"Distinguished gentlemen, our first trip is Riga, where we will receive a shipment of heavy artillery from the United States and complete the hoisting and transportation of the port. At the same time www.biquge.info we will also conduct simulation training in the area near the Baltic Sea, where the Far Eastern battlefield is not only plains, but also hills, swamps, and other terrain. Then we will move forward to Ukraine, trying to solve the problem of long-range maneuvering of heavy artillery in the absence of railways. On the way to Warsaw, a Russian officer said this to a technician from Bavaria on the train.

The prince was still very cooperative this time, and in just one week, a technical detachment of 15 people composed of Bavarian military technicians and automobile factory technicians was arranged, and at the same time, 3 cars were also transferred to be prepared as experimental objects. Grove was one of them, his public identity was a technician at the Munich Automobile Factory, but in fact he was a staff officer of the First Bavarian Army, mainly responsible for the assessment of logistics, and the main purpose of his visit to Russia was to assess the logistics potential of the German railways!

"The speed at which the Russian train moves day and night can be described as tragic, even if we are on a military train, without being disturbed by any civilian train, we can travel no more than 300 kilometers per day and night! There are no automatic gates on their trains, which makes every brake and start of the train a hassle. Grove made the first note in his mind.

"The Russian railway system is generally backward, and the divisions are extremely short and uneven, most of the railway lines are along the core city center branches, the biggest problem of the Russian railway is the lack of a railway through the north and south, if Ukrainian grain wants to be transported to regions such as St. Petersburg and Riga, these wagons must first go to Moscow and then turn northwest."

"The Russians' railways were concentrated in St. Petersburg, Riga, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania-Belarus, Moscow and Finland. The density of railways in these places is 5 or even 10 times that of other regions, but even so, the Russians are not in a position to compare with those of Western Europe. According to my estimates, the density of railways in Russia and Europe is only one-tenth of ours, and even if you throw away some of the northern border areas bordering the Arctic Ocean, our density is still about 6 times higher than that of the other side! ”

"And to my surprise, the Russians had two railway systems, the one near Austria-Hungary was controlled by the army, and the domestic railway transport was controlled by the transport department, and the trains we were riding in were frequently under the control of both transport systems."

"There are still a large number of narrow-gauge railways and even horse-drawn railways in the Russian railway system, which has a great impact on Russia's transport capacity. I don't know exactly what the proportions are. However, it is certain that in the vast inland areas, transport efficiency will be very poor. ”

"But the point to be made is that the Russians don't want such a poor railway system to lead to their slow mobilization. In fact, the Russians are already using various methods to compensate for this problem, first of all, they have built a lot of material warehouses in the border areas. Secondly, the railways in the proximity to Poland were relatively efficient, which meant that they could quickly draw large numbers of troops from the Baltic coast and the Moscow region into the Polish region. And the necessary supplies can be completely solved by local warehouses. ”

"The real problem of the Russians is the lack of railway lines in their rear, and I have asked the Russian soldiers very much today, and they are in very scattered areas, and each soldier would theoretically have to travel 800 to 1,000 versts if he wanted to come to Poland from his hometown or station! The first wave of attacks by the Russians will definitely be ferocious, because this wave of attacks has been prepared by the Russians for a long time. But then the speed of their supply will be very problematic. It is difficult for Ukrainian food and soldiers to reach the front line directly. ”

"And with the outbreak of war, military transportation will inevitably crowd out a large amount of civilian capacity, such as coal, grain, etc. As a direct consequence, there will be a lot of grain in Ukraine and a lot of coal in the Spartan region, but none of this will be able to reach the Baltic region to the north. ”

"I personally believe that the real vulnerability of Russian rail transport is not in the Polish region, but inland transport, the Russians have a lot of resources, but alas, they cannot effectively use these resources, in peacetime, these goods can reach various regions, but in wartime, this is probably not possible, especially coal, the supply of coal in the Spartton region accounts for more than 85% of Russia's total coal production, but this region to Moscow requires 1000 kilometers of railway! So, in the end, we may not have to destroy the Russian army, and a simple shortage of supplies will be enough! ”

During the spy's three years in Russia, he collected a lot of information through field visits, research, and bribery, and this information played an important role in Germany's future war against Russia, and the final result of Russia's collapse was just as the spy expected, Russia was not without supplies, but could not achieve a balanced allocation, which eventually led to the collapse of the economy and government!

Historically, Russian transportation has indeed suffered from arteriosclerosis during wartime. Taking the Sparton Coal Mine as an example, in 1913, the coal production of Sparton Coal was 22 million tons, and the coal mine transported out was about 17.09 million tons. During the war, production fluctuated, with the lowest in 1917 even falling to 18 million tonnes, but on the whole it was within an acceptable range.

However, the decline in outbound traffic is unacceptable. By 1917, the amount of coal shipped from the Spaton Coal Mine was only 11.18 million tons! That's 6 million tons short of before the war! The Spartton Coal Mine accounted for 87.1% of Russia's coal production during the war. The shortfall of 6 million tons of coal mines cannot be made up at all! Without coal, all industries would shrink dramatically, and in the cold winter, without coal, people's lives would be in extreme trouble! It's no wonder if something happens to the Russian government!

In fact, in 1916 the shortage of coal was already obvious, and the shortage of coal in the regions was as follows: St. Petersburg was 20%, the Volga region was 24%, the Rostov region was 29%, the Urals region was 43%, and the Odessa region actually reached 50%!

Just imagine, in such a situation, what is Russia capable of continuing the war? Therefore, the collapse of Russia is a historical inevitability, and even if no one returns home from Germany, Russia will still collapse, and the heavy price paid in the war and the huge pressure of supply and demand have put the country on the verge of ruin. And the data collected by Grove during his 3 years in Russia strengthened the prince's conviction!

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