Chapter 1103: Luring Them into the Trap

The entire war situation with Tsarist Russia has, in fact, already entered a white-hot state.

After Balkhash Lake was taken by Tsarist Russia, Tsarist Russia quickly reinforced Balkhash Lake.

Today, the Tsarist Russian troops here have already exceeded 250,000!

It can be seen that Peter the Great is absolutely determined to win this war against Longyan!

His great army has already begun to slowly disengage from the conflict with the Ottoman Empire and has turned toward Longyan.

Peter's foresight has aroused Liu Zheng's vigilance.

He is coming specifically for him!

He is coming specifically for the entire Technology Tree of Longyan!

All of this fermentation, this accumulation of envy, is only because of one reason: the development of technology in Yintan City, including the appearance of the Train this time, and the Chemical Fertilizer that has already appeared on the land of Liangzhou at this time!

It is impossible for Peter not to have collected this intelligence.

Chemical Fertilizer!

The appearance of Chemical Fertilizer has once again led to an explosion of technology in agriculture; this thing is truly remarkable. It can be said that previously, grain with a yield of fifty shi per mu can directly increase production several times over after using Chemical Fertilizer! Such a barren place as Liangzhou, after using Chemical Fertilizer, has seen its grain production capacity take off, and it can even be self-sufficient! In the past, most of Liangzhou's grain had to rely on imports!

Not to mention the land of Liaodong.

It is now the Beidacang of the whole country!

Speaking of which, what is the most important resource of a country? Grain, grain, and still grain! This is the foundation of a country. If you cannot even feed your troops and your common people, what are you talking about regarding development, what are you talking about regarding a country, and what are you talking about regarding political power?

And Tsarist Russia.

What it is facing at this moment is exactly such a situation.

In such a huge country, there is actually not much land suitable for growing grain.

In the freezing cold of Tsarist Russia, grain is the biggest problem.

In Liu Zheng's memory, the Tsarist Russia of his past life was the world's number one Wheat exporting country, but that was achieved precisely by using modern Chemical Fertilizer and many other technologies.

The current Tsarist Russia...

Is a country that is poor to the point of death!

Therefore.

For Liu Zheng to want to curb the development of Tsarist Russia, he actually only needs one Method!

Chemical Fertilizer!

Control the Chemical Fertilizer!

Today, the only countries in the world that can research Chemical Fertilizer are Longyan and Liangzhou!

Liu Zheng's intention is that, no matter what, he cannot let Tsarist Russia fight its way to Liangzhou through the Western Regions! Liangzhou is his own base camp.

And...

He has another idea!

For a large country like Tsarist Russia, if one wants to make it impossible for them to pose a continuous threat to Longyan, then there is only one Method!

Drag it out!

Protracted War!

This requires a lot of knowledge and many concepts fused together to reach such a far-sighted conclusion. That is to say, even though this war could be ended very quickly, Liu Zheng is unwilling to do so. He just wants to keep the Tsarist Russian troops exhausted at Balkhash Lake! Is it 250,000 now?

Good.

Then fight!

Keep fighting!

Fight until they increase their troops to 300,000, 400,000, 500,000...

The current number of Standing Army troops in Tsarist Russia is around one million.

Of course, this is not the most critical point; the critical point is that Liu Zheng knows that Tsarist Russia lacks grain! The whole country lacks grain! They simply cannot withstand the consumption of a long-term war! They have no money!

And relatively speaking.

Longyan has plenty of money and plenty of grain.

This year, the Chemical Fertilizer from Yintan City has already begun to be promoted nationwide. Under the catalysis of Chemical Fertilizer, the grain harvest will definitely see a several-fold increase! By contrast, after Tsarist Russia enters the Little Ice Age, it will be even more difficult in terms of grain!

If things go on like this.

This battle of Longyan can

be sustained.

But Tsarist Russia cannot afford the consumption!

Liu Zheng wants to keep consuming Tsarist Russia at Balkhash Lake!

This is the only Method he has thought of to deal with Peter the Great, this emperor through the ages! Because he knows that after Peter the Great dies, there is still Catherine II! Both of these are fierce figures. If one wants to fundamentally prevent them from posing any threat to Longyan, one can only start with their national strength!

A clever housewife cannot cook without rice!

That is exactly what this refers to!

How was the Soviet Union of his past life dragged down?

And that was even without a war!

Cold War!

Arms race!

This time, Liu Zheng wants to make Tsarist Russia collapse without being attacked!

By constantly consuming Tsarist Russia here and leaving their national strength hollow, he can free up his hands to develop in other directions! Or even strike directly into Europe!

Zou Sheng had also long since received this order from Liu Zheng.

Regarding Liu Zheng's idea, Zou Sheng naturally finds it astonishing. He does not have half a doubt.

"Protracted War!"

Zou Sheng cast a disdainful glance at this group of generals and said indifferently.

"What?"

"This..."

"General Zou, are all the people from your Liangzhou this cowardly?"

"Why not just drive the Tsarist Russia people out directly!"

"Exactly!"

"We clearly have the strength!"

"Hahahaha, is this the kind of soldier that Vice Minister Liu leads?"

"Truly cowardly!"

The group of people found it very hard to understand.

Zou Sheng, however, paid them no mind.

He lowered his head to look at the sand table.

After Balkhash Lake was seized by Rumyantsev, Longyan had indeed obtained intelligence regarding their troop strength. He carefully studied the troop composition of Tsarist Russia, as well as the defensive formation of the enemy at this time.

It had to be said.

That Rumyantsev could become an Army Marshal of Tsarist Russia was definitely not an empty reputation.

In tactics, methods of warfare, and defense, he displayed his military talent everywhere.

However...

Zou Sheng smiled faintly.

He was only afraid that Rumyantsev would not be serious.

What he wanted was exactly this serious attitude from the other side. As long as he was serious, he would fall into Liu Zheng's trap. Balkhash Lake would become a nightmare that would drag down the entirety of Tsarist Russia.

Rumyantsev did not know this now.

Peter the Great naturally did not know either.

These foolish generals naturally did not know either.

Looking at the formation Rumyantsev had set up at this time, Zou Sheng could see that Rumyantsev wanted to resist Longyan's counterattack on one hand, and on the other, he still wanted to continue invading Longyan!

He smiled.

He immediately made up his mind in his heart and looked around at the circle: "Gentlemen generals, if any of you are dissatisfied, is there anyone willing to take charge of this battle?"

His smile was full of mystery.

The group of people looked at each other in dismay.

Following that, they all became excited one by one.

Four hundred thousand against two hundred and fifty thousand, plus the bonuses of various advanced Weaponry and Equipment! Could this battle be hard to fight?

"I'll do it!"

"No, I'll do it!"

"Me, me, me!"

These generals were all top commanders under their respective Feudatory King, and they had all come here to fish for military merit! Upon hearing this, they were naturally incomparably excited.

Added to their earlier disdain for Zou Sheng, once they heard this, they all scrambled to seize the opportunity.

They were even about to fight over it!

Zou Sheng just watched from the side, smiling without a word.

Finally.

A top commander from Jingchu snatched the task.

The man was so excited he was about to jump up, and after casting a disdainful look at

Zou Sheng, he began to issue commands.

Let him play...

A flash of sharp light glinted in Zou Sheng's eyes.

That's right.

He wanted to suffer a few defeats!

To let the Tsarist Russia Army penetrate even deeper into Longyan! Pop-ups have been frequent lately, you can click to download to avoid pop-ups.