The Rise of the Empire

It’s inconvenient for Ruprecht to say some things, but Prince Leopold said it’s okay. In terms of seniority, he was an artillery commander during the Franco-Prussian War. I don’t know how senior he is compared to everyone here. In terms of status, King Fritz would also call his brother when he saw the prince. After all, Prince Leopold is Sissi's older brother, as well as Fritz's older brother. More importantly, he is still the real prince. So there's nothing wrong with the prince singing the red face and Prince Leopold singing the bad face.

"You should at least listen to our plan. The thing about war is not to see who has more soldiers and listen to whom, but whoever says something makes sense. And you are introducing your own plan from the beginning of your memory, and you are planning When there are some loopholes, I didn't think about how to remedy and correct them, but continued to deceive myself, which is a very wrong behavior." The prince continued.

"Okay, then please tell me about the plan of the Bavarian Army." Crown Prince Ferdinand said.

"First of all, we must determine how many troops the Russians can use in future wars." Under the signal of Prince Leopold. Ruprecht walked to the front desk again and said.

"Although the Russians did not perform well in the unfinished war in the Far East, if we look at it fairly, Russia can still organize more than 500,000 troops in a place thousands of kilometers away from Europe. , This is a miracle in itself. We cannot say that the Russians have no mistakes in command, but we must admit that the Russians have amazing efficiency in terms of troop transportation and mobilization. I think the Prussian General Staff has a great understanding of the speed of Russian mobilization. The documents should have been in your hands, and if nothing else, after years of preparation, the Russians were able to concentrate two-thirds of their forces in 18 days!"

"This ratio is nothing compared to Germany. We can get all the German troops into the starting position in 15 days. However, let us not forget the huge size of the Russian army! According to our predictions, if we If they went to war with the Russians around 1910, their front-line troops would reach about 1.34 million! If two-thirds, it means that at the beginning of World War 1, we will face nearly 900,000 Russian troops on the Eastern Front .Well then, I would like to ask, how many people can there be in your country's 4 army groups?"

"By the way, I also need to remind that this is only the strength of the Austro-Hungarian Army. If they think it is not enough, then they will have 1 or 2 armies that can be used as reinforcements. Don't expect to defend East Prussia. The German army can help, the front line they need to defend is too long, and the harvest is not enough, let alone help us share the pressure." Ruprecht added.

"More importantly, this is only a standing force. If it comes to a real war, the number of soldiers that the Russians can replenish far exceeds your country's capacity. We all know that the recruiting potential of troops is determined by trained officers and The number of soldiers is determined by the number of retired soldiers within a certain age can be easily converted into soldiers during the war, I said that the number of trained reservists in Russia is about twice that of your country, isn’t it too much?”

"In other words, even if your country starts to block the opponent's attack, the continuous mobilization of the Russians is enough to crush the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even if Prussia deploys more troops to help Austria-Hungary temporarily block the Russian offensive, the situation remains the same. No, do you understand me?" asked the prince.

"Look here, everyone. The entire Russian Poland has formed a huge protrusion wedged between Germany and Austria. In fact, this start is very good for us. Their strength is very limited compared to this winding front.

The front of an army group may be about 90 to 120 kilometers away. Even so, there is still a large gap between the northwest cluster and the southwest cluster. With the cooperation of the Bavarian Army, it is not difficult for us to block the opponent's attack at first, and we can even force the opponent to retreat, but this is only a tactical victory, and the strategy puts us in a passive position. "

"Just imagine, if we occupied part of Russian Poland and gradually leveled the salient, what would happen?" Following Ruprecht's words, a line divided Russian Poland into two halves , and if this line is the front line, it can be found that the protruding part has been smoothed, the front line has been straightened, and the overall length of the eastern front has become shorter, which also means that the Russians have shorter defense lengths and more troops concentrated.

"Then, we will enter the stage of a war of attrition. The Russians can gradually consume us with sufficient force reserves and depth. There is nothing we can do about it. After the war enters this stage, our desire to end the war quickly will be defeated. I think this is a situation that no one wants to see," the prince concluded.

"It makes sense, but no matter what, we can't prevent this from happening. The depth of the Russians exists, and the huge mobilization ability also exists objectively. Could these objective factors be caused by your plan? Doesn't it exist? According to what you said, we seem to be unable to defeat this behemoth at all. And according to your speculation, it is difficult for us to win on the Western Front, so what is our purpose in starting this war?" Ferdinand the Crown Prince asked back.

"The mobilization ability and strategic depth of the Russians are objective, but they also have a weakness, that is, the lack of technical equipment! Russia's industrial capabilities are almost at the bottom of the European powers, and they are even far inferior to your country. Therefore, for For the Russians, the loss of troops can be borne, but the loss of technical equipment cannot be borne!"

"So, our strategy should be to eat up the Russian army in an organized way from the very beginning. Mass killing and capturing of personnel is one aspect. What is more important is the destruction of technical equipment such as artillery, machine guns, and trains! Now the key to determining the outcome of the war No matter the number, but the firepower, if we can make Russia lose a lot of heavy equipment, then in time they can replenish the number, these newly formed troops lacking heavy weapons will still have little combat effectiveness!"

"In order to achieve this goal, it is impossible to achieve much effect by simply engaging in frontal positions, because our attack speed is too slow. Even if the opponent can be repelled from the front, they can still save the artillery in the rear and retreat. After a certain distance, the troops were regrouped. This also resulted in a situation where they were defeated. Therefore, this is also the fundamental reason why I emphasized the strength and speed of the assault!" Ruprecht replied.

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