This time, Catherine II brought back all the elites of the Russian-Turkish war, plus other troops, and gathered more than 100,000 people!

It can be said that the elite army of the entire Russian Empire was gathered, and in terms of overall strength, it was much stronger than Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin's men and horses!

The war began in July 1774, when Li Liguo's army group was on the offensive and launched an offensive against the Russian Imperial army lines!

With a combined army of more than 200,000 and a battlefield stretching for hundreds of miles, this is not destined to be a battle that can decide the winner in a short period of time!

Li Liguo will not stupidly take all the essence to fight the elite of the Russian Empire, if the Russian Empire does not take the initiative to attack, it will naturally be difficult to have a decisive battle against the main forces of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the number of peasant rebels is too large, and the generals of the Russian Empire do not want to leave the strong fortifications to fight a field battle with the peasant rebel army......

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That is, a group of low-level working people who have not been trained, but are full of hatred for the corrupt rule of the Russian Empire, Li Liguo casually armed them with rudimentary weapons, and then pulled them to the battlefield to create momentum, harassing the logistics and grain routes of the Russian Imperial Army, which has little effect, but will make the Russian army feel very disgusting!

Li Liguo obviously regarded this war as a war of attrition, he knew that his strength was not as good as the main force of the Russian Empire, so he planned to use the endless manpower of the peasant rebel army to slowly consume the elite of the main Russian force!

On the battlefield of hundreds of miles, there will be local small-scale wars every day, and Li Liguo used that a part of the second-line troops with a large number of militia cannon fodder, under the cover of a large number of artillery, attacked the long defense line of the Russian Empire in all directions!

Li Liguo has made up his mind, if you don't come out, Lao Tzu will grind slowly like this, see who can afford it!

This slowly bloody war lasted until August, when the elite of the Russian Empire finally had no patience, and even though the battle loss ratio reached more than 10 to 1, the core and main forces of the peasant insurrectionary army did not lose a single soldier, and the morale of the army under Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin did not decrease in the slightest!

In addition to wasting the lives and national strength of the Russian Empire, there is no benefit at all in such a fight!

The European powers were very pleased with Li Liguo's behavior, and Li Liguo even met with many generous arms dealers in private, and they continued to send weapons and ammunition to Li Liguo at a loss-making price of almost one buy one and get one free!

The European powers can see that the overall strength of the peasant rebel army is not as good as that of the Russian Empire, and they naturally want to vigorously support Li Liguo, who was defeated too quickly.

When Catherine II learned about the scorching situation on the battlefield, she ordered the whole army to attack to break the stalemate!

The elite of the main Russian force that suddenly attacked did defeat tens of thousands of peasant rebels in the field battle, but Li Liguo used cannon fodder as bait to lure the enemy deeper, and after forming an elite advantage in the main force in some areas, he fought a battle with the protruding part of the Russian main force!

That battle made these Russian veterans who had experienced the Russo-Turkish War refresh the impression that the peasant rebel army was about to collapse at the touch of a button!

The battle lasted from early morning to evening, and the two sides disengaged due to the darkness of night, and the main force of Russia was really extraordinary, Li Liguo invested all the cavalry and guards infantry regiments in the situation of the battle situation, and even used a large number of regular army soldiers to almost surround the protruding part of Russia!

But these Russian soldiers were stunned and did not disperse, even if they were broken out of the queue, they kept using various terrain to fight while walking, and survived until the arrival of their own reinforcements!

In this battle, Li Liguo actually took advantage, because he used the second-line troops and the peasant regular army, and the first-line veterans of the Russian Empire, to fight a one-to-one casualty ratio!

This was quite incredible in the eyes of the generals of the Russian Empire, and even in the eyes of the peasant rebels themselves!

It can be said that the so-called regular troops of the peasant rebel army, even the most outstanding morale superiority, are inferior to those Russian veterans with a firm fighting mind!

In this battle, the peasant rebel army lost more than half, and the elite of the Russian front line who were surrounded and supported were almost all disabled, and many infantry regiments even survived with more than one company......

It can be said that this way of fighting is exactly what Li Liguo wants!

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin had a large peasant base, and in the areas ruled by the Russian-Cossack Empire, those low-level civilians who enthusiastically joined the army and supported the uprising were really 'freed', and Li Liguo felt that these people paid more taxes after becoming yeoman farmers......

Of course, without the exploitation of the landlords and nobles above their heads, even if these commoners have to pay taxes, the burden is much easier!

No wonder these people support Li Liguo's rule, anyway, for the time being!

Before completely replacing the Russian Empire, Li Liguo will always be a ruler who is friendly to the people at the bottom!

After this battle, the elite of the Russian Empire seemed to be very unwilling, and continued to launch a ferocious attack on Li Liguo's defense line.

The war lasted until October, and after two consecutive months of high-intensity fighting, Li Liguo's regular army was almost replaced, its combat effectiveness was seriously reduced, and the cavalry regiment was even beaten into a cavalry company......

Well, in fact, the cavalry troops fought a bloody battle with the main Russian force at that time in a crucial battle, and the losses were exhausted, if it were not for the fact that the Guards Infantry led by Li Liguo personally broke through there and carried out a two-sided flanking attack on the Russian main force from the rear and won a big victory, the peasant rebel army can be said to have been defeated!

But it was this battle that completely exhausted the blood of the first-line elite troops of the Russian Empire, and Li Liguo, with a small number of descendants and a new round of expanded peasant army, broke through the defense line of the Russian Empire without elite protection, and approached the city of Moscow!

At this moment, the eyes of the European powers were all focused on the city of Moscow, the Ottoman Empire became ready to move, and Sweden and Prussia also quietly united, waiting for the powerful Russian Empire to fall, and divide the profit cake!

Even Catherine II was full of unconfidence in her position...... (To be continued.) )