Romanian Eagle

"Dewa was captured by the 1st and 19th Divisions of the Guard."

Inside the General Staff, a staff officer eagerly and loudly announced the shocking good news.

Sure enough, this news made the general staff boil.

"Is this true?"

"impossible."

"It's incredible."

The news caused the staff officers of the General Staff to raise various questions.

It's no wonder that they would ask questions. As the ones who know Romania's combat plan best, they are quite familiar with the current Army Group South. There were only three Romanian divisions, less than 60,000 troops, that entered Transylvania from the southern front. And now there are at least eight Austro-Hungarian divisions around them, with a strength of no less than 100,000.

Faced with this situation, these staff officers are busy trying to get more Romanian soldiers to rush to Petrosani in order to facilitate the upcoming Austro-Hungarian counterattack. As a result, someone told them not to use it. The Deva they were preparing to win in half a month had already won it on the third day. It's no wonder that these staff members can still be calm, and it's good that they didn't immediately ask for the detailed process.

Facing the colleagues who came to ask questions from all directions, the staff officer spoke up. "The specific situation will only be known after the battle report. Now I only know that the Nineteenth Division and the First Division of the Imperial Guard captured Deva this morning."

When the staff members were puzzled that the 19th Division and the 1st Imperial Guard Division could capture Deva in one fell swoop, Admiral Puleshan, who was the chief of the general staff, was also interested. However, his wish could be fulfilled immediately, because a detailed battle report on the capture of Deva was now in front of him.

This is a battle report jointly issued by Lieutenant General Ankerdar and Major General Dotreid. It describes the combat operation of the two divisions in detail. Only when they concealed the battle plan at the beginning, the telegraph machine of the two men broke down and the fighter plane was slightly Even if it is fleeting. In the face of the real situation, Pleishan saw it at a glance, but in the face of the victory of capturing Deva, the chief of the general staff turned a blind eye. Of course, the two also gave him the image of being daring, but this is not knowing. This should not be happy for the two of them.

After reading the battle report in detail, Preshan muttered to himself to the military map in the room. "It seems that I need to fill in the loophole now."

Preshan needed to solve the hidden dangers left by Army Group South's surprise capture of Deva by the 1st and 19th Divisions of the Guard. This hidden danger is the good news brought by the 1st and 19th divisions of the guards. They took Dewa and made themselves aggressive. Now, as long as the Austro-Hungarian military reacts, it will immediately overwhelm the territory, and three Austro-Hungarian divisions will soon arrive in Deva.

According to the current transport speed of the army, the Southern Army will fall into the tactics of adding oil, which is a taboo in the military.

Because Deva is too important, now Pleishan can only think of a rapid increase in troops to make up the gap with Austria-Hungary.

Preshan called his secretary and ordered. "Go to the traffic department to find Director Torres, and say I have something to call him."

The Romanian General Staff with a strong German style, of course, has the same traffic department as its German counterparts. Moreover, they all have the same function, that is, in order to ensure the transportation of troops during wartime, they take over the main transportation capacity of the country, so Torres, as its director, has a lot of influence in it. Therefore, even Prieshan rarely treats his subordinate in a commanding tone.

There is a very interesting little episode here, that is, the Director of Torres was not born in the military, and did not go to military school at all. The authoritative person who is now responsible for the transfer of the Romanian team is from Iasi University, and he still majored in mathematics before. But there is a little thing related to transportation. He has a father who is engaged in transportation. While helping his father, he wrote an article "On the Changes Brought by New Transportation".

In it, plans are made for the existing motor transport, but also for the improvement of rail and ship transport. This article fell into the eyes of Admiral Puleshan. The Chief of General Staff is very sensitive to the transportation of the army, so after consulting Torres, the transportation management talent who has not attended the military school for a day was specially recruited to the transportation department. In the transportation department, Torres quickly stood out and made several all-inclusive transportation plans, which made Preshan very satisfied. Therefore, in order to exert the greatest ability of this transportation management talent before the outbreak of the war, Preshan helped him to the position of director, and this Torres did not live up to his expectations and managed the transportation department in an orderly manner.

"Admiral, are you looking for me?"

Presand was not asked to wait, and Torres appeared in front of him after a while.

Looking at Colonel Torres, who was wearing a scholar's breath in front of him, Preshan smiled and cared. "How is your traffic department working now?"

Facing the concern of the chief of staff, Torres, who was a little confused, answered truthfully. "Thank you for your concern, the transportation department is now operating normally, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner according to the plan."

"That's good." Preshan said first, and then said it immediately. "I have a task that you need to do right now."

As soon as Torres heard that there was a task, or a task that needed to be done immediately, he subconsciously asked. "What mission?"

In the face of Torres' inquiry, Preshan said his request directly. "Now I need you to immediately increase the transport capacity for Army Group South, and I need you to transport Army Group South to Deva within a week."

In the face of Pleishan's request, Torres said after thinking for a while. "Our transportation department can do this, but the price is that the reserve force needs to be delayed by a day to complete the assembly, and the advancement of the Central Army will be affected, and the Bulgarian campaign will be delayed for about five days to complete the preparation."

Torres is indeed a genius in logistics and transportation, and he immediately gave the impact.

Preshan said after walking in the office and thinking for a while. "It's acceptable for the reserve to be one day late, and I can also accept that the Central Army's attack speed is slowed down, but the Bulgarian campaign was delayed for five days, which is too long, can we not delay it?"

It's a pity that Pleishan's wishes were in vain, and Torres directly shattered the expectations of the chief of staff. "This is not possible. I can shorten the time by up to one day by going back. Because your request must use half of our trains, we have no other way. This is the result of my plan to collect a large number of civilian ships for transportation."

In the face of Torres' words, Preshan thought again and again, but still felt that he needed to keep his advantage in Transylvania first. "Then do it."

After sending Torres away again, Preshan looked at the military map in his room and pointed to Deva and said to himself. "You two have disrupted my battle plan. If you lose Deva, you will go to me as a sailor."

Let the two army generals be sailors, it seems that Deva has a place in the heart of Admiral Puleshan.