"It's an interesting idea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "Moltke subconsciously felt impossible, but out of politeness and curiosity, he did not directly veto the prince's suggestion.

"In the direction of East Prussia, we will launch a limited offensive, this was agreed in advance, I will not change this plan, but it will not compress the space of the Russians too much. This campaign is mainly about the attrition of the opponent's living forces, and we want to leave the Russians with the illusion that the Polish region can be defended. ”

"Then a part of the Bavarian corps will enter the Silesian region, and we will reopen the situation from the Austro-Hungarian region of Lviv! The troops advanced slowly but steadily northward, gradually narrowing the width between Russian Poland and the Russian rear. Of course, this is only one of the goals! The prince said.

"The Russians will not allow it, they will concentrate their forces to suppress here, it will become a tug-of-war here, when your legions attack, they will retreat, and when they pause because of supply problems, they will kill back, in addition, IMHO, the Bavarian legions are very reliable in combat, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire is average in combat, on average, the advantage is relatively limited." Moltke Jr. said.

"Maybe you're right, this plan to hit a salient might be a little more difficult, but even if it doesn't work, it's not a big problem." The prince said with a smile.

"Hold the grass!" Moltke Jr. was almost about to burst out foul language, you spent so much effort to transfer the most elite legions to Silesia, used a large number of troops, wasted a lot of resources, could not effectively kill the opponent, but fell into a certain degree of tug-of-war, what are you trying to do? At the beginning, you said that you disdained to eat the Russian army army army by army, but now this kind of fight is not as good as the plan proposed by Lao Tzu at the beginning!

"Ruprecht, if you want to help your father-in-law, we can understand that it is not so troublesome." Wilhelm II said with a slight tightening of his face.

"No, no, don't listen to me." The prince grimaced with a helpless expression. "Okay, I'll go into more detail about my plan."

"If they attack in Silesia, if the Russians deal with it properly, they will not suffer very much, but if they want to hold the front, then they will have to deploy a considerable number of troops! We are the attackers, we can choose the time and place of the battle, and the opponent needs to ensure the density of troops in order to defend and leave enough reserves. ”

"In reality, the Russians do not have much more front-line combat forces than we do, and if they concentrate a considerable part of their forces in Silesia while maintaining a military presence in Russian Poland, then there will be a serious hole in their front-line combat forces."

"The idea is debatable, because the population base of the Russians is too large, their population is twice that of the German Empire, and even the mobilization of 8 million troops is possible." Moltke Jr. said.

"That's right, you're right, I agree with that, but you have to note that I'm talking about front-line combat units, not the total number of troops! Can you understand the gap? The prince asked rhetorically.

"Well, you want to talk about the difference between front-line combatants and rear auxiliaries?" Moltke Jr. said.

"That's right, that's it, maybe in the German Empire one rear officer could support two fighters in battle, but if in Russia, one fighter needs to be supported by two auxiliaries behind him! Russia's vast territorial area and backward infrastructure determined the fatal weakness of Russia's wartime inefficiency! The prince said confidently.

This is definitely not talking, but it is true, although Russia had millions of troops in World War I, but even in the later period, the front-line troops were about 3 million. It won't go any further. As for the root cause of this problem. Quite simply, it is backward.

Someone has made a statistic that if a recruit from Germany, France and Austria wants to go to the battlefield, then he needs to walk an average distance of 200 to 300 versts, and if a Russian recruit wants to go to the battlefield, he needs to walk about 900 to 1000 versts.

In addition to the fact that the distance was about 4 times that of the Western European powers, the poor state of the Russians made it exponentially more difficult to mobilize troops and supplies! For example, if Germany's railway service coefficient is calculated by 100, then Belgium and Germany, are both 100, this railway service coefficient is determined by the length of the railway per unit territory area and the population per unit area, the former is proportional, the latter is inversely proportional, to change a more image point example, that is, Belgium as a country with 30,000 square kilometers, he has a total of 4,000 kilometers of railways!

Well, let's look at the level of other countries, the British are not far behind, and the rail service coefficient is 98. The French said that Colombia had absorbed the lessons of the Franco-Prussian War, and that the railway service coefficient had reached an astonishing 103. Austria-Hungary is really a weak chicken, this coefficient is only 61. Sorry for the loss of face of the Western European powers, sorry .......

And then what about Russia? Even if you remove the barren Siberia and other regions, the railway service coefficient in Russia is only 4! That's right, you read that right, only 4! In terms of unit area, Germany's railways are more than ten times longer than Russia's! Austria-Hungary was also 6.7 times larger than Russia, that is, this railway line was very weak. In wartime, it is common to have all kinds of insufficiencies.

So from this point of view, the infrastructure is insufficient, then it can only be supplemented by manpower, which makes Russia have a huge population base, but the number of front-line troops is not large, and the length of the front line is continuous, which leads to the overall strength density is insufficient, and the same because of the lack of infrastructure, if there is a problem with the railway line in a certain area, then even if the Russians want to evacuate, even if this encirclement network is not blocked, then for the Russians who basically rely on the movement to go, they can't go if they want to! The big corps, completely break away from the railroad and go backwards? This scene is too beautiful to imagine!

And this time, the prince's entry point is these two points! The war has just begun, the potential of the Russians has not been fully realized, he does not have 3 million troops, after a while, it would be good to have 2 million on the front line, if the Russians want to hold Russian Poland, to say less, at least you must have 4 or 5 army groups, right? That's a million troops. First of all, let me explain that this unit is fixed on the defensive line, one turnip and one pit, and there will not be many troops that can be transferred across theaters.

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