Chapter 116
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In response to the Crimean War, Li Xiao also made certain arrangements, such as updating the weapons and equipment of the local Russian garrison and the Wallachian army, such as stockpiling ammunition, food and grass, and building military fortresses and other defensive facilities.
It's just that Li Xiao himself knows that these preparations can only be said to be better than nothing. For example, the update of weapons and equipment. Although they have replaced new rifles, the combat effectiveness of the Wallachia army is still weak.
On the one hand, it was because the morale was not high. After all, the Wallachians did not have a good impression of Russia. Even if Alexei had done some work in the past three years and won some praise, it was not enough to turn things around. Generally speaking, the Wallachia army is similar to the Imperial Association Army. It can maintain law and order at ordinary times, but it can't stand it at all when it comes to war.
As for Leonid's garrison, the combat effectiveness of these people has been greatly improved due to the replacement of new weapons, but the problem is that the number is too small, there are only a total of more than 10,000 people. The scale of the Crimean War in the future will be hundreds of thousands of people fighting each other, no matter how strong tens of thousands of people are, it is nothing but the light of rice grains.
As for the construction of military fortresses and other defensive facilities, this would have a certain effect. Before the really useful grenades became popular, even if they used 30-pound or 48-pound heavy artillery to attack the fortress, it would take a long time.
It's a pity that Wallachia's financial resources are limited, and Alexei and Li Xiao have too many aspects to take care of, so they don't have enough money to build a large number of fortresses. At most, it is to build some strategic fulcrums, and at most it will play a certain hysteresis effect when facing the Turkish army.
In the final analysis, if Wallachia wants to stick to the end of the war, what it needs most is the support of Russia. If Russia can support it, Wallachia will naturally be able to support it. Once Russia is overwhelmed, Navalachia will become a delicacy on the plate in minutes, and will be eaten up by the great powers.
It's a pity that Li Xiao couldn't think of a way for Russia to win the Crimean War even after thinking about it. Russia has attracted too much hatred before, and there is hardly a reliable ally around it, and then it has to face Europe and even the two most powerful and technologically advanced countries in the world at the same time.
What did Russia win? Even if you pile up heads, you can't kill the opponent, okay? After all, Turkey is also rich in human resources, and it can also pile up heads. The results in history are also obvious. Russia suffered 400,000 to 500,000 casualties, almost a serious loss of vitality, Turkey also suffered 300,000 to 500,000 casualties, Britain and France added one hundred thousand casualties, so piles of heads are not acceptable.
As for the others, strategic depth and rich resources are useless for the time being, because Britain and France have no intention of directly attacking the Russian mainland, and it is impossible to fight all the way to Moscow and then be dragged to death like Napoleon did.
The purpose of Britain and France is very clear, which is to interrupt Russia's arm extending to Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea, and ensure that polar bears continue to be imprisoned in the Black Sea and cannot get out.
This also makes it even more impossible for them to fully invade Russia. Naturally, no matter how deep the strategy is, it is useless. As for what resources are abundant, when Russia is not an industrial country, no matter how many natural resources there are, they are just mines, which is meaningless!
In short, Li Xiao is not optimistic that Russia can have a good result in the Crimean War, but he has no choice but to hope that Russia can have a good result, because once Russia loses, it means that he and Alexei Several years of operations in Wallachia failed.
Li Xiao had put a lot of effort into dealing with Wallachia, and naturally he didn't want to see everything go to waste, but a clever woman can't live without rice, and he has nothing to do about future wars. This feeling of powerlessness is really aggrieved.
Just when he was scratching his head in anxiety, Nasimov and Kornilov suddenly arrived in Bucharest.
In the past two years, the two students Lazarev had the opportunity to display their talents. Nasimov became the chief of staff of the Black Sea Fleet, and Kornilov was simply promoted to lieutenant general and served as the deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
The only regret is that Admiral Lazarev died of illness in 1851, and the Black Sea Fleet was handed over to Berkh by Nicholas I. For Berge, his ability is average and his energy is average. The most important thing is that his professionalism is still average. So after he became the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, he actually did nothing. Although the regulations set by Lazarev continued to be implemented, Berkh did not support those pioneering projects at all.
Let's put it this way, under the leadership of Berge, the Black Sea Fleet is actually standing still, neither progressing nor regressing. However, in this ever-changing era, no progress is actually a regression. Compared with the gradual popularization of steam power by the British and French navies, the Black Sea Fleet is still clinging to its sails, and it is increasingly outdated.
And this painful situation made Kornilov and Nasimov very anxious, but without the support of the teacher, they couldn't force the modernization of the Black Sea Fleet, so they could only try to find a breakthrough.
And cooperating with Wallachia is one of the ways to play the side ball. Although Wallachia has no coastline, it actually has a navy because of the existence of the Danube. For Li Xiao and Alexei, there was nothing to say about promoting new technologies, so they formed an inland river fleet with Kornilov and Naximov. Although this inland river fleet is not large in scale, its technology is relatively advanced, and most of the ships use steam power.
Although the tonnage of the Wallachia Inland Fleet is relatively small, it also helped the Black Sea Fleet to conduct technical verification, which has certain verification significance in the design layout of steam ships and the application of specific boilers and steam engines.
It should be said that Kornilov and Nasimov still attach great importance to this fleet, and they will come to inspect it from time to time.
This time they came to participate in the launching ceremony of the newest patrol mine-laying ship. This warship named Sirius had a displacement of about 500 tons and was propelled by paddle wheels, with a maximum speed of 13 knots. The ship can carry 200 mines or other materials. The only regret is that the armament is very weak, with only four 12-pound guns.
"This firepower is not enough to tickle the enemy!" Kornilov bluntly complained, "Why build this kind of ship? It's a waste of money!"
In Kornilov's view, the main boiler of the Sirius is a complete waste. It is better to remove it and install it on the battleship of the Black Sea Fleet. If such modification can be carried out, the maneuverability of his battleship will be greatly improved, and it can basically catch up Similar warships of Britain and France.
It's just that Li Xiao doesn't see it that way, it's meaningless to Li Xiao...
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