A roar came from the Bulgarian palace. "What do these Russians think of us Bulgaria?"
Bulgarian Prime Minister Gaishov, who received the telegram from Russia, knew it was bad at first sight, and quickly took the telegram to find King Ferdinand I. The Bulgarian king was completely angered by Russia's actions, and this was how Ferdinand came to be.
The roar of a lifetime.
Seeing his king's anger, Prime Minister Gaishov comforted him. "Your Majesty, our top priority now is to find support from other countries."
After hearing the Prime Minister's words, Ferdinand I slowly calmed down. Being angry now cannot solve the problem. Bitola, the Ohrid region of Macedonia, and Salonika in Thrace are currently occupied by Serbia and Greece.
The region cannot be solved by anger. Now it needs the support of other major powers to allow Bulgaria to get back the territory it deserves. Then the options for competing with Russia are very limited. Fortunately, the country he came from can also compete with Russia.
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Thinking of this, Ferdinand I asked his Prime Minister. "Prime Minister Gaishov, do you think we can get support from Austria-Hungary and Germany?"
Hearing that his king planned to seek support from the Allies, Prime Minister Gaishov thought about it. In terms of national strength, the support of Austria-Hungary and Germany can help Bulgaria. Moreover, there was a period of very good relations in Bulgaria, but later Russia
The wooing made Bulgaria turn to Russia again. Now that Russia cannot guarantee Bulgaria's interests, it can only seek Austria-Hungary, which had good relations in the past.
Thinking of this, Prime Minister Geschof said to Ferdinand I, "Your Majesty's method is still feasible. We can test the attitudes of Austria-Hungary and Germany through the ambassador."
After the two discussed, Prime Minister Gaishov summoned the German Ambassador to Bulgaria, Burrist, and the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Sindlako, respectively, and expressed to them respectively Bulgaria's hopes for the support of the two countries.
After receiving the telegram from Ambassador Burrist, the German government took it seriously and was overjoyed that Bulgaria, the most capable country in the Balkan War, turned to them. This is also related to the fact that the Allies have too few allies. So far, only Germany and Italy have
, Austria-Hungary formed an alliance, and other small countries were either neutral or defected to the Allies. Romania, the only country close to the Allies, was as slippery as a loach, so it paid great attention to Bulgaria.
Kaiser Wilhelm II personally ordered Prime Minister Herweg to send a telegram to Bulgaria, expressing his willingness to support Bulgaria in the territorial disputes of the Balkan Alliance and also willing to assist Bulgaria with arms worth 5 million marks.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire paid more attention to it than Germany. For this reason, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph also convened ministers to discuss how to deal with Bulgaria's goodwill.
They have reason to do so. As Serbia gained a large amount of territory in the Balkan War, the territory of this small country was nearly doubled, and its original population of only 3 million increased to 4.5 million. Faced with this situation, Austria-Hungary certainly
Wanting to find an ally to share the burden, they initially looked for Romania, and they also had this consideration in marrying Romania. However, the border between Romania and Serbia was too short, and there was no dispute with Seville. In addition, the two Romanian
The year was a bit biased towards neutrality, so there was no way to guide the conflict between Romania and Serbia.
Now why doesn't Bulgaria's telegram make the Austro-Hungarian Empire extremely happy? Moreover, they still have a long border with Seville, and the Bulgarian army also proved itself in this war, so Bulgaria is an excellent choice.
"Your Majesty, I think we need to give Bulgaria the diplomatic support it needs most now." Foreign Minister Ellenthal, who had made outstanding contributions to Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the first to express his opinion.
After seeing that no one was correct, he continued. "While providing diplomatic support to Bulgaria, we should also create tension in the border area of Seville and let Bulgaria see our determination to help."
After hearing the suggestion of Foreign Minister Ehrenthal, Emperor Franz Joseph also nodded in agreement. After hearing that military action support was needed, Otto Sanders, Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army, knew that he had to stand up and say something.
, and the Austro-Hungarian army also made a big plan because of the current situation.
"Your Majesty, our Austro-Hungarian army is absolutely capable of cooperating with Bulgaria to create border tensions, but if we can cooperate with the Bulgarian army to attack Serbia, it would be a better choice to deal with the troublemaker."
After hearing the words of Chief of General Staff Sanders, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph was obviously more interested and quickly asked, "Do you have any plans for your army?"
Chief of General Staff Sanders said to his emperor, "Our General Staff has made relevant plans."
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General Sanders asked someone to bring a map and said to the emperor, "We plan to take advantage of the stalemate between the Serbian army and Bulgaria in Macedonia to mobilize a total of 300,000 troops from the Imperial Army's Second, Fourth, and Fifth Armies from the Bosnia and Herzegovina region.
Heading straight to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, we have investigated that Serbia currently has no more than 50,000 troops in its country, which is completely vulnerable. And once we occupy its capital, the more than 200,000 Serbian troops in Macedonia will collapse without a fight, thereby defuse
We can also solve the problem of Bulgaria. And we can also let them occupy new territories in Serbia. We only need the original territories of Serbia."
After hearing the explanation from Chief of General Staff Sanders, Foreign Minister Ellenthal had a question. "Have we forgotten Russia's reaction? They cannot just sit back and watch Serbia being attacked by us."
Facing the Foreign Secretary's question, General Sanders said about his plan. "I am going to deploy the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 7th armies on the border to resist the Russian attack."
After hearing the words of Chief of General Staff Sanders, Prime Minister Alois felt that this was too risky. "Your Majesty, this plan is too dangerous to our Austro-Hungarian Empire. This is not advisable. Now Russia can abandon Bulgaria for Serbia."
Traditional allies. If we make a move to attack Serbia, I believe Russia will declare war on us as soon as possible. This price is too high and we cannot afford it."
Faced with the strong opposition of Prime Minister Alois, Emperor Franz Joseph somewhat backed down from Chief of Staff Saunders' plan.
"Let's put aside the discussion on this matter and bring our support to Bulgaria first. It's okay to create tension at the border."
Faced with the emperor's instructions, the Austro-Hungarian ministers could only act in this way. Soon Austria-Hungary and Germany sent telegrams to Bulgaria supporting their territory. Germany provided diplomatic and military material assistance, while Austria-Hungary was willing to support Bulgaria in Serbia.
Border creates tension to ease pressure on Bulgaria.
This made everyone in Bulgaria overjoyed and determined not to give in. The original Balkan Alliance quickly split.
