Conquer Europe from the West

Chapter 54: Concept of Motorized Forces

Chapter 54: Concept of Motorized Forces
Thanks to the Industrial Revolution, the empire completed the laying of railways and construction of roads between all major metropolitan areas in the country thirty years ago.

But even after more than 30 years, the empire's main means of transportation is still animal-drawn vehicles, such as ox carts, horse carts, donkey carts and mule carts.

In the poorest areas, people even use dog carts.

Similarly, due to the large number of such animal-drawn vehicles, most of the transportation tools used by the Imperial Army were also animal-drawn vehicles, mainly horse-drawn carriages.

Therefore, the Imperial Army's transport force structure is actually divided by military regions, with supplies transported to various military regions by rail, and then transported to city centers by rail.

But the remaining task of transporting materials from the material distribution center to the material application site is left to the only 3,000 trucks and hundreds of thousands of horse-drawn and ox-drawn carts.

Ryan was lucky. The Fifth Military District and Alsace region, whose bases were located in Stuttgart, were places with good economic development, so the troop transport vehicles he encountered were mostly trucks rather than ox carts or horse carriages.

In contrast, Lorraine was full of ox-drawn carts.

It was precisely because of this that Ryan did not remember for a moment the reality that the number of trucks in the Imperial Army was currently low.

Look back at what he just said.

That's not about allowing yourself to legally and reasonably take the truck as your means of transportation!
It was as if he was standing before an Imperial Brigadier General and an Imperial General-Prince and telling them: "You are a bunch of scoundrels clinging to the carriage. The future is ruled by cars!"

And this is why Ryan immediately chose to shut up.

What he said was too shocking for Bryan and Schubert.

It could even be said that this was a valuable development guidance plan that needed to be immediately sent to the General Staff Headquarters in the Imperial Capital as soon as conditions allowed, and only after a large number of officers had debated and put it into practice could it be obtained...

And this plan happened to be proposed by a young captain who had just become a hero of the empire...

Ryan is now regretting it so much that his intestines are turning green.

If this were a chat group, at least you could still use the undo function.

But this is reality.

He kept his hands behind his back, his Adam's apple moving up and down, making a gurgling sound.

Then he noticed that General Schubert had an expression on his face that looked like "Why don't you be my son?"

He laughed heartily in his characteristically Prussian voice. "I used to think those idiots in the General Staff had chicken shit in their heads, so they'd be crazy enough to want to hide a hero behind the scenes."

"But now I can confirm that it's not that their brains are filled with shit, they don't even have a brain to hold shit!"

As he spoke, he pushed Brian away, who was blocking his way. His hands, roughened by a lifetime of battle, bit Ryan's shoulders like a pair of pliers. "Captain Flig, do you understand what you just said?"

"Yes! I understand!"

Ryan didn't hesitate at all.

At this time, we can only show the offensiveness that an imperial soldier should have, just like before.

He almost immediately came up with a speech in his mind, and then he said, "After eliminating all animal-drawn vehicles and equipping the troops with all-terrain vehicles sufficient to transport all personnel, with sufficient fuel, they can travel at least 300 kilometers on the road in a single day, and up to 150 kilometers off-road!"

"Compared to the current walking and rail-centric marching methods, this improvement can minimize the impact of road conditions, battlefield environment, and weather on marching speed, significantly improving the mobility and flexibility of the troops!"

After saying this, Ryan paused for a moment, and only added a sentence when Schubert was about to speak.

"At the same time! The distance from the Farlan capital of Palu to the imperial border is three hundred kilometers! Troops can reach Palu by road in just one day or one night. Even if they march cross-country, it will take less than twenty hours at most!"

"I call this type of troops that rely entirely on motorcycles, trucks, and other wheeled vehicles for transportation a motorized force!"

After he finished saying this, Ryan finally succeeded in exhaling the remaining air in his lungs.

As mentioned before, the empire's army values the soldiers' aggressiveness the most, because this is the only reason why the empire was able to successfully establish a country on a vast plain that is completely indefensible.

Naturally, General Schubert, a veteran of the empire, and others sincerely admired all the soldiers who dared to attack.

Ryan was able to receive the Blue Star Musk Medal because even though his camp was completely destroyed and only ten people were left, he still dared to lead his troops to attack the Farlan Army, which had half a company of strength.

In contrast, other troops that were also attacked obviously did not perform as well as Ryan.

The best they did was to withstand the attack of the Farlanes.

He managed to annihilate the Farlan troops twice without any men, guns or ammunition.

The gap is visible to the naked eye.

It’s just that Schubert immediately dispatched the Seventh Army after the war broke out, otherwise he would have been able to meet Rennes in the capital Berggreen in advance.

the other side.

Obviously, Ryan's words not only shocked Brian, who had previously rejected the proposal, but also shocked Schubert, who tried to question Ryan.

"Three hundred kilometers..."

Memories of the war with the Farlans decades ago immediately emerged in his mind.

At that time, cars had not yet been invented and railways were not as large as they are today, so they could not be used to transport troops.

At that time, even if Schubert was chasing the Farlanders, he could only advance about ten to twenty kilometers a day.

Even in modern times, if his artillery units wanted to advance, they would have to rely on trains to move forward smoothly.

Such large vehicles weighing several or even dozens of tons cannot be easily separated from railway deployment.

The three hundred kilometers that Ryan mentioned was a distance that he and his artillery had never dared to hope for.

But now?

With just a few words, Lane painted a beautiful picture in Schubert's mind.

Each corps is equipped with hundreds of all-terrain personnel carriers. They are reviewed in the imperial capital of Bergen and rush to Palu, a thousand kilometers away, trailing billowing smoke.

For the first time, heavy artillery was freed from the confines of railways and could finally advance alongside the infantry, transforming from a defensive measure into a devastating offensive weapon.

The cunning Farlans would learn the news of the army's departure on the first day, but before their headquarters could confirm the authenticity of the news, the imperial artillery would have already blasted open the Farlans' borders with artillery.

The empire's army will turn into a torrent, constantly breaking through, breaking through, and breaking through again!

They rolled over the fields of the Farlans and crushed the roads of the Farlans, like a sharp knife, piercing straight into the heart of Farlan - the capital Palu.

And this will happen overnight.

That was a dream that the Prussians had never realized in the past thousand years.

Schubert was so excited that his whole body was shaking.

He is the King of Prussia.

No one in the empire wanted to crush the self-righteous glory of the Farlans with the iron hoof of the empire more than he did.

Schubert looked at Ryan, into his eyes, trying to see into his soul.

The young captain wove a beautiful dream for him.

A dream that could spread the glory of the empire and Prussia across the entire continent.

And this beautiful dream will obviously come true in the near future.

Through the hands of this young captain.

Become reality.

(End of this chapter)