Chapter 873: Shaking in All Directions
Most of the domestic news about the conquest of Russia is still from the official point of view, which is nothing more than one or several victories of the army in Tsarist Russia in a certain year and month, and the territory of Tsarist Russia is not so optimistic.
Nowadays, if you want to describe the scene of war west of the Ural Mountains, you can only describe it in terms of the loss of life and the absence of people for thousands of miles, and if the army kills and injures civilians without restraint, the result can only be described in horror.
Since Zuo Jigao left Tsarist Russia, Zeng Disheng commanded a large army, step by step into the East European Plain, although the number of people needed for defense and robbery is quite large, but compared with more than 3 million front-line troops and more than 2 million reserve troops, the number of people left behind is still a small part.
As the Northeast Army of Devil Six joined the ranks of the killing, the killing army marched faster and faster, and the forward army had crossed the Volga River valley and arrived close to the old camp of the Cossacks, the Don River valley.
Today's killing army, there are few opponents, in addition to the Cossacks who are still resisting, the main forces of Tsarist Russia, all withdrawn to the vicinity of Moscow to organize defense, if this line of defense collapses, then the fall of Tsarist Russia is also imminent.
The army in front seems to be unstoppable, but Yang Meng knows that it is already a blessing for the army to reach the Don River valley.
Although Yang Meng can delay the advent of defeat exponentially, at most ten years, the Russian army will still be defeated anyway, ten years, for Tsarist Russia, it is also an unbearable burden for Yang Meng. An army of millions. Ten years of consumption. It is an extremely terrifying number, the country that has just improved has been dragged down by the past ten years, and it is also predictable, two years, at most two years, Yang Meng will end this war.
As for the follow-up war, let's leave it to the Mongol kings to take care of! War has never been the main force in the rise of a nation. Although the role of the war is extraordinary, but his greater role is to consume national strength, now Yang Meng is just waiting for the army to empty the occupied area, the area north and south of the Volga River must be emptied, this is the grain production area of Tsarist Russia, as long as there is no grain in the Eastern European Plain, plus a new Mongolia, Tsarist Russia has a headache in these decades.
Of course, killing the Eight Banners of Devil Six is also a necessary measure, war. It is already near the end of Yang Meng's place, let Devil Six lead the Northeast Army out of the Don River Valley. Fighting to the death with the Cossacks is the old serious.
No matter how Yang Meng planned, he took advantage of Tsarist Russia, there is no doubt about it, the entire east of the Ural Mountains changed hands, and half of the Eastern European Plain changed hands, which is also a big bargain, the fall of Siberia, the original Tsarist Russia may have been kept in the dark, but as the war progressed, prisoners of war were produced, many things were no longer a secret.
Regarding the fall of Siberia, when they first got the news, the top level of Tsarist Russia did not admit it, and the reason was simple, the Siberian region was too vast, and such a large territory could not be eaten by millions of troops of the Qing State.
In three months, Tsarist Russia sent tens of thousands of people to the east to listen to the news, although nine out of ten people could not come back, but the remaining people still brought back some vague information.
A large area of manufacturing no man's land is Yang Meng's means, your territory? If you don't even have a people, how can you be counted as your territory?
Yang Meng's method is very simple, if the war cannot achieve the goal, he will emigrate to Siberia, wait for the population to develop, and come to the last solo war, and the international treaty is not without loopholes.
Summarize intelligence, continue to interrogate prisoners of war, the words of the Tsarist minority among the prisoners of war are still credible, the fall of Siberia is a foregone conclusion, and now the Qing State has aimed the spearhead of the war at the hinterland of Tsarist Russia, and the danger of destroying the country is just around the corner.
A letter asking for help was carried by the envoys of Tsarist Russia, and they rushed to the European world non-stop, and the politicians of Tsarist Russia now understand some things, and most of the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia is actually the scapegoat of Britain and France.
As far as European relations are concerned, Britain and France, as well as Germany and Austria, will not sit back and watch Tsarist Russia be destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, and with a foundation in their hearts, Tsarist Russia will no longer hide anything.
With such a broken jar and broken confidence, Tsarist Russia lost the Siberian region and most of the Eastern European Plain, and the strength of Tsarist Russia, which could not resist the foundation of the Qing army, was blown up to European countries.
The politicians of Tsarist Russia are very single, and the meaning is very clear, nothing more than you can't let Tsarist Russia perish, you troublemakers don't come out, Tsarist Russia doesn't care about the movements of the Qing army, it's a big deal to wait for the Qing army to break into Europe, everyone will go into exile together.
Tsarist Russian politicians, some shameless means, this time the commission really touched the pain of European countries, especially Britain and France, the hatred between these two countries and the Qing State is difficult to resolve, burned down people's royal gardens, how can people not retaliate?
And the most painful is France, England is an island country, across the sea from Europe, how can there be some buffer space, France is different, once Tsarist Russia is destroyed, the Qing army is bound to find France to put right, once a large-scale land war is opened, Tsarist Russia is not yet the opponent of the Qing army, France's top leadership, their own army has no confidence at all.
In the mouths of Tsarist Russian politicians, the Qing State launched this war with at least 10 million troops, although this is a bit exaggerated, but the European countries still believe it, without so many troops, it is difficult to conquer most of Tsarist Russia in less than a year.
This number is also about the same, Yang Meng's mobilized army is around five million, and the people requisitioned along the way, not counting the tens of millions in the country, only in West Asia used more than 10 million people, a soldier and ten people, if the materials used by the army, one by one, this war, Yang Meng not only used West Asia and other countries, but also used the power of the Qing Dynasty, there is no doubt about it.
These news came to the hands of European countries, and Germany, which had a harmonious relationship with the Qing State, could not sit still, for no other reason, Germany and Tsarist Russia were too close, and Austria was the same, Germany and Austria were not separated, and now Germany and Austria are also moving towards unification, and suddenly such a behemoth as the Qing State suddenly came out, how can it not make people tremble?
With the spread of the true news, the European world was also really shaken in all directions, and after getting these news, it was verified that the envoys of Tsarist Russia brought not only the news of the war, but also the seizures on the battlefield.
The new rear-loading rifle and the Colt, which can shoot six shots in a row, have shocked the European world, and the rear-loading gun has always been regarded as an outlier in the European world, but after the military of various countries witnessed the sharpness of the paper shell Dreiser, they lost their voice.
And the most shocking is Germany, Dresser this thing, originally they flowed to Yang Meng, although the appearance is still much the same, but the internal structure of Dresser, has also undergone some changes, the stubby firing pin, the primer at the tail of the paper shell, these are pioneering for the gunsmith, such a rifle, compared to the prototype of Dresser, whether in terms of rate of fire, range or power, has been greatly improved, the European world has fallen behind in firearms.
Colt this thing, the military of European countries, more familiar, Colt came to Europe for this purpose, but the result is suffocating, if you knew that Colt is so sharp, it is a fool not to equip it.
But who has front and back eyes? Colt's sharpness is hundreds of thousands of Cossacks with their lives to test out, in horse warfare, Colt Zollen's sharpness, almost unmatched, the legendary Tatar iron cavalry, relying on the Colt of a handful of people, 10,000 people are enough to slaughter 30,000 Cossack cavalry, 10,000 to break up 100,000 Cossack cavalry team, it is not a miracle, on the Eastern European Plain, such a battle has been several times.
Of course, there are shocks and surprises, and international relations are much different from interpersonal relations, the only difference is that international relations are more bottomless, more despicable, shameless, and shameless than interpersonal relations.
After the Crimean War, there were many small European countries that were sitting and watching the jokes of Tsarist Russia, and this time Tsarist Russia was about to be destroyed, these small countries that had been bullied by Tsarist Russia before, on the one hand, were preventing the nobles of Tsarist Russia from escaping to their own country, and on the other hand, they were preparing tables, chairs, benches, drinks and delicacies, waiting to sit and watch the demise of Tsarist Russia.
Small countries are grass on the wall, whoever is strong will fall to whomever they want, whether Tsarist Russia perishes or not has nothing to do with them, and now for these small countries, the most important thing is not what European glory is, but to find an opportunity to show goodwill to the great empire in the East.
The pace of the war is not diverted by the will of the people, the reluctant withdrawal of the left mule is a good example, and the war will not be transferred by the meaning of the country, whether it is Britain, France, Germany and Austria or Tsarist Russia, no matter how shocked they are, no matter how frightened they are, the army under the command of Yang Meng, before receiving the order, will not stop in the killing, the fault is not that there is no living person in the whole country of Tsarist Russia.
The war has come to this point, the European side has already had a countermeasure, now confrontation is not the way, now it is the strength of the European countries, it is difficult to resist the tens of millions of troops of the Qing State, and it takes time to organize the army to resist, and this period of time, it is enough to make the group of waste in Tsarist Russia pick on, can not be stopped, no one dares to say, but delay time, peace talks are undoubtedly the best way. (To be continued......)