Romanian Eagle

It was a good night and there was no moonlight at night, which greatly inspired the generals who were preparing for the night attack. At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the soldiers were called to eat, and then they started to move towards the Romanian right-wing position, intending to give them a hard time to relieve themselves. The resentment of being shelled these days.

On the Romanian right-wing position late at night, the officers and soldiers of the defending 12th Division carefully observed the situation in front of them. The fact that Bulgaria loves sneak attacks has long been known to them through the propaganda of the two countries. Therefore, all positions are strictly guarded these days. The flares were also fired every few minutes, which made the night attack of the Fourth Division even more difficult. But this time they are going to go no matter how difficult it is, because Bulgaria will not be able to withstand the frontal battlefield.

In the front line of the 12th Division, a captain was holding a telescope to observe the movement in Bulgaria under the light of the flare. At this time, he noticed that a field of grass moved at a distance of 500 meters. When he planned to observe again, the flare has gone out.

"Fire the flares on the right side again."

The dutiful captain had the artillery fire another flare.

"Bang" another flare illuminated everything in front of the position, which exposed the unexpected Bulgarian soldiers. Seeing the dense crowd of Bulgarian soldiers in front of the position, the captain roared without hesitation.

, "Night attack."

Then he took out a flare gun and shot the red flare, representing the night attack, into the sky. Seeing that their intentions were exposed, the officers and soldiers of the Bulgarian Fourth Division no longer concealed it, and stood up and quickly rushed towards the Romanian position, intending to rush into the trenches when the Romanian army did not respond. However, their intentions were clearly seen through, and the numerous machine guns on the Romanian positions made their ideas unrealistic. For a time, the Bulgarian soldiers were blocked from moving at a distance of 300 meters in front of the position.

This made the division commander Major General Vidic very anxious, and he ordered the staff behind him. "Let the artillery strike knock out the fire on the Romanian positions."

When Major General Vidic ordered the artillery, news of the Bulgarian night attack also reached the Romanian headquarters. When Eder heard the news of the Bulgarian night attack, he ran into the command hall without even bothering to wear his military uniform. Seeing that the crown prince came out wearing only a shirt, it was also the just-arrived chief of staff, General Courtois, and the deputy chief of staff, Major General Procy, who came up to greet him.

Edel asked before they could speak. "How is the front line now?"

Hearing Edel's question, Major General Prossi, who had read the telegram, said it. "The position can still be held now, after all, we are not Serbs."

"So is our plan ready to use?"

Hearing the crown prince's question, Major General Procy looked at Admiral Courtois and said. "It can be done."

After hearing Major General Procy's words, Edel looked at Admiral Courtois, and when the Crown Prince asked questions, Admiral Courtois also said in agreement. "Since there is a rare chance of a Bulgarian attack, why don't we do it for them?"

After seeing that the two chiefs of staff were in favor, Crown Prince Eder gave a rare order to the staff. "Prepare to implement Plan V."

For a time, everyone in the command room started to get busy. In fact, the V plan was prepared in response to the Bulgarian night attack. In the plan, after the first-line position was attacked, it would gradually give up its resistance within an hour to make way for the gaps on the two wings, and two divisions would intercept three kilometers behind. At the same time, two divisions attacked from both sides. The division that finally opened the gap would close the gap with the reinforcements of the two divisions, and encircle the Bulgarian troops that had advanced into the position on a three-kilometer piece of land.

Now with the raids of the Bulgarian army, this program has also been implemented by the Romanian military.

At this time, the second, third and second divisions of the Third Army began to move.

They were to defend a position three kilometers behind the Twelfth Division to stop the Bulgarian assault. The 1st and 4th Divisions of the 1st Army were to be deployed on the flanks, ready to flank the Bulgarian army. The Eighth Division will move to the front line and prepare to close the doors of the Twelfth Division, while the Cavalry Division is also making preparations. They use battalions as units and plan to stop the slipping fish after dawn. An invisible big net prepared for the Bulgarian army for a time has begun to be prepared, and the Bulgarian army is still fighting hard to break through the position of the 12th Division.

"Call the artillery to fire."

The pioneer of the Bulgarian assault, Major General Vidic, the fourth division commander, shouted to the chief of staff beside him with red eyes.

It turned out that the Romanian machine guns had already killed many soldiers of the charging 4th Division, even though he had previously ordered the firing. But the machine guns in the Romanian positions were too cunning, and they usually shot a shuttle to another location. The previous artillery attacks were often a step too late, and they could not accurately hit the supporting firepower on the position, causing the charging Fourth Division to suffer a large number of casualties, causing the Fourth Division to be unable to attack.

Seeing such a scene, Major General Vidic, as the commander of the Fourth Division, was also very anxious. He could only order the artillery to continue to bombard the machine gun points on the Romanian positions, hoping to reduce the pressure on the frontline troops.

After almost an hour of fighting, the firepower on the position gradually decreased, and the Bulgarian soldiers could no longer stop the attack, and the soldiers entered the position. After seeing that his subordinates finally broke through the Romanian position, Major General Vidic's face finally turned cloudy like the weather, he said to the chief of staff beside him with a smile. "Despite the casualties, it's worth ordering everything."

The chief of staff also put down his worries and asked. "Then I'll send a telegram to the Fourth Army and ask them to follow up immediately."

Major General Vidic didn't look back, still raised the telescope in his hand and told him. "Go."

The news that the Fourth Division had broken through the Romanian first line of defense was quickly transmitted back to the general headquarters of the Bulgarian army, so that King Ferdinand I and Lieutenant General Savov, the Minister of War, who had been waiting for the news, were relieved of their burdens. None of them could sleep tonight, all awaiting the raid that would determine the fate of Bulgaria. Breaking the Romanian first line of defense this time is a good start.

The 4th Division, which was the vanguard, was in a breached position, and after the arrival of reinforcements from the 4th Army, it continued to advance towards the Romanian rear. The Fourth Army also sent two divisions to follow the Fourth Division to continue the advance, but they encountered resistance from the Romanian Second and Third Divisions three kilometers away. In the face of the ferocious fire on the Romanian positions, the Bulgarian army, which combined the strength of three divisions, completely made up for it. This made Major General Vidic, the commander of the 4th Division, secretly anxious. In their plan, if they could not break through the Romanian defenses before dawn, then their night attack would be a failure.

"The Romanian defense doesn't look good this time, and we're running out of time."

The chief of staff told Major General Vidic that he was worried. It was four o'clock in the morning. If the positions in front of them could not be breached before six o'clock, then their three divisions would be exposed to Romanian artillery.

After Major General Vidic heard the words of the chief of staff, he said it as if to cheer himself up. "We haven't captured this position at five-thirty, so we'll retreat."

Hearing his partner's unwillingness, the chief of staff only agreed. "Okay this time allows us to attack twice, if not, retreat."

Then the Bulgarian army launched a bigger offensive. A large number of soldiers bravely attacked the Romanian positions in front of them, completely ignoring that their comrades were hit by bullets and blown up by artillery.

"These Bulgarians fought very bravely." Lieutenant General Salamik, the commander of the Third Army, who observed the situation behind the position, commented on the Bulgarian troops.

"It's a pity that they can't resist bullets no matter how brave they are, and our Romanian army will do better than them when they attack." Lieutenant General Puleshan, the commander of the First Army, was obviously not optimistic about these Bulgarian troops.

Seeing the two army bosses in front of them, the other generals behind them didn't dare to interrupt.

However, the soldiers on both sides on the battlefield will not care about other things, and now they have to kill the enemy soldiers on the opposite side to protect themselves. However, in the confrontation between the two soldiers, the Romanian army, with its superior technology, and the defense of the trenches and the help of machine guns, pressed the Bulgarian soldiers.

When the Bulgarian army attacked to five o'clock, the 12th and 8th divisions, which had retreated to both sides of the front line, began to charge. The 15th Division of the Fourth Army, which was guarding the gap, faced the elite soldiers who had been training for several years in Romania. The new recruits were no match for these training for more than a month, and they were driven out of the trenches one after another.

The three Bulgarian divisions that were attacking were panicked as soon as they got the news, and they were about to withdraw their troops. The 1st and 4th divisions, who were waiting on the flanks, also rushed over from the two flanks to entangle them. The second and third divisions also rushed out of position. Faced with the siege of the four Romanian divisions, the Bulgarian army of the three divisions was completely unable to retreat, and could only watch as their back path was closed by the eighth and twelfth divisions of the Romanian army. Seeing that the three divisions of the Bulgarian army were encircled in this nine square kilometers of land, in order to avoid too many casualties, the Romanian army that entangled them also retreated.

This made Major General Vidic and the others uncomfortable. They knew that after the arrival of the Romanian army during the day, they would bombard them with heavy artillery. Under the attack of the large number of artillery pieces of the Romanian army, whether the young man they brought survived depends on God. will.

For this reason, the three divisions tried to take advantage of the eighth and twelfth divisions, which were defending the first-line positions, to launch a final attack when their footing was unstable. The repulsed Bulgarian 15th Division also tried to attack the position in order to meet the three encircled divisions, distracting the defenders. The Eighth and Twelfth Divisions, which were defending the first-line positions, endured the most violent attack in this battle.

"Machine gun suppression."

A Romanian officer on the position loudly gave an order to a Maxim machine gun group under his command. The main shooter is now completely ignoring the machine gun's operation manual, holding the trigger and holding down the trigger, frantically shooting the Bulgarian soldiers rushing towards the position. The offensive of the Bulgarian army in front of this position was suppressed under the fierce attack of the deadly main marksman.

Just when the officer breathed a sigh of relief, disturbed by the noise, an imperceptible gunshot sounded, and the life-threatening main shooter fell to the ground. After seeing the main shooter fall to the ground, the sub-shooter hurriedly stepped forward to fill his position. At this time, another shot was fired, and the sub-shooter also fell to the ground. This time, the officer used the flame of the muzzle to see the position of the cold gun. It was under the corpses of three Bulgarian soldiers, and a rifle quietly stuck out. He stepped forward and took the machine gun, and shot violently at the three corpses he was looking at. In front of the powerful firepower of Mark Qin's heavy machine gun, this time it really became a corpse.

The Bulgarian offensive continued until dawn, but the first-line positions guarded by the two Romanian divisions remained firmly in their hands. In the face of this situation, the surrounded Bulgarian army was completely desperate. At this time, the violent artillery fire of Romania came as scheduled. In the face of an unavoidable scene, a large number of Bulgarians were killed in action. Many people could not stand such an attack. The surrounded Romanian army surrendered.

In the end, only 23,000 troops of the 110,000 troops who raided the Romanian positions eventually retreated. Among them, 48,000 died and 39,000 were captured. Among the 39,000 captured, 11,000 were wounded.

After waiting for news from the headquarters that Crown Prince Eder saw the results of this battle, he knew that Bulgaria's peace was at hand. He plans to reward the meritorious servants with the awards after the battle, and those who should be promoted will be promoted.

Different from the laughter and laughter of the Romanian army, when King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and Lieutenant General Savov, the Minister of War, who were waiting for the news, got the news, their faces were paper-like and their eyes revealed deep despair.

Ferdinand I grabbed the Minister of War by the shoulder and asked in a desperate tone. "What shall we do now? What shall we do."

Lieutenant General Savov, who was startled by Ferdinand I, felt that the king was holding on to his shoulders. After he calmed down, his brain started to think quickly.

"Your Majesty, we must now withdraw our troops and abandon Tarnovo."

After hearing the advice of Lieutenant General Savov, Ferdinand I said with a blank eye. "Yes, now this is our last force, and we can't waste it here. We have to hurry back, we..."

Ferdinand I couldn't help but shed tears as he spoke. He was weeping for the shattering of the dream of Great Bulgaria, and also for the heavy casualties in Bulgaria this time.

Seeing that King Ferdinand I was out of control, Lieutenant General Savov was equally uncomfortable, but he still had to organize the evacuation of the army, but it was estimated that at least two divisions would be needed to break it down, and this breakup is estimated to be more fortunate. Then the First Army, which is now sticking to the position on the Tsarewicz Mountains, will not be able to withdraw, and now Lieutenant General Kudinchev can only make sacrifices.

To this end, he personally called Lieutenant General Kudinchev, but they had to stick to it for three days no matter what. Lieutenant General Kudinchev guaranteed by his own reputation that he would delay the Romanians for three days and give them a retreat.

After thinking about all this, Lieutenant General Savov began to prepare to evacuate. He first asked the Fourteenth Division to step up to reinforce the First Army, and then withdraw the Third Division. The now retreating raiding soldiers began to retreat to the rear after the reorganization of the Seventh Division.

After eliminating the three Bulgarian divisions attacking at night, the Romanian army began to attack the Bulgarian 1st Army, which was defending the position on Tsarewicz Mountain. This time they will face the three Romanian armies taking turns to attack, but the Bulgarian First Army, which was defending the position on the Tsarewicz Mountains, stubbornly defended after getting the firepower of other troops who were evacuated lightly. It was not until three days later that they were forced to retreat.

However, only 37,000 people were left when the First Army defending the position was evacuated. Together with the troops replenished to the First Army, they left 60,000 casualties on the position, which was considered a heavy casualty. And the heavy firepower was completely discarded by them because of the evacuation.

On July 21 Romania occupied Tarnovo. This time around the city of Tarnovo, Bulgaria invested 247,000 troops, Romania invested 230,000 troops, and the two sides were close to 500,000 troops. It ended with Bulgarian casualties taking 113,000 prisoners and Romanian 28,000 lost. With the battle over, Bulgaria's war potential was exhausted, and other countries began to prepare for the diplomatic negotiations that followed.

PS is finally over, and then we will enter the familiar plot of Mantou, you should not miss it.