"Your Excellency, we've already taken down Mosk. Moreover, they had already annihilated the main army of Grand Duke Nicholas. Even though there were still hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Imperial Army. However, these troops were deployed all over the empire. They won't be able to gather together in a short period of time, much less pose a threat to us.
Even if they mobilized again, it would take a lot of time. Now, we should follow up the victory and take Petersburg. At that time, whether it was to capture Grand Duke Nicholas or to chase him out of the Empire. There will be no more variables."
Lieutenant General Brusilov suggested.
Grand Duke Michael nodded. It was indeed time to take action.
"General Guarco, you will lead the cavalry to attack Petersburg. They had to reach Petersburg in the shortest time possible and take it down. Furthermore, he controlled the entire cabinet! I believe that those guys in the cabinet should know what to do at this time!”said Grand Duke Michael.
Previously, although the upper echelons of the cabinet of the Russian Empire were on the side of Grand Duke Nicholas, they were still in the same position. However, there were also Grand Duke Michael's men among them. Most of them were neutral parties who did not express their stance.
Now that the outcome of the war had been decided, it was naturally time for them to make a choice.
Grand Duke Michael had already won the war, and he was also the first in line to inherit the throne. Although he was suspected of murdering Tsar Nicholas II. However, no one had clear evidence to prove that it was him. Then, no one could stop him from becoming the new Tsar.
The higher-ups in the cabinet naturally wouldn't deliberately obstruct him at this time. Otherwise, he would be courting death.
Moreover, they also did not want the Russian Empire to fall into chaos. In that case, the entire empire would be the one to suffer in the end.
"Yes, Your Grace. I promise to complete the mission!”Lieutenant General Guarco immediately replied.
Immediately, Lieutenant General Guarco led ten cavalry brigades to Petersburg.
"Your Excellency, do we still need to continue mobilizing? Right now, we have hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war. Amongst them, there was also the main force of the guards. Even if some of them didn't want to continue being soldiers. However, we have enough soldiers. The mobilization order we issued earlier seems to be able to be terminated.”Lieutenant General Brusilov suggested.
Grand Duke Michael thought about it and accepted this suggestion.
The Russian Empire had the most regular troops among all the countries.
Of course, this was mainly because the territory of the Russian Empire was the largest in the world. At the same time, it had the largest population in the western world.
However, with the current economic strength of the Russian Empire, it was very stressful to keep such a large standing army. Especially in terms of finance, the current Russian Empire could be said to be heavily in debt.
Moreover, because the military expenditure was not high, the treatment of the soldiers was also very poor. As a result, the Russian army not only had poor training, but their equipment was also very poor. Among the great powers, it was the worst.
Before deciding to march on Petersburg, Grand Duke Michael ordered another 20 infantry divisions to be mobilized. But now, they had already won. Next, they would reorganize the Russian Empire's guards and army. Naturally, there was no need to mobilize so many troops. After all, this was not a time of war. There was no need to build too many armies at all costs.
"Stop mobilizing. However, we need to transfer elite personnel from Mosk's prisoners of war to join the army. On top of that, he would form another 20 infantry divisions. After that, he would reorganize the troops of the various military regions of the empire and form twenty infantry divisions. This allowed the Empire's army to maintain around 60 infantry divisions!”said Grand Duke Michael.
With Grand Duke Michael's military establishment, sixty infantry divisions were already about 1.1 million people.
Adding on the remaining cavalry, artillery, mountain infantry, and so on, the total number of soldiers could reach 1.4 million.
It could be said that the overall scale was already larger than the size of the Russian army at this time.
Of course, just slightly expanding the size of the Russian army was definitely not enough.
Next, the Russian army would have to strengthen their training and equip themselves with advanced weapons and equipment, which would allow the combat strength of the Russian army to undergo earth-shattering changes.
Grand Duke Michael did not want the army of the Russian Empire to continue to be called a garbage army.
After all, in a few years, the Russian Empire would have to fight the Japanese Empire in the distant east.
The Far East was too far away from the Russian Empire, which meant that the Russian Empire was destined to be unable to send too many troops to participate in this battle. If the combat strength of the army was too terrible, how could they defeat the Japanese?
Although there were still a few years left. However, Grand Duke Michael had to make preparations for this.
He hoped that he could defeat the Japanese in one fell swoop and cut off the path of the Japanese Empire to becoming a superpower!
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