Braving the drizzle, Lieutenant Colonel Meng Enfan, escorted by two soldiers, walked towards the regimental headquarters. In order to avoid the cold guns of the remaining German soldiers in the ruins, they walked as close to the wall as possible. The streets are littered with rubbish and debris, most of which are caused by collapsed buildings. Meng Enfan's face was as gloomy as the weather, and when he walked into the bungalow where the regiment headquarters was located, he ignored the salute of the soldiers of the guard company standing at the gate.

There was a gasoline drum in the area of the house, and a few firewood stumbling blocks were burned in it. A gas lamp hung above the table, illuminating the middle of the room. Meng Enfan took off his steel helmet and threw it on the table, found a chair and sat down, reached out to touch the paper cigarette in his jacket pocket, and the cigarette box he took out had been soaked by the rain and turned into a mess, he cursed, and threw the mess into the corner.

His raincoat had long since lost it, and his body was soaked, and it was very uncomfortable to stick to his body.

"Take off the roast and be careful of catching a cold." Someone next to him handed a cigarette, and he looked up, it was Tong Taiyue, the commander of the 2nd battalion, who was wearing only a shirt.

"Hey, I thought there was no one in the house. Silent like a ghost. The gas lamp brought a lot of shadows to the house, and Meng Enfan really didn't see that the commander of the 2nd battalion had already come, "What about the regiment commander?" Why isn't the chief of staff there? ”

"I only know that Regiment Commander Zhao has gone to the division headquarters. Hey, why is the dude so unhappy? Who owes you money and doesn't pay it back? Major Tong struck three matches in a row before lighting a fire for him.

"It's a terrible day." He took a big puff, then swallowed the smoke into his lungs and spit it out, the stuffiness in his chest seemed to have decreased a lot.

"I don't think the Germans can hold it anymore...... Why don't you let the fight just consume like this? What a fuck. ”

"There must be a hall of fame up there. Where do we who work so hard know? He finished the cigarette in a few puffs. Meng Enfan stomped the cigarette butt under his military boots.

The troops pursued the retreating Germans and stormed Bucharest, but were met with stubborn resistance from the Germans. They did not fight outside the city, but chose to fight in the streets. After a day's storm, the troops inexplicably received an order not to attack, only to monitor, and the troops and the Germans confronted the city.

The rain was falling heavily, and the tin roof of the regimental headquarters house was disturbed by the rain. Meng Enfan's bad mood came from the death of the guard Xiao Han in the afternoon, the young man who had followed him since he took over the 1st Battalion was only 19 years old, and he was hit by the cold gun of the Germans in the abdomen, and he had no time to evacuate, so he swallowed his last breath in his arms.

"You said there was a name for it. What is the hall of fame? The captives said they had received a death order to hold the city. ”

"I haven't fought this kind of battle. If a street arches one house at a time. I don't know how many people will die. Give me another cigarette. ”

The chief of staff and the commander of the 3rd battalion came in and hung their raincoats on the door, "The two of you have arrived, and the regiment commander was called by the division commander." Let's talk about it first. Let's talk about the situation. ”

"Got a? It's not the same as last night. I only took one building there. If you don't fight, you can't do it. The machine-gun blockade could not move. Tong Taiyue snorted.

"Oh, I know that. Battalion Commander Meng, where are you? Chang Fumin's qualifications are not as good as those of several battalion commanders, and he speaks with politeness and caution.

"Nothing has changed." Meng Enfan said in a muffled voice.

"You say. Why didn't the Germans retreat? What do you know you can't hold ontos? Shi Dachun picked up a kettle on the table and shook it, but the kettle was empty.

"Come on, go to the kettle of water." Chang Fumin shouted.

"Maybe they gave a death order from above, and they waited for reinforcements to arrive." Tong Camp Commander said.

"Reinforcements? Our reinforcements came up, and the 12th Army was just outside the city. Shi Dachun snorted.

"In this kind of place, there are too many soldiers to open it. Casualties increased. Chang Fumin said.

"If you want me to see, bring in the cannon and pull it down in one go." Shi Dachun said.

"In that case, the Romanians will hate us to death. Don't forget that this is the capital of the people! Chang Fumin said.

"Blowing up into rubble won't do us any good. Winter is coming soon, and the troops can't spend the winter in the field, right? Meng Enfan said.

Colonel Zhao Xin finally returned, "Brothers, I have good news for you. A division of the 12th Army had already crossed the mountains and inserted itself into the enemy's rear," he walked to the wall chart on the wall and found the point, "you see, here, if they take the city of Gyurgiu, what will the Germans hold onto?" Let's stick to the enemy from above, so that they don't escape. The battle is almost over. ”

"I see!" The question that bothered Meng Enfan had been answered. The initial rapid pursuit was because they were afraid that the Germans would run away, and the superiors were naturally reluctant to attack hard when they saw that the Germans would not retreat after entering the city.

"What? The 12th Army was inserted here? Fuck, they're going to be in the limelight right now. Shi Dachun screamed, "How can Commander Xiong give them such a job?" That's what we should do. ”

"That's it, if the enemy doesn't move, we won't move. Wait to make dumplings, these are three divisions, all Germans. Chief of Staff Shi was worried that the Germans would set fire to the city, and I think he was too worried. How does he burn this weather? Zhao Xin rubbed his hands and returned to the fire bucket, "Come over and bake clothes, be careful of catching a cold." I told you to prepare for a small attack, but now it's easy. After the meal, each of you returns to your unit and keeps a close watch on them to prevent them from escaping. ”

Zhao Xin was immediately proven to be a crow's mouth. A quarter of an hour later, the regimental headquarters cooks had just brought hot meals to several colonel-level officers, when the guard company commander broke in and said that there was a fire on the Germans' side!

"Damn it! The Germans are fleeing! Go back, hurry! Zhao Xin jumped up.

Wu Peifu's successful penetration of the 35th Division shook Falkingham's resistance in Bucharest. Originally, after the destruction of the Austrian 1st Army, Falkingham was evacuated from Romania, and the division sent by Mackensen was also withdrawn, and apparently, Mackensen also understood that Romania was finished. Air Force reconnaissance showed that the main force of the Chinese army, which had fought the Battle of Sinaia, had turned to the Eastern Front and pressed towards Mackensen, and he had to deploy a defense of the Danube.

However, Berlin strictly ordered him not to retreat, and to resist on the spot and wait for reinforcements. Helpless. Falkingham could only deploy the defense of Bucharest, and instead of placing his main forces outside the city to fight in the field, he retreated into the city and engaged in the most intractable and hated business of the generals. The two Chinese armies easily entered Bucharest, but were frightened by his elaborate street fighting. After a day of attacking, it stopped. Fakingham suspected that the Chinese had a trap and even abandoned Bucharest to withdraw to the Danube, but Ludendorff strictly ordered not to retreat.

Falkingham, who had sat in the wartime chief of the General Staff for two years, could understand Berlin's concerns. Now it was not only Romania's newfound brother that was a problem, but Romania's defeat led to the collapse of Germany's south-eastern European front, and if the powerful Chinese expeditionary force poured into Bulgaria, it would threaten Turkey. The situation of the war has deteriorated dramatically. The message transmitted by Mackensen said. On the Eastern Front, the Germans were planning a major operation to save the situation in Romania by striking a severe blow to the Russian army deep into Poland. Four divisions of German troops were already on their way to reinforcement and had to buy time to establish a solid defensive line along the Danube in order to turn the tide of the battle.

This is the right strategy. The group army that sacrificed itself for it did not hesitate. Therefore, despite the strict casualties of the troops, Fakingham fought with the Chinese for every inch of land in the city of Bucharest.

But. Falkingham and Mackensen never imagined it. A Chinese army actually crossed the front from east of Bucharest. Suddenly appearing on the banks of the Danube and seizing a railway bridge over the Danube, Yan zhòng threatens the safety of Gurgyu. There was a large stockpile of his armaments in the city of Gyurgyu, where there was only one regiment of troops...... The news shook Falkingham. If you lose it for a long time, your back road will be broken! Without waiting for orders from Mackensen or even Berlin, Falkingham, risking a court-martial, resolutely retreated and began to burn Bucharest. He left behind the broken troops and led the hastily assembled two broken divisions back south.

The light of the fire was an order, and the various units of the Chinese army that had invaded the city immediately took action, attacking the broken German army while extinguishing the fire. The rain finally sided with the Chinese, and due to the lack of fuel, Falkingham's plan to burn the city was not carried out ideally, and the 25th and 26th divisions of the 9th Army and the 13th and 15th divisions of the 5th Army quickly broke through the resistance of the German troops after the break, passed through the smoke-shrouded southern city, and pursued it hard. The 27th and 14th divisions that remained outside the city also received Xiong Xun's order, and quickly moved south, tightly biting the retreating troops of Fakingham, and striving to fight another battle of annihilation.

The news of the victory encouraged the exhausted troops. The city of Bucharest has become an indescribable hellish place, with a chaotic army mixed with civilians fleeing from the south to escape the fires, and gunshots, explosions and cries are everywhere. The team of the 1st Battalion was disorganized in the southward assault, and there were only sixty or seventy people around Meng Enfan, including more than a dozen officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion. A three-story building was destroyed by a massive explosion at the arsenal, leaving several soldiers buried under the rubble, and only two of them were still breathing.

By dawn, Lieutenant Colonel Mon Enfan had already crossed the southern city of Bucharest, and saw countless running soldiers surging on the main road to the south, he checked his rifle and ammunition on his body, and inserted dozens of officers and soldiers into the pursuing brigade.

Run, run with all your strength. All the roads south from the city of Bucharest were filled with Chinese soldiers in light gray military uniforms, "Bulgaria ahead, hurry, hurry...... The disheveled young soldiers giggled past Lieutenant Colonel Meng Enfan, who was gasping for breath on the side of the road with his rifles.

"Old Meng," Colonel Zhao Xin reined in his horse and jumped down.

"Commander, I can't run......"

"It's okay, run forty miles in one morning." Zhao Xin touched the sweat stains on the mount's neck, "What is this called?" The organization is completely chaotic, the officers cannot find the soldiers, and the soldiers cannot find the officers. If the enemy fights back, it's troublesome. ”

"Where can the enemy fight back? They're afraid it's even more chaotic. Meng Enfan took a few sips of the kettle handed by the regiment commander and the guard, and pointed to the piles of German prisoners in blue-gray military uniforms who were taken down, "As long as the interspersed troops are stuck, this German army will be dumplings by us." ”

What Falkingham feared most happened, Jiuerjiu was lost, and the Chinese army interspersed troops closed the door for him to cross the river and retreat, and the broken troops only bought him about four hours. As he charged at Gyurgyu, gunfire rang out behind him. Relying on the 20,000 remnants of the army in his hands is not enough to fight back with the imposing Chinese army. Feng. After careful weighing, General Falkingham made the decision that would ruin his reputation, discarding all his heavy weapons and ordering his troops to break out of the siege by separate routes.

From the afternoon of October 12, south of Bucharest, the Chinese pursued the scattered fleeing Germans and poured into Gyurgiu on the Danube. At 8 o'clock in the evening, the 15th and 35th Divisions met in Jiuerjiu. According to Xiong Xun's general order, Wu Peifu handed over Jiuerjiu to the troops of the 5th Army, and led the 35th Division to turn around and cross the river and pounce on Rusai.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force officially broke into another allied country, Bulgaria. Due to the rapid progress on the Western Front, he guided the rapid withdrawal of the Mackensen Army Group on the Eastern Front, and he used several bridges in his hands to withdraw his troops on the north bank of the Danube to Bulgaria. The Russian 9th Army moved slowly and did not catch the rapidly retreating German-Turkish-Bulgarian forces. By the time the Russian army returned to the Danube, those bridges had already been blown up. On October 14, Admiral Ye Yanbing finally arrived at Kollerasi on the north bank of the Danube, and was worried about the rough Danube. German long-range artillery blocked the river bank, making it difficult to build bridges and force crossings. After a telegram exchange with Xiong Xun, he decided to end the "Fudan" campaign ahead of schedule.

Closing in on Mackensen is no longer realistic. The key is that the three armies of the Western Front commanded by Xiong Xun need to be reorganized and rested, and after the capture of Russe, the Chinese army stopped.

Ye Yanbing needs to negotiate with Brusilov and the Russian High Command again, and ending the "Fudan" battle ahead of schedule will definitely lead to contradictions with Brusilov. Ye Yanbing didn't care about this, he needed to get instructions from China for the next move.

The 1st Army of the Expeditionary Force went to Romania and achieved a stunning result, they held three large-scale battles in a row, defeated the German 9th Army and the Austrian 1st Army, completely annihilated one German division and four Austro-Hungarian divisions, and killed and wounded about 50,000 enemies. 450 artillery pieces and countless military supplies were captured, and basically all of Romanian territory was recovered. Ye Yanbing's group army paid more than 20,000 battle losses, of which seventy percent were wounded. However, as many as 30,000 people have been affected by bad weather. Trucks were badly damaged and needed to be repaired with great effort, and troops that had been exhausted from continuous battles needed to be repaired for a longer period of time. After presenting these reasons, Ye Yanbing, despite Brusilov's obstruction, categorically terminated the "Fudan" campaign aimed at completely annihilating the Mackensen group ahead of schedule, and stopped his troops on both sides of the Danube River and turned to rest.

The Chinese-led campaign in Romania came to an end on 16 October. The greatest achievement of this war was not to turn the tide of the war in southeastern Europe, but to impress the Entente and even the whole world on China. Tsar Nicholas II, King George V and Prime Minister Henry Henry. Asquet, French President Raymond. Poincaré, King Albert I of Belgium, the United States and other major leaders of the Allied powers, and US President Wilson sent congratulatory and thank-you messages to President Long Qian of the Republic of China. General Wang Mingyuan, commander of the expeditionary force, who was on his way into Russia, received a telegram personally signed by the Tsar, inviting him to Moscow to discuss strategic issues on the Eastern Front.

The excellent performance of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Southeastern Europe has won China a greater diplomatic initiative. On 19 October, British War Secretary Kitchener convened a supreme military conference of the Allied powers in Paris with the participation of China to study and formulate a new strategy. The entry of only five armies into the battlefield brought the Entente a heavy victory that was enough to boost the morale of the army and the people, and if the Chinese army doubled or even tripled the number of troops on display, the crumbling Russian front would be completely changed.

The US Government decided to speed up the contents of the "Boston" Agreement on aid to China, and a large amount of equipment funds poured into China, setting off a new round of construction upsurge. Britain and France, in gratitude to China for turning the tide in Romania, pledged to underwrite up to £40 million of Chinese war bonds. (To be continued......)