When Zhu Yuan came to the grassland with more than 30,000 troops, those herdsmen looked at this army one after another, and they didn't expect that there would be an army coming at this time. They also heard that Beijing, the capital of the Central Court, had been conquered, and at this time an army had arrived. However, these herdsmen will not pay attention to the central court, because the changes in the Central Plains Dynasty have nothing to do with them at all. Those ordinary herdsmen, in their thinking, no matter who sits in the Central Plains in the world, in the end, they are still managed according to traditional methods. At that time, these ordinary herdsmen were still ruled by those Nayan nobles on the Mongolian steppe, and they ordinary herdsmen were still living very hard.

So they don't care about the changes in the Central Plains Dynasty at all, so when this army arrives, they don't care about anything. Whether they are the Central Plains Dynasty or the world of the Han people, then they will not change anything in the future, and the land, cattle and sheep on the grassland are all those nobles.

And in a luxurious yurt in the Mongolian steppe, several people in luxurious clothes hurriedly discussed here. Each of these people looks dressed in silk clothes, not leather clothes like the traditional herders. And they wore silk, and they wore gold and silver, and they were obviously all Mongolian nobles. And these guys look fat and strong, if you don't know, you still think it's some landlords in the Central Plains! They are meeting here and have already begun to ponder how to confront Taiwan's military.

"What are we going to do? Why hasn't the Russian army come yet, and when will they come! The army of the Han is coming, they are on the edge, but why hasn't the Russian army come yet? Also, how fast you Russians really are! A Mongolian Nayan asked.

But one of the people present, who was clearly European, complained: "We can't do anything about it, we have hundreds of thousands of troops coming together." Coordination is necessary. We don't have enough logistical supplies yet, we have to accumulate enough logistical supplies before we can attack south from Mongolia and Siberia. The weapons, equipment, and food that hundreds of thousands of troops need to prepare are not something that we can easily solve. If we didn't have enough supplies, we wouldn't have been able to launch an offensive on all fronts. ”

At present, the Russians have not been able to build the Trans-Siberian Railway, especially since the ruling power of the Russians in Siberia is still very low. In Siberia. This vast region, which occupies most of Russia's territory, has a population of just over 2 million. You must know that Siberia occupies the vast majority of Russia's territory, but its population is less than one-tenth of Russia's. According to the first census conducted in Russia in 1897, the population of Russia as a whole was more than 67.47 million, while the population of Siberia was just over 2 million.

Then more than two million people, on average, went to the whole of Siberia, and that was not worth mentioning at all. Even the vast majority of Russians moved over the night with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the vast majority lived along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

This time, the Russians moved to Siberia with a total of 500,000 troops. The 500,000 troops relied on the more than 2 million people and could not provide food, grass and material support. Russia's current war against China is also a pit in terms of logistics. Although they had already moved their troops to Siberia, the Russians' weak logistical supply lines did not allow them to obtain sufficient material accumulation. In particular, the material and logistical supplies of this hundreds of thousands of troops must also be transferred from Europe, so that they can maintain the material supply of hundreds of thousands of troops.

"And when will you be able to stock up on enough supplies?" Mongol Nayan asked.

The Russian said lightly: "I don't know, this is the business of our logistics officers!" ”

This Russian is also very anxious, because he knows that with the weak logistics supply lines of the Russians. That's not enough to raise supplies quickly. The weak logistical supply lines of the Russians have not accumulated on this line for more than half a year. That ninja dart was not enough to support the battle of hundreds of thousands of troops. The battle of hundreds of thousands of troops, the consumption is even more huge. In this era of firearms, in addition to grain and grass, the incomparably huge ammunition is also a thing that swallows up logistics capacity.

In this era, the war is already about logistics, and there will be no soldiers. Logistics is the basis of all wars. Although it may not be possible to win with logistics, without enough logistics, it will definitely lose. So the Russians are not stupid, of course they know that if they do not accumulate enough logistics materials, they will not be able to take the initiative to attack and start a war against China. Once the war began. The consumption of ammunition and food and grass is absolutely huge. With Russia's current weak transportation capacity, it is simply not enough for them to maintain a steady stream of supplies to meet the operational needs of the battlefield front.

They are not as good as the later US imperialists, who have an average of more than 10 later personnel to supply a forward soldier, and the US imperialists' logistical capabilities are leveraged, which makes the Chinese volunteers suffer a lot in Korea. But this also depends on the times, and the era in which the US imperialists of later generations lived was an era when there were airplanes in the sky and trucks on the road. Therefore, the transportation capacity of the US imperialists can be very sufficient, but the current logistics capacity of the Russian Lao Maozi is really crippled. Their transport capacity was even worse than that of the later Chinese volunteers, so they could only choose one scenario in this case.

The Russians could only choose to accumulate enough supplies through the accumulation of time and then gradually accumulate enough materials to sustain the war for a long time. If the war starts rashly, then it will be impossible for the material supply to maintain enough consumption, and then it will definitely face huge losses. Once you don't have enough to consume, that rifle is not as good as a burning stick. During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea in later generations, Li Qiwei of the United States successfully saw through the seven-day offensive of the volunteers, and as a result, he formulated a corresponding battle plan, so that the volunteers were killed and wounded in large numbers. And this is also the weakness of the logistics of the Volunteer Army, and each large-scale operation must accumulate sufficient materials, otherwise it is impossible to fight. And each time the reserve of supplies can only continue to attack for seven days, once it reaches seven days, the ammunition and food are also exhausted, and it is impossible to continue fighting.

At present, Russia is also aware of this situation, and they know that they must accumulate enough materials as much as possible, otherwise they will inevitably fall into the same predicament as the volunteers back then, once the limit of the offensive is seized, it is easy for the Taiwan army to seize the loophole and take the opportunity to counterattack. In this way, although the Russian army is huge, they will not take the initiative to attack until the logistics are ready. If he attacks rashly, then he will definitely suffer huge losses.

"Your Excellency, please send troops over as soon as possible! Otherwise, these Han people won't be polite to us! Mongolian Nayan said.

The Russians immediately shouted angrily: "Shut up for me!" ”

And this Russian also smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking in his heart: "I think this large-scale war with the Chinese is really a very stupid idea." Especially since the other party is Taiwanese, not the decadent and backward Qing government. They are backed by China's Zhili and Shandong, and have a population of tens of millions as logistics providers, and there will be no shortage of grain and grass at all. They only need to transport ammunition from Taiwan, and they are by sea, which is cheaper and more efficient than land transportation, and the loss is much smaller than ours. Your Majesty, didn't you make yourself bored in this battle? ”

As long as any intelligent military strategist knows that this Tsarist Russia's operation against Taiwan is a completely low success rate. If it was against the Manchus, there was a high probability of success. But if it is for Taiwan, then the risk is really too huge. Weak logistical supply lines, this is completely a pit, and Russia has lost more than one step in terms of logistics.

But that Tsar Nicholas II actually had a hot brain, and directly wanted to establish Yellow Russia, and then rob Northeast China and Mongolia. The tsar did not think at all about the situation in his own country, especially when facing an enemy who was not a weak person. And all the officers in Russia are from aristocratic backgrounds, and a really large number of capable officers are suppressed at the bottom and cannot be promoted to the highest level at all. A large number of high-ranking officers are also born by blood, and there are so-called sycophants. Even, many nobles are born to serve in the military, and by the time they reach the age of twenty-five or sixteen, they have been in the military for more than twenty years, and then they can start directly from the position of lieutenant colonel and colonel. Coupled with the fact that the aristocratic system constantly promotes its own people, they must also be those corrupt and incompetent nobles who become high-ranking officers, and capable low-level officers cannot be promoted

"Okay, you guys deal with these Chinese first. After a while, you're here to make trouble, and then slow down their preparation for battle. This is the most beneficial support for us in times of war, understand? The Russian said.

"Well, I'll be ready, and then I will definitely incite the herdsmen and make them restless in the rear." That Mongolian Nayan said immediately.

"Well, you must be loyal to our great Russian Tsar, so that you can gain glory and wealth!" said the Russian. (To be continued.) )