"Uncle, please first." Don't look at His Royal Highness Prince Ruprecht can talk and laugh with the Kaiser, but when there is a formal military meeting, he still has to be a man with his tail between his legs, for example, in this meeting, the Bavarian side is naturally the most capable of fighting in Bavaria at present, and Prince Leopold is also the most capable in history. Then there was the prince himself, and the third was Viscount Schmidt.

Now Viscount Schmidt is also considered to be prosperous, with the experience of war in the Far East, he has come back to supplement his military higher education, and now he has finally achieved the position of division commander, and his current position is the acting division commander of the Bavarian Mobile Division. This unit was considered a pilot force, and after coordination with the Prussian side, the formation of this division was considered temporary, and was not included in the Imperial battle sequence.

And it is precisely because this temporary establishment, or the private army of the royal family, is completely managed by the royal family itself, so it can not be controlled by the original military structure of the empire, and His Royal Highness the prince can do whatever he wants. Just as Wilhelm II historically paid for the equipping of the Guards with machine guns out of his own pocket, the only difference was that the wealthy prince bought a batch of cars for his own troops.

And the group on the opposite side was naturally the Chief of the General Staff Schlieffen, Moltke Jr., and the commander of the Fourth Army, Ludendorff. The meeting between the two sides was naturally aimed at discussing the itinerary of the Prussian General Staff and its views on certain military issues. Unlike the prince's nonsense with the Kaiser, this time it was a regular, highest-level exchange between the decision-making and executive organs of the German military.

"A maneuver to break away from the railroad?" Count Schlieffen frowned as he looked at the document handed over by Prince Leopold. Railways, troop mobility. This is undoubtedly the Earl's G-spot, you must know that he has been the chief of the General Staff of the German Army for more than ten years, and he has done one thing, that is, to formulate the Schlieffen plan, and change the draft six times, simply in terms of this obsession, it is not too much to say that it is obsessed!

"Very interesting exercise, I would like to know, how did you come up with this topic?" Count Schlieffen put down the papers in his hand and said.

"The mobility of the troops has always been a strategic issue, and I think the German Army has matured in terms of firepower and battle formation, and it can even be said that it has formed a huge advantage over other countries, and the use of new weapons and tactics has allowed us not to be afraid to go head-to-head with any opponent."

"But in terms of mobility, we are not much behind each other. The way we used railways during the Franco-Prussian War was well known to the world and copied by other powers, including France. So I think we should make some improvements in that area. Prince Leopold said with a smile.

"Hehe, but I think the main force of military transportation is still the railway, and the capacity of road transportation simply cannot meet our needs." From the Prince's answer, Count Schlieffen felt a little strange.

"But rail transport has many limitations. In other words, railway transport can be very well qualified for the needs of defensive warfare, but it cannot be used as an offensive weapon. And if Germany were to fight its opponent, it would have been an offensive war, wouldn't it? Prince Leopold said pointedly.

"It seems that His Majesty the Emperor must have said something to you. Some of my previous plans have already been read. A drop of cold sweat ran down Count Schlieffen's head,

The plans they had developed were highly secret in the German army, and it stands to reason that Prince Leopold and Prince Ruprecht should not have access to them. At least from the General Staff, it is impossible to keep out, but given the German system, the Bavarian side can fully understand the general content of this plan as long as His Majesty the Kaiser wishes, as for the details? There are some places that Schlieffen himself has not thought about, and naturally there is no way to talk about it.

Although the Bavarian side learned that the intelligence made the count a little dissatisfied, it was also blameless, after all, the Bavarian Army was also part of the German army, and it was obviously impossible to come up with a plan that Prussia knew, and others did not know. But the crux of the matter is that this exercise is too targeted! Straight to the heart of the plan! The problem of the transportation of railway troops!

What is the core of the Schlieffen Plan? In the Alsace-Lorraine area of defense, the left flank attracted the main force of the French with a very small number of troops, and then the right flank concentrated most of the forces, (the ratio of troops on the two flanks was 15 to 100) relying on the good railway lines in Germany to quickly assemble and attack, directly swept the two countries of Holland and Belgium, and took over their railway system, and then carried out a strategic detour, completely encircled the main force of the French army, and killed the French in 42 days.

In this plan, Schlieffen envisioned everything based on the idea that he could smoothly take over the railroad system, and that he could compensate for some of the shortfall by collecting food and supplies along the way, and then let the army maneuver at super-high speeds. In the conversation just now, Prince Leopold directly pointed out that the railway could not be used as an offensive weapon, which was tantamount to a fundamental veto of Schlieffen's plan.

Of course, theoretically, the Bavarian military could not influence the functioning of the Prussian General Staff, and even if there were grievances, they could only accept it under the oppression of the wartime military command. Even the Kaiser could not interfere, after all, the plan had already been drawn up and could not be stopped. But now the situation is different, if in peacetime the Kaiser does not think that this plan is feasible, then it is enough to simply declare it abolished, and the General Staff must reformulate it, and if the chief of staff expresses his opposition, the Kaiser can even directly replace him.

What's even more terrifying is that this time, Schlieffen has just learned about the details of the Bavarian exercises. To say that the Bavarian side did not communicate with the Kaiser, and Schlieffen did not believe it, to some extent, the two royal families have reached some kind of tacit understanding. And this tacit understanding is entirely possible to make their plans come to an end! Maybe I'll have to leave!

This time Count Schlieffen really thought too much, the Kaiser planned to reorganize the Prussian General Staff, and the prince also planned to enter the highest level of decision-making in the German army, but this is all later, this time the only thing I want to do is to let those Prussian officer corps open their minds and see the advanced combat posture, that's all!

"Ever since I became Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Kingdom of Prussia, I have been working hard to perfect this plan, which I have spent several years developing, and which has been revised twice, and I and my men have given full consideration to the transport capacity of the Imperial Railways, and this plan is fully suitable for our mission, and these things have been confirmed in the exercises. I am very confident in this plan. Schlieffen argued.

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