After a period of preparation, the Romanian army was finally ready for the war.

On June 1, the joyful holiday of children in later generations, Romania began its military campaign against the Hungarian plain.

In the early morning, the red sun appeared in mid-air, splashing light and heat on the earth. When the light shone on the heavy artillery, it pulled out a long shadow. The officers and men on the gun emplacements were busy preparing for the battle and checking the status of the artillery for the last time. Because next, these howitzers and cannons of more than 150 caliber will be the opening of the battle, giving the Austro-Hungarian army a taste of the power of Romania.

And behind the front-line positions, the soldiers preparing for the first wave of the offensive are resting before the battle.

They slept back to sleep, chatted and chatted, smoked, and prayed to the priest, all in various ways to relax. From their demeanor, it can be seen that they have all experienced the smoke of the battlefield, know how to arrange their own work and rest laws reasonably, and are all elite soldiers.

In fact, in the battle plan of the Transylvanian Army Group, the first wave of the offensive was to test the strength of the Austro-Hungarian line and provide a reference for the next large-scale battle. Therefore, the first wave of attacks was basically composed of veterans of a hundred battles. Moreover, in order to confuse the enemy, this offensive was still a test on all fronts, testing the weakness of the Austro-Hungarian army on a line of one hundred and fifty kilometers. Since it is a full-scale trial, then the ammunition is also quite sufficient. Up to 170,000 tons of ammunition from the country allowed the fighters to fight openly, and the magnanimity of this offensive can be seen from here.

At that moment, the rumbling of artillery fire rang out from behind, followed by a shrill and crisp whistling over their heads, followed by a violent explosion from the enemy positions in front of them. Some of the curious soldiers stood up to see the enemy's position from afar, but their position was still far away to see the details of the enemy's position.

At this time, some people were bored to listen to the whistling of cannonballs to guess the caliber of their cannons.

"Whew~"

Some stubby voices came from the sky.

The soldier teased to his comrades-in-arms: "This is the sound of 150 howitzers, you will know it when you hear it." ”

"Howling~"

"It's a 210 caliber cannon with a screaming sound, and I know that."

"Woo~"

At this moment, there was a sound that looked like a train, and the soldier did not know what to say.

A voice came from behind them. "This is a 280 caliber train gun, I don't know now."

The soldier and his companion immediately looked behind them and were startled to find that it was their company commander standing behind.

"Hello company commander."

Seeing the somewhat restrained expressions of his soldiers, the company commander walked up to the soldier who analyzed the difference in the sound of the shells and said. "Thomas, you're not the only one who likes to chat with artillerymen, I like it too."

Obviously, the company commander's level of chatting is higher than that of this soldier, and Thomas, who has been exposed, can only stand here innocently with an embarrassed expression.

After piercing the other party's cowhide, the company commander looked at the somewhat restrained soldier and left, not taking a cloud with him.

And after the company commander left, the others immediately surrounded him.

"It's nice that Thomas was poked by the company commander, hahahaha."

For a while, a cheerful atmosphere permeated.

……

After three hours of heavy shelling, the Austro-Hungarian front-line positions were riddled with holes. And at this time, the soldiers who were preparing to launch an attack had been preparing for a long time to launch a position. At this time, the artillery fire began to spread in depth, and the time for the attack had come.

"Attack, it's our turn."

With the orders of the leading officers, the soldiers immediately rushed out of their positions and charged at the enemy positions under enemy fire.

And the Austro-Hungarian soldiers, who had just recovered from artillery fire, immediately began to return fire when they saw the enemy attacking. For a while, it turned into a hail of bullets between the two sides, but this time the attacking Romanian soldiers immediately felt that the enemy's resistance was wrong.

One of the officers leading the team hid behind a rock and said a little strangely: "Strange, we haven't gotten too close to the enemy, how can the fire of their counterattack on the position be so great?"

In fact, it was not only the officers leading the team who felt it, but even the generals who observed it from the position. When the Romanian soldiers were still five or six hundred meters away from the first-line positions, the Austro-Hungarian positions were under full fire. This is obviously quite unreasonable, and the indiscriminate exposure of the firing points can only attract artillery counterattacks from the attacking side. Sure enough, within a few minutes, a large number of 75 shells fell on these firing points, sweeping away their suppression of the Romanian soldiers. This only brought the Romanian soldiers closer to their positions.

In a hidden observation post, Lieutenant General Ankodar of the 1st Praetorian Guard Division had just looked away from a pair of high-powered binoculars. With a puzzled expression, he said to the chief of staff beside him: "The enemy's positional reaction is much worse than when he fought in Dewa before. ”

"Really? Let me see what's going on. ”

Hearing Lieutenant General Ankodar's words, the chief of staff leaned over to the telescope to observe.

After observing for a while, the chief of staff said with some surprise: "That's really the case, the enemy's resistance is much worse than before. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but ask: "Is it possible that this is a trap set by the enemy?"

Faced with the words of the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ankodar thought for a while and said: "It is possible, but it is not very likely. Where did they get the intelligence to know where our main attack is? ”

The chief of staff also put this idea behind him, and the main attack location could be informed to them two days in advance, and it was unlikely that the leak would be made. So he came up with a credible solution. "Do you want to ask the other brother troops on the front line. If they're in the same situation as we are, then this is a good opportunity. ”

"Yes."

With the consent of Lieutenant General Ankodar, the chief of staff immediately replied: "That's what I'm going to do." ”

After about a quarter of an hour, the chief of staff came back with a telegram in high spirits. "Divisional commander, this is not just our division's situation. The other divisions reacted that this time the enemy's resistance was decreasing. And the command of the army group has just sent a telegram, let us take advantage of this good opportunity. ”

Hearing the words of his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ankodar stepped forward to take the telegram. After reading it, Lieutenant General Ankodar shouted inwardly that God help me, and he immediately picked up the phone and said to him. "Transfer me to the 2nd Brigade."

Within two minutes, the phone was connected to the command of the 2nd Brigade. "Hey, it's me the division commander, what's the instructions?"

The familiar voice of Colonel Zoltan, commander of the 2nd Brigade, came from the microphone, and Lieutenant General Ankodar immediately said: "Colonel Zoltan, do you know the current situation on the enemy's front line?" ”

"I've observed that the resistance is not strong."

Hearing Colonel Zoltan's answer, Ankodar spoke again. "Okay, now that you understand the situation. Now I give the order that your brigade immediately launch a full-scale offensive against the enemy's front-line positions, without giving the enemy a chance to breathe. ”

"Understand the division commander, I will organize an offensive."

After Lieutenant General Ankodar put down the phone, he immediately leaned back to the high-powered telescope to observe the battle on the front line.

The attack of the 2nd Brigade came quickly. Ten minutes later, the scene of the attack of thousands of soldiers appeared in front of them, which made it even more difficult for the Austro-Hungarian soldiers on the position to resist. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Ankodar received a call from Colonel Zoltan. Inform that the first-line position has been taken and can launch an attack on its follow-up position.

At this time, Ankodal knew that the time had come, and immediately threw his brigade into battle. After a not too fierce battle, at 11:45 p.m. the next day, the commander of the Praetorian Guard Division had completed the task assigned to him by the group army. The 19th Division also broke through the line at 1:30 p.m. Now a gap eight kilometers wide has appeared in front of them.

The first step of the army's plan has been reached, and it is suitable for the assault group to go into battle.