Bulgarian Empire

After receiving the telegram for help, Prince Constantine threw it aside without even reading it. He thought for a while and said, "Drop a regiment from our newly formed militia division and go to reinforce the eighteenth division! Tell Major General Andrew that this It's his last batch of reinforcements, we must hold the line of defense, if we can't hold it, he won't have to come back!"

After finishing speaking, Prince Constantine got up directly and went to the field hospital. He knew that it would be very difficult to hold the line of defense with the current strength in his hands!

In order to increase the strength of his troops, he even ordered the arrest of strong men locally. The newly formed militia reserve team is composed of civilians captured in Thessaly area!

In theory, he has increased the strength of another division; in fact, this newly formed militia division does not even have a single gun in its hands, so its combat effectiveness is better than nothing!

Anyway, when we get to the front line, there will be some! The war is still going on, someone always dies, and when others die they have guns!

This is what the Russian army did in the latter part of World War I! Now it has been brought out in advance by the Greeks!

Now Prince Constantine has come up with the idea of ​​a field hospital again. Since the attack on Trikala City, the number of wounded in the field hospital has exceeded 20,000!

Excluding the seriously wounded who have completely lost their combat effectiveness, there are at least seven or eight thousand lightly wounded, who can barely go to the battlefield! Even if the combat effectiveness is to be discounted, these "veterans" are stronger than the newly formed militia divisions!

Prince Constantine had already issued an order, but unfortunately there are still very few people who are willing to go to the battlefield again!

As he approached the field hospital, a stench hit his face. Prince Constantine, who had never suffered such a crime, still suppressed his nausea and continued to move forward!

Not far away, there were rows of stretchers with the wounded on them. These were all just off the front line! From time to time, there were bursts of wailing from the wounded, which was creepy!

A few medical staff are busy working with first aid kits. That is to do some first aid work, take a bandage and re-dress the wound!

drug? Sorry, but in the 19th century, this was quite a luxury commodity! Except for a few officers, ordinary soldiers are not eligible to enjoy it!

Moreover, many seriously injured, even if they can be rescued, they are useless people, which is even more unworthy for the Greek government to spend this big price!

Even with medicines, the chances of the seriously wounded surviving are very low! There are no antibiotics in this era, and the inventor of penicillin is still a kid!

Whether the wound will become inflamed depends entirely on luck! Once the wound suppurates, if it is on the limbs, it will be amputated!

If it is other parts, look forward to God bless! The probability of a miracle will not exceed one percent!

Obviously, the field hospitals of the Greek army are not capable of accepting so many wounded! Even a simple treatment is impossible!

Seeing this scene, Prince Constantine somewhat understood why those lightly wounded refused to go to the battlefield again! After experiencing such an environment, it is estimated that many mentalities will collapse!

Prince Constantine is thinking about how to send these people to the front again. Coercive means are useless. In order to resist re-recruitment, many wounded who have been healed have broken bones again!

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At the headquarters of the Eighteenth Division on the front line, Major General Andrew was about to go mad when he saw the reinforcements sent to him by Prince Constantine!

From teenagers of twelve or thirteen years old to old men in their seventies and eighties, everything is there!

Not to mention combat effectiveness, Andrew wondered if many of them could still withstand guns!

At this moment, he even wondered if he had offended Prince Constantine somewhere, and now he was put on little shoes!

Soon, he dismissed the idea! At this time, everyone is a grasshopper on the same rope, and no one can escape if something happens!

anyway,

It is better to have reinforcements than none, no matter how mob, as long as you can pull the trigger, it is always useful!

The prerequisite is that he must first teach this mob to use weapons!

After being sullen for a while, Major General Andrew yelled loudly: "Guards, notify the regiments to come to the division headquarters to lead people, and tell them that reinforcements have arrived!!"

All right! Immediately, he is not the only one who is depressed, and it is estimated that the people below will feel even more uncomfortable! And there is no choice, there are only so many reinforcements, love it or not!

Anyway, all the troops are short of people now! Since Prince Constantine transferred a division to the front line, everyone's defense line has become longer, and the corresponding troops have also been divided into thinner ones!

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Since the Ottomans launched a full-scale counter-offensive, Prince Constantine sent a stern request for help by telegram to the Greek government!

The content is very short, just one meaning: If there is no reinforcements, everyone will receive the news of his defeat within three days!

At this moment, King George I can't sit still! Unlike the previous calls for help, this time it was really dangerous. No commander would send such a call for help until the moment of life and death!

"How many troops are there in the country?" George I asked eagerly

The Minister of War smiled bitterly and said: "No more than 40,000 people, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled! But all troops with combat effectiveness are now transferred to the front line!"

George I thought for a while and said: "That's all! Send out my guards to form a reinforcement army of 30,000 people, and set off immediately to reinforce Prince Constantine!"

The Minister of War said with ashen face: "But Your Majesty, the time is simply too late!

These troops have just been formed, and they are all farmers who are just now hoes, or workers who have just walked out of the factory, not to mention whether they have combat effectiveness!

Now they are still distributed all over the country, I'm afraid it will be too late when they come! Now within three days, less than 10,000 troops were able to reinforce Prince Constantine's army! "

George I's gloomy face was even more terrifying. At this moment, he suddenly realized that the situation had reached such a crisis!

The government has been suppressing not to send more reinforcements to the front line. It's not that they don't want to, but that the country simply can't produce a decent army!

In other words, the Greek government has studded from the moment they sit at the gaming table! If you don't do your best, the Greek army couldn't easily pierce the Ottoman defense line before!

This is also a common problem of all small countries - can't afford to lose! If you fail once, you will lose all the chips in your hand!

George I glanced at the Minister of War coldly, and said: "I don't care how many reasons you have, but within three days, the reinforcements must arrive at the front!

And you have to keep the front line of Trikala, don't tell me, your military department doesn't even have a plan for reinforcements!

Even if the reinforcements can't all arrive, it counts as much as they can arrive! I only ask to hold the line of defense, no matter how much you pay, you must hold it! "

"Yes!" The Minister of War replied with a wry smile

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After a moment of silence, seeing that George I's anger had subsided slightly, the Prime Minister suddenly sighed and said: "Now is not the time to pursue responsibility, the top priority is to get Bulgaria and Montenegro (Montenegro) to join this war immediately come!

Otherwise, it is impossible to win this war with our own strength alone, and even a decent truce will not come out! "

George I can be regarded as the hero of the generation of Greece, but it is a pity that he was born at an untimely time. The current Greek foundation is really too weak!

At the prime minister's prompt, George I immediately understood and asked, "Let's talk about it! What price do we have to pay in exchange for the Bulgarians sending troops immediately?"

Everyone's face changed drastically. From the beginning of the war to the present, even less than ten days have passed, and Greece will be defeated!

The plan to rebuild Great Greece failed just after taking the first step!

The current Greece is not comparable to the later generations. Not only is the territory less than half of the later generations, but the population is only about two million! Once defeated, the Greek army will not be able to recover for a long time in the future!

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was the first to say: "Isn't it too early for you to talk about post-war gains!

The current situation on the battlefield is very unfavorable to us. I suggest urging Bulgaria and Nate Negro to join the war as soon as possible!

Judging from the situation on the battlefield, the strength of the Ottoman army is still there, and it will be very difficult to end the war in the short term!

Without the intervention of the great powers, whether the alliance can win the final victory is a big question mark? "

The lid is lifted, and the Balkan Alliance will have to be quick if it is to win this war! Once the Ottoman Empire reacted, the war became a protracted war. Other countries are still uncertain, but Greece will definitely not last for two months!

The Home Secretary said with a wry smile: "That is indeed a problem! But we have waged this war and there must be something to gain, right?

If there is not enough income, how can we explain to the domestic people!

If we promise too many benefits for Bulgaria to participate in the war now, if the Russians intervene later and the alliance wins the war, we will lose a lot! "

Everyone looked at each other with helpless expressions! Everyone has now lost confidence in the Balkan Union and pinned their hopes on the support of the Russians!

The foreign minister said dissatisfiedly: "It's already this time, why think so much! We have to think so much, don't others think about it?

Do you think that the Bulgarian and Montenegro governments have not thought of this? If we don't have enough benefits, why should we let others take millet out of the fire for us? "

King George I was taken aback, didn't he? If it is a war that is sure to win, they will join without the promise of the Greeks!

But now it is obvious that the chances of winning are not great. Could it be that a covenant can restrain everything?

Ferdinand didn't even need to tear up the covenant. The war was triggered by the Greeks in advance. According to the covenant, if Bulgaria joins the war within three months, it will not be considered a breach of contract!

As for the promise of the Bulgarian government, don't be ridiculous, the verbal promise of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as long as the Bulgarian government refuses to admit it, Greece will not even be able to accuse it in public opinion!

If Greece can survive for three months, well, Bulgaria will definitely join the war! This means that the strength of the Ottoman Empire is limited, and there will be no pressure for everyone to pinch a soft persimmon!

If Greece can't hold out for three months, it will be defeated. Bulgaria can completely pretend that nothing happened. Anyway, they haven't declared war on the Ottoman Empire. With the existence of the Bulgaria-Russia Alliance, the Ottoman Empire dare not do anything to them!

At this moment, King George I knew that he had been tricked by Ferdinand! And it was pitted miserably, without substantial concessions, Bulgaria probably will continue to watch the show!

But he didn't believe it either. The Bulgarians were not worried at all. They would really watch Greece lose the war, and Bulgaria's life would not be easy!

Well, he overestimated Ferdinand's integrity! Ferdinand, who is far away in Bulgaria, is leisurely watching the battle report, drinking tea, and enjoying himself!

From time to time, I also comment a few words, a melon eater who is alive and well, and has never worried about the Greeks!

The Greeks can fight until now, and Ferdinand is already satisfied! According to the initial estimate of the General Staff, Greece would be able to defend with all its strength, and at most it could withstand the attack of 150,000 Ottoman troops; if it was an active attack, it would be defeated within ten days!

This is similar to the performance of the Greek Army in history. It lost a week after the war started!

Now the performance of the Greek army is already very good. It has been very surprising to Ferdinand to be able to fight against hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops for such a long time, and to have killed at least 30,000 to 40,000 Ottoman troops!

As for sending troops to help? no problem! Just wait for a while, after the main force of Greece is defeated, it will be time for Bulgaria to send troops!

Two lives, countless lessons in history told Ferdinand that the distribution of benefits is never based on contribution, and strength is the core factor that determines the distribution of benefits!

Didn't Bulgaria contribute the most to the Balkan war in parallel time and space? I thought I could get the biggest piece of cake, but what happened? Without enough strength, the former allies became enemies in the face of interests, and they were besieged and beaten to the point of paralysis!

Now Ferdinand's plan is to cheat one by one, anyway, Bulgaria is acting according to the plan agreed in advance.

It is the responsibility of the Greeks to trigger the war in advance. If they can't hold it for half a month, what confidence do they have to blame Bulgaria!

Of course, even half a month is useless! Even if Bulgaria participates in the war, it will settle Istanbul first, followed by the Macedonian region. It will not be able to help the Greeks for a while!

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Ferdinand put down the teacup in his hand and asked: "Prime Minister, how is Montenegro's preparations? Is it possible for them to join the war in advance?"

Prime Minister Constantine said with a smile: "Mente Negro is terrified now! They are staring at us now. It seems that as long as we don't end, they will not participate in the war!"

Ferdinand's expression changed, no! Nicholas I participated in two wars against Turkey, and he definitely knew the military strength of the Ottoman Empire very well! Even if the Greeks are defeated now, it won't scare him away!

"Don't underestimate them, Nicholas I is also a generation of famous generals! The strength that the Ottomans are showing now cannot frighten him!

We can fool the Greek, but not him! It seems that Nicholas I had a preliminary understanding of our strength through the Baosai War, otherwise Monte Negro would have directly withdrawn from the alliance now, and he would not be waiting and watching! "

Everyone's face changed drastically, and then they recovered. At this time, even if their strength is exposed, so what?

Can the Greeks make peace with the Ottoman Empire? Mente Negro's size is just that, at most two divisions, can he still threaten Bulgaria?