Thinking of this, the prince felt the purse in his pocket seem to jump ....... Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "Okay, okay, this is just an assumption, maybe there will be a lot of shortcomings, but the Russian army on the opposite side should be more coffee table, and the problem should not be too big." Rupresit comforted himself.

In the end, this kind of division was defined by the prince as an assault division, which was specially used to cut the opponent's front, in addition to the assault division, two other divisions were needed, one of which was the fast division in the past, the main role of such a division was to follow the assault division, break into the opponent's line, consolidate and expand the breakthrough, and continue to work hard to follow up the pace of the assault division, to ensure the formation of an encirclement of the enemy.

Unlike previous plans, such a division would minimize the number of combat vehicles, on the one hand, it was unnecessary, after all, the assault mission had already been handed over to a spearhead like the assault division. On the other hand, it is to save money, there is no way. The original plan of a rapid division with a tank battalion of 45 tanks is likely to be ruined by the problem of allocating trucks to ...... infantry.

After the assault division broke through the defensive line, the former continued to develop in depth and moved to the opponent's flank, while the latter was responsible for following up in order to form an encirclement, so that the troops would move slower than the assault division, and at the same time the ability to attack the fortification would be weaker, but there were more artillery and more sufficient troops to resist the opponent's counterattack, or block part of the retreating Russian army. Such divisions are called fast divisions.

Because the rapid division needs to shoulder the task of holding the breakthrough and expanding the breakthrough, their force allocation will be slightly stronger, equipped with a large number of submachine guns, machine guns and howitzers, and if necessary, there will be a special air force to reinforce. And the size of these divisions is about 20,000 people. Larger than assault divisions and ordinary divisions. It was expected that the Bavarian Corps and the accompanying Austro-Hungarian Corps would probably have to build seven such divisions.

And the third division is an ordinary Bavarian division. They are more mobile, but they have the largest number and the largest heavy artillery group, and their mission is to follow the Rapid Division to encircle and annihilate the enemy. When the opponent decides to retreat or the defense line is shaken, a large number of ordinary divisions will crush the opponent like a crush. And complete the final encirclement and annihilation.

"Actually, I don't think it's necessary for the assault division to participate in the later encirclement task, he just needs to hit the opponent's army-level logistics center as soon as possible, and kill this point, in the absence of a railway, the distance between their army-level logistics units and the front line is only 100 kilometers, if our troops are not effectively blocked, 2 days is enough time to hit their logistics center, and if these centers are destroyed, they want to withdraw this distance at least 5 days or so, And that's without interference! Prince Leopold said.

"What do you mean is that in addition to encircling the opponent's main force, what you pay more attention to is the attack on the enemy's deep units, supply depots, transportation hubs, and railway trunk lines are your goals, and buy time for the troops in front to encircle the opponent by paralyzing the opponent's supply system?" The prince said thoughtfully.

"That's right, that's it, an important indicator to measure whether the results of our campaign are completed is not only how many Russian troops are annihilated, but more importantly, the consumption of Russian technology and equipment, there are many Russians, their soldiers are cheap, but technical equipment is very scarce." The Prince agreed.

"But now there is a new problem, if we succeed in occupying Russian Poland and let the Russians retreat in depth, our supply lines will be lengthened, and the traffic situation will deteriorate further, for example, if the Russians push to the Baltic Sea, Belarus, and Ukraine, how will we fight next? Will it attack Ukraine, or will it go north to the Baltic coast? **** said a question that had been bothering him. It is not difficult to defeat the Russian army, but how to defeat Russia is a very big problem.

The German army in history also has this problem, if it goes north, it will face very fierce resistance, neither the Gulf of Riga nor Petrograd can be easily captured, and the road conditions in the Ukrainian direction are worse and the front is longer, which is not easy to solve. Although the prince had used the Bolsheviks and the internal strife in Poland to bring Russia to its knees, he wanted to find a military solution.

"Ukraine is too far away from us, although it can be occupied, but it will consume a lot of our troops and energy, and our mobile forces will gradually be consumed in the controlled areas, so I don't recommend attacking Ukraine at the beginning, if we can get the cooperation of the navy, I am willing to push it directly to Petrograd! In the future, these regions could be brought under the control of the German Empire, and even the Kaiser considered Ukraine suitable only as a vassal state. Prince Leopold replied.

"I agree with that, too." The prince said that in August 1918, when the Western Front of Germany was being fought by the Allies and retreated step by step, the Allies still had 50 divisions in Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia, and these troops accounted for about a quarter of the troops on the Eastern Front! And the occupation of Russian territory in a short period of time did not have enough revenue to compensate for 50 divisions, so the prince also meant that the Ukrainian region and Transcaucasia should first let it mess up and reduce the scope of direct control, as long as they were separated from Soviet Russia by treaty, then after the end of World War I, it was the best way to turn around and slowly pick up these places.

"In a war with the Russians, the navy will be a very important factor, and after we have inflicted heavy losses on the Russian Southwestern Front and the Northwestern Front, we can try to join forces with the navy and launch a landing war on the coast of Poland, with a knife in the back of the neck of the Russians, and directly eat all the troops in Russian Poland! In that case, we will greatly accelerate the pace of attack. And if we transport it by sea, it will be faster than if we were transporting it by rail. The prince said.

"It depends on the Kaiser's intentions, after all, the Imperial Navy has to listen to the Kaiser, and the landing operation will take a long time, whether the Kaiser will agree, whether the High Seas Fleet will cooperate is difficult to say, even if Hipper becomes the commander of the High Seas Fleet, he may not agree easily, right?" The prince was not very optimistic about this.

"They will agree, it is one of the important tasks of the Navy to obtain sea supremacy in the Baltic Sea and assist the army to attack, and they will not shirk it, not to mention, it is not easy for us to defeat the British fleet, but it is also not easy for the British to threaten our coastal waters, and the pressure on our coastal defense is actually not great." The prince said.

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