Romanian Eagle

Nor did the Bulgarian army sit idly by as they conquered Bulgarian towns and encroached on its territory along the Romanian route. Under the coordination of Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov, Minister of War, they are gradually drawing back troops from the Sehi front in Macedonia and Thrace.

The Serbs and the Greeks would not let Bulgaria transfer troops smoothly, because according to the agreement, the two countries would hold back the Bulgarian troops and create opportunities for Romania to attack Sofia. Among them, the Serbian army, under the command of Marshal Putnik, launched a two-hour attack on the Bulgarian army. After suffering a "heavy price" of 800 casualties, they stopped the attack.

The Greeks were more "valiant", they attacked the Bulgarian Second Army under the leadership of King Constantine I, and were defeated after suffering 200 casualties. It is also considered to fulfill the obligations of the alliance to Romania. Thanks to the "strong" offensive of the two countries, Bulgaria decided to change the army of the two fronts from 150,000 to 180,000. Among them, the newly recruited 90,000 people will be transferred to the fronts of the two countries. A total of 260,000 troops were also drawn from the Ottoman border, plus 60,000 recruited because of the Romanian invasion, to face the Romanian invasion.

However, it will take time for Bulgaria to assemble its troops, and the Romanian army is already approaching the targets of the first stage, Suman and Varna. Among them, the Romanian Third Army is ready to launch an attack on Varna, the largest port city in Bulgaria.

As early as the 6th century BC, the Greeks settled here and named it "odessos". In the second half of the 6th century AD, the Slavs poured in from the north and renamed it "Varna". In 1878, after the 10th Russo-Turkish War, the city was given to the new Bulgaria by the Russian army who liberated Bulgaria, and it has been the largest trading port city in Bulgaria ever since.

In the headquarters of the Third Army, Lieutenant General Salamik, commander of the corps, was explaining the essentials of the attack to Major General Deleguca, commander of the 1st Division, and Major General Gerasim, the commander of the 8th Division.

"You are attacking from the west and the north, respectively, and I will let the second artillery regiment support you. Due to the relationship with the coastal defense battery at Cape Vinov, the navy has no way to help, which requires you to capture the battery to get the support of the navy. "

Since Varna is close to the sea to the east and a small bay called Asperu to the south, the Romanian army can only attack from the west and the north, but because Bulgaria has few local defenders (more than 8,000 people from the 2nd Independent Brigade later 22,000 people were recruited to defend, but the lack of training and combat effectiveness is worrying), so the third army all believed that this battle would be resolved within three days

After talking about the full body offensive, Lieutenant General Salamik named Major General Gerasim of the 8th Division. "Major General Gerasim, your eighth division, when you need to launch an offensive to the north, send a regiment to capture Cape Vinov and take the coastal defense battery there. According to information, there are 2,000 coastal defense troops there."

Major General Gerasim, who was named, replied readily. "Please rest assured, Your Excellency,

Our eighth division has no problem. "

Lieutenant General Salamick saw that both were confident and spoke to them. "Then you go back and prepare, we will start the attack at ten o'clock."

After Lieutenant General Salamik finished speaking, the two major generals returned to their units to prepare for the upcoming attack.

In the second heavy artillery regiment, a 150 cannon has been deployed. Howitzers up to 9.5 kilometers and cannons with a length of more than 12 kilometers can completely suppress the small and medium-sized artillery pieces owned by Bulgaria. Now a giant line of circular artillery bunkers have been built, and a heavy artillery has been placed in the middle of the bunkers, surrounded by a 1.5-meter-high civil structure parapet for protection, and a trench behind the gun emplacement, these trenches lead to the Another ring-shaped bunker in the distance has a large amount of artillery shells hoarded in it.

When the clock pointed to ten o'clock, 54 150 guns of the 2nd Romanian Artillery Regiment opened fire. A shell weighing up to 45kg is an unbearable blow to Varna, a port city that is not a fortified city. Under the guidance of observation balloons, a large number of city defenses were reduced to ruins by Romania's excellent artillery bombardment technology, and the soldiers stationed among them were also turned into dust when they were hit.

After the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment opened fire, the Third Army concentrated 50 105 howitzers owned by the entire army and launched artillery fire on the Bulgarian soldiers stationed in the trenches outside the city. For a time, the defenders of Varna suffered huge casualties and pressure.

"You guys quickly find cover."

A Bulgarian officer, hiding behind a two-story house, shouted to several overwhelmed recruits standing in the street. After these few recruits heard the officer's voice, they planned to hide with the officer. At this time, he only heard the sound of "咻". The house that served as his bunker was blown up. The air wave pushed his military cap in front of several recruits. Seeing such a shocking scene, several recruits turned into birds and beasts.

Scenes like Varna are no longer rare. Many soldiers and civilians were crushed by houses destroyed by heavy artillery. For a time, a large number of panicked local people ran out of the street. Seeing their soldiers and civilians suffered heavy casualties, as guards Major General Shaknosov, the commander of the army, was furious.

I want to say here that he was a major general who was brought up the day before yesterday. Previously, he was only a colonel of the 2nd Independent Brigade. After Romania declared war on Bulgaria, he was urgently promoted to major general as the highest-ranking officer in Varna, and was responsible for commanding the defense of the city of Varna. After he declared war in Romania, he urgently recruited 14,000 people in the city as his own defensive force, and also recruited 8,000 people from the surrounding areas to strengthen the defense of Varna.

In the face of a large number of soldiers suddenly recruited, Varna did not prepare so many weapons at all. Major General Shaknosf searched Varna up and down, only to find 5,000 rifles. He took out more than 4,000 guns in stock from the Second Independent Brigade, but only more than 9,000 guns. He assembled these people into nine supplementary regiments, issued 1,000 rifles to each regiment, and then distributed bullets to soldiers without guns to pick up the rifles of dead soldiers.

The artillery bombardment of the Third Army lasted for an hour, and a large number of buildings in Varna City were destroyed. Due to economical reasons, most of the buildings in Varna now have brick and wood structures, and even in Romania, only large buildings use reinforced concrete structures. The reason is that the current steel is not cheap, and the cost is too high to use.

The 1st and 8th Divisions outside the city fired artillery fire at the Bulgarian positions with the Division 75 guns after the large-caliber artillery had ceased, and the two regiments, which were the first attack, also began a tentative attack.

"Get ready, the Romanians are coming."

A Bulgarian officer who was observing in the trenches shouted to the soldiers who were squatting in the trenches to avoid the shelling. Seeing that someone had not come forward, he stepped forward and kicked them down. Other officers are doing the same thing as him, and because of the presence of these officers in the position, the mood of the soldiers in the position is not bad.

Seeing that the attacking Romanian soldiers were still 400 to 500 meters away from the position, the officers in these positions kept walking on the battlefield to encourage the soldiers and shouted. "Hold on, don't shoot."

The officers only shouted after seeing the Romanian soldiers enter 300 meters. "shooting."

The Bulgarian soldiers, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, hated the death of the invaders and comrades, and shot the attacking Third Army soldiers through their weapons, which immediately led to a more precise counterattack from the opponent. In a pair of shots, the soldiers of the Third Army, relying on better shooting techniques, could not lift their heads on the pressured position.

"Come with me."

Seeing the suppressed Bulgarian soldiers on the ground, the Romanian commander in command of the battle shouted to the soldiers behind him.

After he finished speaking, Cheng Cheng got up and rushed towards the Bulgarian soldiers on the position. The Romanian soldiers behind him also rushed over with his superior. For a while in the position, the soldiers of both sides began a tragic fight.

The two commanders of the 8th and 1st divisions, who were watching behind him, saw this scene and ordered another regiment to be sent in reinforcements.

Finally, after two hours of fighting. Romanian troops took positions outside the city. The retreating Bulgarian soldiers retreated into the city along the traffic trenches.

In the headquarters of the Third Army, Lieutenant General Salamick, the commander of the army, frowned after watching the battle. He turned to the chief of staff beside him. "It seems that the next battle will be difficult to fight."

The chief of staff took the words of Lieutenant General Salamick and said. "It seems that the commander of the defense is a very smart guy."

After Lieutenant General Salamik heard the remarks from his chief of staff. said in a deep voice. "He wants to delay us to buy time for the main Bulgarian army, so it depends on his ability. I'm not afraid of street fighting."

After Lieutenant General Salamik finished speaking, he called a staff officer to order. "Give an order to the Second Artillery Regiment to focus on attacking the Bulgarian city fortifications. At the same time, the 1st and 8th Divisions also send a report to let them advance and clean up after the fortifications are broken. I want to see what he can do to defend the city. come guard."

Following the commander's orders, Romanian and Bulgarian soldiers began a tragic fight again.

The ps war scenes are not well written, and the steamed buns still have to be practiced, otherwise there will be a lot of wars behind how to write them.

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