Romanian Eagle

A roar came from inside the Bulgarian royal palace. "What do these Russians think of us in Bulgaria."

Gaishov, the Bulgarian prime minister who received a telegram from Russia, knew at first sight that it was not good, and hurriedly took the telegram to find King Ferdinand I. The Bulgarian king was thoroughly incensed by Russia's actions, which led to the roar of Ferdinand I.

Seeing the anger of his own king, Geschoff comforted him. "Your Majesty, our top priority now is to find support from other countries."

After hearing Xiang's words, Ferdinand I slowly calmed down. Now anger cannot solve the problem. The Bitola, Ohrid region of Macedonia, and the Thracian region of Thessaloniki, which are now occupied by Serbia and Greece, cannot be solved by anger. Now it needs the support of other powers to get Bulgaria back the territory it deserves. Then there are very few options to compete with Russia. Fortunately, the country he came from can also compete with Russia.

Thinking of this, Ferdinand I asked himself. "Gesovsian, do you think we can get support from Austria-Hungary and Germany?"

Hearing that his king was planning to seek the support of the Allies, Geschoff thought. In terms of national strength, the support of Austria-Hungary and Germany can help Bulgaria. And there was a period of very good relations in Bulgaria, but Russia's co-optation made Bulgaria fall to Russia again. Now Russia cannot guarantee Bulgaria's interests, so it can only seek Austria-Hungary, which had good relations in the past.

Thinking of this, Geschoff said relative to Ferdinand I. "Your Majesty's method is still feasible. We can test the attitude of Austria-Hungary and Germany through the ambassador."

After the discussions between the two men, Geschoffsian summoned them separately. German Ambassador to Bulgaria Berlist and Austrian-Hungarian Ambassador to Bulgaria Sindrako expressed to them the measures that Bulgaria hoped to gain the support of the two countries.

The German government attached great importance to the telegram from the ambassador, Berlist, and was overjoyed that Bulgaria, the most capable of fighting in the Balkan war, fell to them. This also has something to do with the fact that the Allies have too few allies. So far, only Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary have formed an alliance. The other small countries are either neutral or fall to the Allies. Romania, the only country close to the Allies, is also as slippery as a loach, so it attaches great importance to Bulgaria.

Kaiser Wilhelm II personally ordered Prime Minister Helvig to telegraph to Bulgaria,

Expressed his willingness to support Bulgaria in the territorial disputes of the Balkan Alliance, and he was also willing to assist Bulgaria in arms worth 500,000 marks.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire paid more attention than Germany. For this reason, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph also summoned his 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 wars, nearly doubling the territory of this small country, which originally had a population of 300,000 to 4.5 million. Faced with such a situation, Austria-Hungary of course wanted to find an ally to share the burden. They first looked for Romania, and they also had this level of consideration in their marriage with Romania. However, the border between Romania and Serbia is too short, and there is no dispute with Seville. In addition, Romania has been a little bit neutral in the past two years, so there is no way to guide the conflict between Romania and Serbia.

Now how can the Bulgarian telegram not make the Austro-Hungarian Empire very happy, and they have a long border with Seville, and the Bulgarian army has also proved itself in this war, so Bulgaria is an excellent choice.

"Your Majesty, I think it is time to give Bulgaria the most needed diplomatic support." Foreign Minister Erlenthal, 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 right, he continued. "While giving Bulgaria diplomatic support, we should also create tension in the Seville border area and show Bulgaria our determination to help."

Hearing the suggestion of Foreign Minister Erlenthal, Emperor Franz Joseph nodded in agreement. After hearing about the need for military action support, Otto Sanders, chief of the general staff of the 6th Austro-Hungarian Army, knew that he had to stand up and say a few words, 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 together, the troublemaker will be a better choice."

After hearing the words of Chief of the General Staff Sanders, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary was obviously more interested and hurriedly asked. "Does your army have any plans?"

Chief of Staff Sanders said to his emperor. "Our general staff has already made relevant plans."

"tell me the story."

General Sanders told the Emperor to bring a map. "We plan to mobilize 300,000 troops from the second, fourth and fifth armies of the imperial army to attack Belgrade in Serbia from Bosnia and Herzegovina while the main force of the Serbian army is stalemate with Bulgaria in Macedonia. The 10,000-strong army is completely vulnerable. And once we occupy the capital, the more than 200,000 Serbian troops in Macedonia will collapse without a fight, thus resolving the Bulgarian problem. And we can also let them occupy new territories in Serbia, All we need is the original territory of Serbia."

Hearing Chief of Staff Sanders' explanation, Foreign Secretary Erlenthal had a question. "Have we forgotten the Russian reaction, they can't just sit back and watch Serbia being attacked by us."

Faced with questions from the foreign secretary, General Sanders spoke about his plan. "I am going to deploy the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 7th armies on the border to resist Russian attack."

Hearing what Chief of Staff Sanders said, Xiang Alois felt that this was too risky. "Your Majesty, this plan is too dangerous for our Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is not advisable. Now Russia can abandon Bulgaria, a traditional ally for Serbia. If we make a move to attack Serbia, I believe that Russia will definitely Declaring war on us for the first time, the price is too high, we can't afford it."

In the face of strong opposition from Alois, Emperor Franz Joseph backed down a little from Chief of Staff Sanders' plans.

"Let's put aside the discussion on this matter first, and bring our support to Bulgaria first. It is still okay to create tension at the border."

In the face of the emperor's instructions, the Austro-Hungarian ministers could only act in this way. Soon Austria-Hungary and Germany sent Bulgarian telegrams in support of their territory, Germany aided diplomatically and militarily, and Austria-Hungary was willing to create tension on the Serbian border to ease pressure on Bulgaria.

This made Bulgaria all overjoyed and made up their minds not to give in. For a time, the original Balkan alliance quickly split.

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