"It turns out that the Ninth Army is newly formed! Well, it's stable now. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "After seeing the information of the Ninth Army, the prince was finally relieved. At the beginning of the war, the Russians had a total of 8 army groups on the Eastern Front, 2 army groups were staring at East Prussia, and 2 army groups were beaten up by the prince. There were also 4 army groups staring at Austria-Hungary.

And this new Ninth Army was obviously pulled up after the hasty formation in the Warsaw area. And the prince can conclude that the proportion of Poles in this army group must be very large, because judging by the time of preparation, it is unlikely that Russia will be able to pull hundreds of thousands, almost two hundred thousand cannon fodder from depth to the front ...... in a short time.

Bavaria helped the Russians discuss how to transport artillery, and by the way, they thoroughly understood the situation of railway transportation in Russia. According to the information provided by the relevant personnel, if a Russian soldier wants to rush from Ukraine and Moscow to Poland, then before getting on the train, they need to walk a distance of about 200 to 250 kilometers, walk this far with their feet and then get on the train, then go to the front line, and then reorganize the regiment ...... when they have people. How long has the war been? It's only been more than 3 months. It is true that there are many Russians, but the prince believes too much in the fact that the prince believes that the Russian railway line will make up for the battle losses of other group armies and then pull over the personnel of a group army from the depths.

So the only explanation is that there were a large number of Poles in this 9th Army Group! And because of the presence of the Poles, then the combat effectiveness of the Ninth Army will probably have to be discounted.

Can the Poles fight? How so? It should be said that it is still relatively capable of fighting, and with the same scale and equipment, it should be able to draw with the Russians, and it must be much stronger than Austria-Hungary anyway. But only if it depends on who the Poles are fighting! If it were for yourself, then I didn't say that the Warsaw Battle after the end of World War 1 in history didn't let the Soviet Red Army sink into the sand? Even let the Poles occupy parts of Belarus and Ukraine.

As for saying that the 2nd World War was directly killed by Germany in seconds, it was not that the Poles were too weak, but that Germany was too strong, look at how long France, known as the first army in Europe, held out with the help of British cattle? Look at the collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war. You can understand. The Poles were actually not weak in combat.

But now, this plane is different. The prince has always been very concerned about the Russian Poland region, because this is the place where the two German and Austrian empires must take it into their pockets, and now the situation has deviated greatly from history, the Russians have deployed far more than historical troops in Russian Poland, counting the population, at the peak there were 6 to 7 army groups, plus the fortress garrison, nearly 1.6 million troops! (Part of the Russian army that participated in the Galician campaign was also present in the Ukrainian region.) And the Polish region has a total of only 128,000 ordinary kilometers!

And if such an area is crammed with 1.6 million troops, Poland's local food will not be enough to eat, and if it is to be transported, it is possible that the transportation lines that Russia is already overwhelmed will be directly blocked. What the? Some people say it's impossible? So whoever says that is a mallet!

Russian Poland had a population of 10 million in 1900, which is a bit of a stretch for the size of the region. And joining the 1.6 million army is more than just adding 1.6 million stomachs! Don't forget that in the army's food consumption, people eat small heads, and horses are big heads!

How many horses do you need for a 1.6 million army? History the Germans tell you that an average of three to four soldiers can be divided into a horse! That is to say, an army of 1.6 million needs at least 40 to 500,000 horses to support it, and these 4-legged soldiers consume 10 times more than ordinary soldiers! Well, just the food pressure on Poland caused by these troops and these horses has increased by almost 7 percent!

So, the Russians, who were more rough and at the same time straight-line thinking, began to move Poles to the interior in large numbers, and think about it, how many Poles were there in 1912, when the war began, when there were 10 million Poles? Now it's only 6 million! That's right, you read that right, for twelve years the population of Poland did not increase, but fell by 4 percent! This is all what the Russians have done in the last 6 years! This efficiency makes the prince feel terrible! Of course, there will inevitably be some uprisings, riots, bloodshed and so on during this period, and a group of people will definitely be killed, and then a group will die unnaturally!

Therefore, the hatred of the Poles towards the Russians has reached an unspeakable level, and it is really a question of how much combat effectiveness the army composed of the Poles requisitioned under violent compulsion can be, in the case of a tailwind battle, under the threat of the Russian bayonets, there may still be some combat effectiveness, but if there is a setback, it will be really hehe.

What's more, in addition to the rebellious sentiment of the Poles, the combat effectiveness of a newly formed corps will also be relatively low, the level of reservists and new recruits will be uneven, and the time is too short to receive enough training to go into battle. Coupled with the equipment problem and the series of battles that had been fought before, it is really difficult to say how much combat strength the Russian Ninth Army can have, so the plan proposed by Prince Leopold is also feasible. The risk is not that great.

However, even so, the strength of the seven divisions was somewhat insufficient, after all, the Russian Ninth Army was next to the Russian Third Army ....... This army group also had 9 infantry divisions and 3 cavalry divisions plus 600 artillery pieces. This is what the so-called leniency of the enemy means.

7 divisions, a Bavarian division without armored forces and an air force, this is very tempting for the Russians, if you can eat 3 or 4 of them, it will seem to the Russians to be more fulfilling than taking out an Austro-Hungarian army! Especially now, with the Austro-Hungarian corps in full retreat and the Russians not under much pressure! Say something nasty, give me a reason not to hit you!

"Looks like our plans are going to change. How many troops do we have that we can draw now? The prince asked.

"The East Prussian side will be able to return 2 divisions next week, we can compress the frontal troops again, the Russians should not take the initiative to attack, in this case, we can concentrate 3 more divisions, the Bohemian corps will not be able to be withdrawn, the prince has already evacuated all the troops that can be mobilized before. In this case, just counting the front, we have a total of 5 divisions. ”

"If we mobilize the mobilized troops to serve as logistics transport and reserves, how much can we pull out?" The prince asked.

"3 or 4 divisions are no problem." General Kuhl replied very simply.

"Very good, send me another 4 armored battalions and 7 bomber squadrons, and we need to prepare for a large-scale attack!"

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