Chapter 641： Compiled in 1935 (Part 1)

Latest website: Bucharest is full of spring in March, and its owner returned on this day.

After spending almost a year in Bulgaria, Edel finally returned to the city he was most familiar with. Although he has been in Bulgaria for almost a year, he still knows who is his base.

And Romania's piles of official documents also need to be processed by him. Although it is possible to handle official documents from Romania in Bulgaria, it is also a hassle that many things cannot be asked face-to-face.

For example, it is necessary for him to deal with matters concerning the expansion of the army. The telegram communication is easy to leak. Although it is okay to recruit the chief of staff to Sofia, it is too time-consuming and too conspicuous.

So when I returned to Bucharest this time, besides seeing his long-departed family for the first time, Edel was dealing with a bunch of military affairs.

Here to explain, Prince Victor's career in the military academy is over. The mischievous **** demon is gone forever, and once again appears on the son in front of Edel, his strong military temperament can't be concealed. And Edel threw his son who graduated from military academy into the Imperial Guard and let him exercise again.

After all, my situation at the time was different from that of my son, and I was not as old as his father Carol, and there was time for his son to exercise slowly.

After dealing with the housework, Edel immediately plunged into his busy work. After finishing the work he had accumulated, Edel recruited General Fereit to discuss the military's expansion plan.

Speaking of this military expansion plan, in fact, it is also inseparable from the economic impact. Romania’s economic stimulus plan is now coming to an end, and the impact of the over-issued currency is gradually manifesting. In addition, Romania also lacks dumping sites, and the impact of expanding production but lacking dumping sites has gradually emerged.

Although Romania is gradually expanding its sales outlets in the Balkans and the Far East, the expanded market is far from comparable to the explosion of production capacity. At present, the manufacturing PMI index is obviously in a downward state, which makes the government obviously feel heavy.

The statistical data at the end of 1934 showed this effect, and its domestic economic growth was only 5.1%. Although this is still not low, it has been reduced a lot compared to the previous data. It is important to know that even in 1930, the domestic economic growth was higher than 6%.

This also shows that the effect of large-scale economic stimulus has failed, and the problems previously covered by economic growth are gradually emerging. This is also the main reason why Edel wants to rush back to Bucharest. To put it bluntly, this is because Romania lacks a large enough market to accommodate its explosive production of goods.

Of course, the government is not doing nothing. It is doing export tax rebates, encouraging industrial upgrading, and striving to open up markets. Romania has successively signed economic and trade cooperation with the Czech Republic, Sweden, Latvia and other countries to expand the domestic commodity market. At the same time, it also encourages consumption at home so that people can buy more commodities.

However, Romania has always been an export-oriented economy. Although the wealth of domestic people is not bad in the Balkans and Central Europe, there is still a gap compared with Western Europe, so the number of domestic products that can be consumed is limited.

At this time, Romania’s problem is actually only one way, and that is to expand its armaments and prepare for war, and use the military industry to stimulate domestic demand.

And this decision must be made by Edel himself. Others cannot and dare not make it at all, so this time Edel needs the military's advice.

"Your Majesty, this is a plan prepared by the military."

The chief of the general staff, Fereit, handed the meticulously prepared plan to Edel. This military expansion was meticulously prepared by the military after receiving hints from Edel. And this is not just a plan for military expansion, but also some changes to the Romanian establishment.

Edel opened the plan and saw it at first sight; in order to meet the needs of future warfare, it was necessary to supplement the Romanian division-level troops. Based on the previous war experience and the adaptation of new equipment, the following changes are now made to the Romanian division-level troops.

The first is to strengthen the division's forces. The first is to reduce the number of cavalry in the current division's reconnaissance battalion and increase armored vehicles to improve its control of the battlefield. The 315 horses in the reconnaissance battalion were changed to 154 horses, and 27 armored vehicles and 48 motorcycles were added.

Secondly, in response to the current air defense needs, an air defense battalion was added to the division's troops, with 12 20mm air defense guns, 38 wheeled vehicles, and 347 officers and soldiers.

The artillery regiment also needs to be reorganized, and the current division’s 75-caliber artillery is transferred to the infantry regiment to improve its independent combat capability. The artillery regiment will be newly equipped with 36 105 howitzers, 12 cannons, and 8 150 howitzers. There are 40 motorcycles, 150 wheeled vehicles, 129 carriages and 1,274 horses.

In addition, the anti-tank company will also be upgraded to a battalion, which will have 36 50mm anti-tank guns, 45 motorcycles, 96 wheeled vehicles, and 481 officers and soldiers.

In addition, there are 2100 people, 30 light machine guns, 88 motorcycles, 283 wheeled vehicles, 195 carriages, and 535 horses.

In addition to the enhancements to the divisions, changes were also made in the infantry regiment. The three battalions under the infantry regiment remain unchanged, but there is a mixed artillery battalion in the regiment organization, with 12 75mm infantry guns, 18 81mm mortars, and 8 50mm anti-tank guns. There are 47 motorcycles, 93 wheeled vehicles, 180 carriages and 483 horses. The regiment had 3340 officers and soldiers, 126 light machine guns and 36 heavy machine guns.

860 infantry battalion: 32-person battalion headquarters (including command squad, communications team, engineer squad 603 infantry company, 1* fire support company (177 people), 28 combat supply team.

201 infantry company: 11 company, 3* infantry platoon, 7 anti-tank group, 33 logistics personnel.

50 infantry platoons: components: 6 platoons, 4* infantry squad, 3 mortars, 1 man.

10 infantry squad: components: squad leader, 3-man machine gun group, deputy squad leader, five infantrymen.

According to this organization, a standard infantry division in Romania after the reorganization will have an organization of up to 17,500 personnel, an increase of more than 2,000 personnel compared to the previous one. The increase in personnel is mainly in the division-level subsidiary units, of course, the infantry regiment has also been increased, and it is also expanded to the subsidiary units.

The equipment of the whole division is as follows; pistols-3681, rifles-12609, submachine guns-321, anti-tank guns-90, light machine guns-425, heavy machine guns-110, 50 mm mortars-84, 81 Millimeter mortars-54, 75 mm cannons-36, 105 mm light howitzers-36, 105 cannons 12, 150 mm heavy howitzers-8 and flamethrowers-9