The waiting time always passes very slowly.

From mid-November to the end of November, Chen Ming felt restless and restless every day. The five words 'nail in the ass' can sum up his heart.

He was desperate to know what had happened to Napoleon. In psychology, he can analyze this phenomenon in a grand speech.

During this period, the battle report of the northwest fell into Chen Ming's eyes, and it also seemed tasteless.

There's nothing to say. The army of the Russians on the Eastern Front completely made shrunken turtles, and only their cavalry units wandered outside the fortresses. Even the West Sea on the west bank of the Caspian Sea they gave up the encirclement, and when Chen Han's reinforcements moved from Persia to the West Sea City, the port of Petrovsk, the military port city of the Russian Caspian Fleet, had been abandoned by the Russian army.

Although the port of Petrovsk is a 'very young' port, it is a newly built port for the Russian army, after the end of the last Sino-Russian war. The purpose is naturally to focus exclusively on the West Sea, both on land and on water. So the Russians were still very careful when building the port of Petrovsk. But now the Russian army has abandoned this place without hesitation.

The port of Petrovsk is located about 100 kilometers north of the Western Sea, and about 100 kilometers to the west is the most important military base of the Russian army in the Caucasus region - Vladikavkaz Fortress.

The latter is also the primary target of the West Sea Defense Force, which has been reinforced.

By the time the Eastern Battlefield reached 1813 in the Western calendar, the defeat of the Russian army was irretrievable. A large number of small towns and villages were raided by Chen Han, although a considerable number of Russians had already chosen to leave. But in the vast area from the Ural to Astarahan, the Russian army failed to retain control of the next town.

It can be said that in the entire eastern part of the lower Volga River, the Russian army only stayed behind the Guryev fortress, and the eastern part of the Volga River basin from Tsaritsyn down, within a distance of 800 miles, was also not garrisoned by any large-scale troops.

In the entire lower Volga region, the Russians chose the same thing as they did in the Ural River valley - to give up.

Their choice was only nodes, from the Guryev fortress to Astrakhan, to Tsaritsyn, and then to the Vladikavkaz fortress.

From the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, from the Caucasus to the Urals, there are only four places where the Russians really hold on.

Even Stavropol, the gateway to the Caucasus, and Rostov-on-Don, a wealthy and important city, were abandoned by the Russians. There is no way, who let Meloarsky have only a little force in his hands?

He now has only about 40,000 men in his hands, and after removing a large number of cavalry, 30,000 infantry are distributed in four strong fortress groups, which is not a large number of troops. The Guriev Fortress had the largest number of defenders, only about 10,000 people. Anyway, the eastern theater of Russia is completely ruined.

Meloyarsky's only hope now is that the main forces of the Russian army in the West will be able to move to the eastern theater before the Chinese break through the Guryev fortresses, Astrakhan, Tsaritsyn and Vladikavkaz fortresses.

It's just that Meloarsky still subtly ignored the Ottoman Empire. Russia looked down on the Ottomans.

They were defeated by the Ottomans in their early years, and later joined forces with Austria to win the Ottoman war, and finally were able to suppress the Ottomans alone, the Russians spent hundreds of years, and they witnessed the whole process of the decline and decline of the powerful Ottoman empire. Although the last war was won by the Ottomans, neither the Russians nor the whole of Europe believed that the Ottomans were really stronger than the Russians, and they won only because they had China, a powerful and invincible ally.

As Russia's sworn enemy, the Ottoman Empire acted more than a month earlier than Chen Han. Just as Chen Ming originally thought, Selim III received the news of Napoleon's attack on Russia before he did.

More than 100,000 Ottoman troops, led by Arandar Mustafa, are based on the lower Danube and push back towards Ukraine. At the same time, the Ottoman Muhammad Ali Pasha led 50,000 Ottoman troops to land on the Crimean Peninsula, and the Ottoman troops on the peninsula launched a fierce attack on the Russian army. The purpose of the latter is clearly to completely swallow the entire Crimean peninsula. And in this war against Russia, one of the major strategic goals of the Ottomans is to counterattack the dark coast of Ukraine and completely turn the Black Sea into an internal lake for the Ottomans.

If Russia loses beyond the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, and then the Black Sea, the huge losses will wipe out three hundred years of Russian efforts in an instant.

With the exception of the territories in the West, Russia's territorial boundaries in the East will regress directly to the beginning of the 16th century.

The Russians, who considered themselves the heirs of the Roman Empire, would not completely abandon the Black Sea, let alone a powerful fleet that they had carefully managed in the Black Sea. In this Ottoman counterattack, their warships hardly came out of the Bosphorus and headed north.

Russia's mighty Black Sea Fleet is now willing to fight the Ottomans, but the Ottomans are clearly not prepared to use their newly revived naval power to fight the Russians. In Istanbul's eyes, as long as the Ottoman Empire completely takes the Black Sea coast and the Crimean Peninsula completely, Russia's Black Sea Fleet will be a fish at the bottom of the kettle. Because, no matter how powerful the fleet is, it is impossible to drive the battleship to the shore!

Therefore, it is not only the Eastern Front that needs reinforcements, but also the South. In particular, the northwestern coast of the Black Sea, which belongs to Ukraine.

Napoleon's march from Poland to Moscow took the Lithuanian route, and Ukraine was not part of the battlefield, but it was just as empty. Arandar Mustafa is on a rampage with the Ottoman army, and he should not be too happy to eat meat these months.

As the breadbasket of Russia, Ukraine's position is clearly important. And they are in the west of Russia, if Napoleon is driven out of Russian territory by the Russian army, the Ottomans, who are living happily in Ukraine at the moment, may be able to share a lot of pressure on Napoleon.

It was not until November 28 that Chen Ming received the news from the European Office, and he did not think that Napoleon had repeated the mistakes of history and returned from a defeated expedition to Russia. But Napoleon, who fled back from Russia in disarray, did not bring only 20,000 or 30,000 troops, as in history, but brought back a whole '200,000' French army!

Napoleon's propaganda to the outside world was 200,000 French troops, but the actual estimate would not exceed 150,000, and it was more likely to be 1230,000. 200,000 French troops lost their lives to Russia, and 50,000 Poles, almost all of the Italian troops......

Of the 600,000 troops that attacked Russia before, only one-third of them were able to escape. The city of Warsaw was full of sick and wounded.

It was an indistinguishable fiasco!

The whole of Europe shook, and most of the foundations of Napoleon's newly established empire were hollowed out.

The European Office was full of 'amazement' at Napoleon's defeat in the secret report, and the undefeated European star threw half of his capital in the ice and snow of Russia.

When Napoleon chose to withdraw from Moscow, Kutuzov's Russian troops began a pursuit. Wittgenstein led 50,000 Russian troops to threaten the left flank of the French army, and Chichagov led 70,000 troops to attack the right flank of the French army, and the Russian counterattack was very sharp.

Napoleon, on the other hand, wasted two weeks in Moscow - after Napoleon occupied Moscow, he thought that the Tsar would come to sue for peace, and he would take the opportunity to get out of the war. Unexpectedly, after waiting and waiting, the tsar was indifferent. At this time, bad news came from the rear, the French army in the Spanish battlefield suffered a major rout, and even Madrid was lost. And Portugal was taken by the British. The situation in France was also unstable, and the royalists were ready to move.

Napoleon could not wait any longer, and he offered to the tsar to make peace, but Alexander I was indifferent to this, and he was determined to wash away the humiliation suffered by Russia with a complete victory in the war. As a result, Napoleon spent 2 weeks in vain in Moscow, trying in vain to negotiate peace, and nothing came to fruition. Seeing that the weather has entered October, the weather is getting colder and colder, and winter in Russia is coming. Napoleon 'realized' that he could only sit back and wait for any further delay, and he finally made up his mind to retreat.

History has made a big fluctuation here, and Chen Ming clearly remembers that Napoleon in the original time and space waited in Moscow for a whole month before choosing to retreat. But in this era, Napoleon only spent two weeks in Moscow.

It was not clear to him what made Napoleon change. Seeing this, Chen Ming already understood why Napoleon's army still had 200,000 left, instead of 20,000 or 30,000. Napoleon retreated half a month earlier than in history, which prevented him from losing all his capital in the ice and snow of Russia.

In the original time and space, for the fiasco of Napoleon's expedition to Russia, many people in later studies have attributed the main reason for the defeat of the war to Napoleon's arrogance and the correct response of the Russians - the clear wall, but some people say that Napoleon's waiting in Moscow for a month in vain is the most important reason for his defeat.

Because the Napoleonic army of the original time and space not only had to face the difficulties of supply and the extreme cold weather, but also faced the devil of 'infectious disease'.

In the 19th century, the medical and health conditions in European armies were very poor. Typhus is a common disease in Poland and Russia, and often occurs at the turn of summer and autumn, especially in the summer and autumn. The Russians smashed the infrastructure along the way in their retreat, which, combined with the climate, accelerated the reproduction and spread of various parasites. Typhus fever is one of the worst acute infectious diseases. The pathogen is found in lice feces, and this chain of infection was not known to the medical community until the 20th century.

The epidemic caused a large number of soldiers of the expeditionary force to fall, and the wounded and sick added to the burden of the expeditionary force as a whole, further dragging down the logistics and supply of the expeditionary force.

But in the current time and space, Napoleon's army is clearly not too threatened by disease.

The cleanliness and tidiness of the individual has long been a common knowledge in the armies of the East and the West, which will reduce the disease and reduce the chance of infection after being injured.

Perhaps this incident is also a major reason for the French army to escape more lives.

In the process of Napoleon's retreat, 10,000 Prussian troops surrendered directly to the Russian army on the way to retreat, and at the same time joined the sequence of the Russian counteroffensive, while the Austrian army, which also lost a small half [there were 20,000 left], chose to flee directly.

The two armies first engaged in a fierce battle at Maloya Roslavitz, which changed hands eight times in one day. Napoleon lost more than 10,000 soldiers and finally captured Maloya Roslavitz.

Ten days later, the Russian army caught up again. The expeditionary force and the pursuing Russian army fought another battle in Vyazma, and although the Russian army was repulsed, the casualties amounted to more than 5,000 people.

Napoleon should have been glad that he had arrived in Smolensk, and that the main forces had rested for four days before snow began to fall in Russia and the temperature dropped rapidly.

When Napoleon evacuated Moscow, he did not anticipate that he would march in the ice and snow, did not bring enough cold and warm supplies, and the food and grass were exhausted, hunger and cold, and the order began to be chaotic. The French army looted in groups in search of food and fuel, and whenever a horse fell, they rushed up to grab food, and many often fought each other over a piece of bread and a potato. At this time, the cavalry of the Russian army rushed up, and it was not too easy to cut off the head. The French army abandoned countless corpses along the way, and there were a large number of failures and desertions, many wounded and sick were directly abandoned, and even carts full of looted supplies were left on the side of the road and left unattended, and by the time Napoleon finally retreated to Smolensk, there were less than 60,000 troops left with him.

But now, Napoleon left Moscow two weeks early, and even if Napoleon was not as urgent on the way to retreat as he was, wasting a few days on the road, the expeditionary force to meet the Russian ice and snow weather was an army that had already gone through four days of rest.

At this time, Napoleon's main army still had more than 200,000.

Smolensk was built on both sides of the Dnieper River, and the city was divided into north and south, connected by bridges. It has always been an important military fortress, and there have been many offensive and defensive battles, surrounded by strong walls and moats. Napoleon's first major battle against Russia took place in Smolensk. It's like a reincarnation now.

However, the French horses did not have cleats on their hooves, and they were very easy to break their legs on the snow, and the temperature dropped sharply and they froze to death in the bitter cold, so that the cavalry's combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. Many artillery and ammunition trucks had to be discarded.

As a result, when Napoleon's army crossed the Dnieper, there was a fierce battle with the Russian army, and after a difficult battle, many French soldiers were killed and fell into the river and drowned. Many wagons laden with booty were also discarded.

But there were still 700 miles from Smolensk to Lithuania, and Napoleon suffered a great sin in the days that followed.

When Napoleon pushed to Lithuania, he finally had a foothold, but the 200,000 troops he advertised to the outside world did not convince any European politician at all.

No matter how Napoleon shouted, one fact was already undeniable - Napoleon's empire was fundamentally shaken.

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