The progress of the matter was almost as expected by Mainz. After the failure of the first Battle of Jifu, great differences occurred among the Allied Powers.
The Romanians, who originally planned to come out to reap some benefits, took the lead in retreating because they suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Belgorod.
In the Anschluss of Germany and Austria in 1919, the Romanian army was severely damaged by the German army led by Mainz. Even King Ferdinand I was captured by the German army.
Finally, after paying 100 million pounds in compensation, the captured king was released by the German army. As for the nearly 200,000 Romanian troops who were captured, half are still detained by the Germans and have not yet been released.
This tragic defeat brought a huge political earthquake to Romania. The little prestige that King Ferdinand I had finally established through the First World War was suddenly gone!
Moreover, after the independence of Romania, they experienced two kings who were not natives, but people from Hans. This made the nobles of Romania quite dissatisfied!
Under this circumstance, the Romanian Liberals began to abandon King Ferdinand I and began to support Prince Carol II.
Although Prince Carol II is the eldest son of King Ferdinand I, unlike his father, Carol II was born in the royal family of Romania. Compared with the outsider Ferdinand I, In other words, Carol II obviously has a higher status in the hearts of the Romanians!
Moreover, his mother was the princess of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, so the Empire was also happy to see Carol II come to power.
Under this situation, King Ferdinand I felt a lot of pressure. In order to gain the support of the Allied Powers, especially the support of the Sun Never Sets, he overcame all objections and used his last bit of prestige to force through the war against the bear. And the decision to send troops to follow the Allies to attack Mao Xiong!
As a result, because a large number of noble officials were detained by the German army, the troops sent by Romaniya performed poorly on the battlefield. Not only did they fail to be recognized by the Allies, but they were also regarded as a dragnet.
The most unlucky thing was that they themselves were attacked by Mao Xiong. After several fierce battles, the casualties of Romaniya's servants had exceeded 100,000!
Such huge casualties are simply unacceptable for a small country like Romaniya!
The losses in the two wars, plus the fact that half of the prisoners previously held by the Germans had not been released, caused social conflicts in Romania to rapidly intensify, and the throne of King Ferdinand I began to become precarious!
In this case, in order to prevent his throne from being snatched away by his son, Ferdinand I must receive strong support from the army, but his trusted general General Bundtner was still a prisoner of war by the German army at this time He was in jail in the camp. If General Bundtner and the troops loyal to him could not be redeemed, King Ferdinand I would not be able to get the support of the military!
In this case, the king of Romania secretly sent his special envoy to Bolin, the capital of Hans, to ask for a meeting with Hindenburg, the president of Hans!
After Hindenburg learned of this incident, he did not intervene in the matter. Instead, he sent Romani's envoy to Hamburg and asked him to go to Major General Mainz, the commander-in-chief of the German army.
The special envoy of Romaniya was very puzzled. Why would President Hans arrange this? Could it be that President Hans could not solve this kind of problem, but instead had to rely on a small young man?
"Release your prisoners?"
After hearing this request from the Romanian special envoy, Mainz stared at the opponent maliciously.
His eyes were so aggressive that the Romanian special envoy felt uncomfortable all over his body.
But once Thinking of the mission he had undertaken, he could only stiffen his neck and say:"Yes, on the order of the king, I am here to ask your country to release the detained soldiers and officers of our country!"
Seeing the Romanian's confident look, Mainz raised his eyebrows and stared at him for a few times as if he were a fool.
Hey, can you figure out the situation?
It's your people who are being raped by us now. They are captured, it is not our people who are captured by you, it is you who came to beg us, not us who ran to beg you!
Since we are begging for help, can you please act like you are begging for help?
" Mainz said with a smile. We will discuss this matter. Please wait patiently, Mr. Special Envoy!"
After saying that, he walked away, and then ignored the Romaniya envoy!
He still had a lot of things to do, and he didn't have time to waste time with the Romaniya people! When the Romaniya envoy first heard Mainz thought that the other party would really release the prisoners, and he was overjoyed, so he waited eagerly for a week.
However, after a week, there was no movement from the German army, which made him unable to sit still. , so the Romanian special envoy came to see Mainz again, but he snorted. Mainz had no time to waste with him, and the matter was handed over to Secretary Ribbentrop! Bintrop had plenty of time, so after he met the Romanian envoy, he deliberately said with an exaggerated expression:
"oops? is that so? Oh, God, I forgot. I'm very sorry. I've been too busy with work recently. Please ask the envoy to wait patiently for a while!"
After Ribbentrop finished speaking, he asked the guards to see the guests off! This time, the Romanian envoy finally felt that something was wrong.
Judging from the appearance of the Hans, they did not seem to want to cooperate. Ah!
Sure enough, when he asked to see Mainz for the third time, Mainz still did not see him, and when he retreated to Mainz's secretary Ribbentrop, Ribbent Luofu didn't see him either!
The special envoy was helpless. After a month of trouble in Hamburg, he could only send a frustrated telegram to Romania, telling the country what happened to Hans because of his young age. Coupled with his lack of experience, he still hadn't figured out why Hans treated him like this, but Ferdinand I was an old man, and he quickly figured out the key to the matter!
"I'm afraid the Hans still want to rip off us!"
Ferdinand I said worriedly to his confidants that in order to redeem himself, Romania had already paid a price of 100 million pounds. This price was very expensive and had reached the fiscal revenue of Romania that year. One-fifth of that!
"But, didn't we agree before that we would release him after paying the ransom? How could Hans guy go back on his promise like this?"
The king's confidants were very angry. They all thought that Hans had gone too far to add insult to injury at this time! He had obviously obtained a lot of benefits from them, but in the end he refused to do anything and gave up more than half of his army. Seized, which made them very passive!
Hearing his confidant's words, Ferdinand I smiled bitterly. There was one thing he did not tell his subordinates, that is, the 100 million pounds was not a ransom for the entire army. , but to redeem him as a king!
The ransom for the 20,000 captured troops was not included in the 100 million pounds!
At this time, seeing what the Germans did, it was obvious that the Germans planned to do so. They ask for a separate ransom. If this ransom is not paid, they will never let him go!
"Tell Corbill to test the bottom line of the Hansi people and see how much the Hansi people really want!