So now the last question remains, where does the cavalry corps for large-scale mobile operations come from? The first thing to be sure of is that the Bavarian legion could not afford to raise a large cavalry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After all, on the one hand, these things are too edible, and on the other hand, the Bavarian Army needs to invest limited funds in the construction of vehicles and armor.

Eventually, at the suggestion of Prince Leopold, the prototype of the assault tank, No. 1, armed with a machine gun, could be produced in small batches first. In terms of the choice of breakthrough tanks, the prince prefers to do both, while Prince Leopold prefers to only engage in the breakthrough tank No. 2 equipped with a 75mm short gun, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in the territory of this tank. Stability is also present for you, so the final plan becomes to get the turf right first, and then decide which one to produce.

Theoretically, Prussia had a large number of cavalry, although the proportion was not high, but the huge number of German troops multiplied by the proportion could make up tens of thousands of cavalry. But it didn't work, because these were Prussians! If nothing else, if Germany still has a blitzkrieg on the Western Front, I am afraid that most of the domestic military strength will be used on the Western Front, and the Eastern Front may be maintained by a Prussian army group or even only half an army group and the Bavarian Army!

The Kaiser agreed that the Bavarian Army would be in charge of the Eastern Front in the future war against Russia, and also agreed to the expansion of the Bavarian Army, and even acquiesced in the plan to build a rapid force with Austria-Hungary. These concessions are meant to be reciprocated! In the face of the Russian army, who do you not resist? Perhaps after the failure to achieve a breakthrough on the Western Front, the Germans will adjust their strategy, but at the very beginning of the war, only Bavaria and the Austro-Hungarian corps will be able to deal with the Russian army!

But fortunately, although the Austro-Hungarian cavalry is not as much as Maozi, but Bala is not a few, after the outbreak of the war, Germany and Austria also deployed 12 cavalry divisions on the Eastern Front, and of which there are 11 Austro-Hungarian cavalry divisions! 11 cavalry divisions, which is also quite a powerful mobile force. In history, the cavalry of both sides fought almost as vassals of the infantry, mainly reconnaissance and short assaults, and there are no examples of several divisions breaking through and then interspersed.

The reason is simple, on a not wide front, almost 140 divisions were concentrated on both sides! Among them, there are 52 infantry divisions and 21 cavalry divisions of the Russian army! The Germans had 15 infantry divisions and 1 cavalry division. 37.5 infantry divisions and 11 cavalry divisions of the Austro-Hungarian regiment. If it weren't for the indecisiveness of the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army, moving back and forth on the Eastern Front and the Balkan Front, but not being put to use, then the density of troops would have been much greater! In this case. The cavalry simply did not have a way to open a gap in the thick infantry line.

The Russian army, which had the advantage of troops, not only defeated the Austro-Hungarian army, which was relatively weak in combat, but also invaded East Prussia. If it weren't for the fact that the Russian army chose two directions of attack at the same time, and there was a gap between the two corps attacking East Prussia because of coordination problems, the Battle of Tannenberg in Hindenburg might not have achieved such great results, but even so, the Russian army still inflicted heavy losses on the Austro-Hungarian army despite heavy losses in East Prussia.

"Bavaria provides the forces for the breakthrough, Austria-Hungary for the maneuvering interspersed forces!" Eventually, the prince set such a plan of action. In fact, although Austria-Hungary was defeated, but on the Russian-Austrian border, after all, there were many fortresses and continuous fronts, if Austria-Hungary spent more effort to repair it, it was still possible to temporarily delay the Russian attack, when the Russian army was temporarily dull under the fortified city. The Bavarian Army used armored forces as the spearhead to break through the Russian defense line, and then used cavalry as a net to delay the movement of the Russian army as much as possible and create opportunities for the encirclement and annihilation of the infantry.

If you can get the full cooperation of Austria-Hungary, no, even as long as Austria-Hungary is willing to hand over the 5 cavalry divisions in its hands to the prince's command, then with the original cavalry of the Bavarian Legion, plus the German cavalry left behind in East Prussia, then the cavalry regiment in the prince's hands can reach at least 7 divisions! Together with a fast mobile division with a certain number of trucks and armored units with various tank armored vehicles, a very powerful breakthrough group will be formed, and it is difficult to say whether it can deal with Britain and France, but against the Russians, it will definitely be no problem!

If this plan can be successful, then the situation in the history of Russia's first war on the Eastern Front will not happen to Austria-Hungary, and even if it is done well, the Russian Polish region will become the place where Russia's largest heavy army group will be destroyed! It is certainly better to fight close to the mainland than to fight deep inside Russia, and compared to Germany and Austria-Hungary, Russia does not have enough food in Russian Poland, let alone a million troops to fight in Russian Poland, which is tantamount to increasing the loss of the Russians and lengthening the length of the supply line in disguise.

"As long as the first wave can be resisted, so that Austria-Hungary does not suffer so much loss in the first attack of the Russians, then the later form will be much better." The prince muttered to himself as he looked at the map. A large part of the reason for the final collapse of Austria-Hungary in World War 1 was that it lost too badly at the beginning, and after the first battle, the Austro-Hungarian troops lost 460,000! The officer class accumulated over the years has been exhausted, and the people who come up behind are not professional in their business, and their reliability is also very poor.

Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire did very little to prepare for war. (The Hungarian parliament has a great role to play in it!) At the beginning of the war, the equipment was very poor, but its industrial strength was still relatively strong, and in terms of overall production, it was not only higher than Italy, but even surpassed Russia!

In terms of the number of rifles, Austria-Hungary made 3.5 million rifles, and Russia made 3.3 million. Austria-Hungary produced 40,500 machine guns, while Russia only had 28,000, Austria-Hungary artillery production capacity was 15,900 units, Russia was 11,800 units, Austro-Hungarian aircraft production capacity was 5,400 units, and Russia was 3,500 units. In terms of artillery shells, Austria-Hungary had 80 million rounds, while Russia had 67 million rounds. In terms of bullets, Austria-Hungary produced 4 billion rounds of ammunition, and 1.35 billion rounds of ammunition against the Russians! Austria-Hungary's production capacity is out of Russia!

Something is a lot, but the people who use it are a little worse. The control of the Austro-Hungarian upper echelons over the middle and lower echelons became weaker and weaker as the war continued. And an Austria-Hungary with a high will to fight is much stronger than an enhanced version of Bavaria.

Of course, the prince didn't really want to save the dying empire, (and where did the Bavarian dividends come from?). Rather, let him hold out a little longer, and at least the Austrian part must be preserved as much as possible! Reducing the casualties at the beginning, so that Austrian industry can be brought into play, the prince's goal is completed by 3%, after all, in order to kill Russia faster and better, Austria's power is indispensable!

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