The Russians are also entangled, the German-Austrian forces are constantly expanding their gains in the pursuit of victory, and now the Russian army is suffering tens of thousands of casualties every day.

The defensive line built by the Russian army has collapsed on all fronts, although it has not yet reached a thousand miles, but it has already collapsed for a hundred miles.

After the annihilation of the Russian Northern Front, the Germans conveyed the message of peace talks to the Russians through neutral Denmark, and immediately received the support of the Russian peace faction.

In early August 1916, Vasilicchikova secretly arrived in St. Petersburg and was received by Nicholas II, and it was clear that the attitude of the tsarist government had changed.

After a long war, Russia's domestic economy had already suffered a serious blow, especially after the news of the defeat at the front reached home, and the anti-war sentiment of the people began to rise, making the tsarist government want to end the war quickly.

Of course, the mutual suspicion between Britain and Russia is also an important factor. In the eyes of the Russians, the defeat at the front was entirely caused by the lack of full support from the other Entente members, which in turn increased the idea of peace talks on their own.

Especially after the defeat on the front, after the Russians put forward a request for Britain and France to launch an offensive on the Western Front and contain the Germans' forces was refused, the power of the Russian lords and factions began to skyrocket.

The pro-German faction headed by the Tsar Empress, who was born in the German royal family, had gradually gained the upper hand in the government, and with the arrival of the German secret envoy, after the Russian Foreign Minister Sazonlov, the representative of the Russian main war faction, was forced to resign, the main peace faction completely controlled the situation, and no one could stop the German-Russian negotiations from starting.

But negotiations are negotiations, and the battle still has to be fought, and the German-Austrian forces on the front line did not show mercy to the Russians because the negotiations began, and even fought harder in order to weaken the Russians.

The Russian army was forced to begin a strategic retreat, and then Ferdinand's troubles came. As a result of the retreat of the Russians, there was a hole in the Romanian line of defense.

Now there are only two paths in front of Bulgaria, either to take over the defensive line abandoned by the Russians, or to abandon the Wallachian plain, which is already in hand!

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The palace in Sofia was brightly lit, and as soon as the Russians offered Bulgaria to take over the northern line of defense in Romania, Ferdinand convened an emergency military council.

It is clear that the Russians are taking revenge, Bulgaria did not fully support them before, and sat back and watched them fight with the German-Austrian forces on the front line!

Of course, there is no way to say this reason, and the Russians do not want to turn against Bulgaria yet, so they still gave three days, which is just enough for Bulgaria to transfer troops to the front.

Ferdinand said with a wry smile: "Let's talk about it, the Russians are now broken jars, looking at their appearance, it is estimated that Ukraine will give up more than half, in addition to taking over the defense line of northern Romania, it is estimated that we will also do a good job of taking over the defense of Moldova!"

Or maybe a strong man broke his wrist, directly abandoned the Wallachian plains that had already been reached, and retreated to the country to rely on the perfect fortress bunkers for defense! ”

It has always been him who cheated the Russians, but I didn't expect that this time it was his turn to be cheated by the Russians, and there was a pit that could not be said, this time the Russians were "very generous", and directly announced that as long as Bulgaria could hold Romania, they would not participate in the division of interests in Romania after the war.

This is a naked conspiracy, there is no doubt that it is to lure the Bulgarians to fight with the German-Austrian forces and change the situation in which the German-Austrian forces catch them and beat them!

There is no way, the Wallachian plain in the hands of Bulgaria now has not only the grain that Germany and Austria need, but also the famous Ploiesti oil field, and the Germans will definitely not let go.

Well, the oil field Ferdinand doesn't care if he lets it go, anyway, the Romanians have bombed the Ploiesti oil field once before, and now they haven't returned to full capacity, he doesn't care about blowing it up again!

It's a big deal to get oil from the Russians through the Black Sea later, but the grain will not work, looking at the current situation, Ukraine will fall at least half, and then the Russians will have no time to take care of themselves, how can they export grain to the outside world?

Do you want to ask the British to bring it back from overseas? In that case, after the end of the war, the Bulgarian government is estimated to be not far from bankruptcy, and the most important thing is that it is not good, and it is necessary to be prepared to starve!

The war has been going on until now, and there has been no problem with Bulgaria's food supply, which is based on the premise that the Wallachian Plain was occupied at the beginning of the war, and the Wallachian Plain cannot be abandoned at least until the autumn harvest this year!

When this season's grain is harvested, Bulgaria can easily survive until next year, when Bulgaria can get enough food by reclaiming the Asia Minor peninsula, and most of the millions of prisoners of war in Bulgaria's hands have been sent to mine and farm.

Otherwise, by the time of the 1917 grain harvest on the peninsula of Asia Minor, Bulgaria's grain reserves would have been depleted by at least half! God knows how long the war will last, and Ferdinand can't sleep without enough food reserves?

Prime Minister Konstantin said worriedly: "Your Majesty, from the beginning of the war to the present, we have received more than 2.8 million refugees, mainly Romanian refugees caused by the war, including a small number of Slavs from Bosnia and Herzegovina!"

But now, due to the defeat of the Russian army, a large number of Russians have begun to flee, and the number of people entering our country has also increased significantly!

Therefore, the food reserves we have made before may be insufficient in the future, so we cannot give up the Wallachian plains now, in any case! ”

Ferdinand nodded, many of the refugees in Romania were deliberately created by Bulgaria in order to force them to emigrate, so as to consolidate their rule over the region.

After confiscating a large number of land of the nobility, Ferdinand decisively adopted mechanized farming, and a large number of Romanian peasants went bankrupt after losing the land they could lease!

In addition to the peasants, the few factories in Romania suffered even more, and due to the war and the backward production capacity, most of them were directly abandoned, and the workers were naturally unemployed.

For these people, naturally, they were shunted out, and no matter how they were diverted, they still had to eat, and Bulgaria's food consumption naturally increased.

The Chief of the General Staff then added: "Your Majesty, from the point of view of strategic security, we must not abandon Romania, otherwise if the German-Austrian forces choose to continue attacking us, then the flames of war will be burned to our homeland!"

Rather than that, it would be better to fight them in Romania, anyway, as long as they drag on for a few months, when Italy is finished or changes occur on the Western Front, the battle will be over! ”

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After pondering for a moment, Ferdinand smiled and said: "Yes, now we have to fight this battle with the German-Austrian forces, since the establishment of the Bulgarian Army, there has never been a world army power, and now is also the time to test the results, lest people always say that we will only pinch soft persimmons!" ”

Compared with the tough German-Austrian coalition army, Ferdinand still thinks that hunger is still more terrifying!

A battle with the German-Austrian coalition army is a big deal to lose 1.8 million troops, and most of them are cannon fodder anyway; But if you don't have food, you have to go hungry, and this is unbearable!

It was easy to decide to fight a battle with the German-Austrian forces, but how to fight this battle was another difficult one. Earlier, the General Staff had also drawn up contingency plans, but no one expected that the Russians would abandon Romania!

According to the previous estimate of the General Staff, the Russians were unable to defend Romania after the defeat, and Bulgaria could take advantage of the situation to collect their rout, and then re-armed and sent to the front line to be cannon fodder, and now all this is gone!

Although he was cheated by the Russians, Ferdinand had nothing unacceptable, there was only interests between countries! Everyone relied on their own means, and they deserved to be trapped, so it's a big deal to retaliate next time!

Of course, he didn't know that the British were preparing to cut off Italy, and once the Italians announced their withdrawal from the war before the Entente forces occupied Rome, Ferdinand probably wouldn't be able to laugh.

According to Ferdinand's plan, if the coalition forces were to occupy Rome and then force the Italians to withdraw from the war, then Bulgaria would be eligible to take the lion's share when Italy was divided after the war, at least a large amount of war reparations would be indispensable!

But if the Italians were forced to withdraw from the war by the diplomatic means of the British, the treatment of this Italian would be different, and even if there were war reparations, there would only be three melons and two dates left!

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