After observing the new armored vehicles, Eder, accompanied by Major Hoffmann, inspected the "Armored Experimental Battalion" of the armored unit that was still being formed.

The camp of the army was eight kilometers outside Constanta, in the wilderness of Polk, and less than ten kilometers from the Volkswagen factory. It was previously the home of a cavalry regiment and was later transferred, but the camp remained. Major Hoffman chose the location of the armored experimental battalion because of the large size of the place (the cavalry regiment was of course larger), the small number of people in the vicinity to help him experiment with various tactics, and the fact that it was not far from the city and convenient for life.

"The personnel are well prepared."

Eder looked at the more than 300 officers and soldiers of the armored experimental battalion lined up in front of him, and spoke to Hoffman as he accepted his inspection.

"Your Highness, they are all elite soldiers transferred from the Motor Transport Regiment and the Cavalry Unit."

Major Hoffman praised his soldiers.

In fact, the situation was far from as good as he himself said, and after Major Hoffman took the order given by the crown prince to form an armored experimental battalion, Major Hoffman happily went to the cavalry unit and the motor transport regiment where he had previously stayed to select personnel. Although the two chief officers who were poached by Hoffman would not disobey the crown prince's orders, they also gave Major Hoffman a lot of hardships in private.

Especially in the cavalry unit, its commander-in-command, Lieutenant Colonel Stockley, privately told his soldiers that the unit formed by Hoffman would only stay in the city, since his armored vehicles could only fight with good roads. This caused many of the soldiers and officers who were favored by Major Hoffmann to refuse his invitation. At first, Hoffman was unaware of the situation, but only came back to his senses when he saw that a large number of officers and soldiers who had been invited by him had rejected his invitations.

Major Hoffman learns that Lieutenant Colonel Stockley is the mastermind behind his inability to recruit anyone. Lieutenant Colonel Stockley was specifically approached to discuss the matter, and after friendly consultation between the two. Lieutenant Colonel Stockley no longer prevented Hoffman from recruiting from the cavalry units, and Hoffman could not specifically find the backbone of the cavalry troops, but could only choose from among the general soldiers and officers.

The situation of recruiting people in the motor transport regiment was much better, because it was a logistics unit that was inferior in status to the combat units of the First World War, and Major Hoffman had learned a lesson from Lieutenant Colonel Stockley. When he came to the motor transport group to pick people, he no longer only stared at the best soldiers and officers of the other side, which also reduced him a lot of trouble. However, after Major Hoffman finished picking people, the commander of the transport regiment also had a pain in his flesh for a while, because he took away a company of maintenance personnel.

In addition, Hoffman relied on his connections in the military academy that were still there, and recruited several good cadets from the school.

"I hope you can complete the compilation as soon as possible."

After inspecting the soldiers and officers of the armoured battalion, Eder continued to check on the soldiers' living conditions and spoke with them.

"Soldier, what's your name?"

Edel asked with concern to a soldier in front of him.

"Your Highness, my name is Sanders, and I'm from the village of Hobek."

The soldier named Sanders, who was asked by the crown prince, replied with an excited expression.

His words caused the shoulders of the soldiers around him to rise and fall, and it seemed that they had endured it with great difficulty.

"Sanders, are you used to living here?"

Eder didn't change his mind at the soldier's hilarious answer, and asked with a smile on his face. The court etiquette that Edel had learned over the years kept him from changing his complexion because of the changes in his face, unless the soldier named Sanders suddenly sang Dongfanghong.

In fact, the soldier regretted it after saying it, and he wanted to find a hole in the ground to get into. However, after the crown prince continued to ask questions to help him resolve the embarrassment, he was much better, at least he knew how to answer. "Your Highness, I am very accustomed to living in the army, among which my squad leader Dosk helped me the most."

Edel was smiling happily when he saw one of the non-commissioned officers, presumably the Dosk squad leader he was talking about. He continued to chat with the soldier and continued to tour the camp.

"Looks like you haven't finished renovating this camp yet."

After his rounds, Eder told Major Hoffman, who had been with him, about his post-tour situation. While inspecting the barracks, Eder saw too many shadows of the cavalry garrisons, a large number of stables that had not been dismantled, broken horseshoes in the corners, and large stacks of forage in the corners of the barracks.

Hoffman explained, after hearing the crown prince's inquiry. "Yes, Your Highness, there are still many traces of cavalry in our barracks. The main reason is that the time is too short, and the soldiers in front of them have resisted at the latest five days ago. Now the main purpose is to train them into an army, and I plan to arrange for the manpower to transform the military camp as soon as possible after they are all familiar with each other. ”

After hearing Major Hoffman's explanation, Eder did not answer whether it was good or bad, but continued to care about how Hoffman would train this unit. "Now there is no situation where European armies have centralized training of armored vehicles, what do you think about this new unit?"

Hoffman knew that the crown prince was telling the truth, and that armored vehicles were now scattered in other armies in Europe. Generally, it is used by the army group, but there are only about a dozen vehicles, because now countries do not know how to use this expensive and not easy to use thing.

Like Russia, which has worked hardest to develop armored vehicles, in 1905, Nakasidze designed Russia's first armored car, named the "Nakasidze" armored car, and Russia subsequently purchased 10 such armored vehicles, which were placed in St. Petersburg as a guardian force. Although Britain, which was the first to develop armored vehicles, used them in the Boer War, Britain is now doing similar things to Russia, purchasing a small amount of expensive novelties for the War Department.

"Your Highness, I am ready to purchase 24 armored vehicles from Volkswagen and train them into two companies (one with 84 people and one with 81 people), plus a maintenance company (with 74 people) and a logistics company (with 87 people), which is the establishment I am currently preparing."

Hoffman said what he had thought about for a long time.

Edel asked, hearing that he was going to train four companies, after some thought. "So how many people are there after you are ready to compile?"

"I calculated that according to the establishment of the armored experimental battalion, a total of 497 people are needed."

Eder heard Major Hoffman's answer and spoke to him. "Just do it."

After touring the barracks, Eder then returned by train to the capital city of Bucharest, where the Chief of the General Staff, Admiral Prishan, had already prepared plans to train two more divisions, awaiting the approval of the crown prince.