"If you want to say that there is difficulty, but it is not necessarily difficult to say how difficult, in fact, if you look at the position of Bavaria, we almost occupy the best position on the Eastern Front! Uncle, please look here. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info"Compared with the Western Front, the most important feature of the Eastern Front is the vast area of the plains, and the battle line is very long, if the Russians set up positions along the border from East Prussia to Austria-Hungary, then the length of this line of defense is nearly 1,000 kilometers!

"The Russians will improve their railways, but if they can fill up thousands of kilometers of fronts at once, I still don't believe it, because the support capacity of the front line is one aspect, and the transport capacity is another!" Ruprecht said confidently.

Historically, the Russians compared to their previous performance, the mobilization efficiency of the first war was really good, but it was only good, in 18 days, the Russians mobilized millions of troops, and formed 6 army groups, these 6 army groups formed two front armies, one is the Northwest Front, this front army is composed of two army groups, with 250,000 and 200,000 troops respectively. Mainly against East Prussia. The other 4 fronts formed the Southwestern Front, and the 4 army groups lined up along the line of the Russian-Austro-Hungarian border. Nearly 400 kilometers of frontal front!

Historically, after the deployment of the Russian corps, a very serious problem was discovered, between the two army groups, there was an undefended strip of 200 kilometers long! In terms of width, it is much worse than the 70 km gap between the two armies in the northwest in the East Prussian campaign! Because there was also a Lake Mazur between the two armies in the East Prussian campaign, the gap was not very large. The 200-kilometer gap between the two fronts was so real that the Russians intended to form another army group to fill the gap. But unfortunately, until the end of the Silesian campaign, the Russians were unable to close this gap, not because they did not want to plug it. It's really impossible to block!

The gap between the armies of the two fronts is really a bit far from the Russian hinterland, and it is difficult for the Russians to mobilize more than 200,000 troops here. In fact, the consumption of such a large army has exceeded the supply capacity of the Russian Polish region, and unlike the local supply of the army in Germany and Austria, the Russians need to transport a large amount of supplies from more distant places! And the Kingdom of Bavaria is in this gap!

Of course, this gap in history did not cause much serious consequences, because the forces of the Central Powers on the Eastern Front were also insufficient, although the German Eighth Army belonged to a large army group in the German army, with 15 infantry divisions, but he was facing nearly 500,000 Russian troops, don't attack, and the defense of the vast East Prussian front is a little stretched. As for the Austro-Hungarian side? All right. Directly pumped by the Russians, they can't find the ...... north. It is said that the loss of 400,000 almost did not kill Austria-Hungary!

But this plane is different, thanks to more adequate financial assistance, Germany can hold one more group army! And the situation of personnel and equipment of other army groups has also been greatly improved. And the most direct result is that there is an extra Bavarian legion of terrifying strength on the Eastern Front! An army of nearly 300,000 was right in the undefended part of the Russian front!

Anyway, whether others believe it or not, the prince doesn't believe that the Russians can conjure up an additional army group to plug the gap in wartime! The reason is simple, in this plane, Germany started the war earlier than in history, and Russia consumed more national strength in the Russo-Japanese War, and the time to prepare after the war was shorter. And if the prince is not mistaken, it was only in the last two years of history, that is, in 1913 and 1914, that Russia received the largest amount of aid, and in 1913 1 year, Russia received a loan of 102 million pounds from France to expand its armaments! And this plane, I'm afraid the two sides will be at war in 1912, right?

"If nothing else, there will be a big hole in the Russian defense line, and eighty percent will be with us, our troops may not need to break through the opponent's defense line to go around the opponent's back, the supply system of the Russians is clear to you, the supply distance at the division level is no more than 25 kilometers, the entire defense line will be very shallow, we can easily cut off their contact with the rear, and then eat them!" Ruprecht dotted the map with the putter in his hand and drew a curve. Schematic outflanking line.

"What if the Russians spread their forces a little more?" Prince Leopold frowned slightly, and then quickly vetoed his opinion, now a front of a Russian army group has opened a front of about 100 kilometers, if you want to make up for the entire front, then an army group is responsible for an average of about 150 kilometers of front! A division has to be responsible for a 30-kilometer front, and there is almost no reserve force, so linear deployment is not only a decrease in the density of troops, but also a difficult supply force!

Even if the Russians did this, it was just a drink to quench their thirst, and this seemed to make up for the battle line through the division of forces, but instead gave the other side a chance to break through.

"I'm afraid that's why you've been fighting on the Eastern Front, right? Our enemies are a little weak. Prince Leopold said meaningfully. If it were a Western Front, the French Legion, with better infrastructure and more heavy weapons, would be able to mobilize no less troops than the Russian Legion during this time, plus the British who came across the sea, maybe Britain and France could concentrate 1.5 million troops on a 300-kilometer front! And then use this force to attack the German legions, which have spanned hundreds of kilometers and are already somewhat exhausted, it hurts to think about it!

"Tell me about your plans." Prince Leopold asked.

"As long as the Austro-Hungarian Empire does not advance and the combat effectiveness is reasonable, then there will not be much suspense in the battle between the two sides on the border line, the Austro-Hungarian Legion will suffer some losses, but it will not hurt the muscles and bones, and the Russians at least 3 corps will be pinned, and then we will start from the most marginal corps of the Russian Southwestern Front, and the frontal attack and flank detour will be launched at the same time, and I will mobilize 2 armies and the Austro-Hungarian Corps assigned to us to attack mainly from the front, And the other 2 corps and 1 cavalry corps plus the motor vehicles directly under the corps made up of a fast legion inserted from the gap! Detour behind the back of the Russian army group and eat it completely! The prince said.

"And then? Will we continue to attack the Russians' Southwestern Front or will we choose to rest on the spot? Prince Leopold asked.

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