Romanian Eagle

Chapter 697 The outbreak of war

The night was long, but today's Prime Minister's Office was brightly lit, and all the senior military and political officials, including Hitler, were sitting here waiting for something.

Many of the people sitting were a little rough and restless, and the word anxiety seemed to be written on their faces. As for Hitler, it is naturally not as obvious as other people's performances, but if you look closely, you can see the anxious side in his eyes.

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

And just when everyone was a little anxious, a staff member rushed in with a telegram.

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

I saw Goering immediately grabbed 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 high and shouting. "This is evidence of a Polish invasion and we need to fight back."

And Hitler's words were like a signal, which immediately attracted a loud echo from the others. It was better that everyone at the scene was speaking for 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 continue. "Prepare the car, I'm going to the Congress to speak."

He was the only one who went to Congress. A large number of senior military and political officials, including Goering, rushed to Congress. By the time a group of people rushed to Congress, these members had already arrived. It seems that the German government is quite efficient to be able to call all members of parliament from their beds to the parliament.

Hitler stood on the podium and spoke loudly to the MPs below. "Just now, the vicious Polish army attacked one of our outposts and was repelled by our loyal soldiers, whose bodies we have left as evidence. This is a blatant violation of Germany, and Poland has always been Since then, they have forcibly occupied our country's inherent territory of Danzig, and they have ignored our country's reasonable demands. Now they are even more aggressive in attacking our army. We absolutely cannot tolerate such a thing happening again. We have to declare our tough attitude to Poland, that is, go to war , we will use war to show the Poles that we are inviolable."

Hitler's words caused cheers from the audience, and many people also shouted, "War, war..."

With the cheers of the lawmakers present, war was inevitable. As for Goering and others on the side, they also cheered along, but they didn't have any excited expressions in their eyes, they looked like they had already been rehearsed.

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

Of course, except for declaring war on Poland,

Hitler certainly did not forget that he had allies. Just as Hitler was declaring war on Poland in the Reichstag, a telegram was sent from Berlin to Bucharest.

And Eder, who had been waiting for this news, had gathered together with Prime Minister Mihalakah, Deputy Prime Minister Kirstv, Chief of General Staff Admiral Fereit and others.

After receiving the news, Edel said to those present after putting down the telegram. "Germany declared war on Poland, and Hitler sent a telegram asking us to do our duty."

Edel's words immediately attracted a violent reaction, and I saw Foreign Minister Costell spoke first. "Your Majesty, since our country has promised Germany to fight against Poland, it is natural that there will be no more hesitation, and it is natural to follow the agreement."

Costel's words attracted those present to acquiesce that the benefits that should have been obtained from the previous negotiation had been fully reaped. If you do it next, you will naturally have no hesitation. It will not do Romania any good if it is half done now.

After everyone was in favor of war with Poland, Eder continued to ask the prime minister. "How long will it take us now to transition to a wartime economy?"

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

The reason is that the Polish army is still fighting with the old ideas of World War I, and has not stopped the Romanian army that has adopted new ideas to fight. In his prediction, as long as Romania does not make mistakes, the war will end in half a year.

Yes, Lieutenant General Hoffman overestimated Poland's strength, but the Prime Minister didn't know it. When Eder asked about the time of the wartime economic transformation, he knew that it was not for Poland, but for Britain and France behind it. As long as Britain and France do not abandon Poland, then Romania will be at war with it, and the war economy is prepared for them.

Therefore, he did not dare to neglect, and immediately stated the government's estimated time. "Your Majesty, it will take about eight months to completely turn the economy into wartime. This is also based on the fact that we have gradually reached a semi-mobilized state before."

The transformation of the war economy cannot be decided in a sentence or two, and it involves all aspects of this society. First of all, it is necessary to establish and improve a unified management organization, and use administrative, legal, economic and other means to carry out unified management of the national economy. Then it is necessary to formulate a development plan, reallocate economic resources, rapidly expand military production, build and expand military enterprises, organize civilian production enterprises to convert military products, and expand strategic material reserves.

It is also necessary to accelerate the development of national defense science and technology, and speed up the benefits. The transformation of research results into production, accelerate breakthroughs in key technologies, and develop new types of 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 goals.

At the same time, it is necessary to build new railway and highway transportation networks, collect various means of transportation, and impose military control on the transportation, post and telecommunications departments.

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

And the implementation of a unified price policy, strict control of price increases. Implement the policy of controlling and supplying living goods on a wartime basis, limit the living consumption of residents and social groups, implement limited supply, and implement a physical rationing system when necessary.

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

And Edel did not ask any more after getting the time given by the Prime Minister. It seems that he is quite satisfied with it.

"Okay, everyone, let's prepare. Next, we need to deal with work from all sides. Admiral Freiette will stay for a while."

Edel waited until everyone else had left, and 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?"

That's right, Eder is not at all worried about Romania's participation in the war against Poland. Although the Romanian troops participating in the war are only more than 300,000, they are all Romanian elite soldiers. Of the 7 armored divisions, 6 are involved, and 8 are motorized. There are 6 teachers among them. The other troops are military troops with outstanding military exploits, and there is absolutely no problem in dealing with a Poland.

In addition, the Air Force also concentrated most of the new fighters for Polish operations. You must know that the Air Force currently has more than 3,000 new fighters of various types, organized into more than 20 wing groups. Romania's air force is similar to Germany's, with 12 fighters as a squadron, 3-4 squadrons into a brigade, and 3-4 brigade into a wing. Wings are also the basic tactical units of the Romanian Air Force.

So Eder is not worried about his own army at all, but he has no bottom for the opponents that the Romanian navy needs to face, the British and French navies. However, the Navy currently has a plan and is quietly preparing for it.

Eder asked Feleit this time because Admiral Lomodan was too busy to attend the meeting today.

"Your Majesty, the preparations for the navy are going well so far. The main issue is deception that needs to be resolved."

Admiral Freiit is also rarely known in the Army to the Navy's plans, but he doesn't pay much attention to this matter. Because he doesn't understand naval operations, and he has a lot of work to do, he doesn't have much energy to pay attention to naval issues.

And Edel knew that it was too abrupt to ask Feleit, and he asked after thinking about it. "The war 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 Freiette's words, Edel couldn't help but reassures the army.

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