The Rise of the Empire

"The Russian government must provide 500 cavalry, at least 2,000 Don horses and 300 carts! And responsible for the supply of food and consumables for the blue regiment, we can only provide ammunition and weapons. All the remaining military supplies must be Russia Bear!" wrote Prince Leopold in a letter to the German ambassador to Germany.

1,500 Bavarian officers and soldiers plus 300 Prussian officers and soldiers form the main force of this force, but these people alone are not enough! They lack investigative power and lack of perfect logistical supplies. Ruprecht's disapproval of the Qing Dynasty's logistics capabilities stems from history, while Prince Leopold distrusts it from the bottom of his heart!

It is impossible for Bavaria to deploy cavalry in the Far East. Not to mention how difficult it is to transport horses for tens of thousands of kilometers, simple acclimatization is enough to turn Bavaria's cavalry into infantry! At any rate, the Russians also have some troops stationed in the Far East. These cavalry divisions should and must be provided by the Russians.

As for the 2,000 heavy-duty horses, it is to ensure the transportation of materials from Vladivostok to the front line. You know, there is almost no railway in the Northeast, and the supply distance from Vladivostok to the front line is several hundred kilometers. It is not bad to guarantee 2,000 horses. Maybe you have to stockpile a batch of supplies on the front line before the war!

And soon, the Russians responded very simply, saying that both auxiliary troops and supplies could be provided in accordance with Germany's requirements. After all, restricting Japan will help Russia the most. The Germans are playing games and experimenting. They have nearly 2,000 troops. The Russians are the main force. There must be more troops participating in the war.

Although the Far East Railway has not yet started construction at this time, and although it may be more convenient for the Russians to transport supplies to the Far East by sea than by land at this time, the Russians can still concentrate nearly 6,000 combat troops in the Far East! And this is because they deliberately limited the number of troops because they were worried about the British's overreaction. The battle losses of these troops can be replenished at any time. The Russians also want to see the Japanese's weight based on this battle!

After hearing the news, Ruprecht was even thinking about what direction the land battles of the Sino-Japanese War would develop with 8,000 Russian and German troops participating in the battle! After all, although theoretically the Japanese have 7 divisions attacking more than 100,000 troops, when they actually fight, there are at most about 30,000 troops in one direction. Army size. The troops were also distributed over a relatively broad front. Although the Qing army is very tea table, it can also contain some Japanese troops! The role that these 8,000 mobile troops can play is quite large.

Ruprecht tentatively asked his uncle, did the Russians plan to play a big game this time, and then directly help the Qing Dynasty win Japan? You must know that these 6,000 troops are only the first batch. According to Ruprecht's memory, Russia added nearly 30,000 troops to the Far East when the three countries intervened and returned to Liaoning! On the one hand, the Japanese want to attack the Qing army and maintain the supply line from North Korea to Liaodong, and on the other hand, they have to deal with the eyeing Russians.

"You think too much!" Unexpectedly, his uncle replied very simply: "The Russians need the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time they need to contain Japan's development, so Japan will definitely be able to defeat the Qing Dynasty on the battlefield. The Japanese made concessions to Russia, that's all!"

"And judging from the level of the Russian army, I don't think such a small number of Russian troops can pose a fatal threat to the Japanese army. The combat effectiveness of the Russian army may not be as high as we imagined. Their soldiers are numb and lack a sense of honor. Passive obedience. And the command is rotten and ignorant, filled with a large number of incompetent aristocratic officers. And the Russians prepared too late, they have a strong force, but lack of sufficient supplies and weapons! I have a hunch, back then European steamrollers and the mighty Russian army of the Crimean War are about to become a thing of the past!"

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If you keep talking like this, I will definitely ask you for your QQ number! "Looking at his uncle's reply, Ruprecht couldn't help but lament the foresight of His Highness the Prince! It's hard to say who had the higher combat effectiveness between the Russian army and Japan during the First World War, but in the Russo-Japanese War on the same scale as the Japanese Obviously dominant, even if the Russian army has an advantage in the quantity and quality of artillery, it is still the case! As for the specific reason, Ruprecht does not know, anyway, it is written in the war history and data.... ...

In short, now Ruprecht knows that the Russians are still willing to let Japan win the Qing Dynasty subjectively. From this point of view, the outcome on the battlefield will not be decisively different from the history. On the other hand, The combat effectiveness of the Russian army is not enough to change the whole situation, at least the German Field Marshal thinks so in the next World War 1.

Since the Russian and German armies are now comrades-in-arms in the same trenches, the issue of command and coordination is very important, and this is also the issue with the biggest differences between Russia and Germany. The German side insists that it should have the right to independence. And the Russians should equip the German army with corresponding cavalry units and logistical supply units. And the Russians believe that they have the most troops and have almost undertaken all the logistics and transportation tasks, so they should command the entire army!

Then, for the matter of command, the two sides started a 2-week-long fight! And in the end, the Russians actually recognized it! Not only did I admit it! And it also said that it would assign enough scout cavalry and auxiliary personnel to the blue army!

"What the hell is going on?" Ruprecht's curiosity prompted him to send a telegram to his uncle again, asking why.

"The Russians took a fancy to our rapid-fire guns, and the tragic transportation environment in the Far East determined that one rapid-fire gun could beat three old-fashioned artillery in actual combat, so they gave us 500 cavalry and an infantry battalion in exchange for enough Rapid-fire guns," wrote the Prince in his letter.

"This deal seems to be good. We have sold a batch of artillery!" Ruprecht, who had fallen into the eyes of money, began to calculate how much money he could make.

"But they ordered the artillery assigned to a division! And they asked for the right to purchase the artillery for the army if necessary!" The prince replied.

"That is to say, our current inventory is not enough?" Ruprecht calculated the supply of artillery. According to common sense, a current Russian division must have at least about 40 artillery pieces! If you consider the possible procurement of the Russian army in the future, the artillery factory can be considered to be operating at full capacity in the next few years. Of course, the most likely result is that the Russians will buy a batch back and copy it by themselves...

In the end, the Russian and German forces were divided into two parts, the blue army composed of 1800 German troops and 1000 Russian troops formed a battle group, commanded by the Germans, while the other 5000 Russian troops would be commanded by the Russian troops. In the Vladivostok area, there is another division plus a brigade of 25,000 Russian troops staring at the northeast.

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