Struggle in Russia

Priority was given to ensuring that Paskovich needed the troops, priority was given to ensuring that he obtained enough ships, and priority was given to giving him the most adequate supplies.

Anyway, all the best things that the upper limit of Russia's national power allowed were left to Paskovich. For a time, the "Paskovich Legion" became the most dazzling jewel in the Russian crown. The once-hot "Mihai" The "Duke's Legion" became a stepmother. The supplies that were originally intended to be shipped to him were directly allocated to Paskovich. Several of his most elite Guards were also transferred out and allocated to Paskovich.

This move was an earth-shaking move, causing Wallachia, Duke Mikhail and the Black Sea Fleet a lot of trouble.

The reason is simple. First, material supplies were affected, causing many troops on the front line to almost run out of food. It is also a long-standing problem to change defenses and handovers of those Guards troops. After all, the Turks don't care whether you change defenses or not. They will not stop attacking to give you time to change defenses.

Let's put it this way, because of this setback, several fulcrums on Duke Mikhail's front line were captured by Turkey, allowing the Turks to occupy several strongholds on the north bank of the Danube River.

For Duke Mikhail, this is simply nonsense. If there is a mistake in the Danube defense line, the entire Russian army will collapse. Isn't this much more important than the plan that Paskovich came up with?

It's a pity that Nicholas I didn't want to listen, and Duke Alexander didn't dare to listen either, so he could only continue to mess around like this.

In the end, only the troops on the front line of Wallachia suffered. In order to remove the Turkish bridgehead, Duke Mikhail had to organize a counterattack and sacrificed thousands of people before driving the Turks back to the other side of the river. In this way The sacrifice would never have happened.

In fact, the influence of the bad side of Paskovich's landing plan has just begun to ferment. Although he deployed all Guards troops, it must be pointed out that after the fierce battle in the previous stage, both morale and physical strength of these troops have dropped to lows. The correct approach is to take a rest before carrying out the landing operation.

But Nicholas I was anxious. Both he and Paskovich were looking forward to a surprise victory and defeating Turkey in one fell swoop. They were afraid that the British and French expeditionary forces would arrive in Istanbul first, so they rushed the guards to take action. First, We rushed to Constanta without stopping, and then immediately began the so-called landing combat training.

This whole process naturally reduced the physical strength of these troops. What was even worse was that the so-called landing combat training was also poorly organized. Apart from making many landlubbers who couldn't swim even more afraid of the sea, there was almost no gain.

It's just that Paskovich doesn't care at all about these bad conditions. In his opinion, the so-called landing combat training is completely unnecessary, because the first round of landing troops are naval infantry of the Black Sea Fleet, and they are familiar with amphibious operations. They will seize the landing site in one wave, and the guards behind them will just have to go ashore step by step, and maybe their boots will not get wet.

It was Kornilov and Nassimov's strong opposition that made him reluctantly organize the landing training.

This is not the most critical issue. What is worse is that the food and other supplies shipped from Ukraine and Belarus are still on the way, and Paskovich mobilized nearly 100,000 troops at once. After these people flocked to the front line of Constanta, they immediately increased the logistical pressure on this side.

If you think about it, the transportation here was originally poor, with rivers and swamps all over the place, and the logistics pressure was already extremely high. Now that they have to support the landing operations with limited support, it will naturally make the Russian army on this side miserable.

Moreover, after the Paskovich Army was separated from the command and control of Duke Mikhail, it was all under the control of Paskovich. This one doesn't have Li Xiao and Dmitri as his staff, and his command style is still the traditional one - careless and informal.

The sanitary regulations that had been implemented under the strong orders of Prince Mikhail turned into butt paper when it came to Paskovich and were simply thrown away.

With the arrival of early summer, mosquitoes breed, and a group of soldiers who do not pay attention to hygiene are mixed together, making it difficult not to get sick.

As a result, Paskovich's army was immediately surrounded by infectious diseases, and a quarter of his troops fell ill before they even got on the ship. However, Paskovich still felt that it was normal and said that he remembered when he fought in the war. At that time, it was common for one-third or even half of the soldiers to fall ill. Only those who went to war while sick were called heroes!

Li Xiao didn't know whether it was a good guy or a bad guy, he only knew that his balls hurt. Fortunately, Duke Mikhail discovered the outbreak of the disease in Paskovich in time and isolated his troops from them. Otherwise, the wave caused by Paskovich would have directly destroyed Constanta. The Russian troops on the front line are even worse.

It's just that the Paskovich Corps obeyed the order and could be isolated, but the residents of Constanta and the Paskovich Corps themselves were disobedient. The officers and soldiers who were released from the barracks ran around and directly brought the plague. Given to the residents of Constanta, sooner or later as time goes by, it will also affect the Paskovich Legion. After all, the isolation measures in this era are limited and cannot completely block the transmission channels.

Let's put it this way, sooner or later the troops on the Constanta front will be tricked by Paskovich. And Duke Mikhail's problem of insufficient troops will become more and more serious. This is probably the so-called pig teammate!

It's just that the pig teammate Paskovich didn't take it seriously at all. He didn't care about Duke Mikhail's warnings at all. Instead, he regarded these warnings as envy and jealousy, saying that Duke Mikhail was jealous of him.

"Don't pay attention to those chirping voices, that is, some people say the grapes are sour because they can't eat the grapes. We just need to do our job well," Paskovich told his staff with a smile. said.

After speaking, he asked impatiently: "Is the Black Sea Fleet ready? When can it start taking action?"

Although his staff were happy to make achievements with the prince, they were still wary of the temporary troubles the army would encounter. They warned:

"Commander, the preparations are still going on. The ships have been basically recruited, but there are not enough crew members. The civilian sailors are afraid of war, and the Black Sea Fleet alone is not enough to sail these ships to sea..."

"In addition, the health problems of the troops are also worthy of vigilance. We believe that it is necessary to re-implement the health regulations, otherwise one-third of our troops will lose their combat capabilities before they go to sea. Cholera is too serious and there is a serious shortage of medicines. If we do not take... …”

Before the staff member could finish speaking, Paskovich waved his hand impatiently and said, "Just watch and solve these small problems. All I care about now is when I can go to sea!"