The transfer of troops took time, but Ruprecht had to go to Brussels immediately. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Even in the car, he was not idle, he needed to read a lot of documents in order to have a more objective picture of the situation on the Western Front. Among them, the prince first focused on reading the battle records of the two German and French attacks, and he must have a relatively objective understanding of the application of French armored forces and the French army's defense capability against armored assaults, and of course, he must also know what level the Prussian army is at present and where it is losing.

The first is the Battle of Cambrai. Although tanks No. 1 and No. 2 had little technical superiority, they managed to tear open the gap in the French line by concentrating their forces, and the attack started very smoothly. There is some truth to it, but it is not entirely true.

Six armored battalions smashed the French and British with nearly 200 flat-fire guns ....... You can understand it as a death, but at the same time it can also be understood as a last resort, the reason is very simple, the Germans can only choose this road, there is no chance to bypass this line of defense, on the one hand, the logistics have not kept up, the tanks have limited trips, and if you don't take this line, you can't reach the second line of defense at all.

On the other hand, the infantry and artillery in the rear did not keep up, and the armored corps was used as an infantry weapon rather than a branch of the military. The infantry that should have been there did not keep up, the artillery support that should have been there, not to mention the aviation, the short range of aircraft in this era was terrible, and unless the airfield was built on the front line, the bombers provided very limited output.

In a word, this offensive of the German Army can be described in this way. A team of policemen kicked the door open, and then the assaulters entered, and the cover behind did not follow. Then the people who went in first were beaten out by the bandits. And the actual difficulty is really not in kicking the door, what is so difficult in kicking the door? Even if you don't have a tank, there is no problem in breaking through the first few lines of defense, the key is that after the door is kicked open, the people behind can keep up and stand!

And in order to be able to gain a foothold, you need to do a lot of things, first of all, there are snipers to suppress the opponent. Of course, in the battlefield are the air force and long-range artillery units, which are used to suppress the opponent's artillery and reinforcements. Secondly, your follow-up troops have to keep up, which requires the infantry to follow quickly, and to achieve this, all kinds of trucks and half-tracks are indispensable. Third, it is necessary to defend and expand the breakthrough point. To deal with the opponent's counterattack and armored counter-assault, this requires the infantry to also carry certain anti-armor weapons. Fourth, your armored units can sustain assaults, which require both durability and attack intensity.

None of these four problems can be solved, and it is simply not possible to do it without a period of thorough preparation. However, if the preparation time is long, will there be any changes on the side of the Entente? That's hard to say. After all, if the Entente were to fight in the trenches again, and the Entente would plant thousands of mines between the positions, it would be too beautiful to imagine.

However, the information that was sent afterwards dispelled the prince's worries, because from the situation of the fighting during this time, the French army was generally in a state of weakness except for the armored forces, and the most important point was that the number of artillery and machine guns not only did not increase, but decreased! This came as a bit of a surprise to all the top echelons of the German army, including Moltke the Younger.

It stands to reason that even if efforts are made to expand armaments in peacetime, the output of equipment is absolutely lower than in wartime, and under normal circumstances, even if the losses on the battlefield are very large, the speed of replenishment of equipment will be faster than the rate of losses for a period of time after the start of the war. Especially in the case of World War I, otherwise, the speed of equipment replenishment is slow, so how did the participating countries expand their armies?

Take Germany, for example, now Germany is forming a new Tenth Army, there is no problem with the equipment, just wait for the personnel ....... Austria-Hungary is now also equipped with people, there are guns and cannons, but the people with these weapons are not yet in place. But France is different.

Of course, it must be admitted that France also suffered heavy losses in a series of engagements. The British came with an army group and some heavy artillery units, and the French concentrated about 1.7 million men on the northern front! After the outbreak of the war, there must have been some jump in the French military industry. There is no doubt that the French should have increased the number of artillery and other weapons, but this does not seem to be the case now. The size of the force remained largely unchanged, and the rate of replenishment had not yet exceeded the rate of loss. However, from the current point of view, the level of artillery and machine guns and other equipment of the French infantry has not only not increased, but has decreased.

Then the only explanation is that the losses of the French armored forces are somewhat large, so large that even with the increase in military production capacity, the French still need to reduce the production capacity of artillery and machine guns in order to maintain the replenishment of armored forces. And this is good news for Germany. Because if there are not enough artillery and machine guns, it will not be possible to build a strong defensive line! Trenches and pillboxes only provide static defense, and simple buildings have no defense, he needs a large number of troops and weapons to enrich the defense line, and now, the French military industrial capacity can not achieve this task in a short time, so that means that the French want to turn into defense and can't get it.

Thanks to the strong industrial capacity of the German Empire, at the beginning of the war, the German Empire was able to complete the expansion of its army while making up for the loss of combat equipment. But France was different, its industrial capacity was less than half that of the German Empire. High-tech weapons such as armored vehicles and tanks not only improve the combat effectiveness of the French army, but also greatly consume France's military production capacity.

For the Entente, it is obviously more prudent to switch to defense this morning, but now, it is impossible for the Entente to switch to defense, what to do when the number of technical equipment is insufficient? The French can only attack! Disrupting the enemy's disposition through the offensive provides time for a shift to defense and deep military mobilization, that is, the German Reich still has a chance to move forward, but it is difficult to say where it can be pushed.

"At least it's better than it was historically." Ruprecht set himself a goal. If he couldn't defeat Paris, he didn't care, but the prince decided to spread the war to more parts of France. The damage to France may not be much for a while, but as long as it drags on for a long time, once France's population and industry cannot keep up, then there will be variables.

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