If you continue to advance eastward, the significance is very limited, and if you advance eastward, logistics will definitely be more problematic, and at the same time it will lengthen the length of the Bavarian army's defensive line, which makes the prince who likes to concentrate mobile forces to fight a war of annihilation feel very unhappy, and more importantly, the prince will prepare to solve the threat of East Prussia in the first battle after the eastern front, rather than fighting the Russians in Galicia. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf you continue to go east, you will put your plan in an embarrassing situation, which is a painful thing.

"Generals, let's change the subject, what about the rest of the work after we have rescued General Offenberg? Do you continue to the east and rescue Lviv, or stop? Or do you want to take other action? "In between the speeches of General Chur, the prince asked his own questions.

"If we go east, King Fritz will certainly be very satisfied, and we will help him to regain most of the lost territory, but then our front will be too long, and we will have to divide a considerable part of our forces to defend it, unless the Austro-Hungarian corps takes over. But this seems unlikely anytime soon. Calyput thought for a moment and said. He knew the prince's plans, so he was against going east.

"Staying where you are is is of limited significance. We have mobilized more than a dozen divisions this time, counting Prince Leopold's troops, there are already nearly 200,000, except for the rescue of more than 100,000 Austro-Hungarian regiments, we do not seem to have a good record, and the ratio of input and output is not high. Schmidt simply rejected the plan to stay where it was.

"Then let's fight north!" The prince said. You can't go east, you can't go where you are, and you can't go back. (This is a political issue.) So the only option is to go north, and see, how easy is it to make that decision? How convenient is it? You don't have to use your brains at all!

Don't you really use your brains? It's obviously! Naturally, it was impossible for the prince to come up with such a plan just by patting his head! The purpose of not continuing further east was to shorten the line of the Bavarian corps as much as possible. However, if the troops attack to the north, then a salient will be formed on the entire front! A nail wedged into the line of the Russian army in the direction of Galicia! The tip of this nail is directed at Warsaw, the stronghold of Russian Poland! Well, you tell me, if you were Nikolaev, what would you choose?

Do you need to ask? I must be trying to get rid of this salient by all means! If the Bavarian Corps had made a breakthrough north of Lviv, it would have been in the southwest of Warsaw, and if the Russian troops in the Polish theater of operations were compared to a giant, then the salient would be the equivalent of a dagger on the back of the Russian's head.

Therefore, once this salient is formed, then the Russians can only smooth out this salient after repairing, or deploy heavy troops to block it, otherwise, when the Germans attack from the front and the Austro-Hungarian army from the flank at the same time, then the entire Russian Polish region may be in danger!

"It's not a problem to hit a salient when the Russians are tired, but it's a problem to defend, and if it's our defense, then we need to rearrange logistics and transportation. Moreover, the number of troops in the salient cannot be too small, which will affect the next stage of our defense, and if it is the Austro-Hungarian corps, then this salient will probably not be able to hold it. Schmidt said tactfully.

"It doesn't matter, it's best to hold it, it doesn't matter if you can't, as long as this salient can help us attract the attention of the Russians." The prince said indifferently. In the prince's opinion, the most important thing now is not to say how much territory the Russians occupy, the Russian territory is too large, and the Russians are one of the few countries in the world that can afford to exchange space for time. It doesn't matter if you lose tens of thousands of square kilometers today and some tomorrow.

The battle that the prince wants to achieve, and what the Russians are most afraid of now, is the loss of the formation of the corps, experienced combatants is one aspect, and a large amount of equipment loss is the most important. Specifically, if we want to refine the next phase of the operation, it is only to take out the two Russian armies facing Mackensen, as well as the Russian corps in front of Bavaria. And the significance of this salient to the prince was to contain the Russians, and when the Bavarian Army moved, the rest of the Russian troops could not advance westward to support. As long as it can be delayed for a while, then this goal will be achieved, and it doesn't matter if the salient can keep it best, if it can't be kept, after the Russians have dropped a lot, just fight another one?

Therefore, this salient is, to put it bluntly, a strategic feint. At present, after the Bavarian Army is dispatched, it can do the best preparation for the next battle. Of course, if this time the Austro-Hungarian corps could be more powerful, and at the same time as the German corps attacked from the northern and central fronts, and the Austro-Hungarian corps could attack from the southern front, then it would be even better, a standard centripetal assault! The axis of attack is directed at Warsaw!

"We only use limited defensive operations in the salient, so we don't need too much material to build an impregnable defensive position, we can save a lot of capacity, and we are in defensive operations, the opponent's losses will definitely be much greater than ours, from the point of view of exchange, we only make money and don't lose. Not to mention, strategically able to respond to the offensive we are about to launch. Of course, it would be better if Austria-Hungary was willing to take over. ”

"From a tactical point of view, there are no problems in achieving this campaign, even if the Russians concentrate three army groups, they will definitely not be able to stop us in a positional battle. But the loss of supplies may delay the planned offensive, and you'd better understand that. "Lieutenant General Kuhl is still qualified as a chief of staff, and he informs the commander of the situation objectively, without mixing his own attitude.

"I think it's probably necessary to delay the campaign a little later." The prince thought for a moment and said. The campaign did need to be delayed, because now he was in command not only of the Bavarian Army, but also of the Imperial Navy in a limited offensive. In order to loosen the blockade of the North Sea. Although all kinds of materials in Germany are still sufficient, and even some materials have a lot left over because they were stored earlier, who would think that they have more things during the war? And if nothing else, the fleet is probably going to be ready, right? I am afraid that the materials transported through this crossing are more significant than the elimination of tens of thousands of Russian troops.

Large quantities of lead, copper, tin, zinc, aluminum, rubber, various primary chemicals, and a large number of canned goods were to be shipped to Germany by a fleet of more than 30 ships, which had been ordered by the Kingdom of Bavaria itself. And if the slow ships of these fleets want to pass the blockade line smoothly, then the prince must use the high seas fleet to temporarily destroy the blockade line in the northern part of the North Sea! This is one of the important reasons why the prince has to take command of the navy!

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