Chapter 1692: Establishing Conviction

"I believe we must now rebuild the strong conviction of the Russian Army," Naleishi said in a deep voice.

Regarding Naleishi's proposal, everyone nodded one after another.

This was indeed the pain point of the current Russian Army, even if their Tsarist Russian troops were brave, whenever they faced the Longyan Military Department's troops one after another.

There was only failure to speak of.

Even if the combat quality of the Tsarist Russian troops was powerful, there was no Method to accept this reality.

After battle upon battle of crushing defeat, the morale of the Russian Army had been completely worn away.

Now was the exact time when morale needed to be boosted.

But everyone knew that once morale began to decline, it was very difficult to build it up again.

This required a long period of building conviction to accomplish, and Naleishi had once been a person who managed troops as well.

Elizabeth I asked eagerly, "Lord Naleishi, do you have any good suggestions?"

Naleishi looked at Elizabeth I, nodded solemnly, and then said, "I do indeed have a Method, but it carries a certain amount of risk."

"Respected Tsar, if you agree, do not ask about my subsequent actions."

"Once I have assembled a sufficiently powerful army, I will naturally tell Your Majesty everything," Naleishi said with extreme respect.

But Elizabeth I hesitated.

She looked at Naleishi and frowned, "Lord Naleishi, what kind of Method requires such caution?"

Naleishi shook his head and pleaded again, "Your Majesty, please do not ask."

"The fewer people who know of my Method, the better. After the war is won, I will certainly tell you everything."

Seeing Naleishi so insistent, Elizabeth I struggled for a moment; there was no one more suitable for the task than Naleishi at present.

This matter could only be handled by him personally.

Thinking of this, Elizabeth I no longer hesitated and said directly, "Very well, this matter is entrusted entirely to you to handle."

Naleishi received the order and withdrew.

Regarding Elizabeth I's appointment, even Naleishi's mortal enemy Dolgorukov did not show any signs of resistance.

Although they were both of the Conservative Faction, they were also competitors.

Now that Tsarist Russia was in a very critical state, Dolgorukov naturally knew that infighting would bring no benefits to either of their families.

Perhaps Tsarist Russia might even fall into an abyss of no return because of it.

Therefore, even though Naleishi had full authority over military power, Dolgorukov had no reason to object.

After the meeting dispersed.

Naleishi did not return to his family, but instead immediately led a team of Russian soldiers to depart quietly.

Naleishi understood very well that the low morale of the entire Russian Army had reached an irredeemable point.

Ordinary ways of raising morale could not possibly have any effect; he had to adopt other special Methods.

For example, replacing them with a team of troops that held a deep-seated hatred for the Longyan Army.

Hatred was the best boost for morale; Naleishi understood this principle deeply.

Naleishi took a team of the Russian Army and, taking advantage of the darkness, quietly lurked near a village on the border of Tsarist Russia.

He had long since conducted an investigation; the folk customs of this village were fierce and turbulent.

The living environment here was very harsh, and there were even Wolf Pack attacks; every man in this village was a warrior.

Under their protection, the village lived quite well.

Naleishi looked at the village, his eyes devoid of any emotion.

He ordered the troops he brought to disguise themselves as the Longyan Army, and even found some soldiers who could speak the Longyan language.

"Attack!"

Following Naleishi's order, these Russian Army soldiers disguised as the Longyan Army charged toward the village.

Soon, the sounds of fire and screams echoed through the sky.

These Russian Army soldiers disguised as the Longyan Army showed no mercy at all, either killing the women of the village or abducting them; not even the elderly or children survived.

Although the men in the village fought fiercely, they were few in number and had never received military training.

They were simply no match for the Russian Army troops.

Some of them watched helplessly as their wives, children, and elders were killed by the Russian Army disguised as the Longyan Army, but at that moment, they had no way to resist.

Their veins bulged, but they could not break free from the restraints of the Russian Army.

After one night, the entire village was looted clean.

The only survivors were a few young people from the village.

Such events happened several times.

With Naleishi's fueling of the flames, news of the Longyan Army attacking Russian villages on the border soon spread throughout all of Tsarist Russia.

After several times of fermentation, the hatred of the Russian people toward Longyan reached a new height.

And taking this opportunity, Naleishi announced an order to expand the army.

Fight against the Longyan Army and make these detestable Longyan people pay the price!

Once such a policy emerged, it was quickly met with the approval of countless Russian people, and the villagers from the attacked villages also signed up enthusiastically.

They swore they would make the Longyan Army pay the price.

Naleishi looked at how smoothly the recruitment had gone over the past two days, a smile touching the corners of his mouth.

With so many people who held deep hatred for the Longyan Army now joining the military, morale would inevitably be high.

And he seemed to have forgotten that all of this was built upon a lie he had designed.

At this time, Europe.

On the Xilixi battlefield, Frederick II adopted the oblique order of battle, trading blows back and forth with the Austrian Army.

Currently, Prussia does not possess any advantage in troop strength, and the oblique order of battle adopted can be said to have greatly alleviated this problem.

The combat method employed by the Austrian Army is the very traditional Line Infantry Tactics.

Although this can achieve an overwhelming offensive, when facing the oblique order of battle of Frederick II, they lost their original capabilities.

When the Prussian Army fought the Austrian Army, they formed an angle.

Due to the different combat methods of the two armies, the Austrian Army also did not anticipate that the Prussian Army would launch a frontal offensive.

They even less expected that this oblique order of battle of the Prussian Army would make it completely impossible for their troop strength advantage to be brought into play.

The Austrian Army could only attack a very small number of Prussian troops.

Furthermore, because of Line Infantry Tactics, the Austrian Army could not look after both ends, so it became incomparably difficult for the Austrian Army to obtain support during this segment of fighting the Prussian Army.

The Prussian Army only needed to use a very small amount of troops to pin down the support forces of the Austrian Army.

Therefore, under this method of oblique order of battle, the troop strength advantage of the Austrian Army was completely lost.

The originally powerful Austrian Army has now been completely pinned down by the Prussian Army, and the strength of the Austrian Army is being worn down bit by bit.

Seeing that the situation on the front line was so smooth, Frederick II smiled, looked at Little Peter who was following by his side, and patted his head.

Thanks to his reminder, otherwise, he might not have really been able to come up with such a combat method.

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