Chapter 277: Wheel II of the Bavarian Army

Fortunately, there is also no heavy equipment on this plane. The final level of the division is equipped with a heavy howitzer no more than 150mm, and the deployment weight generally does not exceed 5 tons. (The French m1917 deployment weight is even only 3300kg!) If If you travel at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour in kilometers, the 70hp engine is barely enough.

As for the 105mm howitzer, the weight is lower. A 70hp trailer directly tows a 105mm howitzer and an ammunition cart without any problems. According to the results of previous exercises, in the marching state, a car can theoretically travel 200 kilometers without any major problems... As for that there is no big problem, what is the standard? According to the standard of the engineer William Maybach, it is possible to make do with a repair within 3 hours.

;After spending a lot of money to prepare the hardware, everything is not all right. How to effectively use these vehicles is also a problem. After all, your army is not motorized. According to the barrel theory, the marching speed of a large number of infantry determines the march of a unit. Short board of speed.

; The problem of a large number of artillery, ammunition, and all kinds of large logistics items being towed by cars is barely solved. Then how to solve the problem of the weight of the infantry and the grassroots company? You know, with the equipment of heavy machine guns, grenades, and mortars, the weight of the equipment at the battalion level has also increased greatly.

According to historical data, if you look at a divisional unit, 280 rounds of ammunition per rifle is not enough. (Of course, not all of these bullets are carried by soldiers, but are scattered to all aspects of soldiers, battalion carts, and military-grade reserves.) With machine guns and mortars, the ammunition carried by the troops is even larger and heavier. The machine gun itself is somewhat difficult to carry.

Fortunately, the prince’s uncle, Prince Leopold, deserves to be a veteran who has come all the way. Starting from the grassroots level, his thinking is open enough, experience and ideas and theories are very strong, he reset the allocation of vehicles. Some of the heavy equipment units originally assigned to the battalion company were temporarily formed into several fire support units. These support groups are equipped with independent vehicles and generally do not follow the ordinary battalion company to maneuver, but are temporarily attached to the battalion company.

As a traveler, the prince also made his own contribution and was praised by most of the soldiers in the Bavarian army. First of all, the improvement of food. Although there is no self-heating food in this era, it is impossible to make a package of four dishes, one soup, cigarettes and toothpicks. But all kinds of compressed biscuits and take-out family buckets can still be learned.

The meaty non-staple food that is rotten in appearance and indistinguishable from a pool of mud, tastes not good but is full, and is not very hard. Compressed biscuits that are not hungry. It became the standard soldier emergency food for the Bavarian mobile division. The specially matched vegetable powder made up for the soldiers' vitamin deficiency. It's not that these things are delicious, the key is that they have high energy, easy digestion, and balanced nutrition...

As for the carrying equipment, the prince directly referred to the product of another plane. After combining the existing height and physical fitness of the Germans, he re-optimized the weight and volume, and maintained the center of gravity of the carrying equipment at the waist. Slightly higher position. The original complex bedding was replaced by relatively simple field bedding. Various items are also standardized as much as possible.

After some optimizations from hardware to software, the Bavarian division, which is used as a model force, is not to mention, at least the marching speed and force are absolutely awesome! According to last year’s exercises, the Bavarian maneuvering division can reach a maximum maneuvering speed of more than 35 miles on the first day. Of course, the price is that many personnel need to "buy" tickets temporarily. After three days of running, the vehicle's integrity rate dropped to about 70%.

; For this speed, the Bavarian army is quite satisfied. After he reached the first phase of the rapid force plan, His Royal Highness now began to consider whether to build a tank or self-propelled artillery. After all, these are the ultimate manifestations of the advanced combat effectiveness of World War I! Look at the British tanks in World War I. They were ugly to a certain level, but who can deny that this thing is nb?

; But soon, the cruelty of reality completely extinguished the prince's ambitions like a snowstorm. In this era, any combat device that plans to engage in crawler walking equipment is not reliable! The engine is not powerful, and the suspension is not good in terms of design or production. As a result, His Royal Highness, who was hit hard, began to honestly study armored vehicles, which is actually the first mechanized weapon that integrates attack, defense and maneuvering...

; But still because of the sad engine and basic industry level. It is impossible for the armored vehicles of this era to expect how high defense and attack power are. Where is the 70hp engine? How heavy can your vehicle be? So after spending more than one hundred thousand marks, the prince produced only two things, one is a vehicle equipped with a machine gun, and the other is a self-propelled mortar. No way, this The muzzle velocity is low and the recoil is lower. The technical difficulty is naturally relatively small.

In short, after spending a lot of money, the prince can get only two, one is the rapid force pieced together with various transportation vehicles, and the other is the shares of a series of companies including Daimler. Yes, it’s shares, because there are many people who can really realize the importance of cars in this era. If it’s only for civilian use, the price-performance ratio of cars is not higher than that of horse-drawn carriages. After all, the purchase price of cars is a big piece, and ordinary civilians are repairing them. After-sales and maintenance are also helpless.

Except that the nobles will buy some stylish brushes, the sales and production capacity of cars in 1900 was very small. The famous auto giants of later generations seem to be no different from small workshops~www.wuxiaspot.com~In short, Daimler is short of money and people...

; But it’s okay, Prince Ruprecht is not short of both, isn’t it the staff and funds? As the prince’s number one follower, Earl Schelling used a check worth 5 million marks to settle Daimler and his partner William Maybach within 2 days, and then successfully obtained up to 40% of the car factory and the The sole agency for sales in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although there is no absolute majority in the board of directors, there is another right to veto. After all, the entire Daimler company is not worth that number at this time.

; As the technical backbone of Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach also came to Bavaria to serve as the head of SÜD's technology research and development department. The son of Wilhelm Maybach, Karl Maybach, took over his father's position in Daimler.

Different from Daimler, SÜD's main research and development projects are trucks and special vehicles. To put it bluntly, it is a complete military vehicle manufacturer, and it is a manufacturer that has government contracted purchases and sales. It is precisely because of the support of the Bavarian royal family and the efforts of William Maybach and others. His Royal Highness's Bavarian mobile division has its size today.

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