Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

There were more Turkish soldiers in Skopje than local civilians, so the food rations were consumed very quickly.

If this continues, surrender is only a matter of time. We are not a group of people who are not having a good life in the underground fortifications on Iwo Jima.

Solovyov has recently been considering the issue of advancing in several directions. There are several roads in Greece, and the mountain roads and the main roads lead to different places. He is actually considering Epirus or Thessaly.

Although capturing Epirus is not a good option, we can obtain supplies from France from here. France and Russia are still allies now, and at least if we can make a name for ourselves, the sisters Elisa and Paulina will still buy into it. Napoleon's eldest sister only cares about money, and Paulina buys into it because she is the child's father. There are ships from Ancona that can come to Epirus to transport supplies.

Carolina was not so good. She had a bad relationship with Josephine and Catherine, and she even plotted to make her husband the ruler of France.

Solovyov is Josephine's nephew and the one who sent Catherine to marry her brother. It would be strange if their relationship could be good.

Besides, when Solovyov and Polina were being intimate, she told him a lot about their family affairs in his arms. Although Napoleon's sisters did not like Josephine and had conflicts with her, they had a good relationship with Eugene and Hortense.

After all, this is not on a race track, so it’s better.

However, these supplies might still be harassed by the British entering the Adriatic Sea, after all, they have control of the sea.

Therefore, it is more convenient to go directly to Larissa. And he has to continue forward to Athens, and then he can enter the hinterland of Greece in Europe. It's just a pity that because the navy is not there, he can't gain a foothold on these islands in the Aegean Sea.

There is no way. The Russian army’s strength in the Mediterranean is limited and it has no foothold.

However, before taking action next, he also needs to look further ahead.

"Epirus and Thessaly, if we can get past Skopje and march south to Greece, we will have accomplished our mission."

"Mick, what do you want to do?"

"Many people think that Thessaloniki is the only way to go, but we won't go there. We will go in a roundabout way to Ohrid and enter Thessaly from the mountain road here. The advantage is that the enemy should not offer much resistance along the way. The disadvantage is that when we enter southern Macedonia and Thessaly, the enemies in Thessaloniki will definitely be ready to attack us from the flank and rear."

"You are fishing. You need to use the troops at hand to lure the enemy out, and then take it back."

"I do have this idea, but I am more worried that the Sultan will not give me face and let his bandits stay in Thessaloniki."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"It's a small matter. Do you know why there are always people who want to attack our transport team? It's because some armies have obtained a lot of things in the looting before, no matter whether it's the Turkish or ours. Now there is one thing, if the enemy dares to come, we must meet them properly. The Turkish military supplies we seized along the way can probably serve as bait to attract them. The Turkish army is not a regular army, even if it is a new army, they will definitely send troops because of greed for money. It only takes one time for the fishing to succeed. If it fails once, they will not be able to hold back and come a second time."

This is really a tactic that does not have much merit for the Turks, as it is intended to kill Imani, but the enemy is indeed easily fooled.

The siege of Skopje was arguably the most boring of the entire war. By September, many Turkish troops surrendered due to lack of rations. The Russian army detained these people and took them far away to Vidin or even further.

If they were escorted by regular Russian troops, it would be fine. But if they were escorted by Cossacks and Serbs, then these Turkish soldiers would often have their throats stabbed if they were confirmed to be not from the nearby area.

But even so, in order to avoid starving to death, many Turkish soldiers and officers still left the city. Some of them were even beaten to death on the way by the diehard Turkish soldiers who did not want to run away.

The city was beyond saving. Solovyov was waiting for Karageorge to send follow-up troops. Even though there were only Serbs outside the city, the Turkish troops in Skopje had no chance of escaping.

Now he only left Uvarov to lead a division to keep watch here, and the advance team of more than 20,000 people was about to march towards Greece.

The marching order was also slightly different this time, with Trubetskoy in front, the grenadiers in the middle, and Arkady's 9th Division at the rear.

Speaking of it, among Solovyov's Macedonian Corps, only the 9th Division is a permanent number. Although the Grenadier Division is the most combat-effective unit, it was also formed here using the six grenadier regiments that were recruited to the Danube front.

They didn't seem to encounter any resistance along the way. According to the intelligence from the cavalry reconnaissance sent by Kunev, the main force of the Turkish army was in Thessaloniki, and there was almost no defense on this road in the mountains, and there were not even many conscripted bandits and militia.

In this situation, it is indeed most suitable for rapid advancement.

Solovyov was worried that the night would bring more trouble, so he moved south on the night of September 9. Even his departure was very secretive. Only Uvarov and a few Serbian officers knew that the main force of the Russian army was moving south.

It was nothing for them, after all, besieging Skopje was a very easy task.

Solovyov only hoped that the Serbs could hold out in a few fortresses along the main transportation routes and hold out until the end of the year before he completely launched a wave of resistance against Turkey in Greece. This time, their mission would be accomplished.

His idea was simple, which was to quickly eliminate the enemy before the end of the year, because after several previous battles, Sultan Mahmud would probably send troops over.

However, the Ottoman Empire’s military strength was so poor that it could not provide Solovyov with the merits he hoped for.

If some British people could come out and get beaten, that would be what he wanted most.

However, after Sir Moore's death, no British person was willing to take on such an unfortunate task. They had to support the Ottoman Empire and Spain, which was enough to keep them busy.

If we fight with the Eisman Empire again, once that restless son of Britain makes any move on the coast of North America, it will be difficult to even withdraw troops from the mainland.

But in this case, making the Russians feel comfortable is not the right thing to do.

The British ambassador in Constantinople suggested that the Royal Navy transport some troops to Thessaloniki and Larissa so that the Turkish army could stop the Russian army in Greece.

Although this idea was good, Sultan Mahmud's courtiers believed that both Skopje and Thessalonika were guarded by troops, and even if one of them was lost, it would not affect the overall combat of the Turkish army.

The Turkish army's goal now is to protect the safety of Constantinople. Even if the Russian army takes action and goes in and out of Greece, they do not intend to fight the Russian army in Thessaly or Macedonia. That would not only consume troops, but also require the corps led by Kamensky the Younger to be withdrawn. Solovyov does not want them to adopt the pig tactics and hide in the city of Thessaloniki. Instead, it will affect his strategy and he will always feel attacked from both sides.

This kind of turtle flow is indeed very annoying sometimes, and you have to devote some energy to guard against them.

Now the Russian army has passed the road west of Skopje and entered the mountains here. There are many checkpoints in and out of Greece from the north of Macedonia and Epirus. It is still difficult for the Turkish army to guard every checkpoint.

What Solovyov himself was probably thinking about was a bunch of mountain passes in the Caucasus. If he wanted to take action, his goal was very simple, which was to quickly pass through the mountain passes and directly enter the southern part of Macedonia.

In this way, he also thought of why the Gauls were able to sacrifice Ptolemy Ceraunus to the gods. They wanted to take the enemy by surprise.

Although Russia calls itself the "Third Rome", all Soloviev did was to invade the country and bully the Turks without killing them.

"What is the current position of Pella Macedonia?"

"In the middle of Macedonia, connecting Upper Macedonia and Lower Macedonia."

"Only Upper Egypt is in the south, the rest are more or less to the north."

The area of ​​Macedonia is a pasture in the northwest and an agricultural area in the southeast. It was also the place where the Agios Agios-Nikitas dynasty of Macedonia rose.

When passing by the pastoral area here, the scene seen now is one of desolation. Even in some places with olive trees, it is still difficult to revive them.

"It just doesn't look that good. I came here because I also wanted to see the former capital of Macedonia. There are other places besides this place. The subsequent successors had more than one capital and built many cities."

“You started it again”

Before Clausewitz could finish, Soloviev asked, "Do you know how Salonika came about?"

"I kind of know that Cassander used this place to commemorate his wife."

"That's right, but there is a bloody history here. Cassander killed Alexander the Great's mother Olympias, and later poisoned his wife and children, and became the monarch of Macedonia. In order to ensure this layer of orthodoxy, he married Alexander's half-sister Thessalonica, and then had three sons. After the death of the eldest son Philip, the other two sons..."

Then the brothers started to kill each other, and the surrounding forces such as Pyrrhus, Demetrius and Interestimachus intervened, and the Antipater dynasty was destroyed.

The most taboo thing is probably fratricide, which can be said to have considerable historical inertia in the Mediterranean world.

In Greece, Rome and Turkey, everyone was the same. "Fathers are kind and sons are filial" and "brothers are friendly and respectful to each other" were common occurrences. There were people who killed their brothers in front of their mothers. Antipater the Younger even dared to kill his own mother.

In comparison, the Luo family might be better off. Some even died in an orderly manner with their skulls placed in a row. This won't happen to the brothers now.

After all, neither Alexander nor Constantine had sons, so it is likely that each of the brothers had a share.

Seeing this, the Zhao family members might also be a little confused. How can you be so harmonious?
Solovyov did want to visit the capital of Macedonia. He was different from Caesar, who had probably achieved nothing in his early years except the position of high priest and had to lament his fate in the temple of Alexandria.

He came here just to take a good look. He is not a cultural relic dealer. He probably also wants to take a good look at the local relics. If they are not so dilapidated, he will take care of them.

“It’s not a good story.”

"I know that a family must always stick together, otherwise it will be easy for someone to take advantage of us, like what happened in Austria."

Clausewitz also wanted to complain that his own FW king had always been suspicious of the queen, but the queen had indeed paid a lot, otherwise there wouldn't be some strange things.

He could also guess what might have happened during the time when Queen Louise kept Solovyov by her side, but since he had always stood on the queen's side and Solovyov had found him a job in Russia when he was unemployed, and they were all his own people and there was no actual evidence, he would not say anything.

Well, his guess was correct.

As for Austria, the brothers were not united, and the joke they made in the end was hard to describe. Those who were able to fight were so angry that they went home to hug their children.

The Russian army marched to Siatista. There was indeed no resistance along the way, and they marched quickly, resting for a day to pick up the soldiers who had fallen behind, and that's how they arrived here.

However, when they arrived here, some misunderstandings were inevitable and a group of Greek militiamen were sent down.

Solovyov was in the carriage at the time, and after hearing the gunshots, he became highly alert.

It was not until Trubetskoy sent his adjutant over that he understood the situation.

"this one?"

"Yes, the clothes these Greek militiamen wore were no different from those of the Turks, so Prince Vasili mistook them for Turkish bandits and beat them to death."

"Don't worry about it. Release these people and return their weapons. I also want to know more about the situation."

Solovyov still did not forget to look at the map. His march was very far away from Pera and Thessaloniki. The Turkish army wanted to cut off his transportation lines, so he also wanted to see if he was familiar with the roads in the mountains.

In addition, Solovyov also asked Kamensky for a reserve infantry regiment to block several major passes, and two cavalry regiments to move back and forth between several passes in order to attract the attention of the Turks.

Then his main force took a longer route, and some of his cavalry took the main road to get closer to Pera, then made a feint and bypassed it, confusing the Turks. (End of this chapter)