Tsarist Empire: Please call me Tsarist Majesty

Chapter 135: The Determination of the Army!!

Although the strength of the Tsarist Russian Empire is far stronger than that of the Eastern Empire, for the Tsarist Russian Empire, the next battle with the Easterners will still be a very crucial battle, or a fateful battle.

The Russian Empire also could not afford to lose, and it must do its best to win this battle, otherwise, the Russian Empire will pay a heavy price for this failure. Not only in the Far East interests will be lost.

At the same time, it will also become a stepping stone for the Oriental Empire to become one of the world’s great powers.

It will make the Russian Empire a laughing stock in the entire Western world.

Under such circumstances, the Russian Empire naturally had no other choice, and could only do its best to defeat the Orientals in one fell swoop.

Similarly, for the Russian Empire, this was an extremely crucial battle.

Once defeated, the Russian Empire would fall into a catastrophe, and it would be very difficult to rise again.

Moreover, they will no longer be able to get rid of the control of the Sun Never Sets Empire and will completely become the lackeys of the Sun Never Sets Empire.

If they could, the Toyo people certainly wouldn’t want to be lackeys to the people who never set.

Even if you give the sun never sets as a lackey, you get a lot of benefits.

But the Orientals also want to be able to get rid of the control of the sun never sets.

However, in the absence of other methods, you can only be more of a lackey.

Defeating the Russian Empire, joining the ranks of the world powers, and even gaining equal status in the same empire has become the only hope of the Orientals.

At the end of January 1804, the top officials of the army and navy of the Prime Minister’s Office of the Eastern Ocean Empire gathered here.

The three commanders of the army, namely Lieutenant General Masaki Terauchi, Minister of Army, Senior General Iwa Nagayama, Chief of Staff of the Army, and Senior General Michikan Nozu, Director of Education of the Army.

The three commanders of the navy, namely Vice Admiral Yamamoto Gonbei, Minister of the Navy, Admiral Sukehiro Ito, and Commander of the Combined Fleet, Vice Admiral Heihachiro Togo, all attended the meeting.

This meeting is a pre-war meeting, and they will decide on the tactics to be adopted by the Eastern Empire in the next war, the strategic objectives that have been predetermined, and so on.

“Lords, war is about to begin. The empire already had to send arrows on the string this time. There is no turning back. So, this time we can only go one way to the dark. Either defeat the Russians and get the final victory. Then it is to be defeated by the Russians and pay a terrible price. I hope that we can win a brilliant victory in this battle. ”

Prime Minister General Keitaro said to the generals with a serious face.

“Hi, Your Excellency, Prime Minister! General A replied one after another. ”

“How is the preparation on the Imperial Army side?”

Senior General Katsura asked.

“Your Excellency, the Imperial Army is ready. The 17 standing infantry divisions of the Imperial Army, two cavalry brigades and two field artillery brigades were ready for battle. We have decided to form a Manchurian Army, with His Excellency Oyama Iwa as the commander of the Manchurian Army and His Excellency Kodama Gentaro as the chief of staff, with full responsibility for directing this military operation! ”

Lieutenant General Masaki Terauchi, Minister of the Army, said that Senior General Katsura nodded, although he was also from the Army.

However, now that he is the Prime Minister of the Eastern Empire, he only needs to be in charge of all affairs.

The army’s next specific combat operations are decided by the top level of the army.

“Dashan-kun, how are you going to fight this time?”

Senior General Katsura asked.

“Your Excellency Prime Minister, the Manchurian Army will be divided into four armies.”

Among them, the First Army commanded the Guards Division, the 2nd Infantry Division, and the 12th Division, with Kuroki as the commander of General Zhen.

The Second Army commanded the 3rd Infantry Group, the 4th Division, the 6th Division, the 8th Division, the 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, with General Opao Gong as commander.

The Third Army, commanding the 1st Infantry Division, the 7th Division, the 9th Division, the 11th Division, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, was commanded by General Nogi Noshinori.

The Fourth Army, commanding the 5th Infantry Division, the 10th Division, the 14th Division, the 16th Division, the 19th Division, and the 20th Division, was commanded by General Nozu Toshikan.

The domestic reserve will form the Fifth Army, with Senior General Keiaki Arikawamura as its commander.

If the battle does not go well at the front, the Fifth Army will immediately land and reinforce the front!

Senior General Dashan Yan introduced the relevant military deployments to everyone.

The current seventeen standing divisions and two cavalry brigades and two field artillery brigades of the Toyo Imperial Army are all assigned to the four corps in front. These four armies were also the main forces of the Oriental Imperial Army.

In addition, in the mainland of the Eastern Empire, reserves will be drawn to form the Fifth Army so that it can directly reinforce the front line.

Because of this time and space, the Russian Empire is far more powerful than another time and space, so the Eastern Empire Army in this time and space is also more powerful.

Each infantry division is composed of two infantry brigades, four infantry wings, and a large number of units directly under the division.

The strength of each division reached about 28,500 men.

Therefore, the 17 infantry divisions, two cavalry brigades and two field artillery brigades that the Imperial Army of the East Ocean was preparing to invest in the war alone amounted to more than 500,000 men.

Compared to another time and space, there are many more troops invested on the battlefield.

In addition, in the Eastern Empire itself, the Eastern Imperial Army is also mobilizing reserve forces to form the Fifth Army.

It was initially expected that seventeen infantry divisions would be mobilized on the mainland of the Imperial Army.

This also means that the strength of the Fifth Army of the Eastern Ocean Empire will be very large.

If the Imperial Army of the East Ocean had invested such a large number of troops, it would not have been able to win this war.

Then, the Eastern Empire will further mobilize.

2.7 After all, in this era, the total population of the Eastern Empire was only more than 40 million.

However, their reserve strength was more than two million, which was enough for them to further mobilize and mobilize more troops into the war.

It can be seen that in order to win this battle, the Eastern Empire also went out and did its best.

General Katsura nodded repeatedly, in his opinion, the Toyo Imperial Army invested such a large army.

It was simply impossible for the Russian Empire to withstand their attack.

Although the standing forces of the Tsarist Empire were large. But the mobilization of the Eastern Empire at all costs was enough to give them an advantage in strength.

Of course, the premise was that the Russian Empire did not carry out mobilization.

The reservists of the Tsarist Empire were larger than the Eastern Empire…