Chapter 40, wolf smoke everywhere Ottoman
Although the uprising in Constantinople was extinguished by the Sultan government, the sequelae could not be eliminated, and this once prosperous international metropolis is now almost like a ghost town!
Hundreds of thousands of people buried their bones here, and it took more than a month just to clean up the corpses! The people who were lucky enough to escape also fled this ominous place immediately.
According to the official statistics of the Ottoman Empire after the war, the unrest caused more than 500,000 deaths, including the loss of more than 30,000 soldiers involved in the counterinsurgency, and the economic losses are incalculable!
What is the mood of the Turks now, Ferdinand does not know, anyway, he is in a good mood now. This uprising in Constantinople, although extinguished, had a far-reaching impact!
Compared to history, both the influence and the destructive power are much greater! The foundations of the Ottoman Empire had been shaken, and revolutionary organizations began to flourish everywhere.
Greeks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Blacks and other nationalities could not help but join the ranks of opposing the Sudanese government!
With the covert support of Bulgaria and Greece, the Ottoman Empire began to stir from the Balkans to the Anatolian plateau!
The Albanians could not bear the long-term expropriation of the Sultan government and were affected by the Constantinople uprising.
On July 14, 1895, with the covert support of Bulgaria, the Albanian Revolutionary Party orchestrated a peasant uprising, which at one point also broke Durrës.
Unfortunately, the rebel army was a temporary patchwork of troops, lacked a strong organization, and did not belong to each other to fight on their own, and the uprising broke out on July 14 and was extinguished by the Ottoman army on July 27, and lasted only thirteen days!
After the end of the uprising, the Ottoman government carried out a reign of white terror in Albania, and all organizations and individuals who supported or sympathized with the revolutionary party were persecuted!
For a time, the Albanian Revolutionary Party was completely annihilated! Well, the Albanian Revolutionary Party of this era was not yet a political party, it was formed only by a few enthusiastic young people, and it was founded under the influence of Bulgaria.
A grass platform, without any preparation, at the instigation of Bulgarian intelligence officers and with the support of a thousand rifles, hastily launched an uprising, and defeat was inevitable!
On 6 August, the Greeks revolted along the Aegean coast of Asia Minor. The original plan was to launch an uprising on August 18, when the Greek Navy would send a batch of supplies to support, but unfortunately it was betrayed by traitors and forced to launch it early.
Due to the early advance of the uprising, it did not have time to receive support from the Greek government, and it was extinguished just three days after it broke out!
Ferdinand knew that the Ottoman Empire had been operating in Asia Minor for hundreds of years, and that most of the local Greeks were accustomed to being ruled, and that revolutionary enthusiasm was not so high!
And that was not the end of it, as on August 15, 1896, another uprising broke out in Macedonia, where the Ottoman Empire was heavily armed.
The uprising could be divided into two phases, starting with the outbreak of the bourgeois revolution in Western Macedonia on 15 August, with the rebel army breaking through Kozani.
However, due to inadequate preparation in advance, coupled with the military strength of the Ottoman Empire in the Macedonian region, the uprising soon fell into a low ebb.
The weakness of the bourgeoisie was exposed, and in the face of the brutal repression of the Ottoman Empire, the revolutionary leaders resolutely ran away after the uprising fell into a low ebb. After losing its leader, the rebel army began to split.
However, this was only the beginning, and on August 24, another uprising broke out in the Kumanovo region of Macedonia. Due to Ferdinand's intervention, the Kumanovo did not attack the heavily armed Skopje, but instead moved towards the Kosovo region!
Well, actually forced out! The Ottoman Empire has more than 100,000 troops in the Macedonian region, and the headquarters is in Skopje, only more than 20 kilometers away from Kumanovo.
In addition to receiving the support of Bulgarian arms at the beginning of the uprising, the rebel army had to try to find its own way.
If you don't have guns, grab it! There is no food, no supplies, or robbing! There are no soldiers, or rob, rob, rob!!
The rebel army has successfully carried forward the essence of the word "robbery", and the price paid is that the rebel army has successfully transformed from a revolutionary army to a rogue!
By the later stage, the uprising had already deteriorated, and there was a starvation everywhere it went! In order to strengthen the team, the rebels, under the training of Bulgarian instructors, fully learned the essence of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's peasant uprising!
Holding high the banner of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, he continued to coerce ordinary people to participate along the way. As for the unwillingness, it is simple: coerce the people to attack the manor of the Turkish nobles, and then give full play to the spirit of Sanguang, and let go of a few messengers after doing it.
Of course, if you believe in the noble manners of the nobles and lords, and are not afraid of retaliation, the rebels will not force it, and you can stay if you want to!
If it's just a rebel army, then it's nothing, and there are Ottoman troops chasing after it, and it won't hurt many people.
"Bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like grates!" This is not the exclusive domain of the Eastern dynasties, it is also applicable in the West, and the Ottoman Empire is one of the best!
The manor of the aristocratic lords, they dare not touch, but they are not so polite to the common people. Robbing things is polite, rape and plundering, killing good and risking merit, are all familiar with the road!
Of course, you can't completely blame the army for not abiding by military discipline, it's all because the logistics of the Ottoman Empire are too scum, or that the efficiency is too low.
At the beginning, the two sides were still working with real guns, but in the later stage, the Ottoman soldiers didn't have to worry anymore!
They wish they could delay a little longer so they could keep fishing! All the way, from Kumanovo to Kosovo, from Kosovo to Albania, and then back to Macedonia.
Both sides quickly formed a tacit understanding, the rebels ran in front, the Ottoman army chased behind, and from time to time there was a battle, and the rebels left a corpse for them as a military merit.
The rebel army could not win and had to run away! The Ottoman army is warless, and compared to the usual salary deduction by the nobles, it is a rare opportunity to reap the benefits of coming out to fight now!
Military discipline, go hell! No matter what you do, you can put the blame on the rebels in front of you, kick the actual benefits into your pocket, and the fly in the ointment is that you still have to fight!
In the hearts of ordinary soldiers or basic officers, it would be nice if they could rob unscrupulously without fighting!
In contrast, the life of the top brass of the Ottoman army is not easy, although the people below also gave them a sum of money according to the rules, and the benefits are good, but the domestic orders are repeated, and his pressure is getting bigger and bigger!
More than two months passed, and the commander-in-chief, Celt, finally couldn't stand it anymore, even though he knew that his men wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, and it was not in their interest to kill the enemy now.
But the lesser of both worlds, offending the people below, at most scolding, if you disobey the Sultan's orders, the future is worrying!
Raising thieves is self-respecting, and it is also necessary to divide the object, at least the rabble in front of them is not qualified, and Celtic knows that any commander who commands can win the war.
Don't dare to delay any longer at the moment, and strictly order all troops to attack with all their might! One level pressed one level, the Ottoman army was serious!
Don't look at their lack of training and low morale, but there is still no pressure to deal with a rabble like the rebel army!
As soon as the Ottoman army exerted its strength, the rebels could not stand it. Although this army has now expanded to tens of thousands, it is still beaten to the point of losing its armor in the face of a smaller number of regular troops!
In order to preserve the revolutionary forces, on the advice of Bulgarian intelligence officers, the rebels scattered and fled. The uprising was suppressed, but Macedonia was even more chaotic!
Falling grass is the king, and occupying the mountain is the best choice for the defeated soldiers! It is easy to suppress the uprising, but it is even more difficult to exterminate the bandits! Until the Ottoman Empire completely lost the Balkans, it was not able to exterminate the bandits and bandits who bloomed everywhere!
In the future, after Bulgaria occupied the Macedonian region, it also launched a two-year large-scale crackdown on bandits, and only then did it completely clear the place, and Ferdinand could be regarded as lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot!