Chapter 942: Core

  Chapter 923 The Core

Armored troops, which also had an alias in the Austrian army hierarchy – “heavy cavalry”.

In the eyes of many people, this thing is the cavalry reinforced plate, the real meaning of the “steel cavalry”.

The use of armored units was also controversial in the Austrian military. A large part of the population believed that it would be better to use the armored units as cavalry.

In a sense, this view is not unreasonable, and there are many similarities between armored units and cavalry.

For example: both are more expensive than infantry, have greater logistical needs, and have to be restricted in their movements when it comes to bad ice and snow ……

Unfortunately the Rhine has long been covered in snow and ice, and during the lowest temperatures late at night, the temperature may even drop to minus ten degrees.

In this kind of bad weather, the car wants to start, all have to warm up the engine in advance, otherwise they can’t even hit the fire.

Essentially, armored forces and cars are similar, only that the engine power requirements are a bit higher.

In the face of bad weather, both are pretty much the same. It’s not that they can’t be used, the point is that the failure rate is much higher in such weather.

The Austrian armored units themselves have a high failure rate, and if they were to pick a bad weather operation, the scene would be unimaginable.

Fortunately, the winter in Central Europe does not last long, and the bad weather is only for a few days, so the good maintenance work will be able to resist it.

If you change Moscow’s hell template climate, it is estimated that the war has not yet begun, the armored forces will have to climb down one-fifth.

It was not the Grand Duke Albrecht’s style to go to war. As he grew older, Albrecht’s style of soldiering became more and more robust.

Not only Albrecht, most of the commanders of the Austrian army’s senior military style, are on the side of the steady type.

The only ones who preferred to go off the beaten track and win by surprise were a group of young officers in the lower and middle classes.

There is no essential difference between the two styles. The only thing is that with the change in status, the mindset and vision also changed.

In the army, a place that feeds on battle results, when you are young and want to struggle upwards, only by taking risks can you bend the curve and leave your peers behind.

As a matter of fact, most of the generals of the Austrian army used to be the masters who like to go off the beaten track, and it is by surprise that they got rid of their competitors and made their way up the ladder.

Now it was only the identity place that had shifted, the wealth, the status, the position. The era of entrepreneurship has come to an end, to the time of keeping the business, the steady thought and gradually prevailed.

There are two sides to everything, and from the country’s point of view, this is definitely favorable.

In essence, any saber-rattling in the military is a gamble.

The chips in the hands of the lower and middle officers are small, and it is only a matter of tactics; even if they lose a hundred or eighty times, Austria can afford to pocket it.

Moreover, there is no fool who can become an officer, and even if he carries out an adventure, he will only act with a few moments of certainty.

On the whole, the chances of winning would be even greater, after all, the commander had already weighed the risks and benefits before the gamble began.

Often times, the gains of winning once on the battlefield could offset the losses of failing dozens of times.

To put it bluntly, the chips they took out to risk were only so many thousands or hundreds at most. The losses were only so many, and the gains from a winning bet could be a battle won.

It was different with the high-ranking officers, who often decided the fate of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of troops, and any failure would hurt the country’s vitality.

Put another way, standing up for the individual soldier is different. Under this model, it is difficult for Austria to produce famous generals.

There is no way around it, most of the famous generals that the mainstream opinion of the outside world holds in high esteem are masters of the sword, the surprise, and the weak over the strong.

The kind of wars that were fought squarely, with power over others, and won entirely by comprehensive strength, were taken for granted and not recognized by everyone.

It was very unkind to the Austrian officers, and perhaps in their youth there were such wars; but as they rose in rank, everyone’s war record became more and more mediocre.

In this respect the Archduke Albrecht was undoubtedly fortunate.

Right out of the gate, he took a copy of the Rebels and swiped it, and then he encountered a copy of the Turducken, and was automatically promoted to the rank of a famous general without much play.

Now, after the continental war, Franz has come up with a bunch of black technology, which gives him a chance to step on the French and become the new “God of War”.

After the military meeting, Albrecht left his nephew alone: “Frederich, you seem to have something to say just now, are you not dissatisfied with my arrangement?”

“Field Marshal, although the current weather is bad, it is not to the point where the armored forces cannot perform.

While the French haven’t reacted, we’ll launch a surprise attack tomorrow, the armored troops can easily tear apart the French positions, and the whole army pressing up can definitely hit the French army hard.

If we delay it for a long time, I’m afraid that the armored troops will be exposed and put the French on the defensive.”

The Austrian army is very important to the rules, uncle and nephew that can only be a private address, in the command of the Archduke Albrecht only address – Field Marshal.

If you do not pay attention to the rules, the relationship between the European aristocracy is so complicated, if you are not careful, you will find that the barracks are littered with relatives, that will make the civilian officers directly despair.

Although in reality nepotism has always played an important role, but at least there is a way, as long as in the battlefield to establish military achievements, then promoted faster than anyone else.

This path was not only left for civilian officers, but was also the standard for the promotion of noble officers.

Don’t think that a related family is powerful, when the surrounding are all related families, you will find that the ultimate competition is still strength.

It can’t be helped, who let the tradition of the German region is that everyone is in the military? Nobles from all over the country have to enter the army to serve.

Perhaps many families don’t have many first line members, but there are definitely a lot of side members without titles, and if you count illegitimate children and such, the group is even larger.

At this time, the so-called relationship background was actually less important. After the Austrian army completed the reform of the military system, without enough ability, even more resources would not be able to push it up.

The most typical example is Crown Prince Frederick, and Frederich’s age difference is not too big, resources, connections, and relationships all to the top.

The latter is already a lieutenant general, Frederick Crown Prince but the top of the title of lieutenant colonel retired, it is estimated that this is Austria since the promotion of military rank, the lowest rank of the Crown Prince.

Of course, so than to Frederick very unfair, after all, before and after the military reform gap is too big.

Franz himself as an example, just started to eat milk is an Austrian officer, not waiting for the adult to become a general, the water of the big can not be compared, it is all water.

When Frederick here, the good old days of lying down and winning are over. Gone were the good old days of suckling your way through the military. After graduating from the military academy, you have to start from the grassroots, just like ordinary cadets.

As the Crown Prince, Frederick could not stay in the army all the time, which affected his promotion.

Coupled with luck, the opportunity to go to the battlefield to gild the lily was missed perfectly. Without a war record to fall back on, there was no hope of becoming a general, so he simply retired from the army.

After the outbreak of the Continental War, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick, who re-entered the army service, was still waiting for his chance on the southern front at this time.

Not only Frederick Crown Prince, including several of his younger brothers, is now more or less the same state, scattered in various battlefields waiting for an opportunity.

Whether or not you can make it in the army still depends on your own abilities.

This thing, not just rely on external forces can be decided, if their own ability is not able to, even if it is pushed up, there is no way to be convincing.

In fact, initially Franz had considered leaving this opportunity to Frederick.

The rank is too low to serve as a group commander, the big thing is to depress the establishment level of the armored forces, for example: a tank regiment with a few hundred tanks, all the armored forces are compiled into an armored division.

Only to do so eat too ugly, Frederick’s military command ability and is an unknown quantity, can not manage who do not know. In case the play bouncy, then lifted a stone and stoned their own feet.

As Austria’s Crown Prince, Frederick only need to follow the gold-plated enough, there is no need for a little prestige, run to take this risk.

In this context, the best opportunity to brush up on his record naturally fell to Frederich, a member of the royal family who had already proved his ability.

Archduke Albrecht shook his head and said in a serious tone, ”Frederich, you are thinking too simply.

Although the allied forces have assembled a million and seventy-eight million troops on the Rhine, nearly a million of these are troops from the two countries of Belgium and Germany.

It’s fine for defense, but if they really drop their lines and go out to fight the French in the field, who knows what will happen?

Even if the armored forces could tear up the French positions, or even go further and split them into pieces, we wouldn’t be able to eat them, and we might even choke to death.

The idea at home was to kill as many French living forces as possible, and from the beginning this war was about killing more of the enemy.

The purpose of dragging it out until after the ice melted was not just to make it easier for the armored units to spread out, but more importantly to build up their forces.

Of course, waiting for the Egyptian battlefield to be divided was also a key factor.

According to the domestic plan, this war will be waged first in the Egyptian battlefield, then by us, and finally on the Southern Front.

This is the strategy to give the French maximum damage.

After creating the established fact of occupying Egypt, and then killing all the way to Paris, even if we draw the European countries to intervene, we have dismantled the French colonial empire and taken control of the Suez Canal.

After the loss of the African colonies, the pillar of France is missing a corner. It will be difficult to recover for decades.

As for the armored forces being exposed, this would have been expected. With such a big commotion, it’s simply impossible to keep it a secret.

Even if the French had received the news, they wouldn’t know exactly what the armored troops were doing. It was not likely that the French would still think that it was a layer of steel plates over the outside of a car.

Remember, Frederich. You’re not like ordinary commanders, who can think purely militarily, you have to think politically.

In the vast majority of cases, the military serves politics.

In order to relieve our future pressure on the Western Front, it is not enough to defeat the French, we must hit them hard.

All the government’s strategy now revolves around the core of re-inventing France.

As long as this strategic purpose can be realized, there is not much difference between dividing the battlefield one day earlier, and one day later.”

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(End of chapter)