Struggle in Russia

After thinking about it again and again, Igorevich finally gave up his plan to escape towards Kiev. Butinin really put too much pressure on him, and he had no confidence that he could pass through the opponent's territory. Once Butning wants to plot against him, it will definitely be a dead end if there are chasing troops behind and a wolf in front!

After much thought, he decided to go to Konotop to defect to the rebel leader Olkolin.

Of course, he didn't really want to defect to Alcolin, but was preparing to borrow a way from Alcolin.

It's just that Olkolin will definitely not let him go directly. After all, he is now a key target of the Russian army. It is estimated that he is currently concentrating on strengthening his defenses to resist the Russian attack.

At this moment, if he tried to borrow money, they would definitely not agree, so he could only pretend to defect, under the banner of resisting the Russian attack together.

Presumably Alcolin would not refuse the friendly troops who came to his door. After all, one more person meant more strength.

According to Igorevich's instructions, after defecting to Olkolin, he will try to escape southward from the direction of Romny and Srebnoye.

So will everything go as smoothly as expected?

It should be said that the first stage of his plan went relatively smoothly, and Alcolin soon agreed to his request to defect. It was a special welcome, and he showed a sign of sharing life and death with each other.

Of course, Igorevich would not take it seriously. He would not share life and death with Olkolin!

So he immediately stepped up his retreat plan. According to his order, everything that could not be taken away was destroyed in Nirzhin City. For a time, this city, which had already suffered heavy damage, was hurt more and more. It was so terrible.

This news immediately attracted Dmitry's attention. To be honest, he didn't move very fast after going south from Chernihiv. After all, his main purpose was to attack the east and west. He didn't have any thoughts about Nirvana. It was a false shot.

Along the way, I just made a lot of noise, but in fact I only walked a few miles every day, and my speed was no different than a tortoise crawling.

But who would have thought that something could go wrong if he acted too realistically? He was really just pretending. Who would have thought that Igorevich would be so timid?

Damn it, you're ready to run away before I even get to your door. Can you be any coward?

So Dmitri was caught in a tangle. According to the original plan, his main force would not actually go to Nezhin. Once the time was right, his Cossack cavalry would raid Kozelets, and then his main force would Immediately turn and go straight to Kozelets to cooperate with the cavalry troops to capture the city.

But now Igorevich is ready to run away, wreaking havoc and looting there, with the intention of burning Nirzyn to the ground with a fire.

The ancient city of Nezhin is still relatively important, at least Dmitri doesn't want to take back Nezhin, which is in ruins.

At this time, he had two choices before him, either to act according to the original plan and ignore the life and death of the people in Nirvana. Or divide the troops to seize Nezhin and expel Igorevich.

Emotionally speaking, Dmitri preferred the latter, but based on actual combat experience, he felt that it was safer to stick to the original plan.

"What are you talking about? These damn rebels always act out of common sense. Can't they have a little persistence?"

Li Xiao was speechless at Dmitry's rants. If the rebels had followed common sense, they would have been annihilated ten or eight times by the local Russian army in Ukraine. How could there be such nonsense behind them?

If you want to defeat the strong with the weak, if you want to survive and thrive in cracks and extremely harsh environments, then playing cards that don't follow common sense is a must-have quality.

The reason why the rebellion in Ukraine is so serious is that the rebel army's flexible tactics are definitely one of the key factors.

Here again I have to mention a common problem of the regular armies of various European countries in this era, which is serious dogmatism, almost returning to the rigid, mechanical and scripted combat method before the Napoleonic era.

This is clear from the performance of various countries in the Crimean War. Let’s not talk about the Russian army. The quality of its officers is poor, and the quality of its soldiers is even worse. As a result, most generals are not qualified, and there are not many generals who can use the human wave tactics decently.

The Russian army is worse. In fact, the performance of the British and French coalition forces is not much better. They have more advanced equipment, but the commanders are all stupid and have no imagination for war at all. They only fight recklessly and are as stupid as pigs. Same.

This also led to the fact that the quality of this so-called preview of the First World War was really not very good, and it was simply like novices pecking each other.

Dmitry may be considered relatively outstanding among the Russian army, but it is nonsense to say that he is a famous general. In a sense, he is the taller among the short, and can only be regarded as passable.

Naturally, he also suffered from a common problem among generals of this era - he did not know how to adapt to mechanical rigidity.

The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing. How can we rigidly follow the plan step by step?

For example, Li Xiao felt that the current situation was very good. Igorevich's actions fully demonstrated that their plan to invade the east and west was very successful. Otherwise, how could they scare this guy like this?

Since he wants to run away, then go after him, and you can recover Niren without any effort. Why not take advantage of this?

"You mean to divide your troops to occupy Nirvana. This is according to the plan..."

Before Dmitri finished speaking, Li Xiao interrupted him: "The plan is not static, not to mention that dividing our troops to occupy Nezhin will not have much impact on our plan!"

"You only need to send a small number of regular troops to cooperate with the 20,000 surrender troops to capture Nizhin! There will be no problem if the remaining troops continue to attack Kozelets according to the original plan!"

Dmitri was stunned. According to Li Xiao's intention, nearly 20,000 people would be divided out at this time. This was not a big impact. Almost half of the troops were divided. How could this be allowed?

Li Xiao immediately explained: "Those surrendering troops are already very powerful. We can't use them to attack Kozelets, and we don't dare to use them! I have already said that we can only use our original troops to attack Kozelets." , those rebels are just cheerleaders, they are unreliable! Now let them play their role and get a nirvana for nothing. What is there to hesitate about such a good thing? "

Dmitri was stunned. After thinking about it carefully, it was indeed the case. Aren't the 20,000 surrendering troops just cheerleaders? Since they are not expected to be of any help in the attack on Kozelets, why not find them an easy and competent job?

To take a step back, even if their attack on Nirvana does not go well, the loss will not be among their own people. It is just a good idea to teach them a lesson through the hands of the rebels and make them be more honest!

After understanding this, Dmitri suddenly became enlightened and immediately agreed to Li Xiao's suggestion. However, he did not expect that this plan to attack the east and west would change one after another...