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Volume 8 From the Mediterranean to... Chapter 105 Battle in the direction of Moscow...

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    At the beginning of the period, the Russian military and police who were spared the disaster in Moscow did not seem to care about the sabotage of these small groups of French rebels. In fact, they were also powerless and found it difficult to arrest these cunning guys because Kutuzov  The others took away all the elite soldiers in the town.  After millions of people's winter rations were wiped out in the ruthless fire, everyone became anxious. Militia soldiers mobilized one after another to surround and suppress the damn arsonists, but no one was arrested alive.  At the same time, Ukraine, Russia¡¯s big granary, unexpectedly encountered a potato plague of the century.  The high-yielding potatoes that were originally expected to help victims in central and northern Russia and Moscow and other places have actually been reduced to 90% in the season when the harvest is supposed to be good After the winter, Ukraine will not only be unable to mobilize food from outside, but will also face a serious crisis.  of famine.  Also in November, Desai broke his verbal commitment to the Russians.  He ordered the Baltic Fleet to blockade the Gulf of Finland and prevent Russian ships from entering or leaving the Baltic Sea.  After January 1813, when an unprecedented food famine broke out across the Russian plains, the Polish king simply ordered his navy to hold maritime military exercises for at least two months at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, and prohibited  Merchant ships from various countries, including Sweden and the United Kingdom, entered the Gulf of Finland and entered St. Petersburg.  To the east, on the long defense line of Latvia, Lithuania and Minsk, the Polish army has drawn a two-hundred-kilometer-wide death line, not allowing a grain of food from the west to flow into Russia, and also not allowing Russian disaster victims to enter the above-mentioned areas.  Unless the latter swears allegiance to Desai; In the south and southeast, the two sworn enemies of the Russians, Turkey and Persia, also took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the situation. The pagan profiteers took the opportunity to increase the price of food to 10 times the usual price, and demanded gold for transactions.  Throughout 1812 to 1813, after the double blow of brutal war and food famine, the population of Russia suddenly dropped from the original 45 million to less than 35 million, most of whom starved to death.  By this time, the population of Catalonia, the two countries owned by Desai, had increased to 12 million, and the Polish Federation had swelled to 13 million.  The gap between Alexander and Desai in terms of population and resources was greatly narrowed, and the balance of victory began to tilt towards Poland.  In addition to the beginning of the food war, the combat mission of preparing to encircle and annihilate the Russian new forces on the Berezina River has quietly started.  ¡­¡­ When Napoleon arrived at the Berezina River in late November, the French army had less than 40,000 troops and had lost most of its cavalry and almost all of its artillery.  However, the losses of the Russian army were also quite serious. The Russian army that started the pursuit in October had a total strength of more than 200,000. When it arrived at the Berezina River, there were only less than 100,000 regular troops left, carrying  Six hundred and sixty-two pieces of artillery, 425 of which were lost along the way.  It can be seen that the Russian army pursuing in the harsh winter was not so relaxed.  On the evening of November 26, the French army began to cross the river.  The next day, the Russian army discovered the French army crossing the river, dispatched chasing troops at any time, and began to attack fiercely.  Victor led the rearguard to carry out a tenacious blockade and repeatedly repelled the enemy troops rushing towards the ferry.  However, there were more and more Russian troops. They bombarded the two pontoon bridges with artillery fire and blocked the road leading to the bridge.  The situation is getting increasingly chaotic.  The two bridges were filled with dead bodies, while wounded soldiers, women and other military personnel who were scrambling to escape for their lives swarmed onto the bridges desperately.  The bridges were not very strong and could not withstand overloading and crowding. Under the weight of personnel and artillery carriages, one bridge collapsed.  So people became even more crazy and rushed to another bridge desperately.  This actually affects the efficiency of the bridge.  Many people jumped into the river in desperation and tried to swim across the river, but it was not easy. Due to the threat of floating ice and severe cold, most people died in the river.  At dawn on the 29th, the French rearguard burned the bridge.  At that time, at least 10,000 soldiers remained on the east coast.  The Russian Cossack cavalry came after them, and only miserable wails were heard from the east bank.  Many people who failed to cross the river either died under the sabers of the Cossack cavalry, or threw themselves into the cold river water, or into the burning sea of ??fire.  Later, about 12,000 corpses were exposed on this river. The horror was truly unbearable to see.  Before this catastrophe, Desai had already led his four expeditionary legions: the Lithuanian Legion, the East Baltic Naval Legion, the Prussian Legion (supplemented with a large number of Poles or Jews who believed in Lutheranism) and the Guards Legion. 120,000 troops were in the  Winter penetrated deep into Russia and unexpectedly occupied the Minsk Fortress, pushing the Polish defense line forward hundreds of kilometers again.  In fact, Desai originally wanted to assist the French army in the direction of the Berezina River.  However, two days before arriving at the scheduled battlefield, Desai unexpectedly received a piece of intelligence from within the French army from a Military Intelligence agent.  The agent claimed that most of the fleeing soldiers, including French and Polish soldiers, were still loyal to theOur Emperor Napoleon.  These brave and loyal soldiers would rather freeze to death or starve to death themselves, and would rather send all the firewood or the only bit of bread in their hands to Napoleon's side and hands.  After a brief silence, Desai ordered to cancel the attack plan at dawn the day after tomorrow, but postponed the attack time until the night when the Russians won the victory and indulged in drinking.  As for the 12,000 poor victims floating in the Berezina River, they became political victims of the rivalry between Desai and Napoleon.  However, Desai still acquiesced in allowing Napoleon and only 20,000 ghosts who were hungry, frostbitten, and even lost their weapons to stagger into Lithuania.  While obtaining supplies and treatment, they must also be closely monitored by the Polish army along the way.  Soon, Napoleon and his marshals and generals were given a comfortable sleigh, allowing them to borrow it from Poland and Saxony and return to France.  On December 5, Napoleon told the marshals around him in Smorgan that he would vow to recruit 300,000 more elite soldiers in France, the Confederation of the Rhine, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Spain, but everyone seemed unwilling to respond.  This severe cold in Russia completely buried the Napoleon Army. From then on, the Grand Army ceased to exist as a fighting force, and its new allies were tomorrow's enemies. The defection was imminent, and his empire was in dire straits.  Late at night on November 29, the four legions commanded by Desai quietly circled around the rear and flanks of the Russian army, and surrounded 80,000 Russian soldiers commanded by Chichakov, Wittgenstein, and Kutuzov.  At this time, the Russians were immersed in the joy of completely defeating 500,000 European invaders, and no one realized that another huge disaster was coming.  The horn of attack was first sounded by the Lithuanian Army in the north, and the Eastern Baltic Naval Army, Prussian Army and Guards Army responded immediately The exhausted and lonely and drunk Russian soldiers were caught off guard. Although Chichakov, Wittgenstein, Kutu  Zow and others organized officers to carry out heroic resistance. Under the encirclement and suppression of the superior Polish army, all efforts became in vain.  In this battle, among the 80,000 Russian troops, except for the 2,000 people led by General Chichakov who managed to escape, the others either died in battle or became prisoners.  In addition, Wittgenstein was killed and Kutuzov was seriously wounded and captured, but died after refusing treatment.  After this battle, among all the organized regular armies deployed by Russia on the Eastern European plains, only one Finnish front army was left to defend St. Petersburg, with a number of less than 30,000.  For at least a year, Alexander was unable to continue the war against Poland.  After the Great Famine in Ukraine spread to the entire Russia, in April 1813, with the mediation of the British and Swedes, Tsar Alexander sent a peace envoy to formally sign a peace agreement with Desai's envoy at the Riga Fortress.  The agreement stipulates that Russia will give up its ownership of Lithuania and Latvia, and cede Belarus (Minsk Defense Line) and part of Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River to Poland; at the same time, Poland will give up the war with Russia and lift the blockade of the Baltic Sea.  , resumed trade and agreed to transport grain to Russia.  On the day after the peace agreement was signed between Russia and Poland, Desai officially announced in Warsaw in May 1813 that Poland had joined the anti-French alliance based on an additional protocol of 1812 that he had to abide by, while the Kingdom of Saxony announced  War neutrality.  On the Iblis Peninsula, Catalonia still maintained a neutral position in the war in accordance with Desai's instructions, and through a political deal, it obtained two autonomous regions in northwest Spain from King Joseph.  In May 1813, Britain, Sweden, Russia, and Prussia organized a new round of anti-French alliance, and Poland also joined it.  However, Desai's army was only deployed in the Kingdom of Saxony, and only sent French troops out of the country as a courtesy, without collecting weapons.  In August, Austria entered the ranks of the anti-French alliance.  In October, the Battle of Berlin broke out. After Napoleon and the Allied Forces radicalized, they failed again (replacing the original Battle of Leipzig).  On March 31, 1814, the anti-French coalition entered Paris.  On April 3, the Senate announced Napoleon's abdication.  On April 6, Napoleon announced his abdication and signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau.  On May 3, Louis XVIII proclaimed his accession to the throne and entered Paris under the protection of bayonets from foreign troops.  On May 4, Napoleon arrived at Elba and began his exile.  Beginning in August, the Paris and Vienna Peace Conferences were held one after another.  Because Desai was seriously dissatisfied with the interference of the Russian-Prussian alliance in Polish affairs, in December 1814, he announced his withdrawal from the Congress of Vienna and actively prepared for a new round of war against Russia. Sweden and Turkey expressed support.  Prussia sided with Russia, while Austria was vacillating.  In February 1815, Napoleon escaped from Elba and resumed power in Paris  With the efforts of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria and Prussia joined the anti-French alliance, but gave up their support and support for Russia, and St. Petersburg will once again fight alone.  In March, Poland, together with Turkey and Persia, began a war against Russia. In May, they captured St. Petersburg and were crowned again in the Russian Palace.  In April, after British mediation, Russia once again sued for peace and ceded territory to pay compensation.  In May, the third Polish-Russian War ended. At this time, there was still one time before the Battle of Waterloo.  At this time, Desai was walking along the Oder River at the border with Prussia. Within 20 minutes, he would make a major decision!
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