In peacetime, if you want to succeed, you must get the approval of the Kaiser, why did machine guns become so popular in the German army? Isn't the fundamental reason that the Kaiser attached great importance to machine guns, and even paid out of his own pocket to equip the six Guards regiments with machine guns? The above has stated its position, can the German General Staff not do it? Besides, if it weren't for the Kaiser's liking of the navy, would the High Seas Fleet be able to appear....... Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Luftwaffe is actually developing at a good pace, and the scale was not small at the beginning of World War I, but it was very conservative in use, and the reason for this is also because a small group of people in the entire German army agreed with Moltke Jr., and within the German army, they still regarded it as a fairly good appendage of the current war. This was only barely done when Moltke Jr. was the chief of the Prussian General Staff.

And this time, if you want to massively popularize combat vehicles in the Prussian army, the scope is too large! If nothing else, money alone is a problem! In his letter, the prince made it clear that the creation of an armoured battalion armed with 45 Vespa assault guns would require nearly £500,000. And very carefully, with the size of an army like Prussia, according to one armored battalion per army, which is at least 4 million pounds! (There were about 16 corps, after all, some corps were called German XX Corps, but they were actually subordinate to Saxony and Württemberg.) This huge expenditure of money is not something that Moltke Jr. can make.

Although it is called a battalion, the scale of this battalion is really not small, at least 1,200 to 1,500 people, and there are more than 20,000 front-line officers and men needed to establish these 16 battalions alone. Coupled with the relevant training, support, and logistics units, more people are needed, and Prussia has it, Bavaria can naturally build it on its own, so should Saxony and Württemberg also be established? What about personnel issues?

And the most worrying thing for Moltke Jr. is that once such a force is added, then the plan of the current Chief of the General Staff Schlieffen will be nullified again! The count, who looked at the train schedules and the sand table to make plans, calculated everything mathematically. For example, each car carries 40 soldiers and 8 horses, and it travels far every hour, and the time it takes for each train to add water and coal at the station is a regulation! And with the haste of adding such a pile of iron lumps, the original mobilization and combat plan can only be nullified. And Schlieffen naturally didn't want his plan to go down the drain!

Despite the difficulties, Moltke did his best to realize what he saw as a plan for the future of the German army, and from the point of view of due diligence, he did a good job. He wrote special reports to the Kaiser and the head of the German General Staff Schlieffen to state all this. And using his connections in the army, he hoped to discuss the issue of equipping the Prussian army with new tanks.

"I didn't expect Ruprecht to come up with a new toy. actually convinced little Moltke. It's an annoying thing. You say no, Mr. Krupp. The Kaiser threw the document in his hand to Gustav, the contemporary head of the Krupp family, who was sitting next to him. Krupp.

"His Royal Highness the Prince does have something unique in terms of military and technology." Gustav was not sure what the Kaiser's attitude was, and although he had a problem with the prince, he knew that with the current position of Bavaria in Germany, he could not shake it. If a bad word is said here, once it gets out, God knows how this prince will take revenge on him! If Gustav remembers correctly, the authorization certificate for the new mortar expires this year, and the new official has not yet been issued.......

"Well, since it was requested by both Ruprecht and Moltke. So let's have a meeting on this issue, and I, Schriffen, Moltke, and you, call Tirpitz as well. Add Markenson to that! He was a cavalry commander and would have studied some mobile warfare. The Kaiser said calmly.

"What are you calling Tirpitz for? This is obviously a demolition. "From the point of view of the Kaiser's personnel arrangement, Gustav. Krupp knew how it was going to happen. Tirpitz didn't understand the army, but Germany's military spending was limited, and in order to build a large scale, Tirpitz would inevitably compete with the army for military spending. If Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria had been here, there would have been a turning point, but now ....... I can only hehe.

"But mechanized troops are indeed a completely new concept, and if implemented, then it means more orders!" Gustav thought about it and suddenly realized that the idea of a mechanized army, advocated by the Bavarian prince and Moltke Jr., was actually a good opportunity, an opportunity to expand the source of wealth! After all, the Prussian army still has to rely on the weapons provided by Krupp, and the annual artillery and shells alone are not enough, and if the Prussian army decides to establish mechanized detachments, even if it is not the heavy armored forces advocated by my prince, even if it is only some armored vehicles, then considering the huge base of the Prussian army, this is a lot of income!

"Actually, you can let Bavaria do the pilot on its own, and in the document, the prince didn't also say that it will take several years to perfect. In that case, why don't we first look at how they do it? And then decide on our own? "Gustav. Krupp said carefully.

"It's a good idea. Let Ruprecht try it first, and we'll do it when it's ripe. However, there are some things that need to be prepared in advance, and the armored car you showed me last time is good, and you can come up with a more detailed plan. The Kaiser thought for a moment and said.

"You know what? I and the rest of the people around me seem to have developed a very bad habit right now, and when the one on the south side comes up with something, we can't help but want to emulate him, and this feeling makes me very uncomfortable. I don't want the Prussian army to follow in the footsteps of that prince. Even if there is change, there is change, I hope that we are the leader, not passively followed. The Kaiser said meaningfully.

"Do you think the Kaiser will accept our plan?" While Moltke was running around for the new chariot, Ruprecht and Prince Leopold, who were far away in Bavaria, were discussing the matter.

"It's not that easy, the Prussian army is commanded by the Kaiser, but it is not the Kaiser's army, and the Junker nobles are not willing to let other forces have the opportunity to intervene, and in order to ensure their monopoly in the army, they are not even willing to expand their army!"

"The only thing where Bavaria is stronger than Prussia is that we don't have strong capitalists in our country, and we have an independent military class where we can build the country as we wish." Ruprecht said with a smile. (To be continued.) )