Due to the intervention of the United States, Japan and Russia finally decided to sit down and negotiate, and the location is still the old place, Portsmouth, since they have already sat down, even if the two exhausted guys talk again, they are not willing to go to the battlefield again, so what agreement can be reached, even if it depends on the level of negotiation between the representatives of the two sides and the mediation of the Americans.

Therefore, the negotiation between the two sides only instructed the German ambassador to the United States to pay more attention and report any changes in time, and then put the matter aside.

Put aside other people's affairs first, but Yoheng has to worry about his own family's affairs.

Schlieffen is old enough to decide to retire at the end of this year, so he is preparing to appoint a new chief of the army staff.

Of course, this person will not be Moltke, who is still promoted as the emperor's attendant military attache in this time and space, is also loved by Jochen, with a wide range of interests, broad horizons, and more importantly, no more rigid than an officer from a traditional Prussian Junker military aristocratic family.

If it weren't for the fact that Jochen knew that Moltke's ability to maintain the status quo was fine, but in the face of a world war, Jochen would also want to appoint him as the chief of the army staff.

Therefore, the shrewd and obedient Moltke was appointed by Jochen in 1904 as the head of the Army's personnel department, and put the power of promotion, appointment and dismissal of officers in his hands, and Jochen was at ease, just as the personnel power of the navy is now in the hands of Bol.

And Schlieffen's successor must be capable and supportive of the Eastern Front's operational ideas, and Jochen has long had a plan in mind about this candidate. However, before Schlieffen returned home, the chief of the army staff decided to leave some more possessions for the German army, and by the way, to continue to improve the feasibility of the offensive plan that he had painstakingly worked so hard to create.

So Schlieffen came up with an idea for Jochen.

"Are you kidding? My Excellency the Chief of the General Staff? Jochen looked at Schlieffen in front of him like a ghost, wondering if the person in front of him was someone pretending.

"陛xià. I'm not kidding. Schlieffen replied with a stern face, but he was very confused by the reaction of the emperor's majesty, is it so unbelievable that he proposed it? Although he thought so, Schlieffen still explained seriously: "Your Majesty, according to our long-term exercises, we have summed up experience and lessons in exploration and confrontation. Looking for tactics to break through the enemy lines, we believe that it is extremely important to shorten the time the infantry is exposed to enemy fire and to prepare timely support fire for the infantry. So we've tried a lot of things. ”

For these attempts of the army, Jochen knows that in addition to barrage Xu Jin and infantry commando tactics, the army is also looking for other ways to attack, but most of them are unreliable solutions.

For example, prepare bulletproof cuirass for soldiers, but this kind of thing is bulky and heavy, and it is difficult to move after wearing it, not to mention that it is impossible to bend down at all, and this kind of cuirass made of steel plates is basically equal to nothing in the face of rifle bullets and shells. So after being scolded by Jochen, they all canceled.

If one move doesn't work, then another move, since the soldier is basically useless when he wears it, how do we use it to push? The War Department has made a batch of thicker and heavier bulletproof bunkers that allow soldiers to push forward, which is the solution to the effect of resisting rifle bullets, but pushing such a bulky thing on a potholed battlefield is not moving fast at all, and the most direct way to see this kind of bunker is to beckon two mortar shells to go over and solve everything. As a result, needless to say, he was scolded by Jochen again.

Eventually, the War Department recognized. If you want to attack quickly, you still can't put too much burden on the infantry. As a result, infantry assault tactics became the standard offensive tactics of the German Army, and problems were found in practical use to improve them, and Jochen also put forward some useful suggestions for this.

In order to adapt to the infantry assault tactics, the army's equipment began to make some changes, first of all, in order to make up for the lack of infantry support firepower to prepare direct artillery, curved fire, now the German Army 60 mm mortars have been deployed to the platoon.

But direct fire became a big problem, and the German Army originally prepared 37mm field guns for the commandos. Later, because the power of the 37-mm field gun was insufficient to provide sufficient direct fire support for the infantry, the 75-mm field gun began to be prepared for the infantry.

The use of 75mm field guns is powerful enough and has a longer range, and soldiers do not have to risk pushing 37mm field guns into positions that are vulnerable to enemy attacks. Allowing artillery to provide support at a greater distance increases artillery survivability.

However, this weight is a nightmare for the march, even if all kinds of lightweight designs are made, this kind of thing still requires 5 infantry to drag away, which is extremely inconvenient, and it becomes a great difficulty to move the artillery position forward when quickly advancing deep into the enemy position, and the infantry and artillery are too far apart, and it is not timely when supporting firepower is needed. As a result, the German Army began to look for lighter alternatives that could hit targets at close range.

There are such alternatives, but the army has doubts about the reliability of this new weapon, so it is not widely equipped.

The Army, which had suffered enough in one attempt after another, began to seek a kind of equipment that would not only affect the speed of the infantry's attack, but also provide cover for the infantry and provide fire support.

At a time when the number of truck equipment inside the German Army began to gradually increase, the Army thought of armored vehicles. Although armored vehicles were already used in Britain during the Boer War, the armies of various countries at this time did not think of using armored vehicles on a large scale in offensive operations.

However, it has been proved by experiments that armored vehicles are effective in places where the road conditions are good, but in the case of poor ground conditions, armored cars become useless and tattered, especially when they are ploughed by artillery shells and turned into an engagement battlefield on the surface of the moon over and over again, and it is simply difficult for armored vehicles to move an inch, let alone cross trenches.

Therefore, the army believes that as long as there is an armored car that can drive in bad road conditions, then this equipment can be of great use, so it began to set its sights on another vehicle.

"You said that the army is ready to use a tractor as a platform and modify an armored tractor that can travel on the battlefield?!" That's why Jochen was surprised, the person standing in front of him was really Schlieffen, not Guderian?

It's only 1906! The German Army wants tanks ?! Why are you kidding me?! I, the traverser, are still thinking about whether to wait a little longer, and wait for the more powerful engines to come out, and your army is ready to study this thing now? Are there other time-travelers among you? Is it called Katie? West Lime? If yes, I'll reuse it right away!

"Yes, Your Majesty, vehicles on wheels cannot adapt to the battlefield environment, our armored car cannot drive fast at all after driving on the ground that has been blown by shells, the violent bumps make it impossible for the personnel in the car to fight at all, and once it rains, the ground is muddy, and the vehicle is easily trapped.

Therefore, armored vehicles are a kind of equipment that is not suitable for use on the battlefield, that is, it can be somewhat useful for advancing on the road. But the armor of the armored car can provide good cover for the infantry, and the artillery or machine gun installed on it can provide support for the infantry, and more importantly, it can advance with the infantry, so as long as it can solve the driving ability, this equipment will be able to solve many problems in our infantry attack.

Tractors with tracks solve this problem, they ride very smoothly on uneven, muddy ground, so I think the use of tractors as a platform for this equipment has a very good effect. Schlieffen explained earnestly that he was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor would not understand the practice of using agricultural tools as weapons and would oppose it.

The problem is that Jochen is not against any farm machinery at all, but the idea comes out of your Schlieffen mouth! It's scared to death!

It's a quick attack and a flank outflank, and you have to use tanks, you think you're proposing a blitzkrieg! You think you're an ancient man!

However, it is understandable that this situation will occur, because war is an accelerator for equipment, and tanks were born out of the stalemate of trench warfare in World War I. Although the German Army has not really fought a world war, it is now the army that has the deepest understanding of the power of trench warfare.

Schlieffen's battle plan was a quick attack, so the enemy's defense line could not be allowed to block the pace of the army's attack, wasting too much time and losing too many troops, so the need for a kind of equipment that could break through the trench naturally became a necessary need. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the German Army's firepower and defense system are becoming more and more perfect, and the attackers are becoming more and more difficult and the losses are getting higher and higher.

"In other words, you are going to equip the army with a vehicle that can withstand a certain amount of fire attacks, and has a certain amount of firepower to support infantry attacks, am I correct in my understanding?" Jochen's understanding of tanks is certainly clear, so the summary is very good.

"Your Majesty is wise, your positioning is very accurate, and we think this will be an excellent weapon to support the infantry attack." Schlieffen was sure.

Well, thinking that the tank is an infantry support weapon, it seems that the person in front of him is indeed not possessed by Gu Bushou, if Schlieffen said that he wants to concentrate the tanks and let the infantry support tanks be the core force of the assault, then Yochen really has to order his army chief of staff to be arrested and studied carefully.

"Since you think this equipment is useful, let's build a few and try it out, you don't need to ask me for this kind of thing, right?" Jochen asked, confused.

"That's right, Majesty, actually, we have already made a prototype car, I hope you can take a look." Schlieffen said with some embarrassment. (To be continued......)

PS: It's up, but it's down, in fact, I don't know which chapter it will be.