Struggle in Russia

Facts have proved that it is necessary to kill the chicken with a knife. When more than 10,000 Wallachian national troops and Russian garrison troops, led by Dimitri, entered Moldavia in a hurry, they immediately encountered trouble.

Dmitry is a little overwhelmed by the endless number of rebel guerrillas along the way. These guys are particularly annoying. They will hide when they encounter your large troops. But once your small reconnaissance troops or logistics transport troops are left alone, these guys will The bastards will swarm up and attack you.

Although Dmitri strengthened the protection of the logistics troops at Li Xiao's suggestion and did not allow these guerrillas to take advantage, their wild dog-like harassment tactics still greatly delayed Dmitri's efforts. Troop efficiency.

Sometimes Dmitri wanted to leave his baggage behind and march straight in to attack the important cities that fell in Moldavia. But after thinking about it later, with Grand Duke Constantine's experience of failure in front of him and Li Xiao's warning behind him, he finally chose a steady approach.

However, Dmitry's version of a steady attack is not about spreading out large armies to carry out a blanket advance, because he does not have that many troops. Wallachia can allocate at most 30,000 people to him. Davia couldn't even climb over the waves.

Therefore, Dmitry's version of a steady attack is more interesting. He does not advance in a long way, nor does he advance in separate groups. After taking over the border city of Wengerne, in addition to sweeping away the rebel guerrillas, he also comprehensively collects weapons from the civilian population and implements war. time rationing system.

Collecting weapons is easy to understand. Collecting civilian weapons will prevent Moldavia who have no good impression of Russia from causing much harm even if they defect to the rebels.

At first, the Moldavians were very resistant, and many squires and freedmen refused to cooperate. At this time, Dmitri's iron-fist policy came in, and he either handed over guns and swords, or handed over heads. Anyway, it’s a choice between two.

After going on a killing spree and killing a group of activists who took the lead in rebelling, the Moldavia suddenly became more honest and could only reluctantly hand over their weapons.

After collecting the weapons, Dmitry immediately implemented a wartime rationing system, which was to count people by household and delineate monthly food rations according to the standards of the elderly, young adults, youth and children.

All stored grain will be confiscated, even landlords and squire are no exception. Anyway, when the day comes, they will go to the Russian army logistics agency to receive grain according to the number of people on the account.

This move was even more cruel and aroused even more dissatisfaction among the Moldavia. Dmitri and Li Xiao would not have dared to do this in Wallachia. But Moldavia is different. First of all, this is not their territory, but the territory of Grand Duke Constantine. No matter what troubles are caused, it has nothing to do with them in the end, and Grand Duke Constantine pays for it.

Of course, Moldavia is already a mess, and it doesn't matter if it gets any messier. Moreover, according to the New Deal of Grand Duke Constantine, all the land in the country would have been nationalized without compensation, and then all serfs would be liberated and divided equally on a per capita basis.

Although this new policy was interrupted by a rebellion just after it was promulgated and before it could be implemented, the new policy was issued by Archduke Constantine, and he himself acknowledged it.

According to Dmitry and Li Xiao's approach, although it is a bit like going to the countryside to grab food, after the robbery, it is not that they ignore it or deny them a way to survive. To put it bluntly, they are just helping the Moldavia manage food on their behalf. That’s all.

Anyway, the food was stored in another place, and since Moldavia has no control over it, the Russians must have the final say on how to control it. Why? It's not just about restricting those pesky guerrillas.

If the guerrillas wanted to move and survive, they naturally had to eat, and the Moldavia nobles behind them had provided strong support. Now that Dmitri has come to make a sweeping decision, no matter who you are, you must hand over the food. This naturally makes it impossible for the Moldavia nobles who are cheating to secretly support the rebels.

Although, for the time being, only the areas around Wengerne and Chisinau have implemented this strict rationing system. But Moldavia is not a large country. Once the guerrillas in these two areas are eliminated, at least one-third of the transportation lines will be opened.

What's more, Dmitry is not just going around these two areas. After initially stabilizing these two areas, he will immediately attack Kalaras and Strachene with Archduke Constantine's volunteer army.

These two cities are also important transportation nodes connecting Ukraine and Wallachia across Moldavia.

Capturing these two cities basically announced that the transportation lines were cleared. The main force of the rebels is also gathered around these two cities. If a decent annihilation battle can be fought, half of the rebellion problem in Moldavia will be solved.

But things are not that simple. According to Dmitry's plan, he will lead 20,000 people to attack Kalaras, while Archduke Constantine's 10,000 volunteers will pretend to attack Strachene.

The task assigned by Dmitry to Grand Duke Constantine was to pretend to recapture Strachene with great fanfare, but in fact it was to attract the attention of the main force of the rebels. And his main force took advantage of the main force of the rebels to be attracted and suddenly attacked Kalaras and captured it in one fell swoop.

After taking Kalaras, it will take another one to two months to implement the previous policy, clean up the local rebels and guerrillas, and then work with Archduke Constantine's troops to solve the problem in Strachene. Rebel.

According to Dmitri's estimation, it will probably take about half a year to get all this done. To be honest, the speed is indeed a bit slow, but there is nothing we can do about it. Who made Archduke Constantine turn Moldavia into that horrible state? Except for Chisinau and a few other cities, almost three cities are still under control. Two-thirds of the country is controlled by rebels.

Just relying on 30 to 50 thousand people to quickly solve the problem in Moldavia, especially when the rebels are still a group of street runners who are more cunning than foxes and faster than rabbits, any idea of ​​​​solving the problem quickly is unrealistic. .

Sure enough, the rebels were quickly attracted by the grand Duke Constantine, and did not even notice that Dmitri suddenly led a forceful march of 20,000 main troops and reached Kalaras in just three days.

At this time, the seven thousand rebels in the city realized that something was wrong. They should flee immediately if they wanted to. There was still a large amount of food and other materials that could not be transported out of the city. Moreover, Dmitri's previous actions also made the nobles who supported the rebels realize that something was wrong. If something goes wrong, if someone is allowed in, they will definitely be robbed, so the rebels will immediately split...