Chapter 302: Transfer of troops and generals

German Emperor William II crossed the General Staff and directly recruited two main generals on the Eastern Front, Hindenburg and Rummenigg. This was the second time that Motch little was directly feeling that His Majesty the Emperor was increasingly distrusting himself.

Fortunately, his position has not changed. He is still the chief of staff of the German Empire, because after all, from a strategic perspective, he has not made any unforgivable mistakes. Moreover, the reason why the Western Front fell into such a situation was that the commander of the First Army, Crowe, who was determined to act alone, was responsible for the greatest responsibility. Originally, five armies were launched together, cutting from the northern border of France with five sharp swords, which directly poked France's body into a perfect plan, and was disturbed by this reckless man who seemed to have never fought in his life.

At the moment, the two sides were in a stalemate, and Moltke could not come up with a way to turn the situation around for the moment. He had no other choice but to watch the French from the rear continuously increasing troops to the front line.

At this time, he keenly captured the appearance of a message.

The German Emperor was busy dispatching troops on his chessboard. In his opinion, there was no need to continue to maintain the war on Russia because the Chinese had already started a war on Russia. Some important generals and outstanding troops could be deployed to the Western Front. At present, his son Prince William is only leading a part of the Fifth Army on the German-French border. He should also set up a separate army for him. The troops who performed outstandingly, confident and morale in the Eastern Front were combined with the troops that had been stalemate with the French army on the opposite side. The commander of Prince William tried to break through the French border defense line and penetrated directly from the flank to the heart of France, and to drive changes in the war situation. Then let's see what new Moltke can come up with.

In his mobilization plan, Hindenburg and Rummenigge must be transferred, and the coordination of other personnel must also be consulted. Of course, he knew how important the tacit understanding of lieutenant generals and cooperation was to the combat effectiveness of a unit. Among them, he named only one person, that is, another of the three people summoned on the Eastern Front this time. General Markensen, deputy commander of the Eighth Army, who is currently the commander of the 17th Army. Hindenburg and Markensen had good cooperation in the Japanese conquest that year. Although it was just a small-scale conflict, the German Emperor valued these two people very much and hoped that they could create new glory on the German-French border after Japan and East Prussia.

After the Navy praised Schell with a high-profile praise, William II urgently needed to set some examples in the Army, even for the purpose of publicity, it was worth it, not to mention that these people themselves are the dragons among people.

Of course, the German Emperor also wanted to directly seek the opinions of the two good generals on the Eastern Front on the battlefield. In his opinion, Moltke's performance in recent times has been incompetent.

Also making the command feel shame, there are important members of the Fisher Gang, General Jelico, who is currently the commander of the Great Fleet. The disastrous defeat of Helgolan Bay has left the British Empire completely gone. Judging from the final results, although General Jelico has made some repairs to the adventure plan, it still has not changed the outcome of the defeat. Although the navy's adventure and provocation action has not been responsible for his responsibility, he cannot escape responsibility without evolving this action into a successful action.

Fortunately, the dispute between the conservatives and radicals before the war saved General Jelico's career, and a key veteran stood up for him. Before the war, Jelico did not agree to such a provocative action that went deep into the enemy's hinterland. During the plan review, Jelico did not show any tendency to agree. He only made changes to the combat plan to increase the response force when the overall situation was decided. It turned out that if there was no such modification and the previous combat plan was fought according to the previous combat plan, the advance fleet and the response fleet of the British Empire would inevitably be buried in the Bay of Helgolan because of the huge amount of troops invested by Germany.

In fact, the lower commanders could not complain about Jelico any more, and the facts proved that his conservative defense strategy was correct. It was unwise to try to eliminate them before the Germans poked their arms out of the North Sea, and the tortoise policy pursued by General Jelico, whom they despised, was correct. It was just that everything was late.

Although there are still a few people who say that Jelico should send more reinforcements, even battleship fleets, to the near-fighter combat waters, instead of staying on the coast of North Britain as a yacht, this battle might have severely damaged the German high seas fleet. But there is no ifs on the battlefield, who can guarantee that the Germans will not send all their strength to join the encirclement and suppression war? If that is the case, the situation may be worse.

In this way, although the upper class increased a little dissatisfaction with Jelico, in the middle and lower class, General Jelico, the commander of the Great Fleet, became even more prestige. This also put him in some pressure. On the one hand, he had to give some explanation to the upper class, and on the other hand, he had to be worthy of the prestige he enjoyed now. You must know that in the proud Royal Navy of the British Empire, a commander who pursued the turtle tactics would not be able to get the respect of his subordinates for a long time.

So he was also planning how to recover the huge damage caused to the Royal Navy's morale as soon as possible due to the Battle of Helgolan Bay. The Germans' defense line in the North Sea seemed to have no gaps, but no matter what, they had to find a way to break through. Otherwise, if this sluggish state continues and the tactics return to the conservative retreat tactics, there would be no need to fight in the future naval battle.

On the speeding train from East Prussia to Berlin, a specially arranged carriage looks inconspicuous from the outside. Only those in it can feel the prosperity and luxury of the German Empire. A wide range of wines cover one side of the carriage, while on the other side, there is a huge European battlefield situation map, with red and blue arrows passing by on the map, marking the fact that tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of troops were rolling over the land.

In addition to the three generals Hindenburg, Rudendolf and Markenson, there was also an inconspicuous colonel, an official of the General Staff of the Eighth Army, but from the fact that he was qualified to sit with the above-mentioned emperors, the colonel was by no means an ordinary person.

Colonel Hoffman was not on the list of German summons, but Rudendolf insisted on taking him with him. In his opinion, the colonel had actually had the ability to command the current war on the Eastern Front, and all he lacked was qualifications. And this was exactly what their commanders wanted to fight for him. After Colonel Hoffman contributed his talents to the victory of the Eastern Front War, it was time for them, such senior commanders to fight for something for him.

"Congratulations, Commander. You finally began to believe me." Ludendolf's eyes retracted from the huge map on the wall of the box, looked at the place of Hindenburg's gaze, and a smile appeared on his face.

Hindenburg did not move, but his nose made a little sound to signal him to hear it. Then he withdrew his gaze and fell on Rudendolf's face and said, "Yes, the Supreme Command may have moved our minds to go to the Western Front. You foresee it earlier than me."

He turned around and walked to the sofa and sat down. His eyes were on the faces of several people in the carriage and asked coldly: "The Chinese have joined the war. Although they have not yet joined completely, this has formed a fact. As the Russians are attacked from both sides, we must be prepared to go to the Western Front at any time. His Majesty the Emperor summoned us, perhaps this is the meaning. Even if he did not mean this, we must be prepared."

The three people with lower ranks quickly responded as an imperial soldier, and they all responded simply, but the expressions on the faces of several people were slightly different. Ludendolf's brows seemed to be locked by something, while Markensen's face was expressionless, as if his mind was not here. Only Colonel Hoffman was more excited. For him, after following a cowardly former commander, it was a pleasure to work with such a group of officers. Moreover, Hindenburg also talked to him alone. Given his long-term effective work in East Prussia, he was likely to take on the affairs of the Eastern Front alone in the future. What he lacked will be quickly made up for.

"Is it possible to be the southern line?" Ludendolf asked in thought, then added: "You can see this as a joint meeting of the General Staff. Everything I said is just possible, and everything has to be ordered by the Supreme Command. You also know-" He pointed his arm at the map before he sat down: "The shameless Italians are showing off, and our Austrian brothers seem to be a little unaccustomed to these things. But you know, that direction is also very important."

Indeed, the Italians are happily harvesting fruits that they never dared to imagine. The pleasure of fishing in the muddy waters is sometimes unavailable to the strong. After forming a certain offensive against the Austro-Hungarian army, their soldiers even entered the territory of the Germans at some point, which was a great achievement for the weak Italian kingdom.

"It would be great if our Austrian brothers could show the strength of the Slavs, they did a good job on the Eastern Front." Hindenburg nodded in agreement with Rudendolf's point of view: "The Southern Front is a place where there is no fun. You must know that we don't have a navy there, which prevents us from achieving what we have achieved. For our Majesty, the more than one million people who have done nothing on the Western Front are the key."

Rudendolf smiled, looked at Hoffman's expression and suddenly smiled again, nodding, "Yes, Commander, I suddenly thought that we might be a little presumptuous today. We are not members of the Supreme Command, and it seems a bit too much to talk about these issues. Maybe we should talk about this later."

Hoffmann's expression returned to normal, and turned his eyes to Hindenburg who was answering the conversation. The army's newly popular commander, also laughed by Rudendolf's words. He was loading cigarettes and even put some of them on several platforms. Hindenburg lit a match and lit a pipe, and took a beautiful breath: "Yes, we are still on the Eastern Front, and our results are not enough. Well, I'll tell me, my guys, should we beat the Russians again on the Eastern Front? Think about it, there are still 700,000 or 800,000 people there. No matter from any angle, we should have another fight."

While speaking, his mind had turned a few times, and his eyes fell back to the East Prussia region, smoking, "The security situation in Silesia is not optimistic. If the Russians have the determination and God gives them some extra wisdom, they will cause us more than just a little trouble."

"Poland." Rudendolf smiled, looked at Hindenburg with a calm face and smiled. "As for the affairs of the Western Front, let their bitch keep working for a while."

Hindenburg smiled and looked at Poland that Rudendolf said on the map. Many blue intersections gathered in densely. He turned around and shrugged his shoulders, and asked Makenson while smoking, "My Deputy Commander, it seems that you have not spoken much. You must know that our journey is about to end soon, and you don't have much time left."

"Uh--" Markenson raised his head and met Hindenburg's eagle-like gaze, and said with a whisper: "Sometimes you have to think about the future. I was wondering whether that experience in China would be helpful to future affairs?"

Hindenburg knew that he was talking about a tank division he visited in China, which was strange. The Chinese did not make great efforts to equip the troops. They seemed to have only done those experimental points, and did not continue to expand the scale of the army equipped with this new weapon. On the contrary, they spent a lot of effort to sell it to Germany. He also knew that there were several arms companies in Germany doing this, but he did not hear of any unit equipped this thing. This thing seemed to be directly grasped in the hands of Chief of Staff, Moltke, and he must have given these companies a lot of benefits and promises, otherwise they would not be stupid enough to continue to produce things that the military would not purchase.

While thinking, a whistle whistle interrupted his thoughts. The train slowed down. He shrugged, flipped his pipe to knock off the ashes, and smiled and said, "We're here, guys."

On the journey, there was also the new director of the Western Xinjiang Education Department of the Chinese Empire and Zhao Bingjun, who was engaged in civil service as a soldier. Before leaving, he had a deep conversation with Yuan Shikai, who had just recovered from a serious illness, and had a rough idea of ​​the work to be done in the future. During the conversation, he gradually realized that after 20 years of golden development, the internal cracks in the empire were tending to expand.

Soldiers and politics are gradually drifting away, which is why Yuan Shikai strongly advised him to accept this job that he didn't want to do very much. His Majesty's more than ten years of reforms have made the army more and more single, and commanders who have established outstanding merits on the battlefield can no longer enter the center directly like in the past, or bear the power of military and civil affairs in one province and one region, and form a de facto tyrannical overlord. This is a subtle and gradual formation of conventions.

Since the establishment of the General Logistics Department of Unified Logistics, the authority of the governors in the mainland has become smaller and smaller. Occasionally, several governors complain that the governors are not as good as governors, and sometimes they even look like subordinate officials of the Military Service Department and serve as directors of the various provinces of the Army Department.

On the contrary, the verbal people became more and more rampant, so Kang Youwei would not say anything. Now he regarded himself as the emperor's mouthpiece, and even the so-called educational officials under his command spread to the army, local government offices and troops. The dispute between General Wang Shizhen and Yang Du in Xijiang was the result of this dispute. General Wang Shizhen, who commanded hundreds of thousands of people, actually had no choice but to use such a scholar. Although Yang Du was transferred in the end, he became the deputy minister of the Bide Academy once he arrived in Beijing. He was comparable to an ordinary minister of the Ministry and the ministers. It can be said that he was rising instead of decline. The arrogance of these scholars was really too arrogant.

When he was speaking, Yuan Shikai said that you, Brother Zhi'an, isn't you now carrying a gun to do a scholar's job? It's time to have a lot of promise. After saying that, he immediately woke him up and was so stubborn. Take a look, do the scholar's work well and then carry the gun for General Wang. Both sides are pleasing things. Why didn't I see it before?

Yuan Shikai did not say much to this good friend. He had more important people to meet. Qu Hongji, who now has a system in the government and the opposition, has also been fighting with him recently. Yuan Qu and a Prime Minister Dai Hongci, have very close to certain views and have more private contact. Recently, it is a turbulent autumn. The world is full of chaos. After the chaos, there will be great governance, and there will be someone to manage it. Of course, it is not just the scholars who want to treat people without being treated. It is necessary to erroneously, so the gun is erected on your waist. In this regard, Yuan Shikai did not spread out, and only Qu Hongji understood a little about the two scholars, but he was actually not much better when he was looking at the hundreds of thousands of people in his hands.

Of course, Yuan Shikai's words in his heart would not say to Zhao Bingjun. Zhao was owed a little bit of a detour, and Wang Shizhen, Xu Shichang, Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun was still suitable, but the status of a person is too high, and no matter how good the relationship in the past was, he could not speak casually. Therefore, Zhao Bingjun can be regarded as a person who passes the message.

"There is a place for war to fight in the west. His grandson said, "The Lord should not be angry and provoke an army, the general should not be angry and fight, and the assistant should not be determined by the will of attacking and defending. Perhaps our General Wang may not know this." Zhao Bingjun was dressed in civil servant clothes, and his eyebrows looked a little frosty, and he was no longer as confident as the young man was successful. After hearing Yuan Shikai's inexplicable words as the ending, he could not figure out what the taste was. Seeing that Yuan Shikai had already picked up the teacup, he smiled bitterly and stood up to say goodbye.

When Zhao arrived in Dushanbe, the affairs in the north had undergone tremendous changes. The eldest son of the emperor, Prince Ding Puhua, was officially enthroned as the King of New Mongolia, Gongsang Nolbu, Guanbuzabu, and Nayantu, the daughters of the three princes were enthroned as queens and princesses respectively. The matter of the founding of New Mongolia, which had just been rioting in the ruling and savages, suddenly became a reality.

If there is a country, there must be capital, there must be boundaries, and there must be vassal status. None of these edicts clearly stated, and the first letter of admonishment after the founding of New Mongolian State explained these issues. The capital of New Mongolian State was in the newly captured Irkutzk, where the name was renamed Mengjing by the sacred edict. The border was a virtual concept, saying that it was bounded by the upper country with Outer Mongolia, to the north until the place where the sun god passed, and to the west, where the Mongols shed blood and tears. No one knows where the sun god has been, but the place where the Mongols shed blood and tears is clear, that is, the fuse that triggered the war in the previous few years and opened up the situation in Western Xinjiang, Toborsk. So far, this place is still the place where the Russians are heavily stationed. Such a letter of admonishment to the people is tantamount to announcing the beginning of the founding of the country and declared war on the Russians.

The announcement of the founding of the State also stated that like all vassal states, the diplomatic power belongs to the Chinese Empire, while the other parts are slightly different. The administrative officials of the New Mongolian Kingdom all need to go through written confirmation by the central government, which means that the Ministry of Personnel must issue a ticket. The most important military aspect is that due to the security needs in the early days of the founding of the State, the New Mongolian Kingdom rented the royal army provided by the Chinese Empire to ensure its safety by mortgaged the 150-year ownership of minerals and other resources in the country.

What kind of bird country is established? Zhao Bingjun read the communiqué, cursed in his heart and muttered. Now, such an emperor is becoming more and more incomprehensible.

What I can't understand is not only the founding of the New Mongolian Kingdom, but also the Arab affairs. Why do I do if I have raised such a large navy and didn't fight? Annan in the south repeatedly asked the Celestial Empire to send troops to fight the French. Anything that a soldier is sure of, the emperor just refused...

Wait, if we count, Zhao Bingjun can still list a bunch of them. Although he could tell in his heart that the emperor was fiddling with a large chessboard, if the guess was true, it seemed to be too despicable.

Of course, he didn't dare to say these words to anyone. In addition to the education system, there is also a military intelligence system in the army that is not in the open, which is in the hands of Prince Su who specifically investigates the Dalian rebellion. How could he think that he was such an unlucky person?
Chapter completed!