Borodino is a small village only 250 miles from Moscow, and the Russian army has built complete fortifications near the village of Borodino, with a frontal fortification of eight kilometers alone, and the right flank is close to the Moskva River; The left flank is connected to the impassable Uitica Forest; The central is based on the Kurgannaya Heights; In the rear, there are large areas of forest and shrubland, which facilitate the deployment of troops and maneuvering in concealment. While retreating all the way, the Russian army organized a large number of men to build positions in Borodino, and at the same time relocated the surrounding population, destroyed communication roads and bridges, and cleared the walls, trying every means to create obstacles for Napoleon and force the French army to engage the Russian army on the terrain that was very unfavorable to it.

The strategic intention of the Russian side was to consume the French army in defensive operations, and Napoleon finally embellished the tail of the Russian army, and he also hoped to achieve the annihilation of the Russian army with a single impact by concentrating his own advantages, which would become a de facto decisive battle.

But this is too difficult.

Napoleon was more than 500 kilometers away from the military station he established on the western border of Russia, and nearly 1/3 of the army's grain and grass were consumed by the cattle pulling the grain carts, and the entire Napoleonic expeditionary force had 200,000 cattle and more than 100,000 military horses, and it was really difficult for them to maintain a forward force far from the military station or supply ground for a long time with their logistics and transportation capacity.

In Russia, although it was summer, except for a few light convoys, most of the convoys were impassable due to muddy roads and the destruction of many road bridges, and there were no pastures suitable for grazing.

Not long ago, another heavy rainstorm fell in the Lithuanian region, which seriously halted the march of the French army. As a result, the French army had to discard and consume large quantities of grain and grass on the spot. By the time they reached Borodino, the French had lost 20,000 horses.

When they were about to plunder everywhere, they found that all the villages had long been deserted, the Russians had fortified the wilderness, and not a single grain was left for Napoleon, and all Napoleon's logistical support plans were in vain.

It was under these circumstances that the Battle of Borodino began. But the first echelon, led by Napoleon himself, arrived at Borodino with less than 150,000 troops. As the main force of Napoleon's army against Russia, the initial strength of the first echelon reached 450,000 people.

However, due to the long battle line and transportation conditions, as well as the soldiers' fighting spirit and morale, etc., only 150,000 soldiers rushed to the Borodino line, and all of them were French. It included Napoleon's most cherished Guards.

In the original time and space, Napoleon, who was eager to fight, relied on the French elite, who did not have a large number of Russian troops in his hands, to win the Battle of Borodino. It was a big battle, with a total of nearly 300,000 troops on both sides, and the casualties on both sides were extremely heavy, especially the number of casualties among the senior generals. It is likely that about 30 of the combatants were wounded, the French suffered 38 casualties and more than 30,000 casualties among the generals alone, while the Russian casualties were as high as 45,000.

But in this time and space, although Napoleon still launched an attack on Borodino at the first time, the Battle of Borodino in this time and space lasted for eight days, and the first two days were low-intensity engagements, and the Russians obviously knew that Napoleon was waiting for the arrival of the follow-up troops, but they could not withdraw from Borodino as easily as the previous battle.

Kutuzov, who has just taken over as commander-in-chief of the Russian army, is unlikely to lead the Russian army to continue to retreat.

It's too close to Moscow, and if the Russians can't withstand the French attack here, Moscow will be difficult to defend. This is a move that will seriously affect the morale of the Russian army.

The previous defeat of the Russian army had forced Alexander I to abandon his favorite general, the first commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Mikhail Podanovich Barclay de Tolly, who brought back Kutuzov, who had been degraded by Alexander I after the end of the Franco-Russian War in 1806.

It was only on August 30 that Kutuzov arrived in the army.

After Suvorov's death, Kutuzov, who had only one eye left, was already a banner of the native faction of the Russian army. The previous commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Mikhail Podanovich Barclay de Tolly, was of Scottish descent. Although he joined the Russian army when he was not yet 11 years old, he was loyal to St. Petersburg and made many meritorious contributions to Russia, but this did not change his background.

Kutuzov, on the other hand, was a Slav through and through, and he was inextricably linked to Rumyantsev, Suvorov and other Russian generals, although he was very unpopular with Alexander I.

Anyway, in the Battle of Borodino in this time and space, the total strength of the French army is no longer less than that of the more than 150,000 Russian troops, but far exceeds the Russian army.

The arrival of the Rhine coalition on the last day of the battle brought Napoleon's forces to 250,000 men.

Napoleon's army was more than half of that of Russia, but when the battle was unfavorable and the Russian army retreated one after another, Napoleon's army still could not catch up with the rapidly withdrawn Russian army. Because of the lack of supplies for the former, not only the soldiers were hungry, but the horses were also listless. And the Russians are well fed and well-fed.

The result of this battle from the European Office is that Napoleon lost more troops than the original time and space, and the 'French army' lost nearly 70,000 people in this battle, and the lethality of flintlock pistol + hexagonal cannon + rocket is definitely greater than that of smoothbore gun + smoothbore gun. The casualties of the Russian army are similar to those of the French army.

After the defense of the central and left flanks was broken through, they tried to rely on the right flank under the personal command of Barclay to push back the French army, push Napoleon back to his original line, and regain the lost fortresses and fortifications.

The Russian army fought fiercely with the French for a day and a half, and 40,000 of the nearly 70,000 Russian casualties were killed or wounded because of this. The village of Borodino after the battle was littered with corpses, the weather that day was extremely bad, the rain was non-stop, the wind was blowing fiercely, Napoleon looked at the mountains of corpses of men and horses, was silent, and his face looked gloomy and terrible.

Napoleon was well aware that the French army had failed to deliver a annihilating blow to the main forces of the Russian army, and the strategic task was far from complete.

"In the battle of Borodino, the French army showed the greatest courage, but won the smallest victory." The total number of captured Russian soldiers was only 1,000, which is an incredibly small number.

But how many tens of thousands of these 70,000 'French troops' were real French? And the 70,000 Russian troops are all real Slavs......

The European Office has not yet been able to immediately verify the former, leaving Chen Ming with countless room for imagination.

After the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon's march into Moscow was next. Does that mean that Napoleon's fall is near?

The Russian army fought and retreated from the frontal battlefield, and the walls were clear, leaving no grain for the French; Behind enemy lines, the partisans were galloping, and their Cossack cavalry was frantically harassing Napoleon's follow-up troops and transport lines. The Don Cossacks led by Platov crippled an entire division when the French Sebastiani Division was alone.

These are all news from the European Office, and no matter how Chen Ming looks at it, he feels that Napoleon is going to repeat the mistakes of history. Because although the Russian army suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Borodino, accounting for one-third of the total number of the army, the Russian army still has a large number of reserves that can be put into battle at any time, and the logistics supply is safe and sound (in the era of Red Russia, one of the commemorative coins of the Borodino Battle issued by the government was specially designed to commemorate the volunteers and reserves). And Napoleon's transport lines were too long to maintain the supply of his existing troops. As long as this year's cold winter in Russia arrives as scheduled, it will be the French, not the Russian, who will be devastated in a few weeks.

Chen Ming looked up at Central Asia on the map, and the army was about to move. Hopefully this fight will bring me a good result. Chen Ming believes that the Ottomans have already started to move, because Istanbul received the notice from the European Office earlier than Nanjing.

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Central Asia is a good place, whether it is the vast Kazakh steppe or the Fergana Basin, it is a land of abundant water and grass. With the demise of the Southern Three Khanates, a large number of Chinese poured into the Ferghana Basin and the Kazakh steppes, and large pastures and farms sprung up one after another, in addition to cotton in great demand at home.

The cotton produced here does not need to be shipped to the Chinese mainland, but in Ili there is a super-large textile mill and a series of textile mills of various sizes in southern and northern Xinjiang. These mills are all big factories that wrap around the spinning mills.

In addition, a series of mining and development, iron ore, copper ore, lead and zinc ore, as well as potash, a natural fertilizer in agricultural production, plus rare metal mercury, etc., the development of the mining industry here has laid a solid foundation for the rapid development of the military industry of the Northwest Military Region.

Coupled with the traditional export pillars of the Seven Khanates, livestock, cattle, horses, and sheep, the people here are still living a very comfortable life, not to mention that their per capita income is already higher than that of the farmers in the Han region, at least compared to the previous days.

At the same time, the logging industry in Central Asia is also growing rapidly. Although much of the land is desert, desert and semi-arid, the land is mostly grassland and pasture, the proportion of agricultural and forest land is small, the forest area continues to be degraded, and the quality and productivity of forests are declining.

But what age is it? The 19th century has only passed 12 years, and even many people in the most elaborate Chen Han do not know the dangers of indiscriminate cutting; Or they know the dangers of deforestation, but they can't resist the temptation of money in the face of profits.

There are fewer broad-leaved trees in Central Asia. The most common tree species here are pine, birch, fir, spruce, larch, aspen, aspen, cedar, willow, elm, maple, walnut, birch, and saxon.

Although these conifers are generally softer, they all have their own different uses. For example, building materials, shipbuilding, furniture and railroad sleepers.

That's all money.

However, China's domestic forestry felling requires a permit, and after cutting, small saplings must be planted, both in terms of procedure and cost, which is much larger than that of the Seven Khanates. Therefore, there are many forests in the north of the frontier, but the development of the logging industry there is not as rapid as that of the Seven Khanates. In the current Seven Khanates, where are there less than ten large and small timber mills in cities close to mountains and forests? And every house has a steam oven.

In the 21st century, this kind of deforestation is considered absolute deforestation. But in the current era, this large forest is the wealth of God.

The pressure of the Seven Khanates is not small, they are next to Persia and Russia, if they want to develop and grow as soon as possible, wealth and capital are indispensable things, and there is no money to get factory machinery, where are the muskets and cannons?

Chen Han's railway was to be built all the way to Yili, not to mention anything else, the demand for sleepers alone was astronomical.

Chen Han's demand for timber has increased rapidly in recent years. In addition to being used in the shipbuilding industry, it is more for private consumption. A lot of precious wood, but the price is soaring!

Because the country is stable, the country's strength has increased. In other words, the world is peaceful, people's livelihood has been fully restored, and it has made great strides forward. Naturally, the requirements for living and living are rising.

Therefore, to a certain extent, this is too high the price of sleepers and raises the price of wood in the northwest.

Many of the laws and regulations of the Seven Khanates were copied from Chen Han, but the biggest difference between them and Chen Han was that Chen Han's laws and regulations were implemented one by one, but theirs was more of a face-saving job.