The night is long, but today the Prime Minister's Office is brightly lit, and a number of senior military and political officials, including Hitler, are sitting here waiting for something.
Many people sitting there looked a little uneasy, as if the word anxiety was written on their faces. As for Hitler, it was not as obvious as others, but if you look closely, you can see the anxious side in his eyes.
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And the anxious waiting always seemed so long, but tonight they had to wait.
And just when everyone was getting a little anxious waiting, a staff member rushed in with a telegram.
"The Poles just attacked our border post and we repelled their attack."
Göring immediately grabbed the telegram and handed it to Hitler.
When Hitler saw this telegram, the joy in his eyes could no longer be hidden. He held the telegram high and shouted, "This is evidence of Poland's invasion. We need to fight back."
Hitler's words were like a signal, immediately causing others to echo loudly. Everyone at the scene was thinking that the Führer's words were better, and the stone in everyone's heart finally fell.
Hitler was very satisfied with the performance at the scene and immediately ordered to leave. "Prepare the car, I want to go to the Congress to give a speech."
He was the only one who went to the Congress. A large number of senior military and political officials, including Goering, rushed to the Congress. By the time a group of people rushed to the Congress, these members had already arrived. They could call all the members from their beds to the Congress.
, it seems that the German government is quite efficient.
Hitler stood on the podium and said loudly to the congressmen below. "Just now, the evil Polish army just attacked one of our outposts and was repelled by our loyal soldiers. We also left their
Corpses as evidence. This is a naked violation of Germany, and Poland has always forcibly occupied Danzig, our country's inherent territory, and they ignored our country's reasonable requests. Now they are even more aggressive in attacking our army. We will never tolerate this kind of thing again.
Happened. We want to declare our tough attitude towards Poland, that is, go to war, and we want to use war to let the Poles know that we are not inviolable."
Hitler's words caused cheers at the scene, and many people also shouted, "War, war..."
As the congressmen present cheered, war was inevitable. Goering and others on the side also cheered together, but there was no expression of excitement in their eyes, and they looked like they had already rehearsed.
With Hitler's words, the war between Germany and Poland broke out.
Of course, in addition to declaring war on Poland, Hitler would not forget that he still had allies. Just when Hitler declared war on Poland in the Reichstag, a telegram was sent from Berlin to Bucharest.
Edel, who had been waiting for the news for a long time, had already gathered together with Prime Minister Mihalakai, Deputy Prime Minister Kerstev, Chief of General Staff General Freit and others.
After receiving the news, Edel put down the telegram and said to the people present, "Germany has declared war on Poland, and Hitler sent a telegram asking us to fulfill our obligations."
Edel's words immediately aroused a violent reaction, and Foreign Minister Kostel was the first to speak. "Your Majesty, since our country has agreed to Germany's war with Poland, it is natural that there can be no more hesitation, and it is natural that we need to follow the agreement."
Costel's words caused everyone present to agree that all the benefits that should be gained from the previous negotiations have been fully reaped. There is nothing to hesitate about taking action next. If it is still half-prompted now, it will not be good for Romania.
After everyone was in favor of war with Poland, Edel went on to ask the prime minister. "How long will it take now for us to move to a war economy?"
Prime Minister Mihalaka naturally knew Eder's intentions. There was no need for a wartime system to fight Poland. It was not that the Prime Minister despised Poland's strength, but that he had participated in the military's analysis of the strength of the Polish army before. According to Hoffman
In the words of the lieutenant general, Poland cannot withstand Romania's all-out attack for half a year. If the combat effect is excellent, the war should be over within three months.
The reason is that the Polish army is still fighting with the old ideas of World War I and has not stopped the Romanian army, which has adopted new fighting concepts. In his estimation, as long as Romania itself does not make mistakes, the war will be over in half a year.
Yes, Lieutenant General Hoffman overestimated Poland's strength, but the Prime Minister didn't know it. But when Edel asked about the time of the wartime economic transformation, he knew that this was not prepared for Poland, but for the people behind the scenes.
Britain and France. As long as Britain and France do not give up Poland, Romania will go to war with it, and the wartime economy is also prepared for them.
Therefore, he did not dare to neglect and immediately told the government's estimated time. "Your Majesty, it will take about eight months to completely transfer the economy to wartime. This is also based on the fact that we have gradually reached a semi-mobilization state before."
The transformation of the wartime economy cannot be determined in one or two sentences. It involves all aspects of society. First, it is necessary to establish and improve a unified management organization, and use administrative, legal, economic and other means to conduct unified management of the national economy. Then
It is necessary to prepare a development plan, reallocate economic resources, rapidly expand military production, build and expand military industry enterprises, organize civilian product production enterprises to switch to military products, and expand strategic material reserves.
We must also accelerate the development of national defense science and technology and accelerate the development of national defense technology.
Transform research results into production, accelerate breakthroughs in key technologies, and develop new weapons and equipment. In addition, adjust the economic layout, especially rationally allocate key enterprises and facilities in national defense science and technology, defense industry, transportation and other departments, and strengthen the protection of important economic targets.
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At the same time, it is necessary to build new railways and highway transportation networks, recruit various means of transportation, and implement military control over the transportation, postal and telecommunications sectors.
In addition, it is necessary to implement wartime fiscal and financial policies, issue domestic public bonds, raise foreign debts, increase taxes, and issue additional currency when necessary to ensure wartime financial needs.
We also implement a unified price policy and strictly control the price increase. We implement wartime basic food control and supply policies, limit the daily consumption of residents and social groups, implement limited supply, and implement a physical rationing system when necessary.
These all require coordination by the government, so being able to completely transform the economy in eight months is considered quite fast for Romania.
After getting the time given by the Prime Minister, Edel did not ask any more questions. It seemed that he was quite satisfied with it.
"Okay, everyone, go get ready. Next, we need to deal with work from all aspects. Admiral Freit will stay for a while."
Edel waited until everyone else had left and then asked the Admiral. "I'm not worried about the Army. This time I mainly want to ask, what's going on with the Navy's preparations?"
That's right, Edel was not worried at all about Romania's participation in the war against Poland. Although the Romanian troops participating in the war were only more than 300,000, they were all Romania's elite soldiers. Six of the seven armored divisions participated, and eight motorized troops participated.
There are 6 divisions among them. The other units are all units with outstanding military achievements, and there is absolutely no problem in dealing with a Poland.
In addition, the Air Force also concentrates most of the new fighters for combat in Poland. You must know that the Air Force currently has more than 3,000 new fighters of various types, organized into more than 20 wings. The Romanian Air Force has the same organization as Germany
Basically, 12 fighter planes form a squadron, 3-4 squadrons form a group, and 3-4 groups form a wing. The wing is also the basic tactical unit of the Romanian Air Force.
So Edel is not worried about his army at all, but he is a little unsure about the opponents that the Romanian Navy needs to face, the British and French navies. However, the navy currently has a plan and is quietly making preparations.
Edel asked Freit to inquire this time because Admiral Romodan was so busy that he did not attend the meeting today.
"Your Majesty, the preparations for the navy are going quite smoothly so far. The main issue is the deception issue that needs to be resolved."
Admiral Freit is one of the few people in the army who knows about the navy's plans, but he doesn't pay much attention to this matter. Because he doesn't understand naval operations, and he has a lot of things to do himself, so he doesn't have much energy to pay attention to the navy's plans.
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Edel knew that he was a little too abrupt in asking Freit. After thinking about it, he asked, "The war against Poland is about to begin. Do you have confidence?"
"Your Majesty, we are confident that we can seize the territory that should belong to our country within a month."
Listening to Freit's words, Edel couldn't help but feel reassured by the Army.
