"Recently, the military representative of the Kingdom of Bavaria in Austria-Hungary sent me a document mentioning that the Kingdom of Austria should establish a mononational military force as the nucleus of the imperial power, mainly German soldiers and some Czechs? My future brother-in-law? "Crown Prince Ferdinand decided to talk about something that everyone is interested in and has positive implications. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, according to the information sent back by the Bavarian military mission in Austria-Hungary, they considered the internal coordination and control of the troops composed of such mixed nationalities to be very troublesome and directly affected the combat effectiveness. The ethnic composition of the local garrison forces is still relatively simple, which is better, while the composition of the national defense forces is regarded as a national grand event, and although they may have better equipment, their combat effectiveness may not be as high as that of the garrison units. The prince thought for a moment, and said carefully. After all, it is necessary to consider the other party's face.

"But this is somewhat in conflict with our national policy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire has always wanted to integrate many peoples within its borders, whether it is administrative, civil, or military. This is also the purpose for which we have mixed the various ethnic groups into the army. We want to bridge the divide between peoples. However, it does seem to be working now. Crown Prince Ferdinand said.

"This is a domestic political issue, but political correctness does not mean that the army has combat effectiveness! Can you imagine the chaos of a war in which there are more than 4 nationalities in a regiment and none of the languages are spoken? ”

"In South Africa, there was never a mixture between the mercenaries of the Americans and the armies of the Boers! Because the language problem is a huge obstacle. This is still a situation where there are only two languages, and it is difficult for me to understand how much energy an officer can devote to military affairs if he knows four languages and deals with the contradictions between many ethnic groups. ”

"Different nations will have different views on the issue of war, when Austria-Hungary was strong, it was because there was a strong army with Germans as the main body, supplemented by Hungarians and Czechs, and now we should not dilute the national character of the Austro-Hungarian army, but strengthen it! The only trustworthy people in the Kingdom of Austria were the Germans, who numbered less than half of them, but numbered more than 10 million. Therefore, it is important to draw out and form a strong mobile corps. The prince said earnestly.

The performance of the Austro-Hungarian Legion in the 1st World War was terrible on the one hand, it was indeed limited in strength, it was inferior to the opponent in terms of army equipment, the number of artillery was weaker than that of the Russians, and it is understandable that it was beaten by the Russians in actual combat, and it can also be attributed to the fact that the equipment was not good at the beginning of the war, but the Austro-Hungarian Legion was also beaten violently when it fought with the Serbs, so what was the reason?

Serbia is the weakest of the weak chickens in terms of equipment! Serbia does not have its own defense industry and has a small number of troops, how many troops can a country with a population of only four and a half million move? At the beginning of World War I, the Serbian regular army had only twelve infantry divisions and one cavalry division, a total of only 247,000 men! With the temporary mobilization of troops, there are only 400,000 troops.

And their equipment is also very backward, a division is quite large, with 15,000 men and 400 cavalry, but there are only 18 machine guns and 36 artillery pieces, and the whole army can use only 100,000 rifles, only 610 artillery pieces, including 180 old artillery, and the number of heavy artillery pieces is only 40! No more than 700 rounds per gun are available!

Although the Balkans were only a small strategic direction after the start of the war, in this direction, Austria-Hungary still deployed close to 240 battalions, 519 artillery pieces and 392 machine guns, perhaps inferior in number and less in artillery. But it's pretty much the same.

But who knew that as soon as the battle began, in the whole 1914, Austria-Hungary and the Balkan front line can be described as a loss of troops, and the Soviet data read by the prince in the previous life said that in 1914 Austria-Hungary lost about 200,000 people, and Serbia's loss was only about 6% of the opponent's. Although this figure is open to debate, it is certain that Austria-Hungary could not defeat the Serbian ...... with equal forces.

Such a big country, the national strength is not bad, there must be a reason for such a tragic record, and the prince believes that the lack of cohesion within the Austro-Hungarian Legion is an important problem after his own analysis! And it is a question that must be changed, the armies forcibly pinched together by different nationalities have no real combat significance except for the demonstration of the "combined forces" of Austria-Hungary in peacetime!

The prince would rather have a simple German legion, a Czech legion, a Hungarian legion, a Magyar legion, than a mixed cauldron!

"We can do an experiment, your country can assemble a purely German division, and send it to a certain battlefield, and then take an army of the same size from your country's Wehrmacht and send it to the battlefield as well, and then see how it performs in real combat. I'm sure you'll get the idea. There are many things that cannot be seen in the exercises, and when the real war comes, you will find that most of the staff officers' preparations are for the last war. The prince suggested.

"A battlefield? Are you going to get involved in a war? Crown Prince Ferdinand asked, somewhat confused.

"It can't be considered a war, Turkey will have a change in the next short time, and after this change, some countries may take action, and our task is to make a stable transition of power in Turkey, we can each transfer a regiment of troops into this possible war, and then see the effect. The new Turkish government will bear the military spending. The prince said.

Historically, there was no invasion by foreign enemies at the time of the revolution, but this does not mean that there were no internal conflicts in Turkey, and the Ottoman Empire's repression of the two river valleys and the Arabian Peninsula was almost a norm. Although the opponent is a broiler, it is enough to be a litmus test to prove the prince's assertion.

"A regiment, this little strength is nothing." The crown prince doesn't care about this matter, after all, a **** will be sent. But neither Ruprecht nor Ferdinand expected that in the Turkish Revolution one year later, things would go far beyond history, and even more than the prince ......expected. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

"In addition, there is another very important thing, I think you must be interested, the German Navy has opened a new tender to prepare for the next generation of battleships to choose the right weapon system, our 12-inch L40 gun is already a little behind, I hope that Skoda can consider developing a completely new naval gun." The prince whispered.

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