BUT FORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO TOO HEAVY EQUIPMENT IN THIS PLANE, AND THE FINAL EQUIPMENT AT THE DIVISION LEVEL DOES NOT EXCEED 150MM HEAVY HOWITZERS, AND THE WEIGHT OF THE COLUMN GENERALLY DOES NOT EXCEED 5 TONS, (THE WEIGHT OF THE FRENCH M1917 IS EVEN ONLY 3300KG!) At 15 kilometers per hour, the 70HP engine is barely enough.

AS FOR THE 105MM HOWITZER, WHICH WEIGHS LESS, A 70HP TRAILER HAS NO PROBLEM DIRECTLY TOWING A 105MM HOWITZER AND AN AMMUNITION TRUCK. According to the results of previous exercises, on the march, a car theoretically going 200 kilometers will not have any major problems. As for saying that there is no big problem, what is the standard? According to engineer William. Maybach's standard is to repair it within 3 hours, and it can be used improvised.

After spending a lot of money to prepare hardware, everything is not all right, how to effectively use these vehicles is also a problem, after all, your army is not motorized, according to the barrel theory, the marching speed of a large number of infantry is the shortcoming that determines the marching speed of a force.

The problem of towing a large number of artillery, ammunition, and various logistical items by car has been barely solved, so how to solve the problem of the weight of infantry and grassroots companies? You know, with the armament of heavy machine guns, grenadiers and mortars, the weight of equipment at the company and battalion level has also increased significantly.

According to historical data, if you look at the divisional unit, 280 rounds per rifle is simply not enough. (Of course, not all of these bullets were carried by soldiers, but were scattered among soldiers, battalions, carts, and corps-level reserves.) With the addition of machine guns and mortars, the ammunition vehicles carried by the troops are much larger, and the heavy machine guns themselves are somewhat difficult to carry.

But fortunately, the prince's uncle, Prince Leopold, is worthy of being a veteran who fought all the way, starting from the grassroots level, his thinking is also open enough, and his experience and ideas and theories are very powerful, and he resets the allocation of vehicles. Some of the heavy equipment units originally delegated to the battalion company were temporarily formed into several fire support units, and these support groups were equipped with independent vehicles, which generally did not follow the maneuvers of ordinary battalions and companies, but were only temporarily assigned to them in battle.

As a traverser, the prince also made his own contribution and was well received by most of the soldiers in the Bavarian army, first of all, in the improvement of food. Although there is no self-heating food in this era, it is impossible to make a package of four dishes and one soup plus cigarettes and toothpicks for one day. But all kinds of compressed biscuits and take-out family buckets can still be learned.

The appearance is rotten, and there is no difference between a puddle of mud, minced meat, non-staple food, the taste is not good, but the tube is full, and the hardness is not very high, and the compressed biscuits that are not hungry after eating. It became the standard soldier emergency food for the Bavarian Mobile Division. And the specially matched vegetable powder makes up for the soldier's vitamin deficiency. It's not that these things are delicious, the key is that they are high in energy, easy to digest, and have a better balance of nutrition.

As for the carrying gear, the prince directly referenced the products of another dimension, and after combining the existing height and physical strength of the Germans, he re-optimized the weight and volume, and maintained the center of gravity of the packed equipment slightly above the waist. The original complex bedding was replaced by relatively simple field sleeping equipment. Various items are also standardized as much as possible.

After some optimization from hardware to software, this Bavarian division, which was used as a model force, at least the marching speed and forcing are absolutely powerful! According to last year's exercises, the Bavarian Mobile Division could reach a maximum speed of more than 35 miles on the first day, and of course, this price was that many personnel needed to temporarily "buy" tickets. After three days of running, the integrity rate of the vehicle dropped directly to about 7%.

For this speed, the top and bottom of the Bavarian army are quite satisfied. And after reaching the first phase of the rapid force plan, His Royal Highness the prince is now starting to think about whether to engage in tanks, self-propelled guns or something. After all, these are the ultimate embodiment of the advanced combat effectiveness of World War I! Look at the tanks of the British in World War 1, they are ugly to a certain level, but who can deny that this thing is NB?

But soon, the cruelty of reality completely extinguished the prince's ambitions like a blizzard, and any combat device that intended to engage in crawler walking equipment in this era was unreliable! The engine is not powerful, and the suspension is not up to par in terms of design and production. As a result, His Royal Highness the Prince, who was greatly hit, began to honestly study armored vehicles, which were actually the earliest mechanized weapons that integrated attack, defense, and mobility.

However, it is still because of the sad engine and the level of basic industry. It is impossible to count on how high the defense and attack power of armored vehicles of this era is, where is the 70HP engine, how heavy can your vehicle be? So after wasting half a day and spending more than 100,000 marks, His Royal Highness the Prince came up with only two things, one is a vehicle equipped with a machine gun, and the other is a self-propelled mortar, no way, this thing has a low muzzle velocity and a smaller recoil. The technical difficulty is naturally relatively small.

In short, after spending a lot of money, the prince could only get two shares, one was the fast force cobbled together from various transport vehicles, and the other was the stake in a series of companies, including Daimler. That's right, it's shares, because there are many people who can really realize the importance of cars in this era, if it's just civilian, the cost performance of cars is not higher than that of horse-drawn carriages, after all, the purchase price of cars is a big piece, and ordinary civilians are powerless in after-sales services such as repair and maintenance.

Except for the aristocracy who would buy some brush fashion, the number of cars sold and the production capacity in 1900 was very small. And the famous car giants of later generations are actually no different from small workshops now. In short, the current Daimler company is very short of money and people.

But it doesn't matter, Prince Ruprecht is not short of both, isn't it just personnel and funds? As the prince's number one attendant, Count Schelling managed to get Daimler and his partner Wilhelm Maybach in two days with a cheque worth 5 million marks, and then managed to acquire up to 40% of the shares in the car factory and the exclusive rights to sell in Austria-Hungary. Although there is no absolute majority in the board of directors, it has the right to veto, after all, the entire Daimler company is not worth this amount at this time.

As the technical backbone of Daimler AG, Wilhelm Maybach also came to Bavaria as the head of the technical research and development department of the Süddeutsche Automotive Group. And Wilhelm Maybach's son, Karl Maybach, succeeded his father in Daimler's position.

Unlike Daimler, SÜDGBAHT's main R&D projects are trucks and special vehicles, and to put it bluntly, it is a complete military vehicle manufacturer, and it is a manufacturer that is bought and sold by the government. It is precisely because of the support of the Bavarian royal family, as well as the efforts of Wilhelm Maybach and others. His Royal Highness the Prince's Bavarian Mobile Division has the scale it has today.

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