Vol 4 Chapter 24: Anticlimactic

On July 8, 1909, Ferdinand made the famous "Declaration of Self-Defense" in the Bulgarian Congress, directly labeling the "Anti-Protection League" as an aggressor!
On the same day, Bulgaria handed over the letters of war to Greece, Montenegro, and Romania. The second Balkan War broke out.
Oh, and at the same time as the declaration of war, the armies of both sides have started fighting. Don’t look at Bulgaria’s main force seems to be in Asia Minor, but there are still two construction corps in the country, with a total of more than 300,000 people, and they can go directly to the battlefield with weapons.
Although the combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the regular army, it still does not fall short against the Anti-Protection League!
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of regular troops in the country, the 400,000 Bulgarian troops from the beginning of the war played vigorously with the anti-protection alliance, and even prevailed.
Because it was a sudden attack, the Anti-Protection League did not have time to complete the full mobilization. Greece sent 80,000 troops, Montenegro sent 70,000 troops, and Romania sent 30,000 troops, and the offensive was hurried.
The unsuccessful offensive immediately cast a shadow of failure on the Anti-Protection League. If they can't fight for a decisive battle, they will definitely be the first to be unable to support them!
At this time, there is nothing more regretful than Nicholas I. Like the first Balkan War, the army of the Kingdom of Montenegro once again stopped at Shkodra.
Nicholas I angrily ordered: "Give me an attack, attack at all costs, today I must take the Skadar Fortress!"
The war has broken out for a week, but the Black Mountain Kingdom, the most powerful in the Anti-Protection League, is still fighting hard under the Shkoder Fortress.
As for getting around here and moving on?
Nicholas I was also a battlefield veteran, how could he not think of it? But he dare not!
Ferdinand in Albania entrusted many military nobles. When the war broke out, they automatically assembled in villages and towns and took up weapons to defend their country.
The pioneer troops of the Kingdom of Montenegro will learn from the beginning of the war, what is the vast ocean of People's War, especially the people composed of a group of veterans holding weapons!
If the army of Montenegro is unstable, once the main force passes, wait for dumplings!
Bulgaria has no fewer than 30,000 retired officers and soldiers registered in Albania, and most of them are the families and descendants of the group of military nobles who were entrusted that year.
It can also be regarded as a gathering place for a family of military personnel, and coupled with the simple training of the reserve, in just one week, Bulgaria has mobilized an army of 80,000 people here, and it is still expanding.
Although the Kingdom of Montenegro is also conducting a national mobilization, in terms of war potential, they are not as good as an Albanian region!
How could Nicholas I not be in a hurry? If it drags on for another day or two, Bulgaria’s reinforcements will arrive. Ten thousand defenders plus 86,000 continued reinforcements. Even the Montenegro Kingdom has sent him thirty thousand reinforcements, and he has no idea. what!
If the difference between the forces of the two sides is not large, and the kingdom of Montenegro falls into a disadvantage in terms of weapons and equipment, can the kingdom of Montenegro still win this battle?
As for why he smashed the Albanian region, Nicholas I was also forced to be helpless! The border between the Kingdom of Montenegro and Bulgaria, apart from Albania, is only the Kosovo region!
As the border between Bulgaria and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kosovo region has always been heavily armed. Even if the Balkans broke out for the second time, the 50,000 Bulgarian defenders still showed no signs of mobilization!
In the spirit of persimmons to find softness, I did not expect that the military nobles who were entrusted by Ferdinand were so difficult to deal with!
Oh, people can't help it now. The number of people in the family has increased, and the next generation of land will not be divided enough. They are trying to expand the fiefdom. Nicholas I brought the army to the door, and who did not beat him?
Compared to Nicholas I’s hardship, George I felt completely unconscious. There is no doubt that the Greek army on the front line has been defeated, but he did not move at all, as if this was what he expected!
No way, a king who is about to be completely emptied, what is the use of thinking so much?
In the middle of the night, he was watching a secret call from God. After reading it, George I directly set fire to the message and burned it to ashes.
After reading the secret letter, George I fell into deep thought and couldn't sleep for a long time!
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The performance of the Greek 6th Army directly caused the Greeks to lose their confidence. The 80,000 Greek 6th Army was directly defeated by a Bulgarian garrison division of the Epirus Military District!
The activists in Greece collectively lost their voice at this moment and woke up from their dreams!
It was not that the Greeks did not work hard. The problem was that in the first Balkan War, the Greek Sixth Army was almost annihilated. For the next ten years, the restricted powers controlled the finances and failed to rebuild.
Now suddenly it said that the war had broken out, so I recruited a group of peasants to put down their hoes. Before they had time to train, they resisted and went directly to the battlefield. Undefeated is a strange thing!
Okay, after the defeat of the frontline, the Greek government immediately urged it. It didn't even bother to mobilize the whole country. Anyway, it was a loss. Why should we continue to waste the lives of the boys?
It can only be said that the Greeks had been interrupted in the first Balkan War, and now they have no courage to fight to the death!
Oh, now that the war has come, Ferdinand is a little dumbfounded. He originally expected the Italians to sell his teammates and send them to the navy.
Then withdrew the Third Front, outflanked the Greeks, first killed Greece, and then went to find the bad luck of Romania and Montenegro. As a result, before it started, Greece withdrew by itself!
Well, it can only be cheaper for Italians this time!
That's right, now the Bulgarian navy has returned from Libya to the Aegean Sea. It was originally intended to hit the Greeks by surprise, but of course it is no longer needed!
However, Greece still has to fight, but only at the end. The Third Front Army in the west still needs to transfer part of it, and now it continues to advance to the Asia Minor Peninsula. It is completely unnecessary. Anyway, it can't eat it!
Ferdinand thought for a while and said: "Order the third side to shrink the front, and transfer the five main divisions back to China to participate in the self-defense counterattack!"
Although the Greeks were unqualified, the Montenegro and Romania were still behaving normally. The ethnic groups in the Balkans were all fighting ethnic groups. This sentence is not wrong at all!
Even the Romanians in the plains were not easy to provoke, and attacked directly from many places on the long border between the two countries.
It is mainly the plains of the lower reaches of the Danube. The two sides are fighting fiercely. If the newly mobilized militias are used on a large scale, the losses to win this war will be great!
The world war is coming soon, Ferdinand still cherishes the soldiers' lives!
Now that the war has come, everyone knows that the anti-protection alliance will be defeated! After all, in the war between a small country and a big country, as long as the first wave is not won and the opponent reacts to it later, there is basically no chance!
The failure of the Anti-Protection League, UU Reading www.uukanshu. Com is now not the Germans, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire!
There is no way that in the Three-Power Alliance, only the Austro-Hungarian Empire borders Bulgaria?
I haven't seen it. After the war broke out, Ferdinand never deployed a single soldier on the border between Paul and Austria, but instead increased the army on the line of defense?
Obviously, this is to prevent the Austro-Hungarian Empire from taking advantage of the fire. Because of the disgraceful role played by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in this incident, the diplomatic relations between the two countries can be affirmed, and that's it!
To mediate, you must mediate immediately!
For the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it must now find a way to preserve the strength of the "Anti-Protection League", otherwise the Austro-Hungarian Empire will face the military pressure of Russia and Bulgaria alone, the two major powers!
As soon as the Austro-Hungarian Empire moved, the Germans naturally moved, and they planned the war. If you don't intervene anymore, it may not be long before their little brothers will be finished!
After all, no one knew that the Greeks would be so watery, and that the militias in Albania were so capable of fighting. The expected Bulgarian military crisis did not appear.
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Foreign Minister Metjeev said calmly: "Your Majesty, the three countries of Germany, Italy and Austria have come to the diplomatic note and hope to mediate this war!"
Ferdinand smiled slightly and said, "So fast? They are too uncomfortable! Where are the five divisions drawn from the Third Front?"
The 6th Army Minister Popov immediately replied solemnly: "Just arrived in Razgrad, the vanguard can arrive at the front tonight."
"Well, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs finds a way to delay for a while! If you want to negotiate, you have to defeat the enemy before you talk, otherwise how can we get what we want?" Ferdinand said lightly.
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