The biggest problem of the march into Moscow was solved, and the rest was simple.

Both were generals who had commanded more than 100,000 troops, and Schlieffen and Grouch quickly organized their troops on the road. It was almost August, and winter in Russia came earlier than in France and Prussia, so there was no time to delay any longer.

Countless soldiers began to march towards Moscow in the southeast, almost seven hundred kilometers long, and both Grouch and Schlieffen were prepared for a difficult march.

But after hitting the road, the two of them were overjoyed.

Nothing else, because they found the road in good condition surprisingly.

And......! Although the news of the siege of St. Petersburg has spread in Russia, the Russians do not seem to have thought that the coalition forces would bypass St. Petersburg and march directly to Moscow.

This road was intended to be fought while marching, and for this purpose, a small number of cavalry was also fully equipped with the front army, so as to quickly destroy the enemy's resistance.

As a result, Schlieffen and Grouch found that the Russians had little resistance. The only ones who came out to resist seemed to be some women who were stronger than men.

They carried dung forks and sticks, trying to make sure they wouldn't be raped by the coalition soldiers.

Can......!

After Schlieffen and Grouchy met the women, they became even more interested in the pigs in the pigsty.

After all, these pigs make a good dinner. These women will become nightmares at night.

If you march too fast, you will inevitably not be able to keep up with the supplies. It's normal to plunder a little from the enemy. Everywhere they went, the soldiers would openly rob.

Both Schlieffen and Grouchy seem to be encouraging this looting, and they send supplies, also more to the troops in the back and less to the front.

Those cavalrymen had to find their own food to eat.

After two days of marching, he actually walked more than 100 kilometers. There was little organized resistance, and all the fighting was sporadic.

Moreover, the Russians who fought against the coalition forces did not look like soldiers, and the weapons in their hands were even more rudimentary and terrifying. Grouchy even seized a large fro, which was a product of the same era as the arquebus.

As the best commanders on the battlefield, Schlieffen and Grouch are keenly aware. The Russians are finished!

On the southern front, they will hold Kyiv anyway under the siege of the Ottomans, Austria-Hungary, Romanians and Poles!

Kiev is the birthplace of the Slavs, but it is the center of Russia's breadbasket.

As long as there is the slightest possibility, Russia is absolutely unwilling to give up Kyiv. After all, the birthplace can be given up, but people have to eat.

The tundra near Moscow is far from producing as much food to withstand the consumption of war. If you want to have a full stomach, you have to hold on to Kyiv.

The strength of the coalition forces is strong, and although the Russian army is only on the defensive, it still consumes huge manpower and material resources. The Ukrainian battlefield on the southern front alone is enough to affect more than one million Russian troops.

As for the Riga-Vilnius-Minsk front-line battlefield on the Northern Front, it was the Prussian army and the French army, which were unprecedentedly powerful in combat.

These armies are not comparable to those rabble on the southern front.

Both are great powers that have fought major wars, and Russia has also been forced to throw all the elite of its country into this line of battlefield, trying to prevent the coalition forces from continuing to advance eastward.

The two battlefields have emptied almost all of Russia's reserves.

Now in the vast hinterland of Russia, in fact, there is no army at all. Schlieffen and Grouchy's original plan to march and fight while marching was clearly an overestimation of the Russians.

They don't have an army to fight the coalition now.

The combined forces of Prussia and France, like a knife cutting butter, cut into the heart of Russia, and the blade was pointed at the heart of Russia, Moscow.

What's even worse is that Dolgon has helped him all these years. Russia has adopted almost the same strategy as the Ming Dynasty, that is, to build roads first if you want to get rich.

The highway from Moscow to St. Petersburg is a key project, which must not only ensure quality but also quantity.

The road under your feet was so flat, and the coalition soldiers marched on the road. Behind each company, there were wagons stolen from Russian homes, carrying looted supplies.

The guns and ammunition that the soldiers carried with them, there was not much chance to fire at all.

In this way, the coalition forces marched towards Moscow at a rate of almost fifty to sixty kilometers a day.

At this time, Moscow simply did not have time to achieve full mobilization for war.

"Brauchitsch! The Prussians and the French are marching on Moscow, and what can we do to stop it. Queen Ekakinrina angrily questioned her prime minister.

Duke Peter was trapped in St. Petersburg, and Kutuzov was commanding the northern front in Minsk. Catherine could only question the poor old man who made him the prime minister of the Russian Empire.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing we can do to stop them. At the front where all the troops were sent, there were only 13,000 Janissaries left in Moscow, and only more than 10,000 in the city defense forces.

Another 30,000 recruits who have just enlisted and are still training are on the outskirts of Moscow.

Taken together, there are less than 60,000 of these people. According to intelligence, the large army that rushed to Moscow was dominated by Prussian and French armies, which were accustomed to war, and numbered more than 200,000 people.

With our strength, we can't stop it at all. Brauchitsch replied very helplessly.

"Immediately organize the citizens to enlist in the army, young men and women, must take up arms to defend Moscow. Moscow, absolutely not allowed to be discarded. Catherine's tone was unmistakable.

There are not many railway lines in Russia, and the meeting point is in Moscow.

As a result, Moscow became a transit point for supplies at the front and rear.

What to do with what is stored in warehouses as soon as Moscow is lost. Russia's railways are cut off, how can they still send supplies to the front?

"Her Majesty! If citizens are now organized to enlist in the army, then the plant will not be able to function. Once the plant is shut down, then ...... Soldiers on the front line will be short of guns and ammunition.

And we don't have enough weapons to arm so many people at the same time.

I still have here the letterhead of Duke Peter, who says that St. Petersburg is in dire need of weapons. Otherwise, he may not be able to hold on. ”

"You mean, we're going to sit back and wait now?" Empress Catherine stood up, her eyes fixed on Brauchitsch.

"Maybe at the moment, we have only one way to get out of this situation." Brauchitsch seemed to be determined, and raised his head to meet Empress Catherine.

"If there is a way, don't say it quickly!" Ekaterina looked very agitated.

"Surrender!" Brauchitsch softly spat out two words.

Catherine stared at him for a long time, as if she did not know Brauchitsch.

"You say surrender?" July is the warmest season of the year in Moscow, but Catherine's tone is as cold as ice ballast.

"Yes, surrender!" Brauchitsch seemed to be open-minded, and looked at Catherine without flinching.

"If we surrender, why would we have to fight for so long and die so many people! You old thing, are you old and confused?

No! It's me who is so confused that I actually use you, a fool, to sit as prime minister.

Get lost! Get out! Catherine pointed at Brauchitsch's nose and growled.

"If we keep fighting, we will still lose. Then more people will die, and it is better to keep some seeds now and wait for the opportunity in the future to get back what we lost.

There is a very philosophical saying in the Ming people, that is, willingness! If you give something, you will get it!

Meaning, when you lose something, you probably gain a lot.

Your Majesty! The war has reached this point, and we no longer have the troops to continue fighting the coalition forces. Instead of sending the excellent children of Mother Russia into the flesh mill one after another to grind into a pulp.

It's better to save our strength, and we will have a chance to turn the tables in the future.

If this fight continues, the Russian nation will probably never be able to prosper again in the future. ”

"Surrender! Are you going to make me a sinner of the Russian nation? Catherine said viciously.

"Your Majesty! You are still young, and in the future, you will lead the Russian nation.

And me! Brauchitsch! I'm 70 years old this year, and I don't have a few days to live. For the sake of Russia's tomorrow, I am willing to bear the infamy of being a traitor.

Even after death, there is no way for my coffin to be buried under the Kremlin walls. I don't care either!

I just want to think that the Russian nation will have a prosperous day. To be as powerful as today's Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty! Please agree with me to negotiate surrender! ”

Brauchitsch's eyes were filled with tears, and the cloudy old tears finally broke through his eyes. Along the cheeks like the bark of the old pine, fell on the beard.

Catherine was stunned, after what she had just said, she already knew that Brauchitsch did not really want to betray Russia. This is a real old man who seeks the country!

Compared to those young nobles who shout and kill all day long, he is the person the empire needs.

"If Russia surrenders, it will definitely be torn apart like India. This is the usual routine of the Ming Dynasty, which country is strong, they will disassemble which country.

Then the big country became a small country, and finally there was no big country in the world that could match the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that I haven't thought about what you're saying, but once it surrenders, Russia may no longer have a future. ”

"Hehehe! My Majesty, have you seen the history of the Ming Kingdom? There is a sentence in their history book: The general trend of the world, together for a long time, must be divided, and if it is divided for a long time, it must be united!

This means that after a long period of reunification, there will be division, and after a long period of division, it will be integrated into one country.

The Russian Empire has today's territory, and some of it was fought by the blood of imperial soldiers. But some of them saw the strength of Russia and willingly attached themselves to it.

As long as we preserve our strength, who can say that you will not replicate the exploits of our ancestor Tsar in driving out the Mongols in the future?

This sentence of the Ming people is correct for them. Because, the history of the Ming Kingdom is like this. Every 300 years, there will be a great chaos in the world, and then the national power will be seriously weakened.

After decades of turmoil, the country will be reunited by a strongman. Then it will be strong again, and then after another three hundred or so, the country will fall apart again.

The history of the Ming Kingdom is in this cycle.

Or rather, it's the nightmare of that kingdom. It was God's curse on them!

Since the founding of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Kingdom, it has gone through two hundred and ninety-one years. Brauchitsch's other identity is that he is a famous Russian scholar.

Moreover, he was also one of the few people in the Russian Empire who knew Chinese characters and could read the books of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention in Russia, even in the whole of Europe, Brauchitsch, who has been in Daming for ten years, is not a big Mingtong.

"You mean to say that maybe there will be chaos within the Ming Dynasty first?" Empress Catherine's eyes widened and she looked at Brauchitsch. This news is so exciting!

It was as if a ray of sunlight was shining in Catherine's heart.

"According to the information I have, the inside of Daming is actually not peaceful. Overseas colonies that are too large, as well as the land in the Western Regions that have been encroached upon, simply do not have enough people to occupy them. Their control over the newly occupied land is actually very weak.

Domestically, Li Xiao frantically attacked dissident forces. Many people were exterminated by raiders. There are many others whose property has been confiscated.

The secret service is rampant, and everyone dares to be angry but dare not speak.

The emerging aristocratic forces are constantly attacking the old aristocracy. As a result, some old nobles of the Ming Dynasty are very dissatisfied with the current Ming government.

Among them, the most dissatisfied should be the royal family.

You also know that there is no emperor in the Ming Dynasty today. The Ming people often say that the country cannot be without a king for a day.

That is to say, the country cannot live without an emperor for a day.

But there are no emperors, and the Ming people have passed more than ten years. The dissatisfaction of the royal family has reached its peak.

In these years, Li Xiao has been in charge of power, and the Zhu Ming royal family does not dare to speak up even if they have resentment in their hearts. As far as I know, they have secretly set up an organization dedicated to killing Li Xiao and restoring the Zhu Ming Dynasty.

Today, it can be said that the Liao Army Group headed by Li Xiao is supporting. Once Li Xiao died, there was no one in the Liao army who could convince the public.

Then Da Ming is likely to fall apart overnight. After all, the Zhu family has ruled the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and there are many people who support them. ”

Brauchitsch's words made Catherine a little stunned. The amount of information is a bit large, and she has to think about it for a while.

After all, this is a major event for the future of the Russian nation.

"Brauchitsch, your proposal is too significant. I need to think about it! Taking a deep breath, Catherine still walked towards the inner palace.

"Your Majesty! We don't have much time, and at the present march, the coalition forces will be able to reach Moscow in two weeks at most. Brauchitsch's words echoed through the empty hall.

"Bang dang!" The door closed tightly, cutting Brauchitsch's gaze out.