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Organize a brigade? That's not an easy thing to do!

In fact, the reserve army has never been fully staffed, so a company will have 100 people, and a battalion will have about 400 people. The troops that Li Qi was in before were in reserve.

According to the regular army establishment of the German army, the full strength of an infantry company is 245 people, divided into 4 infantry platoons, each infantry platoon has about 40 riflemen, plus 1 to 2 light machine guns, and there are no grenadiers, mortars and other support weapons below the company, but some civilian, logistics personnel and engineers are needed. Four infantry companies were organized into an infantry battalion with a machine gun platoon with two MG-08 heavy machine guns. Then each battalion will be equipped with at least 3 artillery guns, that is, 3 mortar squads.

By 1914 and at least until 1915, the German army had a full strength of 3,300 men per regiment, or four battalions. By 1916, the full strength of a German regiment was only 1,950 people, which was equivalent to reducing from the original 4 battalions to 2 battalions.

Before 1916, a brigade was about 13,000 men, but after 1916, there were only 7,800 men in a brigade.

The Battle of the Somme has been going on so far, and the Allied forces must have suffered heavy losses, but the German side is not without losses, and some of the divisions that were originally at the forefront have basically been emptied, and what Li Qi needs to do is to concentrate the remaining personnel who have almost been emptied of the establishment in the 1st Army's troops that have lost too many personnel.

"Does it include the reserves and the regular troops before it?" Kurt. Zeitzler was now a captain and his rank became a staff officer. His face was full of confusion and said: "Too many troops have lost so much, most of them are scattered. ”

Li Qi has already read the relevant information, and almost all the troops that have been emptied have indeed been withdrawn to the rear. What he was more worried about now was whether the remaining soldiers would have the courage to continue on the battlefield after such a brutal battle.

"What is the purpose of the general's integration of this brigade?" Kurt. Zeitzler thought for a moment and put it another way, asking: "Within what time frame does it need to be completed?" ”

Speaking of which, Otto. Feng. Bello really didn't give a time limit, and then he didn't say who the commander of the newly formed brigade would be.

A car horn woke the pensive Richie up, and he turned his head to see in the driver's seat a second lieutenant from his team, named Albert. Feng. Augustus.

"It's a bit of a distance from here to Arras." Albert. Feng. Augustus sat down and prepared for Leach and Kurt. Zeitzler opened the door and waited for the two to get in the car before getting back into the driver's seat, turning his head to look at them and saying, "We'll be there around 3 p.m." ”

Arras is currently considered the rear of the 1st Army, and most of the soldiers who have been scattered are concentrated there, and some of the hospitals where the wounded soldiers are located are also mostly concentrated around Arras.

The Calais region of France is not small, and walking on the roads by car can see traces of war everywhere along the way. The traces were not collapsed houses, nor corpses lying on the side of the road, but trenches that resembled ditches, and wooden stakes that had not been cleared.

The war had turned the farmland into a potholed, scorched earth, and the season that was supposed to be full of ears of wheat was in ruins. The better thing is that at least the French civilians in the German-occupied areas have not been subjected to any abuse, and civilian cars can still be seen on the road from time to time.

What was more troublesome for the German army was that in the past, it was necessary to dodge the indiscriminate fire of the Allied heavy artillery units on the road from time to time, but now it was necessary to dodge the Allied planes that appeared in the sky from time to time.

"Too bad!" Albert. Feng. Augustus was in a hurry to dodge, but when the car drove under a big tree on the side of the road, the steering wheel was too sharp and almost caused the car to roll over. He looked at Richie and Kurt with an apologetic look on his face. Zeitzler, said: "I'm sorry, but ......"

Richie waved his hand, signaling that it was okay.

The Allied air force is really becoming more and more unscrupulous, especially after the German planes on the right flank of the Somme have become fewer, and the Allied bombing is really becoming more and more frequent.

"I heard the news that at the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, the French organized 3,900 trucks in a week, transporting 190,000 people and 25,000 tons of supplies to the front line to block the attack led by the crown prince?" Kurt. Zeitzler looked envious, and he said: "The French automobile industry is really developed, and they can organize 3,900 trucks in a week, you must know that our army group may not have so many trucks." ”

"Yes, but there are air forces that have been attacking and bombing, and it doesn't really make a difference whether it's a car or a horse-drawn carriage." Li Qi stared at the Allied planes that were already leaving, and said in a very low tone: "We need planes, at least more fighters!" ”

It is indeed quite strange to say, the Second German Reich is known as the first industrial power on the European continent, and it is indeed the world's second automobile producer, the annual output of cars in the Second German Reich before the war reached 20,000, but a very strange thing happened in this country, that is, the army attaches more importance to war horses than cars.

Is it because the performance of the car is unreliable as an emerging product? There may be a reason for this, but it is not a problem of car performance at all, it is that most of the generals who control the military are part of the Juncker group.

You must know that Juncker is basically a large military landlord, and more of them are farmers, so there seems to be an explanation for the importance of war horses over automobiles, which is nothing more than the horse politics of the Second German Reich.

Of course, the German army has a series of cars, but the number of cars is only a quarter of the number of war horses, and in the final analysis, it is the Junkers who influence the army!

Perhaps the Junkers acted out of their own personal interests, but it is no longer clear whether they were right or wrong, because with the deepening blockade of the Second German Reich by the Entente, the Second Reich, which had no oil wells on its own, was about to bottom out in its oil reserves......

A little earlier than scheduled, Litch and the others arrived in Arras at 2:45 p.m.

They didn't even have time to make up for lunch when they arrived, and when they found the point of contact, there was already a captain waiting.

"We are already carrying out the general's orders." Yalde. Klauz, who seemed to be desperately sleep-deprived, handed over a folder as he spoke, "The preliminary list of officers and non-commissioned officers is on the first page, and after the second page is the relevant old number. ”

Li Qi flipped through a few pages, he mainly looked at the number, and was shocked at first glance, the number of the officers and non-commissioned officers in it belonged to almost all the divisions under the jurisdiction of the 1st Group Army.

"Major." Albert. Feng. Augustus reminded: "Including the wounded soldiers before the battle, and the wounded soldiers at the beginning of the battle, they are all within the scope of your reorganization." ”

Li Qi was not shocked by this, but he saw a record, that the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment and the 24th Reserve Light Infantry Battalion had been emptied, and a total of more than 4,000 people were less than 200 people who could still be used as combat effectiveness in less than two months after the start of the war!

Yes, the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment was the unit in which Litchie had been in it, and he was now extremely glad that he had been transferred before the start of the campaign, otherwise he might have been on the list of nearly 4,000 killed. No, it's not possible, it's inevitable that there will be him, because the more than 200 people who are still alive are not front-line combatants, they are necessary logistics personnel and some people who were injured before and sent to the hospital, and none of the front-line combatants survived!

"So...... Priority is given to the personnel of the regular army, and then to the reservists who have already participated in the war? ”

"Yes, Major."

"Great, but I have a choice, don't I? I need to see the corporal on the list in the afternoon. ”

"Yes, you have a choice. So, who are the corporals you are talking about? ”

"Adolf. Hitler. ”

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In the text, "Albert. Feng. Augustus" by the book by the light fart superman Alas friendship cameo.