Chapter 1098： Logistics (1/2)

The British government is in trouble, and the outside world naturally knows nothing. There is neither satellite monitoring nor convenient network communication these days.

To be able to roughly judge the industrial production capacity of a country is already very impressive. It is simply impossible to figure out the situation of each sub-industry.

Even if it is collecting intelligence, it starts from within the British government. The British government has not made statistics beforehand, and it is even more impossible for others to help with statistics.

When such a big event has happened, it is natural to keep it strictly confidential. Permanent secrecy is unrealistic, and it is still possible to block news in the short term.

Just as the British were waving banknotes and shopping everywhere, the Russo-Japanese War also entered a white-hot stage.

Perhaps it had learned the lessons of previous wars, or perhaps it was simply because of the weak Russian navy. This time, the Tsarist government was rarely rational and did not play a laborious expedition.

Of course, it is said to the outside world that after the warship ordered by Shinra is in service, the Japanese will settle accounts.

Regardless of whether anyone believes it or not, the Russians do.

The Russian army changed the image of a reckless man in the past, fully defended in the Far East, relied on fortifications to delay the Japanese offensive pace, and bought time for the opening of the Siberian Railway.

A decisive battle is impossible. Regardless of how the Japanese provokes, the Russian army simply cannot stand.

Anyway, there is not much else in the Russian Empire, but a lot of land. ”Exchange space for time”, the tsarist government did not persuade at all.

Different from the original time and space, under Franz's butterfly effect, the tactics used by everyone now have advanced to the level of World War I.

Machine guns, trenches, and mortars are cheap, simple, and practical tactics that have become popular in the Russian army.

If it is not that the logistics cannot keep up, it is estimated that successive defeats will not necessarily occur. You know that if you send a fierce bear, it's not a messy master.

The Russian army defended all the way, which was a painful attack on the Japanese army. Anyone with a bit of military knowledge knows that offensive casualties are more than defending Gothe.

Even if the Japanese officers and soldiers were more willing to work hard, that would not change the fact that the casualties were greater. In a short period of six months, the total casualties of Japan and Russia exceeded 300,000.

Among them, the Japanese killed 98,000 and suffered 112,000 injuries; the Russians suffered 53,000 casualties and 64,000 injuries.

In a sense, the Russo-Japanese War also opened a new war record. In modern wars, it is rare for the number of people killed and injured to be so close.

From the point of view of casualties alone, it seems that the Russian army is taking advantage, but in fact it is not.

Although the Russian army has a defensive advantage, 20,000 Russian soldiers have been captured and 30,000 Russian soldiers have disappeared in the continuous retreat.

Adding these figures, if you look at it all together, Japan and Russia can only be regarded as losing both, and neither of them has taken advantage.

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In St. Petersburg, since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Nicholas II's nerves have not been relieved.

As the first foreign war after Nicholas II succeeded to the throne, the victory of Japan and Russia is not only related to the future strategy of the Russian Empire, but also to the prestige of Nicholas II's own monarch.

Unlike his father and grandfather, such a political strongman, Nicholas II had a very ordinary talent in the field of internal affairs.

Of course, this is not the responsibility of Nicholas II. In his young age, Nicholas, because of his weakness and indecision, Alexander III never considered letting him succeed to the throne.

Nicholas himself was not ready to succeed to the throne. After all, Alexander III had four sons, so there was a lot of room for choice.

Persevering, the plan did not change quickly. The two brothers died halfway through, and the other brother was dazzled by love again, and he had a marriage with him.

Before he could react, Nicholas became the only heir. In order not to let the throne fall, Nikolai could only drive the ducks to the shelves and bite the bullet to inherit the throne.