Holy Roman Empire

Theory and reality often run counter to each other.Perhaps it was Opodo's effective response measures, or perhaps the officers did not retreat, and the besieged Russian Fourth Army broke out beyond the ordinary army's expected combat effectiveness.

After seven days, the Fourth Army was still stuck there like a nail, making the general army dilemma.

Looking at the increasing number of casualties in his hand, he also thought of his task. The beard of General Hansgrohe, who was responsible for the siege of the Fourth Army, was about to mourn.

After more than half of the enemy's casualties, there is still no sign of surrender, and it is clear that it will die.

If the Russian army is so tenacious, this war does not need to be fought.The Poppo Federation has a limited population and simply cannot fight it.

After rubbing his forehead, Hansgrohe instructed the adjutant: "Generate the headquarters and report in detail the situation here. Tell Marshal Mao Qi to give us another five days to ensure that this enemy can be annihilated.

If support is needed in other areas, we can first deploy some troops to leave, and now we do n’t need so many troops to surround us."

After these few days of fighting, Hansgrohe has determined that the enemy will not run away.In order to complete the mission, he even deliberately left a way to lure the enemy to break through.

As a result, the enemy seemed to have not seen it, and remained firmly in place, giving him no opportunity at all.

It ’s totally unreasonable not to run at all. Hansgrohe does n’t know what the Russian commander thinks anyway. In short, he is very depressed.

"Yes, general!"

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Not only is the general army depressed, but the besieged Admiral Opodo is even more depressed.The general army is like going crazy, not attacking in a hurry, and the fourth army has only the ability to parry, but no power to fight back.

After falling into the encirclement, he knew nothing about the situation outside, and did not know why the enemy was crazy.

The roar sounded, and an airship flew from the horizon. This was the most joyful and tense moment of the day in the Russian army.

I don't know when it started, the blitzing airship has become the spiritual pillar of the Fourth Army, giving them hope for life.

This is the most tense time. Except for the first few days, every airship force coming later will have an air combat.

In just ten days, the Russian army paid a total of 35 crashes. Almost every day, three airships died in air combat.

Of course, the general army is also uncomfortable. The gap between the two sides is almost the same. This airship force may be the force with the closest combat power between the two countries.

Opodo took up the telescope and observed this thrilling air battle, and silently counted in his heart: "1,2,3,4 ... 49".

The number of "49" airships made Oporto ecstatic, an increase of one-third compared to yesterday, and the enemy on the opposite side is only half of this number.

The number gap is half, even if there are transport airships in the Russian airships, they still have an absolute advantage.

Although airships and transport airships have been separated this year, transport airships are often used as combat airships.

Airships are all bulky, and a few ordinary bullets can still withstand.The heavy machine guns used by the Air Force were not invented, and the real trick was still artillery.

No matter whether the combat airship or the transport airship is equipped with artillery, you can go to the battlefield, but the hit rate is poor.If it hits, then the result is the same, everyone is crispy.

In essence, airships are not used to fight each other. The high cost is enough to hurt any country. The Russian-Russian war is also the earliest air combat in human history.

Seeing nothing, the general airship force resolutely chose to retreat.If the Russian army wants to put in strategic materials, it will simply not catch up.

Perhaps the number of the Fourth Army has decreased; or perhaps the elders of the headquarters have sent out a kind heart, compassion for the hard work of the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army, and today's physical qualifications are abundant.

The rare vegetables, fresh beef, ham, cheese, bread, butter, and soy flour are all hungry.

As a commander, Opodo quickly awakened. I am afraid that it was not the old men who showed kindness, but the value of the Fourth Army increased.

Dragging 500,000 or 600,000 general troops here is the greatest value of the Fourth Army.If they are required to sell their lives, their treatment will naturally increase.

Shaking his head to dispel the thoughts in his mind, Opodo told the guards around him: "Send someone to look carefully to see if there is an order from the headquarters."

Not waiting for the guards to answer, a young officer ran over with a document: "General, this is the report from the headquarters."

Opodo escaped the file and opened it quickly.The more you look, the darker you look, as if the sky is falling.

It is not that the situation is not good. The overall situation on the battlefield is very good. The Russian army is getting closer and closer to winning the war.

On October 28, 1880, the Russian Fifth Army and the Seventh Army launched attacks from the northeast to the Warsaw area, and they have now approached Warsaw City.

On November 1, the Russian First Army and the Second Army launched the Battle of East Prussia.

Under the cover of the navy, on November 3, the Russian army launched a landing operation in the Gdynia region and won a great victory.

On November 5, the Russian army launched a landing operation again in Kolobrzeg, again confirming its success.

On November 7, the Russian and southern fronts tore the general defense line.

The next day, the Russian army divided its troops into three groups, the eighth army commander drove straight to Berlin, the ninth army turned to attack Poznan north, and the tenth army was responsible for centering.

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All the good news on the battlefield, except for the rescue of the Fourth Army.What this means is self-evident. Although it is not clearly stated, the meaning of warning is very obvious.

The Russian army's vigorous advancement is inseparable from the efforts of the Fourth Army.If it was not for them to drag down the mobile forces of the general army, the Fifth and Seventh Army had no courageous soldiers to come to Warsaw, and the South Front Army did not dare to divide its troops.

In this situation, if anyone breaks the chain and destroys the hard-won overall situation, who will bear the responsibility.

There is no order, but this battle report is the best order.Opodo is very clear that now it is not only to treat the Fourth Army as abandoning children, but clearly to treat them as dead.

If they break through in front of them, it would be a big deal for them to lose their heads; now if they run away, the whole family will follow the guillotine together.

Don't think that killing nobles is not popular in Europe, you really have no worries.Alexander II has the reputation of a "butcher". How can the reform succeed if the heads of people who don't kill are rolling?

After a little thought, Opodo ordered: "Notify the whole army of this good news and tell everyone that victory is in sight. As long as we persist for another half month, we will win Warsaw!"

"Break through, don't say break" is also one of the survival rules of this cruel world.Smart people can naturally understand, but those who do not understand are the masters with a head in their heads. This battle report has reached them, and that is really good news.

Hold on for half a month?

Opodo didn't believe it himself. Deeply, he felt that the Fourth Army could continue to the present, and it was all played at a super level.

However, people are blindly obeying, especially when they are closest to victory. Everyone can always hypnotize themselves and break out beyond their imagination.

Deep down in his heart, Opodo has decided that as long as the main force of the general army can contain it as long as it can't hold it, it can't hold it, leaving the local rats.

As long as the Fourth Army did not run, and stayed here to fight, others could not put the black pot on his head.

Fortunately, the soldiers didn't know Opodo's unscrupulous thoughts, otherwise the morale of everyone would swell up, and they would vent.

Sometimes ignorance is also a blessing. Immersing in the ocean of hope is better than despair after knowing the truth.

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The general army is in a disadvantageous position on the battlefield. The Berlin government is completely panicked. Even if Mao Qi repeatedly promised, he could not dispel everyone's doubts.

National mobilization is necessary, as long as you can resist the use of guns, you must go to the battlefield.

It does not matter if there are not enough officers. If the officers of the main force cannot move, they will be drawn from the local troops.

If this is not possible, find someone to bear and wait for a suitable one before changing.If there is no suitable one, there is no need to change it.

The enemy is about to hit Berlin, who can still care about the quality!Let ’s get the number up first, at least to increase everyone ’s sense of security.

While armed and mobilized, Berlin also forgot to launch a diplomatic offensive.

It is no longer useful to win over the small roles of Ottomans, Central Asian countries, and the German Federation. They have lost the ability to influence the outcome of the war.

At this stage, the powers needed by Pupo Federation need to be supported.Continental Europe is different from other regions. If you get something on the battlefield, you may also be spit out at the negotiating table.

The Berlin government does not hope to let the Russians return without success, but with the support of the great powers, it is still necessary to preserve the strength as much as possible.

At the Vienna Palace, Franz just sent a special envoy from the Berlin government.

Frankly speaking, he was very puzzled, and the war had not yet been divided. Why should the Berlin government be so anxious?

The Russians seemed to sing on the battlefield, but the war was not over.Fortunately, there are still six or seven hundred thousand new recruits in the Federal Republic of Popo. The combat power of these troops is weak. Can the fortress keep it?

Faced with Franz ’s doubts, Chief of Staff Albrecht explained: "Your Majesty, the battle has now progressed, and the number of casualties of the army of the Pope Federation has long exceeded the million mark, and the number of casualties exceeded 300,000.

If the loss of ordinary soldiers can be added immediately, but the loss of grassroots officers is difficult to make up for.

According to the analysis of the data we collected, the death rate of the general aristocracy is much higher than the average soldier's 13.5%, which has already approached 20%.

There are not enough officers in the general army, not only this war, but also the impact of the previous war.

In the first Russian-Russian war, the new generation of Junker nobles suffered heavy casualties. Now they are not only in shortage of grassroots officers, but also middle-ranking officers, and high-ranking officers.

The insufficient number of qualified officers has a great influence on the combat effectiveness of the army.Compared with the beginning of the war, the fighting capacity of the general army has actually declined.

As can be seen from their siege of the Russian Fourth Army, if it is a general army at its peak, it does not need to be dragged on for so long.

The insufficient number of officers is not anyone ’s responsibility. The Pupo Federation has done a good job. The officers they reserve in advance are enough to command 1.5 million troops.

This number is theoretically sufficient to deal with any war.Before the outbreak of the Russo-Prussian War, no one knew that this war could reach the scale it is now.

Whether it is the Pupo Federation or the Russian Empire, their mobilization capabilities are beyond our imagination."

Not to mention that people of this era, even the traversal of Franz, did not know in advance that both Russia and Russia can do this step.

This child mobilization ability is about to catch up with the war.The Pupo Federation has mobilized more than 2.6 million troops, and the Russians have mobilized nearly 4 million troops in desperation.

This number is not the end, and the number of troops on both sides is expanding like a balloon.

Like balloons, as the number of troops expands, your combat effectiveness of the army also continues to decline.

The performance of the general army is more obvious, mainly because they have taken the quality route; the Russians opened the quantity at the beginning, although the combat effectiveness of the troops also declined, because the quality was not very good at the beginning, so this decline was not so large .

Franz asked doubtfully: "As far as I know, there are still many officials from the Berlin government who are from the army. Now is the time of crisis. It should not be a problem to restore them to the emergency.

With these people fighting, and then promoting some civilian soldiers to serve as officers, the problem of insufficient officers at the grassroots level was solved.Isn't it necessary for the Berlin government to get angry so quickly?"

This is not Franz nonsense, many officials of the Berlin government are from the army.Not only the Pupo Federation, but also Austria.

Under the national military service system, not only government officials have served in the military, but people from all walks of life have stayed in the military.

At the juncture of the crisis, bringing them back to the army is also a solution to the shortage of officers.

Albrecht shook his head: "Your Majesty, these people seem to be organized, but they are not suitable for the military at all.

The officers of the Pupo Federation are dominated by Junker nobility, and under the influence of traditional forces, the best of them, or the most suitable for the army, will develop in the army for a long time.

And after retiring from the army, most of the people who entered the government departments to serve were incomplete defective products that were eliminated halfway through, and their military capabilities themselves were worrying.

If these people are forced to recover, their official positions are also their positions to enter the military, but this position has nothing to do with military command capabilities.

Let a group of bureaucrats with unknown military capabilities command the troops. The scene is unimaginable.

I think it may not be as good as the first grade military school students. At least these people are full of blood, they will not slap and blame, and they can strictly execute orders."

Franz nodded a little embarrassingly, making the bureaucracy command a troop indeed.Don't fight yet, let's pull the army into political struggle first.

After a pause, Albrecht added: "Promoting civilian officers, the general army has already begun. But these soldiers have not received military school education, and the training ceiling is very low. Only a few can serve as officers.

There are actually a small number of civilian officers among the grassroots officers of the general army.However, the performance of these people is not good, there have been a lot of chaos."

Franz said nothing. The problem of civilian officers is a problem in all European countries.

Not as later generations said, the nobles controlled the army and excluded civilian officers.

In fact, the nobility is only interested in middle and high-level positions. The following rank-level positions are not their goal at all, and no one is so shallow.

The real problem still lies in military literacy. Ordinary soldiers have never been exposed to this knowledge. How can they be turned into qualified officers?

It can be said that in the peaceful years, the channels for ordinary soldiers to rise have been locked early, and only a few geniuses can become officers.

There are opportunities in the war years, but the prerequisite is to survive.Military merits are not so easy to get, and need to be traded for.

The noble officers at the grassroots level should take the lead to charge, not to mention civilian officers, I am afraid that many dangerous tasks will fall on their heads.

No matter how genius you are, only if you survive the battlefield will there be a future, otherwise it will be a martyr.

Get military merit, this is not the end.On the contrary, this is just the beginning.

Promoted to a higher position, the requirements for personal military literacy have also become higher.

In times of peace, there is still a chance to go to the military academy to learn a wave, and after returning, you will be almost competent.It will not work in war years, and war will not wait for others.

To some extent, Albrecht complained about the poor military literacy of civilian officers, which is an indisputable fact.

With the exception of very few geniuses, most civilian officers are promoted after being promoted by dry ducks. It is normal for them to be unable to adapt in a short time.

The army is a place that believes in the strong. No one will consider so many reasons, and will not give you time to learn slowly.

If you can't do it, you will be squeezed out, and you will be squeezed out without the use of means.

Not only the civilian officers, but also the children of many large nobles, who lack their own abilities, will also be squeezed out.

Not only now, but even the future, there is only one way for civilian officers-to test military schools.

Through school learning, improve your military literacy.Through learning, to fill the gap between the capabilities of noble officers.

This road is also not easy to take. The number of students enrolled in the high-ranking military academies is limited.

Influenced by educational resources, it is impossible for genius to break out.