Bucharest in March is full of spring, and on this day its owner returns.
After staying in Bulgaria for almost a year, Edel finally returned to the city he is most familiar with. Although he has stayed in Bulgaria for almost a year, he still knows very well who his base is.
Moreover, there are piles of official documents from Romania waiting for him to deal with. Although official documents from Romania can also be processed in Bulgaria, it is troublesome that many things cannot be asked clearly in person.
For example, he needs to handle matters related to the expansion of the army. Since telegrams can easily leak secrets, it would be possible to recruit Chief of General Staff General Freit to Sofia, but this would waste too much time and be too conspicuous.
So when he returned to Bucharest this time, in addition to meeting his long-lost family for the first time, Edel had to deal with a lot of military and political affairs.
It should be noted here that Prince Victor's career in the military academy is over. The naughty and mischievous devil is gone forever. He reappears in his son in front of Edel, and his strong military temperament cannot be concealed. And
Edel threw his son who graduated from the military academy into the Guards to give him some more training.
After all, my situation at the time was different from that of my son, and I was not as old as my father, Carol, so I had plenty of time for my son to exercise slowly.
After taking care of the family affairs, Edel immediately threw himself into the busy work. After finishing the work piled on his hands, Edel summoned General Freit to discuss the military's expansion plan.
Speaking of this military expansion plan, it is actually inseparable from the economic impact. Romania's economic stimulus plan is now coming to an end, and the impact of the over-issuance of currency is gradually reflected. Moreover, Romania also lacks product dumping grounds.
The impact of expanding production but lacking dumping grounds is also gradually emerging.
Although Romania is gradually expanding its sales in the Balkans and the Far East, the expanded market is far from being able to compare with the explosion of production capacity. The current manufacturing PMI index is obviously declining, which has obviously put heavy pressure on the government.
This impact has already been revealed in the statistical data at the end of 1934. The domestic economic growth was only 5.1%. Although this is still not low, it is much lower than the previous data. You must know that even in 1930, the domestic economic growth was
higher than 6%.
And this also shows that the effect of large-scale economic stimulus has failed, and the problems that were previously concealed by economic growth are gradually coming to the surface. This is also the main reason why Edel has to rush back to Bucharest. To put it bluntly, this is because Romania lacks a large enough market.
to accommodate its explosive production of goods.
Of course, the government is not doing nothing. It has export tax rebates, encourages industrial upgrading, and strives to open up markets. Romania has successively signed economic and trade cooperation agreements with the Czech Republic, Sweden, Latvia and other countries to expand the market for domestic goods and at the same time encourage consumption domestically.
, so that people can buy more goods.
However, Romania has always been an export-oriented economy. Although the wealth of the domestic people is not bad in the Balkans and Central Europe, there is still a gap compared with Western Europe, so the number of products that can be consumed domestically is limited.
At this time, the problem facing Romania actually had only one solution, which was to expand its military and prepare for war, and use the military industry to stimulate domestic demand.
This decision must be made by Edel himself. Others cannot and dare not make it, so this time Edel needs the military's opinion.
"Your Majesty, this is the plan prepared by the military."
Chief of General Staff Freit handed this carefully prepared plan to Edel. This military expansion was carefully prepared by the military after receiving Edel's hint. And this is not just an army expansion plan;
Some changes made to the Romanian build.
Edel opened the plan and saw at first glance that in order to meet the needs of future wars, the Romanian division-level troops need to be supplemented to a certain extent. Based on previous war experience and the adaptation of new equipment, the Romanian division-level troops are now
Make the following changes.
The first is to strengthen the divisional troops. First, the number of cavalry in the current divisional reconnaissance battalion is reduced and armored vehicles are added to improve its control of the battlefield. The 315 horses in the reconnaissance battalion are changed to 154, adding 27 vehicles.
Armored vehicles and 48 motorcycles.
Secondly, in response to the current air defense needs, an air defense battalion was added to the division's troops, with 12 20mm anti-aircraft guns, 38 wheeled vehicles, and 347 officers and soldiers.
The artillery regiment also needs to be reorganized. The current 75-caliber artillery of the division will be transferred to the infantry regiment to improve its independent combat capability. The artillery regiment will be newly equipped with 36 105 howitzers, 12 cannons, and 8 150 howitzers. Motorcycles
40 vehicles, 150 wheeled vehicles, 129 carriages, and 1,274 horses.
In addition, the anti-tank company will also be upgraded to a battalion, which will have 36 50mm anti-tank guns, 45 motorcycles, 96 wheeled vehicles, and 481 officers and soldiers.
In addition, the division's baggage regiment: 2,100 men, 30 light machine guns, 88 motorcycles, 283 wheeled vehicles, 195 carriages, and 535 horses.
In addition to strengthening the various units under the division, changes have also been made in the infantry regiment. The three battalions under the infantry regiment remain unchanged, but the regiment has a mixed artillery battalion with 12 75mm infantry guns and 81
18 mm mortars, 8 50 mm anti-tank guns, 47 motorcycles, 93 wheeled vehicles, 180 carriages, and 483 horses. The regiment has 3,340 officers and soldiers, 126 light machine guns, and 36 heavy machine guns.
The infantry battalion has 860 people: 32-person battalion headquarters (including command squad, communications team, and engineer squad), 3* infantry company of 603 people, 1* fire support company (177 people), and combat supply team of 28 people.
The infantry company has 201 people: 11 company headquarters, 3* infantry platoon, 7 anti-tank vehicle team, and 33 logistics personnel.
Infantry platoon of 50 people: components: 6-man platoon headquarters, 4* infantry squad, 3-man mortar team, and 1 cook.
Infantry squad of 10 people: Components: squad leader, 3-man machine gun team, deputy squad leader, and five infantrymen.
According to this organization, a standard infantry division in Romania after reorganization will have an organization of up to 17,500 personnel, an increase of more than 2,000 personnel compared with the previous one. The additional personnel are mainly in the division-level affiliated units, and of course the infantry regiments are also increased.
, is also expanded to the affiliated troops.
The equipment of the entire division is as follows: 3681 pistols, 12609 rifles, 321 submachine guns, 90 anti-tank guns, 425 light machine guns, 110 heavy machine guns, 84 50mm mortars, 81
54 mm mortars, 36 75 mm guns, 36 105 mm light howitzers, 12 105 mm cannons, 8 150 mm heavy howitzers, and 9 flamethrowers.
