On August 2o, the fifth day after the end of the Battle of Constantinople, Ferdinand finally received the final casualty report!

The numbers are staggering:

The 1st Guards Division suffered 3,476 casualties, of which 615 were killed and 187 were seriously wounded or disabled

The 1st Infantry Division suffered 2,846 casualties, of which 586 were killed and 118 were seriously wounded or disabled

The 8th Infantry Division suffered 3,126 casualties, including 827 dead and 86 seriously wounded and disabled

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The casualties of the first five main divisions of the First Army were not less than one regiment in each division, and the four second-class divisions were also heavy casualties, plus several divisions that were transferred in the back, the total casualties were as high as more than 38,000!

Seeing this number, Ferdinand's heart was about to jump out! Fortunately, the medical care is good, and most of the injured can still recover.

Of course, this is good, it is for the 19th century, the Bulgarian field hospital used a large number of original disinfectant - stone carbonic acid, and also prepared a large amount of alcohol to clean the wound, which effectively inhibited the suppuration of the wound!

As for Western medicine, it is still too expensive in this era, and the effect is not very good, and the side effects are great.

Ferdinand knew that the biggest problem for the wounded on the battlefield was not the efficacy of the medicine, but the need for medicine!

For this reason, Ferdinand also sent people to the Manchu Qing to buy a batch of traditional Chinese medicine! In order to make the soldiers accept Chinese medicine, Ferdinand also set an example and personally advertised Chinese medicine!

In fact, when I was on fire, I drank a bowl of boiled yellow lotus! The main thing is that he is familiar with this one and knows that there is no trouble with this safety!

But that's enough, in the eyes of ordinary people, kings can drink, what are we afraid of?

The medicinal materials purchased include cork, skullcap, yellow lotus, honeysuckle, houttuynia cordata, forsythia, banyan root, bupleurum and other well-known ones.

Of course, Ferdinand also knew that the effect of these things on the battlefield caused by bullets and shells was really not very good, but there was no way but to use them, so that they could appease the morale of the army!

Don't you see that in the Boer War, the British could not provide enough medicine for their soldiers, let alone Bulgaria?

Now it seems that the effect of this series of efforts is not bad, most of the wounded soldiers still survived, compared with the period of the Baosai War, the survival rate has been greatly improved!

Of the total casualties of more than 38,000 people in the First Army, only 4,846 were killed and 1,214 were seriously injured or disabled, successfully controlling the proportion to less than one-sixth!

The newly formed ten temporary divisions were miserable, because they lacked adequate training, they were hurriedly sent to the battlefield and assumed the same combat intensity as the main division, and the number of casualties could not be suppressed, and they rushed up!

The temporary 1st Division suffered 5,188 casualties, including 1,074 dead and 1,286 seriously injured and disabled

The Provisional Second Division suffered 4,876 casualties, including 996 dead and 1,319 seriously wounded and disabled

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The total number of the ten temporary divisions was as high as 158,000, and the number of casualties reached a staggering 53,700, of which 13,400 were killed and 16,800 were seriously injured and disabled!

The number of casualties has passed a third, and the temporary division has not collapsed, I have to say that the benefits are moving!

It is true that the death toll is not one-tenth of what was said in advance, but if you add the number of seriously injured, this proportion has reached an astonishing one-fifth!

The main reason for this phenomenon is that the rescue work on the battlefield is not timely, resulting in the direct death of many seriously wounded, and many lightly injured have turned into seriously wounded!

After all, in the 19th century, once there was a large area of wounds, it would kill people, and those who were injured in their limbs would be forced to amputate!

The ten divisions that were temporarily reorganized, the field hospital and other supporting facilities were not complete, and most of them were barefoot doctors recruited from the Istanbul area, and the medical care capacity was not of a grade!

In any case, in the Battle of Constantinople, the casualties on the Bulgarian side reached 91,700, of which more than 18,200 were killed and more than 18,000 were seriously injured and disabled.

Now Ferdinand had to congratulate himself on his wit and come up with a cannon fodder army, otherwise the casualties of the First Army are estimated to be doubled, and Bulgaria really can't afford to die!

As for the casualties of the Ottomans, this is difficult to calculate, according to the first army staff combined with the battle situation, the initial estimate is that the casualties of the Ottoman army are at least more than double that of the Bulgarian side!

Ferdinand didn't care about any of this! Now he is worried about the post-war resettlement problem, ordinary soldiers can receive rewards and retire after the war, what should they do, but the officers must be properly settled!

It is definitely not possible to stay in the troops, even if the standing army of Bulgaria is increased now, there will not be many people left!

You can't be demoted, right? Now everyone has basically made military achievements, and it is already too much if they are not promoted, and they still want to be demoted, do you really think that this group of arrogant soldiers will be soft persimmons?

"Chekov, what are the plans of your government department to resettle retired officers and soldiers?"

Now Prime Minister Konstantin is back in London to preside over the negotiations, and Ferdinand has appointed Chekov as acting minister.

Chekov said worriedly: "Grand Duke, after this war, the territory has almost tripled, and in order to stabilize the place, our cabinet considers it necessary to divide some of the officers and soldiers!"

Moreover, the government is now in dire need of officials, and it can also consider selecting some of the retired military officers to serve as local officials! ”

Ferdinand nodded, he knew that there was already a large official shortage in Bulgaria.

It's not that no one will be an official, the main thing is to be able to stabilize the situation in the newly added territory, and it won't work without a certain ability!

It is also normal for the government to target retired military officers. Now both Macedonia and Thrace are flooded with a large number of bandits and bandits, all of which are remnants of the Ottoman period!

These need to be solved by the government later, and the bandit and bandit military will be responsible for encirclement and suppression, but the fish that may slip through the net in the future can only be handled by the government itself!

Who else is more suitable for this job than this group of retired officers and soldiers?

"Good! Then select a group of retired officers and directly become local cadres! For example, the situation in Macedonia and Albania is still very complicated, and the police departments and armed forces departments in various places should simply let retired officers and soldiers take up their posts! Ferdinand clapped

This is also something that can't be helped, no matter how you clean it up, the remnants of the Ottomans will always exist, and if you want to suppress them, you can't do it if the means are not tough!

What is the political quality of retired officers and soldiers remains to be verified, but there is one advantage that others do not possess - they dare to fight and kill!

For the removal of hidden dangers, it is very suitable! Otherwise, if it was proposed by a civilian official, wouldn't it be a problem to raise tigers by adopting gentle methods against a group of enemies?

To give a simple example: a large gang appears in one place, with a wide distribution of power and strong strength.

If the civil officials deal with it, they will first collect evidence, and then slowly find a way to deal with it through the legal process, which may take up to several years!

If it were handed over to these newly retired officers, they would probably not care so much, and they would first take care of the gangsters, and then consider the evidence!

In times of peace, of course, the rule of law would have been better, but now it is clear that Bulgaria needs iron and blood even more! What Ferdinand wants now is to stabilize the place as soon as possible, resume production, and develop the economy!

Ferdinand thought for a moment and said, "By the way, in the Battle of Constantinople, we formed ten new temporary divisions, and now they have become our loyal fans!"

Most of them are citizens of Istanbul and Thrace, and the government can choose some of them to supplement the local police force, and I will directly order them to retire from the army and become the chief of the local police department, I am not afraid that I will not be able to suppress them! ”

If it weren't for the news from the clearing department, he almost forgot that after the Battle of Constantinople, this newly formed army of more than 100,000 troops had been tied to the Bulgarian chariot!

Even for the sake of the land they are about to hold, they must uphold Bulgarian rule!

Profit is always the best means of binding, and now they are heroes in Bulgaria and can enjoy the treatment of retired officers and soldiers.

In Bulgaria itself, it may be inconspicuous, but in their own homeland, it is also a member of the privileged class!

Even though the privilege is small, doesn't it exist? And many of them hated the Ottoman Empire, and now it would be great to absorb them into the police force and use them to fight the remnants of the Ottoman Empire!

For the sake of Bulgaria's unity and stability, Ferdinand decided to create an enemy for Bulgaria, an enemy who could unite the Balkan people!

In the spirit of finding persimmons to be soft, Ferdinand did not hesitate to choose the Ottoman Empire!

First of all, the Balkan peoples had enmity with the Ottoman Empire, and in order to prevent the Sultan government from coming back, they had to support the Bulgarian government!

As for whether the Sudanese government has the ability to make a comeback, this is not the point, Ferdinand can completely publicize it!

The Ottoman Empire was so big, after the defeat in the Balkan War, they would definitely carry out internal reforms to save the country!

As long as the propaganda is exaggerated and the general public thinks that the crisis is all around them, national independence will not be allowed to become mainstream in the short term!

In the last few years, the world is peaceful, the people's living standards have improved, coupled with cultural integration, everyone is used to thinking of themselves as Bulgarians, even if someone wants to go out independently, they will not be supported by the people!

During this period, it is estimated that Ferdinand has already changed the history of various ethnic groups beyond recognition, anyway, Bulgarians are all mixed races, and the ethnic groups in the Balkans are similar, it is too simple to find evidence that everyone is one!

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