Romanian Eagle

After the birth of the crown prince's child, the Romanian people are very fond of the new little prince. In the Cathedral of the Last Chief, the baptism of the abbot of Patriarch Bardokwen I was also crowded, and everyone couldn't wait to see the new prince.

It is also rare for Edel to accompany his family without dealing with government affairs during this period of time. Mainly concerned with Sophie Marie and Prince Victor, who had just finished giving birth, and his aging father, Carol I, who often accompanied him.

However, such a leisurely time did not last long. In less than a week, he had to pick up government affairs again and start to deal with it. Eder now picked up the document he was looking at, that is, General Courtois, the Minister of the Army, and General Préshan, the Chief of the General Staff, jointly submitted a plan to improve the reserve. This plan, which is related to the army's major moves, is still brought to the crown prince by Admiral Prieshan this time.

Looking at Edel who was reading through it carefully, Pulieshan felt much more troubled in his heart. He was afraid that the crown prince would not understand the importance of this plan. This is what he and the Minister of the Army carefully prepared by drawing on the advantages of the reserve plans of various countries and combining the actual situation in Romania. However, it seems that his worries are superfluous at present, and the crown prince is watching with relish.

To say that the strength of the Romanian army is definitely ahead of other countries in the Balkans. Just relying on artillery with a larger caliber than other small countries can show Romania's wealth and wealth, not to mention that the number of Romanian artillery is also unmatched by them. It's just that Eder's goals now are the Austro-Hungarian army and the Soviet army born out of the Russian army, so his small but elite Romanian army alone cannot accomplish the above goals, so the Romanian domestic reserve must be mobilized.

Relying on Romania's abundant manpower in the Balkan countries, Romania maintains a reserve force of 400,000 all year round. They usually work in the fields and factories, and will take up arms to fight the enemy when the country needs them. There are reserves in all walks of life in Romania, and even Romania has a reserve company of bankers.

And when using these reserves, the Romanian military can only expect them to be recruited into the army and dispersed as supplementary soldiers,

However, Romania's finances could only support the transformation and reorganization of its army before, so it was more than enough to transform the reserve system. Now with the outbreak of World War I, when Romania's finances are improving, the two army leaders put this long-prepared plan in front of Edel.

In this reserve transformation plan, the two army leaders first unified the various types of rifles in the reserve, and replaced them with Mauser 98 rifles used by the army. This move consumes 210,000 Mauser rifles out of the army's 310,000 Mauser 98 rifles. However, because the Romanian arsenal is now working overtime, it does not take two years to replenish the inventory.

In addition, in this plan, they will also train their personnel to use machine guns and artillery, which will consume 746 machine guns and 168 artillery pieces in the army's inventory, which still need to be supplemented by the arsenal.

After strengthening the weapons of these reserves, of course, their training time also needs to be strengthened, from five days of training per month to seven days per month, and there will be a month of separate training in winter when there is no farm work. This will increase the training time of the previous reserve service from 60 days per year and two months to 107 days and three and a half months.

And those who train these reserve soldiers in the program will be replaced by serving military officers, and the reserve officers who were previously responsible for training them will also be pooled to train their military skills.

Through the intensive training of these reserve officers and soldiers, the Romanian reserve forces will be greatly enhanced.

Moreover, in order to allow these reserve officers and soldiers to train with peace of mind, allowances were also increased in this plan. In the past, the reservists had no allowances, and their combat effectiveness was maintained entirely by the patriotic enthusiasm of the people.

Therefore, the Romanian reserves were not trained at a high level before, and it was not easy to manage.

Now the two generals believe that the reserve is also a part of the Romanian army, so they give each soldier 50 lei per year, the average allowance for the lieutenant is about 70 lei per person per year, and the average allowance for the school level is 100 lei per person per year.

However, the army does not intend to pay all of this money by itself. In this plan, the two generals believed that because of the half-military and half-military nature of the reserve, the government would also contribute half. Relying on the tense situation of the European war, in the end, Prime Minister Bretianu pinched his nose and acquiesced to the rogues of the two generals. Therefore, the funds to support the 400,000 reservists each year are divided between the government and the army.

In fact, weapons and ammunition cost more than perks, which cost more. You must know that if you follow the training intensity of the army, then these reserve soldiers will consume a lot of ammunition. Fortunately, Romanian ammunition production has now been expanded several times, which can support the two admirals' plans.

And at the end, the two admirals also figured out how to use these intensively trained reservists. First, before the outbreak of the war, the officers who prepared and trained them were formed into independent battalion-level units, and then a regiment was recruited and replenished from each division to form a new division-level unit with them. As for the technical arms of this division, it is also composed of the non-commissioned officers provided by the selected division as the backbone, and the reserve technical officers and soldiers trained before supplementation.

On the whole, it has the style of the Japanese army in World War II, but there is no division of soldiers for each division, and there is no military class as perverted as the Japanese army.

Edel still agreed with the whole plan after reading it, but he still had to ask the chief of staff a few questions before making a decision.

"Admiral Pu Lieshan, according to your plan, how to solve the second wave of mobilization."

After hearing the crown prince's inquiry, Preshan knew that this was precisely the part they didn't write into the plan. It turned out that he and Courtois had disagreements about the second mobilization. In his opinion, after the second mobilization to expand the scope of conscription, the conscripts will be sent to the military camp for training for two months, and then they will go to the battlefield in the form of supplementary soldiers.

And General Courtois believes that doing so is too dangerous for the small country of Romania. Once the second mobilization is launched, it may be against opponents such as Austria-Hungary and Russia, whose manpower cannot be compared with that of the great powers. Therefore, he believes that it is necessary to establish a second-level mobilization agency. During training, these people can reduce the training time to two months or one and a half months each year, which is much better than having them on the battlefield after two months of training.

Admiral Pulieshan mainly considered that it would require more weapons and ammunition to support such a secondary mobilization mechanism, which is too burdensome for the current army, so he does not agree.

Now in the face of the crown prince's inquiry, Admiral Pulie Shan had no choice but to ask this question.

Eder, after listening to Prieshan's account, knew that Romania's participation in World War I was necessary. And now the Romanian army plus reserves is only 700,000. Even if the army continues to expand to a maximum of 1 million in the future, there is still a lot of gap in the current general recruitment ratio of various countries. Therefore, he is more accepting of the proposal of the Secretary of the Army.

So Edel, after thinking about it, told Admiral Prieshan. "At present, it seems that Admiral Courtois's plan is not bad. You should think more about his plan for secondary mobilization and come up with a supplementary plan."

After Edel finished speaking, Shushu signed his name on the reserve transformation plan.

So in early October 1914 Romania began to implement a new reserve program.