The difficulty encountered by Marshal Mandol in recruiting officers of the Black Hawk Regiment was naturally related to the identity of the National Guard of the Legion.

Unlike soldiers with three years of compulsory military service, Prussian officers are professional, or rather the embodiment of their profession, and they have been in the army for life, and leaving the regular army to join the National Guard is actually equivalent to him being discharged from the army.

Without the guarantee of military salaries and pensions for the rest of their lives, this is unacceptable to many middle-aged and young officers who have already started a family.

Of course, for those veteran officers who have served long enough and are already approaching retirement age, it is definitely a good thing if they can go to the Black Hawk Legion, which belongs to the reserves, to earn an overseas allowance after they retire.

The old officers with this in mind were very willing to talk to the officers in charge of personnel in the Black Eagle Legion, but the old marshal Mandolfil was unwilling.

"My Black Hawk Legion is going to Chile to fight, it's not a Black Hawk retirement home!" Marshal Mandolfil shouted angrily at the old fellows who were close to retirement and were ready to make a quick buck.

Before 1879, or before 1914, the officer corps in the German army was basically drawn from within the military Junker class, and ordinary German citizens or other classes rarely held official positions in the army unless they were awarded the Iron Cross for bravery in a major war.

It was only in the middle and late stages of World War I, after the loss of a large number of middle and low-level officers, that the German army quickly promoted a large number of middle and lower-level officers in the line of fire, but with the end of the war and the defeat of Germany, during the Weimar Republic, these officers who were promoted in the line of fire were soon removed from service, and in the end it was still the military Junkers who controlled the Wehrmacht, and it was not until the German III period that ordinary German citizens finally obtained the middle and senior military ranks through the opportunity to join the SS.

Judging from the Prussian experience handed down from the time of Frederick the Great, in order to form an army with combat resilience, in addition to having experienced non-commissioned officers and veterans, it is also necessary to have a large number of middle and low-level officers with subjective initiative under the command of a large number of middle- and low-level officers.

The battle-hardened old Marshal Mandolfer was definitely a ruthless man, in addition to offering high salaries and eclectic promotion conditions, he also did not shy away from his relatives internally, and directly let his promising son be removed from the post of adjutant to the commander of the famous Prussian Sixth Grenadier Regiment and directly joined the Black Hawk Regiment as the chief officer of the Greater German Regiment.

Although he was directly promoted by three ranks and became one of the few young colonels in the empire, friends who were familiar with Hasso-Mandol still believed that the old Marshal Mandolfil was destroying his son's future.

You must know that Hasso-Mandolfer was one of Moltke's most favored young officers, and there were rumors in the court that the chief of the general staff wanted Hasso to succeed his nephew Moltke the Younger as his attendant.

Of course, not everyone thought Hasso was crazy, and among Hasso's friends, a lieutenant of the 2nd Prussian Hussar Regiment, who was about to get married at the end of the year, also resolutely accompanied Hasso to leave the army and join the Black Hawk Legion.

This emaciated man, who was 6 feet 10 inches (about 178 cm) tall, served as a volunteer in the 2nd Hussar Regiment in 1869, and was awarded the Iron Cross of the 2nd Class in his first appearance in the 1871 Franco-Prussian War, the most tragic of the Franco-Prussian War in Lorraine, and after a brief demobilization after the war, he rejoined the 2nd Hussar Regiment in 1873.

He was not born into a military Junker family, but was the son of a landbroker in the town of Darenberg in Prussian Saxony, and his father and grandparents were ordinary Saxons who worked with land.

He had a simple name, Anton Ludwig Mackensen, and was a hussar junior officer in his thirties, but still enthusiastic.

Like all distinguished junior officers from a non-military Junker background in peacetime, Lieutenant Mackensen encountered the glass ceiling of his own promotion.

Inspired by the prospect of being free to carry out the ideals and ambitions of the Black Hawk Legion, as portrayed by Hasso Mandolfer, Lieutenant Mackensen was full of enthusiasm and self-confidence, and decided to answer the call of Emperor Wilhelm I to take part in this sacred war to defend his fellow Prussians.

Even if he really can't re-enter the army again after two years, he can still help himself find a good job with his fiancée's father, as the High Commissioner of East Prussia.

There are few opportunities to fight in life, and there are few opportunities to give yourself a relaxed environment and support your struggle, and there are even fewer in your life, and Lieutenant McKenson, who is no longer young, decided to seize this opportunity.

The old Marshal Mandolfel still adhered to the principle of employing people without doubt, and handed over the Imperial Light Cavalry Regiment of the Black Hawk Regiment to Lieutenant Anton Ludwig Mackenson, well, it should be called Colonel Mackenson now.

The last to be the head of the Germanic regiment was a Dane, a nobleman living in the Danish city of Hernin on Jutland, Baron Christian Frederick von Scharburg.

Baron Charburg, whose ancestors were Germanic people living in Russia, served as the commander of Peter III's Holstein Legion, and was eventually expelled from Russia by the Empress during Catherine the Great for calling on Russian nobles to support the deceased Peter III.

Since then, the Scharburg family from Hellin, Jutland, has become a feud with the Russian Tsar's family, and the relationship with the Danish royal family is also very bad, because the current Russian Crown Princess Alexander is a Danish princess.

Also because of Peter III, the relationship between the Schalburg family and the Hohenzollern family has always been good, after all, Peter III is a super fan of the Hohenzollern family, and the Schalburg family has also become the biggest supporter of the Hohenzollern family in Denmark, and even in the Prussian-Danish War, they also cheered for Prussia.

Baron Scharburg, who is currently serving as a lieutenant colonel in the First Regiment of the Royal Danish Army, was strongly recommended by Joey to Field Marshal Mandolfel, and the important reason for Joy's recommendation was that Baron Scharburg scored the highest score in the recruitment psychological test of the Black Eagle Legion, especially in loyalty to Germany and the Hohenzollern family, and he actually received a perfect score.

Recruitment psychology test exam, naturally Joy worked day and night for more than ten days, through lengthy psychological test questions, to understand and judge the character of the recruited, and to screen out loyal, brave, intelligent, witty and optimistic guys, which itself is the strength of Joey's previous life, and even with his rich knowledge of psychology in his previous life, Joey can be said to be a well-deserved master of psychology in 1879.

The benefits of screening soldiers through psychological tests, according to Joey's explanation of Marshal Mandolfer, are nothing more than the following two aspects:

First, the current equipment of the Black Hawk Corps can be said to be the best equipment in Europe, especially the HK81A2 and the Grusen 53mm L/25 Fahrpanzer mobile armored turret, which will soon be equipped with the army, these two weapons equipped with smokeless propellants, are the secret weapons of the Black Hawk Corps and even the whole of Germany.

Based on the L/23 Fahrpanzer mobile armoured battery, which was demonstrated at the Spandau Range in June, the Grussen Arsenal has been further improved for more than three months, thanks to new forging and gas welding techniques, and has succeeded in reducing the tonnage of the original armoured battery from 3 tons to 2.4 tons.

With the introduction of the new 53mm L/25 x diameter gun, after finally turning the black powder propellant into a smokeless propellant, the weight of the shell changed from 1.75 kg to 2 kg, and the round-tipped black powder grenade and submunition increased the weight of the warhead, and the range reached an astonishing 6,500 yards, about 6,000 meters.

Therefore, in addition to strict political examination, it is also necessary to screen and determine the loyalty of recruits through psychological testing. Joey didn't want the historic incident of a French soldier running to the German camp with a Lebel rifle on his back to play out in advance in the Black Hawk Legion.

Second, the composition of the three regiments under the Black Hawk Regiment is very distinctive, the main recruits of the Greater German Regiment are people in the Kingdom of Prussia, and the main recruits of the Imperial Regiment are people in the entire German Empire.

The Germanic Regiments recruited Germanic peoples throughout Europe, including Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in the north, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, Switzerland, and Austria in the Low Countries.

Since the beginning of the hot weapon war, the requirements for qualified soldiers are no longer simply physical strength and obedience to orders, but the requirements for cultural knowledge are getting higher and higher, and the use and maintenance of hot weapons are becoming more and more complicated.

The description of hot weapons as durable and durable, in fact, the implication is that its users are basically inclined to be illiterate, and the illiterate people do not know how to maintain the weapon, so it doesn't matter if the weapon is rough, as long as the illiterate people can make a sound, it is a good weapon, and the armed forces with the majority of illiteracy in any place at any time are basically operated in this way.

Of course, if you meet people with ideals and aspirations, the first thing you should do is to hold military culture classes, and inculcate ideology on the one hand, and on the other hand, let the illiterate learn to read and write, and know how to maintain and operate weapons.

Only those who can read can answer the questionnaire, and those who cannot read are naturally eliminated, and the analysis of the psychological test answers of the respondents can naturally eliminate those who are half-hearted, disloyal, not brave, have poor discipline, and have low psychological tolerance.

Combined with a strict physical examination, it is natural to fundamentally ensure the loyalty and health of the Black Eagle Legion.

Of course, the cultural lessons after enlistment, especially the promotion of German supremacy (not the supremacy of the Germanic peoples), were indispensable.

Baron Scharburg was screened out through psychological tests, and in his actual work, in addition to showing his surprising loyalty, he also had an amazing talent for motivating people and caring for the soldiers of every country in the regiment, so the title of Daddy Scharburg soon became known in the Germanic regiment.

In line with the eclectic attitude of employing people, the Germanic regiment instead appointed a large number of middle and low-level officers from among the citizens of various countries recruited, and a regiment of Germanic people, which started the latest but was formed the fastest, and which has been nicknamed "Jingde" by later generations, was the first to appear in a formed form on the logistics training base in Hamburg.

Of course, the voices of ridicule were not without them, and the most talked about was the strange remark about how a foreigner could be the commander of the Prussian army, which began to circulate within the German army, especially within the General Staff.

Two days before the rumors spread, some people kicked them the iron plate.

An editorial entitled "On the Germanic Phenomenon" was suddenly published in the Berlin Morning Post, in which he talked about Baron Scharburg in particular, and after praising Baron Scharburg's astonishing performance in the Germanic group, the editorial ended with a question.

"Marshal Blucher joined the army in Sweden and fought with Prussia, and Marshal Moltke enlisted in Denmark, and if according to some people's opinions, are they not worthy of Prussia?"

"But in fact, they were among the most outstanding generals of Prussia, not to mention the contribution of Prince François Eugen and Carl Ludwig Johann Lorenz to the German nation."

"The German Empire is an open and tolerant empire, and we welcome all those who love the German Empire, whether they are Jews, Danes, Dutch, Swedes, Norwegians, Poles, Austrians, Hungarians, Belgians, Swiss, or even French, to build a new, equal, just, and law-based German state, and to realize the dream of an inclusive and equal multinational empire."

This editorial was written to the heart of Wilhelm I, and the countries listed above were basically the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, and it was simply an interruption of his dreams to prevent people from other countries from serving the German Empire.

"There is absolutely no tolerance for such stupid people and voices in your own army!"

Soon, several rumor-mongers who deliberately spread such dangerous ideas were ordered to be stripped of their ranks, and then they were discharged with great dignity, and then the entire German army was shaken.

Even so, it still could not solve the dilemma of the lack of middle and lower-level officers in the German and Imperial regiments.

In fact, the key to solving this problem is in the hands of Emperor Wilhelm I, which is to solve the National Guard nature of the Black Hawk Regiment from the root and turn it into a regular army.

Of course, the old emperor also knew it, but the old emperor encountered a more difficult problem, since the second issuance of military bonds in September, as the weapons and equipment of the Black Hawk Legion surfaced one by one, all the senior generals of the Prussian Army began to focus on the Black Hawk Legion, and all five legions wanted to incorporate this division-sized strong force into their own corps.

Belonging to any legion, the officer problem is immediately solved, but the dispute over the Black Hawk Legion for themselves has become a difficult problem to solve.

In addition, Marshal Mandol's identity is far more noble than any army commander, and the old emperor can't invite the old marshal out of the mountain, and after solving the problem for himself, he will use a small character to press on his head.

In the mind of William I, this was really a troublesome puzzle.

At the end of October, the second week of autumn break in German schools began, and Joey was dragged back to Charlottenburg Palace by Empress Augusta to continue his endless court etiquette courses.

At the dinner table, William I talked to Joey about his brothers.

"Jojo, William is going to follow in the footsteps of old Otto after graduating from university this year, to intern at the Imperial Foreign Office, and then next year he wants to be a Prussian diplomat, based in Vienna." The old emperor took his wine glass and chatted with Joey.

"This is definitely a good thing, the Prime Minister's diplomatic art is enough for people to study for a lifetime." Joey struggled to swallow his grandmother's Thuringian sausage, and replied hurriedly.

"Jojo, do you think William could be a good diplomat?" The old emperor looked at Joey and asked.

"Hmm." Joey put down the knife and fork in his hand, wiped his lips with a napkin, took this opportunity to think about it, and said, "The pilot on the giant ship of the empire is now the prime minister, but the prime minister will eventually grow old, so it is completely necessary to reserve a good navigator from now on." ”

"Willie always has to take over the position of grandfather and father, so from now on, it is in the best interest of the empire and the family to train to become a qualified navigator."

William I nodded, and then his eyes flashed with a strange look, and he smiled and said to Joey for no reason, "Actually, there is someone else in my heart who will succeed Otto as the navigator of this big ship in the future. ”

"Oh?!"

"Qiaoqiao, you have to grow up quickly, grandpa can't wait."

"Then you still interrupt Qiaoqiao's eating, how can you grow up without a full meal?!" Queen Augusta interrupted angrily, and then motioned to the cook to fill the plate in front of Joey with sausages and veal.

After listening to the old queen's complaints, William I grinned, and instead motioned to the attendant next to him to pour his wife a glass of wine, and then spoke again.

"I heard that Heinrich's fleet has crossed the Suez Canal, and it seems that he will be able to return home before the snow falls in Berlin." Then he raised his chin and motioned for Joey to continue eating, just listen to his own nagging.

"This time in the Qing and Japanese issues, the fleets of Heinrich and General Dietrich have made great contributions, and of course your father, as well as Otto and his Foreign Office, and General Storsch's navy, are all good."

"And, of course, my little Jojo, a good man of the Hohenzollern family."

Looking at Joey's somewhat surprised eyes, the old emperor waved his hand, and a thousand words were self-evident.

Many things in this world are not unclear, but unspeakable, nothing more.

"When the fleet arrives at the port of Kiel, I will personally welcome them, and you will go with you, Jojo!" William I looked at Joey and said with a smile.

Joey nodded vigorously, and suddenly his eyes were a little moist, and it felt good to be recognized.

"Grandma, too." Joey spoke, "Mom and Dad, brother and sister, go with your sisters!" ”

"Yes, let's go!"

"Old man, you're going to tell me the date, I'm going to need to make some more clothes, and I'm going to have to figure out how to put it with jewelry, God, I just had an idea. Alice, arrange for the court jewelers and costumes to come to me tomorrow morning....." Empress Augusta immediately called her maid and commanded.

After the old emperor shrugged his shoulders, he whispered to Joey again, "I heard that Achim did not go to the 6th Infantry Division, but joined the Black Hawk Legion?" ”

"Yes Grandpa, that's what Uncle Karl meant, he went to the Greater German Regiment and became an acolyte to the head of the Hathau-Mandol Regiment." Joey nodded.

"The matter about the officers did make old Edwin suffer." William II frowned and sighed, "Jojo, you have a lot of ideas, can you give Grandpa an idea?" ”

"Well, in fact, I think I can learn from foreign experience." Joey picked up the juice in his hand, took a sip, and said softly.

With the old emperor nodding in encouragement, Joey continued.

"When Henry was in the Qing Dynasty, he sent me a long letter about what he had seen and heard during this circumnavigation of the world, and he mentioned that when he passed through many islands in the South Pacific, he found that many places had not yet been divided by the great powers."

"According to the description of the geologists who accompanied the army, I think that according to Professor Richthofen's theory, there may have been gold mines in the places where Henry passed."

"Oh, what a gold mine?" The old emperor asked a little nervously.

I can't help but feel that the old emperor is not nervous, the blessing of Tojoy's accurate positioning in his previous life, the test results of the first batch of ore specimens collected in Japan's Ryokari gold mine, the high gold content is unbelievable, and even many people think that it is a data error, and the results of the second test are still high and terrible two days ago, and the test results have been spread as a secret in the high-level circles of Berlin and London.

Now Joey said that there is probably a big gold mine, and the old emperor can't help but not be nervous.

"It's hard to say, if you extrapolate according to the lava theory of the volcanic plate, it is likely to be no worse than the gold content of Ryokari and the taste is low."

"In this way, the shipbuilding plan that promised General Stockch earlier to allocate an additional 5 million gold marks for the Navy in three years will be strengthened!" William I squinted his eyes and said decisively.

"Grandpa, the warship is not something that can be started right away, after all, it is not possible to do it in a few years from design to construction." Joey reassured, "And in the end, the one who lands and guards the gold mines will definitely not be warships, but must be soldiers." ”

"I would suggest that we learn from the British and the French, and equip Admiral Stockch's fleet with a landing force, so that the Royal Navy can fight not only naval but also land."

"Oh, give General Stosch an infantry unit?" William I looked at Joey and asked, "Assign the Black Hawk Legion to the Navy?" ”

"That's right, grandpa! Turn the Black Hawk Corps into a Marine Corps that can conduct landing battles! Marun of the German Royal Navy! ”

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