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When Italy launched a landing campaign in Izmir, the war in the Balkans was still continuing.
In Adrianople, groups of soldiers who were re-energized rushed towards the Bulgarian positions. While the Bulgarian troops guarding the positions were desperately counterattacking.
The rifles and positional artillery in his hands formed a road full of bullets. Any Ottoman officers and soldiers who stepped into it were in great danger of life. This was clearly verified by the corpses that kept falling along the way.
Of course, it was not only the attacking Ottomans who suffered harm, but also the defensive Bulgarians. In and around the trenches, there were also many people who died wearing Bulgarian uniforms.
The battle between the two sides around Adrianople continued like this.
As the commanders of both parties, he naturally paid special attention to them. On a position that had just repelled the attack of the Ottoman army, the defenders looked at the retreating Ottomans and cheered happily as if they were surviving a disaster.
Major General Gudshev, the former commander of the Bulgarian First Army and now the commander of the Thrace Army, who was observing the battle situation from behind the position, looked at the officers and soldiers on the position and looked at the former commander of the Second Army behind him, now the commander of the Thrace Army.
Major General Guchev, deputy commander of the group army, said.
"Such a battle will cause too many casualties to us, and we urgently need the support of our allies."
Facing Gudshev's words, Guchev, the deputy commander, nodded and replied. "Yes, the Ottomans on the opposite side are simply crazy. They keep launching attacks, even if they suffer huge casualties.
In just one week, the casualties were definitely no less than 80,000."
Of course, his subtext is that if the enemy suffers such heavy casualties, then they are also not small. Yes, the current number of Bulgarian casualties has reached more than 40,000. This number does not seem to be much, but the base of the Bulgarian army is even smaller, only 170,000.
People, that's a quarter of the casualties.
With such high casualties in a modern army, it is already very good to still ensure that the defense line is not broken. Of course, the Ottomans are also good, with casualties reaching about a quarter. However, compared to the Bulgarians, the Ottomans are still
One advantage is that reinforcements are constantly arriving from Asia.
The reason why the two sides still refused to give in with so many casualties was also due to the battle in Skopje. Bulgaria wanted to wait for Italian reinforcements, while the Ottomans wanted to break the Bulgarian interception and rescue the defenders of Skopje. Since the two sides
If both parties want to achieve their goals, they can only compete in Adrianople to see who can complete their mission.
Of course they are also paying attention to the fighting in Skopje.
However, the two parties do not yet know that a huge change has occurred in Skopje, which they are concerned about, and the coalition forces have entered the city.
Two days ago, the Mobile Corps, with the Italian Third Army as the main force, suddenly appeared on the battlefield east of Skopje, where the Bulgarian army was the main force.
The appearance of a 40,000-strong heavy regiment brought the power imbalance on the battlefield to its extreme, so the Ottoman defenders who were caught off guard naturally lost their position.
If this was the case, it would be good. The coalition forces, which were not yet easy to break through, did not miss this rare opportunity. They almost drove the retreating Ottoman defenders all the way west, forcing them directly to the city of Skopje.
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If General Yilmaz, as the Macedonian commander, had not gathered all the available troops in Skopje, the city might have been captured overnight. A troop retreating to guard various defense lines
There is no way to mobilize them, so we can only try our best to squeeze the existing mobile forces in hand.
However, although the eastern coalition, with the Third Army as the main force, has not yet been able to capture Skopje, strategically and tactically, Italy has determined the overall situation on the Macedonian battlefield.
Faced with the enemy's threat to Skopje, the only stronghold and base camp behind them, the morale of the defenders in the other three directions was immediately unstable. The coalition forces took this opportunity and launched a fierce attack, which further messed up their morale.
The chaos in military morale is very fatal on the battlefield, because the soldiers' minds are no longer only focused on the battlefield, which naturally greatly reduces the intensity of their resistance. This plus and minus will speed up the battle in Skopje.
speed.
In just two days, the coalition forces successively broke through Ottoman peripheral positions in three other directions, and also arrived in Skopje.
In these two days, the number of casualties and prisoners suffered by the Ottoman army has far exceeded the results of the previous ten days of fighting.
Now there are less than 90,000 Ottoman defenders who can return to Skopje, and their morale, weapons and equipment are much worse than before.
Naturally, the coalition's momentum was also greatly increased, and some even shouted that they would resolve the battle in Skopje within three days, and then rush to Thrace to seize Istanbul.
Faced with such a situation, the Ottoman officers and soldiers trapped in the city had to make every consideration for themselves.
The general headquarters of the Macedonian Army in Skopje was in a state of gloom and gloom. The generals present all looked at an Italian officer who appeared in the headquarters with a gloomy look, and listened to his loud voice.
What are you talking about.
Yes, this Italian officer was not captured by them, but came over from the enemy's position outside the city half an hour ago.
As for what he was talking about, looking at the grim-faced Ottoman generals around, you will know that it must be about peace talks, or undisguised surrender would be more appropriate.
"Everyone, I have finished my words. I hope you can carefully consider our opinions."
The Italian officer, who had just read out his conditions, looked at the defeated General Yilmaz and said this.
The result of the peace talks he announced before was that the Ottoman troops laid down their arms and the coalition forces guaranteed the safety of their lives and legal property.
Yes, it is the safety of legal property. In other words, the property collected will be confiscated by the coalition forces, which is why they are so sad. As an Ottoman general, whoever wants to live on only that salary will be laughed out of his colleagues.
Therefore, these generals and even school officials are wealthy people.
But now, no matter how rich they are, they will be severely punished by the coalition forces. Who makes them live and die, blocking the pace of the coalition forces, and delaying the pace of the coalition forces.
After seeing off the Italian officer who announced the conditions, General Yilmaz, the commander of the Macedonian Army, looked at his frowning subordinates and could only raise his head and said. "Everyone has heard the Italian conditions just now. This
After all, we are defeated. Don’t worry about those things that should be given up."
Among these people, General Yilmaz has the richest net worth, but with the defeat, everything needs to be put aside. As long as the military power is still there in the future, sooner or later the losses will be recovered.
As for why they didn't continue to fight, they lost more than half of their troops this time. How could they fight? Do they really think that the Ottoman officers and soldiers were temperless animals? They were already worthy of the Ottoman Empire.
Besides, this is not the Far East, so we would rather die in battle than surrender.
Following his words, the people present were basically silent. Although they did not agree, they did not object, which represented acquiescence.
Once these generals are dealt with, the next thing will be easier to handle. The middle and lower-level officers and soldiers have long been unwilling to fight. Now with the loss of weapons, ammunition and personnel, they can no longer hold weapons.
With General Yilmaz's announcement of surrender, people can finally sleep peacefully. They no longer have to worry about being shot by the sudden sound of gunfire, and no one can make them rush into the enemy's hail of bullets. Everything is safe.
It's safe.
On the coalition side, with the surrender of General Yilmaz, the fighting in Macedonia has ended. The officers and soldiers cheered, this battle was too difficult.
In this battle, both sides invested nearly 500,000 troops, which ultimately ended with the complete annihilation of the Ottoman army.
In this battle, the losses of the coalition forces were not small. In addition to the losses of weapons, ammunition and other materials, in terms of personnel, the losses of the coalition forces were currently as high as 50,000, of which the main Italian army lost more than 40,000.
Among them, 11,000 were killed and missing in action, and 29,000 were injured. Such casualties are not small at all.
Both Italians and Montenegrins believed that this battle was the most difficult battle of the war, but the Bulgarians did not think so, because the battle in Adrianople continued.
