General. War will justify everything

Continuation of the novel "Evil Genius of Port Arthur." May — July 1904. The war with Japan begins to take a completely different turn of events, not the one that we all know from history. Unexplained defeats of the Russian fleet at sea and especially of the army on land, which should have occurred, as well as inexplicable command errors, ceased to be a phenomenon of one order. War will justify everything, but only if it is a decisive offensive, and not a series of retreats that only demoralize one's own troops…