After reading about the formation of motorized infantry, Edel found that there was more content at the end, so he turned over the chapter and continued to see that it was about the restructuring of the cavalry division.
Speaking of the Romanian Cavalry Division, it performed well in World War I and the Soviet-Polish War. However, after the Russo-Soviet War, the Cavalry Division fell into an embarrassing situation. With the use of a large number of vehicles in the army, it was regarded as
Not to mention the Ao's mobility ability compared with the armored division, even the infantry division is almost catching up. Especially after the birth of motorized infantry, its work of cooperating with the armored division was also deprived.
So for this cavalry division, General Freit also plans to change it to meet the needs of future wars. The first thing that needs to be solved is the problem of cavalry dismounting. For this reason, Freit plans to change the number of horses in the cavalry division from
The number of more than 30,000 horses was directly reduced to more than 3,000. The remaining horses were mainly used for small-scale combat, reconnaissance and communication.
Among them, the current three cavalry brigades of the cavalry division will be changed into two motorized infantry regiments, which are the same as those under the motorized infantry division.
However, the difference is that the cavalry division will also reorganize a tank battalion (38 vehicles) for its assault. Moreover, the situation of too few troops under the cavalry division will also be changed.
Its artillery regiment will also change from mainly lightweight 75 field guns to 105 howitzers. The modification is as follows. The artillery regiment's 54 field guns and 12 105 howitzers will be changed to 48 self-propelled 105 howitzers.
In addition, the reconnaissance company will also be expanded into a reconnaissance battalion. Because the cavalry division was previously based on cavalry and had strong reconnaissance capabilities, the demand for divisional reconnaissance was not high, but now it is necessary to expand the scale of the reconnaissance force.
Moreover, its reconnaissance battalion is different from other divisions in that the number of horses is much higher than that of other units. The main reason is that there are too many people in the cavalry division who can use horseback reconnaissance methods. If the models of other divisions are completely copied, the number of horses will be reduced.
its investigative methods.
Signal Battalion: 474 people, 17 light machine guns, 32 motorcycles, 84 wheeled vehicles, and 53 horses.
In addition, the division's baggage regiment: 2,100 men, 30 light machine guns, 88 motorcycles, 283 wheeled vehicles, 195 carriages, and 535 horses.
The division has more than 19,100 personnel and 2,200 vehicles. It can be regarded as a motorized infantry division with reinforced tanks.
After such a reorganization, the cavalry division could no longer see the shadow of cavalry at all. For this reason, Edel asked with some worry, "Will the entire cavalry division have any objections to such a major change?"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured that everyone in the cavalry division is very supportive of such changes."
Facing Edel's question, Admiral Freit answered without hesitation.
Of course, the actual situation may be slightly different, but as the chief of general staff, Freit is not worried at all. Because as the first person in the military, he is not afraid of any disturbances to the reorganization of the cavalry division and dares to oppose it.
It is obvious that people who cannot see clearly the future military concept cannot have a future.
Edel has no objection to this name. Cavalry has become an obsolete force in Europe. Although there are still a large number of cavalry in the Balkans and other Eastern European countries, these are unable to threaten Romania. The emergence of heavy machine guns and tanks,
The cavalry has been hastened to withdraw from the war stage.
For this reason, he was also very in favor of the transformation of cavalry, but he still had different opinions on the issue of too large a force of motorized infantry. Because he seemed to remember that during World War II, German motorized infantry divisions seemed to have a larger number of people than ordinary infantry divisions.
A lot less and a lot more.
So he pointed to the total number of division-level personnel and asked, "Is the number of more than 18,000 motorized infantry divisions too large? Will it cause the establishment to be too bloated?"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured that we have tried it during previous exercises. The motorized infantry division organized in this way will not cause the problem of bloated organization. Because what we require is that the regiment-level troops must have the ability to fight independently. The command system of the motorized infantry division
Because after the brigade-level establishment is reduced, there will be no problem of information delays caused by layer-by-layer communication."
General Freit then also answered the question of the reform of the cavalry division. "As for the reform of the cavalry division, the main purpose is to find a way between the armored division and the motorized infantry division that can both break through independently and
An ideal division-level experimental unit that can fight alongside an armored division and defend key points."
Ferreit's words made Edel suddenly think of the term mechanized infantry division. Although many people thought that mechanized infantry had already existed during World War II, it was at best a concept. Mechanized infantry only became popular after World War II. Before that,
Either an armored division or a motorized infantry division.
Strictly speaking, mechanized infantry needs to be able to fight in vehicles, get off the vehicle to seize points, and attack with the vehicle. They can directly ride on the infantry fighting vehicle and enter the battlefield. The infantry on the vehicle will not get off the vehicle until they rush to the opposite side to start the assault. Only this kind of combat method can be adopted.
It's called mechanized infantry, but Edel remembers that this type of infantry only had a prototype at the end of World War II.
However, it seems unrealistic for my Chief of General Staff to achieve this requirement before World War II.
Of course, Edel can't directly say that his chief of general staff's ideas are unrealistic, because he doesn't know much about military affairs, and no one will believe him if he says it, and it's not that good to dampen his chief of general staff's enthusiasm. Others don't.
Even without credit, there is still hard work. I do not hesitate to reject other people's ideas and let the work be carried out.
So Edel could only offer encouragement. "This idea is very good, we should give it a try."
General Freit, who didn't know what Eder was thinking, sighed after receiving encouragement. "Your Majesty, I only came up with this idea after many exercises. Regarding the advantages of the armored division and the motorized infantry division,
After comparing the shortcomings, it may be possible to form a division-level unit that has the advantages of both."
Ferreit's voice changed when he said this. "Of course, this idea may be too fanciful on my part. It may also be that the current technology is not up to it. But if we don't try it, how will we know it won't work."
It seems that Freit has no idea about forming such a force, which would be better. Maybe he will find the problem during the exercise.
But Edel doesn't want to discuss this issue yet, because there is a more important matter to discuss.
"Admiral Freit, how long do you think it will take if we expand our troops to millions?"
