Chapter 1260: Squad and Fight II

Slide 1260

And now? The decline in the proportion of Junker-born officers in the Prussian Legion made the noble officers dissatisfied, but at the same time it made the civilians and petty bourgeois very satisfied, because they had more channels for promotion. This is reflected in the Congress. The relationship between the emperor and the council is more harmonious. On this issue, the German emperor, the commoners, and the Kingdom of Bavaria are all beneficiaries, but some Junker nobles and capitalists suffer! Therefore, it is normal for some people in the General Staff to be hostile to Bavaria. This is also true including Heilingen.

However, there are many types of hostility. Some people want to eat flesh and skin, such as certain capitalists, but some people are wary or slightly hostile. They will try to weaken the power of the Bavarian Legion while considering the overall situation. General Root is the latter. Even General Heilingen thought that Little Maoqi wanted to do the same to some extent.

"Then why is the Chief of Staff Xiao Maoqi so ambiguous about this matter? If it is as we expected before, then the Chief of Staff Xiao Maoqi should be tougher even if he does not force it through a vote of the General Staff. For example, by reducing the forces originally used to support Poland's pocket campaign to force Bavaria to make concessions." Hindenburg asked.

"Because this is not a political issue, but a military issue! There is no right or wrong in politics, only winning or losing, while the military is an objective issue. The interests of a political party or faction must not override military victory, otherwise it will definitely happen. There is a problem." General Heilingen said.

This may seem incomprehensible, but to put it simply, that's it. The political issue is the tumult between different factions. Can you say who is right or wrong? No, people will only remember the last victor, but the military issue is an honest issue. You can't abandon the victory of the war because of your political likes and dislikes! This is going to happen!

"Including the Kaiser and the Chief of General Staff of Little Mochi, they all lacked understanding of the prospects of war. They didn't know how to end this war victoriously. At the beginning, we thought we could mobilize quickly and then lose France, and Going back to fight the Russians. But the facts proved that our plan was a failure, even before the Bavarian Army marched westward, we were struggling. On the contrary, Prince Ruprecht’s previous strategy of concentrating forces against Russia has received very good results. In the absence of a better solution, the Kaiser and Little Moch naturally believed in the Bavarian prince, who had never disappointed, and thus acquiesced to his strategy of destroying Russia this year!"

"Because this strategy has become the only strategy we can currently adopt, the entire Prussian General Staff has no way to force the prince to do anything. Because if this plan does not succeed, our situation will be very bad! No one dares to risk. This risk." Heilingen said.

"But everyone didn't think about what would happen if the plan of Prince Ruprecht was followed and ultimately failed? Who would bear this responsibility?" Hindenburg asked.

"If the plan fails, then he will naturally bear the consequences. At that time, the Kaiser will not be merciful. He will lose command of the Eastern Front, and may even take his regiment to the Western Front. But this is a future. , We cannot make a decision now."

"So what are the criteria for victory and defeat?" Hindenburg asked.

"In the near term, it is natural to maimed the five group armies in Poland. In the long term, they will enter the Great Plains of Ukraine and even Transcaucasus. At the same time, they will advance the front to St. Petersburg in the northeast. At the same time, Russia will lose the ability of the large army to counterattack. , Our Prussian Army deployed on the Eastern Front can be transferred to the Western Front, and the Bavarian Army can completely control the situation on the Eastern Front and the Balkans.” General Heilingen said.

"Isn't it because the Russians surrendered?" Hindenburg said in surprise.

"How easy is it? It would be nice to be able to do this," General Heilingen sighed. "At the meeting, the prince said very clearly that we can occupy these areas and obtain the materials and supplies we need, so that Russia can be hungry. This can already change our situation very well. Believe me, this is Our best result now is that before the Bavarian Army arrives on the Western Front, we will not be able to break through the defense line of the British and French forces."

"We seem to have won this one?" After the meeting, in the prince's study, Baron Schmidt, who accompanied the prince, asked tentatively after listening to the content of the meeting.

"Of course not, it's just a temptation. The bargaining with the Kaiser has not yet begun, but fortunately, the Kaiser will no longer use the General Staff to suppress us. Some things that can't make it to the table can also be said in private. "The prince said with a smile.

"So are we capable of suppressing the Allied Forces in the Balkans while completing the Eastern Front?" Baron Schmidt asked.

"Not sure," Ruprecht said very positively. Putting aside the battle of the Dardanelles for now, from the perspective of the Polish pocket encirclement plan, the prince estimates that this battle is purely in terms of scale, and that it is certain that there is no one before, and it is estimated that there will be no one to come. ! The prince's goal is from the 5 army in his pocket! Add some fortress garrison troops~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is estimated that millions! In the largest siege in history, only 600,000 troops were encircled and annihilated by the Russian army in the Battle of Kiev! And nearly 30 years earlier than in history, the difficulty of fighting a battle larger than the historical scale under the conditions of World War I is quite huge. Had it not been for the battlefield to be very close to the German mainland, and the power in the hands of the prince was indeed strong, the prince would not even want to try it!

To put it bluntly, even if there are 1 million pigs, you have to struggle to catch them! Think about it, when these five Russian armies realize that they are about to be surrounded, how terrible it would be to fight back before they die. After all, they have thousands of artillery pieces, adequate ammunition, and troops like tides. Sometimes, when the number exceeds a certain limit, there is really no way. For the specific situation, please refer to the movie The Fall of the Black Hawk...

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, the prince not only concentrated all the forces that he could mobilize, but at the same time, he also collected his troops from the German emperor as much as possible. This is definitely not private, but if it can be done, the strategic prospects are too tempting. People! Even if it cannot be done, the loss of the German Army will not be great.

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