In terms of combat effectiveness, these units are all composed of soldiers who have undergone systematic military training and are of the most appropriate age, and their equipment may not be the best, but they are definitely the most combat-effective units. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoYou must know that the current Bavarian Army is only about 180,000 troops, and it will take three years to double the strength of the army in peacetime! The speed of this rioter is almost unparalleled in a kingdom-level country, right? Whether it is France, Britain, Germany, or Russia, who can double the size of the army in three years?

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fact that standing in front of him was Prince Leopold, the winner of Germany's highest honor in World War I, the future commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front. Perhaps Ruprecht's first instinct was to pull this man out and beat him a hundred times, a hundred times.

But as a person who participated in the Franco-Prussian War, and then fought all the way through, and killed all the way to the field marshal and the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front among hundreds of German generals, it is impossible to say that he has no ability! The reason why he dared to hand over this thing to Ruprecht showed that he could do it nine times out of ten.

"If it was Bavaria before, I wouldn't dare to think about it, because we couldn't find so many high-quality soldiers and enough money to support this plan, but now, I can responsibly say that this plan will definitely be done!"

"The personnel problem is the most difficult to solve relative to the money, Bavaria's industrial development and government tax revenues, plus dollar loans are enough for us to feed these troops, and the entire Allies are preparing for war, Bavaria, as a major arms producer, is providing arms for at least 800,000 new troops. There is no need to worry about money at all. ”

"Personnel is the biggest problem, but a few years ago, when you weren't fully in charge of the military, I had a cold start plan, and it didn't go through you, and it was a plan that your father agreed to and supported."

"The so-called cold start is aimed at the mobilization mechanism that is now commonly set up in European countries. The latter mobilization is to recruit the national reserve in a very short period of time and fill it into one reserve or reserve corps to meet the needs of war. ”

"But the cold start is different, this kind of start process will last for a long time, and it is carried out for a planned war, and the biggest difference between it and the reserve system is that the selected officers and soldiers can constantly be exposed to the most cutting-edge things in the military, technology, tactics, and training to keep them in shape without dropping too much, etc."

"The war of the future is the world of technical arms and technical equipment, and the ordinary infantry who can charge with a rifle is no longer the key to determining the outcome of the war. Artillery, armor, air force, elite commandos and well-trained logisticians are the real masters of the battlefield. However, the training of these technical arms requires time and a lot of investment, so the most important feature of the Cold Start Program is to increase the reserve of the peacetime reserve arms and keep them sufficiently vigorous. ”

"The Blue Legion of the Reich has participated in the Boer War and the North African War, and these people are all elite officers and soldiers who have been tempered by the war, so after they retire, the military will train them regularly every year, because most of these people are arranged in factories or enterprises directly under Bavaria, so there is no problem with this training, these people have always maintained a good condition, and they can act as grassroots commanders in the upcoming war, and similarly, some did not participate in the war, But retirees who still perform well will also have this kind of treatment, and of course, compensation is indispensable. And we have a total of 7,000 such personnel! ”

"And because of these people, it was possible for Bavaria to have more than 300,000 troops in 1912, and we could at least have officers for those newly formed units that were less than a year old. Artillery, armored troops and other technical arms, as well as the necessary backbone veterans. Prince Leopold said.

"So how many more troops can we mobilize if war breaks out?" Ruprecht asked, thinking for a moment.

"No more than one division." Leopold said with a smile.

"Hold the grass, I feel that this gap is a bit big!" Prince Ruprecht's face changed slightly.

"The so-called cold start is actually equivalent to the first wave of wartime mobilization in other countries, we are just making the quality of mobilized personnel higher, the number is larger, which is another kind of early mobilization, so before the deep mobilization, our troops will not be significantly increased because of the beginning of the war."

"What's more, if the war lasts for a long time, we need to send a steady stream of personnel to the army, and as a royal family, we obviously don't want our own people to die in vain, so we need to let them complete at least the most basic training so that they have a chance to protect themselves on the battlefield, and for those who are not of the right age to retire and completely newcomers, we need time for them to adapt to the war." Prince Leopold explained.

"And then we basically won't replenish our troops until the fourth month after the start of the war. After that, we will send troops to the front line on a certain period."

"And what about after that? I mean, after six months or more of fighting, the two sides have passed the initial confrontation and entered a period of stalemate? Ruprecht asked. In addition, I have another question, in the future in our corps, ordinary Bavarian divisions should be the majority, but now it seems that in the pure Bavarian corps, assault divisions and rapid divisions make up the main part. ”

"I'll answer the second question first. The size of the Bavarian army is limited, and the human resources are also very limited, especially our military industry needs a lot of labor, and there are 200,000 adult male laborers working in various relevant departments alone, so it is somewhat difficult to rely on the Kingdom of Bavaria to pile up more than 25 divisions. ”

"But now, we have Austria-Hungary, and it can help us solve many problems, the most important of which is the problem of troops! Even if the current Bohemia and Moravia could not implement the cold start plan I had drawn up, they could concentrate at least 4 corps and 8 divisions in the war, and these forces would be no different from ordinary Prussian divisions except for the two fast divisions of the Germans that we had helped to build. Prince Leopold said.

"That is, the number of our ordinary divisions will be around 10 to 12? In this case, if we count all the troops, our total strength may reach more than 500,000! The size of 2 large armies! Ruprecht said.

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