The war between the Ottoman Empire and Greece is now unstoppable. Conflicts of interest, national contradictions, and public opinion orientation have pushed the two countries into the abyss of war!

Ferdinand can swear in the name of God that this war is definitely not his pot! At this time in history, didn't the Ottoman Empire and Greece still fight?

The establishment of the Balkan League undoubtedly gave the Greeks another point of confidence.

Historically, Prince George personally led an army of 1,500 people to support the Cretan uprising!

In the face of the collective opposition of the great powers, the Greek government, which was not well prepared, still insisted on waging war against the Ottoman Empire, and knew the strength of the main war faction in Greece!

Compared to the international environment at that time, the situation is much better for the Greeks! Although the attitudes of the great powers were now different, there was diplomatic support from the Russians, the British, and Austria-Hungary; At the same time, there are two allies in the Balkans, Bulgaria and Mentagaro, and the odds are much greater!

Historically, because both sides were not ready for war, they fought a worse war, but the Greeks were still worse, making this war a laughing stock in the history of modern wars.

The Greeks took the initiative to provoke the war, but because the army was too wasteful, it was a mess, and it took only about 30 days from the declaration of war to the signing of the peace treaty!

What's even funnier is that in these 30 days, less time was actually spent on fighting, and more than half of that time was spent on negotiations!

This is the hilarious "30 Days War"! The Greeks showed the world with practical actions what it means to be self-immeasurable!

On April 15, the Greek government issued an ultimatum to the Ottoman Empire, demanding that the Ottoman Empire recognize Greece and annex Crete, and apologize to the Greek people for the former colonial rule and compensate the economic losses of 30 million pounds!

At this moment, everyone knows that war is coming! The Greeks simply did not have the sincerity to negotiate, and the previous move was nothing more than stalling for time!

In the early morning of April 17, the Greek government officially submitted its war letter to the Ottoman Empire; The Sudanese government was rarely efficient, and at noon, it also submitted a war report to the Greek government!

The Greco-Turkish War has officially begun!

Slightly different from history, the Greeks in this plane were a little more prepared. Before the outbreak of the war, the Greek government had completed a national mobilization, mobilizing more than 240,000 troops!

On the same day, the Greek army began to attack the Macedonian region, opening the curtain on the Balkan Wars!

Receiving this news, Ferdinand's hanging heart finally completely relaxed. History has taken an inflection point at this moment, and everything has become confusing as to where the future will go!

Ferdinand, who had nothing to do, was busy making villains in the palace, and he had been married for more than three years and had no children, so he couldn't help but worry about it.

You must know that the historical princess Xenia, but the mother of seven children, is no problem in this regard! Ferdinand in history also had several children, and he never avoided pregnancy when he came here, so it makes no sense that he has not had children for more than three years?

While Ferdinand was thinking nonsense, George I of Greece on the other side was uncomfortable. At the beginning of the war, the performance of the Greek army could not be said to be outstanding, but it could also be regarded as decent!

In the Balkan strategy, the Ottoman Empire focused on Bulgaria and Serbia.

Geographically, the Serbs threatened the Kosovo region and the Albanian region, and the Bulgarians threatened the Macedonian region and Istanbul!

Now everything has changed, and Bulgaria is still the strongest military among the Balkan countries. But after the end of the war in Bulgaria, the Serbian threat no longer exists!

Therefore, the main enemy of the Ottoman Empire is now Bulgaria, and the main forces are also concentrated on this border of the territory!

Mentenegro was too small to be in the eyes of the Ottoman Empire; Greece invested a lot of resources in its navy, and the Ottoman Empire ignored the threat of the Greek army.

At the beginning of the war, the Ottoman Empire was not prepared for war, and there were not many troops deployed on the Greek front. On the border line of seven or eight hundred kilometers, the Ottomans were garrisoned by only more than 30,000 troops!

There is no doubt that if the 30,000 defenders are concentrated, they will still have some combat effectiveness, but if they are distributed on the border line of seven or eight hundred kilometers, there will be loopholes everywhere!

In fact, with the degree of decay of the Ottoman Empire, it is conceivable that this nominal 30,000 defenders can guarantee half of the full amount!

The results speak for themselves, the Ottoman army placed on the Greek front has fallen, the defense line in the Thessaly region will be broken in a barrel, and the Greek army should have been "marching high"!

However, the poor logistics system of the Greek army was exposed, and due to the drag of logistics, the Greek army did not seize the city of Trikala in the first place! Of course, it's not too long, it's only a day at most!

It's a pity that on the battlefield, every second is often a race against time, and one day is enough to change the entire battle situation! From the outbreak of the war to the present, the Sudanese government has reacted, and reinforcements from the Macedonian region are coming!

The city of Trikala, where the Ottomans originally deployed two regiments, plus the routs who retreated from the front line, theoretically already had the strength of a division, of course, the actual strength had to be at least folded in half.

The city of Trikala is located on the east side of the Pindus Mountains, west via the Meteso Pass Road, to Alta on the west side. Due to its unique geographical location, the Ottomans could no longer retreat, so they decided to hold on. This decision changed the course of the Greco-Turkish war!

The Greek Army, with high morale, hit the first nail here! On the evening of April 18, 1897, the 88,000 Greek army under the command of Prince Constantine arrived in the city of Trikala.

Victories along the way, the Greek army was already carried away by the victory, and as soon as they reached the city of Trikala, they launched a full-scale attack! Strategically, of course, it would be right to attack right away!

However, due to the stubborn pit of the Ottoman defenders, the Greek army in charge of the attack paid more than 1,500 casualties in just over five hours, and Prince Constantine suspended the attack in order to reduce losses!

It was only on April 20, when artillery arrived on the battlefield, that the Greek army attacked again, but it was too late!

One day is enough time to change a lot of things! The Ottoman army in the city, under the leadership of the commander Orich Pasha, has completed internal integration, and the gathered defeated army has been reorganized.

If the enemy to be faced on April 19 was only the original defenders, only more than 2,000 people, then the reorganized Ottoman defenders have exceeded more than 5,000 people!

It is almost impossible for more than 2,000 people to hold the city of Trikala, even if it is delayed for a day or two! In a full-scale attack by the Greeks alone, the defenders suffered more than 380 casualties.

There is no need for more, two or three more attacks like that, and the city of Trikala will be breached due to insufficient troops!

It's a pity that there was no if, Prince Konstantin did not know the situation in the city, and in order to reduce losses, he ordered to stop the attack!

Of course, it is not excluded that there is arrogance and arrogance, and the reason for not taking the Ottoman army in his eyes has created opportunities for the defenders in the city!

On April 20, the Greek army attacked again, and the fierce siege battle began, and the Greek army's casualties fell due to the use of artillery!

In one day, the Greek army paid more than 3,000 casualties, and the defenders also paid more than 1,700 casualties. The battle damage exchange ratio has changed from the original four to one to the current one eight to one!

The Ottoman defenses at Trikala were crumbling, losing a third of their troops in a single day, enough to crush an army!

If it weren't for the fact that the Sultan government had issued a strict order and had to defend to the death, and that reinforcements from the Macedonian region had already arrived, most of the defenders in the city would have collapsed by now!

(Note: casualties do not equal deaths, for example, the number of casualties counted by some countries in the world war exceeded the number of soldiers who participated in the war!) The main thing is that after the lightly wounded recover, they can also go to war again! ）

On April 21st, the brutal offensive and defensive battles continued, and by the evening the Ottoman defenders had lost almost all of their outer defensive lines, and under the command of Orich Pasha, they had withdrawn from the defensive line in an orderly manner, and even more bloody street battles began in the city!

On the third day after the outbreak of the war, reinforcements from Macedonia also entered the Thessaly region, and on the evening of April 21, 100,000 Ottoman reinforcements led by Edkhpasha were less than fifteen kilometers away from the city of Trikala!

The Greeks, who did not know that the other side's reinforcements had arrived, launched another siege battle on April 22, not a street battle!

Seeing that the Ottoman defenders are coming to an end, the scouts have brought bad news to Prince Constantine - Ottoman reinforcements are about to arrive on the battlefield!

By the time Prince Konstantin received the news, the Ottoman reinforcements were already less than five kilometers away from him!

After receiving this news, Prince Konstantin suppressed the anger in his heart, and on the one hand ordered to abandon the attack, on the other hand, he actively deployed to defend against the possible attack of the Ottoman reinforcements!

At this time, the comparison of forces between the two sides has undergone a fundamental change. The fact that the Greeks have disappeared and did not capture the city of Trikala means that in future wars, Greece will be at a strategic disadvantage!

After three days of siege battles, the Greek army also paid heavy casualties, and now its morale has been greatly reduced. The spirit of patriotism with all his blood was defeated by the cruelty on the battlefield in the end!

Edkhpasha came faster than the Greeks expected, and after arriving at the front, the Ottoman army did not make repairs and launched a full-scale attack directly on the positions of the Greek army!

Defeated the Greeks all at once, you must know that the army has been in the army after a long march, the physical strength drops very much, if there is not enough time to repair, ten points of strength can play five or six points is good!

Prince Constantine planned to take advantage of the Ottoman army's initial arrival and unstable foothold to launch a surprise attack and defeat the Ottoman reinforcements in one fell swoop!

Then the two armies that were preparing to raid met unexpectedly in the middle of the road and started a desperate struggle! With the superiority in troops, the Turkish army crushed the enemy army in front of them in one fell swoop, and the Greek offensive was interrupted!

And due to the strategic mistakes of the Greeks, in order to keep the enemy out of the country, they did not concentrate superior forces to attack in one direction!

Attacking in both directions at the same time, the Greek army in Thessaly, after the attack on the city of Trikala was blocked, was forced to turn to the defense on the spot and wait for reinforcements!

It's a pity that this decision of Prince Constantine did not take into account the actual situation of the Greek army, and if this army was all standing army, his decision would have been completely correct! With the corruption of the Ottoman Empire, an army of 100,000 is absolutely indispensable, and the Greek army is completely capable of fighting!

Since the national mobilization of the Greek government, the Greek army has begun to expand dramatically, and the army under the command of Prince Constantine is no exception.

Due to the blind expansion of the Greek government, a large number of poorly trained soldiers have been added to the army, and the combat effectiveness of the Greek army has not risen but decreased!

If it's a good fight, it's just a matter of fighting a few more times, and the new soldiers will become veterans, and the combat effectiveness of the army will naturally increase!

But before becoming a veteran, as soon as there are twists and turns in the war, something is about to happen! This time was no exception, Prince Konstantin was miserably trapped.

The Ottoman army did not fight hard before, and the attack was smooth sailing, but a fierce offensive and defensive battle broke out in the city of Trikala, and the Greek soldiers could not bear it!

As soon as reinforcements from the Ottoman army arrived, the morale of the Greek army was at a low point! As soon as Edkhpasha attacked, the Greek army could no longer withstand the pressure and collapsed!

Since the Ottoman army also arrived in a hurry, it did not have time to repair and threw itself into the war, and its physical strength was not very sufficient, and after defeating the Greeks, it was unable to pursue.

This caused a miscalculation for Prince Konstantin, and the Ottoman army was nothing more than that, and its combat effectiveness was not much higher than theirs!

His judgment was well-founded, the combat effectiveness of the Greek army and the Ottoman army was indeed half a catty! But this is the Greek Army before the expansion, and the combat effectiveness of the Greek Army after the expansion is far behind!

Prince Constantine's decision to defend on the spot is also not a strategic mistake! Since it was the Greek army that had just lost the battle, but the losses were not large.

Now he still has 70,000 troops in his hands, and the actual number of the Ottoman army on the opposite side is only more than 100,000 troops, and the difference between the strength of the two sides is not huge.

After all, at the end of the 19th century, the power of steel wire and trenches was still leveraged! Even if the Greek army lacked steel wire in their hands, there was no shortage of trenches!

This also starts with the Greek strategy, and the other Greek army, led by Duke Carrobert, has now reached Ioannina.

If the area of the city of Trikala is abandoned and the rear is continued, then the Greek army attacking the Epirus area is likely to be cut off by the Ottoman army, and the Greeks will not be able to bear this consequence anyway!