Tsarist Empire: Please call me His Majesty the Tsar chapter 017

At ten o’clock in the morning, the grinding troops of the Imperial Guard and Army of Tsarist Russia finally prepared for battle under the urging of the officers.

It was not for nothing that the strength of the Russian Imperial Army was in the worst position among the great powers. They not only have low combat effectiveness, but also rudimentary weapons and equipment. At the same time, doing things is also procrastinating.

On the contrary, Grand Duke Mikhail’s army was well trained. Compared with the two, there is a complete difference.

Grand Duke Nikolai seems to have long been accustomed to the performance of the Russian army and does not care. Urgently, the Tsarist Imperial Army has never relied on individual combat strength to win wars. They were often able to win wars, mainly because they had a great superiority in troops. The endless cannon fodder made up of serfs allowed them to consume the enemy’s tough troops and win the war.

Anyway, serfs are everywhere. The Russian Empire did not lack 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 you can win, even if you die all, it is not a big deal.

This also made the image of the Tsarist Imperial Army worse and worse.

The people of the Russian Empire were also very resistant to becoming soldiers. If it were not for the last resort, cornered, and had no other choice, they would not have chosen to become a soldier.

Of course, mandatory recruitment, then there is no way.

“Order the artillery to fire!” ordered Grand Duke Nicholas.

“Yes, Your Excellency,” replied Admiral Miloraf.

“Boom! boom! boom!”

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

This time, Grand Duke Nikolai’s preparation was still very adequate. They carried a total of thousands of guns, which was already very powerful firepower. And, because you need to speed up and get on the road. Therefore, there are still quite a few artillery pieces that have not had time to be brought.

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

Only, although there are quite a few of these artillery pieces. However, the vast majority were 76.2 mm field guns. 122 mm howitzers, very few in number. All of them add up, and there are only more than a hundred doors.

This made the shelling of the Imperial Guard and Army of the Russian Empire seem fierce. But in fact, the lethality caused to Grand Duke Mikhail’s army was actually very limited.

Even a civil structure fortification, as long as it is not a casual construction of tofu dregs works, is enough to deal with it.

Of course, those 122-mm howitzers were not powerful enough to pose a threat to the army of Grand Duke Mikhail on the defensive line.

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

Moreover, the artillery under Grand Duke Mikhail is even stronger, and the exchange will not let Grand Duke Nikolai’s artillery be murdered like this.

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

This makes the artillery strength of the front-line positions very strong.

Ten artillery regiments, plus artillery batteries of various infantry regiments, plus artillery battalions of ten cavalry brigades, had assembled more artillery than the troops under Grand Duke Nicholas.

240 105-mm howitzers, 900 75-mm field guns, all combat-ready.

This is still when the heavy artillery brigade did not come to the battlefield. After all, the infrastructure of the Tsarist Empire was too bad, and the 155-mm heavy howitzers of the heavy artillery brigade were too heavy.

In addition, Grand Duke Mikhail hoped to defeat Grand Duke Nikolai’s attack in the shortest possible time, so he did not send a heavy artillery brigade.

But even so, Grand Duke Mikhail’s artillery was not inferior in the number of artillery to Grand Duke Nikolai’s artillery at all.

And in terms of combat effectiveness, Grand Duke Mikhail’s artillery is even stronger.

Not only because the number of large-caliber heavy artillery under Grand Duke Mikhail was more, even those ordinary field guns, Grand Duke Nikolai was completely unable to compare with Grand Duke Mikhail.

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

Grand Duke Nikolai’s artillery, or the artillery now equipped by the Tsarist Imperial Army, was a retired gun. Even all over the world. However, Grand Duke Mikhail’s artillery was all tube retreat.

The retreat gun was mounted on the gun mount, and when the gun fired, because of the recoil, it often pushed the gun back away from the gun position. This makes it necessary for the artillery to return the gun to the gun position after it has been fired, and then open fire.

This greatly affected the rate of fire of the retreated gun, which often fired one or two shells a minute, which is very good. Even well-trained artillerymen can fire only three shells.

In contrast, the tube cannon is much stronger in this regard.

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