Chapter 1,048 Something Seems to Have Gone Wrong?
Chapter 1048 Something seems to be wrong?
In Prince Ruprecht's headquarters, the staff are marking the fighting situation between the two sides on the map based on the latest battlefield intelligence. Several Russian assault troops have penetrated 25 to 45 kilometers into the Austro-Hungarian positions, and are attacking Weared 3 to 5 to the defense line. The Russian troops have already detoured back to the northern part of the Lviv Fortress. As long as they work hard to block the east-west traffic lines, the Russian troops will have completed half of the mission of this battle. Then, when the follow-up troops are in place, they can proceed to the next step. One step of action, whether it is to complete the encirclement of the Lviv Fortress area or continue the attack all the way to the Carpathian Mountains!
"The Russians fought a little fiercely this time. It seems that our infantry division did not take advantage when it encountered the Russian vanguard?" Prince Ruprecht asked after drinking a cup of coffee.
"It's like this, especially the situation on the eastern front is very bad. The Romanian Army has already made plans to take action. The Russians will have a big appetite and may form a pincer-like offensive with the Romanian Army in the south, so Leopold His Royal Highness decided to lead three Bavarian divisions and six Austro-Hungarian divisions to launch a blockade against the Russian Army Group on the Eastern Front," Major General Hall said.
"Let the troops who are not involved in the battle line shrink first and stabilize their formation. Some breakthroughs in the early stage of the enemy's offensive can be tolerated. If you can keep the troops in hand, you can just recapture them later. Don't worry." The prince was calm at this time. Don't worry, I think there won't be any big mistakes in the arrangement this time. Well, the rest is to figure out why the Russian army's attack is so sharp, and then take the right medicine.
To be honest, if you look for the reason for this wave of battles from your own point of view, it is that the strength is not enough. If you look purely at hard power, the troops in the hands of the prince plus the Austro-Hungarian Army have not yet begun the war. The Bavarian Army plus Bosi The Miya Legion is strong…. This time the prince mobilized 40% of his own troops (one third is still not in place yet), but there is only one breakthrough division, and the proportion of armored units in the total is not more than a quarter according to visual inspection. The Air Force is about one-third. As for the two and a half legions of the Austro-Hungarian Army, this round of battle may not be as powerful as the Bohemian Army! You must know that the Bohemian Legion now has more than 200,000 soldiers. The theoretical number of the two Austro-Hungarian regiments currently seems to be 360,000, but the actual number is about 320,000.
And if you look at the strength of the Russians, they are three standard Russian legions plus a series of reinforcements. Not only are there additional cavalry units, but almost the entire Russia has used the method of disintegrating the demons to save up one round. Heavy artillery and train guns. After all, Russia is an empire. It is still scary to take out the family's wealth. It is relatively normal to directly break through several layers of defense.
Of course, it would be wrong to say that the Russians used force to suppress them. After carefully studying the Russian intelligence and tactics, the prince had to admit that the Russians were indeed unique in their offensive tactics this time. Even the prince felt that it was quite difficult for the Russians to achieve this level.
Russians are not good at making delicate things;
But they have a talent for taking some very mediocre parts and making them into a very successful product after a series of combinations! We can call it systems engineering done well. In terms of strategy and tactics, the Russians are also masters of "mixing cocktails". Otherwise, they would not be able to formulate a classic strategy such as large-scale deep operations.
Compared with the torrent of steel of the Russians in later generations, the prince felt that it was obviously more difficult for the Russians in this plane to achieve this level. Because the latter's material conditions are so poor, the Russians were able to carry out ten battles like Stalin's assault because they had huge overall advantages, whether in terms of troops, equipment or supplies. It is naturally easier to play such a battle with a hand full of good cards, but what about this time? The strength of Russia's Eastern Front is actually not stronger than that of the Bavarian Army and the Austro-Hungarian Army. It is not easy to fight such a battle when material conditions are not sufficient!
Russia worked hard in this battle, not just because they overdrawn the empire's war potential! What's more, they spent several months studying the tactics of the Bavarian Legion and tried to come up with a set of targeted tactics! The Russians finally chose to break through quickly, and they tried their best to directly shock the entire defense line in the shortest time! If in terms of equipment preparation, the Russians used moves similar to the Demon Disintegration Technique, then the same was true for the method of this attack! In the first round, you have no reservations about the power in your hands and put it all in!
There is no reserve force, no deep penetration corps developed by later Russians, and subsequent development corps. It is completely a desperate effort! They deployed the fastest movement, the best equipment, and the most elite soldiers to the front line! The Russians immediately devoted almost all of their cavalry units to the battle on both wings! Of course, this kind of cavalry is no longer the Cossacks who used sabers and carbines to show off their power in the past, nor is it the simple mounted infantry of later generations.
If you have to define it, it is more like a Russian version of a speed assault force that uses horses and carriages to maneuver quickly, equipped with a large number of machine guns and light artillery, plus a small number of cars and self-propelled artillery. If you have to find a unit that is quite similar to later generations, it would be a bit like the practice of adding tanks to the cavalry units after the founding of the Soviet Union... Of course, the Russians don't have that many tanks to fill now. They even have very few self-propelled artillery. According to the current news, except for the 107MM cannon weighing more than 2 tons, there is no artillery or thing that can enjoy the treatment of tracked territory. !
It is certainly impossible for such a unit to travel more than 50 kilometers a day like a real cavalry. In fact, without enemy interference, walking 35 kilometers a day is already the limit. However, this is still much faster than pure infantry. Got it! The movement speed of the infantry division level is only about 25 kilometers per day. The former is 40% happier than the latter! Moreover, it is a cavalry after all, and it is equipped with an extra number of horses. The ammunition carrying capacity of this unit is much larger than that of ordinary infantry units, which is why one division can gather nearly 200 machine guns and carriages! This is not trench warfare between the two sides in later generations! This is sports warfare! With every step forward of the troops, the difficulty of logistical supplies increases exponentially! The Russians will continue to break through the position and then shake the entire defense line! If you want to maintain this speed and have strong firepower, I have to say that the Russians have done their best!
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