Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

There are more Turkish soldiers in Skopje than local civilians. With so much food for the people and horses, the rations are consumed very quickly.

If this continues, surrender is only a matter of time. They are not a group of people living in the underground fortifications on Iwo Jima.

Soloviev has recently been considering the issue of advancing in several directions. There are several roads in Greece. The mountain roads and the main roads lead to different places. Epirus or Thessaly, he is actually considering it.

Although it is not a good choice to seize Epirus, it can get supplies from France. Now France and Russia are still allies. At least if you can show your face, the sisters Elisa and Paulina can still buy it. Napoleon's eldest sister only recognizes money. Paulina can buy it because she is the father of the child. There will be ships from Ancona to Epirus to transport supplies.

Carolina is not so good. She has a bad relationship with Josephine and Catherine, and even plotted to send her husband to the position of French ruler.

Solovyov is Josephine's nephew, and he is the one who sent Catherine to marry her brother. It's strange that this relationship can be good.

Besides, when Solovyov and Polina were intimate, she also told a lot of things about their family in her arms. Although Napoleon's sisters didn't like Josephine and had conflicts, they had a good relationship with Eugene and Hortans.

After all, this is not on the same track, so it's better.

However, these supplies may still be harassed by the British entering the Adriatic Sea in the middle, after all, the control of the sea is in their hands.

Therefore, it is more convenient to take Larissa directly. And we have to continue to move forward and reach Athens, and then we can enter the hinterland of Greece in the European region. It's just a pity that because the navy is not there, he can't gain a foothold on these islands in the Aegean Sea.

There is no way. The Russian army is now limited in strength in the Mediterranean, and there is no foothold.

However, he needs to look further ahead in the next action.

"Epirus and Thessaly, as long as we can cross Skopje and march south to Greece, we will have completed the mission."

"Mick, what do you want to do?"

"Many people think that Thessaloniki is the only way, but we don't go here. We will go to Ohrid in detail and enter Thessaly from the mountain road here. The advantage is that the enemy should not have too much resistance along the way. The disadvantage is that when we enter southern Macedonia and Thessaly, the enemy in Thessaloniki will definitely be ready to move and try to attack our flanks and rear."

"You are fishing. You have to use the troops at hand to mobilize the enemy out, and then take it back."

"I have this idea, but I am more worried that the Sultan will not give me face and let his bandits shrink in Salonika all the time. Nika. "

"What are you going to do?"

"It's a small matter. Do you know why there are always people who want to attack our transport team? It's because some armies have obtained a lot of things in the looting before, no matter whether it's Turkish or ours. Now there is one thing. If the enemy dares to come, we must meet them properly. The Turkish military supplies we seized along the way can probably be used as bait to attract them. The Turkish army is not a regular army, even the new army is the same. They will definitely send troops because of greed for money. It only takes one fishing success. If it fails once, they will not be able to hold back and come a second time. "

This is really a tactic that has no merit for the Turks, but the enemy is indeed easy to fall into.

The siege in Skopje can be said to be the most boring during the entire war. In September, many Turkish troops surrendered because of lack of rations. The Russian army imprisoned these people and took them far away to Vidin or even farther.

If the Russian regular troops were escorting them, it would be fine. If they were replaced by Cossacks and Serbs, then these Turkish soldiers, if confirmed not to be from nearby areas, would often have their throats stabbed.

But even so, in order to avoid starvation, many Turkish soldiers and officers still left the city, and some even fled halfway and were killed by the diehard Turkish soldiers who did not want to run.

The city was no longer save. Solovyov was waiting for Karageorge to send follow-up troops to arrive. Even if there were only Serbs outside the city, the Turkish troops in Skopje would not be able to escape.

Now he only left Uvarov to lead a division to watch here. The advance team had more than 20,000 people and was about to head towards Greece.

The marching order this time was also somewhat different. Trubetskoy was in front, the grenadiers were in the middle, and Arkady's 9th Division was the rear guard.

In Solovyov's Macedonian Corps, only the 9th Division was a permanent unit. Although the Grenadier Division was the most powerful unit, it was formed here using the six Grenadier Regiments that were recruited to the Danube front.

They did not seem to encounter any resistance along the way. According to the intelligence of the cavalry reconnaissance sent by Kunev, the main force of the Turkish army was in Salonika, and there was almost no defense on this road in the mountains, and there were not even many bandits and militias recruited.

In this case, it was indeed the most suitable for a rapid advance.

Soloviev was worried that the night would be long and full of dreams, so he moved southward on the night of September 25th, and even the departure was very secretive. Only Uvarov and a few Serbian officers knew that the main force of the Russian army was going south.

For them, it was nothing, after all, besieging Skopje was still a very easy task.

Soloviev just hoped that the Serbs could hold on in a few fortresses on the main roads, and hold on until the end of the year before he completely set off the wave of resistance against Turkey in Greece, and this mission would be completed.

His idea was simple, that is, to quickly solve the enemy before the end of the year, because Sultan Mahmud would probably send troops in the previous battles.

It’s just that the combat effectiveness of the Ottoman Empire’s army is too bad, and it can’t provide Soloviev with the merits he hopes for.

If there are British people who can come out to get beaten, that’s what he hopes for most.

However, after Sir Moore’s death, no one in the UK was willing to take on such an unlucky task, and they had to support the Ottoman Empire. The affairs of Spain were enough for them to be busy.

If we fight with the Eisman Empire again, once the restless son of Britain makes any move on the coast of North America, it will be difficult to even withdraw troops from the mainland.

But in this case, if the Russians can be comfortable, it will not be a good thing for Britain.

The British ambassador in Constantinople suggested that the Royal Navy transport some troops to Thessaloniki and Larissa so that the Turkish army can stop the Russian army in Greece.

Although this idea is good, the courtiers of Sultan Mahmud believe that Skopje and Thessaloniki are guarded by troops, and even if one of them is lost, it will not affect the overall combat of the Turkish army.

Now the goal of the Turkish army is to protect the safety of Constantinople. Even if the Russian army takes action and goes in and out of Greece, they do not intend to fight with the Russian army in Thessaly or Macedonia. Not only will it consume troops, but if they continue to fight like this, they will have to withdraw the corps led by Kamensky the Younger.

Soloviev didn't want them to adopt the pig tactics and hide in the city of Thessaloniki. Instead, it would affect his strategy and he would always feel attacked from both sides.

This kind of turtle flow is indeed very annoying sometimes, and you have to devote some energy to guard against them.

Now the Russian army has passed the road west of Skopje and entered the mountains here. There are many passes in and out of Greece from the north of Macedonia and Epirus. It is still difficult for the Turkish army to guard each pass.

Soloviev himself is probably thinking about a bunch of mountain passes in the Caucasus. If he wants to take action, his goal is also very simple. He must quickly pass through the mountain pass and directly enter the south of Macedonia.

In this way, he also thought of why the Gauls were able to sacrifice Ptolemy Keraunos to the sky. What they wanted was to take them by surprise.

Although Russia calls itself the "Third Rome", what Soloviev did was all barbarian invasions, and the only thing he bullied was that the Turks were not killed.

"Where is Pella in Macedonia now?"

"In the middle of Macedonia, connecting Upper Macedonia and Lower Macedonia."

"Only Upper Egypt is in the south, and the rest are more or less in the north."

In Macedonia, the northwest is pasture, and the southeast is agricultural area, which was also the place where the Aegean Dynasty of Macedonia rose.

When passing through the pastoral area here, the scene is also depressed, even in some places with olive trees, it is still difficult to revive.

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"It just doesn't look good. I came here to see the capital of Macedonia. There are other places besides this place. The subsequent successors had more than one capital and built many cities."

"You started again"

Before Clausewitz finished speaking, Soloviev asked: "Do you know how Thessaloniki came about?"

"I probably know that Cassander used this place to commemorate his wife."

"Yes, but there is a bloody history here. Cassander killed Alexander the Great's mother Olympias, and later poisoned his wife and children, and became the monarch of Macedonia. In order to ensure this layer of orthodoxy, he married Alexander's half-sister Thessalonica, and then had three sons. After the death of the eldest son Philip, the other two sons"

Then there was fratricide, and the surrounding forces Pyrrhus, Demetrius and Interest Machus intervened, and the Antipater Dynasty perished.

The most taboo thing is probably fratricide, which can be said to have considerable historical inertia in the Mediterranean world.

In Greece, Rome and Turkey, everyone was the same. "Fathers are kind and sons are filial" and "brothers are friendly and respectful" were common. Some killed their brothers in front of their mothers. Antipater dared to kill his own mother.

In comparison, the Luo family might be better. In the future, there will even be people who die neatly, with their skulls placed in a row. This will not happen to the brothers now.

After all, Alexander and Constantine have no sons, so it is likely that all the brothers have a share.

Seeing this, the Zhao family may also be a little confused. Why are you so harmonious?

Solovyov did want to go to the capital of Macedonia to take a look. He is different from Caesar. In his early years, except for the position of high priest, he probably did nothing and had to sigh about his fate in the temple of Alexandria.

I came here just to have a good look. He is not a cultural relic dealer. He probably also wants to take a good look at the local relics. If they are not so dilapidated, he will come to take care of them.

"This is not a good story."

"I know that a family must always be united, otherwise it is easy for someone to take advantage of the situation, like Austria."

Clausewitz wanted to complain that his own FW king always suspected the queen, but the queen did pay a lot, otherwise there would not be some strange things.

He could also guess what might happen when Queen Louise kept Solovyov by her side, but because he always stood on the side of the queen, and Solovyov found him a job in Russia when he was unemployed, he would not say anything because they were all his own people and there was no actual evidence.

Well, his guess was right.

As for Austria, it was even more of a joke because the brothers were not united. It was hard to describe the jokes in the end. Those who could fight were finally angry and went home to hug their children.

The Russian army marched to Siatista. There was indeed no resistance along the way. They marched quickly all the way, resting for a day in the middle to pick up the soldiers who had fallen behind, and thus they came here.

But when they arrived here, some misunderstandings were inevitable, and a group of Greek militiamen were captured.

Solovyov was in the carriage at the time, and he was highly alert after hearing the gunshots.

He didn't understand the situation until Trubetskoy sent his adjutant to come over.

"That's it?"

"Yes, the clothes these Greek militiamen wore were no different from those of the Turks. Prince Vasily thought they were Turkish bandits and captured them."

"Don't worry about it. Release these people and return their weapons to them. I also want to understand some of the situation."

Solovyov still didn't forget to look at the map. His march was far away from Pera and Thessaloniki. The Turkish army wanted to cut off his transportation line, and he also wanted to see if he was familiar with the roads in the mountains.

In addition, Solovyov asked Kamensky for a reserve infantry regiment to block several major passes, and two cavalry regiments to move back and forth between several passes to attract the attention of the Turks.

Then his main force took a longer route, and some cavalry took the main road to approach Pera, making a feint and then bypassing, which confused the Turks. (End of this chapter)