"Our weapons are backward and outdated, and we simply do not have the ability to compete with the well-equipped and well-trained Chinese army, although the Mosinagan rifles in the hands of our infantry are very accurate and reliable, but the rate of fire is too slow, and they are easy to be suppressed in engagements, and our heavy machine guns are not numerous, and they are too heavy to move, and they are easy to destroy with mortar guns in actual combat. And there are almost no light machine guns, there is a large gap in the middle of the infantry fire, there are only 3 machine guns in a company, and the remaining 100 people only have rifles. There are no automatic weapons. ”

"We tried to use mortars and grenadier-like weapons to equip our troops, but the results were disappointing, the weight and range of the mortars were not comparable to the mortars of the opposing side, as for the grenadiers? This thing is hardly technically difficult, but it is very difficult to use, this weapon is a test of gunner's experience, but unfortunately, neither the Cossacks nor the gray animals are suitable for the practical use of such a lightweight, high-powered weapon. As for equipping regular mortars and light machine guns, I can only say that the cost and ammunition consumption is enormous, and even if the Reich has ample funds, we must be able to transport this equipment to the front. ”

"WE LACK HEAVY ARTILLERY UNITS, ESPECIALLY THOSE ABOVE 100MM, AND THE STRONGEST ARTILLERY OF OUR FIELD CORPS IS THE 107MM CANNON, AND THESE GUNS ARE SO SCARCE THAT THEY CAN ONLY BE PLACED IN FORTRESSES. As a fortress cannon. As for the heavier guns, there was no landing. We lost a lot of heavy artillery at Vladivostok. The rearmament of the Navy has taken up a lot of production capacity, and almost all 6-inch guns are given priority to the Navy. Even with strong fortresses. And if you don't have enough firepower, the fortress will eventually turn into ruins under the blows of the opponent. ”

General Bildelinger poured bitter water on Alexander Kuropatkin. The situation of the existing army equipment in Russia was told as it was. The Russian generals next to him frowned when they heard this. In their opinion, it was almost impossible to tell the Minister of War directly. The Russian Army has no play, and it will not be able to win the Chinese Republic at all.

"But we have a large number of cavalry, and the Cossacks and the Don Hippopotamus are a natural match, and their combat effectiveness is no less than that of any cavalry in the world, and our cavalry is far larger than that of the Chinese Army. Our troops have mobility advantages, do not forget, generals. Now the battlefield is on the territory of Russia. The Huaxia Army is no longer fighting on the inside line. They are already fighting on the outside, and the disadvantages in logistics and supply are beginning to gradually appear. It is now their turn to suffer what we were suffering in the first place. Kuropatkin said impatiently.

"The Chinese Army is extremely dependent on firepower, in one battle. Their troops consume more ammo and weapons, which is fashionable and fine on the inside, but once they move on to the outside, the huge attrition will overwhelm them. Our cavalry then crossed the enemy's lines of defense and attacked the lines of communication in the rear. It's completely possible to trap the opponent to death. We can't just see each other's strengths and ignore ours. "Kaulbas lost the battle against him. As a result, the practice of blaming all the reasons for failure to objective causes is very dissatisfied. There was also a hint of disdain in the words.

"It sounds great, but what about it? Who of you has ever thought about the difficulties? Come on, let's see what the Nebuchu front line of the Chinese Army looks like. In front of our army was a trench defense system that stretched for hundreds of kilometers, with enough columns, and various fortresses and support points dotted around. Rushing hard from the front is tantamount to sending you to death. Barbed wire, trenches, and machine guns and rapid-fire guns behind them were enough to shred anything alive. Bilderlinger said.

"Of course, we can try to get around this line. Keep going north and then turn southwest, but that's it. We're going to go hundreds of kilometers more! I think you all have a lot of horses on your estate, so long distances. If they still have to carry supplies and equipment, will these warhorses still have combat effectiveness after traveling such a long distance? Bilderlinger asked rhetorically.

"Can't you even rob it? In front of you are the supply lines of the Huaxia Army and the military stations along the way, which contain a large amount of food, weapons and ammunition. In the vast wilderness, no one can catch up with you. Kaulbas retorted.

"The Chinese Army is equipped with too many automatic firearms, and even the firepower possessed by the garrison and transport units at the barracks is not something that a light cavalry with heavy equipment can deal with. WE HAD NO WAY TO CARRY EQUIPMENT SUCH AS A 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUN INTO THE REAR OF THE ADVERSARY, AND IT WOULD TAKE AT LEAST 8 HORSES TO TRANSPORT A GUN WITH ATTACHED AMMUNITION AND PERSONNEL. And the pace of progress is definitely not fast. The path we chose was even more bumpy, and in the last war, quite a few artillery pieces had just been pulled out of one mud pit and in the blink of an eye into another, and a large number of horses and manpower were doing such inefficient work. Then, let's see what our enemies are equipped with. Kaulbas pulled out a few pictures from his bag.

"It's these things that make the lads suffer, these things with armor and machine guns on the car, they are definitely killers of troops without heavy weapons! In the case of an encounter in the wilderness, a dozen of these chariots could crush a battalion of cavalry. On the grassland, there is no war horse that is not well fed, but it is impossible to outrun a car that can fight constantly with only gasoline. Without heavy weapons, how can we deal with these iron boxes? What we lack now is the assault power of heavy firepower, and what we lack is the support firepower that accompanies the charge of the troops. Not the number of people or the horses. Kaulbas said.

"Actually, we should not just think about how to attack each other now, but we should think carefully about how to resist the attack of the Chinese Army, Vladivostok is a fortress that we have operated for many years, and it did not hold out for a few days under the attack of the Chinese Army before it fell, of course, we can find all kinds of excuses to cover up our defeat, for example, the garrison of Vladivostok has been greatly weakened and the number is insufficient. For example, the firepower of the Beiyang Fleet is too strong, and the opponent has an absolute advantage in firepower. However, it is an indisputable fact that the other side knocked out the fortress that the Russian Empire had operated for decades, and in the future battle, it is impossible for our frontier to build more than the Vladivostok fortress. General Linevich said.

"You should all know that the army lacks sharp weapons to attack fortifications, not to mention special siege artillery, even if the artillery above 6 inches is given priority to the navy, what is the reason? In fact, the top of the empire has given up hope of breaking through the Chinese army in the army, we lack not only weapons, the Trans-Siberian Railway, which has not yet been finalized, and the fragile supply lines will put our army in a difficult situation, the Chinese front line is too close to their heavy industrial base in the three northeastern provinces, and we are too far from Europe. More importantly, our army is scattered. It is impossible for the main Russian forces to be deployed in the Far East. General Lynevich said rather depressedly.

History has deviated from its original trajectory. In the original plane, before the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Germany and Russia were still at least superficially harmonious, and after Britain and Russia reached a compromise in 1905, Germany and Russia finally tore their faces, but now it is different, the premature proximity between Britain and France has made the proximity of Britain and Russia inevitable, and Germany has exuded strong hostility towards Russia at this time! The cold reception he received during his visit to Germany in Essen is absolutely telling. The Russians had already felt the hostility emanating from their neighbors, Austria-Hungary and Russia were vying for control of the Balkans, Turkey and the Russians were old enemies, but most importantly, Germany, the second largest industrial country of the century and the strongest country in Europe, was also on the opposite side of the Russians!

The Germans are very sad, he needs to face a situation of fighting on two fronts, but the Russians are even more sad! Because he was almost surrounded by opponents, the European direction was an impermeable network of encirclements formed by the German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish empires. And in the East, it was a war of great scale with a newly rising power! It's not that the Russians don't have friends now, but they can't get by if their friends want to help! Compared with the Far East, the most important part of Europe for the Russians is facing a greater crisis, the Far East is gone, at most a piece of land is lost, and if the Russians lose places like Ukraine, Russia will really fall! Therefore, now Russia must pay attention to Europe, and the Far East can only do what it can!

But is it okay for Russia to stop the Far East and China at war? Absolutely not! First of all, the Russians still had a little luck in the war, they admitted that it was very difficult to break through the reorganized defense line of the Chinese army on land, but at sea, after obtaining the Dutch colony as an advance base, the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides were immediately switched, and now it was the turn of the Chinese navy to travel long distances, and in the eyes of the Russians, they had an advantage at sea.

The navy is different from the army, the army can be quickly rebuilt after defeat, so even if the Russian army defeats the opponent, as long as it takes a short time, a new batch of land forces can be replenished again. But it can't be done at sea, the ship sinks, and if you want to build it, it is calculated in years, and the training of fleet commanders is even more in ten years. For example, in the current Huaxia Navy, the real leaders are those officers in Beiyang back then, plus a small group of people who have been trained in previous wars. If the navy is defeated, China will not be able to recover in about ten years.

So what the Russians think is that if I can't gain an advantage on land, then rely on the navy to force the Huaxia Republic to make concessions, after all, the Huaxia Republic now relies on imports for its industrial products and machinery, and at the same time needs to export in exchange for a large amount of foreign exchange, and cutting off the sea transportation lines is undoubtedly very fatal to the Huaxia Republic. The situation is much better on the naval side than the different crises that the army has to deal with, and the German navy is now inferior to the French. The Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Russians could not fight. As for Turkey? The Russians say that the Black Sea Fleet can handle it! So the Russians want to make a desperate bet on the Navy! And the army is a subsidiary position.

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