Chapter 299： Recruitment plan

"Dewa was captured by the 1st Imperial Guard Division and the 19th Division."

In the General Staff, a staff officer eagerly announced this shockingly good news loudly.

Sure enough, the news caused a boil in the General Staff.

"Is this true?"

"impossible."

"It's incredible."

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

It's no wonder that they would ask questions. As they know the Romanian combat plan best, they have a good understanding of the Army Group South now. There were only three Romanian divisions that entered Transylvania from the south, with less than 60,000 troops. 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 their best to get more Romanian soldiers to Petrosani to facilitate the upcoming Austria-Hungarian counterattack. As a result, some people tell them that they don't need it anymore. The Deva, which they plan to win in half a month, has already been taken on the third day. It would be strange if these staff members were able to calm down, it would be pretty good if they didn't immediately ask the detailed process.

Faced with colleagues who were asking questions from all directions, the staff officer spoke. "The specific situation needs to be known after the battle report. Now I only know that the Nineteenth Division and the First Division of the Imperial Guard captured Deva early this morning."

When the staff were puzzled that the 19th Division and the 1st Guard Division were able to capture Deva in one fell swoop, the General Pule, who was the chief of the general staff, was equally interested. But his wish can be met immediately, because a detailed report on the capture of Deva is now in front of him.

This is a battle report jointly issued by Lieutenant General Ankodar and Major General Dotrid. The above detailed description of the combat operations of the two divisions. Only in the beginning of the concealment of the combat plan, the two telegraph machines were broken and the fighter planes were slightly broken. Taken in a fleeting moment. Faced with the real situation, Puleshan 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 boldness, but this is just not knowing. This should be happy for the two of them.

After reading the battle report in detail, Preshan muttered to himself in front of the military map in the room. "Now it seems that I need to add some loopholes."

Preeshan needs to solve the hidden dangers left by the Southern Army Group because of the assault of the first and nineteenth divisions to take Deva. This hidden danger is the good news brought by the First Guard Division and the 19th Division. They took down Deva to make themselves aggressive. Now, as long as the Austro-Hungarian military reacts, the army will immediately crush the territory, and three Austro-Hungarian divisions will soon arrive in Deva. According to the current transportation speed of the army, the Southern Army will fall into refueling tactics, which is a big taboo for military strategists.

Because Deva is too important, Plesan can only think of rapid reinforcement to fill the gap with the Austro-Hungarian military.

Preshan called his secretary and ordered. "Go to the traffic office to see Director Torres, and say I have something to look for him."

The Romanian General Staff with a strong German style, of course, also has a transportation office like its German counterparts. And they all have the same function, that is, in order to ensure the transportation of the army and take over the main transportation capacity of the country during the war, the weight of Torres, as its director, is also increasing. Therefore, even Puleshan rarely treats his subordinate with a commanding tone.

There is a very interesting little episode here, that is, the Director of Torres was not born as a soldier, and has never been to a military school. This authoritative person who is now responsible for the mobilization of the Romanian national team is from the University of Iasi, and he studied mathematics before. However, there is something that has something to do with transportation. There is a father in his family who is engaged in transportation. While helping his father, he wrote an article "On the Changes Brought by the New Transportation."

Among them, it made a plan for the existing automobile transportation, and also put forward its own opinions on the improvement of railway and ship transportation. And this article fell into the eyes of Admiral Pule, the chief of staff is extremely sensitive to the transportation of the military, so after consulting Torres, this transportation management talent who has not been to the military academy for a day was specially recruited for transportation. Torres quickly stood out in the transportation department and made several all-purpose transportation plans, which made Puleshan very satisfied. Therefore, before the war broke out, in order to give full play to the transportation management talent's greatest ability, Prieshan helped him to the position of director, and this Torres did not live up to his expectations and kept the transportation management in order.

"Admiral, are you looking for me?"

Without asking Preshan to wait any longer, Torres appeared in front of him for a while.

Looking at Colonel Torres with a scholarly eye in front of him, Puleshan smiled and cared. "How is your traffic office now doing?"

Facing the chief of staff's concern, Torres, who was a little confused, answered truthfully. "Thank you for the general's concern. The transportation office is currently operating normally, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner as planned."

"That's fine." Puleshan first spoke out, and then said immediately. "I have a task you need to do right now."

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

Faced with Torres's question, Prieshan directly spoke out his request. "Now I need you to increase your capacity for the Southern Army immediately, and I need you to transport the Southern Army to Deva within a week."

Facing Preshan’s request, Torres said after a while pondering. "Our transportation department can do this, but the price is that the reserve needs to be completed by one day, and the advancement of the Central Army will be affected In addition, the Bulgarian campaign will be delayed for about five days to complete preparations."

Torres is worthy of being a genius in logistics and transportation, and immediately gave the impact.

Preshan talked about it after thinking about it for a while in the office. "The reserve is acceptable one day later, and I can accept the slowing of the attack speed of the Central Army, but the Bulgarian campaign was delayed for five days, which is too long, can it not be delayed."

It's a pity that Preshan's wish was lost, and Torres directly shattered the chief of staff's expectation. "This is not possible. I can shorten the time by adding up to a day when I go back. Because your request must use half of our trains, we have no other way. This is the result of my plan to recruit a large number of civilian ships for transportation."

In the face of Torres, Prieshan thought twice, but still felt that he needed to keep the advantage of living in Transylvania. "Then you do it."

After sending off Torres, 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 both get out of me and become a sailor."

Let the two army generals be sailors, it seems that Deva's position in the hearts of the generals on Pule Mountain.