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大多数人认为在1812年是俄国的大雪毁灭了大军,但这其实是言过其实的,因为在法军以27万主力兵团向莫斯科的途中天气都异常炎热,只有大兵团撤出莫斯科二十天后的11月6日才飘起了第一场雪,此时主力兵团有9万5千人,但伴随着之后的回暖与解动冬天并没有真正来临.只有撤退到维阿斯马严寒才真正到来,不过此时主力兵团已减少到5万5千人了,因此大军团大部分损失都发生在第一场暴风雪之前 .
一般情况下俄国的冬天会在11月到来,不过在1812年却晚来了一个月.另外冬天貌似也没那么可怕,艾利森提到说法国人比波兰人和北德意志人更为耐寒.反倒是俄军在暴风雪与法军破坏过的村庄行军时遭遇到的补给问题给他们造成了比法军更大的损失.
另补充些详细数据:
http://www.xenophon-mil.org/rushistory/borodino/claus.htm
Otto von Pivka provides some very interesting and enlightening graphs showing the declining strength of each individual corps.
From these we can read that the Imperial Guard did not fall to 50% strength until after 1 October, reflecting the fact that it even then had not been in combat. But by 3 Aug it was at 24,600, compared to an initial strength of over 35,000.
I Corps reached 50% strength on 17 Aug, during the battle of Smolensk.
II Corps hit 50% strength on 3 August during its battle at Jakubovo.
III Corps reached 50% on 19 August at the battle of Lubino (east of Smolensk).
IV Corps also declined to 50% on the 17th at Smolensk.
V Corps passed the 50% mark on August 13th.
VI Corps was already down to 50% on 7 July.
VII Corps (Reynier) which never entered very far into Russia never fell below 60%.
VIII Corps declined to 50% by 28 July, was reinforced, and then fell again below 50% at Borodino.
IX Corps (Victor) entered the theater only in September and didn't fall below 50% until November.
XI Corps did not enter Russia until 18 November and went no further than Osmiana, but nevertheless fell below 50% before the month was out.
The combined I, II, III, and IV Cavalry Corps strength, initially at 40,000, declined by 50% by 3 August |