Struggle in Russia

Nakhimov has a lot of headaches to face, but compared with Dmitri, they are nothing.

Just as Nakhimov wasted no time in repairing the fortifications and collecting supplies, Chernihiv's rebels began to move toward Gomel, engaging Dmitry's troops head-on and firing the first shot.

The scale of this battle was not very large, but it attracted Dmitry's great attention. He rushed to the front line immediately and carefully observed the tactics of the rebels.

To be honest, the rebels disappointed Dmitri because he was faced with a group of enemies dressed in fancy clothes and with various weapons. They looked like a hodgepodge of enemies.

This was the first time that Dmitri met such an enemy. To be honest, he couldn't understand how the Ukrainian garrison was defeated by such a group of guys who looked like a ragtag group of guys. Are all Ukrainian officers pig-headed?

"Get the artillery ready." Dmitri was not in a hurry to fire. The main reason was that the artillery shells were tight and he wanted to test the quality of his troops. He simply moved the enemy closer and then attacked. He ordered Said: "Load grapeshot!"

The shrapnel hitting the crowd was still very bloody, and the thumb-sized iron bumps hitting the human body ranged from bloody and bloody to the stumps flying around. The scene was not ordinary bloody.

Anyway, after Li Xiao glanced at it for a few times, he turned his head and didn't bother to look at it, because there was really nothing interesting to see. To put it bluntly, it was just a one-sided massacre. Unless you are a serious plasma lover, it is better to watch less.

Soon Dmitri also turned his head and sighed, but he didn't think the scene was cruel. He had seen more bloody scenes in Crimea. This really didn't matter. He was more It was a sigh: "How can such a ragtag group of people cause Ukraine's more than 200,000 troops to collapse again and again?"

Li Xiao could probably understand his emotion. In the eyes of noble-born officers like Dmitry, the government troops were naturally more powerful than the rebels. Not to mention that it was absolutely no problem to fight one against ten and one against five. There are already more than 200,000 troops stationed in Ukraine. Calculating one to five, the rebels must have at least one million to be able to tie with the Ukrainian troops.

If you want to drive the rebels everywhere like they are now, you need at least two million, if not more.

But with how little population there is in Ukraine now, how can two million rebels possibly exist?

According to Dmitri's calculations and understanding, the Ukrainian rebels could support 12 to 30 million people.

How could such a "little" number of people bring blood to the more than 200,000 Ukrainian regular troops?

Look at the scene just now. The rebels are pouring over from all over the mountains and plains. They look like a huge crowd, but to a military expert like him, it looks like a mess without any order. They trampled each other to death on the way to charge.

To command such an organization, he felt that it was enough for a pig to command him. Are those Ukrainian officers worse than pigs?

Dmitri believed that Russia's military education was not that bad, so he was confused. How did the regular army lose?

Li Xiao could answer his question, how did the government forces lose? It's very simple. On the one hand, the lack of people is indeed an important reason. Don't underestimate the importance of human resources. Too many straws can break the camel's back.

What's more, Ukraine's garrison is extremely scattered, with 70% to 80% of the garrison gathered around a few large cities. To put it simply, before the rebellion broke out, there were nearly 70,000 to 80,000 troops stationed around a city in Kiev, and then Kharkiv, Lviv, Nikolayev, and Odessa each had another 20 to 30,000 troops, which was almost the same. Occupying 99% of the entire garrison.

In other words, the vast rural areas of Ukraine are actually a vacuum, and the rebellion started so quickly that it suddenly took on the momentum of a raging cloud. In other words, in the area where the rebellion initially broke out, the strength comparison between the rebels and the government forces was not five. It's not even ten to one, it's probably fifteen to one to twenty to one.

Of course, the government forces cannot defeat such a huge disparity. In addition, when the rebellion broke out, Ukrainian bureaucrats at all levels did not pay much attention to it. They thought that the rebellion was just a scabies disease. They thought that as long as they sent a few big soldiers to scare the mud-legged people, they would be honest. .

As a result, these people were naturally unable to fight with two fists and four hands, and they were eaten by the rebels in minutes, leaving no bones left. In this way, the few troops stationed in Ukraine's vast rural areas were used up pointlessly.

This wave instead allowed the rebels to obtain a large number of weapons and equipment, and it also made the rebels more and more courageous, because they discovered that the government forces were really nothing more than paper tigers!

This is the first reason, and secondly, Ulanov's blind command is also quite fatal. Supposedly, things are serious, so hurry up and try to put out the fire! But that person still didn't pay much attention. He took advantage of the outbreak of the rebellion to scrape the land again, and only sent one or two divisions to quell the rebellion.

Although these two divisions are not particularly large in number, in fact, if they can fight steadily and steadily, not only to eliminate the rebels, but to prevent the situation from getting worse, they can do it.

However, after defeating several rebel groups one after another, the two division commanders made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. They felt that the rebels were nothing more than that, so they boldly divided their troops and prepared to "sweep the fallen leaves in the autumn wind" to wipe out the rebels.

This is a bad deal. If they concentrate their forces, the rebels will naturally be unable to attack them given their strength. But once they divide their forces, they will fall into the "ocean of people's war." What's more important is that there are too few counter-insurgency troops. The territory that had been recovered by wiping out the rebels was completely uncontrollable. As soon as they left, the rebels came back to kill them.

Coupled with the division of troops and the rash advance, the rear supply routes were soon cut off by the rebels, and the scattered troops were eaten away by the rebels bit by bit. In less than two months, these two divisions were completely eaten by the rebels and nothing was left.

By this time, the momentum was completely broken. The Ukrainian garrison strength was already limited, and it had to be divided to defend large cities. The mobile forces that could be used were very few. Ulanov did not learn his lesson. He felt that two divisions were not enough. Up four divisions, and then fell into the same pit again.

When these six divisions are exhausted and he no longer has any mobile troops in his hands, what else will he use to counter the rebellion?

Naturally, other areas of Ukraine except big cities have become a sea of ​​joy for the rebels. The rebels grew like a snowball in the vast rural areas, and soon even the big cities could no longer hold them.

As the mayor of Kharkiv fled without a fight and the entire city fell, the rebels, who had obtained a large amount of weapons and equipment, further grew and initially gained the ability to attack the city.

At this moment, Ulanov is still thinking about how to scrape the ground or how to hide the news. Isn't it normal to lose again and again in the future?