Chapter 278: Schlieffen's concerns

"Uncle, please first..." Don’t think that His Royal Highness Prince Ruprecht can talk and laugh with the Kaiser, but when a formal military meeting, he has to be a man with his tail between his tails. For example, this time At the meeting, the Bavarian side is naturally the most able to play in Bavaria, and the most able to play in history, Prince Leopold. Then the prince himself, and the third is Viscount Schmidt.

;The current Viscount Schmidt is also regarded as an official prosperous. With the war experience in the Far East, he came back to supplement the military higher education. Now he has finally achieved the position of division commander. The current position is the division agent of the Bavarian mobile division. Teacher. This unit is considered as a pilot unit. After coordination with the Prussian side, the division's organization is considered temporary and not included in the imperial battle sequence.

And precisely because this temporary organization or private soldier of the royal family is completely managed by the royal family itself, it can not be controlled by the original military structure of the empire. His Royal Highness can do it whatever he wants. Just as William II used his own pocket to equip the Guards with machine guns in history, the only difference is that the wealthy prince bought a batch of cars for his unit.

; And the group of people on the opposite side is naturally the chief of the general staff Shi Lifen, Xiao Maoqi and the fourth army commander Ludendorff. Naturally, this meeting between the two sides is to discuss the schedule of the Prussian staff and their views on certain military issues. Unlike the prince and the Kaiser babbling, this time it was a formal, the highest level of communication between the German military's decision-making organs and executive organs.

; "A maneuver to break away from the railway?" Earl Schlieffen frowned after looking at the documents that Prince Leopold handed over. Railway and military mobility. This is undoubtedly Piaget’s g-point. One thing he did when he was the chief of staff of the German Army for more than ten years was to formulate the Schlieffen plan and to change the draft six times. Just speaking of this perseverance, It's not too much to say that it is possessed!

; "Very interesting exercise content, I would like to know, how did you come up with this topic?" Earl Schlieffen put down the document in his hand and said.

"The mobility of the army has always been a strategic issue. I think the German Army is already very mature in the firepower and combat organization of the army, and it can even be said that it has formed a huge advantage over other countries. The use of new weapons and tactics makes us not Fear of going head-on with any opponent."

; "But in terms of mobility, we are not much different from each other. During the Franco-Prussian War, our method of using railways has been known to the world and imitated by other powerful countries including France. So I think we should be here. Some improvements have been made." Prince Leopold said with a smile.

"Hehe, but I think the main force of military transportation is still railways, and the capacity of road transportation simply cannot meet our needs." From the Prince's answer, Earl Schlieffen felt a little strange.

"But rail transport has many limitations. In other words, rail transport can meet the needs of defensive warfare very well, but it cannot be used as an offensive weapon. If Germany is at war with its opponents, it should be an offensive war. Isn't it?" Prince Leopold said pointedly.

"It seems that His Majesty the Emperor should have already told you something. You should have seen some of my previous plans." A drop of cold sweat flowed from Count Schlieffen’s head.

The plan made by myself is highly confidential in the German army. It stands to reason that Prince Leopold and Prince Ruprecht should not be contacted. At least it is impossible to stay from the General Staff, but considering the German system, as long as His Majesty the Kaiser is willing, the Bavarian side can fully understand the general content of this plan, as for the details? In some places Schlieffen didn't think about it himself, so naturally he couldn't talk about it.

The Bavarian side learned that although the intelligence made the earl a little dissatisfied, it was beyond reproach. After all, the Bavarian Army was also part of the German army. It is obviously impossible to make a plan that Prussia knew, but others did not know. But the crux of the problem is that this exercise is too targeted! Directly to the core of the plan! Railway troop transmission problem!

; What is the core of the Schlieffen plan? Defensive in the Alsace-Lorraine area, the left wing attracts the main force of the French with very few troops, and then the right wing concentrates most of the troops (the ratio of the two wings is 15 to 100) relying on the good domestic railway lines in Germany to quickly gather The attack directly swept the two countries of Holland and Belgium, and took over their railway systems, and then proceeded to make a strategic roundabout, completely encircling the main force of the French army, and killing France in 42 days.

In this plan, all of Schlieffen's ideas are based on the ability to smoothly take over the railway system, and to make up for some of the shortcomings by collecting food and materials along the way, and then allow the army to maneuver at super high speed. In the conversation just now, Prince Leopold directly pointed out that the railway cannot be used as an offensive weapon, which is tantamount to fundamentally rejecting Schlieffen's plan.

; Of course, theoretically, the Bavarian military cannot influence the operation of the Prussian General Staff. Even if there is dissatisfaction, under the oppression of wartime military power, it can only accept ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and even the Kaiser cannot interfere. After all, the plan It has been drafted and cannot be stopped. But the situation is different now. If in peacetime, the Kaiser deems this plan unfeasible, it is sufficient to declare it abolished and the General Staff must re-enact it. If the Chief of Staff objects to it, the Kaiser can even directly replace it.

What is even more frightening is that this time, Schlieffen also just learned the details of the Bavarian exercise. To say that the Bavarian side did not communicate with the Kaiser, and Schlieffen did not believe that he was killed. To some extent, the two royal clans had reached a tacit understanding. And this tacit understanding is entirely possible to kill your plan! Maybe I have to leave!

;This time Earl Schlieffen really thought too much. The Kaiser intends to reorganize the Prussian General Staff. The prince also plans to enter the highest level of German military decision-making, but this is all for the future. This time the only thing I want to do is to make those Prussian The officer corps opened up and saw advanced combat postures, nothing more!

"Since I became the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Kingdom of Prussia, I have been working hard to improve this plan. It took me several years to develop it and it has been revised twice. My men and I have fully considered the imperial railway Transport capacity, this plan can fully meet the needs of our mission, and these things have been confirmed in the exercise. I am very confident in this plan." Shilifen defended.

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