After the Chinese army captured most of Greece, Bulgaria, and Romania, and connected the Second and Fifth Army Corps in the North with the First Army in the South, and the news of the victorious rendezvous spread, the morale of the Allied troops was greatly boosted, and the morale of the Central Powers plummeted.

As far as the Allied Powers are concerned, the impact of the low morale is not the greatest, and the loss of troops is not great for the entire Allied Powers, and the most unfavorable thing for the Allies is that the eastern and western fronts are attacked at the same time, which is already at a natural disadvantage in terms of strategy, while the German-Austrian forces are tired of coping, not only in the frequent movement of troops and the consumption of combat effectiveness, but also in the loss of war materials, which is really unable to take into account the left and right.

Due to the large number of German-Austrian prisoners captured in this battle, and the daily consumption of food and other living materials by these prisoners was too large, the Chinese army could not afford it now, so it could only report the situation and ask the country for permission to organize the prisoners to work and earn living expenses.

Domestic.

When Xiao Zhenlei was presiding over a military meeting, secretary Xiao Gao sent a telegram from Cai Yi, and at the end of the meeting, Xiao Zhenlei read the telegram sent by Xiao Gao.

The content of this telegram mainly includes four aspects: first, it makes a detailed report and summary of the course of the Eastern Front campaign, second, it is a detailed report and summary of the course of the Eastern Front campaign, second, the detailed number of captured and confiscated property, the number of captured enemy troops, and its own losses, and third, the exchanged property for funds for the production of ammunition, the purchase of food and other living materials, but despite this, there is still a big gap in the supply of the entire army; Finally, there is a report on how the captives are handled, and Cai and others ask the country to allow them to organize these captives into production, so that the captives can create their own wealth to support themselves. Because the current situation of the 2nd and 5th Expeditionary Corps simply did not allow to raise so many useless prisoners.

After the last topic of the meeting was completed, Xiao Zhenlei took the message sent by Cai Ye and said: "Everyone. This is the detailed situation of the Eastern Front campaign sent by General Cai Yi, and he first reported the detailed process of the campaign. As I have just seen, our army was absolutely correct in command during the entire campaign, otherwise it would not have been possible to accomplish the strategic goal of joining the division in such a short period of time, and at the same time, it also dealt a great blow to the German-Austrian forces.

In the second part of the telegram, Cai gave a detailed report on the seizure and seizure of the property of the German-Austrian forces or local unscrupulous businessmen who had colluded with the German-Austrian offensive in the course of the campaign and in the recent period, including 830,000 guns, 1,300 artillery pieces, and 20 million rounds of ammunition captured during the battle. Other military combat materiel, including food, is about 2.6 million tons. A lot of property of the local puppet government was confiscated, because there are too many types of property, they don't have a special accountant there, and they can't calculate it for the time being, but he has reported the amount of each property, and they are currently preparing to use it to buy food and other daily necessities! ”

At this time, someone suggested: "President, everything related to large sums of money and property is prone to problems, and I suggest that the audit department send competent personnel there." Assist them in taking inventory of their property, on the one hand, for this kind of work, the audit department is the best at it; On the other hand, corruption can also be avoided, after all, there are people in the audit department. Some people with this kind of mind will also have scruples, and in a way, it is also a deterrent to such people! ”

After this suggestion was made. There were also several other people in the conference room who agreed, and Xiao Zhenlei shook his head after thinking about it for a long time. But he did not veto the suggestion, he said: "It is not impossible to send someone over to help them with the inventory and seizure of those belongings." It's just that it is not possible to send people from the auditing department in the past, the audit is a government department, and after all, it is two systems with the military, and the affairs of the military are still solved within the military, and letting the government departments intervene is tantamount to violating the principle of separation of the military and the government and non-interference. ”

Vice Minister Bao Yuzhen stood up and saluted and agreed: "Yes, President!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei pressed his hand and continued: "In the telegram, Cai Ye and they reported that a total of more than 550,000 captives were captured in the course of this campaign, and the number of these captives is too large, and their own supply is a problem, not to mention that they have to raise these 550,000 captives, but they can't kill all of these captives, in order to solve the livelihood problem of these captives, they ask for permission to organize these captives to engage in production and labor, and let these captives feed themselves, what do you think?" ”

Air Force Commander Ma Hanlong said: "President, I think this method is very good, it is definitely the best to solve the livelihood problem of these prisoners on the spot, you must know that it is not a simple matter to transport 550,000 prisoners back to China, and it is also a big trouble to transport them back to China, in case the prisoners escape and endanger our residents during or after they are transported to China, the matter will be difficult to control!" ”

Jiang Baili, chief of the General Staff, frowned and said, "This method is good, but are there so many jobs in the local area?" 550,000 is not a small number! ”

"Chief of General Staff Chiang, I think it should be fine!" Bao Yuzhen said with a smile, "You can organize those captives to open mines, now the demand for ore in all countries is very large, and Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are rich in mineral reserves, there are enough mines, those mines were started before the war, but after the war, many mines were closed, and now let them reopen mines, it should not be a big problem." In addition, we can also organize those prisoners to farm, because due to the war, a lot of land in the Balkans is deserted, no one cultivates, if we let those prisoners go to farm, not only can solve their own living problems, but also produce enough food for our army! ”

Jiang Baili nodded and smiled when he heard this: "These two methods are good, I think they are feasible!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of cigarette, and seeing that most of the other people thought it was feasible, he thought for a while and agreed: "That's okay, how to deal with the problem of so many captives, now this can only be used, let them organize the captives to open mines and farm!" Let's talk about the last thing, after this campaign, although our army completed the strategic goal, eliminated nearly 300,000 German-Austrian troops, captured 550,000, and occupied most of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania, but our army's losses were also large, according to the report of Cai Yi and others, in this battle, the Fifth Army Corps killed 6,364 people, 38,654 wounded, and the Second Army Corps suffered relatively large losses, killing 96,473 people on the spot, 54,374 people died after ineffective treatment, and 123647 people were woundedFrom these data, do you see anything? ”

Air Force Commander Ma Hanlong sighed: "In this battle, the Second Army lost a quarter of its 800,000 troops, no matter how you look at it, it looks like killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800!" ”

Bao Yuzhen said: "The German-Austrian coalition army is not vegetarian, although it was annihilated by 300,000, but it also caused our second army to lose more than 200,000 people, if it were not for the absolute superiority of our army in terms of strength, and the ammunition reserves are sufficient, and it is the initiative to attack, and it is a north-south attack, I believe it is very difficult for us to win!" ”

Jiang Fangzhen's views are completely different, and he looks at the problem from different angles, he said: "Have you noticed? The Second Army and the Fifth Army attacked south together, and the direction of their attack was parallel, the only difference was that the attack position of the Second Army was on the Black Sea coast, while the attack line of the Fifth Army was in the central part of Romania along the eastern Carpathian Mountains to the south. The casualty rate of the Fifth Army Corps is only 45,000 casualties, of which the ratio of killed and wounded is 1:6, while the total casualties of the Fifth Army Corps have reached more than 270,000, and the ratio of killed and wounded in battle has reached 5:4. ”

After Jiang Fangzhen's analysis, everyone saw the meaning behind these figures, the Chinese National Defense Force, which has received strict and systematic military training, can effectively reduce the chance of being shot by bullets on the battlefield, and can use various actions to avoid bullets fired from the front, even if they are shot by bullets, they can also try to make the injured parts not fatal, so the ratio of the Fifth Army Corps to the wounded is 1:6.

Xiao Zhenlei suddenly realized the appearance of others, so he said: "It seems that Mr. Jiang's analysis, you all understand the meaning of this, these figures also tell us that the training of the army cannot be relaxed for a moment, and military discipline cannot be relaxed for a moment, and the training and military discipline of the army will be further strengthened in the future, and efforts should be made to improve the cultural level of soldiers and officers in the army, such as artillery, pilots, naval sailors, ground crews, and other special arms of the armed forces have very high requirements for cultural quality, and in the future, our army will definitely be made scientific and technological、Development in the direction of high education!

Finally, let's talk about the issue of bereavement benefits, the Wehrmacht's pensions are handled in accordance with the regulations, there is nothing to say about this, what standards should the pensions of the Second Army Corps be based on? If by the standards of the Wehrmacht, will the government be able to afford it? ”

Bao Yuzhen shook his head and said: "President, this will definitely not work, the number of dead in the Second Army is too large, if all of them are handled according to the pension of the National Defense Army, the cabinet will have to resign!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and said: "Since this is the case, I will send a note to the southeastern countries and North Korea to meet the families of these fallen soldiers and pay taxes and increase the welfare of their families!" ”

Everyone listened to Xiao Zhenlei's method and thought it was good. (To be continued......)