Chapter 524 Showing Weakness to the Enemy
Although France and Russia are allies, France will not support the Russian Empire’s demands on the issue of the Black Sea outlet, as long as the Russian Empire shows its ambitions for the Black Sea outlet. , will lead to opposition from the French.
The same goes for the British. If the Russian Empire exposes its ambitions prematurely, the tragedy of the Ninth Russo-Turkish War will repeat itself.
So the Russian Empire must seize the Black Sea outlet before Britain and France can react. The opportunity is fleeting.
“So, we need to recruit more troops.”
Little Nicholas' first reaction was to expand the army.
After disarmament, the strength of the Russian Army was not enough for defense, and it was impossible to spare the troops for offense.
This is precisely George's purpose.
Compared with other countries, the biggest advantage of the Russian Empire is that it can mobilize quickly enough.
British, French, German and Austrian mobilization, most of the soldiers recruited were farmers, and they had to undergo a long period of training before they could go into combat, which usually took about three to six months.
Cossacks have received military training since childhood, and the training time required after entering the army will be greatly reduced. During the Russo-Japanese War, most of the Cossacks recruited by the empire only trained for about a month before being sent to the Far East.
George's disarmament is disarmament, and the speed of producing weapons and equipment has not slowed down. More than 1.5 million rifles have been stored in the arsenal in St. Petersburg. The empire can pull out millions of troops at any time as long as it is needed.
"No, at least not now."
George will continue to send peace signals to the outside world.
In the Russo-Japanese War, the Goryeo army and the Japanese army proved with their records that their combat effectiveness was not much worse than that of the Cossacks.
In the first stage of the Russo-Japanese War, the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army had no advantage over the Russian army.
The reason why the Japanese army is so unstoppable is that, in addition to Kuropatkin's strategic mistakes, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness has also been fully proved.
Compared with the Cossacks, the Japanese soldiers are indeed a bit inferior. Give George the same number of Cossacks, and George can teach the Japanese how to behave at any time.
But if the Japanese army is dragged to the Balkans, George feels that the Ottomans may not be able to withstand the Japanese pig attack.
So George will not expand his army in Russia and Europe, but in Japan and Korea. When the time comes, he will use the troops of Japan and Korea to seize the Black Sea outlet for the Russian Empire.
"Why recruit Japanese? I don't like Japanese!"
Little Nicholas's attitude is very clear.
George smiled and said nothing.
Little Nicholas’s mind has not turned around.
George doesn’t like the Japanese either.
That's why George sent the Japanese to be cannon fodder.
“That’s it, George, I trust you.”
Nicola liked George’s plan very much.
On the last day of October, George and Nicholas went to the train station together to see Anne and Alex off to Amur.
The winter in St. Petersburg is very unfriendly to Alexei. Every winter Alexi takes Alexei to Crimea and returns to St. Petersburg in the spring.
This year Alex decided to take Alexei to Amur, both to survive the winter and to treat Alexei's illness.
The Tsar's train consists of 8 carriages. Each carriage has the emblem of the Romanov family. The first carriage is for the attendants and the Tsar's guards, the second carriage is for the kitchen, and the third carriage is for the kitchen. It is the dining room and living room, also known as the mahogany carriage.
The fourth carriage is exclusively for Nikolai and his wife. There is an office for Nikolai with a desk and bookcases, and three rooms belonging to Alex, in which Alex is placed. personal belongings. The children are in Car 5, where the wallpaper and carpet are red and the furniture is white.
Section 6 is still the attendants and guards, section 7 is the luggage cart, and section 8 is filled with doctors and other staff.
Except for Polis, the other children accompanied Anne to Amur. In order to give Alexei better care, all the princesses also accompanied her.
Nicholas was reluctant to leave, hugging and kissing Alex and the children one by one. Alexei didn't care, he was still too young and didn't understand what separation meant, and the princesses were all unfamiliar with what was about to begin. Excited to travel.
“May God bless Amusa to recover his health.”
On the way back to the Winter Palace, Nicholas was not in a high mood.
"Be happy Nicky, neither of our wives are around now, we are two happy singles!"
George tried to lighten the mood.
Nicola still had a handkerchief in his hand. After being reminded by George, Nicholas realized what a wonderful thing it was.
"Boris, no matter what we do, you won't tell your mother, right?"
Nicholas vaccinated Polis in advance.
“As long as you don’t go too far, I will pretend I don’t know.”
Polis is still too naive to know how happy it is for a married man to have his wife no longer around.
That night, Nicholas held a banquet with ministers in the Winter Palace to celebrate the establishment of the Balkan Alliance.
This reason is too perfunctory. The Balkan Alliance has been established for more than a month, and Nicholas has already celebrated it.
But it doesn’t matter, no one would touch Nicholas’s brow at this time. It was rare for Nicholas to be so happy, and George also drank two more drinks with Nicholas.
Unlike Nikolai who was completely let go, after Alex got on the train, in addition to taking care of Alexey, she prayed.
Alexey was lucky and didn't feel any discomfort.
George has no time to relax. After entering winter, the construction speed of all-heavy artillery battleships has seriously slowed down. If the speed cannot be accelerated, then most of them will not be able to successfully enter service by the end of next year.
If there is any hidden danger in raiding the Black Sea outlet, then it must be the navy.
The Black Sea Fleet does not have a single decent warship, but the four all-heavy artillery battleships of the Ottoman Empire have been put into service this year. If George does not have a way to deal with the Ottoman Navy, then George will not be able to completely win it. The outlet of the Black Sea.
You can only win half at most.
Peter returned to St. Petersburg and reported to George on the reorganization of the Black Sea Fleet.
This summer, St. Petersburg recruited troops. George replenished all the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet and established a marine division in Crimea.
The number of submarines in the Black Sea Fleet has increased to 6. The first destroyer has been successfully commissioned, and 4 more destroyers will be commissioned within the next year.
Although there is a huge gap in the performance of destroyers compared with full-heavy artillery battleships, they are at least able to pose a threat to the Ottoman Empire Navy.
Peter came back to find George this time in the hope that George could transfer the two battleships that Japan paid to the Russian Empire to the Black Sea to enhance the strength of the Black Sea Fleet.
George asked Peter to prepare, especially the Marine Division, because if war broke out, George would be of great use.
(End of this chapter)