"The road is tortuous, and the result is certain." After the exercise, Ruprecht lamented that although his uncle fought a little harder, he eventually overturned the self-righteous traverser. Although the process was tortuous, the two things he made were also recognized by the military. It's also considered that the goal has been achieved, but as for the issue of losing face? The traverser firmly believes that if this matter is spread, the most humiliating thing will definitely be his uncle, and his image in the eyes of outsiders will be a hero who resists bravely in the face of a strong enemy and is finally heroic! Well, after YY, I really have a lot of balance in my heart!

Overall, my efforts have paid off. The two epoch-making weapons that were carefully plagiarized were recognized by his uncle, and relying on his uncle's qualifications and influence, they were promoted in the Bavarian army, and there should be no problem in replacing the old weapons. The imitation M1897 rapid-fire gun and the Wicks machine gun will definitely allow the Bavarian Army to maintain its technological superiority for the next decade.

Although it is also a rapid-fire gun, it is still divided into three, six, nine and so on. The Frenchman's M1897 can hit 15 to 18 rounds in a minute. 2KG SHELLS. And the projection capability of the Germans' Type 1896 Type 77-mm rapid-fire gun was no more than 8-9 rounds 6 per minute. 85KG SHELLS. THE JAPANESE 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS HAD A RATE OF FIRE OF ONLY 6 TO 7 ROUNDS PER MINUTE, AND THE SHELLS WEIGHED ONLY 5 KG! The performance gap is clear at a glance!

Although the 75 rapid-fire guns of France in World War 1 in history were suppressed by various howitzers with a longer range and greater power, it can only be attributed to the progress of technology, after all, you are using the weapons of 1897 to deal with the weapons of about 1910, and the technical gap of more than ten years is not something that God can save! This can't be said that Miss 75 is not excellent, it can only be attributed to historical limitations.

As for the Wix machine gun? Generally speaking, there is not much difference in the performance of water-cooled machine guns equipped by a large number of countries in World War I. Another reason is that the firing range is better, the Vicx machine gun using a tripod is naturally lighter than the one using a sled quadpod, and the firing range is also wider, and the weight of the grabber frame is less than ten kilograms, which is a very objective weight. As for the firepower of several machine guns, it is really about the same.

"Tell me what you think." Immediately after the servant brought coffee and refreshments, only the uncle and nephew were left in the house. The prince looked at his nephew in front of him and said calmly.

"The popularization of rapid-fire automatic weapons will be a historical inevitability, and many countries are studying it, including our old enemy - France! Sooner or later, machine guns and rapid-fire guns will change the situation of the war. An army that can be one step ahead will gain a huge advantage. His Royal Highness the Prince, who said this, but was thinking about how much money he could make in his heart, said.

"If both sides are armed with a lot of rapid-fire artillery and machine guns, do you think we have an advantage or a disadvantage?" The prince suddenly uttered an irrelevant question.

"Disadvantage! The French are not stupid, they will also update their arsenal in time, and when a large number of rapid-fire weapons are equipped with troops, a very small number of troops can intercept the attack of a large number of troops, with fortifications, the advantage of the defender will be greater than that of the attacker, and as a country located in the middle of the European continent, we must pin our hopes of victory on a quick victory, otherwise, France in the west and Russia in the east will eventually drag down the empire. "After all, he is a traverser, and he still knows very well how Germany died in World War 1, the Western Front could not be moved, and he was finally beaten to death by the group. How about even starting to have an artillery advantage? Wasn't it still blocked from Paris in the end?

"The most important thing is logistics! The ammunition consumption of rapid-fire guns and automatic weapons is simply too great, you know? During the Franco-Prussian War, we fought for 6 months, but each infantry fired an average of 65 rounds! This amount is even less than the amount of ammunition carried by the soldiers. But now, if memory serves, one machine gun can fire more than 450 rounds in a minute! The logistical pressure on the fully automated troops is too great, and it is simply impossible for us to maneuver quickly without the railway line, and if there is no mobility, once the other side completes mobilization, our plan for a quick battle will come to naught, which is absolutely fatal! The prince said.

With a snap, the spoon in Ruprecht's hand fell into the cup, and the prince's words were to the point, and he argued from a logistical point of view the reason for the inevitable failure of Schlieffen's plan! And at this time, Schlieffen had not yet become the chief of the general staff, and had not yet begun to study his plan that had been planned for more than ten years! This acumen and insight can be described as amazing, or someone else can become the commander-in-chief of the German Eastern Front! This vision and ability are really amazing!

If the tactical essence of Schlieffen's plan was to concentrate forces on the right flank, and then completely defeat the opponent in a short period of time in a blitzkrieg with overwhelming superiority in forces, then the logistical essence of this plan was to use the railroad as a tool of attack, by seizing the opponent's railway line, to transport troops to combat positions in a very short time, and to run all the way to Paris!

But what does this plan say? The idea is good, the reality is cruel! In the Franco-Prussian War, the Germans beat the French to the ground with godlike assembly speed, and people won't learn? Don't talk about France, Russia too! By the time of the 1st World War on August 19, 1914, the French had transported 1 million troops and 400,000 horses to combat positions, and at the same time, 11. 50,000 British troops and 4. 60,000 horses were also sent to the front, and the backward Russia was not ambiguous, and it took 18 days to ****** two-thirds of the troops, and if everyone used the railway line to mobilize the troops on the inner line, the Germans did not have an advantage.

Well, looking at the outside line of Schlieffen's plan, why did the Germans attack Belgium? The seizure of Belgian railways and then into France is one of the very important reasons! But what was the result? At the time of the occupation of Belgium, a whole 2. It took 60,000 German railroad soldiers half a day to repair 600 kilometers of railways, compared to the total length of railways in Belgium at that time was 4,000 kilometers. Of the 43 large railway buildings, only 3 were finally repaired at the Battle of the Marne! The vanguard was 100 kilometers away from the end of the railway! This distance can only be transported by horses!

Schlieffen seemed to have thought about this problem, equipping the troops with a large number of livestock, and at the beginning of the 1st World War, the ratio of men and horses in the German army was as high as 3 to 1! There were 8 in the First Regiment alone. 40,000 horses! However, all this is useless, not to mention the problem of horses' transportation capacity, it is not easy to solve the problem of horses eating alone! 8。 40,000 horses consume 2 million pounds of feed alone in a day! These four-legged animals are pickier eaters than humans! People can continue to fight if they eat potatoes, you let the horses eat this thing! Tens of thousands of horses have even eaten up the green seedlings in the fields, and as a result, they still can't fill their stomachs, so what kind of transportation are they talking about?

So from the point of view of the traverser, the Western Front of World War 1 is almost insolvable, because from the logistical side, you are restricted. The Belgians must have destroyed the railroad much faster than you attacked, your horse-transporting capacity was certainly far less powerful than the French's ability to transport railroads on the inner line, and the defeat at the Battle of the Marne was a historical inevitability, and even if the opponent did not find the weakness of the point of integration, the Germans' fragile logistics were still not enough to support. Even if the Germans had an advantage in heavy artillery, even if the Germans had a large number of machine guns!

Some people say that the reason for Moltke's failure is that he is not bold, and the right wing is not strengthened enough, but it is useless for you to strengthen it, the logistics supply is not enough, you can't let the soldiers eat grass, right? Well, there was no grass either, and the seedlings of the fields in Belgium and France were gnawed by the horses.

Prince Leopold is not a traverser, but with his many years of military experience, he can realize this problem, which is indeed too powerful. Although Schlieffen also participated in the Franco-Prussian War, he was a staff officer, and he might be decent if he made plans in the house, and then he could use oral ballistics to defeat the opponent in wargames, but there was a gap in his understanding of the war compared with Prince Leopold, who was fighting on the front line. And little Moltke? How to say it, this guy is not as experienced as Schlieffen in actual combat. Then the traverser had to sigh that it was really unjust to lose at the beginning of the German stick 1st battle!

In fact, if you see, none of the 4 marshals who won the Grand Iron Cross in World War 1 (William II, people can get it just by their status) are from pure staff officers. Hindenburg, Prince Leopold, and Mackensen all fought on the front lines in the Franco-Prussian War. Ludendorff was later in charge of munitions production. This fully illustrates a problem, an NB general is generally slowly fought from the front line, and it is really unreliable for staff officers to directly parachute in! And the ultimate death of the staff officer depends on Japan during the Second World War.

In short, after seeing the new weapons, His Royal Highness expressed concern about the situation of the foreign German troops, while His Royal Highness the Prince was triumphant about the imminent arrival of Mark. And to the surprise of the traverser, an even bigger fortune is about to fall on his head! Because the construction of the German Navy is about to begin!

In the new book upload, a buddy at the top of the new book list crossed from 300 to 1000 collections in three days. The lateral pressure is huge~~~. Today's double shift, the second shift in the afternoon! The side position is a little more powerful, can you also give a little more force??? Counting new books and old books, the side position will be nearly 10,000 words a day! For the sake of side efforts~~~, can you support it more????