"My Chief of the General Staff, you're not going to come and ask for more money for the war, are you?"

Admiral Prishan had just stepped through the door when he heard Eder's words. This made him slightly stunned, but he immediately reacted and replied: "Your Majesty, if you can get the government to allocate us some more funds, of course I am very happy." ”

Eder heard the words of the chief of the general staff and said with a smile: "This is unlikely. ”

Preshan thought of Prime Minister Brettianu and Chancellor of the Exchequer he met on the road, and he understood a little. Most of the time, it was the prime minister who beat the autumn wind from the king, which made the king feel a little resentful. He also knew some information, and heard that the intelligence services had made a fortune from Russia. With the character of the prime minister, it would be strange not to make an autumn breeze. Recently, there has been some rumors in the government, and the prime minister is almost unable to sleep because of the financial problem.

But this is none of his business, he is already busy enough in the war at the moment to care about the government's problems, this is the prime minister's job.

Edel heard that it wasn't about money, and he relieved himself and asked, "What happened this time?" ”

Faced with the king's inquiry, Admiral Prishan replied: "It is a question about the preparation of the Hungarian campaign. ”

Fearing that Eder would not understand, Preshan continued to explain: "At present, we have driven the Allied forces out of our territory, and now the Entente side requires us to continue to strike at Austria-Hungary. And that's what we need, so I've prepared this battle plan. ”

With that, Prieshan took out a document from his body and placed it in front of Eder.

Eder also knew what Admiral Prishan had said. The main reason for this was the last wave of the offensive made by Germany and Austria in order to avoid defeat in the war.

In January of this year (two months earlier than the original history, and this is because the Soviet Union signed a peace treaty with Germany and Austria earlier), Germany was planning to make a final wave of efforts to mobilize the elite of the Eastern Front to the Western Front. And because of this, Austria-Hungary launched a new offensive that did not exist in the original time and space.

Among them, the Austro-Hungarian army, under the planning of its emperor Karl I, launched an attack on Italy with a strength advantage of 800,000 troops. It successively won the Piave River, Udine and other places, and its troops fought all the way to Venice.

In order to hold this important city, the British, French and Italian fleets, at the cost of the loss of five cruisers and three ex-dreadnoughts, broke through the mine array laid by the Austro-Hungarian navy in the Adriatic Sea. And the Austro-Hungarian Navy, faced with the combined fleet of the Entente, which had absolute superiority, did not dare to go out of the port to intercept. On the land side, in the face of the desperate struggle of the Austro-Hungarian army, Britain and France urgently reinforced Italy with eight divisions. The Italian Army also rarely showed a bloody side, concentrating most of the country's forces to fight Austria-Hungary here. In the end, in the face of the alliance of the sea and land, Austria-Hungary failed to defeat the water city of Venice.

And the spring offensive launched by the Germans was planned by Ludendorff in January. Using infiltration assault tactics that had shone on the Eastern Front, an offensive was launched against the defending British forces along the Somme. Its main objective remained to seize Paris, the capital of France, and force it to surrender. Britain and France had already prepared for the German attack, but they did not expect the use of new tactics. In the three-month Spring Offensive (shorter than in history), Britain and France finally prevented the Germans from fully achieving their strategic objectives at the cost of more than 200,000 casualties and being advanced by the Germans for 60 kilometers.

Encountering a desperate fight from Germany and Austria one after another, Britain, France and Italy were extremely eager to put pressure on Germany and Austria. On the Western Front, the United States had already reached France with 300,000 troops, and it was able to transport 60,000 troops from within the country to France every month (because the British and French losses were greater than in history, the United States accelerated the transportation of troops, and there were 10,000 more troops than in history). ）。

After consulting with France and Washington, these American GIs were placed directly on the front line to feel the breath of war, and they would also participate in the subsequent counterattack against Germany.

On the Austro-Hungarian side, due to the heavy casualties of the Italians, the Austro-Hungarian counterattack could only be found from other directions. Romania, who have been doing well so far, are their target. Therefore, after General Courtois regained the lost territory, the Entente immediately asked Romania to launch an offensive against Austria-Hungary to contain its forces.

The Entente's demands were also in line with Romania's next operational objectives, as well as Eder's, and he had no reason to disagree. In his opinion, the least secure territory promised to Romania after the end of World War I was the area from the Transylvanian border to the Tisza River.

In the original plane, perhaps in order to compensate Romania for being beaten too badly by the Allies, or to guard against the Soviet Union, the Entente assigned Bihel and Timish in this territory to Romania. In this time and space, Romania has been in the war for a relatively short time, plus it has made a lot of war money, and importantly, it is much stronger than in history. There is no need to supplement too much strength to achieve the purpose of blocking the infiltration of Soviet Russia. Therefore, Eder thinks that in order to avoid long nights, he must take this area first in the war.

This would also leave Romania with enough room to maneuver, whether it is for a referendum in the future, or for others to make things difficult on the issue of spoils. Moreover, there are too many Hungarians in the region, and if they do not use the war to expel some of them, it is inevitable that they will be left with right and wrong or hidden dangers in the future.

In Eder's view, Romania, which had acquired new territories after the war, would become a multi-ethnic state. In addition to Romanians, there will also be Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, etc. Among them, the Hungarians who remain in Romania will become a hidden danger that will be difficult to deal with for historical reasons.

As for the Poles, Eder intends to consult with the future Polish government to release his people who are willing to live in Poland. It is believed that with the Polish identification with the establishment of the new country, there will be a large number of people living in this country.

And the Ukrainians are not so good anymore. This national awakening has always been suppressed by the nation, and it will continue to be suppressed in the future. Moreover, Eder had already considered a strategy to divide them, mixing sand into the area first, and moving many Romanians to the past. Raise taxes in the region a lot, and then give partial exemptions for learning Romanian and how many words you want, so that these Ukrainians can consciously develop the habit of learning Romanian.

Moreover, its newspapers, broadcasts, etc., will greatly increase the use of the Romanian language and Latin. As for the children, the educational textbooks must also use the current Latin in Romania, and the spoken language must also be learned in Romanian. In two or three generations, these people will be assimilated. As for the unbearable, they can go to the great Soviet Russia to feel it, and immediately feel Eder's kindness, at least not starving them to death. The fact that they would make a rational decision about sticking to tradition or choosing bread was inspired by what Eder had seen and heard in his previous life.

As for the possibility of resistance, as long as it does not have the support of the outside powers, Eder is not afraid. Soviet Russia will not move its stones and even smash its own feet, and Britain and France still need Romania to watch Soviet Russia will not do such a stupid thing.

As for the Bulgarians, this is not a problem at the moment, the sweetness of the economy has already covered these people who remain in Romania. Let them return to Bulgaria, which is now suffering, and these people are also unwilling.

As for the small number of Germans, this is not a problem at all.

As for the fact that much of the territory is still in the hands of Germany and Austria or their puppet governments, this is not a problem at all. As long as after the defeat of Germany and Austria, the two puppet governments will take these territories from them and have an armed march. If you dare to resist, let them know the power of hundreds of thousands of war-tempered troops. This is Darwinism, big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp.

It was this understanding that Eder now needed to do his part to defeat Austria-Hungary. He picked up the battle plan of Prishan and looked at it, which was intended to be supplemented by several additional standing divisions from the Moldavian Army Group with the Transylvanian Army Group as the main body.

Technical units such as several heavy artillery regiments and flying wings would also be given to enhance their combat capabilities, and Eder also saw that Hoffman's armored brigade was also sent to the army. It seems that Prieshan intends to test its might on the flat Hungarian plain, hoping that these Marza people will like it.

And Prisan also transferred Lieutenant General Fereit, who had performed well in this war, to Admiral Salamik as his deputy. His battle plan was also aimed at taking the territory east of the Tisza River, which was what Eder was most satisfied with. After reading the battle plan, Eder signed his name and said to Admiral Prishan, "This plan is very good, so let's do it." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

In this way, the new battle plan of Romania was decided in the conversation between the two.