Soviet Russia began to deploy troops and generals on a large scale, which was completely hidden from Romania's sight.
In fact, ever since Eder planned to annex the Western Ukraine region, intelligence work on Soviet Russia has become the top priority of the Romanian intelligence department. Its priority level has been higher than that of Britain, France, the United States and other countries. Therefore, when its southern front army began to behave abnormally, it
News that Soviet Russia may intend to launch a war has been spread back to the country.
After all, the Romanian intelligence service has been deeply involved in Russia for many years. Even if Soviet Russia came to power, its hidden intelligence personnel would not be eliminated.
Faced with the news that the Soviet Union might provoke a war from the intelligence agency, Edel, after reading it, replied, "I understand."
Edel was already prepared for the Soviet Union's intention to provoke a war. After all, the deep-seated greed of the Russians cannot be changed by a change of government. And at this time, Romania is not afraid of the Soviet Russian army.
The current Soviet Russian army is not the torrent of steel that will be so famous in later generations and scare the whole of Europe.
Nowadays, the Soviet Union's division-level troops generally have 10,000 to 15,000 people, and the machine gun configuration is only between 130-160. The main artillery configuration of suppressing firepower only has 40-50 cannons, which are basically
It is a 76.2mm and 57mm caliber mountain field gun.
To put it bluntly, the weapons and equipment of the Soviet Russian army have declined somewhat in terms of artillery, machine guns and other technical equipment compared with the Tsarist Russia period.
However, compared with the Tsarist Russian period, the morale of the army is much higher. And when morale is high, when the gap in weapons and equipment is not too big, it often has the upper hand. This is also the case with the White Guards, which is mainly composed of Tsarist Russian troops. This is why
This is the reason why they repeatedly failed to defeat the Soviet Red Army.
However, the Soviet Red Army could only defeat the White Guards. Compared with the Romanian army, it was completely incomparable.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the Soviet Red Army's main enemy being the White Guards, and the inaction of the Allied Intervention Forces. After all, the strength of the British and French armies (which did not work hard) has been seen, so why are they afraid of the Romanians who are far inferior to the British and French troops?
When the Soviet Union was preparing to provoke this war, the Romanians were not idle either.
Since the annexation of Western Ukraine, the Romanian military has concentrated its forces on Ukraine. All units have moved towards the Ukrainian frontline from their previous locations.
In addition, Major General Sarda and Captain Carruster, who were purchasing arms in Germany, were also purchasing large quantities of arms. Weapons and ammunition in warehouse after warehouse were loaded onto trains by German stevedores and transported to Romania.
Britain, France and other countries gave Romania the green light to purchase from Germany. As long as Romania wanted weapons, they immediately asked Germany to ship them. For a time, the loading and unloading workers were unable to move them, and a large number of arms piled up at the train station.
After learning about this situation, the British and French even paid their own money to hire other Germans to transport the goods. Moreover, the British and French also expressed their opinions to Major General Sarda and Captain Carruster in Germany that they would even be willing to transport the goods if there were not enough trains.
Emergency freight trains were deployed to help transport them.
It seems that for them to transport these arms to Romania, they look more like Romanians than Sarda and Calust.
Therefore, with the unremitting help of Britain and France, in one month; more than 700 LeFH18 and K16 artillery pieces, 200,000 G98 rifles, 3,000 G08 heavy machine guns, 200,000 tons of ammunition, and 20,000 tons of other materials,
Shipped to Romania.
So much so that the trains transporting arms have seriously affected the normal train operations of the countries along the way, greatly weakening their people's travel and material transportation. However, in the face of Britain, France and Romania, these countries dare not speak out.
After these weapons and equipment were transported to Romania, they were immediately transported to the front line in western Ukraine.
So much so that the General Staff racked their brains in order to find enough technical personnel to use them. In addition to drawing artillery personnel from various units, non-artillery soldiers and officers who had used artillery were immediately transferred to the artillery unit to form new ones.
prepared by.
Therefore, in just one month, in addition to the rapid expansion of Romania's division-level artillery establishment (from 72 artillery pieces to 108, and the addition of a LeFH18 105 howitzer battalion), Romania also added 3 independent artillery brigades (one brigade is equipped with 108 guns)
LeFH18 105 howitzer) and three heavy artillery regiments (one regiment is equipped with 54 K16 long-range cannons).
The machine guns have also increased from 156 to 238 per division (mainly due to the allocation of newly added heavy machine guns to companies, with each company adding two heavy machine guns). In addition, there are also engineer shovels, field telephones, raincoats, tents and other supplies.
, are also added together.
While Romania was busy preparing, the Western Front (the name had been changed), which represented Soviet Russia this time, finally completed the handover with the Southeastern Front.
"Take care, Comrades Belakun and Gusev. I wish you the early destruction of Denikin's White Army."
At the time of departure, Western Front Commander Yegorov and Political Commissar Stalin were saying goodbye to Southeast Front Commander Gusev and Political Commissar Belakun.
"You also take care, Comrade Stalin and Yegorov. I wish you an early defeat of the Romanians, and our Southeast Front Army will cheer for this."
Stalin and Yegorov waved goodbye to Belakun and Gusev, then got into the car. Under the escort of soldiers, they drove towards Kiev.
Belakun greeted Gusev and said: "Okay, now we will face Denikin alone."
"We are not afraid of him either. If we can drive him from near Moscow to Crimea, we can drive him into the sea."
"You are still so optimistic."
"That's the confidence of a Bushwick man."
"Hahaha"
Stalin and Yegorov were also talking as they left in the car, but they were talking about information about the Western Front.
Stalin, who was sitting in the car, said to Yegorov next to him: "The 14th Army has arrived in Kiev."
"Now we feel more at ease, at least we don't have to worry about Kiev being raided by Romanians."
Stalin added new news: "The 2nd Cavalry Army has set off from Kusk and is expected to arrive in ten days. In addition, the 9th Army sent a telegram saying that it encountered an enemy while passing through Mozili in Belarus.
In blizzard weather, the troops may move slowly and may not be able to meet the scheduled time."
After hearing that the 9th Army was unable to make up for the time, Yegorov cursed: "Damn weather."
"Comrade Stalin, please tell me if there is any other news."
Facing Yegorov's inquiry, Stalin shook his head and said: "We only have so much news at the moment, but it is news from our opponent Romania."
"tell me the story."
It seems that Yegorov is also very concerned about his opponent's situation.
"According to our information, Romania has purchased a large amount of arms from Germany. There are hundreds of artillery pieces, all with a caliber of 100 mm or more. According to analysis, they are the latest German LeFH18 105 howitzers and K16 Krupp 150
Cannons. In addition, there are a large number of machine guns, ammunition and other supplies.”
"It's not going to be a good fight now. These damn imperialists will be eliminated by the proletariat sooner or later."
After hearing the information Stalin said, Yegorov felt a little headache. These weapons and equipment would greatly threaten the safety of the Red Army soldiers, but he had no way. Maybe there was a way.
Yegorov came up with an idea and said: "We cannot let the Romanians safely send these arms to the front line. This is irresponsible to the soldiers. Can we, like other countries, encourage their workers to go on strike to support us?"
"
After hearing the suggestion given by Yegorov, Stalin shook his head and said: "The central government has considered this before, but according to the intelligence sent by our Romanian comrades, the stubborn forces in the country are very strong, and even they
We cannot directly propagandize under the banner of the Communist Party. And because its domestic public opinion has too many reactionary remarks, its deceived ordinary people are very hostile to us."
Stalin's words shattered Yegorov's idea of wreaking havoc from within. It seemed that only the battlefield could prove his strength.
