Chapter 428: If you sow melons, you will reap melons
As the old saying goes, you will reap what you sow. Over the centuries, the Ottoman Empire has sown colonization, oppression, and hatred, and it will only have to repay it in the future.
The Balkan people, who were not willing to be controlled and oppressed, began to take control of their own destiny. All these were invisible opportunities provided to them by the Far East, but this did not mean that other European powers did not harbor their own ambitions for aggression and expansion.
Therefore, the Four-Nation Alliance decided to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the Jordan War to launch a comprehensive war of resistance against the Ottoman Empire. Montenegro was the first to declare war on the Ottoman Empire, followed by Bulgaria, Serbia, and the Greeks who also successively issued ultimatums to the Ottoman Empire.
, demanding that Hamid II immediately order the withdrawal of Ottoman special forces from the Balkans and declare autonomy for all ethnic groups in the Balkans.
However, the Ottoman Empire government represented by Hamid II rejected the request of the Four Nations Alliance and began to mobilize troops domestically. Therefore, this constituted the Four Balkans Alliance's full declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire. In order to ensure an early and effective attack on the Ottoman Empire
To block the attack, Bulgaria, Serbia and the Greeks successively took rapid military action against the Ottoman Empire.
At this time, Hamid II had almost withdrawn the main forces from the Balkans when fighting in the Far East. Therefore, the Four-Nation Alliance currently outperforms the Ottoman Empire's special forces in terms of both the number of soldiers and the quality of weapons, especially
It is the combat level of artillery.
The armies of the Four Nations Alliance are fighting for their own national liberation, with the goal of getting rid of oppression and colonization. Therefore, their morale is far higher than that of the Ottoman Guards. Encouraged by the unity of all, the armies of the Four Nations advance high-spirited. Among them, Bulgaria
The army directly formed three armies in the Istanbul area as the main army combat groups.
At the same time, the main force groups of the Serbian Army also have three Army Groups. They mainly deal with the defense line of the Ottoman Guards in Macedonia, while the two major Greek Army Groups, Phusalia and Epirus, respectively send troops to deal with Sasha.
Ottoman troops in Lonika and Yanina.
At the same time, Greece also has a navy and has begun to prepare for final actions against the Ottoman Navy, but mainly to ensure the absolute control of the sea by the Four Power Alliance in the Mediterranean.
The main task of all Montenegro's armies, as discussed by the four countries, is to coordinate with the Serbian army to fight against the Ottoman Guards in Macedonia. The four allied forces seem to have formed an encirclement situation against the Ottoman Empire and are preparing to re-enter the Ottoman Empire under Hamid II.
The SS troops were completely defeated before the dispatched Ottoman reinforcements arrived.
But the Ottoman Empire is, after all, an old colonial empire in Europe. It has been able to remain stable in this hot land of Europe for centuries and naturally has a huge foundation. Although Hamid II was a cruel monarch, he was at least wise.
His military command ability is still no worse than that of the leaders of the Four Nations Alliance.
In order to deal with the four-nation alliance, Hamid II successively mobilized more than 40,000 troops from the temporarily recruited troops from Turkey to deal with the 20,000 troops of the Negro army.
At the same time, a light cavalry was sent to encircle the Serbian army heading to Ibar. It seemed that he wanted to use two sides to attack the coalition forces in the northern region. However, he did not make this move well because he thought that his 40,000 soldiers
The temporarily mobilized troops could defeat the 20,000-strong Negro army.
In a war, the disparity in military strength is very important, but how can a group of newly recruited rabble, a group of passionate and patriotic aspirants, be able to resist?
Therefore, not only did the Ottoman Guards fail to encircle them successfully in the end, but even the most basic defense seemed unable to withstand the attack of the four-nation coalition in northern Albania. The Bulgarian Army crossed over in less than three days.
The border between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire allowed the rear lone army to advance deep south.
The Second Group of the Bulgarian Army is in the center, on the right, and on the left. The First and Third Groups of the Bulgarian Army are fighting all the way south, repelling the defensive positions of the Ottoman Army many times, and successively defeated the Ottoman Guards from March 6 to 8.
Six armies, and are continuing to advance south.
In response to the Bulgarian side, Serbia's major armies also launched a comprehensive general offensive, which resulted in the complete crushing of the Special Guard Army Group in the Macedonian defensive position of the Ottoman Empire. The southern Macedonian defense line was subsequently defeated by the Greek Army on February 9 and 10.
breakthrough.
After the victory, the Serbian and Greek coalition forces continued to attack Salonika without rest, and accepted the collective surrender of the city's defenders on the 11th. Such successive changes made Hamid II unable to sit still.
has stopped, and the attention of European countries has also shifted from joint military exercises in the Persian Gulf and the war in Jordan to the war in the Balkans.
At the same time, the surrounding forces in the Balkans, including the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire, the Italian Empire, and Britain and France, also began gearing up and seemed to be preparing for battle.
At the same time, the Greek Navy, which had a small fleet, directly blocked the entrance and exit of the Dardanelles Strait, and launched many campaigns to capture the islands in the Aegean Sea.
This forced Hamid II to free up his hands to concentrate on matters in the Balkans. However, how could the coalition forces of Saudi Arabia, the Far East, Germany, and Portugal give Hamid II a chance to adjust. Therefore, the Ottoman Empire, which was attacked from both sides at the same time,
For a moment, there was a shaky posture.
This caused the major powers in the surrounding area, which had been preparing for the attack for a long time, to reveal their minions one after another.
Shortly afterwards, Albania declared its independence first, but doing so was not in the interest of the European powers. So the Russian Empire first provided support to other countries in the Balkans. At the same time, it used mediation as an excuse to send a large army to Istanbul in an attempt to control the Black Sea that was beneficial to itself.
Straits area.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy believed that Serbia and Greece were formerly part of the Allied Powers, and did not want to see them become too powerful. However, they regarded Hamid II as their potential ally, and therefore tried their best to prevent the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
The major European countries have used various means to try to use pressure to force them to cease the war.
But it was Li Ningyu who ultimately prompted the armistice, because as the Ottomans continued to withdraw troops from the battlefield in Jordan, the Far East Allied Forces finally won the victory effortlessly. However, after the Far East Allied Forces handed over control of Jordan to the British, they continued to
This made Hamid II angry and anxious, and finally he could only send representatives to negotiate with the Far East.
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