There was a roar in the Crown Prince's office, and the guards outside the door looked at each other, wondering how the Ottoman Empire had offended His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and made him so angry.
Edel had a reason to be angry. In the office, he slapped the latest telegram on the Ottoman situation on his desk.
Seeing Edel being so furious, the captain of the guard, Kalust, who brought the telegram in, comforted him. "Your Highness, even if a coup occurs in the Ottomans, it will not have much effect. Their Asian armies are worse than those that were annihilated in Europe. They will not be the Balkans."
Rivals of all countries.”
Seeing that the captain of the guard had made a mistake, Edel still said not too calmly. "I believe that the strength of the Balkan countries will win, but who should we ask to compensate for Romania's economic losses? Now we can't ship by sea, and the cost will rise.
Less, and we still have two ships seized by the Ottomans."
The two Romanian ships that Eder mentioned are cargo ships belonging to two shipping companies. A bulk carrier named Klo carries about 6,000 tons of grain. A car carrier named Biak,
There are five floors of transportation space above, transporting 1,087 cars. Now both ships were seized by the Ottomans when passing through the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits. Fortunately, they may be worried about Romania.
It was just a simple seizure, and the two ships and goods were not confiscated. If the goods and ships were confiscated, Romania would lose six to seven million lei. If it was really confiscated like this, Eder would have to consider whether to send some troops to teach him a lesson.
Ottomans.
Kallust did not expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was concerned about Romania's economy, and thought that he was concerned about the situation of the Balkan War. However, this is also related to Romania's interests in this war. There are only such small interests in the first place, and it is also related to Romania's interests in this war.
The Ottomans were not on the side, and the benefits that should be obtained had already been negotiated, so it made sense that the crown prince did not care about the situation. The Ottoman army could not overturn the situation anyway.
The subsequent results were exactly as he expected. After the coup of the Ottoman Shabab, their leader Enver became the chief of staff of the Ottoman army.
On February 3, with the help of General Otto Liman von Saunders, the head of the German advisory group, the Asian troops arriving one after another with the Ottomans launched an attack on the Bulgarian defense line. In the end, with high morale, the Bulgarian army was relatively
Advanced weapons and complete fortifications withstood the Ottoman army's attack. And the Bulgarian army relying on the fortifications killed a large number of Ottoman troops.
Since the Ottomans did not give up, the Balkan countries were also unkind. On March 5, the Greek army captured Yanina. On March 26, the Bulgarian and Serbian forces captured Adrianople. On April 22, the Ottoman Empire in Shkodra
The army surrendered.
The fall of Adrianople was the biggest blow to the Ottoman Empire. After the war broke out again, under the command of General Nikolai Ivanov, the surrounded Bulgarian Second Army and Serbian reinforcements launched an attack on Asia.
Attack on Fort Triad. The final battle consisted of two night raids. Battle preparations included lining uniforms and all metal parts of weapons with paper towels to eliminate any light or noise. Several armies taking part in the siege were put under joint command, creating a prototype of the front line
A number of light artillery pieces towed by horses followed the advancing troops, acting as infantry support. An attempt was made to disrupt all Ottoman radio communications in order to isolate and frustrate the besieged.
Beginning on March 24, 1913, the outer defenses were breached in one night, and the fortress itself fell into Bulgarian hands the next night. In the early morning of March 26, 1913, the commander of the fortress, Mehmet Suklu Pasha, sent a signal to the Serbian troops
Surrendered, thus ending the siege of Adrianople.
After the surrender, much of the city, especially communist and Jewish houses, suffered three days of looting. However, who actually carried out the looting is disputed; some blamed the Bulgarian army for the looting, other sources
The accusations came from the local Greeks. Turkish prisoners of war were treated badly and some of them died. According to the reports afterwards, two main accusations were made against the Bulgarians: that they committed acts of great cruelty and brutality against the Ottoman prisoners of war;
The Bulgarian authorities allowed the looting of Turkish property in Adrianople within three days of the city's surrender.
The achievements of the Bulgarians at this point have been quite summed up by British war correspondents: "A country with a population of less than five million and a military budget of less than two million pounds was placed in the field in fourteen days of mobilizing its troops.
In the space of a few weeks, the army moved more than 160 miles through enemy territory, captured one fort and attacked another, fought and won two major battles against the armed forces of a country of twenty million inhabitants,
At the gates of the capital, all units of Bulgarians, except the Japanese and Gurkhas, fought with the fixed intention of killing at least one of the enemy. "There were a large number of journalists covering the siege of Adrianople, and their reports provided
rich details about this event
The victorious end of the siege was considered a great military success, as the city's fortifications were meticulously developed by Germany's leading siege experts and were dubbed "invincible". The Bulgarian army survived a 5-month siege and two
After a daring night attack, the Ottoman stronghold was captured.
During the siege, an aircraft bomber was used early on: the Bulgarians threw special grenades from one or more aircraft to cause panic among the Turkish soldiers. Many young Bulgarian officers and professionals who participated in the decisive battles of the First Balkan War later served in Bulgaria
plays an important role in the political, cultural, commercial and industrial circles.
The Ottoman Empire was still defeated in another war. After the Ottoman Empire surrendered in Shkodra on April 23, they once again made an armistice request to the Balkan Alliance countries. The European powers also requested an armistice, among which Russia responded the strongest. They
Not wanting the Balkan Alliance to capture Constantinople, which was crucial to him, had been the long-cherished wish of Russia's tsars for many years. It was obvious that Nicholas II wanted to accomplish it in his own hands.
Faced with this situation, the Balkan countries also tried to strengthen the defense in Istanbul, but obviously they could not win it, so they agreed to the Ottoman Empire's request.
Three months later, they met in London again, but this time the Ottoman Empire had no confidence to reject the conditions of the Balkan Alliance.
PS: Mantou wrote this chapter a little late. Chapter 124 has no title. I have changed it a long time ago but it has no effect. This makes Mantou very depressed. Apart from going to work and sleeping, Mantou spends all his time coding, even when he hooks up with girls.
No, I came to subscribe when I saw that Mantou was working so hard, and the price dropped to more than 400.
