"Since the Kingdom of Bavaria is so confident in their army, then let them go, let's see what this little southern brother has tossed over the years." Frederick III glanced at the document sent by his attendants and signed his name on it.

The battle plan, written by Prince Leopold of the Kingdom of Bavaria, was thus adopted, so much so that some of the top brass of the Prussian army found it somewhat incomprehensible. In their view, the king seemed to place too much emphasis on the southern Catholics.

"Bavaria has come up with a lot of new things, but we can't say whether they are good or not, so it takes a real battle to test it, and if it performs well, then the Prussian army can immediately start to change its clothes, and if it does not perform well, then we can avoid unnecessary losses. In short, you can use him as a test subject! Chief of the Army General Staff Wadsey said.

The top brass of the German army naturally knew about the things that Ruprecht had drummed up, and they thought that rapid-fire guns and machine guns were very good, but they were skeptical about mortars and automatic rifles, and the replacement of weapons was a matter that affected the whole body, and adding a mortar was a major adjustment to the original army's equipment and supply system, and everyone's military spending was relatively tight in peacetime. The top level must calculate the cost-effectiveness of new weapons and equipment! The most intuitive and effective accounting method is naturally to look at the performance in actual combat!

And the Bavarian army is very suitable to be this guinea pig! The Bavarian royal family, which pointed out the arms dealer technology tree, is quite active in the upgrading of new equipment, first of all, the Bavarian royal family has money! Secondly, the army's self-production and self-sale can make the royal family richer! With so many benefits, why not? Of course, the top brass of the Bavarian army, headed by Prince Leopold, was quite satisfied with the new equipment. There is no problem at all in pumping out a force of limited size.

Eventually, the Kaiser granted the request of the Kingdom of Bavaria, but requested that about 300 Prussian officers and enlisted men be placed in the army as battlefield observers. As for the composition of the remaining troops, it was completely left to the Bavarian military to deal with itself. To be exact, it was handed over to Prince Leopold!

Facts have proved that Prince Leopold can finally become the marshal of the empire and be ranked with Hindenburg and others is absolutely really capable, for this unprecedented expedition of the kingdom, the prince's plan is still very thorough! Although it can't directly command this unit to fight, it just balances the relationship between the troops' firepower and logistics supplies!

This unit, named the Blue Legion by Ruprecht, was the forerunner of Bavaria's elite Bavarian Kingdom Guard! They first appeared in the Sino-Japanese War, and then played a great role in Africa, the Russo-Japanese War, and the First World War! They always have the most elite officers and soldiers, equipped with the most advanced weapons, and they are present where they are most needed on the battlefield!

"The number of troops should not be too large, they should be short and concise! We rely more on the advantages of technology and personnel quality than on the number of people! The maximum size of the combat unit is 1500 people! THE NUMBER OF RAPID-FIRE GUNS IS ABOUT 6, AND THE 80MM MORTAR IS UP TO 8. Each gun must have at least 1,000 rounds of ammunition in reserve! We are not fighting on our own soil this time, and our reserves before the war must be sufficient! The number of machine guns is not too much, 12 units, and each machine gun has at least 50,000 rounds of ammunition! ”

"With a force of 1,500 men, we can get together a maximum of about 800 front-line infantry, half of whom will carry the new semi-automatic rifles, with 200 rounds of ammunition for riflemen and 60 rounds for riflemen. Semi-automatic riflemen should carry more than 150 rounds of ammunition per person! Those that cannot be carried will be handed over to the riflemen to help carry them. Each combat squad is equipped with a grenadier canister, and 18 rounds of special grenades are standard. ”

Generally speaking, the firepower configuration of this army has been very strong, and even some exceed the capacity of the troops at that time, such as artillery, in World War 1, a German army of more than 40,000 people, only equipped with 160 guns of various calibers, an average of 250 people only have 1 artillery.

Although the number of heavy guns in the German artillery was relatively large, it was much more difficult to consider the logistical supply situation faced by the troops operating in the Far East than the German army in Europe during the 1st World War! Not to mention anything else, how many kilometers of railways were there in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty at that time? All supplies had to be pulled in horse-drawn carts from Vladivostok! Considering the road situation in the northeast, with 6 rapid-fire guns is almost the limit of the troops.

Referring to the Japanese mountain artillery unit during World War II, a 4-gun company is about 195 officers and soldiers and 130 horses, so 6 guns need about 300 people and nearly 200 horses! That's a fifth of the troops, and with the addition of mortar and machine-gun units, as well as logistics units, the 1,500 men may not have much infantry.

Some people may ask, a cannon is only 6 horses at most, even if it is doubled, it is only 12 horses, how can it be possible to use so many horses? Originally, it was very simple, and if the artillery was towed, it was natural that 6 horses could carry a cannon and an ammunition cart. But you have to think about carrying it when necessary! More than 1 ton of cannon was dismantled and divided among 8 horses. And then there is a large amount of ammunition, according to the amount of ammunition that the Japanese artillery accompanied the army during the Russo-Japanese War, each artillery was about 200 shells! How many horses does this cost? The ammunition truck for a rapid-fire gun is just over 70 shells! In addition to the normal horses, there are spare horses!

If the Germans had to bear everything, then these 1,500 people would not fight, and most of them would be transferred to transport troops! And in this regard, the coordination of Prince Leopold was fully demonstrated! He divided the supply of the army into two parts, one part was the transport convoy that followed the troops, and this part was directly the responsibility of the German army.

And the other part is a mobile supply unit, which, according to the agreement with the Russians, and the supply from Vladivostok to the front line, is the responsibility of the Russians! And they will prepare a large number of horses to replace the loss of horses in the supply units of the army at any time.

Contrary to popular understanding, in the battles before World War 1, artillery and machine gun fire were only part of it, and at the beginning of World War 1, a German division had only 28 machine guns. Considering the tragic supply environment, machine guns with a rate of fire of around 600 rounds a minute naturally could not be opened to fight, in fact, Prince Leopold prepared 12 machine guns, 4 of which were spare! Therefore, although the firepower provided by machine guns and artillery is important, it is still a certain distance from dominating the battlefield.

This is where the firepower of individual weapons, such as semi-automatic rifles and grenadiers, becomes very important. Although the size of the Bavarian Army is not very large, it is no problem to make up 800 semi-automatic rifles, but this kind of thing is more complicated after all, although the Germans think that the stability is good, but run to the northeast, in case in winter, if something happens in the ice and snow, what do you say? So the prince asked for a 1-to-1 ratio between semi-automatic rifles and old-fashioned bolt-action rifles.

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