Russia conducted a very detailed study of the tactics of the Japanese Army from the General Staff. They found that the Japanese were very good at roundabout combat. When fighting with the Qing army and the German and Russian troops, when they encountered some obstacles on the front, they would choose to roundabout encirclement and avoid the opponent's edge. Sometimes they even had the tactic of frontal restraint and side breakthrough from the beginning.

Therefore, the Russians formulated their response in the original plan to leave a large number of reserves, and in fact they did the same in the Russo-Japanese War. Generally, Russian officers would leave half of their troops as reserves, which caused the shortage of frontal forces, and sometimes they could not defeat the Japanese in the frontal struggle. In addition, the Russians were too conservative and rarely took the initiative to attack, so they fought passively. In addition, all other reasons led to the defeat in the situation of superior military strength.

However, the situation in this plane changed a lot due to the intrusion of time travelers, especially in South Africa's Kariput Mobile Corps that severely damaged the British army in mobile warfare gave the Russians great confidence. According to Kuropatkin, we have the largest cavalry legion and the most elite cavalry in the world. This is Russia's innate wealth. Why can't we use them to deal with the Japanese?

The Russians conducted a more detailed study of Kariput's mobile corps. "The Boers' cavalry corps are completely an infantry corps that rely on horses to maneuver. They are equipped with a large number of machine guns and light artillery like infantry. The function of the horse is to send the infantry to the battlefield and then launch an attack in the form of infantry. Although their attack ability is a little worse, relying on the maneuverability of the horses, they can always launch a fatal blow when the opponent is most weak. Compared with head-on combat, such an attack can obviously save a lot of trouble." Kuropatkin said when meeting the Tsar.

"In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of this unit, the Boers were equipped with a large number of semi-automatic rifles, machine guns, and new mortars (mortars). The former greatly enhanced the infantry firepower. In the absence of sufficient suppression artillery, it was easy to break through the enemy's front line. Although the latter had a short range and low accuracy, it could provide sufficient firepower density in a very short time. The effect of firing 1,000 shells in 10 minutes was better than pouring 2,000 shells in 30 minutes. A weapon with a simple structure and a large projection was obviously suitable for our needs!"

Russians like simple and practical things with large projections, and mortars are obviously very suitable for today's Russia. The production process of mortars itself is not difficult, and the production of shells is not difficult, and cavalry actually cannot use many mortars. After all, cavalry cannot carry many mortars. A little reduction in the number of suppressed artillery is enough to equip the troops with a large number of mortars. Not only do cavalry need to be equipped, but infantry units also need to be equipped with such weapons that can be easily produced!

The real problem for the Russians now is the production of mortar shells. This production does not refer to the process, but to the production cost! After careful comparison, the Russians suddenly found that even in Russia's darkest, the cost of mortar shells produced in workshops that do not have to consider labor costs is still more than one-third more expensive than that of the shells produced in Bavaria! Moreover, the production capacity of shells is not enough.

The lack of artillery shells of the Russian artillery actually ran through the entire history before World War 1. Due to the lack of capacity in the Russo-Japanese War, there were certain gaps in Russian artillery shells. After all, the Russians could find a lot of excuses for this, such as the distance was too far, the transportation capacity was limited, and the country did not mobilize them with all its might.

But in fact, in World War 1, Russia's arms production, especially shells, and machine gun supply still had a huge gap. The Russians produced a total of 58 million shells in the three-year war, but the shells consumed up to 50 million each year! It can be believed that the shells produced in the Three-year War were only enough for 14 months to be fired... So what should I do if the remaining gap? Of course I bought it!

According to historical records, Russia ordered 56 million rounds of shells with only three inches of shells, of which 13 million were arrived, accounting for about 25% of the order volume. However, these 58 million rounds were not all original from Russia, because during the same period, the Russians produced less than 50 million shells, and there were 8.4 million imported from foreign countries with data alone! This was the case during the World War, so the situation during the Russo-Japanese War could only be changed. According to historical records, the military factories around the Moscow region produced 30,000 3-inch rounds of shells in a war that lasted for 1 year and 5 months... The consumption of the original artillery could not be guaranteed, so who will produce the newly added ammunition after the addition of mortars?

If shell production is already very bad, then machine gun production is even worse. Historically, before the outbreak of World War 1, Russia had only one factory able to produce machine guns. It was Tour's Weapon Manufacturing Plant, and the annual output was only 700. This was still at the level before World War 1, and the current output was less than 100! When the Russians realized the importance of machine guns and suddenly decided to have a large amount of equipment, they found that they could not expand their production capacity in a short period of time and could not find enough machine guns...

And it should be noted that machine guns are consumables like shells (in fact, artillery is the same, but the cannons are stronger and are in the rear, so they are not easy to be brought to Cui Huai.) If everything is based on history, machine guns have only made their mark in the Russo-Japanese War. The number of machine guns on both sides is not more than 300, but everything is changing. When people discovered the terrifying power of machine guns, almost all countries began to increase their number of machine guns. In the Russo-Japanese War, machine guns also cost both sides more.

The Russians estimated the number of machine guns they needed. In order to arm the troops of about 600,000 in the entire Northeast (according to the schedule of the Russians, after completing the war preparations.) Russia needs at least 4,000 machine guns (including front-line equipment and reserve inventory.) According to the number of machine guns produced by Russia now, it will take at least 40 years... And with the beginning of the war, the Russians expected to have at least 500 machine guns per month to barely maintain the damage to the war. If it is fought for one year, an additional 6,000 will be needed...
Chapter completed!