Romanian Eagle

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

After nearly a year in Bulgaria, Eder finally returned to the city he was most familiar with. Although he has been in Bulgaria for almost a year, he is still very clear about who is his basic player.

And Romania's pile of official documents also need to wait for him to deal with. Although it is possible to handle official documents from Romania in Bulgaria, it is a hassle that many things cannot be asked in person.

For example, things about the expansion of the army need to be handled by him. And telegrams are easy to leak. Although it is possible to recruit General Fleet, the chief of the general staff, to Sofia, it is too time-consuming and too conspicuous.

So this time back in Bucharest, in addition to seeing his long-lost family for the first time, Edel was dealing with a bunch of military and political affairs.

It should be noted here that Prince Victor's career at the military academy is over. The mischievous and mischievous Demon King is gone forever, and he reappeared on the son in front of Edel, and his strong military temperament could not be concealed. And Edel threw his son, who graduated from the military academy, into the Guards, and let him exercise again.

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

After taking care of the housework, Edel immediately threw herself into her busy work. After finishing the accumulated work, Eder recruited Admiral Freiette to discuss the military's expansion plan.

Speaking of this military expansion plan, it is actually 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 reflected. Moreover, Romania also lacks commodity dumping grounds, and the influence of expanding production but lacking dumping grounds has gradually emerged.

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

This effect was already evident in the statistics at the end of 1934, when the domestic economic growth was only 5.1%. Although this is still not low, it is a lot less than the previous data. You must 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 up by economic growth are gradually emerging. This is also the main reason for Eder to rush back to Bucharest. To put it bluntly, Romania lacks a market large enough to accommodate its explosive production of goods.

Of course the government didn't do anything.

Its export tax rebates, encourage industrial upgrading, and strive to open up the market are doing. Romania has successively signed economic and trade cooperation with the Czech Republic, Sweden, Latvia and other countries to expand the market for domestic commodities, and at the same time encourage consumption at home so that people can buy more commodities.

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

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

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

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

Chief of the General Staff Fleit handed the carefully prepared plan to Eder. This military expansion was carefully prepared by the military after receiving hints from Edel. And this is not just a plan to expand the army, but also some changes to the Romanian establishment.

Eder opened the plan and saw it; in order to meet the needs of future wars, it was necessary to make certain supplements to the Romanian division-level troops. Based on previous war experience and the adaptation of new equipment, the following changes have been made to Romanian divisions.

The first is to strengthen the divisional troops. The first is to reduce the number of cavalry in the current divisional reconnaissance battalion and increase the number of armored vehicles to improve its control over the battlefield. Changed the 315 horses in the reconnaissance battalion to 154, and added 27 armored vehicles and 48 motorcycles.

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

The artillery regiment also needs to be reorganized, and the current divisional 75-caliber artillery is delegated to the infantry regiment to improve its independent combat capability. The artillery regiment will be equipped with 36 105 howitzers, 12 cannons and 8 150 howitzers. There are 40 motorcycles, 150 wheeled vehicles, 129 carriages and 1274 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, the division and baggage regiment: 2100 people, 30 light machine guns, 88 motorcycles, 283 wheeled vehicles, 195 carriages, and 535 horses.

In addition to enhancements to the divisional units, changes have also been made in the infantry regiment. The three battalions of 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 has 3,340 officers and soldiers, 126 light machine guns and 36 heavy machine guns.

Infantry battalion 860 people: 32 battalion headquarters (including command squad, communication team, engineer squad), 3* infantry company 603 people, 1* fire support company (177 people), combat supply group 28 people.

201 infantry companies: 11 companies, 3* infantry platoons, 7 anti-tank groups, and 33 logistics personnel.

50 infantry platoons: Components: 6 platoons, 4* infantry squads, 3 mortar teams, 1 crew.

Infantry squad of 10 people: Components: squad leader, 3-person machine gun crew, deputy squad leader, and five infantrymen.

According to this establishment, a standard infantry division in Romania will have a staff of up to 17,500 people, which is more than 2,000 more than before. The increase in personnel is mainly in the division-level affiliated units, of course, the infantry regiment has also been increased, which is also expanded to the affiliated units.

Its full division is equipped as follows; pistols - 3681, rifles - 12609, submachine guns - 321, anti-tank guns - 90, light machine guns - 425, heavy machine guns - 110, 50mm mortars - 84, 81 mm mortars - 54, 75mm guns - 36, 105mm light howitzers - 36, 105 cannons - 12, 150mm heavy howitzers - 8, flamethrowers - 9.