Chapter 276: Wheel One of the Bavarian Army

In short, Prince Ruprecht’s answer made the Kaiser quite satisfied. After the meeting, with the gown of the German Honorary Marshal sent by the Kaiser, the prince returned to Bavaria. Now that he and the Kaiser have made plans to shock those old antiques, some things naturally need to be prepared.

But to be honest, it is not so easy to create something to deter the most powerful army on this plane. The prince’s brain is big enough, but the industry on this plane is very weak. What is the use of knowing more information? Isn't it useless if you can't figure it out? It seems good to make some unconventional things, but in fact, whether it is Schlieffen or Mao Qi, these people's theoretical and military literacy are still sufficient. These things have no effect except to make the other party dismissive.

Before doing things, look for the right breakthrough. Generally speaking, there is no difference between the Bavarian army and the Prussian army in terms of firepower. Thanks to more sufficient funds, maybe there are more heavy artillery and machine guns than the general Prussian army, but this is nothing. Quantitative changes are not qualitative changes.

In addition to making the Prussian delegation feel that the army in front of us is not bad for money and has a fierce firepower, there will be no other feelings. So I want to say how our army can fight and how fierce the firepower is. This is obviously gone. Success is not good for the future plans of the prince.

  What is qualitative change? There is no essential difference between the output of the Bavarian army and the Prussian army. The increase in firepower is only one aspect of the prince’s military reform for so many years. What is the most important aspect and the most invested energy? The mobility of the troops! Logistics supply and support capabilities!

  How far can large-scale troops go in a day? If the army is the unit, the corps with a certain amount of carrier can advance 15 miles a day for three consecutive days. It's about 24 kilometers. Of course, this is the speed after leaving the railway line of communication. And still without fighting.

  And this speed is obviously unable to implement the plan made by Schlieffen. Because Schlieffen asked the most right-wing troops to start from the coast of Dover and hit the Seine in 25 days. The entire distance is about 400 miles. This speed obviously exceeded the maximum speed of the large corps at that time, and the 25 days also included the combat time. Although the Germans beat the French violently in the border warfare in history, the forward speed was still reduced. The attack speed is only 13 kilometers per day...

  This calculation method is impossible to succeed either in fact or in theory. And Comrade Shi Lifen revealed the sentence "The right-wing troops should make great efforts"! This means that the order has been given to you, so you can figure it out how to turn it over, just run over anyway! The typical officer Nunu mouth, the soldier runs and breaks his leg.

Although the prince did not believe that the plan would be successful, he was not sure whether he could persuade the Prussian General Staff. Therefore, in order to obtain a better result, the prince believed that he must make Schlieffen and others aware of the impact of motor vehicles. The importance of marching speed, of course, is impossible for the Prussian Army if it wants to conduct a pilot. His Royal Highness can only conduct a pilot in the Bavarian Army at his own expense. The prince was moved by his own spirit...

  If you want to build a motorized army like the second battle, don’t even think about it. This is impossible. You know that in 1914, Germany had only 4,000 vehicles in the army, and many of these vehicles were 1.5-ton little guys. This is the capacity of the vehicles, even the transportation of an armored division and a heavy tank battalion in the second battle. Can't the task be completed?

  The standard for this so-called Bavarian mobile division is actually very simple. After departure, the division can travel 25 to 30 miles a day with equipment and supplies for the first three days. For the next week, the advancing speed was about 20 miles per day.

  All heavy artillery, ammunition trucks, field hospitals, field bakery and other large items can be towed forward by motor vehicles. Reduce the number of carriages to the minimum. Except for the vanguard cavalry regiments attached to the soldiers, the entire division has no more than 40% of the number of carriages and carts of the normal German organization! Other capacity is completely compensated by motor vehicles.

  Some people may say, why cut horses? The reason is very simple. These four-legged guys are too good to eat. For the same military unit, taking an army as an example, during the Franco-Prussian War, four people can produce an average horse. In the first battle, three people averaged a horse. And because of the extra horses, the entire army consumes 50% more food without changing the number of people! In other words, people in the army eat very little, and a division, 30 tons of food per day is more than enough. But if the horse feed is included, this number becomes 130 tons...

  Also, people are hungry, or half full can resist, but horses are more expensive than people~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Even if the weight is enough, no concentrated feed will not work! The result is that the horses have been reduced in numbers before the battlefield and the staff have not been reduced. The most important capacity is gone, and the speed behind can only get slower and slower.

   So, in the eyes of the prince, reducing horses is tantamount to raising the army's logistics supply requirements in disguise. After all, the fuel used by cars can be much less than fodder, food and grass. As for the stability, it is actually almost the same. After all, even at the beginning, the marching speed of the army is only more than 40 kilometers. Moreover, the road conditions in Europe are relatively developed. The Belgians can quickly paralyze the railway line, the road line is really no way...

  So how many vehicles does such a 14,000 maneuver division need? His Royal Highness's initial estimate was about 200 vehicles. But considering the sadness of this era, the maximum gasoline engine power is only 70HP. This power is inferior to later generation cars. In the end, in order to ensure the needs of the troops, the entire division was equipped with more than 350 vehicles of various kinds.

  In fact, this data is already very good. You must know that in 1914, a German army had 1,168 carts. This is not considered as the additional transportation force allocated to supplement the army's combat consumption. Even considering that the military aircraft transportation team has a lot of extra materials that need to be at a constant speed, the current capacity of automobiles is more than twice that of large vehicles!

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