Tsarist Russia: Please Call Me Your Majesty The Tsar

Chapter 191 Strategic Stalemate (First Update, Please Subscribe!)

On the Yalu River front, the First Army of the Eastern Army is fighting fiercely with the Russian Army.

Even the troops under the First Army of the Eastern Army already have as many as nine infantry divisions. However, these infantry divisions are not at full strength, and some infantry divisions have suffered serious battle losses. For example, the Guards Division, the 2nd Infantry Division and the 12th Infantry Division all suffered heavy losses. Even, the battle damage has reached nearly half.

The remaining several infantry divisions suffered similar losses.

Coupled with the fact that they still need to fight the Yalu River, this will undoubtedly further increase the difficulty of their attack.

The Russian army blocked the river with powerful artillery and machine gun fire. As a result, it was very difficult for the Eastern Army to fight the Yalu River.

Unless the Eastern Navy dispatches a large number of warships to provide them with artillery support with large-caliber naval guns. In this case, perhaps it will be easier for them to beat the Yalu River.

But now, the attention of the Eastern Navy is all on the Tsarist Russian Navy.

The local fleet of the Tsarist Russian Navy has left Madagascar and has begun to cross the Indian Ocean. For the Eastern Navy, this is undoubtedly the biggest 03 threat. They must give priority to defeating the Tsarist Russian Navy before they can free up their hands.

Of course, if it is winter now, the Yalu River will be completely frozen. Then, the First Army of the Eastern Army can also directly cross the Yalu River and launch an attack on the Russian army. But it is a pity that it is now the wet season of the Yalu River.

With the strength of six infantry divisions, the Russian army firmly blocked the First Army of the Eastern Army on the south bank of the Yalu River, making it impossible for the Russian army to cross the river. Under such circumstances, the flames of war can only be limited to the Koryo Peninsula, and cannot continue to burn northward.

On the Shahe line of defense, the Second Army and the Third Army of the Eastern Army are still attacking fiercely. However, with the arrival of reinforcements from three Russian infantry divisions and a heavy artillery brigade, the entire Shahe defense line became more stable.

Even the Eastern Army is still at an advantage in terms of strength. However, in the face of the powerful firepower of the Russian army. Especially the terrifying heavy artillery group, they are powerless at all. Every time they attack, they will be hit by large-scale firepower from the Russian army. As a result, although the Second Army and the Third Army of the Eastern Army paid a huge price during the attack. However, it was still unable to break through the Russian army's Shahe line of defense.

The same is true for Dashiqiao and Gaizhou battlefields.

The Russian army was at a disadvantage in terms of strength, but with the help of fortifications and powerful firepower, it firmly resisted the attack of the Eastern Army. And in the defensive operations, the Eastern Army continued to cause greater losses, making it impossible for the Eastern Army to break through the Russian defense line.

The entire battlefield has completely entered a stalemate at this moment.

Especially after the second batch of ten infantry divisions drawn by the Russian army from Europe also arrived on the battlefield, the Russian army was even more generous in terms of strength.

However, because the current front has been barely maintained. The Russian army did not continue to increase troops to the battlefield.

The second batch of ten infantry divisions reinforced from Europe, together with the 71st infantry division, became the reserve force.

Next, if the battlefield situation changes again, reinforcements can be made in time. At the same time, you can also prepare for the counterattack.

The local fleet of the Tsarist Russian Empire Navy is about to arrive in the Far East Sea, and will engage in a decisive sea battle with the Eastern Empire Navy. Once the Tsarist Russian Empire Navy won. Then, the large-scale land counterattack will begin.

At that time, the Tsarist Russian Imperial Navy will also cooperate with the army to cut off the logistics supply line and retreat route of the Eastern Army from the sea, and wipe out the Eastern Army in one fell swoop.

Once all the troops of the Eastern Army on the battlefield were wiped out by the Russian army. Then, this will undoubtedly be a very heavy blow to the Eastern Army. Even the Eastern Army has mobilized a lot of troops in the country. However, these newly mobilized troops are naturally unable to compare with the previous troops in terms of combat effectiveness.

If the time is right, then the Russian army will be able to launch an attack on the mainland of the Eastern Empire with the assistance of the navy.

Tsarist Russian Empire, Far East, Vladivostok.

Tsar Mikhail is extremely satisfied with the current battlefield situation.

With the efforts of the Russian army, the attack of the Orientals has been completely contained.

Moreover, the Russian army invested far less troops on the battlefield than the Orientals.

At present, the Russian army has only invested 29 infantry divisions, 5 heavy artillery brigades, two cavalry brigades and two marine brigades on the battlefield. The total force is only 600,000 people. In addition, the Russian army has a reserve force of as many as 200,000 people on the battlefield, ready to be put into combat at any time.

In contrast, although the Eastern Army has invested millions of troops. However, because the losses on the battlefield are too great. As a result, the Eastern Army was unable to open up the situation for a long time, let alone break the deadlock.

This made the war inevitably fall into a stalemate.

And time is undoubtedly on the side of the Russian Empire.

After all, as a world-class power, the Tsarist Russian Empire has a much stronger background than the Oriental Empire.

Since the outbreak of the war, the Tsarist Russian Empire was fully prepared, although various materials were consumed quickly. But it didn't have much impact domestically. On the other hand, the Eastern Empire is completely 457 to support the frontline operations, and the common people are saving money. Even the rations are seriously insufficient, and the food needs to be saved and supplied to the frontline troops as military rations. Many Orientals are already starving.

For a short time, it may be bearable. But if it takes a long time, can they continue to endure it?

Once these Orientals can't bear it anymore and break out, the consequences will be even more unimaginable.

Of course, the Eastern Empire, like the Tsarist Russian Empire, also had great confidence in the upcoming decisive battle at sea.

The Tsarist Russian Empire believed in its own strength, and believed that the Tsarist Russian Imperial Navy could definitely defeat the Oriental Imperial Navy.

The Eastern Empire Navy, on the other hand, received the support of the Royal Navy of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, and secretly obtained a large number of warships from the people on whom the Sun Never Sets, which greatly improved the strength of the Eastern Empire Navy.

Under such circumstances, they naturally have the strength and confidence to defeat the Tsarist Russian Empire Navy.

However, in order to determine the outcome of a sea battle, one must know after the actual battle.

But no matter what, perhaps the outcome of this decisive battle at sea will become an opportunity to truly break the deadlock in this war.

And as time passed, after the land battlefield entered a stalemate, the decisive battle at sea was approaching step by step. .