"Nikolaev's corps is finished. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "When Kuropatkin received the telegram from the front, he only said such a sentence for a long time, although he had a premonition that the situation was not good, but when the Fifth Army confirmed that it was surrounded and annihilated, and the news that most of the Sixth Army had been killed came out, he still fell into a deep shock! The news was terrible, and behind a simple telegram it was predicted that Russia had lost about 400,000 troops! These losses are different from ordinary casualties, and the casualties of general rout battles are largely recoverable losses, for example, at the end of a battle, with 100,000 casualties, then those who died in battle must not be able to recover, but most of them are injured, and more than half of them can go to the battlefield again after a short period of recuperation.

But this time, it's different! Because the other party is fighting a war of encirclement and annihilation! The troops were taken out in formation, either killed in battle or wounded and captured, and according to the estimates of the German base camp, after the battle was over, the Bavarian legion probably captured at least 100,000 prisoners!

"The loss of 400,000 people is not terrible, we can add it, the key is the loss of equipment! We can replenish 400,000 people in 2 months, but it is impossible to restore the equipment of 400,000 people in 4 months! And what happens after 4 months? God knows! Brusinov said very pessimistically.

"Of course, the most terrible thing is that we cannot resist such an army! In the face of Napoleon's army, we can also fight a battle like Borodino, and in the Crimea against the British and French armies, although we have suffered greater losses, but it is not impossible to fight. But facing the Bavarian Legion, it gives me the feeling that children are fighting adults, and their equipment and tactics are ahead of their time! An era has come in which technology and machinery have replaced blood and troops. Brusinov expressed his pessimism in his diary.

At the same time, the Bavarian Legion's battle report was also sent to the Kaiser and Bavaria, and after learning that his son commanded the Legion to easily take out the two Russian armies, Ludwig III was overjoyed and personally decided to give additional rations and supplies to the families of the soldiers in addition to the normal rations. And when Wilhelm II got this battle report, it was like breaking the five-flavor bottle.

Look at your own side, the army pushed to the border with Belgium and France and couldn't fight anymore, yes, it just couldn't move! On the face of it, Germany seems to be underperforming this time around. Then look at the Eastern Front, and while talking and laughing, the 2 Russian armies are finished. Although he thought that the Bavarian army would be more capable of fighting, but it was still beyond the Kaiser's expectations to be able to fight to this extent, originally he thought that even if Ruprecht could win, the two sides would have to fight for 300 rounds and drag on for several months, and then the Bavarian army would throw down another 100,000 casualties and then beat the Russians back. But now?

What Ruprecht sent was not just a battle report, but also a bunch of photos and, that was taken by the air, in the photos, pieces of Russian prisoners were spread all over the ground, and there was a line of small text underneath, which said that this was a square kilometer of prisoners! Subsequently, 15 divisions of Russian military flags were also presented.

"Although the Russians are more dish-oriented, I have to admit that Ruprecht did a really good job. Publicize it well, after all, when there is some trouble on the Western Front, a victory on the Eastern Front can also boost morale. The Kaiser thought for a moment and said.

"Send another congratulatory telegram in my name, hoping that the Bavarian Legion can make a greater contribution to the Empire, and the Empire will not treat anyone badly." The Kaiser thought for a moment and added.

At the behest of the Kaiser, the German propaganda machine was indeed powerful, and soon, the new god of war of the German Empire, the most outstanding representative of the young generation of German generals, and other titles were added to the prince, especially the large number of photos in the front page headlines of important media such as the Frankfurter Zeitung, which confirmed this, and the Russian flags of fifteen divisions and the commander of the captured Fifth Army occupied the largest part of the page.

Aerial photographs of Russian prisoners, as well as mountains of guns and artillery, all testify to the glorious victory of the Bavarian Legion. The German people were excited by the guns that could be armed with a single army group, the artillery of several divisions, tens of thousands of military horses and the mountains of supplies in the warehouses made the German people excited, and many people who did not make it to the first wave of troops asked to join the Bavarian regiment, although they were not Bavarians, but they could always find other reasons, such as being ......Catholics.

The attitude of Austria-Hungary was a bit playful, and congratulatory telegrams were naturally going to be sent, but at the same time there were some discordant voices in the Vienna Imperial Palace, such as denigration of the prince's victory, for example, fears of "internal enemies". In the eyes of some, it is not necessarily a good thing to have such a "powerful aid", of course, if it were before the destruction of the Russian armies of the two countries, surely no one would say so, because they still need the prince and his legions!

At the same time, Britain and France also received the results of the border battle, and it is impossible to say that it was not touched, after all, even if the pigs of 2 army groups are caught in three weeks, it will be difficult for you to catch them! However, Britain and France were not very worried, on the one hand, the Russian army was not very strong in terms of quality, and the Russians had always relied on a large number of numbers, vast strategic depth and cold winters to fight. On the other hand, the Bavarian Army is on the Eastern Front, which has nothing to do with the Western Front.......

"From the information provided by the Russians, the Bavarian armored forces are more elite than the rest of the German troops, and they have begun to use aircraft on a large scale, which we did not expect, and we need to make up for this as soon as possible in order to avoid falling into the situation of the Russians." Xia Fei said this at the military meeting.

"Bavaria is an outlier, they have a very good economy and industry, and with the support of Bohemia, they can arm a small army in this way, and this situation cannot be replicated with other German legions and us." Armand said.

"The value of industrial production in Bavaria and Bohemia is already more than half that of France! The same is true of the population, and they are armed with only 500,000 troops, and we need to arm 2 million troops. This kind of army piled up with real money is indeed powerful, but it is really a poison for all-out war, because with the same resources we can arm more troops, and the other side obviously cannot use 500,000 troops to defeat our 1 million army. A French officer said.

In short, the arrogant French are still as confident in their military system as they are in the 75mm rapid-fire gun, and of course, the French have done well so far. This also gives them confidence!

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