From a military point of view, Bai Lang's dissatisfaction is actually justified, perhaps because he realized the danger of losing the country, and the nationalist sentiment of the Russians quickly rose, when the First Cavalry Army attacked Moscow, the Russian army's will to fight was simply heaven and earth compared with the previous Belarusian Front, and all the Russian troops in the building were killed or comatose before being captured in tragic battles, and many citizens also spontaneously joined the Russian army to resist stubbornly. If it weren www.biquge.info t for the general lack of training of the Moscow defenders and the extremely chaotic logistics management, which led to the general lack of guns and ammunition among the Russian soldiers on the front line, the First Cavalry Army would have no hope of capturing the old capital of Tsarist Russia even if it had exhausted tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

It's no wonder that Bai Lang is worried, given three months of peace time for the Russian army, their training and material reserves will definitely be greatly improved, and it is absolutely impossible for the First Cavalry Army to replicate the brilliant achievements of the previous almost miracle. And when the war starts again, it is already winter, even if the First Cavalry Army is good at winter operations, the number of non-combat attrition will not be small, judging from the exchange ratio of the Sino-Russian war so far, even if the number of frostbite on the Chinese side is only one-tenth of that of the Russian army, it is still a loss-making business, which is the main reason why the Chinese army suspended the offensive last winter.

However, Li Hui, as the head of state, first considered whether it was politically beneficial, so he could only let the soldiers of the First Cavalry Army suffer a little grievance.

However, it must be noted that Li Hui did not let Bai Lang lead his troops back to Asia, and as long as he retreated to the steppes of South Russia, if he could not sign a formal peace treaty with the Tsarist government during the armistice, then they would spend the winter in this foreign land, without particularly good fighters, and they would not be required to take the initiative to attack. Although the winter in Russia is cold, the climate in the south is relatively mild, and the 1st Cavalry Corps is stationed in the Mongolian Plateau, where the climate is much colder than in Moscow, and the commanders and fighters of the Cavalry Corps have mastered the ability to quickly build yurts (or improved, they are faster to build, and they are also more resistant to wind, rain/snow, and cold). And the ability to graze horses and sheep on the steppe, in the southern Russian steppe, where the water and grass are far more fertile than the domestic pastures, life will not be sad.

It was impossible to keep such a major event as the Sino-Russian armistice a secret, and the U.S. government soon learned about it, but after communication, Theodore Roosevelt still expressed his understanding of the difficulties of the Tsarist government, and as long as Tsarist Russia did not really betray the alliance, the alliance between the two countries would always be maintained, which made Tsar Nicholas II somewhat relieved.

However, the US Government also told Lao Maozi the bad news, because of the destruction of the Heavenly Punishment Operation, the US economy, especially heavy industry, has been hit hard, and in addition, the losses of the US military in the past two years have been too great, and the domestic reserves have almost been exhausted, and they must be replenished as soon as possible. Therefore, it is impossible for the US government to continue to maintain the same level of aid to Russia as before, and the total amount of aid in the last quarter of 1908 will be sharply reduced by 3/4 from the previous quarter, and the next 1909 is estimated to be halved compared with the previous year, if the war is fought until 1910 and the war situation does not continue to deteriorate, the situation should be significantly improved, but at most it will be able to reach 80% of the total price of aid to Russia in 1908.

In addition, because the United States itself also needs to urgently import equipment to rebuild as soon as possible, it is impossible to come up with valuable hard currency to help Tsarist Russia order military supplies from other countries, that is to say, France's military aid will also be greatly reduced, they are different from the Americans, the so-called support is only sold cheaper, and the French, who have no direct conflict with China, cannot give Tsarist Russia weapons and ammunition in vain, even if the relationship between the two countries is good.

This immediately made Tsar Nicholas II shocked, you must know that the Russian army lost too badly this year, and almost all the weapons and ammunition supported by the United States have been lost. And due to the backwardness of the foundation and comprador thinking, even if Tsarist Russia has been preparing for war for ten years, there are now only three ammunition factories in the country, and the output is only enough to support four or five hundred thousand troops to continue to fight (but this is also related to the rapid increase in the rate of fire of new weapons), and the output of weapons and means of transport is also limited. It can still be called a charcoal in the snow, and now that the "charcoal fire" is not enough, the life of the Russian army will be difficult next year......

Tsar Nicholas II was naturally extremely dissatisfied with the US government's renegade, knowing that if it were not for the United States' strong instigation, Tsarist Russia would not necessarily have to join this war, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Tsarist Russia was cheated by the United States. But now the terms of peace offered by the Chinese government were too harsh, and the Russian government needed foreign support to be sure to quell the already fierce rebellion at home, and Tsar Nicholas II could only swallow this vicious breath.

Since the First Cavalry Army only retreated to the South Russian steppe, the Tsarist government did not dare to send troops to Ukraine and the Caucasus, and could only settle the rebellion of the Baltic tribes and Poland first. However, the threat of these two rebellions was the greatest, the former directly threatened the security of the national capital St. Petersburg, and the latter put Tsarist Russia in danger of losing its largest granary.

In fact, even if it was just these two rebellions, the suppression of the Russian army was not as smooth as Tsar Nicholas II expected, the three Baltic tribes were okay, the distance was close, and the strength was not strong, and the Central Front directly crushed the past and quickly settled.

The Polish rebel army led by Joseph Pilsudski had grown to four or five hundred thousand men, and had somehow obtained enough weapons and ammunition (Note 1), and the level of equipment was no worse than that of the regular Russian army, and the morale was extremely high. The Russian army, whose combat effectiveness has seriously declined and logistics have begun to be tight, will not be able to take it for a while, but the Poles will become more and more confident the more they fight. Admiral Brusilov, who had just been reactivated by the Tsar, believed that with only the 200,000 Russian troops sent to Poland in advance, he could not even recapture Warsaw, let alone completely quell the Polish rebellion, which made Tsar Nicholas II's forehead quickly wrinkled into the word "Sichuan......

Note 1: Before the attack on Moscow, Bai Lang led the army to sweep away Ukraine, Kyiv and other large cities were conquered by him, and the forward troops had already made contact with the Polish rebel army, just at that time the captured materials, especially weapons, had been seriously surplus, and it was a pity to destroy them directly, Bai Lang considered that "the enemy of the enemy is a friend", so he gave those surplus weapons and ammunition to the Poles. Later, Germany and Austria secretly sold some ammunition production lines to the Polish rebels, so that they quickly armed hundreds of thousands of troops.