With Yang Feng's strong intervention, the Russian war threat against the Ottoman Empire due to the Varna Port incident quickly dissipated. Then the two sides began to enter into a long diplomatic wrangling. As for the outcome, it was no longer important. This made people wait with full expectation.
The four Balkan monarchs who had Russia join the war couldn't help but sigh...
In fact, by now, they have begun to regret it. It is obvious that even if the Ottoman Empire is declining, the skinny camels are still bigger than horses. It is still very difficult for them to chew off a piece of fat. They can't do it well.
I still have to chip my tooth, but now the deal is done. Since the war has begun, I can only bite the bullet and fight on.
In the following time, Hamid II, who had a backer behind him, became even more emboldened. His naval fleet then pressed the Bulgarians and began a frenzied bombardment, not to mention coastal ports, and even some larger fishing villages.
Even though Bulgaria was in ruins, the Ottoman navy never attacked the Greek coast. In response, the Greek navy cleverly continued to stay in the port and allowed its allies to struggle under the artillery fire of the Ottoman navy.
In South Korea and Bulgaria, dissatisfaction with this irresponsible ally is deepening day by day.
In fact, the Greeks are also very innocent. Who told you not to buy warships? Now that you are counting on us when you are in need, then who should we count on? It is easy for us to save money and save money to buy such a small family. Could it be that we are protecting you from the risk of ruining your family? Even if
George I was willing, but the Greek people were not willing yet!
Fortunately, the four countries have gained a lot on land. Large areas of Ottoman territory in Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace have been occupied by them. Especially the Serbs, who have never faced the main force of the Ottoman army, have even occupied Tira.
Then, the eyes of the Greeks who were blocked in Arta were on fire, and the Montenegrins, who had been fighting bloody battles in Shkodra, issued a direct threat. If the Serbian army did not help, then they would withdraw from the war.
The Serbs, who were almost crazy about grabbing territory, reluctantly mobilized an army to join the attack on Shkodra. At this time, the Ottoman army that had shrunk to the city had already reached two divisions, plus volunteers to join the battle.
The total strength of the original Albanian rebel army and other Muslims who were inspired by the slogan of resisting the infidels has reached nearly 60,000. Because they always control the transportation line of the Buena River, they can obtain all kinds of supplies from food to weapons and ammunition.
A steady stream of supplies were delivered to them, but these supplies were not shipped from Ottoman territory. These were all support given to them by Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not only the Shkodra garrison was using supplies from Germany and Austria. Alta
The garrison was also supplied by them, and Greece didn't have the guts to come over and cause trouble for them anyway.
As for Hamid II himself, he only needed to ensure the supply of Salonika. It was a short journey from Istanbul, and he also did not need to worry about the threat of the Greek navy.
As for other places other than these three places, as Qin Hanting said, if they are allowed to be occupied by the Fourth Army, the worst they can do is to take them back later, and neither the Serbs nor the Greeks will have an easy life in the occupied areas.
Under the jihad call issued by the Caliph himself, the Muslims used the old-fashioned weapons left to them by the Ottoman army when they retreated, and attacked the infidels occupying their own land day and night. Especially in Albania. After the war of Hamid II
After the promise of allowing them autonomy, those Muslims behaved more resolutely, even more tenaciously than when they fought against the Ottoman army.
In Edirne, despite being angered by the Ottoman navy's bombardment of coastal bombardments, the Bulgarian troops full of hatred still smashed their heads against the Ottoman defenses day after day. Within a month of the war, Feidi
The generals of Nan I launched a total of three large-scale offensives. The casualties in each offensive were not less than 10,000 people, but the harvest was almost zero. Those Bulgarian soldiers carrying Mosin-Nagan rifles. On the opposite side, one or five
The five-millimeter heavy artillery and dense machine gun fire attacked crazily again and again, and then turned into broken corpses. The blood dyed the ground red, but failed to capture even a trench. The fierce battles and endless deaths could not be seen.
The future of victory is wearing down the spirit of the Bulgarians at an extremely fast rate.
Seeing his troops littering the front lines with corpses, and watching the Serbs easily capture one city after another that originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire, the furious Ferdinand I also threatened that if the Serbs did not come to help, he would
Just return to Bulgaria. Fortunately, the Serbs still know that the overall situation is more important, and they also know very well that no matter how much land they occupy, as long as it does not threaten Istanbul and Hamid II does not take the initiative to sue for peace, then in the end it will not be considered theirs.
So a Serbian army group in Macedonia also entered the battlefield in Edirne.
However, their arrival did not change the situation of the coalition forces at all. The Ottoman soldiers lying in the trenches and fortresses firmly blocked the road leading to Istanbul. The 250,000 troops formed a desperate defense line, densely packed.
The barbed wire fence stretches for hundreds of kilometers, where the Turkic warriors used thousands of tons of steel to crush the invaders in front of them.
Behind them are arsenals that are producing at full capacity. Giant freighters are filled with weapons and ammunition, and they are flowing from ports in China, Germany, the Confederacy, and Sweden, and then continuously converge to Istanbul through the developed railway and road network.
Sent to the front line not far away. As for the money issue, it is very simple. Hamid II knows very well what victory in this war means to him. Even if he borrows money, he will continue to fight. It is nothing more than a loan. He
He owns a large oil field with an annual output of more than 20 million tons. Although he only has a small amount of shares, the annual tax revenue alone is considerable.
This guy used the tax revenue from the Kirkuk oil field as a guarantee and took a direct loan of 50 million pounds from the People's Bank. Plus Yang Feng and William assisted him, which is enough to finish the war. If it's not big enough, he can sell a few more.
The oil exploration and exploitation rights of the block of land. Anyway, the number one focus of countries looking for oil at this time is on his land. So far, he has made a lot of money just by selling the exploration rights.
On the contrary, his enemies could not. At first, Britain, France and Russia gave them aid. However, as the war dragged on and the consumption increased, the bosses behind the scenes could no longer provide aid. These countries were all standard agricultural countries, at most.
There is a small amount of mineral resources, and the nearly one million troops are a terrifying figure just to eat. Not to mention that they have no decent industry. All bullets and artillery shells have to be imported from abroad. At most, they can grab some from newly occupied places. But like this
This intensified the revolt. Just one month into the war, the finances of the kings and princes were already stretched thin.
No one is even willing to give them loans, including the banks of Britain, France, and Russia that support them. After all, those capitalists are not philanthropic. The loans are not fake, they must be mortgaged. Hamid II has oil field taxes.
What do they have?
"There is no money to fight these days. A group of farmers and sheep herders are fighting against oil sellers, and their brains will be kicked by donkeys!" Emperor Yang said contemptuously. What he said is indeed true. Nowadays, anyone with a clear mind has already
We can see who the final winner of this war is. Although the Ottoman Empire lost nearly 100,000 square kilometers of land in one month, even catching up with Austria, the number of soldiers lost so far is less than 20,000. Balkans
The total number of the four alliance countries is nearly 70,000, and their war potential has been almost exhausted. The total population of the four countries does not even exceed 10 million! But they have to attack more than 800,000 people. It is conceivable that there are still many people in the country.
How many are left who can fight?
In the new military camps in the Ottoman territory, at least 400,000 urgently recruited troops are training under the guidance of Chinese and German instructors. Once Hamid II survives the initial difficult moment, these 400,000 troops can easily crush the Balkan Alliance.
"Ignore them, let's fight slowly! Let's just clear Hamid's place." This guy said with great satisfaction.
"I'm afraid Britain, France and Russia won't let him win that easily." Yuan Shikai said somewhat worriedly. After all, they were not fools and would not watch their thugs being led into a pit by the Ottomans.
"It doesn't matter, they still have cards, and we don't lack either. It's just a matter of showing off. Besides, all they want is war. If the Balkan Alliance goes to war with the Ottomans, they have achieved their goal. In other words, they have lost it."
The main value is that it doesn't matter whether you win or lose.
Don’t think that they instigated these guys to start a war with Hamid II just to target him alone. Britain, France, and Russia were included together with countries like Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece. If Hamid lost, it would naturally be equivalent to giving them
After taking revenge, the Balkan Alliance lost, and then it hit these three countries. Do you think Britain, France and Russia welcome them to be strong?
No, they don’t like the Ottomans to regain their strength, but they also don’t like the emergence of several powerful countries on the European continent. In the last Greco-Turkish war, they all participated in the intervention in order to prevent the Greeks from getting the island of Crete. So far,
Crete is still in the process of their deregulation.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire doesn't like the Serbs' grand ambitions of a Greater Serbia, but do you think the French and Russians like it? And Bulgaria, does Nicholas like the emergence of another powerful country on the Black Sea?
People are playing this game of killing two birds with one stone, and whoever loses is good news to them." Yang Feng said with a sneer. (To be continued...)