Chapter 45 No One Wants Divisions
It is not surprising that the Fourth Division is not widely known in the country, because no one cares about an army that has not been out of the country to fight for decades.
Since the last Southern War, the Fourth Division has lived in the country for a long time, and during the last World War, for some well-known reasons, it was only used as a reserve in the rear as a unit directly under the headquarters, fighting soy sauce, disrupting public order, and smashing police stations.
Hardly ever fought with the Federation Army.
The Fourth Division seemed to be a child that no one wanted, and the regiments on the front line seemed to have negotiated that no one wanted this unit to join their battle sequence.
But that doesn't mean that the 4th Division can be despised by people.
Once the commander of a certain corps or the commander of a dispatch corps dares to report to his superiors the 'unsightly battle situation' of the Fourth Division
Then the days of this commander will come to an end.
It won't be long before the purchases of his troops will be turned away by the local business guilds, and the supplies needed will be severely undersupplied.
The equipment distributed by the Armament Department will never arrive, and the soldiers will not be replenished for a long time.
Every time the newspapers and publications published his news, there was absolutely nothing bad and nothing good.
In a word, you're done!
This was the strength of the 4th Division, or the support regiment of the 4th Division, the Ossakarsk Business Alliance.
The Ossakask Business Alliance, a.k.a. the Imperial Conglomerate Syndicate.
In recent decades, a consortium of new monopolies has developed from the traditional Osacaskk Chamber of Commerce Union.
Controlled more than half of the empire's arms production and steel energy supply.
It owns 30% of the total national assets of the empire.
There was a general council, and the members of the council were all composed of the emerging aristocracy and the tycoons.
It is the most powerful socio-economic organization that has emerged in the empire in recent times.
The Ossaka Division is the Fourth Division, an all-Ossaka unit.
However, all imperial states are often closely related to the feudal aristocratic land ownership system.
In the previous life, the daimyo of the Fuso kingdom (in fact, he was a small feudal lord), the Junkers of the Rhineland (a military land noble), and the lords of the medieval tradition.
Where there is an empire, there is land subdivision, which is a form of land distribution that is suitable for the agrarian economy and culture according to blood relations rather than production efficiency.
It is easy to understand that arable land generally does not require much brain, and the demand for knowledge and technology is not very great (which is relative to industrial society).
As long as the lord is not too mediocre, then the cultivation of the land will not be delayed in general, and social production will not be delayed and hit.
To put it simply, it is suitable for the development of social production. Therefore, for hundreds of years, this kind of feudalism of the empire has caused a very serious regional complex among the imperial people.
A lord represents not only himself, but also a region, and the people of a region come out of their hometown, and the first thing they do is not to know where they are.
The localization of the armed forces and the localization of the countryside are also a product of this system.
Binding the troops with a local complex, and the soldiers of a unit all come from the same place, is indeed conducive to the cohesion and collective sense of honor of the army in the short term, but the problem is also obvious - the army is easy to be individualized and warlordized.
Warlord - is a militaristic form of organization in feudal land relations. Most of the soldiers under the warlords are from the same region and have common interests, so they can't get a needle in the water, and it is difficult to contain the rebellion.
Another problem is that once these fellow villagers are united, it is difficult for any military leader to command such a force.
The Fourth Division was just that - a huddled and difficult to command.
As I said earlier, the 4th Division was made up entirely of citizens of Ossakask, most of whom were educated and educated in the city.
There are probably two kinds of educated people in the empire - one is a group of people who are cannon fodder in the empire who have played with their lives under brainwashing education.
The other group is the real educated who have invested in a new version of education for autonomous councils like the citizens of Osaka.
Unlike the citizens of other regions, the citizens of Osacasque were for centuries the most important commercial and economic center in the southwestern part of the empire.
Every household has an industrial and commercial background, and almost everyone is engaged in various business activities. These citizens have been influenced by the commercial atmosphere since childhood, and have developed the characteristics of being good at bargaining and active thinking.
It is impossible to expect a single tendon from a vendor to send him to death.
The syndicate chaebols are not stupid, knowing that the economic empire they have built with great difficulty needs talents who are loyal to their group, then they must first dig into the corners of the imperial family ideologically.
In order to cultivate their own power and talents, every year the majority shareholders of the syndicate will allocate a large amount of money to the city board of education, which is used to help citizens eradicate illiteracy, and also to establish the righteous image of the syndicate in everyone's head.
As a result, the textbooks used by the Ossaka people also became their own independent editing. Unlike the rest of the empire.
Many of the textbooks borrowed from the textbooks of the federal nationals, and a lot of intellectual arguments were added that raised suspicion and questioned the very existence of the empire.
The directors of the syndicate and the case no longer wanted to be coaxed by the gang in the imperial capital, and began to make their voices heard, and the protection of public opinion for the Fourth Division was one of them.
Received a business culture education from an early age, and received skeptical thoughts from an early age......
It would be strange if the people of Osaka, who had grown up in such an environment, could shed their blood and sacrifice for the benefit of the 'Empire'.
So in the 4th Division,
Whenever there is any task, it has become commonplace for soldiers to suddenly run a large number of diarrhea or something, and when marching, soldiers fall in line, and what is missing is very loving~
Once upon a time, in order to suppress the rebellion of a few famous ethnic groups in the east, the empire sent the Fourth Division to suppress it, and as a result, the fully equipped Fourth Division was chased by thousands of mobs for 20 miles.
The entire encirclement, suppression, and suppression campaign was a fiasco.
Among them, the most powerful is the First Wing, which actually escaped six times in three days, and is known as the First Wing that is not afraid of defeat.
The obscenity of the Fourth Division is in the bones, and it can't be removed.
Needless sacrifices will never be made, unreasonable battles will never be fought, and fleeing enemies will never be pursued.
These are the three principles that the Fourth Division must abide by when fighting a war.
No matter what the officers did and how they did it, these petty traders were indifferent......
Looking at the joke, the first skill of the vendor is to flicker and prevent flickering.
How could it be explained by a few words from an officer?
Soldiers and officers bargained, officers and superiors were calculating, and superiors and higher superiors were grinding and soaking hard, which became the daily routine of the Fourth Division.
It is precisely for these reasons that the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Division is really not good, but no one dares to mess with others, who will let people have people in their families?
Therefore, under the cover of the mainstream media and newspapers, the notoriety of the Fourth Division has not yet been widely known even after decades of fleeing and avoiding war.
The upper echelons of the military department were clear about what kind of army the Fourth Division of the Reich was, but it was only some of the officers in the upper echelons of the military department.
After all, this unit did not participate in the battle, and no one had ever seen this unit fight.
(Those who have seen the battle of this army have long since become ancient~)
Therefore, everyone just followed the conventions left by their predecessors and forgot about the 'Fourth Division'
There are even some officers who think that there is no such establishment as the Fourth Division in the emperor's ** establishment.
In short, the battle or something, almost nothing to do with the 4th Division.
After the Second European War, the 4th Division still found various reasons to postpone its own time to the front.
First on the grounds of insufficient replenishment of personnel, and then on the grounds of incomplete equipment......
This is true, the major refitting that began in 1934 dragged on for a long time, and the fourth division still did not complete the refitting until the other divisions and regiments had completed their training and reorganization and left for the front......
It's not an excuse, it's true, although it's Osaka's chamber of commerce itself who hasn't been able to give himself a outfit for a long time...... They also don't want the talent they have worked so hard to cultivate to be used as cheap cannon fodder to be consumed in the bottomless pit of the federal front......
In the end, it dragged on for two years, and the military department really felt that it was too much to go on like this, so it ordered the fourth division to be allocated to the Galia Dispatch Army, so that Maximilia could have a headache......
The troops of the Galia Dispatch were second-rate and third-rate Imperial troops, including those that had once been glorious but had been abandoned by political struggles on the wrong side, such as the Second Division. There were also units that were spurned by other units because of their bad reputation, such as the 6th Division.
Of course, there were also unharmed units -- the Fourth Division -- that could not fight and caused constant trouble.
Now in the Empire, the most competitive and brutal struggle is not the war with the Federation or Galia, but the war of succession between the two princes.
Because the gap between strength and age is too large, the quasi-crown prince of Maximilia has too obvious disadvantages when competing with the crown prince for the position of heir, whether it is a big nobleman or a big conglomerate, it is almost an instinctive supporter of Crown Prince William, the eldest son of the eldest son.
And one of the most important for the succession to the throne - the most important one, the influence within the army Maximilia also has an absolute disadvantage.
Although Maximilia knew his own problems and tried to lower his posture as much as possible to use it for anyone (because he had no choice), he was far less potential than his brother William because of his personality problems and background, and was frantically attacked by his brother William's supporters, the conservatives of the military department.
This can be seen from the configuration of the Garia expeditionary force, which was under the command of Maximilia.
A division regiment is equipped with tanks from one brigade to two teams.
The entire unit is equipped with the standards of the former emperor in 1934
You must know that the performance of the tanks, the caliber of the artillery, and the number of heavy and light equipment of the troops now fighting in the front line and the Federation are very different from the Galian Dispatch Army.
There are also frequent deficiencies in the establishment and replenishment of troops due to 'delays and errors'.
In less than two months of fighting, the equipment and energy consumption of the expeditionary force has reached a dangerous value, and if it does not move forward quickly to end the battle or get energy resources, there is no need for the Galia to counterattack, and the expeditionary force itself will all lie on its stomach.
At this time, Maximilia ordered the Fourth Division, which had just come from China and had not fought for half a century, to support the Sixth Division.
He has no troops in his hands that can be handled.
But the war will continue, and Landobasa must also be taken, so the unfortunate days of Zhistov and the 6th Division have just begun~
Let's see how the Fourth Division and the Sixth Division want the division to 'cooperate with the attack'~