Contrary to the general impression that "logistics is an easy and enjoyable job in the army", with the advancement of technology, logistics work is more complex and heavy, rather than easy and enjoyable.

The more advanced the weapon, the more it relies on standardized precision manufacturing, which facilitates mass production and the repair and replacement of spare parts, but also increases the difficulty of transportation and distribution. It is important to know that although there are many similarities between logistics and logistics, the courier delivers goods to a fixed delivery location with the support of optimized delivery routes and satellite positioning and navigation provided by the superior unit. In addition to peacetime barracks, exercise grounds, training bases, and so on, the logistics system also serves troops that are constantly moving in wartime. If we do not have a timely and correct grasp of the movement and location of the troops, the types and quantities of materials needed, the road conditions of the transportation routes, the weather, and so on, it is very likely that a certain company in need of a rifle bolt receives a large pile of canned salted meat, and a certain artillery battalion that needs bearings for field gun wheels opens the package and sees a box full of socks. To make matters worse, by the time the troops carrying supplies arrived, their own troops had already withdrawn, and the positions were full of enemy troops. Or because the troops retreated too quickly, the materials could not be evacuated and destroyed, and the enemy's affairs were cheapened in vain. You must know that in large-scale mobile operations, there are not many cases where the above jokes are the same.

The current deployment posture of Charlemagne's Royal Army is to maintain a forward confrontation posture with the enemy army, and has not yet penetrated deep into the enemy's territory. It stands to reason that this kind of internal line operation can make full use of the domestic railway network and send fully mobilized troops and materials to the front line, forming an overwhelming advantage over the Alfheim Defense Army, which is always a headache for the number and size of the army. Even if it is still unable to break through the Siegfried Line, it can at least put considerable pressure on the defense forces, contain the opponent's mobile forces, narrow the opponent's tactical choices, and at the same time maintain enough hole cards, so as to achieve the strategic goal of "promoting peace with war" or "ending war with war".

However, the reality was that Charlemagne, who was keen to overwhelm his opponents with an endless supply of bayonets and artillery, had a 2.5:1 ratio of men to the Wehrmacht on the Rhine front, and 1:infinity in technical weapons. Most of the soldiers had only one Shasepo rifle and five rounds of ammunition, and in some positions they did not even have rifles, so they had to tie their bayonets to wooden sticks with strips of cloth for a little psychological comfort. The artillerymen had no chance to show themselves from the beginning to the end, and the lucky ones who did not die from air raids and enemy counter-battery fire were all put on their rifles and transferred to infantry work. Those once majestic cannons are now either reduced to parts, or because there are no shells, they are left in the corners to collect dust. Challenging the Siegfried Line with these hungry soldiers, almost as much as unarmed, is nothing short of cold-blooded murder.

Why is this so? Roland got the answer after careful field research.

bureaucracy and **;

The logistics system is inefficient, bloated and unorganized;

the military's neglect of the importance of logistical replenishment;

backwardness of industrial capacity and technical level;

lag in mobilization and organizational capacity;

The first is "I, Charlemagne, have my own national situation here", and he does not have the ability, energy, or time to solve these problems, which involve many interest groups, and the intricacies are not enough to describe the complexity of them. If it is insisted on being resolved, it will not only shake the morale of the military, but even lead to the division of the country and turn into a civil war. So he didn't want to touch this pool of muddy water deep enough to drown anyone at a time like this.

The third one is the easiest to solve. Anyway, the war situation has been so rotten that no matter how unwilling the army is to face up to reality, it has no strength and no courage to continue to blow the "theory of spiritual omnipotence." You must know that the soldiers on the front line who gnaw on turnips every day are close to being unbearable, and as long as there is an opportunity, it is entirely possible for this group of disgruntled hungry soldiers to turn their guns and shoot back. When the time comes, the generals and colonels who are "heavenly thieves" all day long will definitely be made into sashimi and eaten with mustard by the hungry and crazy Qiu Ba soldiers.

For the sake of their own lives and futures, if someone takes responsibility for themselves, the generals will be very reasonable. Even if someone still stubbornly ends up and shouts something about "violating the command power", other smart people will teach him how to behave and let him learn to open his eyes and close his eyes.

The fourth is that there is no way at all, the technology gap is there, the technology tree is not so easy to climb, even if you know the principle, the situation of crookedness is still endless. Roland had no good way to do this, so he could only let the technicians slowly learn and absorb from the captured defense equipment.

The only things that Roland can really focus on and produce immediate results are the second and fifth articles, and only the fifth one can really be fully controlled and implemented.

To be honest, to the scum of the logistics department who snuggled up in the rear office drinking coffee, knocking on stamps, reading magazines that serious people wouldn't read, playing chess and cards, and chatting about the sky. Roland really wanted to learn from Li Lin's style - all pulled under the wall and executed with cannons, or sent to a forced labor camp to lose weight. It is simply a crime to put such a group of bureaucrats in charge of logistics, who do nothing but do nothing but rip off and shirk responsibility. If the hungry soldiers on the front line were lucky enough to witness the happy life of the logistics bureaucrats, I believe they would not let this group of scum die too quickly.

At the moment, Roland doesn't want to turn against the army, he can't drastically eliminate those shortcomings and cut out a bunch of useless offices. However, it is still possible to develop a supply logistics plan that meets the needs and needs of the situation.

The Defence Force's understanding and construction of logistical supplies is ahead of the rest of the world. When Roland was still in the junior military academy, he had just finished walking in the queue, and which of his classes was pulled out for a staff trip. A bunch of minors trekked through mountains and rivers in full gear, tired to the point of being half dead, not only to exercise their physique and obedience to orders, but also to completely imprint the importance of logistics and supplies into the minds of this group of rookies. After tasting hunger and fatigue, and finally walking into the rest area of the military station exhausted physically and mentally, anyone can understand from the bottom of their hearts what a terrible thing it is to have their supply lines cut off on the battlefield, and when they take a course on logistics later, naturally few dare to doze off.

With a solid theoretical foundation, and with the help of a number of professional accountants and engineers, Roland quickly developed an impressive transportation and supply plan.

As Parsifal had guessed, Roland moved the train to night, evaded the bombing during the day, and successfully reversed the supply dilemma on the Rhine front by handing over the transportation in sections and rationally distributing supplies to the maximum of capacity. Even the mean and fastidious army had to bow its proud head in front of this report card.

However, few people know that what really cost Roland's efforts and made him turn for many days and nights was how to fully mobilize Charlemagne's national strength to devote himself to the war in front of him, which has obvious characteristics of general warfare.

Total warfare -- this is the core idea of all military doctrines in Alfheim, and all its strategies and military operations are carried out around general warfare.

If you want to overwhelm the general war, there is only a general war. If we want to bridge the technological gap with Yalfheim, we can only offset it with human resource advantages. Even if the world turns into a crazy hell where so many lives are treated as consumables or simply consumed in large quantities of numbers, it will not hesitate. Roland has come to his senses about this. The first step in putting this awareness and theory into practice is to thoroughly mobilize Charlemagne's human resources.

Mobilization is not a simple task of talking about it and finishing it with the next notice. There is a lot of calculations involved, as well as the organizational capacity of the state, as well as the impact on the country's economy, industry, and even social life. To take the simplest example, you want to recruit young people from such and such a village into the army. The size of the village's population, the number of young people of service age, how the farmland of the village will be cultivated after these people are recruited, how the remaining old and young women and children will feed themselves and pay taxes, where these young people will be sent to receive clothing and equipment, what kind of training they will receive, and how they will be arranged to take on what kind of work they will undertake at the front line, etc., etc., etc., can be said to be completely involved.

Alfheim, who has a complete organizational structure and system, can complete the deployment and deployment of troops within 10~12 days of issuing the mobilization order, but it takes nearly 1 month for Charlemagne to deploy troops of the same size. In addition to the gap in the means of transportation, the biggest problem is that Alfheim has a set of mobilization systems that meet the needs of large-scale warfare, and Charlemagne lags behind his biggest opponent in terms of the depth, scale, and speed of mobilization, and cannot adapt to the overall war under modern conditions.

Modern warfare is not only an all-out confrontation of combat units and equipment, but also a confrontation between the warring sides in military production, technological development, and logistical support. In the current war, Alfheim is limited by the total number of troops and the geographical dilemma, which leads to limited strategic and tactical options. Charlemagne, on the other hand, had problems of one kind or another, not only suffering from the difficulty of insufficient logistical supply, but also unable to achieve the intended strategic or tactical goals by giving full play to the advantages of human resources.

Some people may wonder how Charlemagne could not have brought into play his numerical superiority through mobilization if he had not been expanding the size of his army? In fact, there is a misunderstanding here, mobilization is not just to call all those who can carry guns to the front line, and the maintenance of the combat system is also inseparable from the support of the industrial and agricultural system. For example, when the young people in the village were conscripted to serve as soldiers, the old and weak women and children left behind not only had to take on the work that once belonged to their husbands, sons, and brothers, but also had to take on the work of supporting these young and middle-aged soldiers. Because a large part of the wartime taxes they paid and the grain they paid to the government were transported to the front for consumption. The same applies to the workers and clerks in the city.

As a result, the demand for soldiers at the front will inevitably contradict the demand for labor in the rear and the demand for human resources in the rear. Adult men aged 18~50 are the most suitable labor force in the industrial and agricultural production system, and men in this age range are precisely the main targets of military conscription. Once the mobilization age is beyond this range, the production system will inevitably need to find a new labor force to fill this gap, otherwise it will face the danger of a rapid decline in production efficiency and quantity, and an increasing demand for supply ahead. When the contradiction between supply and demand breaks through a certain threshold, the thousands of mobilized soldiers will starve to death if not to death. On the other hand, even if the government adopts the method of fishing for all its resources to meet the target, it may not be able to meet the bottomless pit of the frontline, and if it is not careful, which is very likely, it will not be able to ensure the most basic survival needs of farmers and workers, not only will it not be able to obtain sufficient food and equipment, but it will also be difficult to maintain stability in the rear.

To sum up, mobilization should first of all provide sufficient combat personnel for the troops, and it is also necessary to balance the relationship between the national economy, logistics, and operations. Generally speaking, an average army soldier needs at least 4~5 labor support. Skilled classes need to be supported by more labor. The reason why Alfheim was able to achieve such an extremely extreme ratio of labor to army numbers as 3.4:1 (this ratio would be a complete collapse if put into ordinary countries) was that it used a large number of human laborers to liberate the elves from the production line and organize them into a highly reliable army with the elves as the absolute main body. On the other hand, because the logistics system of the defense forces was mechanized very early, relying on a strong economic and industrial system, mechanization and the sea, air, and railway transportation systems have effectively guaranteed the logistics supply. Charlemagne, who could not enjoy these conveniences, could not have achieved such an extreme mobilization, but by adjusting the industrial supply and demand structure and implementing the rationing system, he could achieve at least a 14.5:1 mobilization level, which alone would be enough to gather a large army of sufficient size and strength in front of the Siegfried Line. Perhaps this legion will not be able to defeat the defenders, nor will it be able to break through the Siegfried Line. But it was enough to force Alfheim to devote all his resources and maneuver forces to a head-on confrontation until a stalemate came out. This process will not take much time, but only about half a year, and the window for various countries to intervene will appear, and then the possibility of quelling the war and realizing peace talks will turn from a possibility to a reality.

In order to realize this plan, Roland first had to restore the combat capability of Charlemagne's army on the Rhine front and ensure the stability of the defensive line. Gain time to realize his mobilization plan. As it stands, he's done even better than expected, and if that continues, Yalfheim will have to face the least desirable scenario.

In order to avoid such an outcome, Yalfheim, who has always been good at occupying the moral high ground, has to give up superficial work. 8)