"Your Royal Highness, a letter from General Moltke Jr. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Count Schelling first saluted Prince Leopold and Prince, who were sitting beside him, and then sent a letter from Berlin.

"How's it going?" Prince Leopold asked with concern as he watched the prince put away the letter after reading it.

"What else? The Kaiser was undecided, Schlieffen was reluctant to change his plans by adding a variable, and Tirpitz was unwilling to let the navy's military spending suffer. Krupp is also wary of such a weapon with a huge investment and uncertain prospects. Little Moltke applauded! The prince sighed as he handed the letter to Prince Leopold.

"It looks like we don't have a smooth road ahead." Prince Leopold probably read the contents of the letter and said with a wry smile. It's no problem to engage in machine guns and rapid-fire guns, because these are generally minor changes to the original military system. The cost is low and the difficulty is high, but if you want to engage in mechanization and armored forces, then the difficulty is too great, and the area of Bavaria is not even half of Hebei Province. How can you support such a force? Do you have that much money?

Prussia will not be equipped with such vehicles, or people would rather do it as they wish, rather than learn your Bavarian advanced combat posture. Not to mention Austria-Hungary, how could such a country with two parliaments be willing to spend so much money on a bunch of weapons that did not yet know the prospects? If Bavaria were to equip such a tank on its own, how much would it cost! Of course, the most important thing is that the effect of just fixing this little thing is too small and useless!

"You must have a way, right?" Prince Leopold said.

"Uncle, first of all, you have to help, help me convince my grandfather and father. We need to build at least a full-fledged armored battalion with 45 combat vehicles of the kind! And all are breakthrough vehicles. The prince said.

"Huh." Prince Leopold smiled. "If you allocate so much money at once, I'm afraid it will be a little difficult, but there will be no problem in three years. Of course, if you can get more income, then the grant will be more. ”

"I thought so, but I didn't have any money now!" No matter how good the prince's temper is, he is also a little dissatisfied in his heart, and he can now almost say that he has come up with all the ways to make money, and Bavaria's national strength has increased, but it is still much worse than his goal. Especially in terms of funds, if you really encounter a big project, it is really not enough! The prince's plan was to get one for each corps first, which would require about 4 to 5 tank battalions, and then keep 2 more in his own hands.

"Aren't you going to sell some of the weapons in your domestic stockpiles to the Russians? In addition to the cost, there should be a lot of income, right? Prince Leopold asked.

"There are some, but not much. After all, we even have 1880 ammunition in it, and it's not clear whether it can be used or not, and if you want to tie in these things, then the price naturally can't be high. The prince said with some depression. Since it's processing, it's definitely bad things that are being handled, and these things naturally can't be sold at a high price.

"Then you can't sell the Russians something new and valuable?" Prince Leopold said with a little jokingness. The prince was 100% sure that Prince Leopold was joking!

"Something new and valuable? This one has! What do you think of our Vespa assault guns? Sell it to the Russians! I just don't know if the Russians can drive them to the front! "Since everyone is not serious now, let's joke together. The prince scoffed.

"Do you think the Russians want this thing?" Prince Leopold pulled out a picture from the envelope of an armored vehicle designed by Krupp over several days. Moltke Jr. also revealed to the prince in his heart the idea and part of the equipment of the Prussian armored forces.

"That's it? I don't even want it to give it to me, I can only block the color of the machine gun bullets, so I can use it now. It's okay to fight infantry, and it's barely enough to be a reconnaissance unit, but it's impossible to break through the opponent's trenches. The prince sneered mercilessly.

"Even if I were designing it, I would use a half-track site, so that I can balance speed and off-road performance, and the tonnage is higher, so the upgrade prospects are greater." Bavaria is engaged in automobile transportation, but also engaged in a variety of tracked vehicles, but also engaged in half-track vehicles, before the appearance of those n*n driven vehicles in later generations, half-track vehicles better balance off-road and speed and fuel consumption, so it has been very popular until World War II. Naturally, the prince did not forget about such vehicles.

"Wait, what do you think will happen if we get a half-track armored car for the Russians?" The prince's eyes lit up and he said. "We have ready-made territory, and they are all designed on the basis of trucks, and if they are changed to military use, they will be just a few steel plates and some weapons, and they will deal with the Japanese in the Far East anyway. You don't need anything too advanced. ”

"You don't really plan to sell armored vehicles to the Russians, do you?" Prince Leopold lowered the teacup in his hand and said with a little surprise. "You're crazy about money, aren't you? Our future enemies are the Russians, and now instead help them master advanced technology and tactics! ”

"What's that point? And even what is the current Vespa assault gun? I can say responsibly that the weight of 18 tons is simply not enough, and we still need to improve the performance and increase the weight. And with the industrial level of the Russians, even what we don't think is complicated, they still can't do it. There are a lot of things that you can't equip if you think it's good, one has to have technical and industrial support, and the other has to have money, but alas, Russia doesn't meet any of the conditions! The prince said.

The current Russia is not the Soviet Union of later generations, even if you are given a full set of drawings for the T-26, can you get it? (Well, Germany can't do it now.) Are you equipped? The prince has too many good things in his head, but how much can Germany be equipped with now? Therefore, the prince was not at all worried about what threat Russia would pose to Germany when it was equipped with these tanks.

"And we must make the Prussians aware of the power of our weapons by some means, so that they will be willing to spend money on them. Everything we do is for the sake of the country, and it is okay to take some special actions if necessary, and the Kaiser cannot blame us, after all, now Krupp is also receiving orders from the Russians. The prince said.

"But even if you have equipment, you don't necessarily use it well. You also need to match the Russians with some instructors! If you can, it's okay to experiment with our tactics with the Russians. When Prince Leopold saw that the prince had decided, he didn't say much, but reminded him.

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