708 Battle of Warsaw (VI): Strategy

Danzig, Yue Zhenfu had already arrived in West Prussia from the Netherlands, and he was accompanied by the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Tang Army and the 2nd Regiment of the Marine Corps, which had arrived earlier. The 8th Brigade www.biquge.info is a type B brigade, that is, a motorized unit, and although it has a small number of combat vehicles and tanks, it is not a fully mechanized unit. The real mechanized infantry brigade was the 9th Brigade, which distinguished itself in the previous Tangxi War. The Ninth Brigade is still on board and is expected to arrive in a few days.

Yue Zhenfu's other armies, the Gurkha Brigade and the European Brigade, had already been stationed in Bydkochu, and then Yue Zhenfu would lead the Tang Army to Warsaw.

As soon as the Tang army arrived in Danzig, the Germans who were fighting in the autumn wind came, and the logistics minister of the German Ministry of Defense personally came to meet Yue Zhenfu, hoping that he could spare some ammunition and supplies to support Marshal Blucher, who was fighting on the front line. Yue Zhenfu did not fully approve of it, he first knew that the encirclement built by Blucher had been jumped out by the Austrians, but the Austrians did not seem to have any intention of continuing to the north, but to retreat south.

As the commander-in-chief of the Allied Army, Yue Zhenfu's authority is greater than that of Blucher, although the German army is the largest, but the supply of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops is all in the hands of the Tang people, so in the final analysis, it is still the Tang people who speak to count.

Yue Zhenfu mobilized 30 Y-3 transport planes in his hands to urgently replenish some ammunition to Blucher, but did not supply Blucher's department on a large scale. His advice to the German Ministry of Defense was to further mobilize the German and Polish masses and use the superiority in manpower to replenish the required supplies to the Allied forces. Of course, in terms of ammunition, he must give priority to ensuring the needs of the Don Army.

This decision made many German soldiers feel resentful, every soldier of the Tang Army was holding hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and the artillery had thousands of shells for each cannon, while the average bullet of the soldiers of the German Marshal Blucher on the Southern Front had fallen to less than 20 rounds, and only 15 percent of the artillery could fight.

Only Blucher has a high degree of understanding of Yue Zhenfu's decision, which is not a punishment for Blucher's tactical failure, nor is it a disdain for the German army. In fact, the Austrians had no courage to fight again, and had little supply of their own. Bender played a trick, deliberately showed that he was short of ammunition, and then concentrated his forces on the Polish army of Koshichushko, and finally found a way out. But that's all he could do, the Austrians had consumed almost all their ammunition in order to break through, and the war was so fierce that even Bender's soldiers didn't have any food to bring, so they had to rob the inhabitants of nearby towns and villages, which would also slow down their time.

Blucher was chasing them, Brautz was chasing them, Kościuszko was also after them, and Bender was no longer in the general climate.

But Yue Zhenfu did not believe that the war with Austria was over, and President Bai Nam had a clear strategic goal: to destroy Prussia, deal a heavy blow to Russia and Austria, take Czechoslovakia from Austria, and Latvia and Estonia from Russia.

Blucher originally thought that Yue Zhenfu would send a part of the German army from the southern front to join the battle against the Russian army and the Prussian army, but Yue Zhenfu was extremely confident, and he did not transfer the German army, but transferred the Polish People's Revolutionary Army, which had little combat effectiveness, back to Warsaw. In fact, the role of this force was not to fight a war, but to seize power in Warsaw and establish a government of national revolution. Yue Zhenfu believed that the 27,000 Tang troops in his hands, plus 60,000 German troops, were enough to fight against as many as 180,000 Russian-Prussian troops. So the order assigned to Blucher and the Bavarian Corps (Napoleon's Ministry) was to pursue the Austrians and capture the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The French International Volunteer Army will continue to reinforce and enter, so Blucher is not worried about the lack of troops, in fact, although Austria still has war potential, but at this time the emergency mobilization, coupled with the lack of necessary weapons and equipment, is actually the end of the crossbow. Emperor Franz II of Austria rearmament after the last German Civil War, in fact, the essence is Bender's 100,000 Austrian troops, but although these 100,000 Austrian troops have not been finished, their fate is also worrying. Although Count Clefait still had tens of thousands of well-equipped Austrian troops in his hands, in addition, Austria would not have the equipment strength comparable to the German army if it mobilized its armed troops.

Now the only thing that worries Yue Zhenfu is that the Austrians have been defeated, so what will the Russians and Prussians think. Once the Russian-Prussian army feared that it would not be able to win, it might give up the military operation, so Yue Zhenfu had to lead the Tang army to take the initiative. Winter is coming, and instead of taking the initiative to deal with the Russian and Prussian armies, Yue Zhenfu is inclined to start a battle in Poland to wipe out the Russian army and the Prussian army, and then slowly reap the fruits of victory.

Therefore, Yue Zhenfu began to spread news to the Russians and Prussians, saying that Blucher's army was going south to attack Austria, that the Tang people were overconfident, leaving less than 100,000 troops in East Prussia and Poland, and that the Tang army came in a hurry, not well prepared, and that the Tang people were not adapted to the cold climate of Europe.

Naturally, these rumors were not spread within the Don Army and the Polish Army, but were deliberately passed on to the enemy who was being in Belarus. This is a very simple bait, just to see if the commanders of the Russian army and the Prussian army will bite the hook.

There were actually quite a few differences between Prussia and Russia about the details of the war, cowardly Frederick? Wilhelm II, in order to hide from the German army, even lost his lair. Naturally, I want to fight back as soon as possible. No one knows what kind of trouble the Nationalist group will cause the longer they are active on Prussian soil.

The Russians, on the other hand, are relatively more cautious, and although the commander-in-chief of the Russian army is Eaglestrom, it is the scheming Rumyantsev and Suvorov who really formulate the strategy. And Catherine II had already promoted Suvorov to the rank of field marshal and became the commander-in-chief of the Russian army. Suvorov, as a military strategist who is well versed in the art of war, even though he is a little confused about the real strength of the Don Army, knows that such a large-scale Russian army, fighting in Poland, cannot act rashly.

Although the Russian army has looted a large amount of grain and grass from Belarus and Lithuania, the lack of weapons and equipment in the Russian army has not improved. Previously, the Russians obtained some weapons through the establishment of diplomatic relations with Datang, but with the advent of the war, it is obviously impossible to get this source of weapons again, the main weapons of the Russian army are paper shell rifles that lag behind the mainstream European powers, and the Russian army's artillery also lacks rifled guns with high power and long range.

Of course, Suvorov did not think that he would lose, this old man had fought all his life and had not yet lost a battle...... (To be continued.) )