Chapter 16
1905 soon passed, Edel's efforts are slowly changing the historical trajectory of Romania, and industrial equipment from Germany is being continuously sent to Romania. Strengthen this small Balkan country. Everything made Edel's heart surging.
Today is the big day for the army to reorganize the first batch of troops. Carol I personally reviewed the reorganized troops, accompanied by Edel, Preeshan and others. "Your Majesty, please see the newly reorganized Second Division of the Guards and Guards, which were reorganized by the Guards Division and the Third Division's abolished personnel. Most of the low-level officers who have received a training period are the elites of our army." Puleshan pointed to The neatly arranged team in front said, "I am very happy that you have done a good job, and I hope you will continue to work hard." Carol I said to Puleshan next to him. "We will definitely reorganize the rest of the army, as mighty as your majesty," Puleshan replied to the old king. After all, the old king had limited energy, so he returned to the palace when he was exhausted after inspecting for a while, leaving Edel to continue his inspection.
"Now talk about your difficulties." Edel asked Puleshan. "His Royal Highness is mainly short of Mauser 98 rifles, which is still 20,000. The remaining soldiers are still using Manshali 1895 rifles, and the artillery is short of 16 105 light howitzers. The field hospitals are also short of medical equipment and the logistics team mules. The horse is still 1200 horses short, and the communication equipment is not enough." Preshan complained to the crown prince. He had never experienced such a large-scale reorganization before, and it is normal to have some problems. Edel was shocked and asked, "Let the existing arsenal build the rifle. The rest can only be solved gradually when it is built. First use the current equipment for a while. Then buy medical equipment and communication equipment from Germany." The crown prince was also in his heart. Said distressedly. This is the result of Edel's own misconsideration. Before, Edel only purchased 30,000 rifles, and he did not purchase enough artillery. Edel had a good idea before and planned to build it slowly, but now he can only use it first.
"Good Majesty." Puleshan and other military leaders also did not expect the crown prince to solve the problem at once. The main thing is to complain, so that the crown prince can understand the actual difficulties of the army. Seeing how the crown prince was worrying about the supplies of the army, Puleshan decided to say some good news or he seemed a little incompetent. "Now the combat effectiveness of a reorganized division in the army is 20% higher than that of an unreorganized division."
Edel came upon hearing the interest. "Have you ever done any exercises before?" the crown prince asked the chief of staff, "before it was only at the battalion level, and there was no time to do it later." Puleshan answered the crown prince's question. "You can reach the division level this year, so that the whole army can see the results." Edel said with interest, and the Chief of General Staff Puleshan calculated and said. "It's estimated that it won't be ready until May." "At that time, I will let the king come over and watch the exercise." Edel said to the chief of staff to make his own decision. In the end, the result of the discussion was set to May for division-level military exercises.
After patrolling the army, Edel came to the Prime Minister's Office to meet Prime Minister Sturley. "Didn't Your Highness go to inspect the army? Why do you have time to come to the government?" Prime Minister Sturley asked straightforwardly, and Edel responded. "It's mainly because the army is still close to medical and communication equipment, and the government needs to allocate some money." "How much money is needed for this?" Prime Minister Sturley asked, afraid of the Crown Prince Lion. "It's no more than 5 million marks." Edel knew what the Prime Minister thought. "This is easy to do. I asked the Ministry of Finance to grant it to the army." Prime Minister Sturley breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the numbers, as if he was afraid that the crown prince would go back, Edel satisfactorily bid farewell to the prime minister and returned to the palace.
After a while, Henry Coanda rushed over and told Prince Edel that his plane was built, and invited the crown prince to visit his test flight. Edel became interested, and wanted to see the masterpieces of Romanian pilots, so he agreed.
The next day Edel came to the suburbs in plain clothes, surrounded by a large group of people on a flat grass, and saw Henry Coanda's baby flying machine in the middle. Except for the two wings of the wing covered with canvas, the whole body was a skeleton structure. The seat is still made of two pieces of leather, and Edel's concept of the aircraft has been refreshed. Henri Coanda said something to the assistant with a smile on his face. Edel didn't step forward either, just standing on the side to see if the flight plan was successful.
"Go and tell him when you're ready, let's start." Edel ordered a guard next to him, and the guard nodded and walked to Henry Coanda and told him what the crown prince meant. Henry Coanda looked around and saw Edel, the crown prince signaled to him not to come over, Henry Coanda nodded and prepared for the flight. In order to ensure the success of this flight, Henry Coanda and his assistants had already carefully checked this very primitive aircraft.
Seeing Henry Coanda sitting on the aircraft, the crowd dispersed. As the assistant started the engine, the propeller began to spin. When the propeller turned to a certain speed, the assistant removed the stone blocking the aircraft wheel. The aircraft moved faster and faster, and after taxiing for two hundred meters, the aircraft left the ground. At this moment, the people around were cheered, Henry Coanda waved back and forth in the sky to the people on the ground, and also vented his excitement, thinking that he was looking for sponsorships for funds, and was flying to the sky for the day and night work of making aircraft. In a moment, everything is worth it. Henri Coanda landed after flying more than ten kilometers in the sky. The crowd rushed up to greet the hero who was flying this time, and the reporter also stepped forward to take pictures of Henry Coanda and asked to interview the hero.
Seeing the completion of the flight, Edel stepped forward to congratulate the aviator. "Henri Coanda, this is a successful flight. I hope you will continue to build a better aircraft." Hearing the crown prince's encouragement, Henry Coanda replied with a smile. "The success of this flight is inseparable from the strong funding of the crown prince, otherwise I can't even build the aircraft." The newspaper reported the flight in the headline the next day, with the headline that Romanians also flew into the sky, which made Henry. Keanda has also become a household name.
Edel looked at the newspaper and thought that the Romanian Air Force had fallen. Although it is still sprouting now, I have time to wait for it to grow and bloom, but I still need to water and fertilize it. Thinking of this, Edel called to the Chief Guard Carust and said. "The funding for Henry Coanda can be increased to 30,000 pounds." The head guard nodded and went out.