Romanian Eagle

? "Retreat."

A Bulgarian officer loudly ordered his soldiers to evacuate after seeing Romanian soldiers approaching.

"Long live."

Seeing the figure of the Bulgarian soldiers retreating, the Romanian soldiers who had just occupied the enemy's position cheered loudly. The retreat of the enemy made everyone less injured. It was a happy thing. The soldiers cheered and vented to relieve the tension of the previous battle.

Different from the excitement of the soldiers, the officer in charge of leading the team felt a little different. "What happened to these Bulgarians, retreating again?"

Officers are different from soldiers and feel the difference in combat.

"It's really different. Compared with the performance of the Balkan war a few years ago, the Bulgarian soldiers here are not tenacious enough."

An officer who had fought in the Balkan wars spoke up to say the difference.

The officers could feel the difference in the Bulgarian army, and of course Lieutenant General Fereit as commanding them.

Standing in the city of Veliko Tarnovo, which was once again captured by Romania, he immediately felt different. When he counted the seized list, he confirmed his thoughts. Looking at the few seized lists, Feleit said to himself with a smile. "This is a plan to resist and lengthen our supply line, Kudinchev, are you underestimating me too much?"

After Feleit finished speaking, he called a staff officer. "Send a telegram to Lieutenant General Mandive, Major General Dorimitu, and Major General Foctor, asking them to take their troops lightly into battle, and immediately attack the retreating enemy. I want the Bulgarian army to be unable to escape."

"Okay, Your Excellency Commander."

Looking at the staff officer who had left to send the telegram, Feleit once again observed the combat map. "I'll let the three divisions pester you to see how you can evacuate calmly. If you want to get a bargain from me, I want you to leave something behind."

Following Lieutenant General Freiette's order, the second, third, and seventh divisions of the Imperial Guard immediately accelerated. They put down their heavy packages and pursued the evacuated Bulgarian soldiers with nothing but weapons, ammunition and several days' worth of rations.

In the face of a light-loaded pursuit, the effect is very obvious. It only took a day for a slow retreating Bulgarian army to evacuate with the people and was caught up.

"No, the Romanians are here."

A soldier in charge of reconnaissance hurriedly caught up with the retreating huge team,

Brought the bad news to the team commander.

The commander who served as the head of the regiment and was responsible for protecting the evacuation of the people immediately asked. "How many enemies are there?"

Faced with the inquiries of the regiment commander, the scout soldiers stated what they had observed. "I saw the darkness from a distance, at least five thousand people."

The soldier's words made the head of the regiment feel a little stunned, the enemy was coming from at least one brigade.

"I heard that there is an enemy approaching?"

At this time, the regiment chief of staff who got the news also rushed over.

"Yes."

The head of the regiment informed him of the results of the investigation, and the chief of staff was also taken aback when he heard that at least one brigade's enemy was approaching.

"Then what should we do, is to stay on the defensive immediately, or hide with the people."

"It's useless to hide. There are tens of thousands of people here. It's impossible to hide. Now you can only resist or evacuate." The chief of staff was also a little surprised when the head of the regiment retorted him.

If they resist, they will attack the enemy in one regiment and one brigade, and this battle will be difficult to fight. Not to mention that the enemy is likely to have reinforcements, and he can only have these soldiers in front of him. If they evacuate, then the people in front of them can be said to be basically abandoned. After all, if they evacuate at full speed, no one will care about them. As a soldier who abandoned the protection of the people, this made it difficult for the two of them to accept.

Just when the two were entangled, another news came.

"The enemy has reached the village of Waldland, five kilometers away."

A panting soldier returned with worse news.

The news made the chief of staff jump a little anxiously. "Now we can't wait, the decision to leave or stay must be made immediately."

Facing the urging of the chief of staff, the head of the regiment finally prevailed rationally. "Immediately order the troops to move forward at full speed, and tell the people to find a path to move forward if they can't keep up with the troops."

When the command of the regiment commander was conveyed, the people who followed were agitated. There are wails of women and children everywhere, because at this moment they know they have been abandoned. In the face of the coming "ruthless" Romanians, most of the old and weak, women and children ran to both sides, and they planned to leave the large army to give themselves a chance to avoid the brutal enemy.

At this time, it can be seen from a distance that the crowd gathered is divided into many groups. Nearly half of them are leaving the army, and only the young and middle-aged are still behind the army.

More than ten minutes later, the Romanian pursuers arrived here. Seeing that items were thrown everywhere because of panic, the figures of the people who were fleeing in the distance were still looming. The officer who led the team ordered directly. "Never mind these Bulgarians, we chase the enemy deserters."

This happened more than once, in fact it happened to the troops evacuating with the people on the road from Veliko Tarnovo to Norwich and Pleven. How could the Bulgarian soldiers who led the evacuation of the people escaped the Romanian troops who were chasing lightly. Several retreating Bulgarian soldiers were overtaken by the Romanian army. There were lucky ones who escaped, and those who were unlucky who were wiped out on the spot.

Faced with this situation, Lieutenant General Kudinchev, as the commander, was quite angry. "These goddamn Romanians, who are they looking down on."

Faced with the anger of the lieutenant general, the chief of staff who also knew the situation asked. "What should we do now?"

"What else can we do, of course, let the army withdraw first. The decision to let the army lead the people to withdraw before is simply terrible."

Although Lieutenant General Kudinchev was very angry, he really understood the situation very thoroughly. Don't look at the fact that there are only three Romanian divisions entangled with him now, as long as he wants to take action against them, the Romanian troops behind him will immediately rush forward. And these three divisions will also try their best to hold him back. This is a trap set for him, and he is not so stupid to jump into it.

Soon Lieutenant General Kudnchev's order was conveyed to the retreating divisions. Except for the troops approaching Pleven, the other divisions gave up the retreat with the people and evacuated individually. Such a decision may seem inhumane, but it is the best option for the Bulgarian army. As the Bulgarian soldiers speed up their pace, the news of being caught up by Romania is becoming less and less, and many times the Bulgarian soldiers who have put down their burdens can reinforce their teammates, so that they have no chance.

In the end, the Romanian soldiers could not find an opportunity and could only watch the Bulgarian soldiers retreat to their destination. But both sides know that this is just a warm-up before the war, and at some point next, they will both fight for the future of their homeland.