And now? The decline in the proportion of Junker officers of noble origin in the Prussian regiment displeased the noble officers, but at the same time to the great satisfaction of the plebeians and the petty bourgeoisie, since they were given more avenues for promotion, which was reflected in the Diet, that is, the relationship between the Emperor and the Parliament was more harmonious. www.biquge.info On this issue, the Kaiser, the plebeians, and the Kingdom of Bavaria all benefited, but some of the Junker nobles and capitalists suffered! So, it is quite normal that some people within the General Staff are somewhat hostile to Bavaria. This is also true of Heilingen.

But there are many kinds of hostility, some people are eager to eat the skin of the flesh, such as some capitalists, while others are wary or mildly hostile, and they will try to weaken the Bavarian army in the case of the big picture, and General Heilingen is the latter. Even General Heilingen thought that Moltke Jr. wanted to do so in some way.

"So why is Moltke Jr.'s chief of staff so ambiguous about this matter? If, as we had previously expected, the chief of the General Staff of Moltke Jr. should have been tougher, if not forced by a vote of the General Staff. For example, the Bavarian side was forced to make concessions by reducing the forces that had been used to support the Polish Pocket Campaign. Hindenburg asked.

"Because this is not a political issue, but a military one! There is no right or wrong in politics, only winning or losing, and military affairs are an objective issue, and the interests of a political party or faction must never override military victories, otherwise problems will inevitably arise. General Heringen said.

This may seem incomprehensible, but to put it simply, political issues are between different factions, can you say who is right or wrong? No, people will only remember the final victor, but the military question is an honest question, and you can't throw away the victory in the war because of your political likes and dislikes! It's going to happen!

"Including the Kaiser and Moltke the Chief of the General Staff, they both had a lack of understanding of the prospects of the war, they didn't know how to end the war victoriously, and at the beginning we thought that we could fight the Russians by mobilizing quickly and then getting rid of France and then turning back. But our plan proved to be a failure, and even before the Bavarian corps advanced westward, we struggled. In the absence of a better way, the Kaiser and Moltke naturally believed in the Bavarian prince, who had never disappointed, and thus acquiesced in his strategy of defeating Russia this year! ”

"And precisely because this strategy is the only one we can adopt at the moment, there is no way for the entire Prussian General Staff to force the prince to do anything. Because if this plan doesn't work out, we're in a very bad situation! No one dares to take that risk. Heilingen said.

"But no one thought about what would happen if Prince Ruprecht's plan ended up failing. Who bears this responsibility? Hindenburg asked.

"If the plan fails, then he will naturally suffer the consequences, and the Kaiser will not show mercy to his subordinates at that time, he will lose the command of the Eastern Front, and may even take his corps to the Western Front, but this is a future tense, and we cannot make a decision now."

"So what are the criteria for victory and defeat?" Hindenburg asked.

"In the short term, it is natural to cripple the five army groups in Poland, and in the long term, it is to enter the Great Plains of Ukraine and even the Transcaucasia. At the same time, the front was advanced to St. Petersburg in the northeast. At the same time, Russia lost the ability of the large corps to counterattack, and the Prussian corps deployed on the Eastern Front could be transferred to the Western Front, and the Bavarian Corps could completely control the situation on the Eastern Front and the Balkans. General Heringen said.

"Isn't it the Russians who surrendered?" Hindenburg said with some surprise.

"How can it be that easy? It's nice to be able to do that. General Heilingen said with a sigh. At the meeting, the prince made it clear that we could occupy these areas and get the supplies and supplies we needed, and let Russia go hungry. This can already change our situation very well. Believe me, this is the best result we have now, we will not be able to break through the Anglo-French lines in a big way until the Bavarian Corps comes to the Western Front. ”

"We seem to have won this one?" After the meeting, in the prince's study, Baron Schmidt, who had accompanied the prince, asked tentatively after listening to the content of the meeting.

"Of course not, just a temptation. The bargaining with the Kaiser has not yet begun, but fortunately, the Kaiser will no longer borrow the General Staff to suppress us, and some things that cannot be put on the table can be said in private. The prince said with a smile.

"So do we really have the ability to suppress the Allied legions in the Balkans while completing the tasks on the Eastern Front?" Baron Schmidt asked.

"Not sure." Ruprecht said with great certainty. Putting aside the Battle of the Dardanelles for the time being, purely from the encirclement and annihilation plan of this Polish pocket, the prince estimated that if this battle was purely from the scale of view, it was certain that there was no one before, and it was estimated that there would be no one to come! The prince's goal is to get out of the pocket of 5 armies! If you add some fortress garrisons, it is estimated to be a million! In the largest siege and annihilation battle in history, the Russian army was surrounded and annihilated in the Battle of Kyiv, and there were only 600,000 troops encircled and annihilated! And nearly 30 years ahead of history, the difficulty of fighting a battle on a larger scale than history under the conditions of World War I is quite huge. If it weren't for the fact that the battlefield was very close to the German mainland, and the power in the prince's hands was indeed strong, the prince would not even want to try it!

To put it mildly, even if it is 1 million pigs, you have to work hard to catch them! Think about it, when the Russian troops of these 5 armies realized that they were about to be surrounded, what a terrifying thing it would be to fight back before they died. After all, they had thousands of artillery pieces, a relatively large number of ammunition, and a tidal wave of troops. Sometimes, when the number breaks through to a certain limit, there is really no way, for specific information, please refer to the fall ...... of the movie Black Hawk.

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, the prince not only concentrated all the forces he could mobilize, but also tried to extract troops from the Kaiser as much as possible, which is definitely not a private person, but if it can be done, then the strategic prospects are too tempting! Even if it could not be done, the losses of the German corps would not be significant.

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