Romanian Eagle

September is the harvest season, and the hardworking farmers need to take stock of the fruits of this year's labor, so there is a busy scene everywhere.

In the small town of Khmelnik, it is another scene. The town is full of soldiers in military uniforms, who patronize the small town's small shops in twos and threes.

In the barracks outside the town, Major General Salda, the commander of the 24th Division, was giving orders. When will the artillerymen arrive, they will be one of the next main forces. Captain Tolk promised me that they will arrive at the scheduled time. What are they doing? The day after tomorrow is the scheduled time, but they are still there. Kamenets.

Looking at Major General Salda who was furious, Colonel Bodarko, the chief of staff, couldn't help but say. At present, it seems that the artillery regiment has been unable to arrive at the specified time, so do we need to consider borrowing some equipment from friendly troops. At least 105 howitzers need to be borrowed a little, these heavy artillery can't arrive within the specified time.

The chief of staff's words made Major General Zelda think about it and then declined.

Chief of Staff, don't mention this proposal. You must know that the selection of our troops this time has already caused dissatisfaction among many colleagues. If you let friendly troops support because of the delay of artillery, it will not cause a violent response. So this proposal is No need to say any more.

Major General Zelda's categorical refusal made Colonel Bodarko unable to say. But without artillery support, the next battle will not be so easy to fight.

Not necessarily.

How to say?

Major General Zelda explained while pointing to the combat map. Look. Helmek is 749 meters above sea level, not much higher than the surrounding area. Our division uses 75mm caliber field guns, which are enough to target the Soviet Union's current large-scale division-level 762mm field guns. I believe we will wait until the Soviet Union. When the troops behind the army arrived in Helmek, our 105 howitzers should have arrived long ago. And after the start of the battle, we can still get some support from the fourth artillery regiment, which is enough to ensure that our army is invincible.

That's right, Major General Zelda made a compromise after full consideration, so that after the conflict was triggered, the speed of the Soviet army's assembly and the route of entry were fully considered. According to his prediction, after learning that Mount Helmek was occupied by our side, it would take two days for the Soviet army to submit the report and make a decision, and then it would take another three days to gather its forces and move over. In five days, even if it is pushed by hand, it should be pushed.

In the early operations, the 762mm divisional field guns used by the Soviet Army were of the new type 190230. This new gun has been extended from the original 30 caliber barrel to 40 caliber. The muzzle velocity is 662s, the angle is 1737 degrees, and the maximum range is increased from 8,500 meters to 13,290 meters.

The Soviet artillery is powerful,

Romania is not bad either. At present, the Romanian army has also replaced a large number of new 75mm field guns. The new 75mm field gun is called the 190629 type. Its diameter has also been increased from 32 times to 43 times, and the maximum range has also been increased from 8400 meters to 13520 meters. Meter. Not inferior to the current Soviet Union's new 762-caliber field gun.

Not to mention that the 24th Division is currently equipped with the latest Romanian 105-caliber howitzers. Its 35 times the barrel can hit the shell to a distance of 14,180 meters. Moreover, the installation of the newly developed muzzle brake can also reduce the recoil of the 36, allowing the thickened tires to be installed on the howitzer, which in turn increases the mobility of the gun.

If it weren't for the floods that overwhelmed the railway bridge and forced the artillery units to be diverted to road transport, then at the beginning of the conflict, the Soviet army would have felt its power.

Now that Major General Zelda has considered a solution, Colonel Bodarko can only continue to ask the next question. Then, Commander, have you considered which regiment to send to occupy Mount Helmek first?

I've already thought about it, and let Lieutenant Colonel Mizik lead his three regiments to take down Mount Helmek first. For this reason, I plan to equip a 75th mountain field artillery battalion, an engineer company, and give him four more. 127 anti-aircraft machine gun. Let it carry enough ammunition to defend this high point for me. And I will take the other troops of the division as backup, and give them a blow when the Soviet troops come up.

It was clear that Major General Zelda intended to put Mizik's regiment at a critical point. As a battle-hardened general, Major General Zelda knows where the crux of future conflicts lies and puts his most elite cards there right from the start.

And the three regiments are indeed worthy of his entrustment. In the two years of intra-division tactical drills, the three regiments have repeatedly won the first results. As the trust and expectation of his subordinates, Major General Zelda is obviously willing to use him as the core garrison force.

After hearing the division commander's words, the chief of staff thought of the performance of the three regiments on weekdays, and agreed. This arrangement is reasonable.

While the two division commanders were discussing, Lieutenant Colonel Mizke, who they said was trustworthy, was also writing a letter to his wife. As a qualified soldier he certainly can't write about the military, mainly because his lovely son is in school grade. In order to give that son a sufficient education, he asked someone to find a good school for him, and this time he wrote a letter to talk about going to school.

I have already done the work of Kars going to school. It is the first national primary school in Galati. I entrusted Lieutenant Colonel Kerley to help me with this matter. You can take your son to visit and thank you. Remember not to Bring valuable gifts, the usual ones are fine, the Kelley family is a noble who brought them too expensive, but they are seen as outsiders.”

Just as Mizke was writing the letter, an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel pushed in.

He saw that Mizke was lying on the table writing a letter, and said with a smile. Mizik, you've only been on vacation for less than two months, and you miss your family again?

Mizick knew who it was without looking up to hear the voice, so he spoke more casually.

Isn't this the help of Lieutenant Colonel Kerley, who was retired before, to find a school for my son? Now that I have found it, I naturally need to thank the other party.

This matter is easy to solve. If you are in my hometown, I will help you with one sentence.

Seal the completed letter, Mizke said. That is, who doesn't know that Major Dalton's family is very powerful in Buzau.

The one who made fun of him was Lieutenant Colonel Dalton, the cousin of Kirsty. He is now managing the third regiment together with Mizke, but he is the deputy commander.

And Mizke continued to speak after he made fun of him. How's the situation in the battalions?

You didn't even let me take a sip of water, so you started asking about the situation of the troops.

After Lieutenant Colonel Dalton, who was pouring the water himself, laughed and scolded, he still gave a reply. What else can I do? Many soldiers have gone out to relax. The battalion commanders are decompressing the soldiers. After all, this is the first battle of our division, so we can't screw it up.

In fact, Lieutenant Colonel Dalton was wrong. This is their second time on the battlefield. However, in the last Soviet-Polish war, their division had no chance to perform. Who told them that the task assigned to them at that time was to protect the transportation line. The cavalry group army that the Soviet army harassed the transportation line was caught by the armored brigade and cavalry division with a hammer, and they were defeated and fled without even seeing the edge of the transportation line. The 24th division was disappointed.

Now it is their division's first battle to face the Soviet army, can they be careless?