Dominate the Country

"How can we not be cruel to Russia? If we want to kill a tiger, we must beat it to death with one blow."

In Nanjing, Chen Ming looked at the map in front of him, pointed at Tsaritsyn and said to Wang Qi, the cabinet chief minister beside him. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should open its mouth wide when negotiating with Russia, and try to take as much of Tsaritsyn as possible."

This place is to Russia what Jiangnan is to China. Whether it is from the perspective of animal husbandry, minerals, or grain and fruit production, it is crucial.

"I don't believe Russia has much spare energy. As long as we can fight well here." Chen Ming pointed the pointer in his hand at Astrakhan, "they will have no choice but to give in."

If Chen Han's operation in Central Asia had not been relatively short, Chen Ming would have taken more meat from Russia.

But now he must stop.

The army crossed the Caspian Sea and took over the Caucasus. Now the army is heading straight to Tsaritsyn. The southern part of Russia in the usual sense has been eaten by him.

If he continues to hold on to Russia, the British will jump up. Although the situation has developed to this point, Chen Ming no longer cares about the British reaction, but the problem is that Chen Han really can't take over the area west of Tsaritsyn.

Chen Ming can't give all the achievements made in this war against Russia to the seven khanates, and a large-scale land exchange is inevitable.

It's time to distribute the spoils and reward according to merit!

The northern part of the Caspian Sea is mostly desert Gobi, and the land is barren, but the advantage is that the territory is vast. In addition to the part close to the Caspian Sea, there are also a lot of grasslands on both sides of the Ural River.

And if you draw a horizontal line from Tsaritsyn to the west, most of this fertile land is destined to fall into Chen Han's hands. These territories are the core areas of Russia, and the westernmost part is close to the Sea of ​​Azov and the Black Sea, so you can see the scenery of Europe without going out.

Such a large piece of land is larger than the area of ​​any of the seven khanates now, so it is impossible for all these lands to be given to the Torghuts, although they performed the best and worked the hardest in the war.

And it is impossible for China not to take a bite of such a fertile land.

Even though it cannot be connected to the mainland and is just an enclave, it is just an enclave. As long as Chen Han is the strongest on earth, even if there is an acre of land on the horizon that belongs to them, no one on earth dares to move it.

"The Volga Delta is a good place, and the Songza River is also very good." Chen Ming did not know that he actually chose the location of the Russian city of Grozny in the future. It is the hottest place in the North Caucasus and the place where the conflicts of all parties converge. Five years later, the Tsarist Russia of the original time and space used 5,000 troops to build a solid fortress in four months. The overall structure of the fortress is a regular hexagon, surrounded by a 20-meter-wide moat, and there is a fortress with cannons on each of the six corners. The Grozny Fortress has played an important role in maintaining the stability of the region in the following decades, but it has gradually lost its original strategic significance. Grozny was established as a city in 1870.

But now this solid fortress has not appeared. After Chen Ming learned about the geography of the North Caucasus region in detail, he fell in love with this place at first sight. Because this place is right next to the Caucasus Mountains, and across the Caucasus Mountains, that is Baku.

As long as Chen Ming still covets the oil fields in Baku, he must control this place. Chen Ming can throw away the rich places such as the Kuban River Basin and the Terek River Basin, except for the Songza River. Taking this place and holding the rich Volga River Delta, the land Chen Ming has taken is less than one-thirtieth of the newly expanded land this time, but it can still meet Chen Han’s strategic needs.

Chen Han did not go to the Black Sea coast to grab land. There is the Black Sea across the Ottoman Empire. If Chen Han acquires land on the east coast of the Black Sea or the Sea of ​​Azov, it will definitely stimulate the Ottomans.

So far, Chen Han and the Ottoman Empire are still friendly and close allies.

It is not time for Chen Han to be estranged from the Ottoman Empire, so there is no need to intervene in the Black Sea now. Moreover, if we want to intervene in the Black Sea, is there any place more suitable than the Crimean Peninsula?

These territories add up to a total of 500,000 square kilometers. The two territories taken by Chen Han add up to a prefecture at most, half the size of a bay. It is impossible that the rest will be given to the Torghut people.

"It's just separated by the Caspian Sea. If the seven khanates don't mind the barren land on the west bank of the Caspian Sea, they can find a foothold on the west bank of the Caspian Sea. In this way, although the forces in the Caucasus region are more numerous and the contradictions are bound to become more acute, the Torghut land will be much less. The entire Torghut tribe moved westward, and the vacant land was filled by other Mongolian khanates in turn. The land of the three Kazakh khanates will also increase a little..."

At the same time, Chen Han's western territory can continue to expand to the west.

After such a division, the Torghut land is the largest, but the Torghut army fought the bravest and made the greatest contribution in the war against Russia. So this is as it should be.

The territorial boundary between the three Kazakh Khanates and the four Mongolian Khanates was pulled back a little to the north, because the Great Juz Khanate, whose old territory was swallowed up by Chen Han, also received more northern land as compensation, and the shape of the entire country was stretched a little. What they took away was the Fergana Basin, the essence of Central Asia, which was much more valuable than the grassland.

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At the last turning point of the 7,000-li long Volga River, in the choking yellow soil and the smoke and dust, dozens of heavy carriages loaded with materials slowly slowed down, passed the sentry post in front of the dock and drove into the dock on the Volga River in the Tsaritsyn River section.

The carriages soon stopped in an open space, and a large group of Russian soldiers hurriedly rushed forward amid the shouts of officers and the sound of leather boots, opened the doors of the carriages that were not even sealed, and unloaded all kinds of supplies from the carriages.

From rifles, ammunition, food, medicine, to military uniforms, military caps, clothes, and cotton boots, almost all the supplies needed on the front line can be seen in these carriages. These supplies were not classified, but mixed together. When the soldiers moved the supplies from the carriages to the platform, they did not even look at the cargo numbers on the carriages. Whatever they caught was what they took, and then moved to the platform and piled them up in a mess.

Everything looks so disorderly. Compared with the orderly logistics of Chen Han, the national strength of the two countries has a sharp contrast. And this may be the best portrayal of Russia now, which is far more intuitive and cruel than the sensational reports of military journalists. Here, chaos is the best companion of Russian soldiers, and order has long ceased to exist.

Although there are also intelligent people in the Russian army who are doing their best to manage the logistics of the Russian army and trying their best to improve the logistics of the Russian army under the conditions allowed, how can the efforts of a few of them stop the chaos created by the "efforts" of thousands of people?

The logistics department of the Russian army performed quite well in the war against France on the Western Front.

The battle, retreat, dispersion and convergence of hundreds of thousands of troops, the logistics of the Russian army can be said to have achieved the word "in place". Unfortunately, Russia turned its guns too quickly, and in the battle against Chen Han, the Russian army also encountered insufficient military expenditures and shortages of supplies.

This caused chaos and stagnation in the transportation system.

Many military supplies are now transported to St. Petersburg by sea by the British, and then transported to Tsaritsyn by horse-drawn carriages.

Although the waterways in Russia have created certain conveniences for the Russian army, they have also created certain chaos on the basis of the chaotic Russian transportation system.

Because for Russia now, this transportation distance is too far.

Due to the backwardness of transportation, the transportation of the Russian army is much farther and more complicated than that of Chen Han, and Chen Han has been operating the western transportation line for many years, and what about Russia?

They also had transportation lines connecting the east and the west before, but how big was the transportation capacity? How many people did the Russians have in the Far East before? How many tens of thousands of Russian troops are there on the eastern front now?

More importantly, the Russian army's own military supplies manufacturing capacity is insufficient. Many of the current military supplies are made by the British, and the British first transport them to the Russians, and then the Russians transport them to the front line thousands of miles away. This turnover is too complicated and too beyond the ability of the Russian army.

Among the strategic materials transported by the Russian army, a large part of the quota is arms. War cannot be separated from artillery, and the casting of hexagonal shells is a job that requires experience and skills. There are only a few places in Russia that are capable of casting, and the output is limited. But now the Russian army must have a lot of shells.

The key to the current war depends on whether artillery and rockets can suppress the enemy's firepower with fierce firepower. Rockets are very low in technology, but hexagonal shells are very high.

The rear military station is transporting a large number of shells to the dock in Tsaritsyn. However, due to the chaotic situation in the rear, in addition to the most basic 75mm shells, there are also a large number of 89mm shells that rushed to the dock with the "military train".

The latter is a two-inch hexagonal shell made by Russia itself, but many of the hexagonal guns equipped by the Russian army are now produced in France and Britain. Especially France, when Napoleon retreated, the French army discarded a large number of artillery in the final stage, some of which were destroyed, and most of them were still intact.

The 75mm hexagonal gun is a 2-inch artillery.

Inches, French inches and Russian inches are all different sizes.

By the way, in addition to the 89mm Russian two-inch hexagonal shells, there are also 51mm British two-inch shells and 76mm British three-inch shells.

For Russian logistics officers, 51, 75 and 89 are all two inches.

"This is such a chaotic war. The Russians can defeat themselves!" Standing in the dispatch room at the dock, a major officer in British Army uniform expressed his heartfelt emotion.

The name of this British Army major is Tom James. He has half French ancestry. His mother is a French aristocrat who is exiled to the UK. She has noble ancestry and is said to be related to the Bourbon royal family.

So he is a staunch anti-Napoleon fighter. Now at the age of 21, his public identity is a military attaché of the British Embassy in Russia, but his real identity is a spy serving the British intelligence agency.

He can speak not only fluent Russian, but also fluent French.

The handsome Tom is doing quite well in the Russian upper class, which is very beneficial to his work. It is for this reason that since the outbreak of the Sino-Russian War, Tom has become an important informant for the British government to understand the development of the internal situation in Russia. Moreover, due to the special relationship between Britain and Russia today, Tom can also follow Alexander I to the Eastern Front like the Russian nobles.