Falkenhein was forced to resign as the Minister of the Army and was forced to transfer the 4th Army from the Western Front to return to defense, but he continued to serve as the Chief of Staff of the German Army. Hindenburg, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, now finally has five armies, and a total force of 1.1 million is enough to fight the Russian attack alone.

However, the Austro-Hungarians promised counterattack was delayed. Instead, they retreated repeatedly under the pressure of the 3rd, 8th and the newly formed 13th Army of Russia, and stood firm in various key passes in the Carpathian Mountains.

Lee Haydn only noticed the battle with the German General Staff, but did not notice the consequences of the Austrian retreat and the Russian victory.

The Romanians finally chose to stand on the opposite side of the Allies, and declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire on April 18. In the south, the Italians could not help but sign an agreement with the British after the British promised to assign Tyrol, Istria, Dalmatia and even Albania to them after the war.

There is a lot of intelligence that the Italians will soon declare war on Austro-Hungary.

Lee Haydn gained the upper hand in the fight with Falkenhei, the German General Staff, but pushed the Romanians and Italians to the enemy's position.

This time he was suffering from bad consequences.

As the primary enemy, Serbia has stood in the Balkans for a long time, and tens of thousands of British and French reinforcements have also begun to land and gather in Thessalonika. Churchill insisted on launching the Dardanelles offensive and the successful landing of the British and French forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula made people feel that the future of the allies is bleak. On the Eastern Front, the Russians rushed straight into the entire Galicia, which deepened this understanding.

The weak Turks are about to end, and most people think so. The Ottoman army, which has been defeated repeatedly, will never resist the attacks between the British and French forces and the Russians, and the Russians' successive victory makes people see the dawn of victory in the Allied Powers. After the war started, the Germans tried to establish direct contact with Turkey, and by accepting Bulgaria and Romania, they firmly controlled Turkey in their hands and opened the road to the East.

But the stupid German General Staff has always focused on the Western Front and constantly engaged in a large-scale war of attrition with the French. The personnel and materials on the Western Front were greatly damaged. Almost every year, more than 600,000 German troops were consumed in endless trench wars.

The Romanians finally decided to stand on the Allies, eager to get Sibenburen (Transylvania) and Bukovina from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which the British promised them, while the Russians agreed to return after the war and deceived Bisarabia from the Romanians after the Russian-Turkish War in 1878.

You should know that the entire Transylvania is as large as the current Romania, so that the Romanian land can be expanded by half.

Establishing a unified and powerful Great Romania has always been the ideal in the hearts of the ruling people of Bucharest.

Romania took advantage of the crisis of the Balkan War in 1912 to seize Dobrokar from the Bulgarians, who had a deep prejudice against the Austro-Hungarian Empire that ruled Sibenbrgen and Bukovina, and now added concerns about the revenge of the Bulgarians.

Bulgaria's choice to join the Allies is another factor in making it choose to join the Allies.

After the war started, the Romanians had serious political confrontation about joining the Allies or the Allies. The Romanian Conservative Party led by Marosco tended to Germany, but the Liberal Party led by the new Prime Minister Bratiano tended to France. The famous politicians outside the bureaucratic group were Takai Jonesco on the side of the Allies, and the German side was Kalp.

King Carol was not only a German pro-German, but was a German from the Hohenzo family, but the crown prince Aparent was pro-French and his wife was British.

Before the war, King Carol had signed a secret covenant with Germany and Austria, but after the war began, he was worried that the country would fall into destruction. Although he could not fulfill the former agreement, his influence was enough to prevent the Romanians from declaring war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany.

However, the pro-German King Carol died on October 10, 1914, which had a fatal impact on the political balance in Romania. At this time, the forces in the Bucharest government that tended toward the Allies had an absolute advantage.

Lee Haydn and Condra had several quarrels with the Germans over the Italian affairs. Falkenhein advocated satisfying the Italians' wishes and gave Trento, South Tyrol, and Udine to Italy. Fortunately, he was tactful and did not mention Trieste. Condra retorted, if the Germans returned Alsace and Lorraine to the French, wouldn't the world be peaceful?

On the land issue, no one can make concessions.

The problem is that the Italians are full of ambitions.

On April 26, 1915, Italy formally signed a London agreement with the Allies, which stipulated that Italy's participation in the war was not only the above-mentioned areas, but also included the Istrian Peninsula, Dalmatia, Vorola and several colonies in Africa.

The greedy Italians finally couldn't resist the British victory, and blatantly betrayed the former covenant, and stabbed him in the back.

Now, the whole situation looks like it is about to collapse.

Losing Romania's food and oil supply has a huge blow to Austro-Hungary and Germany. The Romanians are mobilizing and will soon organize an army of 500,000 people. Although they lack equipment, it is indeed a huge threat.

These could have been won over to the side of the Allies.

But the battle between Lee Haydn and Falkenhein ruined all this, and now two new enemies emerged.

Although not very powerful, it is enough to cause a headache.

This is a major mistake, but it can't be made up for now.

The situation is now critical, and Condra asks Lee Haydn to draw two armies from the Northeast Front, one to strengthen the Italian-Australian border and the other to Sibenburgen, Hungary, to prevent the Romanian attack.

Lee Haydn was unmoved.

There is no way now, so I just dispatched some third-rate local garrison troops in Austria, and hurriedly formed the 8th Army with less than 80,000 people, and was sent to the Tyrol front.

In addition, the Hungarian local defense army was also urgently expanded to form the 10th and 11th Army. The two middle-aged army armies consisting of middle-aged people had a total strength of only 300,000, but they had to deal with pressure from two aspects, the Russian army and the Romanians on the Carpathian line.

Lee Haydn was in an emergency communication with Hindenburg and Rudendolph. He was conceiving a big plan, but needed the full cooperation of the Germans.

General Hindenburg, commander-in-chief of the German Eastern Front, and General Rudendolf, Chief of Staff, finally agreed to send a liaison officer to discuss the issue of joint combat with Lee Hayden.

But Falkenhein hopes to send a German military adviser to the Austro-Hungarian army to control the Austro-Hungarian army.
Chapter completed!