Chapter 697: War Breaks Out

The night was long, but today's Chancellery was brightly lit, and a number of high-ranking military and political officials, including Hitler, were sitting here waiting for something.

Many people who were sitting were a little uneasy, and the word anxiety seemed to be written on their faces. As for Hitler, of course, it is not as obvious as the others, but a closer look can also reveal the anxious side in his eyes.

The anxious wait always seemed so long, but tonight they had to wait.

And just when everyone was waiting a little anxiously, a staff member rushed in with a telegram.

"The Poles have just attacked our border posts, and we repelled their attack."

I saw that Goering immediately snatched the telegram and handed it to Hitler.

When Hitler saw this telegram, the joy in his eyes could no longer be hidden. I saw him holding the telegram high and shouting. "This is evidence of a Polish invasion, and we need to fight back."

Hitler's words were like a signal that immediately drew loud echoes from others. Everyone at the scene was thinking that the Führer's words were better, and the stone in everyone's hearts finally fell.

Hitler was pleased with the performance on the spot and immediately gave the order to go on. "Prepare the car, I'm going to Congress to speak."

He was the only one who went to the Reichstag, and a large number of high-ranking military and political officials, including Goering, rushed to the Reichstag. By the time a crowd arrived at Congress, the legislators had already arrived. Being able to call all the parliamentarians from the bed to the parliament seems to be quite efficient in Germany.

Hitler stood on the podium and spoke loudly to the parliamentarians below. "Just now, the criminal Polish army attacked one of our outposts, which was repulsed by our loyal soldiers, and we left their bodies as evidence. This is a blatant violation of Germany, and Poland has all along forcibly occupied our inherent territory, Danzig, in defiance of our reasonable demands. Now they are attacking our troops even more aggressively, and we absolutely cannot tolerate such a thing happening again. We want to declare our tough attitude towards Poland, that is, to go to war, and we want to use war to let the Poles know that we are inviolable. ”

Hitler's words drew cheers from the audience, and many people shouted along with them, "War, war......"

With the cheers of the parliamentarians present, war is inevitable. As for Goering and the others on the side, they also cheered along, but there was no excitement in their eyes, as if they had been rehearsed a long time ago.

And with Hitler's words, the war between Germany and Poland was also announced.

Of course, in addition to declaring war on Poland, Hitler certainly did not forget that he had allies. Just as Hitler was declaring war on Poland in the Reichstag, a telegram was sent from Berlin to Bucharest.

And Eder, who has been waiting for this news for a long time, has gathered with Prime Minister Mihalakei, Deputy Prime Minister Kersteff, Chief of the General Staff, General Fereitt and others.

Eder, who received the news, put down the telegram and said to those present. "Germany declared war on Poland, and Hitler sent a telegram demanding that we fulfill our obligations."

Eder's words immediately provoked a violent reaction, and Foreign Minister Costel was the first to speak. "Your Majesty, since our country has promised Germany to fight with Poland, it is naturally impossible to hesitate any longer, and it is naturally necessary to come according to the agreement."

Kostel's words caused those present to acquiesce that the benefits of the previous negotiations had been sufficient. If you do it next, there is naturally nothing to hesitate about. If it is still half-pushed and half-pushed now, it will not benefit Romania.

After everyone was in favor of a war with Poland, Eder continued to ask the Prime Minister. "How much time will it take us to move to a wartime economy now?"

Prime Minister Mihalakai naturally knew Eder's intentions, and there was no need for a wartime system to fight against Poland. It was not that the prime minister despised the strength of Poland, but that he had previously participated in the military's analysis of the strength of the Polish army. In the words of Lieutenant General Hoffmann, Poland could not hold back the Romanian offensive with all its might for half a year, and if the combat was effective, the war should be over within three months.

The reason is that the Polish army is still fighting with the old ideas of the First World War, and has not stopped the Romanian army, which has adopted the new concept of fighting. He predicted that as long as Romania did not make mistakes on its own, half a year of war would be enough to end.

That's right, Lieutenant General Hoffmann overestimated Poland's strength, but the prime minister didn't know it. And when Eder asked about the timing of the wartime economic transformation, he knew that it was not for Poland, but for Britain and France behind it. As long as Britain and France did not abandon Poland, then Romania would be at war with it, and the wartime economy was prepared for them.

So he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately said the government's projected time. "Your Majesty, it will take about eight months to fully transition the economy to wartime, which is also based on the fact that we have gradually reached a state of semi-mobilization before us."

The transformation of the wartime economy is not something that can be decided in a sentence or two, it involves all aspects of society. First of all, it is necessary to establish and improve a unified management organization and use administrative, legal, and economic means to carry out unified management of the national economy. Then it is necessary to draw up development plans, redistribute economic resources, rapidly expand military production, build and expand military enterprises, organize civilian production enterprises to switch to military products, and expand strategic material reserves.

It is also necessary to speed up the development of science and technology for national defense and speed up the development of science and technology. It is necessary to speed up the transformation of research results into production and to speed up breakthroughs in key technologies and the development of new types of weapons and equipment. In addition, we should readjust the economic layout, especially the rational allocation of key enterprises and facilities in the departments of science and technology for national defense, the defense industry, and the transportation sector, so as to strengthen the protection of important economic targets.

At the same time, it is necessary to build a new network of railways and highways, recruit all kinds of means of transportation, and exercise military control over the transportation, post, and telecommunications departments.

In addition, it is necessary to implement wartime fiscal and monetary policies, issue domestic public bonds, raise foreign debts, increase tax revenues, and issue additional currency when necessary, so as to meet the needs of wartime finances.

In addition, a unified price policy has been implemented to strictly control the rate of price increases. During the war, the policy of controlling and supplying daily necessities was implemented, the consumption of residents and social organizations was restricted, and the supply was limited and, when necessary, rationing in kind.

All of this needs to be coordinated by the government, so it is quite fast for Romania to be able to complete a complete economic transformation in eight months.

And Eder didn't ask again after getting the time given by the prime minister, and it seems that he is quite satisfied with this.

"Alright, you guys, go and prepare, and then we need to deal with the work from all sides. Admiral Fereit stayed for a moment. ”

Edel waited until everyone else was gone, and then asked about the Admiral. "I'm not worried about the Army, this time I mainly want to ask, what's going on with the Navy's preparations?"

Yes, Eder was not at all worried about Romania's participation in the war against Poland, although the Romanian troops participating in the war were only more than 300,000, but these were all Romanian elite generals, 6 of the 7 armored divisions were involved, and 6 of the 8 motorized divisions were also among them. The other units are all units of the military, and there is absolutely no problem against a Poland.

In addition, the Air Force also concentrated most of the new fighters for Polish operations. You must know that the Air Force currently has more than 3,000 new fighters of all kinds, which are organized into more than 20 wings. The Romanian Air Force is similar to that of Germany, with 12 fighters as a squadron, 3-4 squadrons as a group, and 3-4 squadrons as a wing. The wing is likewise the basic tactical unit of the Romanian Air Force.

So Eder didn't worry about his army at all, but for the opponents that the Romanian Navy needed to face, the British and French navies were a little bottomless. However, at present, the Navy has a plan and is silently preparing.

Edel asked Fereit about this time, also because Admiral Lomodan was too busy to attend the meeting today.

"Your Majesty, the preparation of the navy is going well so far. The main thing is about deception, which needs to be addressed. ”

Admiral Fereit was also one of the few people in the army who knew about the naval plan, but he did not pay much attention to this matter. Because he doesn't understand naval operations, and he is also busy with a lot of things, he doesn't have much energy to pay attention to naval problems at all.

Eder knew that he had been too abrupt to ask Fereitt, and after thinking about it, he asked. "The war against Poland is about to begin, is there any confidence."

"Your Majesty, we are confident that within a month we will take the territory that should belong to our country."

Listening to Fereitt's words, Eder couldn't help but feel reassured that it was still the army.