The industry of the Russians is very rubbish, even if they invest their lives in military spending, it is still the same, with the same money, Germany can do 10 things, Britain and France can do 8 things, the Russians are afraid that they can only do 4 things, look at the history of Russia's military spending and the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, you can understand that everything depends on imports, and if you can't produce it yourself, the result is that the price is too high and the amount of equipment is too small. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

So, the Germans could play with primitive armored forces within certain limits, they could add a large number of cars, the French and the British could too, but only the Russians could not. Imported products are expensive, assets are more expensive, and there are many problems. Not only armored units and cars, but Russia before the 1st World War was not even able to get artillery, and who in the major countries did not have a few heavy howitzers or long-range cannons of more than 6 inches compared to the NB? Russia really doesn't have much ...... except for imports.

However, as a fighting nation, the Russians can always maximize their subjective initiative to upgrade their equipment and military strength under their own limited conditions. Especially after combining the lessons of the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians also upgraded their own equipment system.

First of all, the Russians believe that long-range heavy artillery is very important for the improvement of the Russian army's offensive and field capabilities. In the Russo-Japanese War, the performance of Russia's 152mm naval guns imported from the United States and its own naval guns to land artillery was very good, so after the end of the war, the Russians have always wanted to raise a 6-inch L40 cannon with good performance as the main force of the future military level.

If you simply build an artillery piece and don't consider other issues, then it will naturally be easy, the Russians can do it in the 80s of the last century, but the key is that the artillery should be light! It should be easy to transport, and it should be as long as possible on the smallest possible weight. And that's the problem! By the way, there is also a problem that the cost must be cheap, otherwise how can there be so much money and equipment?

At the level of the Russians, it is impossible to make a heavy gun like the K16, which weighs only 10 tons and has a range of 22 kilometers. If the weight is enlarged to 15 tons, the range can be up to standard, but unfortunately, this thing is difficult to transport.

As a result, the Russians retreated and came up with a 152mm intermediate heavy howitzer named the M1908 type, which is called an intermediate howitzer because its gun weight and range are almost ...... in the middle. The weight of this gun is 6777kg, which is quite a bit heavier than an ordinary short-barreled howitzer, but a little lighter than a cannon. And the firing range is also between 10km for howitzers and 22km for cannons, with a range of about 14870 meters. Overall, I feel that the performance is okay.

And this intermediate version of artillery, the Russians still can't guarantee the number of equipment and transportation, especially the latter, although this thing 6.777 tons doesn't seem to be heavy, but you still have a lot of trouble with horse-drawn words. In order to ensure the number of medium-caliber guns with a range of more than 10km, the Russians have come up with another medium-caliber artillery, which is the famous M1907 107mm gun in history.

Of course, in this plane it became the M1908 type. If the M1908 152mm howitzer is an intermediate product, then this 107 type gun is considered a high-quality product, and it is also one of the few high-quality products in the arsenal of the Russians in World War I, but with a weight of 2200kg, it can shoot G shells 12.7 kilometers away, completely suppressing the SFH13 howitzer in German history in terms of performance. And this artillery will make up for the shortcomings of the new 6-inch gun and become the army-level firepower in the Russian Army.

The Russians' obsession with 122mm artillery also began to appear, for the simple reason that the 6-inch level firepower was not enough, and the 3-inch gun was too powerful, and in order to make up for the weakness of the division-level firepower, the Russians could only be equipped with another type of intermediate-caliber artillery, that is, the 122mm howitzer.

The Russians made a twelve-cent effort to replenish the quantity and quality of their artillery. However, there was no way to replenish the corresponding means of transport, and if it did not want the already overburdened railway system to collapse at the time of mobilization, then Russia could only deploy these large numbers of artillery in Russian Poland now, and even on the starting positions after the start of the war plan, and this result was that a considerable part of the artillery was deployed on a long but thin front.

The biggest difference between the Russian military system and other belligerent countries is that he has a large number of cavalry, think about it, almost all the cavalry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire pressed up to only 11 cavalry divisions, and the Russians took out 21 cavalry divisions in the first wave, and even later Budyonny once said that Russia had 400,000 cavalry in World War 1, although this number is not known whether it is reliable, but it is an indisputable fact that the Russian army has a large number of cavalry,

And this time, in the preparations for war of the Russians, as many as 21 cavalry divisions with a total strength of nearly 100,000 cavalry troops will also be a sword in the hands of the Russians. The Russians spent a lot of rubles to add machine guns and light artillery to the cavalry units, and inspired by the machine gun wagons of the Bavarian Army fighting in North Africa, the Russian army began to equip it with something that seemed to be very low, but it was really useful.

In order to strengthen the assault force, the Russians decided to continue to expand the armored vehicle force, which performed well in the Russo-Japanese War, and the Russians prepared to increase the number of first-line armored vehicles to about 400 to ensure that each cavalry division could be assigned to a small team. Together with the cavalry, they were to be used as a fast assault force against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. True, the main goal of the Russians has always been Austria-Hungary, and for the German army in East Prussia, the idea of the Russians is to try it, and if it is profitable, then continue to go deeper, and as for the Bavarian side, the current approach of the Russians is to prepare for defense.

On the whole, the war plan of the Russians was quite in line with their national conditions -- poor, technologically poor, based on the existing technological and industrial base, and doing their best to achieve the best results. In the dark, Kuropatkin felt that there was some mistake in his plan, but he never figured out what it was.

"If you can, add some more heavy machine guns to the battalion level. The gap between our infantry projection firepower and our opponents is too great. We have very few semi-automatic rifles and a small number of light machine guns, so we can only add heavy machine guns. With a stroke of his pen, Kuropatkin added a few more to the plan.

Years later, when Kuropatkin recalled his decision, he suddenly realized that his mistake was not a problem of firepower and equipment at all. Of course, by then it was already a little late, and as for what the mistakes were, we will talk about ...... then.

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