The news that Pleven was captured by the Romanian army sent Sofia into chaos.
Prime Minister Radoslav, as the head of the government, immediately convened a meeting of senior officials to discuss response measures.
"Chief of Staff, have the soldiers outside the city still not changed their story?"
At the beginning of the meeting, Prime Minister Radoslav immediately asked Lieutenant General Ivanov, who was the chief of the general staff.
As Lieutenant General Ivanov, who rushed back to Sofia from Salonika overnight, he shook his head and said, "I have just been to the military camp outside the city, and the situation is not optimistic. The soldiers are quite excited, and there are people everywhere in the military camp.
They are preaching to stop the war. Even if these soldiers are reorganized, it will be difficult to continue fighting, and it will take a long time to reorganize."
Lieutenant General Ivanov's words made Prime Minister Radoslav very unwilling. He asked unwillingly, "Can Lieutenant General Kudinchev be allowed to reorganize the army and fight again?"
Prime Minister Radoslav was afraid that Lieutenant General Ivanov would not understand, so he quickly stated the reason for doing so. "As long as we can hold off the Romanians for five days, we will get reinforcements. The reinforcements coming from Turkey can take over the job in Salo."
The Nika army, and General Zekov will be able to bring the army back to Sofia. In this way, we will still have the strength to fight the Romanians. In addition, according to the news sent back from Germany, the German-Austrian forces can also arrive within ten days.
Yes, so we still have a chance."
Faced with Prime Minister Radoslav's words of encouragement, Lieutenant General Ivanov, as Chief of Staff, could not bear to attack him. However, he had to explain the actual situation clearly to government officials, although the result may not be as good as their expectations.
"Prime Minister, Lieutenant General Kudinchev's Sixth Army currently has less than half of its strength, and is seriously lacking in weapons and equipment such as machine guns and artillery. What's more important is that the Romanian army has been sending elite troops to continuously follow and attack, allowing him to
There is no time to reorganize the troops. Now the Sixth Army is on the verge of collapse and really has no ability to stop the strength of the Romanians."
Ivanov's words made Prime Minister Radoslav feel a little depressed. He murmured to himself in a voice that only he could hear, "How could this happen?"
Then he asked, "Chief of Staff, is there no other way to stop the enemy?"
Faced with the Prime Minister's inquiry, Lieutenant General Ivanov shook his head and said. "There is no other way at the moment. The only possibility now is to have the reinforcements from neighboring countries rush to Salonika quickly, so that the troops can be transferred back to Sofia."
.But in this case, we need to deploy troops in Sofia to defend it."
Ivanov's words immediately aroused a huge response.
"This won't work."
"It's not a good idea to stick around in Sofia."
"Can't you change the place?"
Listening to the voices of opposition, even Ivanov, who proposed the idea, knew how bad this decision was. What these people objected to was not that the defensive battle in Sofia would destroy the capital, but that there was currently no victory in sight.
hope. Although Germany and Austria have defeated Russia, on the most important Western Front, the German army has not played a significant role in the offensive of the British and French troops on the Western Front. It has only reached the Marne River line that it previously advanced to.
However, compared with the last time when they were panicked when faced with the German attack, this time the French government directly announced that even if the German army captured Paris, the French people would never surrender. In addition to letting Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who commanded this battle,
People felt something bad, and it also disappointed the Bulgarians who had pinned their hopes on this. Their desire to withdraw from this war has been in vain.
In fact, before Romania declared war, Bulgaria had reached a consensus. That is, this war would harm Bulgaria too much, so Bulgaria has always hoped to withdraw from the war peacefully. But unfortunately, regardless of whether it was the Germans who pulled it into the camp
Austria, Britain and France, which are in conflict with each other, are not willing to let Bulgaria achieve their wishes. Not to mention Serbia and Greece, which have territorial disputes with him.
Now facing the two-sided attack from Romania and the Allied Powers, Bulgaria is divided. Those led by Prime Minister Radoslav intend to resist the attacks from both sides and ask the Allies to help them. They place their hopes on the Allied Powers who cannot afford to consume casualties.
Fighting with Deo.
The other group is mainly composed of opposition parties. They propose that Bulgaria can no longer continue the war and can take the lead in signing a treaty with the Allied Powers to withdraw from the war. Because Bulgaria is the first country to withdraw from the war, then Britain and France want to leave space for Germany and Austria.
If there is no room for negotiation, Bulgaria will not suffer too much loss.
Both groups of people have their own opinions, and no one can agree with the other, so there are differences in their approaches when facing this critical moment.
In the military camp outside the city, soldiers who refused to fight were sitting together. A middle-aged man in simple and neat clothes was giving a speech to the soldiers on the platform. "Soldiers, your desire to withdraw from the war is nothing.
points, the government should not ignore your wishes. Here we need to let them know that the people's demands must be met, and this war should not happen. Now the government must make a decision, we cannot continue to sit here and wait,
Now our calls are to be made known to the government and they must answer."
The atmosphere at the scene caused some soldiers to shout loudly: "The government must answer, we want to withdraw from the war."
After seeing the atmosphere become heated, the middle-aged man who gave the speech also took the lead in shouting, "We want peace, not war."
This sentence immediately set off the scene, and everyone was shouting, "We want peace, not war."
“What should we do if the government doesn’t agree to it?”
"Change the government."
Slowly, the soldiers' emotions were guided by the speaker, and the people observing on the side said to the people next to them with satisfaction. "Now that the soldiers are getting emotional, they will turn to the government and the Prime Minister."
In terms of dissatisfaction, you need to do more cooperation among the people. Let them sympathize with the soldiers, so that the German puppet can step down. Bulgaria can no longer stay on the broken ship of the Allies."
The speaker seemed to be very dissatisfied with Prime Minister Radoslav, and even used a puppet. However, his words were very recognized by the people next to him, and he only heard the person next to him nodding in reply.
"Don't worry, no one wants that person to still be prime minister."
It seems that there are many people who are dissatisfied with Prime Minister Radoslav. They can no longer suppress their inner thoughts and are eager to get this Prime Minister to step down.
The current situation makes them think that it is not difficult to remove the Prime Minister. What needs to be considered is how to cease the war with the Allied Powers. This requires them to work hard to use their talents to help their motherland avoid liquidation from Britain and France.
