"How can it not be cruel to Russia? To beat a tiger is to be completely killed with a stick. ”

In the city of Nanjing, Chen Ming looked at the map in front of him, pointed to Tsaritin and said to Wang Qi, the first assistant of the cabinet beside him. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to open its mouth wide in negotiations with Russia, and Tsaritsyn will bite down as much as possible."

This place is as important to Russia as Jiangnan is to China, whether it is in terms of animal husbandry, minerals, or the production of grains and vegetables.

"I don't believe Russia has much to spare. As long as you can play well here. The whip in Chen Ming's hand was pointed at Astrakhan's position, "They can only give in." ”

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Han's operation in Central Asia was relatively short-lived, Chen Ming would have bitten more meat from Russia.

But now he had to do it in moderation.

The army crossed the Caspian Sea, took the Caucasus, and now the front of the army is directed at Tsaritsyn, and the southern part of Russia in the usual sense has already been eaten by him.

If you hold on to Russia and bite it again, the British will jump up. Although the situation has developed so far, Chen Ming doesn't care much about the reaction of the British, but the problem is that Chen Han really can't eat the area to the west of Tsarizin.

It is impossible for Chen Ming to give all the results achieved against Russia this time to the Seven Khanates, and a large-scale land exchange is inevitable.

The time has come to distribute the spoils of war, and the time has come to reward meritorious deeds!

The northern part of the Caspian Sea is desert and the Gobi is barren, but it is better than the vast territory, in addition to the part near the Caspian Sea, there are also a large number of steppes on both sides of the Ural River.

And drawing a horizontal line from Tsaritsyn to the west, most of this fertile land is also destined to fall into the hands of Chen Han, these territories are the essence of Russia, and the westernmost part is close to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, and you can already see the scenery of Europe without going out.

Such a large territory was larger than the size of any of the Seven Khanates, so it was impossible for all of them to be given to the Turks, who were the best and hardest working in the war.

And with such a fertile piece of land, it is impossible for China not to take a bite.

Even if it can't be connected to the mainland, it's just an enclave, but it's just an enclave. As long as Chen Han's strength is the best on the earth, there is an acre of land on the edge of the sky that is theirs, and no one on this earth dares to reach out and move.

"The Volga Delta is a good place, and the Songzha River is also very good." Unbeknownst to Chen Ming, he had actually chosen the location of the later Russian city of Grozny, which was the hottest and most contradictory place in the North Caucasus, and the original Tsarist Russia built a strong fortress five years later with 5,000 troops in four months. The structure of the fortress is a regular hexagonal shape, surrounded by a moat 20 meters wide, and a fortress with cannons on each of the six corners. The fortress of Gronitz played an important role in maintaining stability in the region for decades to come, but it gradually lost its strategic significance. In 1870 the city of Gronniz was founded.

But now this strong fortress has not yet appeared, and Chen Ming, after learning about the geography of the North Caucasus region, has taken a fancy to this place at a glance. Because this place is right next to the Caucasus Mountains, and beyond the Caucasus Mountains, it is Baku.

As long as Chen Ming still covets the oil fields in Baku, he must control this place. Chen Ming can be lost in the Kuban River Basin and the Terek River Basin, but here is the Songzha River. Taking here, and holding the rich Volga Delta, Chen Ming's land acquisition is less than one-thirtieth of the newly expanded land, but it can still meet Chen Han's strategic needs.

Chen Han did not go to the Black Sea coast to grab land, there was hope for the Ottomans across the Black Sea, and if Chen Han bought land on the eastern shore of the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov, it would definitely irritate the Ottomans.

So far, Chen Han and Osman have been friendly and close allies.

Chen Han is not yet at the time of parting with the Ottomans, so there is no need to meddle in the Black Sea now. And to meddle in the Black Sea, is there anything more suitable than the Crimean Peninsula?

These territories add up to 500,000 square kilometers, and the two pieces of land taken by Chen Han together are at most one mansion, half the size of a bay. The rest of the impossibility, was given to the Turks.

"Just across the Caspian Sea, if the Seven Khanates do not dislike the barren land on the west bank of the Caspian Sea, they can find a foothold on the west bank of the Caspian Sea. In this way, although the forces in the Caucasus are more numerous and the contradictions are bound to become more acute, the land of Turghut is much less. The entire Turghut tribe moved westward, and the vacated land was replaced by other Mongol khanates in turn. The land of the three khanates of Kazakhstan should also be enlarged......"

At the same time, Chen Han's western territory could continue to expand to the west.

After such a division and division, the land of Turghut was the largest, but in the war against Russia, the Turghut army fought the most bravely and contributed the most. So that's as it should be.

The territorial demarcation line between the three Kazakh khanates and the four Mongol khanates was turned back a little to the north, because the old territory was swallowed up by the Chen Han and the Great Yuz Khanate, and thus more northern land was compensated, and the shape of the whole country was elongated, and they were taken away from the Ferghana Basin, which is the essence of Central Asia, which is much more valuable than the steppe.

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At the last turning point of the Volga River, which stretched for 7,000 miles, in the midst of the choking loess and rising smoke, dozens of heavy wagons loaded with materials slowly slowed down, passed through the sentry post in front of the wharf, and drove into the wharf on the Volga River in the section of the Tsaritsyn River.

The carriage soon stopped in an open field, and a large group of Russian soldiers rushed forward to the shouts of the officers and the kicking of their boots, opened the doors of the carriages that had not even been sealed, and removed all kinds of supplies from the carriages.

From rifles, ammunition, food, medicine, to military uniforms, military hats, quilts, cotton boots, almost all the supplies needed at the front can be seen in these carriages. The supplies were not sorted, but mixed together, and when the soldiers moved the materials from the carriage to the platform, they did not even look at the number of the goods on the carriage, and what they caught was what they caught, and then they moved to the platform and piled them up in a chaotic manner.

Everything looks so disorderly, compared with the orderly logistics and transportation of Chen Han, there is a sharp contrast between the national strength of the two countries. And this is perhaps the best portrayal of Russia now, far more intuitive and cruel than the sensational reports of the military reporters. Here, chaos is the best companion for Russian servicemen, and order has long ceased to exist.

Although there are also intelligent people in the Russian army, who are doing their best to take care of the logistics and transportation of the Russian army, and do their best to improve the logistics situation of the Russian army when it is permissible, how can the efforts of their very few people stop the chaos created by the 'efforts' of thousands of people?

The logistics department of the Russian army had previously performed quite well in the war against France on the Western Front.

The fighting, retreating, dispersing, and converging of hundreds of thousands of troops, as well as the logistics and transportation of the Russian army, can all be said to be 'in place'. It's a pity that Russia turned its guns too quickly, and in the battle against Chen Han, the Russian army also encountered a shortage of military spending and materials.

This has led to confusion and a standstill in the transport system.

At present, many of the military supplies were transported by the British to St. Petersburg by sea, and then the Russians transported them to Tsaritsyn by horse-drawn wagons.

Although the waterways in Russia have created a certain amount of convenience for the Russian army, they have created a certain amount of chaos on the basis of the chaos of the Russian transportation system.

Because for the current Russia, this transport distance is too far.

Due to the backwardness of transportation, the transportation of the Russian army is much more distant and complicated than that of Chen Han, and Chen Han has been operating the transportation line of the Western Front for many years, but what about Russia?

They also had transportation lines that communicated things before, but how big was that transportation capacity? How many Russians were there in the Far East before? How many more people are there in the Russian army on the Eastern Front now?

More importantly, the Russian army's own military supplies manufacturing capacity is insufficient, and many of the current military supplies are made by the British, and the British first transported them to the Russians, and then the Russians have only transported them thousands of miles to the front line, which is too complicated and too much beyond the capabilities of the Russian army.

A large part of the quotas for strategic supplies transported by the Russian army are arms. War is inseparable from artillery, and the casting of hexagonal shells is a job that requires a lot of experience and skill, and there are only a few places in the whole of Russia that have the ability to cast, and the production is still limited. But now the Russian army must have many, many shells.

The key to the current war depends on whether artillery and rockets can suppress the enemy's firepower with fierce firepower. The rocket thing is very low-tech, and the hexagonal shell is very high.

The rear station was transporting a large number of shells to this pier in Tsaritsyn. However, due to the chaotic situation in the rear, in addition to the most basic 75mm shells, a large number of 89mm shells were rushed to this pier with the 'military column'.

The latter is a two-inch hexagonal artillery shell made by Russia itself, but many of the hexagonal guns that the Russian army is now equipped with are produced in France and the United Kingdom. Especially in France, when Napoleon retreated, the French army discarded a large number of artillery pieces in the final stage, some of which were destroyed, and most of them were still intact.

The 75mm hexagonal gun is a 2-inch gun.

Inches, French inches and Russian inches, but they are not the same size.

By the way, in addition to the 89mm Russian-made two-inch hexagonal shells, there are also 51mm British-made two-inch shells, and 76mm British-made three-inch shells.

For Russian logistics officers, 51, 75 and 89, that's two inches.

"It's really a chaotic war, the Russians themselves can defeat themselves!" Standing in the dispatch room of the dock, a major officer in a British Army uniform let out a heartfelt sigh.

The British Army Major's name was Tom James, half French, and his mother was a French aristocrat in exile in England, who was said to be associated with the Bourbon royal family.

So he was a staunch anti-Napoleonic fighter, and now at the age of 21, he was a military attache at the British Embassy in Russia, but his real identity was that of a spy in the service of British intelligence.

He is fluent not only in Russian, but also in French.

The handsome Tom mixed quite well in the upper class of Russia, which was very beneficial to his work. It is also for this reason that since the outbreak of the Sino-Russian war. Tom became an important eye and ear for the British government to understand the development of the situation in Russia. And, because of the special relationship between Britain and Russia today, Tom could follow Alexander I to the front line in the East like the Russian aristocracy.