Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Chapter 437 Nicholas fled St. Petersburg

However, no matter how you say it, the Southwest Front was brought out by Brusinov, and the Rakshasa Empire was also his homeland.

Even if the entire empire is now against Nicholas II, Brusinov does not want the Rakshasa Empire to receive invasion from other countries.

Therefore, he suggested that the Southwest Front Army should leave most of its soldiers stationed on the defensive line.

The rebels of the Southwest Front still respected Brusilov very much. In their opinion, Brusilov brought them glory, victory and glory.

Therefore, they were willing to follow Brusilov's suggestion and sent only one army group to march towards St. Petersburg.

At this time, Nicholas II, who was still in St. Petersburg, was furious in his Winter Palace, scolding Goremekin for not being able to control the empire, and that the empire was now in chaos.

But is Goremekin really to be blamed for this?

No, Goremekin is at best a promoter. The biggest problem that has made the Rakshasa Empire what it is now is still his own problem.

As mentioned before, there are still a large number of serfs in the Rakshasa Empire. Although Alexander II once implemented reforms, the Rakshasa Empire was also strong for a period of time.

But the most fundamental serf problem has not been solved. There are still a large number of serfs in the entire Rakshasa Empire.

Especially after the assassination of Alexander II, this reform was interrupted.

Therefore, the difference between the upper and lower levels of the Rakshasa Empire is actually very huge.

The nobles enjoy life every day and eat caviar transported from distant areas, but the serfs may not even be able to eat the most basic black bread.

Most of the serfs’ annual harvest went to the upper class.

In addition to the problem of serfs, the Rakshasa Empire was also rife with corruption. Not only in factories, but also in all walks of life in the Rakshasa Empire, the powerful were wasting the empire's resources wantonly.

For example, in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, Nicholas II once took out nearly [-] million gold rubles from his treasury to replace a batch of weapons and winter clothes for the soldiers on the front line.

As a result, as soon as the money was handed over to the people below, it was divided among them. In the end, only a few million gold rubles were handed over to the factory.

The people inside the factory divided up another batch, and finally used very little money to distribute winter clothes to the soldiers on the front line.

And this kind of winter clothing actually contains hay mixed in.

In the cold winter of the Rakshasa Empire, this kind of winter clothing had no ability to keep out the cold, causing a large number of frontline soldiers to suffer from frostbite.

As for the weapons, they are even more shoddy. In the words of those military factories, as long as the bullets and guns can shoot, it is fine. As for where the bullets fly and whether the gun chamber will explode, that is not within their consideration.

When such weapons were sent to the front line, a large number of soldiers died because of these weapons.

But is all this important to those powerful people?

It doesn't matter, there isn't much else in the Rakshasa Empire, it just has a lot of people.

In the eyes of those powerful men, how could a soldier's life be worth a gold ruble?

Therefore, the uprising that broke out this time completely ignited the anger of the people at the bottom.

A large number of people at the bottom who had been oppressed for a long time joined this uprising.

When Nicholas II saw this situation, he knew that the situation was now out of his control. There were only two Guards divisions in St. Petersburg. And even in these two Guards divisions, there were voices opposing him.

He knew that if he continued to stay in St. Petersburg, he would probably be guillotined by the angry people.

Just like that poor Louis XVI.

Therefore, Nikolai planned to escape from St. Petersburg, or to patrol Siberia.

However, since they plan to hunt, the necessary guard force should still be useful.

So Nicholas II once again opened his treasury and took out [-] million gold rubles to bribe the two Guards Divisions.

It must be said that the power of money is still very powerful.

As soon as these ten million gold rubles were distributed, the loyalty of the two Guards divisions immediately skyrocketed.

The soldiers were clamoring, thinking that Nicholas would fight to the end.

Although the soldiers shouted so, Nicholas was not carried away by this rising enthusiasm.

Now the entire Eastern Europe is against him. No matter how confident he is, he will not think that just two divisions can fight against the incoming Southwest Front Army.

Therefore, the hunting plan remains unchanged.

But now there is still a question before Nicholas, and that is where to go on the hunting trip.

Now for Nikolai, there are only two places to go. One is the southern part of the Rakshasa Empire to find General Nikolai Alexandrovich Venturov.

At this time Nikolay Alexandrovich Venturov was leading Alexei Maksimovich Kaledin, Abram Mikhailovich Dragomirov and others, confronting the Ottoman Empire in the Greater Caucasus.

Venturov can still control the 80 men of the Southern Front. As long as Nicholas arrives in the Greater Caucasus, then at least there is no need to worry about safety.

As long as it can be stabilized, Nicholas is confident that he can suppress the rebellion. After all, among the five major sides of the Rakshasa Empire, only the southwest side is rebelling. The southern front army and the Siberian front army still support him as the tsar.

The northwest, eastern, and northern fronts were neutral.

Under such circumstances, Nicholas was confident that as long as he reached the southern front, he could wipe out the southwest front and stabilize the situation in the empire.

But just when Nicholas was about to order the troops to go to the southern front, news suddenly came from Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Large-scale rebellions also occurred in these two regions.

The rebel forces in these two areas blocked Nicholas's way south.

Unless the Southern Front can suppress the rebellion in Central Asia, Nicholas will not be able to reach the Greater Caucasus.

But it will take time to suppress this rebellion. What Nicholas lacks most now is time.

In the end, Nicholas had no choice but to turn east and seek refuge with the Siberian Front.

At this time, the Siberian Front was in the hands of Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich Romanov Jr. Grand Duke Romanov was Nicholas' confidant, and his loyalty to Nicholas was beyond words.

Moreover, at this time, Grand Duke Romanov also had the newly formed Siberian Front Army with nearly one million people.

Even if some of the soldiers have not yet been controlled, it is still no problem to at least block the rebel attack.

So, Nicholas II, in the Tsar's headquarters: Commander: Vladimir Borisovich Fredericks, Director of the Guards: Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich Romanov Under cover, he successfully escaped from St. Petersburg and headed towards the Siberian Front in the Ural Mountains.

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