Chapter 1715: 13. Ice Wind Forest (7)

He said that he would not live up to expectations, but Parsifal was full of complaints and complaints.
Even now it is useless to complain that I do not know which step I took to go completely away from expectations. It is useless to complain about the emperor and the General Staff who chose to serve as a military adviser. It is better to focus on the trouble in front of you and do something constructive.
After receiving a written order as a military consultant in Lapland, Parsifal began to study the latest information sent with the order book. As a result of the accumulation of information, Parsifal found that the country’s problems were more than he thought. It's more serious.
The motivation of the Principality to provoke disputes is to hope to use military victories to cover up domestic conflicts, while using Lapland as a dumping ground for commodities, driving the domestic economy to cycle positively and accumulating funds needed for industrialization and industrial upgrading.
There is no problem in terms of logic, but the Principality ignores a very simple fact.
Lapland’s economy, which has been under war for a long time, is inherently unhealthy. In the last century, it could only be supported by blood transfusion assistance from various countries. Today’s Lapland is even difficult to start industrial upgrading and foreign investment, and people’s livelihood is not withered. The term is indescribable. Occupy a country that is more barren than the Principality, hoping to rely on the Lapland people who are hostile to the Principality and have extremely low purchasing power to support the economic cycle of the Principality? Also treat this kind of dreamlike things as the established national policy? The internal situation on the Principality side is How nervous, even this imaginary life-saving straw must be seized.
Tucao reverts to Tucao, since the Principality has decided to attack Lapland, at the moment, it can only think about the subsequent strategies and tactics on the premise of the inevitable conflict.
The premise of all strategies and tactics is nothing more than how much resources are mastered. Soldiers, equipment, industrial and agricultural production capacity, transportation systems, topography... It is always these cold things that ultimately determine the victory of the war. As for morale and will, which have always been repeatedly emphasized, although Parsifal also values ​​it, it does not put spiritual factors at the absolute priority. In his view, a will that has no material foundation to support will not only help to win, but will cause unnecessary losses.
Let a group of high morale, cavalry with spears and sabers in their hands hit the trenches made of barbed wire, mines, mortars, machine guns, etc. The result will be what the three-year-old knows.
Lapland, or the biggest problem of the Lapland army grassroots and civilians, is precisely the morale is too high, the equipment is too poor, and too little thinking at the strategic and tactical level.
Lapland’s military establishment and tactical use largely follow Charlemagne, but it is not the army that has begun to popularize rear-mounted rifle guns and volley guns at the end of the war, but the general use of front-loaded flintlocks at the beginning of the war. Charlemagne’s Army, which is now a line-up infantry volleyball tactic that has quickly entered the history museum...
This is not because Lapland's army is conservative, and political decision-makers are reluctant to pay for the army to replace it. In fact, Lapland has no way to buy new weapons, and it is not possible to save money from the teeth.
At that time, there were three countries and forces that could mass-produce post-mounted rifled guns: Albion, Charlemagne, and Yalfheim. The first two were too late to meet the needs of their military. How can there be excess supply to Lapland; Alfheim does not have this problem, as long as you start at the price, even a full set of production lines can be sold. The problem is that at the time, Alfheim was selling the Dreiser rifles and production lines to the Principality. From a geopolitical and business perspective, they did not want to offend the Principality, so they refused to sell. After the war ended and the international political landscape was reshuffled, Lapland was in a very awkward position. It was not until after the signing of the Bonn Treaty that Lapland's arms procurement was considered to be a landing.
However, it is another matter to have a procurement channel, which country’s weapons are used, how to allocate a limited military budget, and to fight for a military budget without affecting people’s livelihood.
Industrialization cannot be achieved overnight, especially in Lapland’s current domestic situation. In the foreseeable future, they can only use their purchased weapons to equip their military forces. With new weapons, it is bound to undergo corresponding transformation and upgrading of strategic and tactical planning, which requires sending their military officers to foreign military academies. Carry out further studies, learn new tactics and establishment, and hire foreign consultants to assist the national army in related operations. One by one, relying on arms sales and dispatching military advisers, the relevant countries will inevitably establish a strong influence in the Lapland military and political circles. Even if they will not interfere in Lapland's internal affairs, it will be enough to influence Lapland's foreign policy. This influence, in turn, will seriously affect the international situation and other countries' perceptions and policies of Lapland.
In the past, Lapland avoided the similar situation by balancing the proportion of military aid of various countries, but now they cannot continue to use the past tricks.
Now the Principality has been able to produce its own rear-mounted rifle guns, and there have also appeared Principality Ordnance Designers headed by Vladimir Grigolievich Federov, who are trying to develop and meet the needs of the Principality Automatic weapon. In the face of this growing gap, Lapland can only take countermeasures while cultivating its own technical talents and industrial system while purchasing advanced weapons from foreign countries. At least no generation difference is formed, and performance can be suppressed better. Among the countries that can produce and provide such weapons, Albion is a slapstick because of the ambiguous relationship with the Principality; the Republic itself has insufficient output and the road is far away; in the end, only the empire can rely on it, and the empire is also happy to cultivate a A flank country with a certain strength, but this will inevitably make Lapland completely fall to the empire, and the chain reaction caused by this...
That is by no means groundless, nor is it a distant future. From the report of the intelligence department on the mental state of the Lapland civilians and the grassroots, and from the words of Marshal Mannerheim's intentions, Parsifal can feel this This is an increasingly clear danger. And will this danger of pervasive optimism and restlessness lead the world to a full-scale war...
Parsifal rubbed the bridge of his nose and stopped thinking about sliding in a dangerous direction. After three minutes of blank thinking, his thoughts returned to reality again.
Lapland’s military system and weapons are backward, and the funds it can invest in the military budget are limited, but these are not enough to affect the overall situation. There are foreign aid methods such as the "Lease Act". The Empire can deliver a large amount of weapons and equipment in a short period of time. In addition to military advisers covering all levels, it is not difficult to strengthen the military's combat capabilities in a short period of time. It can reasonably use intelligence, climate, and terrain, and can also cause a certain degree of damage to the Principality Army. The real trouble is that the country's infrastructure cannot support the consumption of modern wars.
The backwardness of the infrastructure construction here includes two aspects. The vacancy of the industrial system and the backwardness of the transportation network system are complementary to each other. Because of its backward industry, Lapland cannot produce guns and ammunition on its own, and even the most basic maintenance can only be said to be unsatisfactory. This means that for every bullet and rifle consumed in the battle, the front line can only wait for the Empire to ship to compensate for the loss. The shortage of highways and railways in Kolapland is not to mention. The existing railways also have problems such as lack of industrial resources, shortage of materials and manpower, confusion of technical standards, shortage of various equipment, and volatile demand. So much so that even the least locomotive maintenance can't be done well, and once the locomotive has a problem, it can only lie down. Others such as the maintenance and repair of vehicles and rails under severe winter conditions, the auxiliary facilities of the train station platform, etc. are either completely absent or chaotic. To evaluate by the standards of the Imperial Railway system, it is "worthless." When dealing with high-intensity consumption wars, such railways will inevitably be dragged down a little bit until they eventually collapse.
However, hardware is not the only problem, not even the most important one. Compared with the rigidity of software-thinking mode, hardware problems are relatively easy to solve.
One thing recorded in the information provided by the intelligence department can fully explain the seriousness of the problem~EbookFREE.me~ General John Pope, the former head of defense of the Karelia isthmus, once ordered the distribution of storage across the railway. All the supplies of the brain were shipped to the army station, so that he could get it immediately when he remembered what he needed, so as not to waste time waiting. The general, patronizing his own convenience, did not consider the issue of transportation and storage at all, and even ignored the chaos that might be caused by unexpected whim to disrupt the transportation plan.
There are many similar cases, many of which are more exaggerated and absurd. From these questions, Lapland may not need military advisers, but should send all their competent officers at all levels to the Imperial Military Academy for further study. Several years. At the same time, apply to the Empire, and ask the Empire to send a large team of experts including railway supervision departments, accounting, surveying and mapping experts, geologists, exploration teams, industrial departments, etc. to sort out the current transportation road network for Lapland and cultivate professionalism. Management and operation personnel. In order to establish a system that can serve economic development in peacetime and become a multiplier of combat power in wartime.
Lapland did not make such a request, nor did the empire come up with a persuasive report to remind Lapland that this was obviously not a problem that the upper levels of the two countries ignored. They must have noticed the problem, but they did not set about solving it. The reason is mostly that the invasion of the Principality is imminent, and there is no time to promote this extremely complicated reform involving all aspects.
Taking this situation into consideration, it is not difficult for Parsifal to find out that his military adviser really worked after the war broke out.
"Using the air fleet to seize air dominance on the battlefield, to offset the advantage of the Principality to the greatest extent, and slow down the action of the Principality Army..."
After whispering the answer, he realized that his ideal retirement life was a big step away from himself. Parsifal couldn't help but sigh.