There is a saying in China that it is a mule or a horse that comes out to run around! It’s not enough to just look at the superficial aspects of a country’s potential for war.
When William I was forced to make a tough response to the French Emperor's declaration of war, the efficiency of this country's war machine stunned the entire world.
Needless to mention the benefits of the universal compulsory military system, the key is that Prussia also created a complete set of supporting systems for all people to serve as soldiers, a very detailed material distribution and dispatching system.
This nation is very rigorous, and their rigorous character is very suitable for learning mathematics. Almost everyone in the entire Prussian General Staff is an expert in numbers.
Before the war, they had calculated in detail how many recruiting stations needed to be established in the entire country, where each recruiting station would be placed, and how much area it would cover.
These are all calculated. After the national combat readiness mobilization order is issued, these military stations will immediately publish the news in newspapers and city streets in the area they are responsible for!
Anyone could know where to sign up without confusion, and the newspapers even gave a rough map of people's journeys to the depots.
People poured into the registration station like a tide, but there was no confusion at all. Even if the queue was four to five hundred meters long, there was no confusion.
The military station has already prepared a sufficient amount of equipment. Every soldier can get military uniforms, weapons, and marching equipment as soon as possible...even including water bottles, lunch boxes, three-day individual soldier rations, sewing kits, and one person. First aid kits, etc., all these supplies are available.
The country's railway system has been fully mobilized, civilian cargo transportation has been suspended, and all locomotives and carriages have been requisitioned to transport soldiers and ammunition.
Along the railway line is the empire's efficient telegraph network. Every day, each railway station must issue telegram information to the Berlin base camp, telling the information of all trains and the status of the army within a day.
The entire war was tense and orderly. The General Staff was the genius of the Prussians. These staff officers could not even sleep for three hours a day, and they were making various calculations as soon as they opened their eyes.
The location of each train, the number of carriages, the type of supplies it pulls, the number and number of soldiers, etc. all have to be calculated and allocated by them.
The entire empire's railway network has long been a digital network running in an orderly manner in their minds, and there has never been any mistakes in the transportation back and forth.
No matter whether Bismarck or Xiao Letian has any questions, the General Staff can give the answer as soon as possible. If you want to ask any troop or even a battalion about the situation, they can tell it as quickly as possible.
Where, how many troops have been replenished, what date to board the train, what station to get off at, which military stations to eat along the way... all of this has become data, controllable data!
Xiao Letian was really dumbfounded, and all the senior officials of the Chinese clan were also dumbfounded. This was the first time they were exposed to national war-level micromanagement!
Only then did they realize how powerful, how magical, and how defiant the staff system created by the Prussians was!
"My generals! Have you seen it? Have you seen it..." Xiao Letian stretched out his hand excitedly and pointed at the spectacular scene of nearly two hundred Prussian staff working together in a hall of more than 400 square meters!
"This is the gap! This is the gap between us and military powers!"
"Since the founding of our Chinese race, the biggest battle we have fought has been the one in the Far East, but the complexity is nothing compared to this!"
"Our war was two-dimensional, but their war was completely three-dimensional, not on the same level!"
"Can you see the secrets in these numbers? Let me tell you, in the timetables of these trains, I can even see the defense plans of Austria and Tsarist Russia of the Prussian General Staff!"
"Don't think that on the surface these trains are heading to the southwest, but Moltke and the others have always reserved mobile troops and can be transferred back to the northern and eastern lines via railway at any time!"
"A powerful railway system, coupled with such an orderly dispatching ability, can give the Prussian army wings. Maybe it just repelled the French attack three days ago, and it will miraculously appear on the front line of Tsarist Russia three days later! "
"This is the magical blessing of the railway network. They can turn one army into two or even three, and appear on the battlefield in different directions of the empire!"
"As long as there is a time difference between battlefields in different directions, it gives the General Staff the possibility of scheduling and calculations!"
"Damn it! Even in a war, you can use the clever method of demolishing the east wall to repair the west wall! This nation is so powerful, we must learn! We really must learn!"
In his previous life, Xiao Letian actually didn't quite understand the purpose of the staff system, why there was a staff position among generals, and why the country also had a general staff.
It wasn't until today, when he saw with his own eyes the overwhelming power of Prussia to fight the Franco-Prussian War, that he truly realized the magic of the general staff system!
This is a group of magical institutions that can make everything meticulous and digital. They can make a war orderly and avoid any chaos.
As long as they are willing, they can even clearly trace the entire process of a can of beef from production to consumption!
This is a group of people who have turned war into a precise science. From this moment on, human lives have become consumables in mathematical formulas!
Squeeze all the national power and gamble on the fate of the country. Any chaos will be fatal!
Just as Xiao Letian and his generals were studying eagerly, suddenly a burst of cheers broke out among the staff!
"Oh God! That's great! We did it! The number of soldiers dispatched to the front line today has reached 30,000! We mobilized 30,000 troops in one day!"
"Long live! Long live the Empire!"
As soon as this data appeared, Xiao Letian was dumbfounded. This is not the 21st century. There are airplanes and high-speed rail. The most efficient mode of transportation in the world is only railway.
Moreover, railways are also the most primitive kind. Most of Europe are single-track railways. Trains running on this kind of railways have to stop and go, because each train must avoid the opponent car at any time, and there are more task levels later. high express train.
Being able to mobilize 30,000 troops in one day is already the highest efficiency in the world. Even the United Kingdom cannot achieve such efficiency.
Wang Huaiyuan plucked his ears and said in disbelief, "We currently have a total of 200,000 troops on the front line, right? France has just over 200,000..."
"In just one day, our number of soldiers has reached 230,000? How many can France mobilize in one day? Is there any information from there?"
Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and said, "Haha... Just those French people who are full of fanaticism? If they can mobilize eight thousand troops in one day, they are worthy of the sky!"
