Slide 1334

Just as the navy, land and air forces on the eastern front of the German Empire were sharpening their knives and preparing to slaughter the Russian Legion in the entire Russian Polish region with the last knife, the Russian Air Force and the Russian Mediterranean Fleet might be taken directly away. The Russians are also considering this year. How to fight the war.

A bunch of Russian military leaders concentrated in St. Petersburg, and then they were stunned by the gloomy battle situation. Just last year, the Russian military experienced a fiasco that has never been seen in history. It lost nearly 3 million Russian troops. The legion that the wave member rises can almost completely change to describe it. (Note that loss and capture of death in war are not a concept, and people who have been injured repeatedly can count losses.) As for equipment, it completely emptied the Russians' homes that had been saved for more than ten years! Not to mention those expensive artillery and aircraft, even to the point that even three-inch rapid-fire guns, rifles, and machine guns are seriously insufficient (in history, the Russians had insufficient rifles in the first battle.)

Compared with military failures and losses, the blow to Russia's economy after the outbreak of the war is even more deadly! This blow may not be as cruel and **** as on the battlefield, but it is like the so-called internal force wounding. Although it does not look serious on the surface, the internal damage is fatal enough!

Apart from other things, just talk about the railway capacity in Russia. From the current situation, the overall level of Russian railway capacity is less than 80% of the pre-war level. It seems that there is not much decline, right? Do you feel that everyone will get something out if you have less luck? Is it really? Obviously nonsense!

In terms of proportions, it is indeed not much, but don’t forget that this is the war period. A large part of the transportation capacity originally used to maintain the livelihood of the people has been used for military transportation. This is not a slight increase! Just think of millions of troops, equipment, personnel, and supplies being continuously transported from Ukraine, Moscow, and St. Petersburg to the front lines thousands of miles away, and you can imagine how difficult it is to transport!

According to the Russians' own statistics, if military transportation is left behind, the current capacity that Russia can use for civilian transportation is only half of what it was before the war! what does this mean? For example, in winter, St. Petersburg needs to burn coal. And if the transportation volume of coal from Donetsk to St. Petersburg is reduced by half, it means that at least 80% of households will survive a severe winter due to insufficient coal. What? You said this ratio is wrong?

You don’t understand this again, don’t forget that folk transportation not only meets people’s life needs, but also meets production needs! And production needs are just needs! It is absolutely impossible to ask for a reduction, so the people who are really unlucky can only be the ordinary people. So the final result is that the living standard of the Russian people is already extremely low, and although domestic production can continue, it has reached the edge of danger. The decline in production is irreversible, because in this case, the Russian government cannot provide enough funds to repair the infrastructure, and the so-called expansion of production capacity is obtained by squeezing other non-war areas, and there is always a The limit, the limit is reached, it is also the moment when the Russians died!

Don’t think that only by destroying a country’s army or occupying a country’s capital can a country be destroyed. Prolonged consumption is equally deadly for those "puffy" countries that are not strong! The death of Russia in World War 1 illustrates this problem, and the failure of the Soviet Union in World War 2 also illustrates this problem!

The Russians are not stupid. In fact, they are already aware of this problem, which was mentioned in the submission of Kuropatkin to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. "If there is no obvious turning point in the war this year, then we will be unable to stop the Allies' advancement on the Eastern Front. They will crush our defense line like a road roller, and then advance toward Russia. Although Russia is big, it can There are not many places to retreat! Not because St. Petersburg is behind us, but because all our manpower is exhausted by the war. No matter how fertile the black soil of Ukraine is, it cannot grow its own food, let alone run directly into the bowls of the soldiers. The increase in military production capacity is limited, and the enemy’s rate of destruction is faster than our production rate. Even if we are far away from our core area, we will still fail."

In fact, what Nicholas II did not know was that in the previous draft, Kuropatkin even proposed the idea of ​​peace talks with Germany, but this idea was not written in the official text in the end, but as a front-line general, He knows that if the Russian Army supports it, it feels that it might be possible to survive this year, but it will definitely not make it out of next year!

Therefore, the current thinking of the Russian military is very clear, that is, first defend the current front, the whole army enters a defensive state, and Poland will no longer attack in the direction of the offensive. On the one hand, offensive warfare is expensive, on the other hand, it is unable to fight... ..... Secondly, launch an offensive in the direction of Romania. The goal is not to help Romania recover, but to support the actions of Britain and France in the Dardanelles! They have regarded the battle launched by Britain and France as a life-saving straw! This is also the so-called turning point mentioned by Kuropatkin in his submission!

It can even be said. The Russians have been holding back for a whole winter and are preparing to play a big wave in Romania in the beginning of spring. However, sadly, when the Russians are ready to make big moves, the Germans are already ready to play a bigger wave! What is even more tragic is that ~lightnovelpub.net~ the British and French coalition forces that were planning to start the spring operation were forced to postpone the plan due to the unexpected loss of the Japanese fleet... So, the Russians are embarrassed right now!

It’s not that the Russians didn’t think about giving up Poland and then leveling the front to better defend the pit, but this plan was considered a failure after several deductions. The reasons can be attributed to the following points. First, in Poland. There are five Russian army groups. How do these five army groups leave? Don't tell me to get on the train and leave. Even without the German intervention, it will take at least 2 months to withdraw these troops and equipment from the front! Well, if the Germans find out in advance and choose to forcibly assault, the Russians' retreat may be transformed into a retreat... This is typical as long as you act and you lose half!

The second problem is that if the line of defense is levelled, it would be tantamount to abandoning the entire Balkans, not to mention the life and death of Serbia. Up to now, the Russians don’t care at all. The biggest impact on the entire war situation is that Russia cannot support Britain and France. The action in the Dardanelles, after all, you still have a bridgehead going south, you can launch a diversionary attack, but if you withdraw, then the bridgehead is gone, how can you attack?

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