"His Excellency Kuropatkin, your plan has been approved by His Majesty the Tsar. You can plan the entire Polish theater in accordance with your plan." An officer said after sending a document to Kuropatkin.

"Is that true? It would be great!" A smile appeared on the corner of Kulopatkin's mouth. But this smile was a catastrophe for some people! "Now, let's take action! We don't have much time!"

When Kulopatkin obtained the authorization from the Supreme Power, the first thing he did was to force civilians from the Russian Polish region to build various military facilities for Russia. The second thing was to carry out planned forced migration of personnel from the Russian Polish region! Under the oppression of the Russian police batons and some Polish nobles, a large number of Poles left the place where they lived for generations and moved towards Belarus and Ukraine. The road was filled with blood and tears, but in Kulopatkin's view, all this was completely worth it.

"Russian Poland is only 128,000 square kilometers, but there is a population of 10 million here! Most of them are Poles, which are completely unnecessary and will even have a huge impact on the empire in war." Kulopatkin said this more than once at a military meeting. What he said also makes sense. The Poles are not honest. This is what the three countries of Russia, Germany and Austria have told them over hundreds of years of experience that the Poles make their independence if they have some chances, and they have to create opportunities to make their independence if they don't have the chance... And once the war begins, the Poles will definitely not be honest, so it is normal for Russia to reduce the Polish population in this region and stabilize the society.

Secondly, from the perspective of economic and supply, it is inevitable to reduce the population of the Polish region. First, Russian Poland itself cannot be self-sufficient! The Polish region introduces a large amount of food from other parts of Russia every year. Although this is not a problem in peacetime, think about it, once a war starts, more than 1.5 million Russian troops will enter here, and the food gap in the region will be even larger and more food imports are needed. Russia's transportation capacity cannot be compared with Western Europe. In order to transport military supplies during the war, even resource transportation will be greatly reduced. In this case, Poland's huge population becomes a burden of transportation. According to Kulopatkin, why don't we drive the Poles to Ukraine and let them eat nearby, instead of running hundreds or even thousands of Russian miles to deliver food by train?

The second reason is to deploy more garrisons in peacetime. A group of Russian military leaders, including Kulopatkin, knew that if the Germans were serious, the Russians could not defeat the Germans in positional wars, which is certain, especially the Bavarian Legion. Although Rupresit did a good job of keeping secrets, the Russians could still see some of them. After all, the Russians bought a lot of military equipment in the Russo-Japanese War, and the excellent performance of these weapons left a deep impression on the Russians. And in the Boer War and the North African War, the appearance of the Bavarian Legion from time to time could also make the Russians have a higher evaluation of their opponents.

"If both sides have equal strength, our legion will be defeated if it cannot even last long in positional warfare. The artillery of the Bavarian legion is outrageous in terms of quantity and caliber, and the infantry weapons are also very elite. Their machine gun equipment rate should be the largest among the great powers, and at least one-third of the infantry are equipped with semi-automatic rifles. Once the war begins, the same number of Russian troops will be easily flooded by their bullet rains."

"So, if we want to deal with this force, we must concentrate twice the force to suppress it. Considering that the Bavarian Legion will have at least 5 to 6 armies in wartime, with a total force of more than 250,000, we must deploy two armies to deal with the Bavarian Legion. Then there will be two armies to deal with the East Prussian Legion and four armies to deal with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this way, we must at least concentrate 8 armies, at least 70 infantry divisions and 21 cavalry divisions at the beginning of the war to gain an advantage." Brussinov wrote in a document to the General Staff.

According to Brusinov's plan, this scale is much stronger than in history. In history, at the beginning of the war, the Russians deployed two fronts on the entire Eastern Front, namely the two armies of the Northwest Front, a total of 17.5 infantry divisions, and then the four armies of the Southwest Front, a total of 34.5 infantry divisions, and a total of 52 infantry divisions and 21 cavalry divisions...

The fundamental reason for such a huge gap is that the Russians have confirmed that the Bavarian Legion will fight on the Eastern Front. The Russians are not stupid. They can easily calculate the troops they will face. East Prussia cannot be completely handed over to the Bavarian Legion to defend, so there will be at least one army. The Bavarian Legion is a large army and is well-equipped. In order to suppress it, only two army is needed to kill. Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire is a coffee table, it has no problem to gather 4 army.

In this way, the Russians must deploy eight armies, and the Russians are also self-aware. They know that according to the agreement with the French, if they wait until the war starts and then mobilize and deploy, it is impossible to get out eight armies at once!

According to the requirements of the agreement, Russia must complete the mobilization within 18 days, but if eight armies were to be deployed, even in the most optimistic situation, Russia still needs one month to 40 days to complete the deployment. So in the end, the Russians passed the first phase of the plan to reduce the Polish population by 2 million Polish in Poland and exchange for a proposal to increase the conventional garrison on the border and reduce logistical pressure, which is what Kuropatkin does now. If this plan can be achieved, the Russians will still have hope of reaching the strength of the eight armies through pre-war deployment and wartime mobilization.

The 8 army group had 70 infantry divisions and 21 cavalry divisions on the front line. This scale can be described as terror. Although after a series of optimized deployments, the Russians overdraw their troops in advance (in history, some second-line troops mobilized and entered the battlefield very late, and this time the Russians deployed some troops that originally needed to be mobilized from the rear by first increasing their garrisons.) The entire Russian troops on the Eastern Front reached a new peak!
Chapter completed!