"Well, start a military academy that teaches special operations...... Ludwig, that's a good idea. If we can train 1,000 Hungarian officers who have mastered the skin of guerrilla warfare, the Entente will suffer greatly in Hungary! ”

In the car bound for the Charlottenburg district (where Major General Falbeck had arranged for him to live in a villa near the Charlottenburg Palace), Hersmann sat in the passenger seat and discussed with Major General Falbeck and Captain Shipper about opening a military academy to train guerrilla officers.

Major General Forbeck was very appreciative of Hersmann's idea, and his success in East Africa should be replicable. And he was not the first soldier to use guerrilla warfare to wreak havoc on a strong enemy, the Spaniards used the same method to bog Napoleon's army into a quagmire. The Boers in South Africa also inflicted a lot of casualties on the British Empire with a small number of troops. What the Spaniards, the Boers, and the Black Africans could do, why the Hungarians couldn't do it? In Europe, the Magyars are also a relatively warlike people.

And the training of Hungarian guerrilla fighters is only the beginning, if the special operations school can succeed in Hungary, then in the future it will be able to export guerrilla warfare specialists to the rest of the world. For example, Turkey, which is about to be partitioned, India, which is enslaved by the British, or China, which has become a semi-colony.

"We ourselves have to study special operations, not only guerrilla warfare, but also the operations of special forces." Hersman said of his thoughts, "Infiltration, sabotage, assassination, and of course preventing the enemy from doing the same...... These operations were not carried out by guerrillas who had only undergone short-term training, but by elite officers and men who had undergone rigorous selection and long-term training, and who possessed special equipment and tactics. ”

"We fought similar operations in East Africa," said Captain Shipper with some pride, "and in 1915 I often led small squad units to infiltrate British East Africa, attacking the weakly defended Ugandan railways and bridges, and achieved a lot of success!" ”

"That's amazing!" "We don't do much of this in Europe," Hirschman said in a flattering tone, at least not of any successful cases in Europe. We just crouched behind trenches and barbed wire, shooting at each other with cannons and machine guns. I believe that the pattern of the next war will certainly not be like this! ”

"What will it be?" Major General Forbeck asked with interest.

"There may be air power that can determine the outcome of a battle, maybe there will be thousands of tanks rushing to kill on the battlefield, maybe there will be a movement war like the major general fought in Africa, maybe there will be countless soldiers jumping from the sky with parachutes on their backs directly to the rear of the enemy's positions......"

"With a parachute? What a great idea. Captain Shipper narrowed his eyes, "Maybe it can be realized." ”

"It's definitely going to happen," says Hersmann, "and the internal combustion engine was invented by us Germans, it only came around more than 50 years ago, and it started with only four or five horsepower." And now there is a 200-horsepower internal combustion engine...... It seems to be 200 horsepower. Over the past 50 years, it has increased forty or fifty times. If in the next twenty Chinese New Year's Eve, the horsepower of the internal combustion engine increases tenfold and twenty times, the war will definitely not be what it is now! And we're going to start looking at this now, in all sorts of different ways. ”

How to fight mechanized warfare, now it is not Hersman's turn to study. He was not the Chief of the General Staff or the First Quartermaster General, nor was he the Chief of the Strategic Operations Division, he was only the head of military intelligence, but special operations fell under the purview of the Military Intelligence Service.

"Ludwig, what do you think about the special operation?" Major General Forbeck pondered for a question.

"There are a lot of them," Hirschman had been working on for a long time, and Stacy had a special operations unit. "Special operations should be subdivided into several categories: First, elite special operations, composed of a small number of highly trained elites, undertake particularly important combat missions behind enemy lines, such as assassinating dignitaries, destroying important facilities, and attacking enemy command or logistics centers......"

"Theodore, you're familiar with this." Major General Falbeck turned to Captain Shipper and said.

"The second is guerrilla and light movement operations, including the initiation, organization, and command of guerrilla units, guerrilla operations behind enemy lines, and the construction of guerrilla base areas behind enemy lines; The third is to organize and direct the light field corps, which has developed and merged from guerrilla units, to conduct mobile warfare ......"

Hersman went on to say what he envisioned. In this life, he was a Junker officer with a professional background, and his knowledge of trench warfare was very rich. However, the knowledge of guerrilla warfare and light movement warfare came from the memories of later generations.

Don't think that guerrilla warfare and light movement warfare are small tricks that cannot be put on the table. As an elite Junker officer, Hersman knew very well that there was no superior or inferior method of warfare, only whether it was suitable and whether it could be won.

"As far as I know, in addition to your experience in East Africa, Major General, Soviet Russia is currently using the same method." "We have reports of this, they have organized partisan units in Siberia and the Far East," said Hesmann. And they also sent civil war specialists to us Germany to support the German Bolsheviks. ”

"Damn it!" Major General Forbeck scolded, "Isn't there anyone going to deal with them?" ”

"Of course someone will go and beat them to death!" "But that's not the job of a special technical school...... Major General, in fact our special technical school will be run in cooperation with the Russian Bolsheviks. ”

"In collaboration with the Bolsheviks!?"

"They contributed most of the money and provided civil war experts to serve as teachers in the school." "It was also an opportunity to learn, to learn from the experience of guerrilla warfare in Soviet Russia," Hersman said...... Some of our people will pretend to be Hungarian students. And we can also observe their teaching and study their teaching materials. In addition, we can gain the necessary experience and lessons from the Hungarian war. ”

"But they're going to learn everything we're capable of." Major General Falbeck said gloomily.

This special technical school was originally a Russian-German military cooperation project. Yesterday afternoon, Hersman talked with Borodin for several hours before finalizing the specific terms of cooperation, including cooperation in running schools, sharing of funds, exchange of guerrilla techniques, and training of foreign trainees.

And the support for the Hungarian revolutionaries will also be carried out by the cooperation of both sides. However, on the bright side, it can only be Soviet Russia, anyway, Soviet Russia is not afraid of hatred, Lenin and they were originally going to export the revolution. All German military advisers operating in Hungary, who had to be retired from the army beforehand, were to be hired by the Hungarian authorities "in their own name".

"Not all, only guerrilla warfare and light movement warfare." "That's what Hungary needs at the moment, and the operations of the special elite forces will be conducted in a secret base in East Prussia (actually Courland], and it has nothing to do with supporting the Hungarian resistance," Hersmann said. Theodore, are you willing to accept this task? ”

Captain Shipper half-jokingly said, "Of course, I'm willing to serve, but you'll have to give me a promotion." ”

"No problem, it's up to me." Hersman replied with a smile, "Major General, what about you?" Would you like to be the principal of a special technical school? ”

"I do!" Major General Forbeck shrugged his shoulders, "It's my job to help the Hungarians resist the Entente...... Even if those Hungarian soldiers were Bolsheviks, as long as they could strike at the Entente! ”

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