Struggle in Russia

For Li Xiao, a time traveler, with more successful and advanced experience in later generations, the current results of the rebel army are just the same to him, and even feel childish.

This is actually true. According to his investigation, the problems within the rebels are actually not small. The first thing to bear the brunt is the problem of food. There are one to two million people, and they are basically young adults. How much do they have to do to feed them in a day?

Although they can be robbed from the landlord Lao Cai, the landlord Lao Cai does not open a cash machine and can get as much money as he wants. Although the old wealthy people in the countryside have a lot of money, the wealth in their hands, or the food they control is actually not that much.

After all, Russian society is a pyramid. The top landlords and wealthy people at the top occupy 70 to 80 percent of social resources, and the remaining 20 percent belongs to these wealthy people at the waist.

Most of Russia's wealth, including food, is actually in the hands of the tsar and the powerful, and these things are concentrated in big cities.

In other words, only a small half are scattered in other cities and countryside. This small half is actually not much left in Ukraine due to the attrition of the war and the uncontrolled and unplanned waste and consumption of the rebels.

This also resulted in the fact that the logistics situation of the rebel army was not much better than that of Dmitry, and it even tended to gradually worsen. After all, the gold and silver in the hands of the rebels are difficult to turn into supplies, but Dmitri is different. As long as he has money, he can buy it everywhere.

As one goes and the other goes, life for the rebels may become increasingly difficult.

This is still the most obvious problem of eating. The most fatal problem for the rebels is not this problem. The most fatal problem for the rebels is the organizational problem.

In short, to describe them as "Grass Team" would be considered too high. It can be said that the entire rebel army is numerous in Shantou, and there are so many chaotic forces.

But this is normal. After all, uprisings have broken out in so many places, and naturally there are many people taking the lead.

In fact, more is not a big problem. The problem is that everyone is doing their own thing and no one is convinced.

Of course this is more normal, who doesn’t want to be the boss? Finally, he pinned his head to his waistband and rebelled and raised an army. Everyone has one head and two hands and feet, and some of them have guns. Why should they obey your orders, just because you are handsome?

It can be said that the internal strife of the rebels is actually very serious. In order to grab territory, even their own people are fighting with their own people. After all, although we are all rebels, you are from Kharkiv and I am from Donetsk. Why do you extend your hands to my territory?

To put it bluntly, if it weren’t for the many conflicts within the rebels, the rebels using Ulanov’s methods would have swept through Ukraine and headed towards Moscow or St. Petersburg.

The internal friction caused by the organizational structure of the rebels has led to a third problem, which is that although they, who were born as mud-legged serfs, have overthrown the landlords and their wealth with a breath of evil, they really have no foresight. Have you never thought about what to do after the rebellion?

In other words, they do not have a revolutionary program, or they do not have a clear purpose. Rebellion is just a matter of being forced into a dangerous situation, but you can't do it for a short time. In the end, you succeed and you get lost.

I have never thought about how to deal with the encirclement and suppression by the government troops, nor how to manage the territory. I really just want to grab wherever I go, and if there is nothing to grab, I will disband first.

The rebels without a goal are actually very confused and have no idea where to go next. They only rely on instinct to take action. To put it bluntly, they are like a swarm of locusts, constantly gnawing on the land of Ukraine. If it were not for Kiev, there would be A large number of Russian troops began to fight among themselves and kill their own people.

These problems determine that this uprising is destined to fail. For Dmitry and Li Xiao, how to put down this rebellion at the minimum cost is the key issue.

To put it bluntly, this rebellion does not require special efforts by the Russian army to suppress. As long as Ukraine can be isolated in winter, the rebel army will be able to kill itself. But the problem is that if you do this, Ukraine will be destroyed and it will take ten or twenty years to recover.

This was not the result Dmitry and Li Xiao wanted, so they advocated putting out the uprising as soon as possible to reduce losses as much as possible.

But the situation at the moment is very delicate. Although the rebels have many internal problems, they have not yet exploded. The Russian army has been unable to concentrate enough power to annihilate them in one fell swoop, and the situation has fallen into a stalemate.

The most important thing is to see how to break the deadlock. According to Dmitri's plan, he is preparing to accumulate a wave of troops to seize the opportunity and regain Chernihiv in one fell swoop. It is best to annihilate a large number of the rebels' effective forces to knock the mountain Zhenhu.

But who would have thought that before he could launch an attack, the rebels came over first. Although the rebels' attack was crushed by his artillery in minutes, he was also keenly aware of a problem. Why did the rebels suddenly attack? What about taking the initiative to cause trouble for him?

Some people say what is the problem? In which country are peasant uprisings not running around everywhere? If they don’t take the initiative to fight you, why don’t you wait until you have accumulated enough strength to fight them?

Right or wrong. The reason why peasant uprisings are spreading like wildfires is that, in addition to the fact that farmers cannot bear the oppression and can only resist to survive, a very important reason is that the government troops will try to suppress the bandits no matter how incompetent they are. Many times the rebels were driven away and had to move.

This is not the case in Ukraine. Before Dmitry arrived in Ukraine, the rebels in Chernihiv were actually very lazy, basically too lazy to move, and seemed to be very satisfied with the current situation.

He even watched Dmitri sleeping on the side of the bed, watching Dmitri accumulate strength bit by bit.

At that time, they were too lazy to pay any attention to him, and acted as if they were indifferent. You must know that when Dmitri first arrived in Ukraine, he had the least number of troops and faced the most difficulties. If you want to defeat or even eliminate Dmitri, that is the best opportunity.

There are no such stupid people in the world. If you don’t fight someone when they are weak, but when they become stronger, you will provoke them. Isn’t this a convulsion?

Both Dmitry and Li Xiao thought that the sudden attack by the rebels was very abnormal. It was probably because they were short of food or supplies!

How to solve the problem of hungry stomachs for the rebels? It’s certainly impossible to just plant the land and wait for next year’s harvest, right? The simplest and most direct way is to stay in the same business and continue to grab it!

It is conceivable that the cities in the hinterland of Ukraine that are occupied by the rebels may not be robbed, so the rebels in Chernihiv can only take desperate measures to rob Dmitry, which means that the rebels are likely to have a large-scale attack in the future. Ran away!