"It makes sense, it makes sense, Mr. Jiang is really amazing!" After listening to Jiang Fangzhen's analysis of the upcoming military action of the German army, the staff and military generals all suddenly realized it.

The fact that the Germans were still preparing for a larger counteroffensive on the Western Front was a matter that no one else present had taken into account. Although there is no way to confirm whether Jiang Fangzhen's analysis is correct, the results of his analysis are basically consistent with the intelligence show.

After Jiang Fangzhen returned to the table and sat down, Xiao Zhenlei spit out a puff of cigarette and said: "Judging from the current intelligence display, General Jiang's analysis is the most consistent with the intelligence, let's temporarily use General Jiang's analysis to treat the German army's military operations at this time, by the way, General Jiang, how many strategic points does our army have in the Carpathians?" Where are they vulnerable? ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "President, our army in the southeast part of the Carpathian Mountains a total of thirteen strategic points have been deployed, these strategic points were previously occupied by the German and Austrian troops, in the previous division battle, our army's offensive situation is very fierce, the German and Austrian army retreated too quickly, our army took advantage of the situation to seize these strategic points and then strengthened the defense, and then turned into a state of rest, five of the thirteen strategic points are low-lying ridges, three are steep terrain, narrow and long canyons, two are short passages, Judging from the location of these strategic points and the surrounding terrain, five low-lying ridges and three river valleys are easy to break through, so Cai Yi deployed heavy troops in these eight strategic points, and the rest of the Carpathians are basically steep. Mountains and rivers that cannot be crossed by large troops! ”

The southeastern part of the Carpathians is in the form of a triangle that falls to the right, with the apex of the triangle in the east. The northwestern part of the southeastern Carpathians is trending northwest-southeast and the southeastern part is trending southwest-northeast. They are the two sides of this triangle, and in the northwestern part of Romania there is also a mountain range, Mount Apseni, which runs north-south to form the base edge of this triangle.

The southeastern part of the Carpathian Mountains and the part of the Apseni Mountains that wrap between the part is the Transylvanian Plateau in western Romania, this plateau is undulating, the altitude is generally 300-800 meters, the terrain is inclined from east to west, round hills and wide river valleys are alternated, and most of them belong to the Mureş River and Somesh River basins.

The Transylvanian plateau was currently occupied by the German-Austrian army, and the Germans had two options for attacking. The first is to attack the strategic points occupied by these Chinese troops, and only by occupying them can it be possible to attack Romania and Bulgaria occupied by the Chinese army, and the second is to attack from Macedonia, Albania and Serbia, but it is very unrealistic to attack from Macedonia, Albania and Serbia, although the German and Austrian troops have deployed heavy troops in these three areas, the resistance of the local military and civilians in these three areas is still very fierce, and the German army is easy to be harassed by the local guerrillas in large-scale wars with the Chinese army in these three areas. Therefore, the only option for the Germans was to attack thirteen strategic points in the southeastern part of the Carpathian Mountains occupied by the Chinese.

Xiao Zhenlei asked again: "Is our army currently building military airfields in Bulgaria and Romania?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "In the past two months, our army has organized local soldiers and civilians to build a large airport in each of the three cities of Craowa, Bucharest and Foksani in Romania. Among them, the airport in Bucharest can park 300 fighters, and the Kraowa and Fokshani can each park 200 fighters, and now these three airports can be put into use, but the fighters have not yet been transferred! ”

When Xiao Zhenlei heard this, he immediately said, "Order Cai Guodong." Immediately transfer an air force division to these three places, and the command of this air force division will be handed over to General Cai Yi to command! We cannot cede air supremacy to the German and Austrian forces, even if our air force does not have absolute superiority. But it is necessary to form a certain suppression of the German-Austrian air force".

Jiang Baili hurriedly agreed: "Understood!" He promised to write it down immediately.

Xiao Zhenlei took a few puffs of cigarette and thought about it, judging from the current situation. The Eastern European Theater of the Chinese Army has been connected with the Southeast European Theater, and militarily there has been a situation of overlapping defense zones. In order to prevent the occurrence of such problems, there is also a tendency for defense loopholes to occur because of the lack of unity of command.

Xiao Zhenlei expressed his worries, and after hearing this, everyone also believed that the best way at present was to withdraw the Southeast European Theater and the Eastern European Theater and form a unified Balkan Peninsula Theater.

Judging from the current situation, the number of generals who are qualified and qualified to serve as the supreme commander of the Balkan Theater does not exceed one slap, and two of them are currently commanders of the Eastern European Theater and commanders of the Southeast European Theater, so the candidates for the supreme commanders of the newly established Balkan Peninsula Theater can only be selected from Cai Yi and Cai Guodong, otherwise if someone else is allowed to be this commander, the two of them will first be dissatisfied. In fact, there is no one who can be more suitable than the two of them.

When Xiao Zhenlei saw that everyone had suggested merging the two theaters and merging them into the Balkan theater, he agreed: "Well, then merge the Southeast European Theater and the Eastern European Theater into the Balkan Theater, place the first, second, fifth, and sixth officers under the jurisdiction of the Balkan Theater, and in addition to the army, the expeditionary air force and the expeditionary naval fleet are also all under the jurisdiction of the Balkan Theater Commander's Headquarters, and make unified arrangements for the logistics transportation and supply of each army corps. In this way, a unified dispatch can also be formed in terms of command and logistics overall arrangement, what do you think? ”

Jiang Fangzhen first agreed: "I think this is how it should be, if the Balkan theater is set up, and the expeditionary navy and air force are not under command, and there is no unified dispatch in logistics, the role of this command is limited!" ”

"I agree!" Air Force Commander Ma Hanlong and Navy Commander Sa Zhenbing also agreed.

Fan Zhiyong, Minister of General Political Training, also raised his hand in agreement: "I have no opinion!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei saw that several key members of the Supreme Military Council agreed, and even if this matter was passed, he said: "Then how to decide the commander of the Balkan Theater Commander's Command?" Who will be the Supreme Commander? ”

Xiao Zhenlei's question stumped everyone here, in terms of qualifications, Cai Ye and Cai Guodong's information are similar, and Cai Guodong is still Xiao Zhenlei's brother, which can be said to be the descendant of the lineage, and the two are comparable in terms of operational command and strategic overall situation, and the age difference is not big.

If Cai Guodong is elected, this is obviously suspected of patting Xiao Zhenlei's ass, and Xiao Zhenlei and Cai Guodong may not necessarily appreciate it, if Cai Ye is elected, this is obviously not taking Cai Guodong in his eyes, these two are both high-powered people, and no one can be offended! It's a really difficult thing to do, and none of these people here want to offend either of them.

The conference room fell silent for a while, and only the sound of these people chirping and smoking was heard one by one. Xiao Zhenlei observed everyone's reactions, and just as he was about to speak, Jiang Fangzhen saw that everyone was silent, so he spoke first: "President, everyone, I propose to appoint General Cai Guodong as the Supreme Commander of the Balkan Theater and General Cai Ye as the Deputy Commander!" General Cai Guodong is mainly responsible for foreign operations, and General Cai Yi is mainly responsible for assisting and presiding over logistics affairs to escort the supply of logistics materials for the expeditionary force.

Xiao Zhenlei spat out a puff of smoke and said with a smile: "Mr. Jiang, why don't you reverse this appointment?" Isn't it good to appoint General Cai Ye as the supreme commander, mainly responsible for commanding the operation against Germany and Austria, and appoint Cai Guodong as the deputy commander to assist Cai Ye and preside over the logistics affairs of the expeditionary force? You must know that Cai Guodong himself has been presiding over the work of the equipment department before, and he is no stranger to the work of logistics affairs! ”

Jiang Fangzhen: "??????".

Jiang Fangzhen's suggestion just now is actually to break the embarrassment, in his opinion, Xiao Zhenlei must not be able to directly appoint Cai Guodong as the commander of the Balkan Theater, in order not to make Xiao Zhenlei feel embarrassed, it is best for him to put forward it, and he has a good relationship with Cai Yi, and it is also the most suitable to make this suggestion in terms of relationship and identity, in addition, he can also avoid suspicion for himself and Cai Yi by suggesting it like this, but he didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to seem to see through his thoughts, so he had the rhetorical question just now.

Xiao Zhenlei saw that Jiang Fangzhen stopped talking, and after thinking for a while, he said: "This way, Xiao Gao, send a telegram to each of them in my name, asking them about their attitudes and opinions on this time, and ask them to call back within two hours." In addition, the information will be reported to Cai Ye, so that they can immediately prepare for the battle, especially the defense of the thirteen strategic points must not be relaxed, and in addition, mobile combat units will be prepared so that they can be reinforced in time at any time."

When everyone in the conference room heard this, their hearts suddenly sank, and it seemed that this matter was not simple, so they obediently closed their mouths and did not speak.

Xiao Gao agreed: "Okay, big president!" ”

The telegram was quickly sent, and Cai Ye and Cai Guodong, who were far away in Europe, received the telegram, as Chinese people, Cai Ye and Cai Guodong were very modest to resign from the position of Supreme Commander and volunteered to be their deputy, and the return telegram was quickly sent to Xiao Zhenlei, and Xiao Zhenlei was not surprised after reading it.

Since neither of them took the initiative to recommend themselves, it was difficult for Xiao Zhenlei to decide who to appoint as the supreme commander of the Balkan Theater for the time being, so this matter could only be suppressed for the time being, and a decision would be made after the attack of the German and Austrian troops was resolved. (To be continued......)