"If we give you a whole army group, how will the Bavarian corps use this force?" At the talks a week later, Austria-Hungary made decisive concessions, but at the same time made its own demands. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The strength of the two armies can already be responsible for nearly 200 kilometers of front, this is an independent combat unit, we meet your needs, then you also need to assume the corresponding responsibility." Crown Prince Ferdinand said.

"If you give us no less than 3 infantry corps and 1 cavalry corps, and have no less than 600 artillery pieces, then we can independently undertake the offensive mission!" Prince Leopold glanced at **** and made his own request after Ruprecht agreed.

Without mentioning the specific establishment, just say that if you give it to a group army, let us promise it first? What are you kidding? An army group is not the same as an army group! Are the uncle and nephew really newcomers? Is it true that His Royal Highness **** does not know the establishment of your Austro-Hungarian Empire? Although it is also a group army, the gap between the group armies is huge!

Taking history as an example, the Bavarian Corps in Ruprecht started the war with 4 infantry corps (Bavarian 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 21st armies), 1 reserve corps and 1 cavalry corps, with a total strength of about 220,000 men (including 12,500 cavalry corps) and 782 artillery pieces! This scale is considered to be ahead of the 7 armies on the Western Front, except for Pinov's 2nd Army, with 7 infantry corps and 1 cavalry corps with nearly 280,000 soldiers and nearly 900 artillery corps that can stabilize the **** corps, the remaining 6 corps are either less numerous, or have fewer artillery, or all are less. Overall, the German Legion was generally equipped with 200,000 men as standard, and the number of artillery pieces was around 600 to 700.

If Austria-Hungary could give such a force, the prince would naturally not say anything. But the point is that the prince is afraid that they will not be able to give it! For the same army group, the Austro-Hungarian legion is quite cheap compared to the German legion!

In the case of the Austro-Hungarian Legion, the most powerful of the Kviss Corps at the beginning of the war, this corps consisted of only 9 infantry divisions and 3 cavalry divisions. In terms of scale, it is actually about the same as the number of **** regiments in history, but don't forget that this is the largest regiment in the Austro-Hungarian Legion, and the general corps is about 1 or 2 divisions less than this corps, and the number of artillery pieces is only 448! Let's not talk about the quality gap, the mere quantitative gap makes them not on the same level as the German army.

And this is inevitable, the Bavarian corps is larger, if there are no major problems, the prince can finally make 3 infantry corps, 1 mechanized corps and 3 rapid assault divisions plus 1 semi-cavalry corps! If you add the reserve army, the total strength jumps to more than 280,000 and has 1,000 artillery pieces of various kinds! Of course, the prince did not intend for Austria-Hungary to give such a strong corps, and Austria-Hungary could not give it, but as part of a pincer offensive, the combat effectiveness of this corps must always be reasonable, right?

It is true that the Kingdom of Bavaria can pay to help Austria-Hungary build a new corps, but it can't do it all, right? As one side of the pliers, how can you make up 200,000 people? A wartime army of 200,000 must have at least 120,000 standing troops, right? The number of heavy artillery is less tolerable, but the number can't be just over 400, right? If the troops directly controlled by the **** in the future are compared to a crab, then now it seems that this crab is a fiddler crab, with a large tong and a small .......

"The empire is to maintain the establishment of six army groups, about half of which belong to Hungary. This force is entirely independently supported by the Austrian government, and although your country is responsible for most of the heavy and technical equipment, the cost of personnel is not a small amount, and we can afford a maximum of four divisions of it, and I should remind you that the strength of this corps includes the rapid divisions previously established by the two countries. At this point, the 6 standing divisions can be expanded to about 10 divisions in wartime, and we can also temporarily strengthen a cavalry division, which can be regarded as meeting your needs. Conrad said, snapping his fingers.

"If you want to continue to build up your forces, then you will have to pay for it. And this expansion cannot be an unlimited expansion, no more than 3 divisions, and the officers in it need to be reviewed by the Empire. Ferdinand **** said.

"Yes, but the training of personnel must be entrusted to us, it will be a unit created in full accordance with the requirements of the Bavarian Corps, and it will be able to take on the corresponding combat missions. And although we are equipped with relevant heavy weapons, your country must at least ensure that it is equipped with 120 75mm rapid-fire guns and no less than 400 machine guns, right? **** thought about it and said, the maintenance of regular soldiers is very expensive, 3 divisions are 50,000 people, about equal to 3 percent of the current Bavarian standing army, and if what both sides say can be implemented, then there is no problem with expanding this army to 200,000 in wartime. Nearly 500,000 troops armed with new equipment and tactics were really not much of a problem against the two armies of the Russians.

"If the conditions are right, what guarantees can you make?" Conrad asked.

"It's very simple, if everything goes according to our plan, then, the other Austro-Hungarian corps don't need to launch a strategic offensive, as long as they can contain the corresponding Russian troops on the border line, the two armies to which the Bavarian corps belong can easily kill the two opposing Russian corps, and directly tear a big hole in the middle of the battle line, as long as the transportation capacity is enough, we can even continue to expand the results of the battle and choose to go north or south!"

The conditions proposed by Ruprecht cannot be said to be unattractive, no one is willing to attack an advantageous opponent, the promise of **** is equivalent to pulling the attack task on himself, and the other armies of the Austro-Hungarian Northern Front only need to launch a feint and properly contain it.

"That's it! Our future battle plans can revolve around this core! Crown Prince Ferdinand agreed. And after **** did not express objections, the Austrians quickly wrote everything they just said into the meeting minutes, as if they were afraid that the other party would regret it!

"You seem to be talking too much, don't you?" Prince Leopold didn't say anything in front of the prince, but after the meeting ended, he still had lingering palpitations, and directly undertook the task of attacking the Eastern Front, although the 2 armies were not false to the 2 army groups of the Bavarian Corps, but if you want to say total annihilation or face the support of other Russian corps, then I am afraid it will be very difficult, right?

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