At 2 o'clock in the afternoon on June 29, the headquarters in Miloka Town was crowded with generals. Army Minister Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov was standing in front of a military map showing enemy and enemy defenses, giving them a final explanation.
"When the Fourth Division breaks through the first-line position, the Third Group Army must follow up to expand the breakthrough point, while the Fourth Division ignores both sides and keeps advancing in depth, leaving the rear to the Third Group Army to handle."
At this point, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov named General Ivanov, the commander of the Third Army. "General Ivanov, your Third Group needs to send at least half of its troops to follow the Fourth Division for its support."
Provide follow-up support.”
After hearing Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov's words, General Ivanov stood up and replied with a serious face. "As you command, Your Excellency."
After receiving General Ivanov's answer, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov continued. "This operation is mainly to defeat the Serbian army entrenched in our Ohrid region. Of course, we will also use
According to the actual situation, we should consider whether to liberate other areas of Macedonia, but it still needs to be determined by the results of the generals."
After explaining the Ohrid region, he looked at Lieutenant General Vasyl Kudinchev and asked about his preparations. "Lieutenant General Vasyl Kudinchev, how are your preparations?
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After hearing the Minister of War call his name, Lieutenant General Vasyl Kudinchev stood up and replied. "We are ready to support the 2nd Independent Artillery Regiment (18 75-inch mountain guns and 36 75-inch field guns).
The artillery and artillery owned by our group army are currently lurking close to the front-line position of the Bitola Army, and they plan to wait until night falls to move to the attack gun position. Our forward 1st Division, which has been preparing for the assault, is currently close to the position where the attack will be launched.
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After hearing Lieutenant General Vasil Kudinchev's explanation, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov replied with satisfaction. "Very good, well done."
He then asked the generals below, "Is there anyone who doesn't understand the plan now?"
Seeing no one answered, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov said to the general sitting below. "Everyone returns to their own troops to make final preparations. Everyone disbands. General Vidic stays for a while."
Soon the crowd was gone, leaving behind the commander of the Fourth Division, Major General Vidic. This General Vidic was not tall, only 1.6 meters tall. He wore a pair of glasses and had a bookish look on his face. Judging from his appearance, it was difficult for anyone to recognize him.
He was regarded as a soldier. However, in this war against the Ottomans, this little general who did not look like a soldier had fought many tough battles, so he was selected as an assault force.
Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov walked up to him and asked. "Major General Vidic, your performance this time is related to the direction of this war. If you need anything else, just tell me now, otherwise the battle will not start."
There’s a solution.”
After hearing the concerns of the Minister of War, Major General Vidic said seriously. "Our Fourth Division is now ready. This time I will lead the soldiers to take back our territory for Bulgaria."
After hearing that Major General Vidic refused to mention the needed supplies, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov knew that the Fourth Division was fully prepared and let him go. After doing this, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov
The lieutenant general walked into a room next to him. Ferdinand I was sitting here, and he could obviously hear the content of the previous meeting.
Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov saluted the king and said, "Your Majesty, the army is now ready. It depends on the result tonight."
Ferdinand looked at a statue of Jesus in the room and asked without looking back. "My Minister of War, do you think we can succeed this time?"
Hearing the king's questioning tone, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov said firmly, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Major General Vidic left the headquarters in the town of Miloka and drove to the front line. Now his soldiers of the 4th Division are replenishing their strength before the war. They didn't wake up until the sun was about to set at 6 o'clock and got food.
The cooks at the back had already prepared it. There were bread, beef stew with potatoes, pea cheese soup, sausages and other food, which was pretty good. The officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division started eating the prepared dinner in twos and threes.
, chatting about topics of interest while eating.
After dinner, some of the soldiers were looking at photos of their families, some were smoking pipes, and some continued to fall asleep as if nothing had happened. This state was maintained until eight o'clock. By eight o'clock, everyone in the Fourth Division was
After getting up, they took their own weapons as a company and began to walk towards the starting position 3 kilometers away. No one spoke, they were all as quiet as a group of ghosts, only making the sound of footsteps.
Major General Vidic looked at his marching men and said with satisfaction to the chief of staff beside him. "It seems that we still have great hope for a surprise attack."
"I don't think the problem is too big." The chief of staff also expressed his judgment.
When they arrived at the launching position, they discovered that the situation was too optimistic.
Major General Vidic said with an ugly face. "Damn it, these Serbs are wary of us. It seems they have added a brigade."
He used the moonlight to observe the Serbian position opposite, and found that the front line position had increased in strength, and there were even more fires in front of the position. However, now that the Fourth Division was ready to launch an attack, it was completely impossible to stop.
The chief of staff also saw this situation and asked Major General Vidic. "Then what should we do?"
After thinking for a while, Major General Vidic said to the Chief of Staff. "Give the following orders to the troops below. It is better to sneak close to the Serbian position 400 meters away. If there is gunfire, launch a surprise attack immediately. The artillery will intercept their subsequent supporting troops."
After hearing Major General Vidic's arrangements, the chief of staff immediately replied, "Okay, I'll go and deliver the order."
After being communicated layer by layer in this way, Major General Vidic's order was known to every soldier who was about to attack.
When the time came to ten o'clock in the evening, the Fourth Division quietly took out its position and began to bend down and touch the Serbian position.
In the front-line position defending Serbia, Petloch, a corporal of the 6th Division, was bragging on the position with a new recruit who had just arrived. "You have to know that I, Petloch, killed a total of 5 Ottoman soldiers in the previous battle with the Ottomans, including
I once killed two Ottoman soldiers when the Ottoman army wanted to sneak attack us, but I cleverly overheard the result."
The recruit asked politely, "How can you hear this?"
Facing this curious recruit, Peter Lodge recalled the words of the soldier who discovered the sneak attack. "I was also guarding my position at that time. When the Ottoman army sneaked over, all kinds of insects that liked to chirp suddenly became quiet. I was
In response, I yelled and turned on the flares, which immediately illuminated them. With the cooperation of my comrades, we repelled their sneak attack."
After Peter Lodge finished speaking, the recruit listened carefully and said, "It seems that the insects have really stopped."
Hearing the recruit's words, Peter Lodge's expression suddenly changed. When he heard carefully, there were really no insects anymore. He shouted behind him, "Light up the flares."
A flare shot into the sky and illuminated everything in front of the position. Petrovich looked at the group of Bulgarian soldiers three to four hundred meters away from the position and shouted, "There is a sneak attack."
Then the first shot of the war was fired.
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