Facing the king's words, Preshan walked to the large map of Romania and began to explain. "Your Majesty, let's talk about the offensive plan first. Here we first need to mobilize 400,000 militiamen to form a new army. This is estimated to be completed within a week.
Complete the reorganization. The second mobilization of reserves must also be accelerated. Within fifteen days after the mobilization of the militia, the second batch of reserves must also enter the military camp. In addition, the third batch of mobilization must also be mobilized within three months.
Because of the insufficient military training of this batch of mobilization troops, they will be incorporated into the army as supplementary troops after receiving sufficient training in the military camp."
At the end, Chief of General Staff Preshan smiled and said to Eder. "These are basically what General Courtois is doing. I am just responsible for explaining."
General Courtois, who is the Minister of the Army, said modestly. "No, there is still a lot of help from the General Staff, and Lieutenant General Freit has given a lot of help."
Hearing General Courtois mentioning himself, Lieutenant General Freit, as the director of education, also nodded to the king. In recent years, Lieutenant General Freit has been doing a great job as director of education, and
In the military, he appears to be very low-key. He is usually not seen making any comments at all, except for his own work. Many people say that he is becoming more and more high-ranking.
After Plesan finished talking about the mobilization mechanism, he began to talk about troop allocation. "Your Majesty, in our latest combat plan, we need to concentrate our forces to capture Transylvania first."
Regarding Preshan's words, the military leaders present here, including Edel, agreed. In countless past deductions, as long as the Austro-Hungarian Empire was involved, the number one goal was to capture Transylvania.
Because as long as you turn over the map, you will find that Romania looks like a U-shaped letter, and Transylvania is in the middle of the U-shaped letter. The Austro-Hungarian army occupying Transylvania can condescendingly attack most of Romania.
Threat, so once a war breaks out with the Allies, capturing Transylvania will become the primary target. Otherwise, as long as the Austro-Hungarian army remains silent in Transylvania, Romania will need to defend everywhere, and according to Romania’s military strength, this is
unreasonable.
The terrain of Transylvania is also formed by three mountain ranges: the Carpathian Mountains, the Southern Carpathian Mountains and the Apuseni Mountains. The highest of them is of course the Carpathian Mountains at the junction of Roo and Austria.
The Apsene Mountains, which are now at the junction of the Southern Carpathians and other parts of Hungary, have become the focus of the military's attention. Because to resist the huge Austro-Hungarian army, they can only rely on the Apsene Mountains for defense, which is economical.
Valuable troops are used elsewhere.
Preshan explained the General Staff's plan to Edel. "Your Majesty, our attack on Transylvania is planned to be carried out from three aspects. The first is the North Army Group. We plan to assemble 9 divisions.
Kuu is the assembly base. Break through the northern mountain passes such as Krakan and Prots. The operational goal is to capture Ryak and then conquer Odosesk."
After General Pulje finished talking about the plan for the northern route, he talked about the south. "Next is the Southern Army. We plan to assemble 15 divisions with Volcha and Targuzhiu as assembly areas. However, the goals of the Southern Army are different.
It is Sibiu and Deva. After capturing Deva, the Southern Army Group needs to leave three to five divisions, depending on the situation, to defend the Austro-Hungarian army coming from Tamesburg and Adela. Then the South
The rest of the army group gathered and took Alba Iulia."
After spending a long time talking about the Southern Group Army, Pleshan continued. "Finally, there is the Central Army Group in the middle. We plan to assemble 11 divisions of troops, with Buzau and Ploiesti as assembly areas.
The task is heavy and we need to capture Brasov as soon as possible and reinforce the northern and southern armies."
"If all our goals can be successfully accomplished, then the Central Army will be split to supplement the northern and southern armies. The strengthened Northern Army will take Targu Mures, while the Southern Army will need to take Tour.
In the end, we will work together to capture Cluj, the core city of Transylvania. Then, we will leave 25 to 27 divisions to use the Apuseni Mountains for defense, so that 8 to 10 divisions will be available for defense.
Other directions.”
Edel has seen such a plan more than once. Each time, it requires gathering most of Romania's standing divisions and new divisions with high combat effectiveness. Romania's intensive training of militiamen in recent years has been very effective. Now, among the militia members
Not to mention the basic infantry, even the artillery, communication, and chemical defense troops are well trained. If it is formed, the gap will not be too big compared to the standing division. The only drawback is that it costs more.
Sure enough, after General Priest finished talking about the Transylvania offensive, he talked about other directions. "In the Moldavia area, we have prepared 16 divisions to defend the enemy troops coming from Galicia.
Among them, we are in Suceava, where we are most likely to encounter. We have prepared 4 divisions of troops, and because it is a plain area, our General Staff specially allocated a 210 heavy artillery regiment and a 150 cannon regiment to them. In Iasi
We have also prepared four divisions, as well as a 210 heavy artillery regiment. In Galati, we have also prepared three divisions for defense, among which our largest 240 heavy artillery regiment is also deployed here. In addition, in Fu
Kenisha and Roman have deployed 2 divisions and 3 divisions respectively for mobile support, and in order to strengthen their firepower, we have assigned a 150 heavy artillery regiment to each."
"Is it appropriate to deploy most of the heavy artillery regiment here?"
When he finished speaking on Mount Ple, Edel asked curiously. You must know that these heavy artillery regiments of the Romanian army cost a lot of money. Is it too wasteful to use them for the defense of Moldavia?
Facing Eder's inquiry, General Pleishan explained. "Your Majesty, we believe that this is not a waste at all. We will encounter the German army on the eastern front in the Moldavia area. If there are no heavy artillery in the plains, I am afraid that
An army composed mainly of second-line troops will be unable to withstand the pressure and retreat."
The words of General Priest made Edel also fall into silence. He also knew very well what the German army represented in this era. Now it is obvious that the capture of Transylvania is the most important, and we can only rely on these second-line troops to defend it. Thinking of this, Edel felt
My heart is heavy.
The general on Pule Mountain continued to talk about the direction of Bulgaria. "Your Majesty, this is the battle in Bulgaria where we use the least troops but it is indeed the most critical battle."
Edel put aside his lament for the soldiers who would fight for the country in bloody battles, cheered up and said, "Continue talking."
"We also plan to attack in the direction of Bulgaria. However, the soldiers who make up the Bulgarian Army only have 8 divisions, but they are all elite troops of our Romanian army. Among them, the 1st and 2nd Guards Division will be used in this direction. They will use
Ruse and Suman are the assembly areas, with Pliven and Veliko Tarnovo as the primary targets. After occupying here, they will directly target Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. However, this requires the Allied troops gathered in Paralia, Greece, to contain
The main Bulgarian army is stationed in Salonika.”
After the general's explanation on Mount Pule, Edel clapped his hands twice to show his approval of the plan. He said to the three giants present. "This plan is good. I will seriously consider it. You can follow this plan."
Preparation."
Now we still need to look at the attitude of Britain and France towards Romania. In this situation, Edel can no longer sit still, so can the British and French governments still sit still?
