Chapter 1098 Logistics Emergency

The British government is in trouble, and the outside world is naturally ignorant. There is neither satellite monitoring nor convenient network communication these days.

To be able to roughly judge the industrial capacity of a country is already very powerful. It is simply impossible to find out the situation of each sub-industry of others.

Even if it is to collect intelligence, it starts from within the British government. The British government has not made statistics in advance, and it is even less likely that other people will help with statistics.

When such a big thing happened, it is natural to keep it strictly confidential. Permanent secrecy is unrealistic, and it is still possible to block news in a short period of time.

Just as the British were waving their banknotes and buying everywhere, the Russo-Japanese War also entered a white-hot stage.

Perhaps it was a lesson learned from the previous wars, or perhaps it was simply because the Russian navy was not strong enough that this time the tsarist government was rarely rational and did not play a labor expedition.

Of course, the external argument is to wait for the warship ordered by Shinra to serve, and then go to the Japanese to settle accounts.

Whether or not anyone believed it, the Russians believed it anyway.

The Russian army changed its image of a reckless man in the past, and defended the Far East with all its strength. Relying on fortified fortresses to delay the pace of the Japanese army's offensive, it bought time for the opening of the Siberian Railway.

A decisive battle is impossible. No matter how provocative the Japanese army is, the Russian army will not be able to hold on.

Anyway, there is not much else in the Russian Empire, that is, there is a lot of land. "Exchange space for time", the tsarist government is not at all cowardly.

Different from the original time and space, under the butterfly effect of Franz, the tactics used by everyone now have advanced to the level of World War I.

Machine guns, trenches, and mortars are cheap, simple, and practical tactics that have become popular in the Russian army.

If it weren't for the logistical inability to keep up, it is estimated that even the continuous defeat may not necessarily appear. You must know that furious bears are not easy to mess with.

The Russian army defended all the way, which made it hard for the attacking Japanese army. Anyone with a little military common sense knows that the casualties of attacking are more than those of defending Gaode.

Even if the Japanese officers and soldiers were more willing to work hard, that would not change the fact that the casualties were greater. In just half a year, the total casualties of both Japan and Russia exceeded 300,000.

Among them, the Japanese killed 98,000 and wounded 112,000; the Russians lost 53,000 and wounded 64,000.

In a sense, the Russo-Japanese War can be regarded as a new record of war. It is rare in modern warfare that the number of dead and wounded is so close.

Judging from the number of casualties alone, it seems that the Russian army has taken advantage of it, but in fact it is not.

Although the Russian army has a defensive advantage, in the continuous retreat, there are still 20,000 Russian soldiers captured and 30,000 Russian soldiers missing.

Adding these numbers together, Japan and Russia can only be regarded as lose-lose, and no one has taken advantage.

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St. Petersburg, since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Nicholas II's nerves have not loosened.

As Nicholas II's first foreign war after his ascension to the throne, the victory or defeat of Japan and Russia is not only related to the future strategy of the Russian Empire, but also to Nicholas II's own monarchical prestige.

Unlike his father and grandfather, such a political strongman, Nicholas II's talent in the field of internal affairs was very general.

Of course, this was not the responsibility of Nicholas II. As a young Nicholas, because of his weakness and indecision, Alexander III never considered letting him inherit the throne.

Nicholas himself is not ready to inherit the throne. After all, Alexander III has four sons, and there is a lot of room for choice.

However, the plan did not change quickly, the two brothers died in the middle, and the other brother was overwhelmed by love again, and he got married.

Before he could react, Nikolai became the only heir. In order not to let the throne fall by the wayside, Nicholas had no choice but to drive the ducks onto the shelves to bite the bullet and inherit the throne.

Facts have proved that the strong bite of the melon is really not sweet. Although assisted by the old ministers left by Alexander III, after Nicholas II succeeded to the throne, the efficiency of the tsarist government still declined by more than one step.

This became even more evident after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. Many times, the Tsarist government planned one thing, and when it was implemented, it became another.

Because his political skills were not strong enough, Nicholas II had his reputation seriously damaged as soon as he succeeded to the throne. In the later period, he finally tried to whitewash it, but the declining prestige of the monarch could not be recovered.

In order to change this situation, Nicholas II desperately needed a victory to improve his status in the eyes of the people and strengthen his control over the government.

After thinking about it, reality always likes to slap in the face. The Japanese army, which was vulnerable in the impression, showed amazing toughness on the Far East battlefield, and did not stop the pace of progress because of too many casualties.

That's all, the Japanese are willing to take their lives, and Nicholas II is not cowardly.

In any case, there are still more gray animals in the Russian Empire than the Japanese.

If it is really desperate, with a population advantage three times that of Japan, the Russian Empire has a very good chance of winning.

It is a pity that war has never been a matter of just looking at the number of people and the number of people. With the passage of the war, the situation gradually developed to the unfavorable side.

Putting down the telegram in his hand, Nicholas II said indifferently: "Lieutenant General Kuropatkin is calling, and the strategic materials in the Far East are urgent.

According to the current battlefield consumption rate and material replenishment rate, the materials we have hoarded in the Far East will be exhausted in half a year at most.

The Trans-Siberian Railway has reached that stage, can it be

Open to traffic before running out of supplies? "

Modern warfare is about logistics. The more advanced the equipment and the more powerful the firepower, the higher the dependence on logistics.

Compared with the original time and space, the equipment of the Russian army is obviously much more advanced, and the corresponding logistical requirements are also much higher.

Hesitating beforehand, he did not think that the Japanese dared to fight without declaring war, and the strategic materials hoarded by the tsarist government in the Far East were seriously insufficient.

This is still in the case of full defense. If you take the initiative to attack, the consumption of materials will be even greater.

In the case of domestic efforts to replenish, it can only support half a year. Obviously, the number of inventory materials has reached the dangerous line.

Now that the war is going on, no one continues to shout the slogan of the three-month Prancing Horse Tokyo.

Facts have proved that the Japanese are not soft-footed shrimp. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is impossible to end the war within half a year.

Prime Minister Sergei Witte: "We have done our best to secure the construction period, but there are still many difficulties to open the project within half a year.

The main problem is the climate, the climate in Siberia is really bad.

In this season, it is still possible to continue construction day and night. Once winter arrives, many places do not even have the most basic construction conditions. "

It is not an excuse, the winter in Siberia is indeed not suitable for railway construction.

Even if the lives of French laborers are not taken seriously, the most basic quality of railways must still be considered.

Don't expect to be able to use it for decades like ordinary railways, but at least it must be able to support the war, right?

Such low requirements are also not easy to meet. Not only the process must be accurate, but also the material requirements are very high.

If nothing else, rails and sleepers must be frost-resistant. Otherwise, the ultra-low temperature of minus fifty or sixty degrees, ordinary orbits can't handle it.

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