Chapter 709: Cold start plan

In terms of combat effectiveness, these units have undergone systematic military training and are composed of soldiers with the most appropriate age. The equipment may not be the best, but they are definitely the most combat effective. You know, the current Bavarian Army is only about 180,000, and it took three years to double its strength in peacetime! The speed of this violent soldier is almost unmatched in a kingdom-level country, right? Whether it is France, Britain, Germany, or Russia, who can double the size of the army in three years?

  To be honest, if it weren’t for Prince Leopold standing in front of him, the winner of Germany’s highest honor in World War I, the future commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front. Maybe Ruprecht's first reaction was to pull the man out and beat him a hundred times, ah, a hundred times.

  But as a person who participated in the Franco-Prussian War and fought all the way, passing through hundreds of German generals all the way to the marshal and the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, it is impossible to say that there is no ability! The reason why he dared to hand over this thing to Ruprecht, it shows that he can do it out of ten.

"If it were in Bavaria before, I would not dare to think about it, because we couldn't find so many high-quality soldiers and enough funds to support this plan, but now, I can say responsibly that this plan can definitely be done. !"

"Compared to capital, the personnel problem is the most difficult to solve. Bavarian industrial development and government revenues, plus dollar loans, are enough to feed these troops, and the entire Allies are preparing for war as an important arms producer. , Bavaria is at least providing arms for 800,000 new troops. There is no need to worry about money."

"Personnel is the biggest problem, but as early as a few years ago, when you were not in full control of the army, I made a cold start plan. This plan did not pass you. This is a plan that your father agreed and supported. ."

"The so-called cold start is for the mobilization mechanism generally set up in European countries. The latter mobilization is to recruit the national reserve in a very short time and fill it into the reserve or reserve army to deal with the war. need."

"But cold start is not the same. This start-up process will last a long time and is for planned warfare. The biggest difference between it and the reserve system is that it allows selected officers and soldiers to keep in touch with the most cutting-edge things in the military. Techniques, tactics and training to keep them in shape without dropping too much, etc."

"Future warfare is the world of technical arms and technical equipment. The ordinary infantry that can charge with a rifle is no longer the key to determining the outcome of the war. Artillery, armor, air force, elite commandos and well-trained Logistics personnel are the real battlefield masters. But the training of these technical arms requires time and a lot of investment. Therefore, the biggest feature of the cold start plan is to increase the reserve of reserve arms in peacetime and keep them vigorous."

"The Blue Army of the Empire participated in the Boer War and the North African War. These people are elite officers and soldiers who have been tempered in the war. Therefore, after their retirement, the military will regularly train them every year because most of these people are arranged. Sub-Bavaria is directly affiliated to a factory or enterprise, so there is no problem with this training. These people have always maintained a good condition and can completely serve as grass-roots commanders in the upcoming war. Similarly, some did not participate in the war, but their performance was still outstanding. Retired personnel will also receive this treatment, of course, compensation is indispensable. And we have 7,000 such personnel!"

"And because of the existence of these people, it was possible for Bavaria to have more than 300,000 troops in 1912. We can at least provide officers for those newly formed troops less than one year old. Technical arms such as artillery and armored troops, and The necessary backbone veterans." Prince Leopold said.

   "Then if the war breaks out, how many troops can we mobilize?" Ruprecht thought for a while and asked.

   "No more than one division at most." Leopold said with a smile.

   "Holding the grass, I feel that this gap is a bit big!" Prince Ruprecht said with a slight change of face.

"The so-called cold start is actually equivalent to the first wave of wartime mobilization in other countries. We just make the mobilization personnel higher in quality and larger in number. This is another kind of early mobilization, so before deep mobilization, we The army’s strength will not increase significantly because of the beginning of the war."

"What's more, if the war lasts for a long time, we need to continuously transport personnel for the army. As the royal family, we obviously do not want our citizens to die in vain, so we must at least let them complete the most basic training in order to There are opportunities for self-protection in the battlefield, and for those non-aged retired personnel and complete newcomers, we need time to adapt them to the war.” Prince Leopold explained.

   "In this way, we will basically not replenish our troops until the fourth month after the start of the war. After that, we will send troops to the front in a certain cycle,"

   "What about afterwards? I mean the two sides have been fighting for half a year or longer ~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ after the initial confrontation and entering the stalemate?" Ruprecht asked. "In addition, I have another question. In our army in the future, ordinary Bavarian divisions should account for the majority, but now it seems that in the simple Bavarian army, assault divisions and rapid divisions account for the main part."

"Let me answer the second question first. The Bavarian army is limited in scale and human resources are also limited, especially our military industry requires a lot of labor. In this case alone, there are 200,000 adult male laborers working in various related departments, so If you simply want to rely on the Kingdom of Bavaria to pile up more than 25 divisions, it is somewhat difficult."

"But now, we have the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it can help us solve many problems, the most important of which is the issue of military strength! Even if the current Bohemia and Moravia cannot implement the cold start plan I developed, they are in In the war, at least 4 armies and 8 divisions can be gathered. Except for the two German rapid divisions that we helped build, the remaining 6 to 8 divisions are no different from ordinary Prussian divisions." Prince Leopold said.

"In other words, the number of our ordinary divisions will be about 10 to 12? In this case, if we count all the troops, our total force may reach more than 500,000! The size of two large army groups!" Lu Precht said.

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