"The Ninth Army retreats to Hungary, what should we do?"

Major General Hans seemed to have understood the situation before, and as soon as he came up, he asked the most important question of the Tenth Army at present.

Faced with the chief of staff's questioning, Lieutenant General Sam did not say what he thought, but asked. "So what's your suggestion?"

In response to Lieutenant General Sam's request for his own proposal, Major General Hans said what he had only come up with. "I think in the current situation, we have to evacuate."

Major General Hans pointed to Dewa's location on the map and continued. "I think that after the retreat of the Ninth Army, the enemy target must be us. At that time, whether it is the strength or weapons and equipment, we will not be opponents, and at that time, the offensive and defensive positions will be reversed, and the taste will be uncomfortable. So I think a decision needs to be made sooner. ”

"And we can retreat directly to Adela while the enemy is still on the front line of Cluj and entangled with the Ninth Army."

Lieutenant General Adrasam, as the chief of staff spoke, certainly knew. It is the main route of the Hungarian-Romanian railway line, and there is a southern route to Belgrade. It also originates in the Transylvanian Plateau and flows south into the Danube. It can be said that it is the most powerful point of the city to defend against a possible Romanian offensive.

Lieutenant General Sam admitted that his chief of staff was the best defensive plan at the moment. However, retreating like this made Lieutenant General Sam very unwilling. "Hans, you're right, but I don't think that's the way it is for now."

Seeing that his chief of staff wanted to ask about the meaning because he heard this, Lieutenant General Sam directly stated his considerations. "Hans, I know that you are doing this to reduce the losses of our army, but you are only thinking about military matters. This is incomplete, and we also need to consider the political and diplomatic implications. ”

At this point, Sam asked rhetorically. "Chief of Staff, what do you think will happen if we lose Transylvania in a month?"

In the face of Sam's questioning, Major General Hans voiced his considerations. "The already bad environment at home will be even more difficult, diplomatically, the allies will have a different view of the Empire, and the Italian campaign prepared by His Majesty will be affected."

Met with the Chief of Staff's answer, Lieutenant General Sam nodded and spoke. "I know all of what you're saying, but I think the most important thing right now is to pay attention to the emotions of the soldiers. A quarter of the soldiers of our 10th Army are from this land, and a retreat like this will discourage them, which will not be beneficial for future operations. ”

Lieutenant General Sam didn't say a word about this, so he had to be reluctant to belong to the heavy artillery brigade. This independent heavy artillery brigade of the Austro-Hungarian Army, commanded by Major General Clos, took the efforts of the Imperial Army, and the heavy artillery brigade composed of nearly 100 150, 180, 210, and 240 caliber howitzers and cannons was a treasure for the armies of all countries.

The Austro-Hungarian Army had only six brigades, and Lieutenant General Sam was careful to use them for fear of heavy losses. And if the retreat is as Major General Hans said, then it will be difficult for this heavy artillery brigade, which has condensed the efforts of the army, to return to Adela. Because Deva was hundreds of kilometers from Adra, it would take at least five days at the slow pace of the heavy artillery brigade, but it would not take so much time for the Romanians to surround it.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Sam had to fight the Romanians, whether he wanted to stabilize the Transylvanian soldiers or to keep the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade. Through the battle of Deva, Lieutenant General Sam felt that the Romanians were not too short and too strong, and he still had hope of keeping the heavy artillery and stabilizing the morale of the army by the way.

"Hans, we can't just walk away like this."

Looking at the map in front of him, Lieutenant General Sam quickly searched for a suitable place to fight, and soon a place name in Deva and Adela appeared in front of him. "Having fought them in Misio, these Romanians can't be too presumptuous. But if Salamik in front of us dares to come out of the tortoise's shell, give him a hard taste. ”

Following the order of Lieutenant General Sam, preparations for the evacuation of the Austro-Hungarian 10th Army began. And the change in the Austro-Hungarian army immediately attracted the attention of the defenders of Dewa.

Within the headquarters of Army Group South in Deva Dwa, Admiral Salamik was thinking about the withdrawal of the Austro-Hungarian army.

"Admiral, we can't just let them evacuate, otherwise this defensive operation will be too great a loss for our entire group army."

The intellectually handicapped Lieutenant General Ankodar of the 1st Praetorian Guards Division was making an impassioned speech, and of course he was not just speaking to the admiral alone, but to every division commander who participated in the Battle of Deva.

Lieutenant General Ankodar's statement embarrassed Admiral Salamik. Originally, he planned to report the good news that Cluj had been taken away, but who knew that after hearing that Cluj had been captured, these division commanders immediately took this opportunity to talk about how to expand the results of the battle. And Admiral Salamik didn't think much about it at first, and the topics that these division commanders talked about were unified. The topic gradually changed from how to expand the results of the campaign to how to hold off the Austro-Hungarian 10th Army in front of him, and wait until Lieutenant General Fereyt led reinforcements to destroy the enemy's heavy corps in one fell swoop.

And Admiral Salamik, who saw all this, knew that these were divisions belonging to Army Group South, and he couldn't swallow the bad breath of being violently beaten by the Austro-Hungarian Tenth Army, and wanted to take advantage of the change in the situation to find this field.

However, not all of Lieutenant General Ankodar's words agreed, and some planned to be more steady. "But now we don't have enough troops to hold back the enemy, so let's wait for the friendly forces in Cluj to arrive."

But the speaker was quickly dismissed. "Colonel Antonescu, let's do your division's job, don't desert anymore, otherwise it will make people laugh."

After saying this, Antonescu could clearly hear laughter, and someone couldn't help but laugh. However, in the face of this situation, Antonescu was very unwilling in his heart, but there was no way to do it, who let the division he led was only a mobilized division. And he is only a deputy, if it weren't for the division commander who let him take over the army because of a sudden illness, he wouldn't even be qualified to sit here.

After seeing the other voices that came to the fore being suppressed, Admiral Salamik knew that this was the unanimous decision of the commanders of the main divisions under him. In fact, Admiral Salamik also felt very aggrieved by this battle of Dewa, and after seeing that everyone was in agreement, he was also willing to do a favor. After all, the group army is only a temporary formation, and it will not be seen to look up in the future, and the danger of delaying the Austro-Hungarian army this time is not too great.

"Since everyone agrees with it, then I have decided to send the 1st, 15th, and 18th Praetorian Divisions to attack and delay the enemy, and I can't let them leave comfortably like this. The other divisions remained on alert for a possible surprise attack by the enemy. At this point, Salamik paused and continued. However, your troops should be careful to withdraw if they find the enemy reflexively attacking. ”

"Yes."

As for General Salamik's words, the commanders of all divisions present could understand that it would be too embarrassing to plant a big heel before the end of the battle.

Sure enough, after the containment attack launched by the Southern Army, it was immediately counterattacked by the Austro-Hungarian Tenth Army, which made everyone who was about to take a bad breath hold back. However, this was only a return to the glory of the Tenth Army, and after Fereit hurried with the elite of the Central Army and the Northern Army, Lieutenant General Sam's Tenth Army finally could not withstand it. In the face of an attack of nearly 300,000 Romanian elites, the Tenth Army was defeated. However, after the Romanian army drove it out of Transylvania, it did not continue the pursuit, because the greatest threat to Romania, the German army on the eastern front, had already arrived at the border, and the test had just begun.

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