Chapter 502: Artillery and artillery are different!

If aviation power training can be carried out under the guise of an "aviation club", then there is always no way for armored power? After all, the former can be used for both civilian and military purposes, and after the latter is equipped with armor and cannons, you can say that civilians are not used. Although Prussia couldn't manage it on the surface, it was also very worried secretly, such as Xiao Maoqi, and even more so by Schlifen and others. Schlieffen also wrote a letter specifically in the name of the German General Staff to ask how the armored units are organized, and clearly stated that you can change the equipment in Bavaria, but if you add more than one division to the scale, it will definitely not work. of!

Then the two sides fought about the scale of a division. In this era, the scale of a division is different. For example, the Russians have a division of about 22,000, and the French have a division of 16,000, except for Bavaria. There are 17,000 German divisions outside. In Bavaria, the staff of a division is about 20,000 people...

There are many reasons for this difference. For example, the Russians have more infantry units, and a Russian division has 16 infantry battalions. France and Germany are 12 infantry battalions. Therefore, although the Russians have fewer artillery, the total number of them is still large.

The Bavarian division is different. Although Bavaria also follows the organization of the German division, for example, an artillery company has 6 artillery, but the 6 artillery is not said what it is. The general German division uses 6 75mm rapid-fire guns. The ratio of rapid-fire guns to light howitzers in each division is 3 to 1. But this matter is different in Bavaria. The ratio of a division’s 75mm rapid-fire gun to 105mm howitzer is 1:1... The number of the same howitzer company is naturally more than that of the 75mm rapid-fire gun.

As the Prussian chief of armaments production, Xiao Moqi once calculated an account. If it were also a division, the combat effectiveness of Bavarian artillery was at least 30% higher than that of Prussia. That was a 105mm howitzer! And greater combat effectiveness means higher logistic needs. In the Bavarian army that began to popularize motor vehicles, the logistic force has decreased because of the number of vehicles. Well, in addition to increasing the number of artillery personnel, then other aspects of the increase in personnel?

Generally speaking, the German cavalry regiments were assigned to divisions separately. This is true in Prussia, and so is Bavaria. But the names of cavalry are also hung, Prussians ride horses, Bavarians ride carts... Bavaria actually started to think before they produced a tank weighing more than ten tons. They changed part of the cavalry unit into a mixed unit of horses and armored vehicles. To improve the combat effectiveness of the reconnaissance force. The organization has largely remained the same, but the combat effectiveness is not at all a grade.

Of course, the size of this Bavarian army of 20,000 people in a division is estimated by Xiaomoqi and others. In fact, Bavaria’s annual military report is still about 16,600 people. The size of the various units has not changed, but Xiao Maoqi and others know that there are tricks, but you know, you can’t help it, you can’t send a group of people to the army to count alone... ..

But this time is different. If the weapons used in Bavaria were at least traceable in the German army, if they were still in the system, then you suddenly appeared in the army with a pile of dozens of tons. What's this for guys? If you are a division equipped with an armor regiment. Invisible, you have expanded your army a lot. Although the Prussian General Staff cannot manage you too finely, it is absolutely impossible to increase the number of personnel by tens of thousands. Otherwise, the prince can directly expand the size of the grass-roots troops. Struggling to bargain with the Kaiser?

Except for the troops directly under the royal family, how to give these iron guys a status so that they can fit into the troops has become a very important issue. And this time, the answer given by the prince was simple. He claimed that these things should belong to the artillery! Generally speaking, a division in the German army theoretically has 14 artillery companies. Generally speaking, there are 9 75mm rapid-fire artillery companies, 3 105mm light howitzer artillery companies and 2 150mm heavy artillery artillery companies, each with 6 artillery companies. .

And Prince Ruprecht’s arrangement is like this, aren’t there 12 light artillery companies in the Bavarian army? Among them, the number of 105mm light howitzer companies is 6. This is not currently planned to be changed, but the six 75mm rapid-fire artillery companies will be changed to assault artillery companies, referred to as assault guns... According to the prince, they just replaced the 36 rapid-fire guns towed by horses and vehicles with self-propelled rapid-fire guns... The total number of tubes remains unchanged, this is not a violation...

"Fuck, this makes sense, I'm speechless..." Earl Schlieffen was instantly dumbfounded when he saw the so-called assault artillery. And when the little Moqi on the side saw this document, he just gave him a rare and strange look at Earl Schlieffen, because the things he saw in the document were completely compared with the things he saw in the document. It's a little ugly!

Because in the prince’s letter to Xiao Moqi, the prince mentioned a "track-type heavy towing vehicle" specifically for 150mm cannons and 210mm heavy howitzers, although the prince did not specify what this stuff is~www.wuxiaspot. com~ But he mentioned in the letter that the chassis used by this towing vehicle is exactly the same as that of the assault gun, "has good off-road performance and modification space."

When Xiao Moqi asked the prince in surprise why he acted so recklessly, the prince made it very clear that the content of the letter to Xiao Maoqi also appeared in the letter to the Kaiser. On the issue of increasing the German military strength, the Kaiser and The views of Bavaria and Xiaomoqi are the same. They have a common enemy-the conservative faction of the Prussian Junkers. The latter controls the German General Staff. This control is not a matter of changing individuals. Even if Xiao Maoqi came to power, he would not be able to completely change the whole situation.

When meeting with the Kaiser, Mozzi mentioned these things in a very obscure way. On the one hand, the Kaiser expressed his understanding of the behavior of Bavaria. At the same time, he also said that the Prussian army should not be left behind in this change. , And finally contributed to Xiao Moqi's plan to travel to Bavaria as a private person. If nothing else, Moch will take over as the Prussian chief of staff after Schlieffen retires, and Prussia can also advance some military reforms by then.

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