Chapter 697： The outbreak of war

The night is long, but today's Chancellery is brightly lit, and all the military and political officials, including Hitler, are sitting here waiting for something.

Many people who were sitting were a little bit upset and uneasy, as if the word anxiety was written on their faces. As for Hitler, it is naturally not as obvious as others, but careful observation can also tell the anxiety in his eyes.

The anxious wait always seemed so long, but they had to wait tonight.

When everyone was waiting a little anxiously, a staff member rushed in with a telegram.

"The Poles just attacked our border post and we repelled their attack."

Goering immediately snatched the telegram and handed it to Hitler.

When Hitler saw this telegram, the joy in his eyes could no longer be hidden. I saw him holding the telegram aloft and shouting. "This is evidence of the Polish invasion, and we need to fight back."

But Hitler's words were like a signal that immediately drew other people's loud echoes. It would be better if everyone on the scene was the head of state, and the stone in everyone's heart finally fell.

Hitler was very satisfied with the performance at the scene, and immediately ordered to go down. "Prepare the car, I am going to the Congress to give a speech."

He was the only one who went to the Congress. A large number of senior military and political officials, including Goering, rushed to the Congress. By the time a group of people rushed to the parliament, these congressmen would have arrived long ago. It seems that the German government is quite efficient to call all the MPs from the bed to the parliament.

Hitler stood on the podium and spoke loudly to the deputies below. "Just now, the criminal Polish army just attacked one of our outposts and was repelled by our loyal soldiers. We also left their bodies as evidence. This is a naked violation of Germany, and Poland has been Since then they have forcibly occupied our country’s inherent territory Danzig. They ignore our reasonable demands. Now they are even more aggressively attacking our army. We absolutely cannot tolerate this happening again. We must declare our tough attitude towards Poland, that is, war , We need to use war to let the Poles know that we are not to be violated."

Hitler's words caused cheers on the scene, and many people also shouted together, "War, war..."

With the cheers of the parliamentarians present, war is inevitable. As for Goring and others on the side, they also cheered together, but they didn't have any excited expressions in their eyes, they looked like they had been rehearsed.

And with Hitler's words, it also announced the outbreak of war between Germany and Poland.

Of course, in addition to declaring war on Poland, Hitler certainly will not forget that he has allies. Just as Hitler declared war on Poland in Congress, a telegram was sent from Berlin to Bucharest.

And Edel, who had long been waiting for this news, had gathered together with Prime Minister Mikhailache, Deputy Minister Kelstef, Chief of Staff Admiral Fereit and others.

After receiving the news, Edel put down the telegram and spoke to the people present. "Germany declared war on Poland, Hitler sent a telegram asking us to fulfill our obligations."

Edel's words immediately evoked a violent reaction, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Costel took the lead to speak. "Your Majesty, since our country has promised Germany to fight Poland, it is naturally impossible to hesitate any more, and naturally it is necessary to follow the agreement.

Kostel's words caused the people present to acquiesce that the benefits of the previous negotiations have been fully reaped. Naturally, there is no hesitation in doing it next. If it is half-push half-push now, it will not be good for Romania.

After everyone agreed to war with Poland, Edel continued to ask the Prime Minister. "How long will it take us to switch to the wartime economy now?"

Prime Minister Mihalaki naturally knew Edel's intentions, and there was no need for a wartime system to fight Poland. It is not that the prime minister's contempt for the strength of Poland, but that he has also participated in the military's analysis of the strength of the Polish army before. In the words of Lieutenant General Hoffman, it is that Poland cannot stop Romania's full-scale offensive for half a year. If the combat effect is excellent, the war should end within three months.

The reason is that the Polish army is still fighting with the old ideas of World War I, and has not blocked the Romanian army that has adopted the new ideas to fight. He predicted that as long as Romania did not make mistakes, the war would be enough to end in half a year.

Yes, Lieutenant Hoffman overestimated the strength of Poland, but the Prime Minister did not know. While Edel asked about the timing of the economic transformation during the war, he knew that this was not for Poland, but for the British and French behind it. As long as Britain and France do not abandon Poland, Romania will be at war with it, and the wartime economy is also prepared for them.

So he dared not neglect, and immediately stated the government's estimated time. "Your Majesty, it takes about eight months to fully transfer the economy to wartime. This is also based on the fact that we have gradually reached a semi-mobilized state before."

The transformation of the wartime economy cannot be determined by one or two sentences. It involves all aspects of society. First, it is necessary to establish a sound and unified management organization, and use administrative, legal, economic and other means to conduct unified management of the national economy. Then it is necessary to formulate a development plan, redistribute economic resources, rapidly expand military production, build and expand military industry enterprises, organize civilian production enterprises to switch to military products, and expand strategic material reserves.

It is also necessary to accelerate the development of national defense science and technology and speed up profit. The transformation of research results to production, accelerate breakthroughs in key technologies, and develop new weapons and equipment. In addition, adjust the economic layout, especially the rational allocation of key enterprises and facilities in the defense science and technology, defense industry, transportation and other sectors, and strengthen the protection of important economic targets.

At the same time, new railway and highway transportation networks will be built, various means of transportation will be recruited, and military control will be imposed on the transportation, post and telecommunications departments.

In addition, it is necessary to implement wartime fiscal and financial policies, issue domestic public debt, raise foreign debt, increase taxation, and issue additional currency when necessary to ensure wartime financial needs.

Moreover, a unified price policy is implemented to strictly control the rate of price increases. Implement the policy of controlling and supplying daily necessities during the war, restrict the living consumption of residents and social groups, implement limited supply, and implement a rationing system in kind when necessary.

All these require the government to coordinate, so the complete transformation of the economy can be completed in eight months, which is quite fast for Romania.

After getting the time given by the Prime Minister, Edel didn't ask any more. It seems that he is quite satisfied with it.

"Well, you guys go and prepare. Next, we need to deal with the work from all sides. Admiral Fereit stay."

After Edel waited until everyone else had left, he asked his Excellency the admiral. "I'm not worried about the army, this time I mainly want to ask, what happened to the navy's preparations?"

Yes, Edel is not at all worried about Romania’s participation in the battle against Poland. Although Romania’s troops are only more than 300,000, they are all Romania’s elite soldiers. Of the 7 armored divisions, 6 of them are involved, and 8 of them are motorized. Six of the divisions are among them. The other troops are all troops with outstanding military exploits, and there is absolutely no problem with dealing with a Poland.

In addition, the Air Force is also focusing most of the new fighters for Polish operations. We must know that the Air Force currently has more than 3,000 new fighters of various types, which are organized into more than 20 wings. Romania’s air force’s organization is similar to that of Germany, with 12 fighters as a squadron, 3-4 squadrons as a squadron, and 3-4 squadrons as a wing. The Wing is also the basic tactical unit of the Romanian Air Force.

So Edel doesn't worry about his army at all It's just that for the opponents that the Romanian navy needs to face, the British and French navies are somewhat insecure. However, the Navy currently has a plan and is silently preparing for it.

Edel asked Fereit this time because Admiral Lomodan was so busy that he did not attend the meeting.

"Your Majesty, the preparations for the navy are fairly smooth at the moment. It is mainly about the deception that needs to be resolved."

Admiral Fereit also rarely knew of the Navy's plan in the Army, but he didn't pay much attention to this matter. Because he didn't understand naval operations, and he was busy with a lot of things, so he didn't have too much energy to pay attention to naval issues.

And Edel knew that he was a little too abrupt to ask Feleit, and he asked after thinking about it. "The battle against Poland is about to begin, do you have any confidence?"

"Your Majesty, we are confident that we will seize the territory that should belong to our country within a month."

Listening to what Feleit said, Edel couldn't help but feel reassured by the Army.

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