Romanian Eagle

When Lieutenant General Andrew made a surprise attack on Cluj, Lieutenant General Freiette, the commander of Army Group North (for ease of command, where Army Group North and Army Group Center were combined), was already preparing for the next day's counteroffensive.

Looking at the division commanders who were summoned in the middle of the night, Lieutenant General Fereit, who didn't know the enemy was going to escape at this moment, was talking about the plan for the next day. "We will launch a counter-offensive tomorrow morning. The mission of this counter-offensive is not to let the enemy have the energy to call in troops to return. So we must be entangled with the enemy and cannot let them escape. As long as Lieutenant General Andrew captures Cluj, then they will It's a mouse in a tin bucket, with no place to hide."

Of course, Major General Lakoff's persistence bought a certain amount of time for Lieutenant General Fan Siteng's withdrawal. The next day Army North felt wrong when it attacked.

"Is the enemy's defense a little too weak?"

Looking at the summary of the battle report in front of him, Lieutenant General Fereit was a little puzzled, but he didn't think the problem was a big one.

"It seems that the troops have been dispatched, and a report has been sent to Lieutenant General Andrew to let him be careful of the enemy's return."

After speaking, the lieutenant general gave another order. "Send a message to the troops and let them hold the enemy in front of them. Don't give the enemy a chance to draw troops."

Major General Lakoff's insistence in Cluj confuses the two Romanian generals, who both thought that the troops dispatched by the Austro-Hungarian Ninth Army were returning reinforcements. However, with the passage of time, Lieutenant General Fan Siteng's intentions were gradually revealed.

"What, the enemy didn't show up?"

The message from Major General Doles, the second division commander who arranged to defend the enemy reinforcements, shocked Andrew. His first thought was that the enemy bypassed the position of the second division.

"Immediately send a telegram to each unit to inquire whether a large-scale enemy force has been detected."

But soon all the troops did not find the enemy.

"It's really strange, where did the enemy reinforcements go?"

Lieutenant General Andrew was troubled by the delay in the arrival of enemy reinforcements.

"Could there be some conspiracy?"

The staff officer in charge of the combat map said something casually.

"What conspiracy is more important than Cluj, does the enemy want to see his soldiers besieged?"

"Soldiers...besieged..."

Lieutenant General Andrew, who had been thinking hard, suddenly thought,

More important than Cluj was the Ninth Army itself.

"No, the enemy wants to escape."

Lieutenant General Andrew, who figured it out, immediately ordered. "I immediately sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Freiit, saying that the enemy reinforcements could not be found on the front line of Cluj, and the Austro-Hungarian Ninth Army wanted to flee."

The airwaves were soon transferred to Army Group North.

Holding the telegram from Lieutenant General Andrew, Feleit muttered to himself. "Lieutenant General Fan Siteng, you are so bold, you gave up Cluj directly."

He immediately believed Lieutenant General Andrew's judgment. According to the intelligence learned from the attack of the following troops, the enemy took out four divisions last night, and now it seems that the enemy is planning to retreat.

Lieutenant General Fereit looked at the location of the enemy's Ninth Army on the map and preached to himself. "If you want to go, then you have to leave something as a memory."

After speaking, Lieutenant General Freiit called the communications staff. "Now I order."

The order of Lieutenant General Freiit is revealed in the pen of the communications staff. "All the current troops are immediately entangled with the enemy in front of them and cannot be given a chance to break away. November 27, Freiit."

Lieutenant General Fereit's order immediately made the separation of the Austro-Hungarian army much more difficult, and a large number of Romanian troops entangled their opponents and did not give a chance to break away. This forced Lieutenant General Fan Siteng to make the painful decision to give up part of the army.

However, in the face of Lieutenant General Fan Siteng's tail-dangling survival, neither Lieutenant General Freiit nor Lieutenant General Andrew had much choice. The main thing is that the enemy decided to be decisive, leaving them with less time to make arrangements.

The decisiveness of Lieutenant General Fan Siteng made it difficult for Lieutenant General Sam of the Tenth Army to accept.

"Damn Fan Siteng, it's really damn."

Lieutenant General Sam's roar resounded through the entire command, and it also made the officers of the command dare not step forward to persuade His Excellency Lieutenant General to lock themselves in the war room.

All this was caused by a telegram that had been torn to shreds. If it can be pieced together, this is a telegram of Lieutenant General Fan Sten's decision to abandon Cluj of the Ninth Army.

In the telegram, Lieutenant General Versten stated his difficulties for giving up Cluj. For Fan Siteng's judgment that he was afraid of being destroyed if he could not conquer Luri for a long time, in Lieutenant General Sam's view, these were all excuses, which was caused by Fan Siteng's exaggerated assessment of the enemy's strength.

Like myself on the battlefield of Deva, I have a new understanding of the Romanian army. These Romanian standing armies are indeed relatively elite and can compete with the German army directly led by the empire, but their mobilized troops are far less than the troops in other territories of the empire. In the battle with the enemy's southern army in the past few days, Lieutenant General Sam, with the advantages of troops and artillery, firmly controlled the initiative of the battlefield, and tortured this elite Romanian army into misery.

But now he gave up this great situation because of the mistakes of the friendly forces, and Lieutenant General Sam seemed very unwilling.

"crunch"

At this time, the door of the war room was opened, and the sound of the door opening made Lieutenant General Sam frown. "Didn't I tell you not to come in? Do you think I dare not punish you?"

"It's me, what's wrong with you?"

The person who pushed in the door asked, and the familiar voice prevented Lieutenant General Sam from being disturbed by his anger.

Lieutenant General Sam, who lit a cigarette to relieve his irritability, asked who was coming. "Didn't you go to inspect the troops below, why did you come back so quickly?"

"I'm going and I won't come back. Are you planning to go out?"

"How come, I'm just angry at Fan Siteng's cowardly behavior. Now I'm normal, chief of staff, you don't have to keep staring at me. "

In the dialogue between the two, the person who came was Lieutenant General Sam's partner, Major General Hans Kerr, the chief of staff of the army. As Major General Hans with a popular German name, he was born into a military aristocratic family in Austria. The good family conditions gave Hans Kohl enough opportunities to display his talents. He successively served as the royal guard, the company commander and battalion commander of the 3rd Austrian Infantry Regiment, the combat staff officer, team leader, and deputy director of operations of the General Staff Department.

Then the outbreak of the First World War was transferred to the Fifth Army as chief of staff and Sam's partner, and then the two cooperated tacitly and were transferred to the Tenth Army together. Everyone in the army knew that Lieutenant General Sam's anger could only be quelled by Chief of Staff Hans.

"Now your anger is out, but we need to think about what to do next."

Major General Hans's words calmed Lieutenant General Sam, and it was indeed necessary to consider the next move.