Lazarev also wanted to give the young men the opportunity to perform meritorious service and receive awards, but doing whatever they want to do in order to perform meritorious service and receive awards is not what a soldier should do. Soldiers have their bounden duty. Protecting the home and country is the first priority, and the first priority is to obey.
How can you disregard the national interests just because of your own selfish interests?
For Lazarev, it is too easy to defeat the Turks. The strength of the Black Sea Fleet is enough to lift up the Turkish Navy and defeat them. As long as he is willing, he can completely annihilate the Turkish Navy in minutes.
But it is easy to attack the Turks, but the bad effects after the attack cannot be eliminated. The reason why Turkey can still exist is not because of how stubborn the country is, but because the great powers need Turkey to exist.
As long as Turkey is here, the regional situation can still be balanced, and no one can take too big advantage. But once Turkey is gone, it is not polite to say that the situation in the entire Balkans and the Middle East will be completely rewritten. It is very likely to trigger conflicts between the great powers.
Direct confrontation triggered a war that swept Europe.
At that time, it was hard to say who would win. At least based on Lazarev's estimation of the strength of various countries, Russia really had no advantage. And now the Holy Alliance only exists on paper. Once Russia takes action against Turkey, Britain and France will definitely intervene directly, and
That would be a disaster!
Therefore, even if Lazarev understands the thoughts of his young men, he can only refuse. This time the war is limited to Moldavia and Wallachia, and is limited to restoring order in the two countries. Nothing more can be done.
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Nassimov replied sincerely: "General, our intention is not to expand the scale of the war, but to give the fleet more tasks."
Lazarev sighed and asked: "Then how do you want to expand the scope of the mission? Should you get off the ship and follow the Duke to siege the city, or should you go to the sea to search aimlessly for enemies that do not exist at all?"
Nasimov suddenly stopped talking and hesitated for a moment before saying: "We can dismantle the cannons on the ship to form an artillery force to assist the Duke in attacking the enemy..."
This suggestion is very realistic and can be done, but it still gives Lazarev a headache. It is possible to dismantle the guns on the ship to support the land battle, but it is not necessary because the artillery under Duke Mikhail is strong enough.
Beat up the Wallachian bastard.
What's more, it's not like you can carry the dismantled naval gun. After all, the gun carriages on the naval guns these days are not suitable for land use. It may be used as a fortress gun, but it will be a long-distance march with Duke Mikhail's troops.
, it is inevitable that more suitable vehicles are needed. And where can he get these?
Now that the war is imminent, there are still a lot of things to do, and various materials need to be prepared. How can there be extra time to toss these naval guns. Even if it is possible, as mentioned before, Duke Mikhail's artillery is already strong enough.
It takes so much firepower.
But Nasimov still refused to give up, and said: "It may not be necessary to fight against the Wallachian rebels, but it is not necessarily necessary to go to Austria to quell the rebellion. It is said that the rebels there are quite rampant, and the Austrians cannot hold their heads up.
Come! I think that to go to Austria to counter the rebellion, we will definitely need more powerful firepower!"
Lazarev was stunned for a moment and then sighed in his heart. What is it about money that moves people's hearts? Isn't this the most typical example? Paskovich and Mikhail Gorchakov went to Austria for this piece of fat.
The meat was jumping up and down, and even his good students were greedy and set their sights on this piece of cake. This is human nature!
However, Lazarev did not mean to blame Nassimov and others. Normal people will have selfish desires. Selfish desires are not terrible. What is terrible is excessive selfish desires.
Nowadays, the selfish desires of Nassimov and others can only be said to be at a normal level, and are still far, far away from being rampant. Naturally, he, as a teacher, will not have any objections. However, this matter does need to be properly resolved, because Lazarev knows that staring
There are far more than just a few people like Nassimov holding the Austrian cake. If one person fails to do this, the whole fleet will be flooded, and it will not be fun at that time.
So Lazarev said to Nassimov: "Well, I already know your opinions and will consider them carefully. You go back and wait for the news!"
If it were someone else, he would definitely not be dismissed so easily, but Nassimov and Lazarev are not in a normal relationship. For Nassimov, since the teacher has spoken, he will definitely not fail to give an explanation, so it is very difficult.
If you are obedient, you will resign and leave, and you will really wait for the news.
Lazarev knew that Austria's interests were involved, and he could not just do whatever he said. He had to discuss it with Duke Mikhail, the commander-in-chief, otherwise he would not understand the rules.
Duke Mikhail is naturally not ignorant. Anyway, no one dislikes too many artillery. What’s more, the artillery formed by the Black Sea Fleet is of much higher quality than ordinary artillery. Of course, he also has requirements:
"Having more artillery is naturally a good thing, but it is better to add more heavy artillery. Heavy artillery is even more needed to attack fortresses!"
The corners of Lazarev's mouth twitched twice. Everyone knows that heavy artillery is a weapon for attacking fortresses, but heavy artillery is not easy to transport!
Considering the terrible traffic conditions in Wallachia, bringing the 18-pounder all the way from the country would tire his young man to death?
Of course, I'm still vomiting in my heart, but since Duke Mikhail has given the conditions, I'd better try my best to satisfy them.
Lazarev also knew why Duke Mikhail was so obsessed with heavy artillery. It was because when the Russian army was fighting Turkey in Wallachia, they were fed up with the Turks' tortoise tactics of huddled in the bastion.
Because of the lack of heavy firepower, the Turks were often surrounded but could not be chewed down, and the taste was quite sour. Many Russian generals even paid a heavy price for this, such as the most typical one, the Ouchi Chief Burmese.
Shikov, when we besieged the Turkish castle, Tintin was blown away by an enemy cannonball. You said how desperate this was.
Lazarev also knew that this time in the Battle of Wallachia, there would probably be very few real field battles, because the strength gap between the two sides was so obvious that it was impossible for the Wallachians to come out and fight with their weak combat power.
In a decisive battle, it is more practical for the Russian army to huddle in cities and fortresses and fight stubbornly based on strong fortifications.
Therefore, Duke Mikhail focused more on fighting at points along the way. At this time, he really couldn't do anything without heavy firepower. It was only natural that he wanted to bring more heavy artillery.
"No problem. This operation does require heavy firepower, and it is particularly critical to form more heavy artillery... However, Duke, I think this operation not only requires heavy artillery, but the main force of the fleet also needs to shoulder a more important mission..."