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Tsar Alexander, like Russian subjects, looked disdainful at the beginning of the new monarch of the Eastern Slavs. The arrogant Russian believed that this young and somewhat overly over-the-top French general (marshal) was able to control the United Kingdom of Catalonia and obtain the qualification of the Principal of Warsaw by relying on his father's connections and the special care of Emperor Napoleon.

Even after Desai emerged and defeated the British Expeditionary Force and won the Third Portuguese War, Tsar Alexander and his members of his political and military think tanks remained innately narrow-minded about Andrew Desai.

As for the so-called record of defeating the British-army, the general view of the Russian side is that it should be the credit of Marshal Massena. Since the Portuguese army attracted most of the British-Portugal coalition forces, this gave the Desai division, which was a side division, an opportunity to take advantage of it.

The Russians disagreed with the many new weapons and various strategies and tactics that the troops under Desai were successfully used in the Third Portuguese War. They still adhered to the combat philosophy of Suvorov's era when "bullets are fools, bayonets are heroes", believing that the brave and tenacious Russian army only needs a bayonet to defeat the enemy in front of them.

Of course, there are also "credits" between the French and the British.

Although the French ordnance engineers obtained some weapons manufacturing drawings from Desay, the ordnance merchants refused to make them. Because the production of such new weapons requires a lot of investment to transform existing equipment, it will naturally greatly damage their economic interests. In the end, the arms profiteer simply bribed the military officers in the army, and the military officers lobbied the ordnance ministers in Paris, who reported to the emperor that Catalonian weapons were not suitable for regular French troops at all, and their opinions were adopted.

On the British side, the ambassador to St. Petersburg was unwilling to his allies Russia despised the British army's combat effectiveness because of the defeat of the Wellington Expeditionary Force, and then no longer opposed Napoleon's empire. So the British diplomat had an idea and compiled a "Battle of Azanbuya" that had never happened before. In this battle, the British army commanded by Wellington defeated three times their Desai Legion, killing and injuring at least... Finally, before the Portuguese Legion arrived, the Expeditionary Force evacuated calmly.

In this way, St. Petersburg and the Winter Palace believed it naively. Even Prince Baglation described it in a party with confidence: the Russian division he commanded was enough to defeat five Catalan divisions.

When the regent of the United Kingdom of Catalonia, who was "strengthly slandered" by the British ambassador, despised by the Russian general, and the crown prince of the Duchy of Warsaw, led a fleet of advances to the Baltic Sea to rescue Poland, which was threatened by the Russian affairs, the entire Russian Empire was full of disdain and contempt for Andrew Desay.

Not long after, when Desai, who had become the de facto Grand Duke of Warsaw, used the excuse of clearing out the Baltic pirates and seizing Russian merchant ships, the first reaction of the angry Tsar Alexander was to confront tit and carry out armed revenge.

So, this morning, he urgently summoned the Privy Council and senior Russian generals in the Winter Palace to discuss the response mechanism, with the focus on coming up with a plan to punish this ignorant Polish madman.

However, the subsequent information obtained and the final result of discussion with the military made Tsar Alexander both angry and helpless. Because he felt frustrated that the huge Russian Empire could not carry out any revenge on the weak Duchy of Warsaw.

First, the Russian Neman River Front had lost its initiative and could no longer take the initiative to attack the Duchy of Warsaw;

After the Warsaw Parliament reached a political compromise with the Grand Duke of Desay, 50,000 French reinforcements regained various supplies and increased their march. At present, the French-army is crossing the Oder River and entering the western border between the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Saxony, and will arrive in Warsaw before early August.

According to the plan, these reinforcements of the French army will, together with the two Polish divisions sent by the Grand Duke of Warsaw, two divisions sent by Jacobin, one division sent by the Legion, two divisions sent by the nobles, a total of more than 50,000 Polish troops, and 50,000 local militias, open a solid line of defense against the Russian invading army on the west bank of the Neman River bordering Russia.

At this point, the comparison of the number of the Polish-French coalition forces on the Neman River and the Russian army has changed from the original 7:15 to 15:15. Both sides have equal combat strengths; in addition, the Polish-French coalition forces can also use favorable terrain to implement strong wall defense; in addition, the Polish-French coalition forces' overall combat effectiveness, especially the 50,000 French troops who came to reinforce, were far stronger than the newly recruited new recruits from Russia.

Therefore, as long as there is no Russian general who has a problem with his brain, no one is optimistic about the next battle. Instead, they are worried that the Poles will join forces with the French to wait for an opportunity to counterattack into Russia and burn the smoke of war to the plain Russian plain.

Secondly, on the Baltic Sea, the declining Russian Navy is also at a disadvantage in the anti-Russian coalition fleet;

The original French Danze fleet was not surprisingly powerful. Even if the advance fleet of Grand Duke Warsaw was included, there were only 5 battleships and 12 medium-sized cruise ships. The number of Russian Baltic fleets was more than twice theirs.

However, a week ago, Desai recruited another French fleet from somewhere and obtained 14 battleships and cruise ships, which made the overall strength of the French-Port joint fleet roughly the same as the Russian Baltic fleet.

But what is most worrying is the Swedes who had just signed a peace treaty with Russia and then went back on their word. Instigated by the unwilling Swedish royal family, the Stockholm Parliament insisted on sending a large number of ships to participate in the cruise mission of the French-Polish joint fleet despite the opposition of Crown Prince Bernardote. Of course, the reasons for sending troops were also high-sounding, just to clear out pirates and be responsible for the navigation safety of merchant ships from various countries on the Baltic channel.

Third, in terms of diplomacy, the British, Austrian, Danes and Swedes seem to be intentionally or unintentionally alienating Russia;

Compared with the former British Foreign Secretary who lost power and who vigorously advocated alliance with Russia to fight against France, the Liverpool Earl who had secretly reached a strategic alliance with Desay seems to be able to influence the political situation in London better.

In addition, Desai instructed the Military Intelligence Agency to cooperate with the Catalan ambassador to London to carry out a large amount of effective positive publicity in the UK, which made the vast majority of the British public sympathize with the suffering of the Duchy of Warsaw, which was under the long-term oppression of barbaric Russia.

In view of this, the British ambassador to Russia, who was originally inclined to advocate for the former foreign minister, began to change his course and correct his previous strategy. He sent a "good advice" to the Tsar's Winter Palace, hoping that St. Petersburg and Warsaw would hold peace talks to eliminate the border conflict between the two countries.

The Austrians, Danes, Swedes, and the Prussians who were trembling under the French bayonet, had a very simple idea, and they actively encouraged St. Petersburg and Warsaw to go to war with each other in order to gain the fire of the above four countries, weaken the military strength of the two empires of the East and the West, and thus win or regain the traditional political and economic interests of the countries.

The last point is that Russia's poor finances really cannot support the huge military expenditure and are on the verge of bankruptcy;

Due to the unexpected arrival of the time travelers, the British Parliament and the Downing Street Cabinet plan to prepare anti-French funds to the Russian government from 1811, which suddenly dropped by 600,000 pounds from 1.6 million pounds (transferred to Desay's pocket). Including the ongoing war with Turkey, the fragile Russian finances could no longer afford to deal with the huge expenses of fighting on both sides.

In addition, the anti-Russian coalition fleet of France, Sweden and the Principal of Warsaw blocked the Baltic Sea and arbitrarily seized Russian merchant ships, which caused the newly-aggressive Russian foreign trade to stagnate almost overnight.

The ports and docks of St. Petersburg are filled with mountains of goods. Russian cargo owners can only pay a sky-high price of 20 times the usual transportation and hire merchant ships from Denmark, Britain, Sweden and France to come for transportation. What is even more infuriating is that merchant ships from the Principal of Warsaw also came over, of course they hang French or British flags.
Chapter completed!