Never overestimate the temperament of politicians!

Perhaps it was to see that the Armenians were doing a good job, or perhaps to increase their chances of victory, the Greeks acted. Again, money and weapons were given to encourage the Ottoman Greeks to revolt in Asia Minor.

The incompetence of the Sudanese government fueled George I's ambitions. Not a single Armenian problem can be solved, and now even Constantinople is revolutionary, it seems that the Ottomans have really declined!

In the same way, he was now dissatisfied with Bulgaria as an ally, and George I would have been prepared to go it alone if it had not been for the fear of being profited from.

Or that there are people in Greece who can't bear to do it, and it is very troublesome for the king to suppress the radicals!

The uprising in Asia Minor was one of his ways of deflecting contradictions.

In order to suppress the Armenian uprising, the Sultanate transferred troops from Asia Minor, which also gave hope to the Greeks.

At the end of the 19th century, the Greeks were the second largest ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire, with a large population, far from being comparable to the Armenians.

As soon as they started an uprising in Asia Minor, the Greek government could immediately provide them with support through the navy, and even intervene directly.

Theoretically, as long as the rebel army can break out the fighting power of the Armenians, millions of Greeks will revolt, and the tens of thousands of Turkish army in Asia Minor will not be able to suppress it at all.

If the Greek government declares war on the Ottoman Empire again, sends troops to the Asia Minor Peninsula, and cooperates with the rebel army, it will be able to swallow this piece of fat in one bite. No matter how bad it is, Greece can still get a piece of the pie in Asia Minor!

As for whether the Sudanese government will send reinforcements, this can be assured! There will be reinforcements, but there will never be too many!

The 200,000 or so troops in the Balkans did not dare to move at all, and if the Ottoman army moved, Bulgaria and Mentnegro would be able to sit still? Loot every minute!

And unless it is to go through the Sea of Marmara, the Greek Navy will not let them go, and now the main force of the Ottoman Empire's navy is pinned down by the Bulgarian "existing navy", and it does not dare to leave the Bosphorus for a moment!

Even if the strong men of the Sudanese government break their wrists, abandon the Balkans, and go to the Sea of Marmara, with the organizational ability of the Sudanese government, they will not be able to go into battle at all in a few months!

Not to mention the Constantinople area, where the Armenian rebels are still there! Now the withdrawal is tantamount to abandoning Constantinople, and the Russians are salivating over it!

It is possible for the Sudanese government to abandon the rest of the Balkans, but it is completely unacceptable to abandon Constantinople. Especially in the hands of the Russians, which is tantamount to sending the Black Sea straits out in vain!

And the counterinsurgency must be fast, if it drags on for a long time, the rebels hook up with the Russians, and directly give this fortress city to the Russians, the Sudanese government will not have time to cry!

Without this golden waterway, the Ottoman Empire would not be far from collapse!

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How to fight the wishful thinking of the Greeks, Ferdinand didn't care, now the main forces of the Ottoman Empire's army are basically gathered in the Balkans, so he can't help but worry!

Now that there is an Armenian rebel army, Bulgaria is not yet feeling the pressure, once the rebellion is quelled. If these four or five hundred thousand troops are still in the Balkans, it will be very much an eyesore!

Constantinople, which is defended by at least a hundred thousand troops, is not easy to overcome, and it will turn into a war of attrition!

Now that the Ottomans have blocked the Bosphorus and the Armenians have been surrounded in Constantinople, Ferdinand could not do anything to support them.

Sitting in a lonely city, it is a fact that the uprising will be extinguished sooner or later!

It was not clear to Ferdinand how much damage this revolt had caused to the Ottoman Empire, otherwise he would not have been so worried!

Especially under the command of Victor Kirkis, a professional, the rebel army is fighting the Ottoman government army, and the two sides have reached the point of no end.

By May, the outer walls had fallen because the rebels had run out of shells. Without artillery, it is naturally impossible to stop the enemy's attack!

The weakness of the rabble has now been exposed. The blind expansion of the revolutionary rivalry, and now the Provisional Government of Armenia is no longer able to command the troops!

If it had been good before, the Ottoman army had not entered, and everyone still had the hope of victory, and they could work together to fight hard!

But with the loss of the outer line, everyone's confidence in holding Constantinople was gone. The point is that the intervention of the great powers that the Provisional Government has been waiting for has passed for more than three months, and there is no shadow!

There is wine today, drunk today, tomorrow is sad, tomorrow is sad! Military discipline is all floating clouds, and military orders are also selectively implemented, all depending on the mood, this is the status quo of the rebel army!

Even Victorkis, the titular commander-in-chief of the defense, was powerless against the rest of his troops, except for a few thousand of his descendants.

Simply, he never had illusions about the rebels. After directly demarcating the defense zone, let it go, what do you like! Anyway, they all got on the thief ship, and they couldn't get down! The Turks are coming, and in order to survive, you have to fight with them!

The city is full of bones, and if the Turks don't know what is going on, they will be blind in vain!

The atrocities of the rebel army, which infuriated the Turks. Just kidding, when will the lowly pariahs be able to slaughter the noble lords! The commander-in-chief of the counterinsurgency, Wolf Pasha, directly ordered the blood debt to be paid for in blood!

There was no room for détente on both sides, and the Turks, who were bent on revenge, had already killed red-eyed. Oh, I can't help them not to kill, so many nobles have died, if anyone dares to let the rebels go, their families and friends will not stop!

Both sides were pushed into a corner, and the rebel army, even if it was a rabble, fought for its might, but still inflicted a lot of losses on the Ottoman army!

Time flew by, and in a flash, it was June, and the counterinsurgency army had lived up to the expectations of the Sultan and had taken most of Constantinople, the rebel army was compressed into one, and the uprising was about to be extinguished!

But the commander-in-chief, Wolf Pasha, could not be happy, the heavy casualties were only one aspect. He is a military commander, and other losses have little to do with him except for the loss of soldiers!

Since ancient times, great wars have often been accompanied by great plagues, and this time is no exception, and now that it is summer, the city is filled with the stench of decay of corpses, and the plague has broken out!

In the face of the plague, Wolf Pasha was not worried, he immediately made a decision and withdrew from Constantinople, but the epidemic had already begun to spread among the army!

Fortunately, this plague, as in history, did not spread widely, plus Wolf Pasha blockaded Constantinople again, and did not spread in the Ottoman Empire!

The arrival of the plague created an opportunity for Victor Kis to escape. Now that both sides are exhausted, Victorkis easily convinces the real power in the rebel army to fight for his life! (10,000 words omitted)

After all, after the outbreak of the plague, people died of illness every day, and the mental pressure on people was enormous. Instead of waiting to die, it is better to fight with the Turks and fight for a way out!

On July 8, 1896, the Armenian uprising, which lasted more than four months, ended in failure! The remaining more than 100,000 rebel troops launched a breakthrough! But a rabble is a rabble, there was no unexpected failure to break through, and the rebel army was almost wiped out!