1905 passed quickly, and Edel's efforts were slowly changing the historical trajectory of Romania. Industrial equipment from Germany was being continuously sent to Romania, growing this small Balkan country. Everything made Edel feel excited.
Today is a big day for the army to reorganize the first batch of troops. Accompanied by Edel, Pleshan and others, Carol I personally inspected the reorganized troops.
"Your Majesty, please look at the newly reorganized 2nd Guards Division in front of you. They were reorganized from the abolition of personnel from the 3rd Guards Division and the 3rd Guards Division. Most of the lower-level officers have gone through a period of training and are the elite of our army." Pulieshan pointed.
Said the neatly lined up team in front.
"I am very happy that you are doing a good job, and I hope you will continue your efforts." King Carol I said to Plesan beside him. "We will definitely organize the rest of the army, and it will be as powerful as your Majesty." Pleshan said to
The old king replied. After all, the old king had limited energy. After inspecting for a while, he was physically and mentally exhausted and returned to the palace, leaving Edel to continue the inspection.
"Now tell me about your difficulties." Edel asked Pleshan.
"Your Highness is currently short of Mauser 98 rifles, which are still short of 20,000. The remaining soldiers are still using Manshali 1895 rifles. The artillery is also short of 16 105 light howitzers. The field hospital is also short of medical equipment and logistics troops.
We are still short of 1,200 horses, and the communication equipment is not enough." Puleshan complained to the crown prince. He had never experienced such a large-scale reorganization before, and it was normal to have some problems.
Edel was startled and asked, "Let the existing arsenal make the rifles. The rest can only be solved gradually after it is completed. Use the current equipment for a while. Then buy medical equipment and communication equipment from Germany." The crown prince also had the same idea in his mind.
He said distressedly.
This was the result of Edel's own poor thinking. Edel had only purchased 30,000 rifles before, and did not purchase enough artillery. Edel had a good idea before and planned to slowly build it himself, but now he can only make do with it.
"Okay, Your Highness." Pulieshan and other senior military officials did not expect the crown prince to solve the problem immediately. They mainly wanted to complain so that the crown prince could understand the actual difficulties of the army. Pulieshan saw the crown prince worrying about military supplies, and
Decided to tell some good news otherwise he would look a little incompetent. "Now the combat effectiveness of a reorganized division in the army is 20% higher than that of an unorganized division."
Edel immediately became interested when he heard the interest. "Have you done any exercises before?" the crown prince asked the chief of general staff. "Before, we only did it at the battalion and regiment level. Later, we didn't have time to do it." Plesan answered the crown prince's question.
"You can do it at the division level this year and let the whole army see the results." Edel said with great interest. The Chief of General Staff of Plesan made some calculations and said, "This is estimated to not be ready until May.
""At that time, I will let the king come to visit the exercise." Edel said to the chief of general staff that he would make his own decision. The final result of the discussion was to hold division-level military exercises in May.
After inspecting the army, Edel came to the Prime Minister's Office and met Prime Minister Stewart. "Didn't His Highness go to inspect the army? How come you have time to come to the government?" Prime Minister Stewart asked straight to the point, and Edel responded.
"The main reason is that the army still lacks some medical and communication equipment and needs some funding from the government."
"How much money is needed for this?" Prime Minister Sturley asked, fearing that the Crown Prince would speak loudly. "It's not much, just 5 million marks." Edel knew what the Prime Minister was thinking. "This is easy to handle. I will ask the Ministry of Finance to grant it to the army.
." Prime Minister Sturley breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the numbers. As if he was afraid that the crown prince would regret it, Edel bid farewell to the Prime Minister with satisfaction and returned to the palace.
After a while, Henry Coanda came excitedly and told Prince Edel that his airplane was ready, and invited the crown prince to visit his test flight. Edel immediately became interested and wanted to see the masterpiece of the Romanian flying pioneer.
So he agreed.
The next day Edel came to the suburbs dressed in casual clothes. There was a large group of people surrounding a flat grassland. In the middle, he saw Henry Coanda's precious aircraft. Except for the two layers of the wings covered with canvas, the whole body was a skeleton structure.
The seats are still sewn from two pieces of leather, and Edel's concept of airplanes has been refreshed.
Henry Coanda said something to his assistant with a smile on his face. Edel did not come forward, but stood on the side to see whether the flight plan could succeed.
"Go and tell him to start when he is ready." Edel ordered a guard beside him. The guard nodded and walked to Henry Coanda and told him what the crown prince meant. Henry Coanda looked around and saw Edel
, the crown prince motioned to him not to come over, Henry Coanda nodded and prepared for the flight. In order to ensure the success of this flight, Henry Coanda and his assistants had already carefully inspected this very primitive aircraft.
The crowd dispersed when they saw Henry Coanda sitting on the aircraft. As the assistant started the engine, the propeller began to rotate. When the propeller rotated to a certain speed, the assistant moved away the stone blocking the wheels of the aircraft. The aircraft moved more and more
Quickly, the aircraft left the ground after gliding two hundred meters.
At this moment, the people around him cheered loudly. Henry Coanda waved back and forth to the people on the ground in the sky, venting his excitement. He thought about how he was looking for sponsors for funds and working day and night to build aircraft. He was flying into the sky.
For a moment, everything was worth it.
Henry Coanda landed after flying more than ten kilometers in the sky. The crowd rushed forward to greet the hero of this flight. Reporters also stepped forward to take photos of Henry Coanda and asked to interview this hero.
Seeing the completion of this flight, Edel stepped forward to congratulate the pilot. "Henry Coanda, this is a successful flight. I hope you will continue to work hard to build better aircraft." After hearing the encouragement from the crown prince, Henry Coanda
He replied with a smile. "The success of this flight is inseparable from the strong support of the Crown Prince, otherwise I would not be able to build an aircraft." The next day, the newspaper reported the flight on the headline, and the headline was that Romanians also flew into the sky.
, which made Henry Coanda a household name.
Edel looked at the newspaper and thought that the Romanian Air Force was established. Although it is still budding, he has plenty of time to wait for it to grow and bear fruit, but it still needs to be watered and fertilized. Thinking of this, Edel called Carus.
The chief of the special guard said, "The funding for Henry Coanda can be increased to 30,000 pounds." The chief of the guard nodded and went out.
