The rays of the early winter sun shone through the cracks in the curtains, and Edel woke up. Looking at his wife Sophie Marie, who was still sleeping next to him, he gently took his wife's jade arm away from his chest, but he didn't expect this action to wake her up.

"Eder, you're awake."

Hearing his wife's crisp voice, Edel said with a smile at her. "No way, the recent situation in the Balkans has made me unable to be distracted, and I have worked hard for you during this time."

Sophie Marie said understandingly. "I know that as a royal heir, you need to pay attention to your own country, and my uncle is the same."

Hearing his wife's understanding, Edel kissed her as she spoke. "Mary's ability to marry a beautiful and understanding wife like you is God's gift to me."

Hearing Edel's love words, Sophie Marie thought of the madness of the two of them last night, and said a little shyly. "Alright, Eder, you're going to get up, or the chief guard will come knocking on the door."

Edel got up and got dressed, and walked out of the room to see the head of the guard just coming by. "Calustre, come here so early?"

"Yes, Your Highness." The chief of the guard, after responding to the crown prince, gave the latest picture of the situation in the Balkan war. "I just got the information that Bulgaria had won the Ottoman army at Lulle Burgas in Western Thrace."

He walked up to Eder and handed the telegram to the crown prince, who took the telegram and looked at it all the way to his office.

The telegram was sent by the head of the Romanian Observer Mission, Major General Ferreuit, and described in detail the battle between the Bulgarian and Ottoman armies on the front line from Lule Burgas to Budashirsar.

Among them, he also mentioned the military literacy and use of tactics by the armies of both sides. It is not surprising to think that the Bulgarian army has a morale that is not inferior to that of the European powers, but its weaponry and tactical use are still relatively poor, and it is not surprising that the Ottoman army, which is not well equipped and has even worse morale, has a crushing effect.

In the end, he compares the armies of Bulgaria and Romania. Among them, the gap between the Bulgarian army and Romania at the battalion and company level is small, but Romania has a slight advantage in firepower and professional soldiers by virtue of the machine gun allocation, and Romania has a considerable advantage over the Bulgarian army at the brigade level. At the division level, Bulgaria could never defeat Romania's division, and even if they had an absolute superiority in numbers, Romania would suppress it through superior firepower.

As for the army level, Romania can crush Bulgaria, because when Romania forms the army level, it will assign several independent heavy artillery regiments to the army. Now Romania has trained five heavy artillery regiments, three of which are 150 heavy artillery regiments, one 0 heavy artillery regiment, and one 240 siege artillery regiment. This year, a 150 heavy artillery regiment will be trained, and next year, the last 0 heavy artillery regiment will be completed.

Eder walked into the office just as he finished reading the telegram, put the telegram on the table that had captured the efforts of Major General Ferreuit, and turned to the chief of the guard to talk about the situation in the Balkans. "It seems that the Ottoman territory in Europe has been divided, and their armies in Europe are almost finished."

"It seems so," said the chief of the guard, Calust, who agreed with the crown prince, continued his opinion. "But it depends on whether Osman's actions can be faster, now the situation is almost one-sided, and admitting defeat early can still retain some strength for his country."

They say this because, after the previous Serbian army won the Battle of Kumanovo, the Montenegrin army occupied Macedonia and the Adriatic coast. The Bulgarian army won the battle of the line from Lulle Burgas to Budahirsal, and it was only natural that the rest of Western Thrace except Istanbul was occupied by it. The Greek army also captured the Aegean islands and the region of Eastern Thrace. The Ottoman army had been defeated and retreated to a limited number of fortresses such as Adrianople, Ioannina, and Shkodar.

Anyone with a discerning eye could now see that the Ottomans had lost the war, and that the only chance the Ottomans had now was to defeat the Greek navy and bring the Asian army to sea, but this had become an impossible task for the Ottoman navy.

The Greek Navy at this time, including 3 battleships, 1 brand new armored cruiser (this is the patriotic Greek-American millionaire George?). Averov donated to his homeland, and he was also the donor of the stadium for the first Olympic Games in 1896), 7 destroyers and several torpedo boats. The Ottoman Navy, on the other hand, was a tragedy, as in the 40 years from 1872 to 1913, Turkey had only four new capital ships, and the navy became almost an "outcast of the empire". Nevertheless, the Ottoman navy was dispatched, and they fought two impressive naval battles with the Greek navy near the islands of Erie and Lemnos, but they were still unable to fight.

Now all the countries of Europe are talking about the performance of the countries in this Balkan war, in which the performance of the Ottoman army may be negative. The performance of the Bulgarian Army was most appreciated by the Balkan countries, and some newspapers now refer to it as the Prussia of the Balkans. This made Edel a little upset. The performance of the Serbian army was also remarkable, and the Greek army also performed quite well in this war, especially his navy, which made an indelible contribution to the Balkan war.

"Now the Ottoman Empire is suing for peace, and it depends on the consent of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria." Edel spoke his mind.

The chief of the guard asked puzzled after hearing the crown prince's opinion. "Why Bulgaria?"

Edel said with a smile in response to the Captain's question. "Because the Bulgarian army is in Western Thrace, the closest to Istanbul, it is necessary to see if he has any other ideas about the city."

In the days that followed, the Ottoman government sued for peace with the Commander-in-Chief of the Conservative Army, Ferdinand, proposing an armistice. Ferdinand I, who had the ambition to capture Istanbul, rejected the offer and ordered the Ottoman position in Chatalja on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. It was fortified and defended by field and coastal guns.

The offensive and defensive battles of Chatalja were among the fiercest battles of the First Balkan War. It was under the command of the combined armies of the Bulgarian First and Third Armies, under the general command of Lieutenant General Radikodimitryev, in an attempt to defeat the Ottoman defenders in the area and break through the last line of defense in front of the capital Constantinople. However, the high number of casualties forced the Bulgarians to abandon the offensive and allow their opponents to take the victory. This was the Ottoman Army's greatest military achievement during the entire war and the first major defeat of the Bulgarian Army since its formation in 1878.

The battle also put an end to Ferdinand I's ambitions for Istanbul, and Russia, who backed him, told him that he could stop the war. Eventually, Ferdinand accepted the armistice and signed an armistice with Turkey in November.

Shortly thereafter, peace talks began in London between the Balkan League and Turkey. 8)