetent aristocratic officers are flooded with it. And the Russians prepared too late, they had a strong army, but they lacked enough supplies and weapons! I have a hunch that the European steamrollers of the past and the powerful Russian army of the Crimean War are about to become a thing of the past! ”

"Damn, if you continue to talk like this, I will definitely ask you for a QQ number!" Ruprecht looked at his uncle's reply and couldn't help but sigh at the foresight of His Royal Highness! 1 It is impossible to say who had the higher combat effectiveness of the Russian army and Japan during the war, but in the Russo-Japanese War in the contest of the same scale, Japan had a clear advantage, even if the Russian army had an advantage in the quantity and quality of artillery, it was still the same! As for the specific reason, Ruprecht does not know, anyway, it is written in the history of the war and in the materials.

In short, now that Ruprecht knows, the Russians are subjectively willing to let Japan win the Qing Dynasty, and from this point of view, the outcome on the battlefield will not be decisively different from that in history, and on the other hand, the combat effectiveness of the Russian army is not enough to change the whole situation, at least the German field marshal in the next 1 World War thinks so.

Since the Russian and German armies are now considered comrades in the same trench, the question of command and coordination is very important, and this is also the issue on which Russia and Germany are most divided, and the German side insists that it should have the right to independence. And the Russians should be equipped with the corresponding cavalry units and logistical supply units for the German army. And the Russians believe that they have the largest number of troops, and they have almost all the logistics and transportation tasks, and they should command the whole army!

Then for the matter of command, the two sides launched a 2-week tear! And in the end, the Russians actually confessed! Not only did I admit it! He also said that he would give the Blue Legion enough scout cavalry and auxiliaries!

"What the hell is going on here?" Ruprecht's curiosity prompted him to send another telegram to his uncle, asking why.

"The Russians took a fancy to our rapid-fire guns, and the miserable transportation environment in the Far East dictated that a rapid-fire gun could top three old guns in actual combat, so they gave us 500 cavalry and an infantry battalion guard in exchange for enough rapid-fire guns." The Prince wrote in the letter.

"It seems like a good deal. We are selling a batch of artillery! Having fallen into the eyes of money, Ruprecht began to calculate how much money he could make.

"But they ordered a division of artillery! And it is required to have the right to buy artillery to be given to the army if necessary! The prince replied.

"That means we don't have enough inventory right now?" Ruprecht calculated the supply of artillery, according to common sense, a Russian division now must have at least 40 or so guns! If you consider the possible purchases of the Russian army in the future, the artillery factory will be able to operate at full capacity in the next few years, of course, the most likely result is that the Russians buy a batch and then copy it themselves.

In the end, the Russian-German forces were divided into two parts, the Blue Corps of 1,800 Germans and 1,000 Russians to form a battle group, commanded by the Germans, while the other 5,000 Russians were to be commanded by the Russians. And in the Vladivostok area, there is another division and a brigade of 25,000 Russian troops staring at the northeast.

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