"If we hand over a complete army to you, how will the Bavarian Legion use this force?" During the talks a week later, the Austro-Hungarian Empire made decisive concessions, but at the same time put forward its own demands.

"The forces of the two armies can already be responsible for nearly 200 kilometers of fronts. This is an independent combat unit. We meet your needs, so you also need to assume corresponding responsibilities." Crown Prince Ferdinand said.

"If you handed over to our legion to organize no less than 3 infantry troops and 1 cavalry army, and have no less than 600 artillery pieces, then we can independently undertake the offensive task!" Prince Leopold glanced at the prince and made his own request after Ruprecht expressed his agreement.

Without mentioning the specific organization, just let us make promises to a group army first? What are you kidding? The group army and the group army are different! Do you really think that the uncle and nephew are newcomers? Do you really think that the prince is not sure about the organization of your Austro-Hungarian Empire? Although they are both group army, the gap between the group army is huge!

Taking history as an example, Ruprecht's Bavarian Legion had four infantry troops (Bavarian First, Second, Third Army and 21st Army), one reserve army and one cavalry army, with a total force of about 220,000 (including 12,500 cavalry troops) and 782 artillery pieces! This scale is considered ahead of the seven armies on the Western Front. Except for Pinov's Second Army, which had nearly 280,000 soldiers and nearly 900 artillery pieces of the army, the remaining six armies were either smaller, less artillery pieces, or less. Overall, the German legion was generally equipped with 200,000 people, and the number of artillery pieces was around 600 to 700.

If the Austro-Hungarian Empire could give such troops, the prince would naturally not say anything. But the key is that the prince is afraid that they will not be able to give it! For the same army, the Austro-Hungarian Legion is quite cheap compared to the German Legion!

For the most powerful Kweiss Legion at the beginning of the war, this legion only consists of 9 infantry divisions and 3 cavalry divisions in total. In terms of scale, it is actually similar to the number of princes in history, but don’t forget that this is the largest legion in the Austro-Hungarian Legion. Generally, the legion has about 1 to 2 divisions less than this legion, and the number of artillery is only 448! Not to mention the quality gap, the simple quantity gap makes them not the same level as the German army.

And this is not bad. The Bavarian legion is larger. If there is no big problem, the prince can eventually create three infantry troops, one mechanized army, three rapid assault divisions, and one half cavalry army! If the reserve army is added, it is not a problem to have a total force of more than 280,000 and 1,000 artillery pieces of various types! Of course, the prince did not intend to let Austria-Hungary give such a powerful legion, and the Austro-Hungary Empire could not give it, but as part of a clamp offensive, the combat effectiveness of this corps must be reasonable, right?

The Kingdom of Bavaria can indeed pay to help Austro-Hungary establish a new corps, but it is impossible to take charge of them all, right? As a side of the clamp, you have to raise 200,000 people, right? A corps of 200,000 in wartime must have at least 120,000 permanent troops, right? The number of heavy artillery is smaller and the number cannot be tolerated, but the number cannot be more than 400, right? If the troops directly controlled by the future **** are compared to a crab, then now it seems that this crab is a fiddling crab, one is a big clamp and the other is small.

"The empire must maintain the organization of six armies, about half of which belong to Hungary. This force is completely independently supported by the Austrian government. Although your country is responsible for most of the heavy equipment and technical equipment, the personnel expenses are not a small number. We will bear the maximum strength of four divisions. And I need to remind you that the organization of this legion includes the rapid divisions jointly established by the two countries. In this regard, the 6 standing divisions can be expanded to about 10 divisions during wartime, and we can also temporarily strengthen a cavalry division, which can meet your needs." Conrad said with his finger.

"If you want to continue to expand your troops, you can only provide funds. Moreover, this expansion cannot be an unlimited expansion, at most it cannot exceed three divisions, and the officers of the army need to be reviewed by the empire." Ferdinand said.

"Yes, but personnel training must be handed over to us. This will be a unit established completely in accordance with the requirements of the Bavarian Legion and can undertake corresponding combat tasks. And although we are equipped with relevant heavy weapons, your country must at least ensure that it is equipped with 120 75mm rapid-fire cannons and no less than 400 machine guns, right?" **** thought for a while and said that maintaining conventional soldiers is very expensive. Three divisions are 50,000, which is about 30% of the current Bavarian standing army. And if what both sides say can be implemented, then it will be fine to expand this army to 200,000 in wartime. Nearly 500,000 troops armed with brand new equipment and tactics to deal with the two armies of the Russians.

"If the conditions are right, what guarantee can you make?" Conrad asked.

"It's very simple. If everything is done according to our plan, then other Austro-Hungarian legions do not need to launch strategic offensives. As long as they can restrain the corresponding Russian troops on the border line, the two armies belonging to the Bavarian legions can easily kill two opposing Russian legions and tear a big hole in the middle of the front line. As long as the transportation capacity is sufficient, we can even continue to expand the results of the battle and choose to go north or south!"

The conditions proposed by Ruprecht cannot be said to be unattractive. No one is willing to attack with an advantageous opponent. The prince's promise is equivalent to pulling all the attack tasks on himself. The other Northern Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire can only launch a feint attack and appropriately restrain it.

"That's it! Our future combat plan can revolve around this core!" Crown Prince Ferdinand seemed to agree. After the prince did not express his objection, the Austrians quickly wrote everything he said in the meeting minutes, as if they were afraid that the other party would repent!

"You seem to be too full of words, right?" Prince Leopold did not say in front of the prince, but after the meeting, he was still scared and directly took on the offensive task on the Eastern Front. Although the two armies were not at all false against the two armies Bavarian legions, it would probably be difficult to say that they would be completely wiped out or face the support of other Russian legions?
Chapter completed!