Romanian Eagle

Although Churchill's proposal did not pass, Britain and France had decided to satisfy Romania's appetite and relieve their pressure on the Western Front. So three days later, the British and French ambassadors informed the Romanian side of the news.

After receiving the news, Edel called Prime Minister Bretianu, Foreign Minister Barnosque, Army Minister General Courtois, Chief of General Staff General Preshan and others to the palace.

After summoning all his important officials, Edel set the tone as soon as he spoke. "Everyone, the Allies have agreed to Romania's conditions. Now we need to focus on the secret mobilization of the military militarily, and we also need to stabilize the Allies diplomatically to buy time for our mobilization."

In the face of the king's strong tone, none of the ministers present said a word. They were all old fritters who knew the importance of time to Romania. Moreover, the king's judgment on the situation has always been accurate in recent years, which is why they have always trusted him.

After seeing that the ministers had no opinion, Edel asked by name. "Admiral Puleshan, do your military have any requirements for the Entente?"

Facing Edel's inquiry, Pu Lishan, a representative of the army, has a lot of requirements, but now he can only pick up the important ones. "Your Majesty, we have a lot of demands from the Entente, but the most important thing is the cooperation between the Allied troops in Greece and us."

Facing the words of Pu Lishan, Edel also admitted it. "It's really a question of whether we can open up the situation in the region. Please rest assured, chief of the general staff. I will let Foreign Minister Barnosk make our request."

Seeing that Puleshan was still a little unfinished, Edel, the king, moved in his heart and took another sentence. "It would be best if your army can send someone to participate in the negotiations, so that you can help when discussing military issues with the Allies."

After seeing the king say what the army wanted, Admiral Puleshan thanked him. "Thank you Your Majesty for your interest in the military. We will definitely send professionals who understand the military to assist in the negotiation."

Facing Preshan's actions, Edel knew the whole story. Because Romania declared war on the Allies, the most pressure was on their military. In the face of more than one million battle-hardened Allied troops, the talented staff officers of the General Staff were almost overwhelmed. Because Romania can be called the elite and has confidence to resist the German army and its counterattack, only a standing army of 400,000 people, and the militia and the reserve can only resist the attack of the Austro-Hungarian army at most. In addition, the weapons and ammunition stored in Romania can last up to half a year according to the state of the Western Front, which makes the military very troubled. Then getting it from one's own allies has also become the consideration of the military.

In fact, this is also the reason why the General Staff has the least number of people in the Bulgarian direction, but most of them are elite troops. Romania is in great need of the Allied aid, both in military and in material.

Some people may ask why we can't produce more, which has a lot to do with Romania's military industry. Before the outbreak of the war, Romania's main military enterprise, the Bucharest Arsenal, had an annual production capacity of 150,000 guns, 400 to 500 artillery pieces, and 400,000 tons of various ammunition. However, it is impossible to compare the production capacity of the two camps. It must be known that the annual output of ammunition of the various powers at that time was 2 million tons. Moreover, the training of soldiers requires ammunition. In addition, the production of weapons and ammunition is a scarce material, and it is also very inappropriate to buy during wartime.

After the war, Romania needed to capture the Transylvania region to relieve its defensive pressure.

Then more ammo is needed. This is why Romania has a reserve of 1.4 million tons of ammunition, but the General Staff only thinks it can fight for half a year.

Why is this result? The basis given by the General Staff is the ammunition consumption of Britain and France on the Western Front. Britain and France can produce more than 2 million tons of ammunition each year, and they can fight no more than 3 major battles a year. Of course, in addition to several major battles that consume ammunition, there are usually other consumptions, but several major battles on the Western Front accounted for most of the ammunition consumption of Britain and France, and Germany, as its opponent, was no exception.

Turning over the battle of the German army in World War I, it will be found that except for the beginning of the Battle of the Marne (August 30) and the Battle of Tannenberg (August 25), the outbreak of the East and West Front battles were all alternated. This is also because the material reserves of the German army can only maintain high-strength operations in one direction, which also caused the German battle on the East-West Line. The Romanian military also saw the plight of Germany, so in order to allow itself to have enough military supplies, it became a top priority to defeat Bulgaria to open up the connection with the Allies.

After questioning the military, Eder turned to ask the Prime Minister. "The government needs to be prepared after the declaration of war."

In the face of Edel's words, Prime Minister Bretianu, as the head of the government, must make a statement, only to see him stand up and speak. "The government is already preparing for this, and it won't hold back."

The understatement of the Prime Minister's answer does not mean that the government has less work to do. In fact, this work has almost made the hair on the Prime Minister's head, which is not much, tend to become more sparse. The main reason is that Romania's economy is highly consistent with Germany and Austria, plus there are many German and Austrian capitals in its territory. How to define these capitals after the outbreak of the war is a difficult problem for the government to consider.

At the beginning of 1917, according to the statistics of the Romanian government, 27% of Romania's large-scale enterprises had German and Austrian capital, and 9% of them were solely owned by them. Among the industries involved in De Austrian Capital, grain processing, transportation, machinery processing, etc. are the main targets of its investment.

Moreover, according to the government's investigation, the investment of German and Austrian capital in Romania has reached 124 million pounds, while the sum of Britain, France and Russia is less than 40 million pounds. When this report was sent to Edel, he knew that Deo had done a lot in Romania.

A quarter of workers need to rely on German and Austrian capital for food, which makes Romania too involved. If it wasn't for knowing that the Allies would win, Eder would not dare to declare war on Germany and Austria because it would cause chaos in his own country first.

Therefore, disposing of De'ao's capital in Romania has become a major difficulty for the government. In particular, Romania continued to obtain technology, equipment and talents from Germany and Austria after the first stop, so it could not learn from the United States, Britain, France and other countries to confiscate them, which also exacerbated the reduction of the Prime Minister's hair.

The difficulty of disposing of German-Austrian capital made the Prime Minister troubled. And after the military mobilization, how to quickly transform Romania's economy into military services is also a headache for him.