Greece’s Roman Road

The U-shaped table sits opposite the land and sea. You come and go, vying to belittle each other and elevate yourself. The conference room seems to have become a vegetable market, full of chaos.

Constantine, who had a headache, patted the table with his left hand and waved his right hand to stop everyone and said, "Okay, okay."

"The size of the navy and army must be determined according to the specific national conditions of Greece. What is there to quarrel with?" Constantine said, looking at the crowd who finally stopped.

After that, Constantine glanced at Prime Minister Alexandros who was sitting beside him, and saw that Alexandros had a gloomy and frightening face, and said in his mouth: "The army is 300,000 people, the navy is 400,000 people. Battlecruisers, 12 destroyers, how much would that cost, Greece's finances simply can't afford it."

Feelings This prime minister was shocked by the lion's mouth on both sides of the sea. Even if the requirements of the navy and the army have not been estimated by the financial staff, just for this scale, it feels like a lot of money is needed.

"Regarding the size of the army, 300,000 people, don't even think about it, let alone the issue of military spending. Greece's current total population is only over 3 million people. Your 300,000 people are still 300,000 young people. In the prime of life, why do you bring in the army? There is no profit, and the government needs to pay for it. During the war, the number of troops is naturally the better. The government is overwhelmed.” It is asking prices and paying back the money. The army really needs to expand, but it is impossible to get 300,000 people according to the intention of the army.

"But even the army numbers of Serbia and Bulgaria." Seeing that Crown Prince Constantine was determined to reduce the proposal of the General Staff, Emanuel quickly argued.

"You don't need to say how many people there are in the Bulgarian and Serbian armies. Can their undertrained soldiers be compared with the well-trained Greek soldiers in Greece?" Constantine interrupted Emma Yinur directly and said.

The combat effectiveness of an army does not depend on the number of people, but involves many factors, such as the quality of soldiers, which includes the soldiers' educational level and physical condition, the number of technical weapons, such as artillery and machine guns, the quality of officers, the military's Organizational capacity, financial support from the state, etc. Of course, the number of people is also an important factor.

Compared with the Bulgarian and Serbian armies in terms of these indicators related to the main combat effectiveness of the army, the Greek army has almost crushing advantages except that the number of troops is not dominant.

In terms of the quality of soldiers, in Greece, which has a relatively high economic level, almost all of the soldiers have received compulsory education, and there is no problem in reading and writing. Moreover, the army has sufficient food supply, and the physical conditions of the soldiers are also better than those of Bulgarian and Serbian soldiers.

Greece has promoted compulsory education for 20 years in the country, and the results are very remarkable. So far, almost all school-age children in Greece have received education. Compared with the two countries, the Greek army has a very significant advantage in the source of troops.

If it is said that the soldiers who have received compulsory education and the illiterate soldiers do not seem to have as big a difference in their education level when they are working as simple soldiers, after all, they are both big-headed soldiers fighting on the battlefield.

Then, when it comes to operating technical weapons, there is a world of difference between illiterate soldiers and educated soldiers.

For example, machine guns, due to the complex structure of the current Maxim machine guns, require soldiers to maintain and maintain them frequently. Those educated soldiers often only need to be taught simply by instructors, and sometimes they only need to give them an operation manual, and they can carry out maintenance. and maintenance of the machine gun.

However, for illiterate soldiers, this task requires repeated instruction by instructors, and even requires some ingenuity and ingenuity. In the eyes of the officers, their performance is very stupid.

Not to mention operating a more complex and expensive technical weapon like a cannon. For artillery officers, the farther away the illiterate soldiers are from the cannon, the better, and it is best for them to never approach the cannon.

In terms of technical weapons, most of the artillery and machine guns currently equipped by the Greek army are produced by their own arsenals. At this point, Serbia and Bulgaria are completely incomparable.

As for the organizational ability of the army and the strength of the state's financial support, Constantine also had considerable confidence.

Therefore, although the Greek army currently has only 60,000 people, the quality of the soldiers of this army is capable, the officers are professional and efficient, the morale is high, and the combat effectiveness is very impressive.

In contrast, the Bulgarian and Serbian armies were constrained by government finances, and the soldiers in the armies were mostly illiterate, with low quality and poor execution ability.

Seeing that Crown Prince Constantine broke the army's tricks in one sentence, it is not the army's role at all - exaggerating the number of troops of neighboring countries, implying that the larger the number of government troops, the stronger the combat effectiveness, in order to achieve the purpose of demanding more military spending , It's okay to fool those government personnel who don't understand the military. Constantine himself was a professional officer, and he couldn't see through the purpose of the General Staff.

"Therefore, the number of the army has been expanded to about 100,000 to 110,000 people, and at the same time enough officers have been reserved for the expansion of the army in wartime," Constantine said to the army personnel.

"The main officers in the army should set up one officer and one subordinate at the same time, and train a sufficient number of officers. In peacetime, officers and subordinate officers take turns commanding the troops. Your general staff should make good plans." The officer said solemnly.

"This is mainly to train enough experienced officers. It is not because of the establishment of a commander and a pair of commanders who compete for power with each other, so that the command of the army is in chaos, the powers and responsibilities are unclear, and there is a situation of prevarication. It will weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops. Therefore, your general staff should study this system carefully," Constantine reminded specially.

Emma Yinur heard the Crown Prince's plan, but half of the proposal of the General Staff was not reached, so he bargained and said: "Since the number cannot be increased, then Your Highness, the number of technical weapons must be expanded in place, and the artillery unit can not be Like an ordinary army, it can be called up temporarily during wartime.”

This makes sense~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Constantine could only say: "So what?"

"The main artillery currently equipped by the army is still the 75mm rapid-fire gun from the last war. After all, it is the technology of ten years ago. As one of the main equipment of the army, the technical level cannot be left behind," Emma Yinur said. talk.

Seeing that Emma Inur was talking nonsense in a serious manner in order to seek benefits for the army, Constantine could not laugh or cry.

Greece's 75mm rapid-fire gun, as one of the main heroes of the last war, completely suppressed the Ottoman army equipped with German artillery in the war. The scene reminded the watching countries of the Franco-Prussian War, when the French army was brutalized by the Prussian army equipped with Krupp cannons.

After the war, the 75mm rapid-fire gun attracted widespread attention from countries around the world. The firing rate of its ordinary artillery was several times that of the artillery designers in various countries. In terms of artillery production, Greece's 75mm rapid-fire gun can be said to be a huge hit. A wave of revolution.

After providing technical drawings to Germany, Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries became interested in 75mm artillery and put forward requests to purchase 75mm rapid-fire guns.

The Greek arsenal has exported 150 artillery pieces successively. Through this business, the cost of research and development is basically recovered.

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