The crown prince and Preshan went back after seeing Ludendorff off, and there was still a lot of work waiting for them.

Ludendorff finally arrived in Berlin after almost two days by train. Looking out the window at the familiar and unfamiliar place, Ludendorff was also melancholy, and when he boarded the train, a young officer in his twenties walked up to him and saluted. "Colonel Ludendorff, I'm Second Lieutenant Mandriel of the General Staff, and I've been ordered to meet you."

"Thank you, Second Lieutenant." Ludendorff followed Ensign Mandriel out of the station, and Ensign pointed to the Model T parked on the side of the road. "We'll get in the car."

After putting away the luggage, Second Lieutenant Mandriel spoke to Ludendorff. "Colonel, I'll arrange for you to stay first. Tomorrow morning the Chief of the General Staff, His Excellency Moltke, will receive you to learn about the state of the Romanian army. ”

The next day at the German General Staff, Ludendorff stood in front of Moltke Jr., Chief of the General Staff, to report on his work. "Colonel Ludendorff, you are an adviser to the Romanian army, can you give an assessment of the state of its army?"

"Okay, Your Excellency Chief of the General Staff, when I arrived in Romania, its army was bloated, the top ranks of the officers were seriously corrupted, the officers at the bottom had a very poor tactical understanding, and many of them were so low educated that they could not even read military orders. At the soldier level, the morale is not bad, but the amount of training is insufficient, resulting in the overall combat effectiveness of the army is very poor. One of our divisions was able to fight, two Romanian divisions before the reorganization. ”

Ludendorff paused to continue after introducing the state of the Romanian army before the full formation.

"In the reorganization of Romania we have increased the training of soldiers, and junior officers have been retrained mainly at the Bucharest Military Academy, and senior officers have also been retrained. After three years of reorganization, they now have our nine-tier organization in terms of military personnel. Nothing worse than us in terms of equipment. Generally speaking, the troops that have been reorganized and trained now can compete with us one-on-one at the division level. Personally, I think that they now have the idea of war in their now large-scale reorganized army. ”

Although Ludendorff and Eder were friends and would not be swayed by feelings, he still told the chief of the General Staff what he saw and told the chief of the General Staff about his opinion.

General Moltke, the little who heard Ludendorff's story, was also thinking about Romania's plans. From Germany's point of view, of course, it is hoped that Romania will be able to join the war against Russia in the future. It's just that Romania has not yet been completely pulled into the chariot, and an elite army is placed on the line of Russian Bessarabia, which is also a kind of protection for East Prussia and Austria-Hungary.

Now Moltke guessed a little about Romania's intentions, and the only people he could make up his mind about around Romania were Serbia and Bulgaria, and considering the dispute between Romania and Bulgaria over the Dobroga region, Moltke had his own answer.

"Thank you very much for your analysis of the Romanian army, Colonel Ludendorff." Moltke spoke to Ludendorff.

"It is every German privilege to serve the Reich." Faced with the thanks of the Chief of the General Staff, Ludendorff leaned on his legs and did not hesitate at all to answer.

"This time you return to China, I plan to arrange you to be the director of the Second Division of the General Staff, what do you think?"

"I don't have any problems at all, and I feel honored to be able to work under the Chief of the General Staff." In the face of Moltke's questioning, where could Ludendorff refuse, and the Second Department of the General Staff was in charge of marching work, which was more in line with his appetite.

Moltke Jr. was very satisfied with Ludendorff, he had already read the information before. I also have a deep understanding of Ludendorff's ability to work in Romania.

"You just come back and rest for a week and see if your family is coming to work." Little Moltke was still very understanding and gave Ludendorff a holiday.

Ludendorff left the General Staff after receiving a leave of absence approved by Moltke Jr., and drove to the retired Schlieffen house, where he met Schlieffen, who was revising his plan, under the guidance of the butler.

General Schlieffen, who was concentrating on his plan, stood up at the butler's prompting and walked up to Ludendorff to speak. "It's Ludendorff here, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing in Romania?"

"Thank you for your concern for me, I have been doing well in Romania, and now the Chief of the General Staff, General Moltke Jr., has transferred me to the Second Division as the head of the Division, and I can help you continue to complete the plan." Ludendorff told General Schlieffen about his current situation.

"It's good that all kinds of new things are coming up now, all of which are affecting this plan. I'm old and don't have the energy, Ludendorff can you help me, I'm grateful to you. Schlieffen said words of thanks to his former subordinates.

"You're kind General."

Ludendorff told Schlieffen about the changes he had seen in the Romanian army, with a focus on Romanian rapid mobile divisions. When Schlieffen heard that this division equipped with 800 cars could be twice as mobile as an ordinary division when it did not rely on railroads, he pondered. "This is a new trend, and the advantage of being twice as fast as others can give the military more choices, but it will give the government a headache in military spending."

"Yes, I calculated in Romania that if in order to improve logistics, then each division needs to add at least 300 vehicles to work, this is not a small expense, and this only improves logistics. Coupled with personnel training, daily maintenance of road conditions, etc., in general, car transportation can only be a supplement to train transportation. Ludendorff spoke of the results of his calculations.

This is also the limitation of science and technology in this era, and the management of Eder produced Dongfeng trucks, and the main force of transportation is still trains. Now a train can transport nearly 1,000 tons, and a truck only transports 1.5 tons, and it takes more than 600 trucks to achieve the volume of a train, which is a big problem in terms of cost.

"Trucks are still much better than horse-drawn wagons, and they can supplement the distance from the train to the troops, but the cost is not a small amount."

Schlieffen saw the problem very thoroughly, but now the stock of horses in Germany is very large. Don't say that he is just a retired chief of the General Staff, even the current little Moltke does not dare to replace all short-distance transportation with trucks, which involves a lot of problems.

"But it can still be done by equipping the vanguard with enough trucks for transportation." Schlieffen muttered silently, and in the plan he had made, the speed of maneuvering of the troops that rotated and attacked had always been his primary concern. Now faced with a better means of short-distance transportation than a horse-drawn carriage, it is no wonder that he is obsessed.

"Your Excellency General, in fact, we can make a plan first, and whether it can be implemented in the end depends on the decision of the General Staff." Ludendorff told Schlieffen what he was going to do.

"I really need your help this time, Ludendorff."

In the end, thanks to the joint efforts of Schlieffen and Ludendorff, a more reasonable 'Schlieffen Plan' was born. In this plan, there are no changes to the troops, but the large-scale use of trucks in the roundabout troops on the Western Front, according to the new plan, the roundabout troops are equipped with different trucks according to different positions, the pointed troops are up to 600 per division, and the follow-up troops also have at least 300 trucks, according to the new plan, the entire 53 divisions of the roundabout troops are equipped with 23,000 trucks.