If the training of aviation forces can be carried out under the guise of an "aviation club", then there is no way to do it, right? After all, the former can be used for civilian or military purposes, and after the latter brings armor and artillery, you say that civilian use is not a good side. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Although Prussia can't control it on the surface, it is also secretly quite concerned, Moltke Jr., and Schlieffen and others are even more so. Schlieffen also wrote a letter in the name of the German General Staff to ask how those armored units were organized, and made it clear that you can change the equipment of your troops in Bavaria, but if you add more than one division, it will definitely not work!

Then the two sides had a war of words over what the size of a division was, and the size of a division in this era was different, for example, the Russians were about 22,000 people a division, the French were 16,000 people a division, and the German division except Bavaria was 17,000 people a division. On the Bavarian side, the establishment of a division is about 20,000 .......

As for the reasons for this discrepancy, for example, the Russians have more infantry units, and the subordinate strength of a Russian division is 16 infantry battalions. And France and Germany were 12 infantry battalions. Therefore, although the Russians had less artillery, they still made a big difference in the total number.

The Bavarian division is different, although Bavaria also follows the establishment of German divisions, for example, an artillery company is 6 guns, but these 6 guns do not say what they are, the German general division uses 6 75MM rapid-fire guns, and the ratio of rapid-fire guns and light howitzers in each division is 3 to 1. But this matter is different in Bavaria, where the ratio of 75mm rapid-fire guns to 105mm howitzers of one division is 1 to ......1. THE SAME HOWITZER COMPANY NATURALLY HAD A SLIGHTLY LARGER NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAN A 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUN.

As the head of Prussia's main arms production, Moltke Jr. once calculated that if it was the same division, Bavaria's artillery combat effectiveness would be at least 3 percent higher than that of Prussia, and it would be a 105MM howitzer! And greater combat effectiveness means higher logistical needs, and in the Bavarian army, which began to popularize motor vehicles, the number of logistics troops has decreased due to the use of vehicles. Well, in addition to the increase in artillery personnel, then the additional personnel in other aspects are taken?

In general, German cavalry regiments were assigned to divisions separately. This was true in Prussia, and it was also true in Bavaria. But the same name of the cavalry was hung, the Prussians rode horses, and the Bavarians rode ....... Before the construction of a dozen tons of chariots, Bavaria had already begun to think about it, and they had changed part of their cavalry units into mixed units of horses and armored vehicles. to increase the combat effectiveness of reconnaissance troops. The establishment has basically not changed, but the combat effectiveness is not a grade at all.

Of course, the size of the 20,000 men in a division of the Bavarian army was estimated by Moltke and others, but in fact, the annual Bavarian military report is still about 16,600. The size of the various units has not changed much, but Moltke and others all know that there is a lot of tricks, but if you know, you can't help it, you can't send a group of people to count it one by one in the army.......

But this time it's different, if at the original time, the weapons used by Bavaria were at least traceable in the German army, and they were still in the system, then what is it if you suddenly have a bunch of guys weighing more than ten tons in the army? If you have a division equipped with an armored regiment. Although the Prussian General Staff can't manage you too carefully, it is absolutely impossible to increase the number of personnel by tens of thousands, otherwise, the prince can directly expand the scale of the grassroots troops, so why not bargain with the Kaiser?

In addition to the troops directly under the royal family, how to give these iron guys a place so that they can be stuffed into the army has become a very important issue. And this time, the answer given by the prince was simple. He claims that these things should be subordinate to the artillerymen! IN GENERAL, A DIVISION IN THE GERMAN ARMY THEORETICALLY HAD 14 ARTILLERY BATTERIES, GENERALLY SPEAKING, 9 75MM RAPID-FIRE ARTILLERY BATTERIES, 3 105MM LIGHT HOWITZER ARTILLERY BATTERIES AND 2 150MM HEAVY ARTILLERY BATTERIES, EACH WITH 6 GUNS.

And Prince Ruprecht arranged it like this, didn't there be 12 light artillery batteries in the Bavarian army? THE NUMBER OF 105MM LIGHT HOWITZER BATTERIES IS 6, WHICH IS NOT PLANNED TO BE CHANGED FOR THE TIME BEING, BUT THE 6 75MM RAPID-FIRE ARTILLERY BATTERIES WILL BE CHANGED TO ASSAULT ARTILLERY COMPANIES, REFERRED TO AS ASSAULT ARTILLERY ....... According to the prince's words, they simply replaced the 36 rapid-fire cannons towed by horses and vehicles with self-propelled rapid-fire cannons...... The total number of tubes remains the same, which is not considered a ...... violation.

"Damn, this makes sense, I'm speechless......." When Count Schlieffen saw the so-called assault artillery, he was also instantly dumbfounded. And when Moltke on the side saw this document, he only looked at Count Schlieffen with a rare and strange eye, because the things that could be said in the documents that he could see were completely small compared to the things he saw in the documents!

Because in the prince's letter to Moltke, the prince mentioned a "tracked heavy towing vehicle" specially used for 150MM cannons and 210mm heavy howitzers, although the prince did not specify what this thing is, but he mentioned in the letter that the chassis used in this towing vehicle is exactly the same as the chassis of the assault gun, "with good off-road performance and modification space." ”

When Moltke asked the prince in surprise why he was so reckless, the prince made it very clear that the content of the letter to Moltke also appeared in the letter to the Kaiser, and that the Kaiser and Bavaria and Moltke the little had the same view on the issue of increasing the German army, and they had a common enemy, the conservative faction of the Prussian Junker aristocracy. The latter controls the German General Staff, and this control is not something you can do with a different person. Even if Moltke Jr. comes to power, it will not be able to completely change the whole situation, after all, there are also big tails and yin and yang violating abroad.

On the one hand, the Kaiser expressed his understanding of Bavaria's behavior, and at the same time said that the Prussian army should not be left behind in this change, so that Moltke Jr.'s plan to go to Bavaria in a private capacity was finally promoted. If nothing else, Moltke Jr. will take over as Prussian Chief of the General Staff after Schlieffen retires, and Prussia will be able to carry out some military reforms by then.

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