Tsarist Russia: Please Call Me Your Majesty The Tsar

At ten o'clock in the morning, the imperial guards and army troops of the Tsarist Russian Empire were finally ready for battle under the urging of the officers.

It is not without reason that the Russian Empire's army is in the worst position among the many powers. They not only have low combat effectiveness, but also have simple weapons and equipment. At the same time, things are procrastinating.

On the contrary, Grand Duke Mikhail's army was well-trained. Comparing the two, there is a huge difference.

Grand Duke Nicholas seemed to have become accustomed to the performance of the Russian army and didn't care. In a hurry, the Tsarist Russian Empire Army never won wars by relying on individual combat power. They are often able to win the war, mainly because they have a great advantage in military strength. The endless cannon fodder composed of serfs allows them to consume the enemy's powerful troops and win the war.

Anyway, serfs were everywhere. What the Tsarist Russian Empire lacked most were these low-level soldiers.

No matter how many people die, these generals will not care. Big deal, just recruit another batch. In their eyes, these low-level soldiers are just cold numbers. As long as they can win, even if they all die, it's no big deal.

This also made the image of the Tsarist Russian Empire Army worse and worse.

The people of the Tsarist Russian Empire were also very resistant to being a soldier. They would not have chosen to serve as soldiers if they were not forced to do so and had no other choice.

Of course, with mandatory recruitment, there is no other way.

"Order the artillery to fire!" Grand Duke Nicholas gave the order.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Grand Duke!" Admiral Mirolav replied.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

After receiving the order, the artillery of the Tsarist Russian Imperial Guard and Army began shelling.

This time, Grand Duke Nicholas was very well prepared. They carried a total of thousands of artillery pieces, which is already very powerful firepower. And, because of the need to speed up the road. Therefore, there are still a lot of artillery that have not had time to bring.

But even so, Grand Duke Nicholas believed that they were enough to crush the artillery of Grand Duke Mikhail in terms of artillery.

It's just that there are quite a few of these artillery pieces. However, the vast majority are 76.2mm field guns. 122mm howitzers, the number is very small. All together, there are only a hundred or so.

This also makes the shelling of the Imperial Guards and Army of Tsarist Russia look fierce. But in fact, the lethality caused to Grand Duke Mikhail's army is actually very limited.

Even fortifications with civil structures, as long as they are not casually built bean curd projects, are enough to deal with them.

Of course, those 122mm howitzers are powerful enough to pose a threat to Grand Duke Mikhail's army on the defense line.

Fortunately, there are not many of these 122mm howitzers.

Moreover, the artillery under Grand Duke Mikhail's command is more powerful, and the replacement will not allow the artillery of Grand Duke Nicholas to act fiercely like this.

Although, Grand Duke Mikhail only deployed five infantry divisions on the front line of defense. However, the artillery regiments of the other five infantry divisions and the artillery battalions of the ten cavalry brigades were all strengthened to the front line.

This makes the artillery strength of the first-line positions very powerful.

Ten artillery regiments, plus the artillery companies of each infantry regiment, plus the artillery battalions of ten cavalry brigades, the assembled artillery has surpassed the troops under the command of Grand Duke Nicholas.

240 105mm howitzers and 900 75mm field guns are all ready for battle.

This was the case when the heavy artillery brigade did not come to the battlefield. After all, the infrastructure construction of the Tsarist Russian Empire is too bad, and the 155mm heavy howitzer of the heavy artillery brigade is too heavy.

In addition, Grand Duke Mikhail hoped to defeat the attack of Grand Duke Nicholas in the shortest time, so he did not dispatch the heavy artillery brigade.

But even so, the artillery of Grand Duke Mikhail is not inferior to the artillery of Grand Duke Nicholas in terms of the number of artillery.

And in terms of combat effectiveness, Grand Duke Mikhail's artillery is more powerful.

Not only because Grand Duke Mikhail has more large-caliber heavy artillery, but even those ordinary field artillery, Grand Duke Nicholas is completely incomparable with Grand Duke Mikhail.

In other words, there is a complete generation gap between the artillery of the two sides.

The artillery of Grand Duke Nicholas, or the artillery currently equipped by the Tsarist Russian Empire Army, are all retreating artillery. Even the whole world is like this. However, Grand Duke Mikhail's artillery was all fired.

The recoil gun is installed on the gun mount, and when the gun is fired, because of the recoil, it tends to push the gun away from the gun position in the opposite direction. This makes the artillery need to return the artillery to the gun position after the artillery fires, and then fire.

This has greatly affected the rate of fire of the retreating gun. It is often good to fire one or two shells in a minute. Even a well-trained artillery can only fire three shells.

In contrast, Guan Tuipao is much stronger in this respect.

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