If aviation power training can be carried out under the guise of an "aviation club", then there is no way for armored forces? After all, the former can be used for civilians or military, while the latter has brought armor and cannons, you say civilians are not at odds. Although Prussia cannot control it on the surface, it is also very concerned about it in secret. This is true for Moltke, Schlieffen and others. Schlieffen also wrote a letter in the name of the German General Staff to ask how those armored troops were organized, and it clearly stated that you can change troops in Bavaria, but if you add more than one division, it will definitely not work!

Then the two sides fought a war of words at what scale was one division. In this era, the size of a division was different. For example, the Russians had about 22,000 people per division, the French had 16,000 people per division, and the German divisions except Bavaria had 17,000 people per division. The Bavaria had about 20,000 people per division...

As for the reasons for this difference, there are many aspects. For example, the Russians have more infantry units, and the subordinates of a Russian division are 16 infantry battalions. France and Germany have 12 infantry battalions. Therefore, although the Russians have fewer artillery, the total number still has a large part of it.

The Bavarian division is different. Although Bavaria also follows the organization of the German division. For example, an artillery company has 6 artillery guns, these 6 artillery guns are not mentioned. The German general division uses 6 75mm rapid-fire guns, and the ratio of each division's rapid-fire gun and light howitzer is 3 to 1. But this is different in Bavaria. The ratio of a division's 75mm rapid-fire gun and a 105mm howitzer is 1 to 1... The same howitzer company naturally has more people than 75mm rapid-fire guns.

As the head of Prussia's military production, Moltke once did some calculations. If it were the same division, the combat effectiveness of Bavarian artillery was at least 30% higher than that of Prussia, which was a 105mm howitzer! And greater combat effectiveness meant higher logistics needs. In the Bavarian army that began to popularize motor vehicles, the logistics troops had decreased due to the use of vehicles. So, in addition to the increase in personnel of artillery, will the number of personnel in other aspects be increased?

Generally speaking, the German cavalry regiments are assigned to the divisions respectively. This is true in Prussia and Bavaria. But with the same name as cavalry, the Prussians rode horses and the Bavarians rode cars... Before we created a chariot weighing more than ten tons, Bavaria had actually started to think about it. They changed some of the cavalry units into corpses mixed with horses and armored vehicles to improve the combat effectiveness of the reconnaissance forces. The organization has not changed substantially, but the combat effectiveness is not at the same level at all.

Of course, the size of 20,000 people in the Bavarian army is estimated by Xiao Moltke and others. In fact, Bavaria's annual military report is still about 16,600 people. The organization size of each unit has not changed, but Xiao Moltke and others know that there is something wrong, but if you know, you can't send a group of people to count alone in the army...

But this time it was different. If the weapons used by Bavaria were at least traceable in the German army and were still within the system, then what would it be if you suddenly had a bunch of guys weighing more than ten tons in the army? If you were equipped with an armored regiment, you would have expanded your army a lot invisibly. Although the General Staff of the Prussian General Staff could not control you too much, it would be absolutely impossible to increase the number of personnel tens of thousands at once. Otherwise, the prince would just expand the scale of the grassroots troops, and then it would be so hard to bargain with the German Emperor?

In addition to the troops directly under the royal family, how to give these iron guys a title to be stuffed into the troops has become a very important question. And this time, the answer given by the prince was very simple. He claimed that these things should be affiliated with artillery! Generally speaking, a division in the German army theoretically had 14 artillery companies, generally 9 75mm rapid-fire artillery companies, 3 105mm light howitzer artillery companies and 2 150mm heavy artillery companies, each with 6 guns.

Prince Ruprecht's arrangement is like this. Aren't there 12 light gun companies in the Bavarian army? Among them, the number of 105mm light howitzer companies are 6. This is not planned to be changed at the moment, but the 6 75mm rapid-fire gun companies will be changed to assault artillery companies, referred to as assault guns... According to the prince, they just replaced the 36 rapid-fire guns towed with horses and vehicles with their own rapid-fire guns... The total number of pipes remains unchanged, which is not considered an illegal...

"Damn, this makes sense, I'm speechless..." When Earl Schriefen saw the so-called assault artillery statement, he was stunned. When the little Moltke on the side saw this document, he just reported it to Earl Schriefen with a strange look, because the things said in the documents he could see were completely slim compared to the things he saw in his documents!

Because in the letter from the prince to Moltke, the prince mentioned a "track-type heavy-duty traction vehicle" specially used for 150mm cannons and 210mm heavy howitzers. Although the prince did not specify what this thing was, he mentioned in the letter that the chassis used by this kind of traction vehicle was exactly the same as the chassis of the assault gun, "had good off-road performance and modification space."

When Moltke was surprised to ask why the prince was so reckless, the prince said clearly that the content of the letter to Moltke also appeared in the letter to the German Emperor. On the issue of increasing the German military strength, the German Emperor, Bavaria, Moltke and others had the same view. They had a common enemy - the conservative faction of the Prussian Junker nobles. The latter controlled the German General Staff, and this control was not enough for you to change someone. Even if Moltke came to power, it would not be possible to completely change the whole situation. After all, there were also cases where the tail was too big and the Yin Fengyang disobedience abroad.

When meeting with the German Emperor, Moltke also mentioned these things in a very obscure way. On the one hand, the German Emperor expressed his understanding of Bavaria's behavior, and on the other hand, he also said that the Prussian army should not be behind this change. Therefore, it was finally promoted that Moltke's plan to go to Bavaria as a private person. If nothing unexpected happens, Moltke will take over as the Chief of Staff of the Prussian General after Schliffen retires, and by then Prussia can also promote some military reforms.
Chapter completed!