The sun was shining on the Volga fields, and the roads were muddy from the melting of the snow and ice as the weather had been clear for days. The fleeing Russian civilians struggled to move their feet on the muddy roads, and as for the cars and heavy equipment, they had all given up.

The green life of the forest not far away is a sight to behold.

Spring came, but that didn't make the Russians wait for hope. The dripping spring rain and melting snow made the roads difficult to walk, and it was not only the Russian civilians who were driven west by Chen Han's army, but also the Russian army and Chen Han's army.

Chen Han blocked many Volga rivers. As the mother river of Russia, the Volga River is like the Yellow River, with twists and turns, different widths and narrownesses. Sometimes it can be as wide as a dozen kilometers, and sometimes it is only a few hundred meters. Chen Han failed to take Tsaritsyn, the Russian army conscripted a large number of civilians to participate in the fighting, and the Wehrmacht sank many ships into the narrow part of the Volga River as they retreated.

Breaking through the thick ice on the Volga River and scuttling boats full of earth, sand and gravel, the result was that in the process of the eastward advance of the Russian army, the march of the army and the transportation of materials had to be arduous trekking on muddy land roads.

Some of the warships of the Caspian Flotilla, which had taken refuge in the upper reaches of Tsaritsyn before the Volga River froze, are now also held in Tsaritsyn.

This is really difficult for the army, and hard for the civilians.

Even so, the muddy and puddled road was crowded with people, almost all of them from west to east were soldiers, and from east to west all were civilians who had fled.

After the cold winter, the Chinese began a large-scale drive of Russian civilians from the lower Volga and the Caucasus, not looting property or food, but burning villages and even towns.

When the Chinese give an order to 'leave' somewhere, if the deadline expires and the Russians do not leave, they will directly set fire to everything that can be burned. It doesn't matter how much possessions are still hidden in it, no matter how many people are still in it.

Such seemingly benevolent, but in fact callous, norms have forced hundreds of thousands of Russians to flee their homeland.

This can create a lot of trouble for the Russian army advancing eastward, first of all, their mass base is gone, and the secrecy of the military movement of Chen Han's army has been greatly enhanced; Secondly, there are so many refugees who need to be resettled, which will inevitably involve a lot of energy on the part of the Russians.

And this move did contain the Russian army, although it made Russia hate China even more.

Whether they are poor or rich, they are expressionless and hurried on the way to escape, and their luggage is also heavy. Although they had abandoned enough before that, some hard-nosed Russians set the whole house on fire with a straightforward shot before leaving their homeland.

Fortunately, the cold winter has passed, and although the spring nights on the Volga are still cold, they can finally get through. And the Chinese only drove them west, but did not ask them to go west as quickly and quickly as possible. These Russian civilians can be in a less hurry on their way to safety.

So, St. Petersburg's troops from the East met them. Subsequently, many Russians became volunteers in the transport units of the Russian army. They did their best to transport food and munitions to the Russian army, dragging the heavy artillery on the muddy roads.

Just because they hate the Chinese in their hearts!

This is Tulinsk, a city on the west bank of the Volga River, 200 kilometers from Astrakhan, halfway between Astrakhan and Tsaritsyn. A small city, with no decent industry, and not too many inhabitants, with a total population of less than 10,000 people—including the villages within twenty or thirty miles of the periphery.

However, this is a small wharf on the lower Volga River, and it is also a major point of land transportation from Astrakhan to Tsaritsyn. As a result, Tulinsk became an important hub for East-West transportation. The city received a notice from Chen Han half a month ago, asking them to evacuate the city within ten days. Now, a hundred miles northwest of the city, the narrow stretch of road is crowded with refugees and reinforcements of Russian troops.

Astrakhan was just taken by Chen Han last month, and the latter paid a lot of price, so the published battle report stated a 'fact' - due to the stubborn resistance of the Russian army, they often fought until the last moment in the fortress and the last man did not surrender, because the 7,000 Russian troops guarding Astrakhan were all wiped out by Major General Pokrov. The result of no 'surrender' is that no one is 'captured', or all are 'killed in battle'.

No matter how you look at such a war report, it is a bit fake, and it is impossible for an army in this era to die in battle and not surrender.

Meloyarsky also held out in the city of Tsaritsyn, while Tsar Alexander I was reported to have rushed to Barashov, and the vanguard of the Russian army had already crossed Tsaritsyn. There are only a little more than 100 miles left from Tulinsk.

Turinsk was the first battlefield that Chen Han prepared for Russia.

Although this city that had just been driven out by Chen Han was not a fortress, it was not even a big town, and there was also no favorable terrain, but Wei Baocheng, Chen Wei and the others all felt that Chen Han could not retreat.

Astrakhan still needed time to repair the fortifications of the city and repair the positions on the outer edge, and when the Russian reinforcements arrived in Tsaritsyn, Chen Han chose to retreat without hesitation. However, Chen Han could choose to retreat in Tsaritsyn, but he could not retreat in Astrakhan.

As soon as he retreated, Chen Han tended to be inferior in the Caucasian battlefield.

So Astrakhan and Chen Han will not retreat. And Tulinsk was the first battlefield where they came to measure the combat effectiveness of the Russian army on the Western Front.

The Russian army on the Western Front was no match for their counterparts on the Eastern Front, who had previously driven Napoleon out of Russia with the tricolor banner.

Napoleon's Murat in Warsaw quickly signed an armistice with Russia on behalf of France, Lithuania was completely sold to Russia, and most of Poland, which had previously been occupied by Russia, became Russia's 'sacrosanct territory'.

There are no other conditions.

The Russians were in a hurry to deal with the Ottomans and Chen Han in the East, and Alexander I hated Napoleon so much that he could not send troops to fight against France in the face of the unstable nest.

Therefore, the two countries abandoned unrealistic conditions and quickly signed an armistice while maintaining the same pre-war Russian sphere of influence. The only change was Napoleon's promise to Russia not to support the restoration of Poland.

The Grand Duchy of Warsaw can only be the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. In the same way, Lithuania can only be the Lithuania of the tsar.

Russia got the guarantees they most wanted. If Napoleon before the war had been willing to make such a promise to St. Petersburg, perhaps Russia would not have been so resolute on the side of the British.

Of course, European politicians know that ententes and treaties are just a piece of waste paper for the powerful side. For the strong, signing the treaty is to tear it up in the future.

If it could, St. Petersburg would also like to bury Napoleon in hell once and for all. But there is nothing they can do!

Half-crippled, Napoleon returned to his lair for an even tougher test. Because of the British, because of the Iberian Peninsula, because of Spain and Portugal.

The main forces of the Russian army were divided into two, part of which was transferred to Ukraine and to the Black Sea; The other part traveled from the western end of northern Europe to the eastern end of the winter snow.

Compared to the Ottoman Empire, Russia clearly values China more. Alexander I did not even return to St. Petersburg once, and followed the army directly to the Eastern Front.

Now the commander-in-chief of the Russian army is no longer Tukuzov, who is seriously overweight and in poor health, after driving Napoleon out of Russia, has stepped down. He was succeeded by Barclay, who had distinguished himself in the Battle of Borodino, but the commander-in-chief of the Russian forces on the Eastern Front was Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration, who was lucky enough to save his life in the Battle of Borodino.

One winter allowed Bagration to heal from his injuries, while Dmitry Sergeyevich Dokhturov of 'Iron General' served as his deputy.

The 56-year-old Dokhturov is a hero in the Russian war, he has 32 years of military experience, and when the Russo-French war broke out last year, he served as the commander of the 6th Army, led the army in the Lida region to break through the siege, and participated in the defense of Smolensk. During the Battle of Borodino, he initially served as the central commander of the Russian army, and after Bagration was wounded, he served as the commander of the left flank. When the French retreated from Moscow, the troops under his command were promptly advanced to Jaroslavitz, and the troops under the command of General Nikolai Nikolayevich Raevsky were two 'hungry wolves' that were clutching Napoleon.

The Russian army has reinforced the eastern front with 140,000 troops, while more than 50,000 Russian recruits are gathering in Moscow. The relatively large population and powerful mobilization mechanism, as well as the cheap cost of soldiers, have made Russia's war potential very huge.

If it weren't for the fact that the Russian army's production of new rifles has always been limited, and a large number of ordnance needs to be transported to St. Petersburg by sea by the British, which has congenitally limited the expansion of the Russian army, St. Petersburg will definitely be able to pile up its own army to one million people at once.

Now that the Russian army has liberated the main forces from the war with Napoleon, the pressure on St. Petersburg has been greatly reduced, but the number of the main army corps of the Russian army has also been greatly reduced.

A series of battles on the Western Front cost the Russian army more than a hundred thousand people, and this is only the regular army. The rebels organized by the Russian masses also paid a bloody and heavy price. Alexander I brought the main force of 140,000 to the east this time, and the Russian battles in Ukraine and the Black Sea could only be fought with a group of recruits and second-line troops.

The letter sent by the European Office was sent by Chen Ming to the northwest front early on, the main force of the Russian army after the 140,000 fierce battle with Napoleon, which is obviously the most combat-ready army in Russia. It was a bit risky to put it directly in Astrakhan, so Tulinsk, located halfway between Astrakhan and Tsaritsyn, became a battlefield of temptation.

Almost no refugees were willing to follow the Russian army back home, and they would not return to the Volga until the war subsided. They have 'nothing' and they have to go to a city with social order so that they can get relief and get the food they need most.

And this is also out of fear of war and distrust of the Russian army.

Although they had just defeated the invincible Napoleon on the Western Front, their current opponent was the powerful Chinese. Although many years have passed since China fought Russia, China's strength is well known to all Russians.

No matter how patriotic a person is, he cannot ignore the facts. It's like a battle between a wilderness wolf and an elephant. Wild wolves are fierce, but elephants are even more invincible, and no one will look favorably on wild wolves.

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