Chapter 47: Instructions for the Supreme Decisive Battle

But for the quartermaster in charge of the logistics of the Russian army, what is it so good to feed the gray animals, the Russian officers are all aristocrats, as long as the officers eat well and the soldiers do not starve to death, no one has an opinion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Besides, logistics and military quarters have always been the largest oil and water department in the army, and if you don't give those gray animals pig food, where will your profits come from.

Why do you talk about profits, because the position of quartermaster is too sought-after, and the current quartermaster Paul also spent a lot of money to buy this position, since it was bought, it is natural to seek profit as if it were business. If you obey the law and become this quartermaster, you can't earn back your investment for decades just by relying on the salary of the War Department, let alone such a popular profession as a quartermaster, you usually change it after a battle.

Not to mention materials such as bread flour, which are the first-class strategic materials of the Russian army - vodka, Paul still dares to do it. Spirits, just add water, generally speaking, no one will notice it if you mix it with a quarter of water, and even if you know it, you will praise today's quartermaster for having a conscience, you must know that the reason for the defeat of the Russian army in the Crimean War has a lot to do with the fact that the quartermaster mixed half or even two-thirds of the water in the vodka.

When the princes and nobles of Moscow, who spent all their time drinking, received the news that the Qing army had arrived, the Qing army was only a little more than 100 kilometers away from Moscow. A hundred kilometers is a day's journey for a light cavalry with one man and two horses.

The tsar hastily appointed Duke Pigkov as generalissimo and fought a decisive battle with the Qing army. Moscow could not accommodate millions of soldiers defending the city, and in order to make the most of his limited strength, Generalissimo Pigkov decided to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army outside the city - just like the war with Napoleon.

However, Marshal Pigkov, who had never commanded so many troops, also made a difficulty, and the Russian army at this time did not have a modern command system.

So Marshal Pigkov gave a very bold order: "Distribute the war materiel to each soldier, and then carry out the Generalissimo's instructions for the decisive battle: forward, gray cattle." ā€

At the same time, the Qing army, which encountered the forward forces of the Russian army, occupied the high ground under the command of Xianfeng and set up a large hollow phalanx outside Moscow. An army of millions has laid down several hollow phalanxes that can support each other for more than ten miles.

Xianfeng wanted to see how the Russian army broke the formation, but the tactics of the Russian army were still surprising, and the Russian soldiers with weapons in one hand and vodka in the other began to attack the hollow phalanx irregularly under the kicking and cursing of the officers.

For a time, the battlefield was full of gunfire, and the Qing army's advanced guns could break a Russian soldier's waist or leave a large blood hole in his body with a single shot. But the Russian soldier who drank high did not care about casualties at all, and the soldier who fell down was like a sleeping companion, and if his limbs were seriously injured, he just poured the vodka in his hand on the wound, and then took a big sip and continued to laugh and charge.

The traditional Russian vodka charge unexpectedly suppressed the rhythm of the Qing army for a while. Of course, this itself is also the fact that the Russian army has a numerical advantage, and the hollow phalanx is a four-sided defense, although the Russian army mainly attacks the front, but it is not for nothing that those who drink too much and run to the wrong place to charge. The frontal battlefield quickly turned into a bad battle, which the Russian army was most familiar with, and the armies of other countries were not suitable.

The Russian army never cared about casualties, and as for the number of gray livestock in the country, Russia has more people than the whole of Europe - at this time, Russia has annexed Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and other Eastern European countries. The countries bordering Europe are Sweden and Prussia, two German states, and the Ottoman Turks and Russia have almost lost wars in history, but Sweden and Prussia have a fairly high probability of victory and a beautiful exchange ratio in the war against Russia.

If it was the Eight Banners a few years ago, it would be about the same level as the Italian army and the Turkish army, and it is estimated that it would have been destroyed in a few hours. However, the Eight Banners have long been reborn under the support of the current vigorous dispersion, and they yearn for blood, glory, wealth, and battle.

The fighting lasted from noon to dusk, from late night to dawn. In the bloody battle of three days and three nights, the Eight Banners who did not cut off the medicine became more and more courageous, simply put, they were red-eyed, Xianfeng carried a big knife and a group of Zhenghuang Flag guards as a firefighting team, and he didn't know how many drunk Russian soldiers he killed.

In the continuous attack of the Russian army all over the mountains, it first had to take one or two rounds of artillery and several **** caliber guns, and now the artillery did not dare to shoot too fast in order to cool down, and maintaining continuous firepower in this long battle is the king. Raising a gun shows its might in this battle, often hitting the right shot with one shot, which can penetrate two or three Russian troops. And even if the barrel is hot, there is no explosion.

Relying only on the ultra-long range of the guns, the Russians' front-loading artillery units were crushed so that no one dared to reload. The Russian artillery officers all praised themselves as superior people, so they did not load shells under the muzzle, and the soldiers under them were almost dead, and the artillery was useless.

The Russian army fell in front of the Qing army layer by layer, this scene reminded Xianfeng of the sentence of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, and the Qing army also used the corpses of the Russian army as a chest wall and shooting bracket.

Seeing that the offensive of the Russian army on the fourth day was no longer as crazy as the previous three days, Xianfeng also understood that there was a problem with the command of the Russian army - in fact, there was no command at all. Xianfeng rode a horse and shouted in front of the battle: "From now on, take down the Russians in Moscow, and seal the sword in a hundred days." ā€

Xianfeng's Zhenghuang Banner guards shouted together: "Defeat Moscow, seal the sword in a hundred days." ā€

The news began to spread around the week: "Take Moscow, seal the knife in 100 days." ā€

In the course of continuous combat and training, the Qing army has developed a tactical idea with iron cans as the core, with every 10 iron cans as a group, with 20 helmet cuirassiers and 200 cotton armor soldiers as a tactical squad.

Since foreign soldiers in various countries do not have many ways to deal with tin cans - at this time, the odds of artillery hitting someone on the battlefield are similar to those of winning the lottery. It often takes a lot of casualties to annihilate such a tactical squad, and on the battlefield there is no tactical squad is alone, the troops support each other, although the foreign soldiers boast that they have a good tooth, but no one can stand a bite on the hedgehog.

In the past few days, the Russian army seems to be attacking fiercely, but in fact, the huge casualties have broken the last bone of the Moscow defenders, after Xianfeng issued a 100-day sword sealing order, the Qing army's counter-assault counterattack The Russian army can no longer resist, or the Russian army, which had a 4 million army before the war, could not find an organized unit at this time.

Several troops drove hundreds of thousands of scattered Russian troops into the city of Moscow, and then the Eight Banners followed into the city. At this time, the city defense of Moscow was in chaos, the soldiers could not find their officers, and the officers could not find their own soldiers. The city gates, drawbridges, city walls, moats, and bastions all lost their effect.