Bulgaria's troop deployment is entirely a battle plan formulated against the Turkish army, and there is no doubt that the Istanbul region will be the focus of contention between the two countries, followed by the Macedonian region!

The Ottoman Empire deployed 150,000 troops in the Istanbul region, 80,000 troops in the Macedonian region, about 100,000 troops on the Greek front, 40,000 in the Albanian region, and 30,000 in the Kosovo region!

As soon as the Balkan War broke out, Bulgaria received broad support from all Balkan peoples, and wherever the Bulgarian army passed, people offered to help.

Oh, and these are inseparable from the operation of successive Bulgarian governments! Especially after Ferdinand came to power, in addition to cultural exports, the intelligence services also worked hard in the Balkans, taking advantage of the contradictions between the Ottoman Empire and the local population, and co-opted a group of people who were inclined to Bulgaria, creating a good mass base for this war!

As soon as the war broke out on May 4, the Bulgarian army marched forward with great courage!

On the third day after the start of the battle, the Bulgarian 1st Army repeatedly crushed the counterattacks of the Turkish army, and the forward troops: the 1st Guards Division and the 1st Army Division were already beginning to encircle the city of Adrianaburg, and the 10th Division had already conquered the city of Lozengrad!

Before the Turkish high command could complete the reorganization of the route, on 8 May the Bulgarian 1st and 3rd Heavy Artillery Regiments arrived at the city of Adriana Fort and immediately launched a fierce attack.

In this offensive and defensive battle, the mortar began to go to the stage of history and started its legendary road!

In order to defend the city of Fort Adriana, the Ottomans also worked hard, in addition to the fortresses scattered all over the place, there were dense trenches, barbed wire, heavy machine guns and so on!

All this has made the Bulgarian army famous!

Since the "mortar" has not yet been unveiled, the defense against it naturally does not exist!

Originally, the Bulgarian army was only going to use mortars against machine guns, but as soon as they appeared on the battlefield, they stunned everyone.

When the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Guards Division was attacking the Turkish position, the heavy machine gun on the opposite side rang out "Bang, Bang, Bang..."

The commander of the third battalion, Kakashi Ivanov, immediately ordered his men to set up "mortars" to knock out the enemy's heavy machine guns.

Because Ferdinand's version of the "mortar" is too rudimentary, not only is the range short, but the accuracy is not bad, and then the artillery flew away without accident!

The shells flew to the Ottoman formation, and with a "boom" sound, the ammunition box of the Turkish army was detonated, and the bullets instantly began to fly wildly, leaving only a wail!

Good guys, it was obviously missed, but the result was even better than expected, and a single shell took the lives of dozens of Ottoman soldiers!

Seeing this, Kakashi-Ivanov doesn't care so much, anyway, the Bulgarian army has not stipulated that "mortars" can only be used against machine guns, so just greet people in crowded places!

After several experiments, Kakashi Ivanov found that the effect was very good, as long as it was not too biased, hitting the Ottoman positions would always bring casualties to the enemy, as few as a few people, as many as dozens, and the effect was simply not too good!

After receiving this discovery, Kakashi Ivanov immediately reported it. After many experiments, some people found that the "mortar" was also effective against some of the Ottoman fortresses, and even some fortresses collapsed directly as soon as they went down!

Tofu scum project, there are everywhere, not to mention the decaying Ottoman Empire, of course, most of these fortresses are just for defense against bullets, and then secretly cut down materials, resulting in the current result is no exception!

This is much more cost-effective than using a 75mm field gun, and the price of shells for a "mortar" is less than a fifth of that of a field gun, and the accuracy is much higher. (Nonsense 180 meters away, hit a fortress, as long as the direction is right, you can hit, of course the head is high!) ）

The amazing performance of the "mortar", which soon attracted the attention of the commander of the 1st Guards Division, Major General Geneva-Nikolai, and then quickly spread it among the Bulgarian army!

Thanks to the decay of the Ottoman Empire, many fortifications were left over from 180 years ago, many places have fallen into disrepair and aging, and there are temporary construction of tofu slag projects! (People didn't prepare defensive shells in the first place)

With the addition of this sharp weapon, the efficiency of the Bulgarian army's siege of the city suddenly increased, and many fortress fortifications that originally required field artillery can now be completed by mortars.

If one cannon doesn't work, just two shots, and if it doesn't work, three or four shots, you can always get it! Anyway, the Ottoman Empire stopped repairing and maintaining the fortress in the city decades ago, and it was temporarily strengthened after the outbreak of war, don't expect it to be strong!

The Ottoman army put up fierce resistance to no avail, and two days later the city of Adriana Fort, a military stronghold, was captured by the Bulgarians!

By this time, the 9th Bulgarian Division had already reached Lüreburgaz; The 6th and 11th Divisions began to advance towards the Glebolu Peninsula and the western coast of the Sea of Marmara.

Unwilling to be defeated, the commander-in-chief of the Turkish army, Wolf Pasha, began to gather his army and prepare for a decisive battle against Bulgaria in the valley of the Karagachi River between Lureburgaz and Bunar Hisar!

Not to be outdone, Popov assembled the 8th, 9th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 4th Heavy Artillery Regiments, as well as two cavalry regiments, and prepared for a decisive battle with the Ottomans!

On May 10, the first Armageddie in the Balkan War began!

At this time, Wolf Pasha had gathered eight divisions of troops, about 106,000 people, with more than 1,000 cannons of various types and more than 600 heavy machine guns!

On the Bulgarian side, there are now five infantry divisions with a total strength of about 86,000, more than 600 cannons of various types, and more than 800 heavy machine guns!

In terms of numbers, the Ottomans had an advantage not only in terms of troops, but also in the number of artillery!

In terms of quality, it is just the right one! The Ottoman army, which had a superior number of troops, had a much worse quality of soldiers; Not to mention the artillery, thousands of guns sound very domineering, almost twice as much as the Bulgarian army, if you figure out the composition of the artillery, it is estimated that no one will see it that way!

After all, it is a territory operated by the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years, and it is still very simple to collect a batch of artillery, of course, the age of the artillery is a little older!

From new artillery that has just been produced for a year or two, to old antiques from two or three hundred years ago, everything is available! Among them, breech artillery occupies the mainstream, and there are too many antiques!

It was originally intended to be used, but now the breech weapons of the Ottoman army are the mainstream, and breech guns have not had time to be popularized, let alone artillery! (During the Balkan War in 1911, the breech armament was not retired from the Tuji Army, and the oldest cannon was more than 400 years old)

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