Chapter 1260: Taking Sides and Fighting Secretly 2

Chapter 1260: Taking sides and fighting secretly 2

And now? The proportion of officers from the Junker aristocracy in the Prussian Army has dropped, which makes the aristocratic officers dissatisfied, but at the same time makes the civilians and petty bourgeoisie very satisfied, because they have obtained more promotion channels, and if this is reflected in the Congress, that is Relations between the emperor and parliament became more harmonious. On this issue, the Kaiser, the common people, and the Kingdom of Bavaria are all beneficiaries, but only some Junker nobles and capitalists suffer! Therefore, it is normal for some people within the General Staff to be somewhat hostile to Bavaria. This also applies to Herlingen.

But there are many kinds of hostility. Some people are eager to eat their flesh and skin, such as certain capitalists. However, some people are vigilant or slightly hostile. They will try to weaken the power of the Bavarian Army while taking the overall situation into consideration, and Heilin General Gen is the latter. Even General Herlingen thought that Moltke wanted this to some extent.

"So why is Chief of the General Staff Maoqi so ambiguous about this matter? If it is as we expected before, then Chief of the General Staff Maoqi should be tougher even if he does not force it through a vote of the General Staff. For example, forcing Bavaria to make concessions by reducing the troops originally used to support the Polish Pocket Campaign," Hindenburg asked.

"Because this is not a political issue, but a military issue! There is no right or wrong in politics, only winning or losing, while military is an objective issue. The interests of political parties or factions must not override military victory, otherwise it will inevitably Something went wrong,” General Herlingen said.

This may seem difficult to understand, but to put it simply, it is like this. Political issues are conflicts between different factions. Can you say who is right or wrong? No, people will only remember the final victor, but the military issue is an honest issue. You cannot abandon war victory because of your political likes and dislikes! Something is going to happen!

"Including the Kaiser and Moltke's Chief of Staff, they all lacked understanding of the prospects of the war. They did not know how to end the war successfully. At the beginning, we thought that we could quickly mobilize and destroy France in one fell swoop. Then we would turn back and attack the Russians. But our plan proved to be a failure. Even before the Bavarian Army moved westward, we were struggling. However, the strategy of concentrating our efforts to attack Russia advocated by Prince Ruprecht was well received. In the absence of a better way, the Kaiser and Moltke naturally had to believe in the Bavarian prince who had never disappointed anyone, thus acquiescing to his strategy, which is to defeat Russia this year!"

"And precisely because this strategy has become the only strategy we can adopt at present, the entire Prussian General Staff has no way to force the prince to do anything. Because if this plan does not succeed, our situation will be very bad! No one dares to take the risk That risk," Helingen said.

"But no one has thought about what will happen if Prince Ruprecht's plan fails. Who will bear this responsibility?" Hindenburg asked.

"If the plan fails, then he will naturally bear the consequences. The Kaiser will not be merciful by then. He will lose command of the Eastern Front and may even take his regiment to the Western Front. But this is a future time , we can’t make a decision now.”

"So what are the criteria for victory and defeat?" Hindenburg asked.

"In the short term, it will naturally be to cripple the five armies in Poland. In the long term, it will be to enter the Ukrainian plains and even the Transcaucasus region. At the same time, the front will be advanced to St. Petersburg in the northeast. At the same time, Russia will lose the ability to counterattack with large armies. , our Prussian Army deployed on the Eastern Front can be transferred to the Western Front, and the Bavarian Army can completely control the situation on the Eastern Front and the Balkans." General Herlingen said.

"Didn't the Russians surrender?" Hindenburg said in surprise.

"How can it be that easy? It would be great to be able to do this." General Helingen sighed and said. "The prince made it very clear at the meeting that we can occupy these areas and obtain the needed materials and supplies, and just let Russia starve. This can already change our situation very well. Believe me, this is Our best result now is that before the Bavarian Army comes to the Western Front, it is impossible for us to break through the British and French defense lines in a large scale."

"We seem to have won this one?" After the meeting, in the prince's study, Baron Schmidt, who accompanied the prince, asked tentatively after listening to the content of the meeting.

"Of course not, it's just a test. The bargaining with the Kaiser has not started yet, but fortunately, the Kaiser will no longer use the General Staff to suppress us. Some things that cannot be brought to the table can be said in private. "The prince said with a smile.

"So do we have the ability to suppress the Allied forces in the Balkans while completing the mission on the Eastern Front?" Baron Schmidt asked.

"Not sure." Ruprecht said with certainty. Putting aside the Battle of the Dardanelles for the moment, purely from the perspective of the encirclement and annihilation plan of this Polish pocket, the prince estimates that this battle is unprecedented in terms of scale, and it is definitely unprecedented, and it is probably unprecedented. ! The prince's goal is to get 5 armies out of pocket! Including some fortress garrison troops, the number is estimated to be in the millions! In the largest encirclement and annihilation battle in history, the Russian army was surrounded and annihilated in the Battle of Kiev, with only 600,000 troops! And nearly 30 years earlier than in history, fighting a battle larger than the historical scale under the conditions of World War I was quite difficult in itself. If the battlefield was not very close to the German mainland, and the power in the prince's hands was indeed excellent, the prince would not even have the intention to try it!

To put it bluntly, even if there are 1 million pigs, it will still be difficult for you to catch them! Think about it, when the Russian troops of these five armies realize that they are about to be surrounded, how terrifying it will be to fight back before their death. After all, they have thousands of artillery, relatively sufficient ammunition supplies, and a tide of troops. Sometimes, when the number exceeds a certain limit, there is really no way. For specific situations, please refer to the movie Black Hawk Down...

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, the prince not only concentrated all the forces he could mobilize, but also tried his best to extract troops from the Kaiser. This was definitely not personal, but if it could be done, the strategic prospects would be too tempting. People! Even if this was not possible, the losses to the German legions would not be great.

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