Nakhimov had to face a lot of headaches, but compared with Dmitri, they were nothing.
Just as Nakhimov wasted no time in repairing the fortifications and collecting supplies, Chernihiv's rebels began to move toward Gomel, engaging Dmitry's troops head-on and firing the first shot.
The scale of this battle was not very large, but it attracted Dmitri's great attention. He rushed to the front line immediately and carefully observed the rebels' tactics.
To be honest, Dmitry was disappointed by the rebels, because in front of him was a group of enemies dressed in fancy clothes and with various weapons. They looked like a hodgepodge of enemies.
This was the first time for Dmitry to meet such an enemy. To be honest, he couldn't understand how the Ukrainian garrison was defeated by such a group of seemingly rabble-rousers. Are all Ukrainian military officers pig-headed?
"Get the artillery ready." Dmitri was not in a hurry to fire. The main reason was that the artillery shells were tight and he wanted to test the quality of his troops. He simply moved the enemy closer and then attacked. He ordered
Said: "Load grapeshot!"
The shrapnel attack on the crowd was still very bloody, and the thumb-sized iron bumps hitting the human body ranged from bloody and bloody to severe limbs flying around. The scene was not ordinary bloody.
Anyway, after Li Xiao took a few glances, he turned away and didn't bother to look at it, because there was really nothing interesting to see. To put it bluntly, it was just a one-sided massacre. Unless you are a serious blood plasma lover, it is better to watch less.
Soon Dmitri also turned his head and sighed, but he didn't think the scene was cruel. He had seen more bloody scenes in Crimea. This really didn't matter. He was more
He sighed: "How could such a rabble allow Ukraine's more than 200,000 troops to collapse again and again?"
Li Xiao could probably understand his emotion. In the eyes of noble-born officers like Dmitri, the government troops were naturally more powerful than the rebels, not to mention that it was absolutely no problem to fight one against ten and one against five. Ukraine originally
There are more than 200,000 troops stationed there. If one is equal to five, the rebels must have at least one million troops to be able to match the Ukrainian troops.
If you want to drive the rebels everywhere to escape like they are now, you must have at least two million, if not more.
But with how small a population is in Ukraine now, how can two million rebels possibly exist?
According to Dmitry's calculations and understanding, the number of Ukrainian rebels who have been killed is 12 to 30 million people.
How could such a "little" number of people bring blood to the more than 200,000 Ukrainian regular troops?
Look at the scene just now. The rebels are pouring in from all over the mountains and plains. They look like a huge crowd, but to a military expert like him, they are a mess. They trample each other to death on the way to the charge.
To command such an organization, he felt that it was enough for a pig to command him. Are those Ukrainian officers worse than pigs?
Dmitri believed that Russia's military education was not that bad, so he was confused. How did the regular army lose?
Li Xiao was able to answer his question, how did the government army lose? It's very simple. On the one hand, the lack of people is indeed an important reason. Don't underestimate the importance of human resources. Too many straws can break the camel's back.
What's more, Ukraine's garrison is extremely scattered, with 70% to 80% of the garrison gathered around a few large cities. To put it simply, before the rebellion broke out, there were nearly 70,000 to 80,000 troops stationed around a city in Kiev, and then Kharko
With 20,000 to 30,000 troops each in Lvov, Nikolaev, and Odessa, they accounted for almost 99% of the entire garrison.
In other words, the vast rural areas of Ukraine are actually a vacuum, and the rebellion started so quickly that it suddenly took on the momentum of a raging storm. In other words, in the area where the rebellion initially broke out, the strength comparison between the rebels and the government forces was not five.
It's not even ten to one, it's probably fifteen to one to twenty to one.
With such a huge disparity, of course the government forces cannot defeat them. In addition, when the rebellion broke out, Ukrainian bureaucrats at all levels did not pay much attention to it. They thought that the rebellion was just a scabies disease. They thought that as long as they sent a few big soldiers to scare the mud-legged people, they would be honest.
Already.
As a result, these few people were naturally unable to fight with two fists and four hands, and they were eaten by the rebels in minutes, leaving no bones left. In this way, the few garrison troops in the vast rural areas of Ukraine were consumed pointlessly.
This wave instead allowed the rebels to obtain a large number of weapons and equipment, and it also made the rebels more and more courageous, because they discovered that the government forces were really nothing more than paper tigers!
This is still the first reason, and secondly, Ulanov’s blind command is also quite fatal. It is said that if things are serious, try to put out the fire quickly! But that person still didn’t pay much attention, and took advantage of the outbreak of the rebellion to scrape the land again.
, only one or two divisions were sent to quell the rebellion.
Although these two divisions are not particularly large in number, in fact, if they can fight steadily and steadily, not only to eliminate the rebels, but also to prevent the situation from getting worse, they can do it.
However, the two division commanders made the mistake of underestimating the enemy after defeating several groups of rebels. They felt that the rebels were nothing more than that, so they boldly divided their troops and prepared to "sweep the fallen leaves in the autumn wind" to wipe out the rebels.
This is a bad deal. If they concentrate their forces, the rebels will naturally be unable to attack them given their strength. But once they divide their forces, they will fall into the "ocean of people's war." What's more important is that there are too few counter-insurgency troops.
It was impossible to control the territory that had been recovered by wiping out the rebels. As soon as they left, the rebels came back to kill them.
Coupled with the division of troops and the rash advance, the rear supply lines were soon cut off by the rebels, and the scattered troops were eaten away by the rebels bit by bit. In less than two months, these two divisions were completely eaten up by the rebels.
Everything is clean and nothing is left.
By this time, the momentum was completely broken. The Ukrainian garrison strength was already limited, and they had to be divided to defend large cities. The mobile forces that could be used were very few. Ulanov did not learn his lesson. He felt that two divisions were not enough.
Up four divisions, and then fell into the same pit again.
When these six divisions are exhausted and he no longer has any mobile troops at his disposal, what else will he use to counter the rebellion?
Naturally, the rest of Ukraine, except for the big cities, became a sea of joy for the rebels. In the vast rural areas, the rebels grew like a snowball, and soon even the big cities could no longer hold them.
As the mayor of Kharkiv fled without a fight and the entire city fell, the rebels, who had obtained a large amount of weapons and equipment, further grew and initially gained the ability to attack the city.
At this moment, Ulanov is still thinking about how to scrape the ground or how to conceal the news. Isn’t it normal to lose again and again in the future?