Romanian Eagle

? When Major General Antic was distressed by the casualties of his soldiers, some people were as distressed as he was.

"The casualties of such an attack are too great."

In the German headquarters outside the city, the chief of staff who handed the casualty statistics report to Lieutenant General Gustav couldn't help but say.

After taking a look at the total number of casualties, Lieutenant General Gustav nodded with satisfaction. "Such casualties are still within my expected range and acceptable."

His Excellency Lieutenant General's satisfied tone made the Chief of Staff somewhat dissatisfied. "Are you satisfied with such a casualty report? 2,468 people were killed and 2,501 were injured, of which 1,541 were seriously injured and disabled. Are you satisfied with this report of more than 5,000 casualties?"

In the face of his chief of staff's emotional outbursts, Lieutenant General Gustav continued to speak in his calm tone. "You also need to see the number of casualties of the defending enemy. As a defender, the casualties are around 13,000, which is not a good number. You must know that they are defensive operations and have fortifications as their support, but the casualties are still so large. It seems that the enemy has The combat effectiveness of the troops deployed outside the city is not high."

Lieutenant General Gustav's level was good, which immediately made the Chief of Staff look away from the casualty report. "It seems that you are right, so will you continue to attack like this next?"

Facing the topic of concern to the chief of staff, Gustav smiled and shook his head, waving the casualty report in his hand. "Such casualties are enough to make the soldiers who attacked today nervous, which needs to be slowed down. And if we continue to maintain such a strong offensive, it will frighten the commander of the defending army, if he takes into account the large casualties and does not defend the outer positions, Are we going to let our soldiers fight in the streets?"

After Lieutenant General Gustav finished speaking, he looked at a few photos on his desk, which were impressively the fortresses and fortifications built by Major General Antich in the city of Suceava. It seems that the Germans have known Suceava well for a long time, and they have enough knowledge about the degree of fortification of Suceava, so being able to kill the defenders on the periphery is also good for the Germans on the offensive side. choose.

The German attack on Suceava was suppressed for the next two days, and the daily casualty figures of nearly seven or eight thousand people made Major General Antic very uncomfortable. For this reason, he was about to lose his hair.

"How many casualties are there today?"

Looking at the number of casualties for two consecutive days, Major General Antic felt like he was caught in the enemy's trap.

The chief of staff, whose face was even uglier than Antich, vented on the casualty figures. "Now we have 30,000 casualties in three days, and we'll have no one in a week."

The words of the chief of staff made Antic, who had been following the German attack, startled for a moment.

Recalling some of the German offensive moves in the past two days, an idea flashed in my mind. After realizing it, he patted his head and scolded himself loudly.

"Damn, Antic, you are an idiot, you were used by the enemy."

The chief of staff was not slow to respond, he said directly. "You are saying that the enemy did this on purpose these two days."

"should be."

Major General Antic continued to talk about what he thought was different. "It's no wonder that the German army had the opportunity to take our peripheral positions in the past two days, but it was a step behind in reinforcements. Now it seems that the enemy did it on purpose. I used to wonder that the enemy had no brains, but now it seems that they have no brains. it's me."

Hearing Antic's analysis, the chief of staff interjected and asked. "Then what are we going to do now, are we going to withdraw to the city immediately?"

Facing the proposal of the chief of staff, Antic waved to stop it. "No, it's too cheap for us to withdraw them like this. Since they set a trap for us to consume our troops, then I will also teach them a lesson."

In the face of Major General Antic's words, the chief of staff asked directly. "What are you going to do?"

"Right now I'm just an idea, and I need a good idea."

After a night of silence, the morning of the fourth day came, and the Germans began to prepare for the attack again. As usual, the artillery bombarded first, and the Romanians' counter-attack artillery fire still arrived as scheduled. Under the orders of Lieutenant General Gustav, the Germans continued to attack the defending Romanian positions.

"Attack quickly."

The German attack was under the command of officers, and the soldiers rushed to the Romanian positions like a tide, and the counterattack from the positions was still so strong.

"Watch out for enemy machine guns."

"Look at the movement of the enemy on the position."

Under the command of the officers, the attacking German soldiers advanced to the position skillfully.

"The resistance of the enemy's position is declining?"

A low-ranking officer looked at the firepower of the counterattack on the position and said with a little surprise.

The feeling of attacking the German troops was also seen by Lieutenant General Gustav, who was watching the battle from behind. However, unlike what he observed ahead, he could accurately observe that this was a drop in firepower on a position through the telescope.

Faced with this situation, the chief of staff who watched the battle together asked curiously. "What are these Romanians doing and why is there a fire gap?"

Lieutenant General Gustav was also a little confused by the words of the chief of staff. If he planned to retreat after resisting, then the firepower of the position should be reduced, and this is the first time that the firepower density of this position has decreased.

Faced with the unclear situation, Lieutenant General Gustav could only point to that position and give an order. "Let the commander in the middle of the attack pay attention, just pay more attention when attacking, and the rest will continue as planned."

The situation is not bright now, and Gustav, as the commander, cannot give up the attack because of some abnormal actions of the enemy. This will be irresponsible to the attacking soldiers. Now it's better to let the frontline commanders pay more attention.

Just as the Germans attacking this position approached, the counterattack firepower on the position suddenly increased. Gustav, who observed this, nodded. "It turned out to be a firepower density strategy, which doesn't take us too seriously."

As soon as Lieutenant General Gustav finished speaking, the commander in charge of the attack immediately increased the intensity of the attack. For a time, the intensity of the exchange of fire in this position was far more intense than that in other areas.

However, the duration of this exchange of fire will not be too long, mainly because the defending soldiers cannot compare with the attacking German army, so after a period of fierce exchange of fire, some unsupported defenders began to retreat.

"Hey, the enemy didn't send reinforcements this time?"

Lieutenant General Gustav said in surprise after seeing his soldiers enter the position.

"Maybe the garrison commander has already sensed our intentions."

The chief of staff, who also observed this situation, said uncertainly.

Gustav couldn't help muttering at the words of the chief of staff. "Then what's the point of the defenders continuing to resist here?"

An idea flashed through his mind, and Lieutenant General Gustav's expression changed drastically. "not good."

"What's wrong?"

"This position is dangerous, and the garrison commander wants to trick us."

It is a pity that the conversation between the two was not heard by the frontline soldiers in time. Just as they were talking, there were deafening explosions in this position.

I saw this position exploded violently, and the German soldiers who had just entered the position were basically affected by the explosion and suffered heavy casualties. At this time, the defending army suddenly burst into fierce artillery fire, bombarding the head of the attacking German army, which made the German soldiers who had been accustomed to their artillery being suppressed by their own inexplicably panicked. Taking this opportunity, the defending soldiers immediately took up their weapons to break away from contact with the German army and moved to the rear.

Seeing this situation, Lieutenant General Gustav's heart rushed straight to the top of his head. At this time, he didn't know that he was being overcast by his opponent. However, after fighting for many years, Lieutenant General Gustav stabilized his body and suffered a dull loss. If he was angry again, he would probably make his opponent laugh out loud.

After recovering, Lieutenant General Gustav said to his chief of staff with a smile as usual. "Very good, it seems that this loss is settled for me now."

In the right hand of Lieutenant General Gustav, who was not noticed, a large hole has been squeezed out of a report in his hand.

And as Major General Antic, who had been attacking the Germans, was checking his own gains and losses.

"In order to prepare for this explosion, we have used 60% of the explosives in the inventory. And in order to ensure the evacuation of the troops, all our artillery counterattacked the enemy, causing us to lose 14 guns. This time the casualties were not large, only the loss More than a thousand people."

After talking about the battle damage, the chief of staff continued to report the battle results. "This time we eliminated at least 3,000 German troops. We can accept this result. Moreover, this time the German troops suffered from a dull performance, which made our soldiers' emotions stabilize a lot, and the next battle will be much better."

"No, you're wrong Chief of Staff."

Major General Antich interrupted the Chief of Staff. "Accurately speaking, the enemy was provoked. Our next battle will be much more difficult. I don't know how many soldiers will hate me after the fight is over."

The fact that the Germans suffered losses in Suceava this time also reached the ears of Marshal Mackensen, who was in command of him, but after glancing at the report, he asked his chief of staff, Major General Max Huffman. "Are there any signs of reinforcements from the Romanian army?"

The genius who planned many battles including the Battle of Tannenberg replied. "At present, we have not learned the situation yet, but their main force in Transylvania is constantly being drawn back, some of them are arranged to be assembled in Bacau, and the other part is assembled on the original Bulgarian territory."

Major General Hoffman's words allowed Marshal Mackensen to find the location of Bakwu on the map. Looking at Bakwu, who was separated from Homan and Iasi on the left and right sides of the Suceava German Army, Mackenson said plainly. . "It seems that our opponent, Admiral Courtois, is a little afraid of our surprise attack."

Hoffman nodded in agreement with Mackenson's words. "Yes Marshal, our opponent is very cautious. This is to put his fist behind him."

"Then only by winning Suceava first can we force the opponent to make moves."

"Marshal, I will give Lieutenant General Gustav an order to take this city as soon as possible."

"No need for an order, he's already irritated, I can smell his anger from the report, we'll just have to wait now."

"as you wish."