Chapter 276: Romania's Response (Part II)

"Tell me about it, then."

Faced with the king's words, Priosan walked up to a large map of Romania and began to explain. "Your Majesty, let's talk about the offensive plan first, here we first need to mobilize 400,000 militia to form a new force, which is estimated to be preliminarily completed in a week. The second mobilization of the reserve should also be accelerated, and within fifteen days after the mobilization of the militia, the second batch of reserves must also enter the barracks. In addition, the third batch of mobilization will also be mobilized within three months, because the military training of this batch of mobilization will be insufficient, so it will be integrated into the army after the barracks have received sufficient training to replenish the troops. ”

At the end of the speech, the Chief of the General Staff, Prysan said to Eder with a smile. "It's basically General Courtois's doing, I'm just in charge of explaining."

General Courtois, who is the Minister of the Army, said modestly. "Where, there are still a lot of them that are helped by the General Staff, and Lieutenant General Fereit has given a lot of strength."

Hearing Admiral Courtois mention himself, Lieutenant General Fereitt, as the director of education, also nodded to the king. In recent years, Lieutenant General Ferreuyt has been doing a good job as director of education, but in the army he is very low-key, and he is usually not seen to make any comments at all, except for his own work. Many people say that he is becoming more and more high-level.

After talking about the mobilization mechanism, Pureshan began to talk about the troops. "Your Majesty, in our latest battle plan, we need to concentrate our forces to take Transylvania first."

As for Prishman's words, the military top brass sitting here, including Eder, agreed. In countless calculations in the past, whenever Austria-Hungary was involved, the number one goal was to take Transylvania.

Because if you open the map, you can see that Romania looks like a U-shaped letter, and Transylvania is in the middle of the U-shaped letter. The Austro-Hungarian army occupying Transylvania was able to threaten most of Romania from a high position, so taking Transylvania in the event of a war with the Allies was the primary target. Otherwise, as long as the Austro-Hungarian army held back in Transylvania, then Romania needed to defend everywhere, and this would not be reasonable according to Romanian troops.

The topography of Transylvania is also surrounded by three mountain ranges: the Carpathians, the Southern Carpathians and the Apseni Mountains. The highest of these are, of course, the Carpathian and Southern Carpathian Mountains, which border Luo and the rest of Hungary, and now the Apseni Mountains, which border the rest of Hungary, are the focus of the military's attention. Because to defend against the large Austro-Hungarian army, it was necessary to rely on the Apseni Mountains for defense, so as to save valuable troops for other places.

Prishan explained to Eder the plans of the General Staff. "Your Majesty, we intend to attack Transylvania on three fronts. First of all, Army Group North, we intend to gather 9 divisions and use Bakuu as a base for assembly. Breaking through the northern mountain passes such as Krakan and Protz, the combat goal is to take Reak and then capture Odosesk. ”

Admiral Priley said that he had finished talking about the plan for the north road, and then he talked about the south side. "Next is Army Group South, where we intend to assemble 15 divisions with Volcha and Trguzhu as the assembly areas. However, Army Group South was targeting Sibiu and Deva, respectively, and after taking Deva, Army Group South was required to leave three to five divisions to defend against the Austro-Hungarian forces that had arrived from Tamysburg and Adra. Then the rest of Army Group South gathered and took Alba Iulia. ”

After spending a lot of time talking about Army Group South, Preshan continued. "Finally, the Central Army in the center, we intend to gather 11 divisions, with Buzeu and Proyesti as the assembly areas, the Central Army has a heavier task, and it needs to take Brasov as soon as possible and reinforce the North and South Army Groups."

"If we can successfully accomplish all our goals, then Army Group Center will be split to replenish the two armies in the north and south. The reinforced Army Group North would take Turgumules, while Army Group South would need to take Turda, and finally the core city of Cluj in Transylvania. We then left 25 to 27 divisions to defend in the Apseni Mountains, so that 8 to 10 divisions could be used in other directions. ”

Eder had also seen such a plan more than once, and each time it was necessary to assemble most of the Romanian standing divisions and the newly built divisions with high combat effectiveness. After several years of intensive training of the militia, Romania has been very effective, and now there is not much to say about the basic infantry in the militia, and even the artillery, communication troops, and anti-chemical warfare troops have been trained impressively. If it is formed, the gap will not be too big compared to the standing division, and the only problem is that the cost is large.

Sure enough, after Admiral Prieshan had finished talking about the Transylvanian offensive, he moved on to other directions. "In the Moldavian region, we have prepared 16 divisions for the defense of enemy forces coming from Galicia. In Suceava, where we were most likely to encounter, we had prepared 4 divisions, and because it was a plain area, our General Staff specially allocated them a 210 heavy artillery regiment and a 150 cannon regiment. In Iasi we also had four divisions on board, as well as a 210 heavy artillery regiment. In Galatz we also prepared 3 divisions for defense, of which our largest regiment of 240 heavy artillery was also deployed here. In addition to this, 2 divisions and 3 divisions were deployed in Faulknisha and Roman respectively for mobile support, and we had a 150 heavy artillery regiment to strengthen their firepower. ”

"Is it appropriate to deploy most of the heavy artillery regiments here?"

As the general's voice dropped on Mount Prij, Eder asked curiously. You must know that these heavy artillery regiments of the Romanian army cost a lot of money, and it is not too wasteful to use them for the defense of the Moldavian region.

Faced with Eder's inquiry, Admiral Prieshan explained. "Your Majesty, we do not think it is a waste of this, the very likely German army on the Eastern Front that we are going to encounter in the Moldavian region. If there is no heavy artillery in the plains, I am afraid that the army, which is mainly second-line troops, will not be able to withstand the pressure and retreat. ”

The words of Admiral Prigsan also silenced Eder, and he was well aware of what the Germans stood for in this era. Now it is obvious that the capture of Transylvania is the most important, and it can only be defended by these second-line armies, and Eder feels a heavy heart when he thinks of this.

On Mount Pré will continue to speak in the direction of Bulgaria. "Your Majesty, now we are facing Bulgaria for the least number of troops, but indeed the most critical battle."

Eder put aside his sigh at the soldiers who were about to fight for his country, and cheered up. "Go on."

"We are also going to attack in the Bulgarian direction. However, the soldiers who make up the Bulgarian army group are only 8 divisions, but they are all elite units of our Romanian army, of which the 1st and 2nd Janissaries divisions will be used in this direction. They will use Ruse, Suman as their staging areas, Pliven and Veliko Tarnovo as their primary targets, and after occupying them, they will directly target Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. However, this required the Allied forces gathered in Paralia, Greece, to contain the main Bulgarian army in Thessaloniki. ”

After Admiral Prieshan's explanation, Eder slapped his hands twice as an endorsement of the plan, and he said to the Big Three present. "It's a good plan, I'll consider it seriously. You can follow this plan and prepare. ”

Now we still need to look at the attitude of Britain and France towards Romania, in this case he Eder can no longer sit still, so can the British and French governments still sit still?