The Russians' industry is very garbage, and even if they spend their time on military spending, it is still the case. With the same money, Germany can do 10 things, Britain and France can do 8 things, and the Russians may only do 4 things. Looking at the Russian military spending in history and the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, you can understand that everything depends on imports and cannot be produced by itself, the result is that the price is too high and the amount of equipment is too small.

Therefore, the Germans can play the original armored troops within a certain limit, and they can add a large number of cars, and the French and British can also do it, but the Russians can't do it. Imported products are expensive, assets are more expensive, and there are many problems. Not only armored units and cars, Russia before the 1st, even artillery was not good, and who in major countries does not have several NB-plus 6-inch heavy howitzers or long-range cannons? Russia really has nothing except imports...

However, as a fighting nation, the Russians can always exert their subjective initiative to upgrade their equipment and military strength to the greatest extent when their conditions are limited. Especially after combining the experience and lessons of the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians also upgraded their equipment system.

First of all, the Russians believed that long-range heavy artillery was very important for the Russian army's attack and field combat capabilities. During the Russo-Japanese War, Russia imported 152mm naval guns from the United States and their own naval guns to land guns performed very well. Therefore, after the war, the Russians always wanted to raise a 6-inch l40-level cannon with good performance as the main force of the future army-level.

If you simply build a cannon without considering other issues, it is naturally easy. The Russians could handle it in the 1980s, but the key is that the cannon should be light! It should be convenient for transportation, and it should be as far as possible to achieve the range as possible on the smallest weight. And that's the problem! By the way, there is another problem that the cost is necessary, it must be cheap, otherwise how much money can you get?

At the Russian level, there is no way to get a heavy artillery like the K16 with a weight of only 10 tons and a range of 22 kilometers. If the weight is increased to 15 tons, the range can be met, but unfortunately, it is difficult to transport this thing.

So, the Russians settled for the second best and created a 152mm middle heavy howitzer named m1908. The reason why it is called the intermediate howitzer is because its gun weight and range are almost in the middle... The weight of this gun is 6777kg, which is much heavier than an ordinary short-barrel howitzer, but it is lighter than a cannon. The range is also between 10km of the howitzer and 22km of the cannon, with a range of about 14,870 meters. Overall, it feels good.

As for this intermediate version of artillery, the Russians still cannot guarantee the quantity of equipment and transportation, especially the latter. Although this thing is 6.777 tons, it seems that it is not heavy, but it is still very difficult to use a horse. In order to ensure the number of medium-caliber artillery with a range of more than 10km, the Russians have developed another intermediate-caliber artillery, which is the famous m1907 107mm artillery in history.

Of course, in this plane, it has become the m1908 type. If the m1908 152mm howitzer is considered an intermediate product, then even if this 107 type cannon is a high-quality product, it is one of the few high-quality products in the Russians' War I arsenal. However, the weight of 2,200kg can knock out 17kg shells 12.7 kilometers away, completely suppressing the sfh13 howitzer in Germany's history in terms of performance. This kind of artillery will make up for the shortcomings of the new 6-inch cannon and become the military-level firepower in the Russian army.

The Russians' obsession with 122mm-level artillery has also begun to appear. The reason is very simple. The 6-inch level firepower is insufficient, and the 3-inch cannon is too powerful. In order to make up for the weakness of the division's first-level firepower, the Russians can only equip another type of intermediate caliber artillery, that is, the 122mm howitzer.

The Russians tried their best to replenish the quantity and quality of their artillery. However, the corresponding means of transportation could not be supplemented. If they did not want the already overwhelmed railway system to collapse during mobilization, then Russia could only deploy these large amounts of artillery in Russian Poland, or even the starting position after the war plan began. This resulted in a considerable number of artillery being deployed on a long but thin front.

The biggest difference between the Russian military system and other participating countries is that it has a large number of cavalry. Think about it, almost all the cavalry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had only 11 cavalry divisions, and the Russians took out 21 cavalry divisions in the first wave. Even later Budunny once said that Russia had 400,000 cavalry in one battle. Although this number is not reliable, it is an indisputable fact that the Russian army has a large number of cavalry.

This time, in the Russians' preparations for war, as many as 21 cavalry divisions, and a total cavalry force of nearly 100,000 will also be the sword in the hands of the Russians. The Russians took out a large number of rubles to add machine guns and light artillery to the cavalry. Inspired by the machine gun carriages of the Bavarian Legion during the battle in North Africa, the Russian Army also began to equip such things that seemed to be very low-end, but they were indeed very useful.

In order to strengthen the assault power, the Russians decided to continue to expand the armored vehicle troops that performed quite well in the Russo-Japanese War. The Russians were preparing to increase the number of front-line armored vehicles to about 400 to ensure that each cavalry division could be assigned to a small team. They will work with the cavalry as a rapid assault force to attack the Austro-Hungarian Empire. That's right, the main target of the Russians has always been Austro-Hungarian. For the German army in East Prussia, the Russians' idea was to try it. If it was profitable, then continue to go deeper. As for Bavaria, the Russians' current approach was to prepare for defense.

Overall, the Russians' war plan was still very consistent with their national conditions - poor, poor technical level, based on the existing technology and industrial foundation, he tried his best to achieve the best results. In the dark, Kuropatkin felt that there were some mistakes in his plan, but he had never figured out what the specific point was.

"If possible, add some heavy machine guns to the first level of the battalion. The gap between our infantry projection firepower and the opponent is too big. We have very few semi-automatic rifles and not many light machine guns, so we can only add heavy machine guns." Kuropatkin waved his pen and added a few more strokes to the plan.

A few years later, when Curopatkin recalled his decision again, he suddenly realized that the mistake was not a matter of firepower and equipment. Of course, it was already a bit late by then. As for what the mistake was, I will talk about it at that time...
Chapter completed!