Romanian Eagle

The winter night wind blows across the Transylvanian plateau, and a new day begins. After a night's rest, the two armies in Hartseg were also preparing for a new battle as the sun approached.

"Hurry up and bring the ammunition here."

"Rome, come and check if there is something wrong with this gun."

"Hurry up and clean the barrel, it will be used in a while."

On the artillery position, the artillerymen are busy preparing for the war. As the god of war, Romania is also very important, and it is also implemented in comparison with other powers in training. For example, due to the invention of the goniometer, the peripheral sight and the use of wired communication equipment, major countries have successively implemented indirect aiming shooting, and the observation post and the artillery position are arranged separately. And Romania is not behind them at all, and they all followed up the same time. This is also the point where Romania can rival or even surpass Austria-Hungary in artillery.

As the temporary commander of the artillery group of the two divisions on the artillery position, Colonel Matt Tizzi, the commander of the artillery regiment of the 1st Guard Division, was also making the final preparations.

"Do you all know the importance of today's battle?"

"Know."

"Are you all ready?"

"Ready."

Looking at the artillery officers of the two divisions who were under his control, Colonel Matt Tizzi sighed that he was very energetic and waved his hand. "Go back and get ready."

As the artillery positions were getting ready for today's battle, Lieutenant-General Ankodar and Major-General Dotrid were confirming the final pre-battle plan in the command post in front of the position.

"Major General Dotrid is the division commander. I won't talk much about the importance of today's attack plan. We must make a breakthrough in today's attack, and we can't be concerned about casualties at this time."

Looking at Lieutenant General Ankodar, who spoke earnestly and earnestly, Major General Dotrid knew that this was not because the commander of the First Division of the Imperial Guard became a mother-in-law who wanted to nag, and yesterday the Nineteenth Division played too badly, he was afraid that he would be upset about it. Anxiety didn't dare to give it a shot, but Ankodar looked down on himself too much.

Major General Dotrid spoke about it. "Lieutenant General, please rest assured, today I will take the enemy's position at the cost of casualties, as long as the 7th Division defending the flank cannot reinforce the position."

In the face of Major General Dotreid's words, Lieutenant General Ankodar confirmed that he said it in general. "Don't worry about this, the First Division of the Imperial Guard will definitely be able to break through the flank positions, but it can still be guaranteed that the 7th Austro-Hungarian Division will not be able to reinforce the frontal battlefield."

Speaking of which, Lieutenant General Ankodar said at the end.

"Then I will hand it over to you next, and I wish us all victory."

"We can all win."

After Lieutenant General Ankodar left with the personnel of the 1st Guard Division, Dotreid called the staff and ordered. "I am now drafting my order, and the artillery will immediately launch an artillery bombardment against the enemy in front of me. Except for the 2 base ammunition that must be left, I will shoot out all the others. Before the shelling ends, the combat troops must approach the enemy's position within a range of 200 meters. Immediately after the shelling was over, the raid began. In addition, a secret order was issued to the front-line commander. I only need to break through the enemy's front line of defense, and don't give me casualties."

Major General Dotrid's words made the staff take a deep breath, but after seeing the face and tone of his teacher, he immediately lost his mind and hurriedly issued the order to the frontline commander.

After the staff left, the chief of staff of the 9th Division had to persuade him. "Senior Commander, it is easy to accidentally get hurt when approaching the opponent's position 200 during the shelling. Are you thinking about it?"

"Don't think about it, I know that there must be a lot of accidental injuries, but how can you not die in war."

Considering that his tone might be too blunt, Major General Dotrid explained one more sentence. "Today is the day to decide the outcome. Neither we nor the First Division of the Imperial Guard can afford to delay, so we have to make some choices."

Major General Dotrid's order was quickly conveyed, and the artillery groups of the two divisions left on the frontal battlefield were about to hit the already prepared artillery shells on the top of the defenders. The Austro-Hungarian 35th Division, which was defending from the front, immediately felt the pressure of the battlefield. They were all veterans who had been fighting for several years. As the commander of the 35th Division, Major General Arz felt uncomfortable.

"Do the Romanians think there are too many shells?"

Major General Arz passed through the observation post just after the shelling began, feeling the difference in this shelling but thinking of the reason. Until he observed through a high-precision telescope, the Romanian soldiers on the battlefield took advantage of the shelling to touch their own positions, and there were a lot of them.

"No, this is the Romanians going to launch a general attack."

Major General Arz, who wanted to understand, immediately picked up the phone and connected to the artillery position behind the battlefield. "I'm Arz, and immediately start the artillery bombardment in front of the ground."

Following the order of Major General Arz, the hidden artillerymen of Austria-Hungary also threw artillery shells on the heads of the officers and soldiers of the 9th Division who were preparing to advance. However, as the artillery superior side, the Romanian artillery group led by Colonel Mattizi certainly will not turn a blind eye to this. After measuring the artillery positions of the defending army, the artillery fire of the attacking party immediately fell on the artillery positions that were ravaging their comrades. The fierce artillery fire made the Austro-Hungarian artillery positions misfire one after another.

When the artillery of the defending army gradually disappeared, the officers and soldiers of the 9th Division who had moved to the front of the position immediately launched a surprise attack. Taking advantage of the fact that the defenders did not react from the artillery strike, the officers and soldiers of the 9th Division immediately entered the position and had a fierce battle with it. contention.

"Rush in, rush in."

As the elite of the 9th Division, the 7th Company led by Captain Mizik of course also appeared on the battlefield. But now Captain Mizke is not very good, there is a shrapnel wound on his right face that was smoked like African-born. However, as the commander of a company, Mizik couldn't care about this. He wanted to command his soldiers to capture the position in front of him, because he was ordered to take this position regardless of casualties. For the sake of the lives of himself and his subordinates, he can only command and reduce the casualties of the company as much as possible.

When Mizke gave loud orders to his soldiers, he also became a thorn in the eyes of the Austro-Hungarian soldiers. The dirty, still recognizable uniform of the officer, coupled with his pistol, instantly made him a very worthwhile target to shoot. So in a collapsed machine gun position not far from him, a rifle quietly protruded from it.

Mizik, who was completely unaware, directed his soldiers to move forward, and at this moment an unnoticed corpse knocked him down. Then he heard a "pop" gunshot, and felt a hot air flow past his ear. Only then did he realize that he was almost hit.

Only at this time did the soldiers of the 7th Company realize that their company commander was almost killed, so they searched in the direction of the sound, only to find a shell on the collapsed machine gun position.

"Don't worry about him, grab the position quickly, we have more important things to do."

Seeing that no enemy was found, Mizik immediately asked the soldiers to rush to snatch the position. In fact, among the positions defended by the entire 35th Division, the 7th Company is not a special case. Under the offensive of the 9th Division with artillery superiority and ignoring casualties, the 35th Division has already broken through several positions. The 35th Division launched several counterattacks under the order of Major General Arz, but they were all blocked by artillery and the soldiers of the 9th Division. For a time, the frontal battlefield of the Austro-Hungarian army showed signs of being broken.

The signs of the failure of the Austrian-Hungarian 35th Division have already attracted the attention of both parties. As its division commander, Major General Arz can only ask for help now, and now the only person who can be asked for help is the Austrian-Hungarian 7th Division, but now the 7th Division is completely guarded. A division was entangled and unable to draw out any troops.

"Kumanek, now I need reinforcements. The frontal enemy's offensive is too strong, they are all crazy and completely ignore the casualties. My 35th Division can't stand it anymore."

"My artillery has been exhausted, and you have seen that the other party's artillery has too much more than ours, there is absolutely no way."

"If you can't give reinforcements now, I certainly can't stop it. Now my soldiers have retreated to the last line of defense. If they are broken, they can only be defeated."

So at 4:30 p.m., the Austro-Hungarian 35th Division, which had been hit one after another without reinforcements, collapsed, and its demoralized soldiers gave up their positions and fled to the rear.

Seeing this situation, Major General Arz's eyes were red, and he muttered to himself while frowning his hair. "It's over, it's over."

But of course the other officers in the headquarters would not sit back and watch their division commander, and immediately two staff officers supported him and retreated to the rear. And Kumanek, the commander of the 7th Division, who was entangled with the 1st Division of the Guards on the defensive flank, was also quite decisive. After leaving a regiment to stand guard, he immediately retreated with the remaining soldiers of the 7th Division.

"Victory."

When the battle report from the front was sent to the headquarters, it aroused cheers from the officers, but Lieutenant General Ankodar and Major General Dotrid, who were the main commanders, would not be satisfied with this.

"Immediately send a report to the troops fighting on the front line, ordering them to immediately leave part of the troops to clean up the battlefield, and all the others to pursue the enemy. Don't give the enemy a chance to recuperate, and at the same time, immediately organize a small group of elite troops to detour in front of the enemy and catch up immediately. Go to the main road to Deva and let them hold the enemy."

At this point, the Battle of Hartseg is basically over. According to later statistics, the Austro-Hungarian army, which was the losing side in this battle, had a total of 47 casualties, captured and missing, of which the 35th Division had more than half of the casualties, and the 7th Division was also defeated in the subsequent pursuit. As the victorious side of the Romanian army casualties are not small, the number of casualties also reached 879, of which 9 divisions as the main attack accounted for 70 casualties.

But the biggest effect of this battle is to put Dewa directly in front of the 1st and 9th Divisions of the Imperial Guard, and now it is like a bright red fruit waiting to be picked.