"Deva was captured by the 1st and 19th Divisions of the Praetorian Guard."

Inside the General Staff, a staff officer eagerly announced the shocking good news.

Sure enough, the news made the General Staff boil.

"Is this true?"

"Impossible."

"It's incredible."

This news made the staff officers of the General Staff ask all kinds of questions.

It is no wonder that they will ask questions, as they know the Romanian battle plan best, they know quite well about the current Army Group South. The Romanian divisions that attacked Transylvania from the southern front were only three, less than 60,000 troops. And now there are at least eight units of the Austro-Hungarian division around them, the strength of which is no less than one hundred thousand.

Faced with this situation, these staff officers were busy trying to get more Romanian soldiers to Petroshani in order to prepare for the upcoming Austro-Hungarian counteroffensive. As a result, they were now told that they didn't need to, and that Deva, which they were going to take in half a month, had already taken it on the third day. It's no wonder if these staff officers can still be calm, and it is very good that they did not immediately ask about the detailed process.

Facing his colleagues who came up from all sides to inquire, the staff officer spoke. "The details will not be known until the battle report comes down, and now I only know that the 19th Division and the 1st Praetorian Division captured Deva early this morning."

While the staff officers were puzzled that the 19th Division and the 1st Praetorian Division could capture Deva in one fell swoop, Admiral Presan as Chief of the General Staff was equally interested. However, his wish was to be fulfilled at once, for a detailed report of the capture of Deva was now before him.

This is a joint battle report issued by Lieutenant General Ankodar and Major General Dortrid, which describes in detail the combat operations of the two divisions, and only in the initial concealment of the battle plan, the two men have a telegraph that broke down and the fighter plane is fleeting. Faced with the real situation, Preshan saw it at a glance, but in the face of the capture of Deva, the chief of staff turned a blind eye, and of course the two also gave him the image of boldness, but this is not knowing whether this should be happy for the two of them.

After reading the battle report in detail, Preshan muttered to himself to the military map in the room. "Now it looks like I need to add a loophole."

Preshan needed to solve the hidden danger left by Army Group South because of the surprise capture of Deva by the 1st and 19th Guards Divisions. This hidden danger was the good news brought by the 1st and 19th Guard Divisions, who took Deva to make themselves aggressive. Now as soon as the Austro-Hungarian military reacts, the army will immediately crush the border, and three Austro-Hungarian divisions will soon arrive in Deva. According to the current speed of army transportation, Army Group South will fall into the tactic of adding fuel, which is a taboo for soldiers.

Because Deva was so important, now Prieshan could only think of a rapid increase in strength to make up for the gap with the Austro-Hungarian army.

Preshan called his secretary and commanded. "Go to the traffic office to find Director Torris, and say I have something to look for him."

The Romanian General Staff, which has a strong German style, of course, also has a traffic department like its German counterpart. And they all have the same function, that is, in order to ensure the transportation of the army in wartime, take over the main transportation capacity of the country, so as its director, Torris's weight in it is also rising. Therefore, even Prishan rarely treats his subordinate with a commanding tone now.

Here's an interesting little episode that this Commissioner Torris was not born in the military and never went to military school. The authority who is now in charge of Romania's national military mobilization is a graduate of the University of Iasi, where he studied mathematics. However, there is one thing related to transportation: he has a father who is engaged in transportation, and while helping his father, he wrote an article "On the Changes Brought by New Transportation".

In it, it plans for the existing car traffic, and also gives its own opinions on improving rail and ship transportation. And this article fell into the eyes of General Prisan that the chief of the general staff is unusually sensitive to the transportation of the army, so after consulting Torris, this transportation management talent who has not been in a military academy for a day was specially recruited to the transportation department, and Toris quickly stood out in the transportation department and successively made several national military transportation plans, which made Prishan very satisfied. Therefore, before the outbreak of the war, in order to give full play to the best ability of this transportation management talent, Preshan helped him to the position of director, and this Torris did not live up to his expectations and managed the transportation department in an orderly manner.

"Admiral, are you looking for me?"

Without making Presan wait, Toris appeared in front of him in a few moments.

Looking at Colonel Torris, who wore scholarly eyes in front of him, Preshan smiled and said with concern. "How's your traffic office doing now?"

Faced with the concern of the Chief of the General Staff, Torris, who was a little confused, answered truthfully. "Thanks to the Admiral's concern, now the transportation department is currently operating normally, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner according to plan."

"That's fine." Preshan spoke first, and then spoke immediately. "I have a task that I need you to do right now."

As soon as Torris heard that there was a task, or a task that needed to be done immediately, he subconsciously asked. "What task?"

In the face of Torris's inquiry, Preshan directly said what he requested. "Now I need you to immediately increase the capacity of the Southern Army, and I need you to get the Southern Army to the territory of Deva within a week."

Faced with Preshan's request, Torris spoke after a moment of contemplation. "This can be done by our transport department, but at the cost of a one-day delay in the completion of the assembly of the reserves, and the advance of Army Group Center will be affected, and the Bulgarian campaign will be delayed for about five days to complete the preparations."

Torris is worthy of being a genius in logistics and transportation, and immediately gave the impact.

Prieshan said after thinking for a while in his office. "It's acceptable for the reserves to be a day late, and it's acceptable for Army Group Center to slow down the attack, but the Bulgarian campaign is delayed for five days, which is too long, can it not be delayed."

It's a pity that Prishan's wishes were dashed, and Torres directly shattered the expectations of the Chief of the General Staff. "No, I can shorten the time by a day by going back and supplementing. We have no other recourse, as your request requires the use of half of our trains, and this is the result of my intention to solicit a large number of civilian ships for transportation. ”

In the face of Torris's words, Preshan thought twice, and still felt that he needed to keep the advantage of living in Transylvania first. "Then you go ahead and do it."

After sending Toris off again, Preshan looked at the military map in his room and pointed to Deva and muttered to himself. "You two have disrupted my battle plan, if you lose Deva, I will be a sailor."

Let the two army generals be sailors, it seems that Dewa has a place in the heart of Admiral Prissan.

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