Chapter 460: Encountered a surprise attack
Chapter 460: Encountered a surprise attack
June 1877, 6, the small town of Giurgiu, Romania.
One steam wheeled troop carrier after another slowly stopped, and teams of soldiers got off the vehicles and immediately formed neat lines, waiting to cross the Danube and return to their hometown Bulgaria on the south bank.
This was a mechanized division sent by Bulgaria to participate in the so-called Fourteen-Nation Alliance to fight against the Russian pseudo-republican government.
In fact, only three countries, Bactria, Bulgaria and Turkey, actually participated in the war among the Fourteen-Nation Alliance.
The Turkish troops returned home early after Nicholas II successfully returned to St. Petersburg. The Chu Army of Xu Bangdao, the Hunan Army of Liu Jintang, and the Kokand New Army of Song Qing returned to their original bases in Istanbul, Sinai, and Baku at the same time.
One division each from Anhui, Jiangxi and Tianfang New Army and the Bulgarian combat division were stationed in Russia for more than nine months.
In the Bulgarian Restoration War, the Russian Volunteer Army led by Potowski made an indispensable contribution, so now the Bulgarians are particularly sincere in their return.
Help maintain order, arrest nobles, landlords, loan sharks, rebels and bandits, distribute perpetual farmland, and establish the New Lucia Army controlled by the Fenian Society - they have advanced experience in this regard.
The new armies of Anhui, Jiangxi and Tianfang now also have red-haired Irish military supervisors, and they are also troops of the same nature.
Now that Russia was basically under the control of Potowski, the Bulgarian combat division returned home via Romania.
The new armies of Anhui, Jiangxi and Tianfang did not return to their original bases in Georgia, Baghdad and Mecca.
They had already completed their mission of distributing permanent farmland there to win the hearts of the people and help form a new Russian division. This time they were marching eastward to Yekaterinburg to control the newly granted Siberian territory for Shao Quanzhong.
The Bulgarian soldiers were very excited, not because they were going back home. In fact, as fellow Slavs, they were very used to living in Russia.
Instead, after returning, you need to change your clothes.
In the mountainous areas around Sofia, hidden arsenals now have aircraft and light truck manufacturing plants. Factories that originally only produced TNT shells and bullets have also added napalm bombs as a product.
Sofia Tractor Assembly and Repair Company, renamed Sofia Tractor Manufacturing Company, is producing diesel-powered tanks, armored vehicles, artillery tractors, transport vehicles and wheeled personnel carriers.
Bulgaria has the guidance of Daxia's military experts. Although advanced machine tools have to be imported from Daxia, its military production technology remains synchronized with Daxia, which has the most advanced military industry in the world - after all, our Tsar is Marshal Shao's younger brother?
Today's steam equipment will have to be converted into real agricultural tractors and used for a period of time. Once the tractor factory completes its military tasks and starts producing diesel-powered civilian tractors, these equipment will be sold at a discount in batches to backward countries.
After three years of hard work and austerity, with the help of talents and the first pot of gold from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the technical guidance of Bactria, we Bulgaria is now an advanced industrialized country! The soldiers are full of pride.
In just three years, Bulgaria's industrialization level has made great strides, entering the second echelon after Bactria, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Cuba.
Yes, Cuba has taken the lead and has entered the first echelon.
However, due to its small population of only over one million, its economic scale cannot be developed. Hidden beside the huge figure of Meiyi, it is at most equivalent to a city in Meiyi and is not taken seriously.
But there is one thing that Bulgaria cannot compare to Cuba. Cuba is just a military ally of Bactria and has to rely on itself economically, while Bulgaria has already formed an economic community with Bactria.
In fact, some of the parts of the new diesel tanks, wheeled personnel carriers, armored vehicles, artillery tractors, transport vehicles and gasoline light trucks exported by Daxia to Germany are produced in Bulgaria, and the finished products are finally assembled in Bulgaria.
Semi-finished parts produced in the three provinces of the Caliphate arrived at the port of Varna via the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and were transported to Sofia. Parts produced in Sofia and Bulgaria were assembled together with key parts such as engines, gearboxes, tank guns, etc. produced in Bactria before being transported to Berlin by train via Vienna.
Bulgaria has become a unit of the Bactria Planning Investment Committee that uses the analytical machine program to arrange production plans and material allocations. It has subcontracted many of Bactria's production tasks and produced a large number of non-critical components.
This enabled Bulgaria to earn a lot of foreign exchange and its economy grew rapidly.
The three countries that have this kind of cooperation model with Daxia currently include Northern Japan, Bulgaria and Russia's Crimean Kingdom.
This economic community led by Daxia is called the "Economic Mutual Exchange Association". The three countries are actually members of the "Huaxia Convention Group" which has not yet been made public.
When the time is right, the whole of Lucia may join.
In fact, Cuba and the Bau Federation have been asking to join. But that is the backyard of the United States, and in order to avoid provoking the United States, they were temporarily rejected. At present, these two countries are still economically dependent on the United States.
The Bulgarian fighters are very familiar with the small town of Jurju.
Potowski and Shao Quanxiao once led the main force of the Bulgarian Restoration Army and cooperated with the Romanian army here to encircle and annihilate the main force of the punitive army led by Ottoman Marshal Muzafer Pasha.
Steam armored vehicles and wheeled personnel carriers slowly drove onto the ferry's flat-bottomed boat. After crossing the Danube, the Bulgarian town of Ruse on the opposite side was already connected by train, so they could return to Sofia on the same day.
"Report to the division commander, a large number of Romanian troops appeared nearby, and their intentions are unclear."
Division Commander Josep's eyes flashed, "Warn the Romanian friendly forces, 'You have entered our army's warning zone, please retreat', all units are on level one alert."
Previously, the Bulgarian participating division was in a marching state, and the soldiers all wore peaked caps. Upon receiving the order from the division commander, they immediately put on the steel helmets in their backpacks and loaded bullets into their rifles and submachine guns.
Being in a foreign country, even though it was a friendly country in theory, there were guard troops on the march. The 22nd Regiment was the rear guard and planned to cross the river last. The armored vehicles and logistics transport vehicles were not on board, but they immediately completed the deployment within ten minutes after receiving the order.
Half of the division's field artillery battalion had not yet boarded the ship, but they were quickly deployed. The fire support battalion's rapid-fire artillery and machine guns were set up, and the engineers began to dig temporary trenches and pull barbed wire.
"Report, the Romanian army did not heed our warnings."
Twenty minutes later, Romanian regular troops wearing gray uniforms and pointed cloth hats appeared on the north, east and west.
Josep raised the telescope and found that there were at least three divisions of Romanian troops surrounding them from three sides. He was also surprised to find that the Romanian army was different from the previous intelligence. Their equipment was no longer backward and had been replaced, making them exactly the same as the Bulgarian troops.
Where did they get the complete set of Daxia equipment? They showed up so suddenly, they must have bad intentions.
Why did the Romanian army suddenly attack us? There was no sign of this.
"Come on, cross the river quickly and send a message to the town of Ruse on the other side, reporting the situation here to Sofia and requesting support."
"All ready to fight!"
(End of this chapter)