Chapter five hundred and eighty seventh disagreement
Facts have proved that it is necessary to kill the chicken with a knife. When more than 10,000 Wallachian national troops and Russian garrison troops, led by Dimitri, entered Moldavia in a hurry, they immediately encountered trouble.
Dmitri is overwhelmed by the endless number of rebel guerrillas along the way. These guys are particularly annoying. They will hide when they encounter your large troops. But once your small reconnaissance troops or logistics transport troops are left alone, these guys will
The bastards will swarm up and attack you.
Although Dmitri strengthened the protection of the logistics troops at Li Xiao's suggestion and did not allow these guerrillas to take advantage, their wild dog-like harassment tactics still greatly delayed Dmitri's efforts.
The efficiency of the troops.
Sometimes Dmitri wanted to leave his baggage behind and march straight in to attack the important cities that fell in Moldavia. But then he thought about it and realized that he had the experience of Grand Duke Constantine’s failure and Li Xiao’s warning.
Afterwards, he finally chose a steady approach.
However, Dmitry's version of a steady and steady attack is not about spreading out large armies to carry out a blanket advance, because he does not have that many troops. Wallachia can allocate at most 30,000 people to him.
Davia can't even climb over the waves.
Therefore, Dmitry's version of a steady attack is more interesting. He does not advance straight in, nor does he advance in separate groups. After taking over the border city of Wengerne, in addition to sweeping around to expel the rebel guerrillas, he also comprehensively collects weapons from the civilian population and implements war.
time rationing system.
Confiscating weapons is easy to understand. Confiscating civilian weapons will prevent Moldavia who have no good impression of Russia from causing much harm even if they defect to the rebels.
At first, the Moldavians were very resistant, and many squires and freedmen refused to cooperate. At this time, Dmitri's iron-fist policy came in. Either they handed over their guns and swords, or they handed over their heads. Anyway, it was
pick one of two.
After going on a killing spree and killing a group of activists who took the lead in rebelling, the Moldavians immediately became more honest and could only reluctantly hand over their weapons.
After collecting the weapons, Dmitry immediately implemented a wartime rationing system, which was to count the number of people by household and delineate monthly food rations according to the standards of the elderly, young adults, youth and children.
All stored grain will be confiscated, even landlords and squires are no exception. Anyway, when the day comes, they will go to the Russian army logistics agency to receive grain according to the number of people on the account.
This move was even more cruel and aroused the dissatisfaction of the Moldavia people even more. If they were in Wallachia, Dmitri and Li Xiao would not dare to do this. But Moldavia is different. First of all, this
It is not their territory, but Grand Duke Constantine's territory. No matter what troubles are caused, it has nothing to do with them in the end, and Grand Duke Constantine will pay for it.
Of course, Moldavia was originally a mess, and it didn't matter if it got any more chaotic. Moreover, according to Grand Duke Constantine's New Deal, all the land in the country would have been nationalized without compensation, and then all serfs would be liberated and divided equally among the people.
Although this new policy was interrupted by a rebellion just after it was promulgated and before it could be implemented, the new policy was issued by Grand Duke Constantine, and he himself acknowledged it.
According to Dmitry and Li Xiao's approach, although it is a bit like going to the countryside to rob food, it is not that they ignore it or deny them a way to survive. To put it bluntly, they are just helping the Moldavia manage food on their behalf.
That’s all.
Anyway, the food was stored in another place, and Moldavia has no control over it. The Russians have the final say on how to control it. Why do you do this? It is not to restrict those pesky guerrillas.
If the guerrillas want to move and survive, they must eat. Previously, the Moldavia nobles behind them provided strong support. Now Dmitri has made a blanket decision. No matter who you are, you must hand over the food. This makes
Naturally, those Moldavia nobles who were cheating and cheating could not help the rebels secretly.
Although, for the time being, this strict rationing system is only implemented in the areas around Wengerne and Chisinau. However, Moldavia has a small land area. If the guerrillas in these two areas are cleared, the transportation lines will at least be opened.
One-third.
What's more, Dmitry will not only revolve around these two areas. After initially stabilizing these two areas, he will immediately attack Kalaras and Strachene with Grand Duke Constantine's volunteer army.
These two cities are also important transportation nodes connecting Ukraine and Wallachia across Moldavia.
The capture of these two cities basically means that the traffic lines have been cleared. And the main force of the rebels is also gathered around these two cities. If a decent annihilation battle can be fought, then the rebellion problem in Moldavia will be solved.
Less than half.
But things are not that simple. According to Dmitry's plan, he will lead 20,000 people to attack Kalaras, while Archduke Constantine's 10,000 volunteers will pretend to attack Strachene.
The task given by Dmitry to Grand Duke Constantine was to pretend to recapture Strachene with great fanfare, but in fact it was to attract the attention of the main force of the rebels. And his main force suddenly took advantage of the main force of the rebels to be attracted.
Attack Kalaras and capture it in one fell swoop.
After taking Kalaras, it will take another one to two months to implement the previous policy, clean up the local rebels and guerrillas, and then work with the troops of Archduke Constantine to solve the problem in Strachene.
Rebel.
According to Dmitri's estimation, it will take about half a year to get all this done. To be honest, the speed is indeed a bit slow, but there is nothing we can do about it. Who let Archduke Constantine turn Moldavia into such a horrible state?
, except for Chisinau and a few other cities that are still under control, almost two-thirds of the country is controlled by the rebels.
Only 30 to 50 thousand people want to quickly solve the problem in Moldavia, especially when the rebels are still a group of street runners who are more cunning than foxes and faster than rabbits. Any idea of solving the problem quickly is unrealistic.
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Sure enough, the rebels were quickly attracted by the grand Duke Constantine's attention, and did not even notice that Dmitry suddenly led a forceful march of 20,000 troops to reach Kalaras in just three days.
At this time, the 7,000 rebels in the city realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape immediately. There was still a large amount of food and other materials that could not be transported out of the city. Moreover, Dmitri's previous actions also made the nobles who supported the rebels realize that something was wrong.
If something goes wrong, if someone is allowed in, they will definitely be robbed, so the rebels will immediately split...