Soviet Russia's move to start a large-scale deployment of troops and generals could not be concealed from Romania's sight.

In fact, from the beginning of Eder's intention to annex the western Ukrainian region, intelligence work against Soviet Russia has become the top priority of Romanian intelligence, and its priority has been higher than that of Britain, France, and the United States. Therefore, when the Southern Front began to make abnormal moves, the news that Soviet Russia might intend to start a war was already transmitted back to China.

After all, the Romanian intelligence service has been deeply involved in Russia for many years, and even if Soviet Russia comes to power, its latent intelligence personnel cannot be eliminated.

Faced with the news from the intelligence department that Soviet Russia might provoke a war, Eder replied after reading it, I know.

As for Soviet Russia's intention to provoke a war, Eder had already prepared in his heart. After all, the greed of the Russians is deep in their bones, and it cannot be changed by changing the regime. And this is the time for the Soviet Russian army, and Romania is not afraid at all.

Now the Soviet Russian army is not the torrent of steel that will make the whole of Europe tremble.

At present, Soviet Russian division-level troops generally have 10,000 to 15,000 people, and the configuration of machine guns is only between 130 and 160. In terms of the cannon configuration that mainly suppresses firepower, there are only 40-50 cannons, which are basically 76.2 mm and 57 mm caliber mountain artillery.

To put it bluntly, compared with the period of Tsarist Russia, the armament of the Soviet Russian army has declined in terms of artillery, machine guns and other technical equipment.

However, in terms of army morale, it is much higher than during the Tsarist period. And when morale is high, when the gap in weapons and equipment is not too large, it often has the upper hand. This is also the White Guards, which are mainly composed of Tsarist Russian troops, which is why they have repeatedly failed to defeat the Red Army of Soviet Russia.

However, the Soviet Russian Red Army could only fight the White Guards, and compared with the Romanian army, it was completely incomparable.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that the main enemy of the Red Army in Soviet Russia is the White Guards, and the inaction of the Entente intervention army has a lot to do with it. After all, I have seen the strength of the British and French armies (who do not contribute to the work), and I am afraid that they are far inferior to the Romanians of Britain and France.

At a time when Soviet Russia was preparing to provoke this war, the Romanians were not idle.

Since the annexation of Western Ukraine, the Romanian military has massed forces towards Ukraine. Various units have moved from their previous positions to the front line in Ukraine.

In addition, Major General Salda and Chief of the Guard Karust, who were purchasing arms from far away in Germany, were also purchasing large quantities of arms. Warehouses of weapons and ammunition were loaded onto trains by German stevedores and transported to Romania.

Britain, France and other countries gave the green light to Romania's procurement in Germany, and as long as Romania took a fancy to the weapons, they immediately asked the German side to ship them. So much so that for a while the stevedores could not carry it, so a large number of munitions were piled up at the railway station.

When Britain and France learned of this, they even hired other Germans to carry it out of their own pockets. Moreover, the British and French sides also expressed their attitude to Major General Salda and Chief of the Guard Caroust in Germany that if there were not enough trains to transport, they were even willing to urgently transfer wagons to help them transport.

It looks like they transported these arms to Romania, and it looks like they are more like Romanians than Salda and Caust.

So with the help of the unremitting efforts of Britain and France, in the space of a month; More than 700 LeFH18 and K16 guns, 200,000 G98 rifles, 3,000 G08 heavy machine guns, 200,000 tons of ammunition and 20,000 tons of other materials were shipped to Romania.

As a result, the trains transporting arms have seriously affected the normal train operation of the countries along the route, and have greatly weakened the travel of their people and the transportation of materials. However, in the face of Britain, France and Romania, these countries also dare not speak out.

And after these weapons and equipment were transported to Romania, they were immediately transported to the front line in western Ukraine.

So much so that the General Staff racked their brains in order to find enough technical soldiers to use them. In addition to the artillerymen drawn from the units, non-artillery soldiers and officers who had used artillery were immediately transferred to the artillery units to form a new formation.

So in just one month, in addition to the sharp expansion of the divisional artillery (from 72 guns to 108, and an additional 105 howitzer battalion of the LeFH18 type), Romania also added 3 separate artillery brigades (one brigade equipped with 108 LeFH18 105 howitzers) and three heavy artillery regiments (one regiment equipped with 54 K16 long-range cannons).

The number of machine guns was also increased from 156 to 238 per division (mainly by assigning new heavy machine guns to companies, with two new heavy machine guns added to each company). In addition, there are also sapper shovels, field telephones, raincoats, tents and other materials, which are also replenished.

While Romania was busy preparing, the Western Front (which had changed its name) on behalf of Soviet Russia this time finally completed the handover with the Southeastern Front.

"Take care, Comrade Belakun and Gusev. I wish you an early elimination of Denikin's White Bandit Army. ”

At the time of parting, the commander of the Western Front, Yegorov, and the commissar Stalin were saying goodbye to the commander of the Southeastern Front, Gusev, and the commissar Belakun.

"You also take care, Comrade Stalin and Egorov. I wish you an early defeat of the Romanians, and we, the South-Eastern Front, will cheer for it. ”

Stalin and Egorov, after waving goodbye to Belakun and Gusev, got into the car. Escorted by soldiers, drive towards Kyiv.

Belakun beckoned Gusev and said, "Alright, then we will face Denikin alone." ”

"We're not afraid of him. If you can drive him from the vicinity of Moscow to the Crimea, you can drive him into the sea. ”

"You're still so optimistic."

"It's the self-confidence of a Bushwick."

"Hahaha"

Stalin and Egorov, who left by car, were also talking, but they were talking about intelligence on the Western Front.

Stalin, who was sitting in the car, said to Yegorov beside him: "The 14 Army has arrived in Kiev. ”

"Now we are much more relieved, at least we don't have to worry about Kyiv being raided by the Romanians."

Stalin added new news: "The 2nd Cavalry Army has departed from Kuksk and is expected to arrive in ten days. In addition, the 9th Army sent a telegram saying that it was passing through Moziri in the Belarusian region in heavy snow, and that the troops were moving slowly and were afraid that they would not be able to meet the scheduled time. ”

Hearing that the 9th Army could not catch up with the time, Yegorov cursed: "This damn weather. ”

"Comrade Stalin, tell me anything else."

In the face of Yegorov's inquiry, Stalin shook his head and said: "That's all we have so far, but it's news from our opponent Romanians." ”

"Tell me about it."

It seems that Egorov is also very concerned about the situation of his opponent.

"According to what we know, at the moment Romania is buying large quantities of arms from Germany. There are hundreds of artillery pieces, all of which are more than 100 mm caliber, and according to analysis, the latest German LeFH18 howitzers of the 105 type and K16 Krupp 150 cannons. In addition, there are large quantities of machine guns and ammunition and other supplies. ”

"It's not going to be a good fight. Sooner or later, these damned imperialists will have to be exterminated by the proletariat. ”

Hearing Stalin's intelligence, Yegorov felt a little headache for himself. These weapons and equipment will greatly threaten the safety of the Red Army soldiers, but they have nothing to do. Maybe there's a way.

Yegorov, who thought of the idea, opened his mouth and said: "We can't let the Romanians send these arms to the front safely, this is irresponsible to the soldiers. Can we encourage their workers to strike in support of us, as other countries have done? ”

After listening to Yegorov's suggestion, Stalin shook his head and said: "The Central Committee has considered this before, but according to the information sent by our Romanian comrades. The stubborn forces in the country are so strong that even they cannot directly propagate under the banner of the Communist Party. And because there are too many reactionary remarks in domestic public opinion, its blinded ordinary people are very hostile to us. ”

Stalin's words shattered Yegorov's idea of sabotage from within, and it seemed that only the battlefield could witness strength.