As soon as the naval battle was over, Ferdinand received the news, and his hanging heart was suddenly relaxed!

Unsurprisingly, the Black Sea Fleet defeated the Ottoman navy and then made its way to the Sea of Marmara, where it was repairing in the Bulgarian-controlled port of Tekirda.

Although these twists and turns have happened, they are not Ferdinand's concern! He didn't care about the loss of either the Ottomans or the Russians, Ferdinand only needed one result - to take the sea dominance of the Sea of Marmara!

From this moment on, the Ottoman Empire can already say goodbye to the Istanbul region!

Although they still have half of Constantinople in their hands, their sea transport routes are already threatened!

Although the Bosphorus is close, the danger factor is also high! It had long been completely exposed to the range of Bulgarian artillery, and even the opposite city of Üsküdar was not less patronized by shells!

After pondering for a moment, Ferdinand decisively issued three orders: "Order the Third Army to take Albania in the shortest possible time;

ordered the Second Army to move the battle line to the line of demarcation between the Ottomans and the Greeks before the start of the war, and then to station it on the spot;

Order the 1st Army to block the Bosphorus and at the same time reduce the intensity of the offensive and try to control casualties! ”

Until now, it is better to eat the interests in the stomach first, and as for other issues, we are waiting for negotiations!

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On the other side, in the palace of Ankara, there are now gloomy clouds, even the most optimistic people about the situation do not think that the Ottoman Empire can win this war now!

This will make the Sudanese government panic, and even the radicals will not continue to clamor for the war to the end.

Now it's not a question of whether to fight or not, the key is that it's useless to fight if you want to, you can't get by!

In the past, to deliver supplies to Constantinople, they had to go through the Sea of Marmara, and they had to dock at night, and the ships had to dock in hidden areas, which made the transportation even more difficult, and the logistics department had long been tossed and miserable!

Even with such care, material losses often occur! If you go directly to the Bosphorus, half of the supplies can be safely delivered to the front, even if the Bulgarian military personnel are derelict in their duties!

There's no way to get too close, you can see the opposite shore with the naked eye, greet you with artillery when you see a ship, and from time to time you come to the port, who can stand under such conditions?

The Sultan was overwhelmed with grief and said: "Whatever you have to say, say it!" Now that the Ottoman Empire has reached a critical moment of life and death, a bad one, the partition plan proposed by the British in 1895 is about to appear again, but this time with a different protagonist! ”

Frankly, now the Sultan has regretted not ending this war that dragged the empire into the abyss ahead of schedule!

Now the Russians have entered the Sea of Marmara, and although now they are flying the Bulgarian flag, no one will think that this is dominated by the Bulgarians!

The foreign secretary said with a pale face: "At this point, we can only try to reduce our losses!" The war will not go on, and even if we negotiate with the Balkan Alliance, we will have to pay a terrible price! ”

The Prime Minister nervously asked, "What is the attitude of the British?" Do they now have the intention of counterbalancing the Russians in the Balkans? ”

The Foreign Secretary shook his head and said: "The attitude of the British now is obvious, they do not intend to directly intervene in this war, and they do not care if the Russians will control the Black Sea straits!" ”

The Secretary of War asked incredulously, "How is this possible?" Aren't the British worried that the Russians, having taken control of the Black Sea straits, will enter the Mediterranean to compete with them for supremacy? ”

The Foreign Minister is now bitter, it is obvious that the concept of the top level of the Ottoman Empire at this time is still stuck in a few decades ago, and the current international situation is very different from that year!

He reluctantly explained: "After the signing of the Mediterranean Agreement, Russia's entry into the Mediterranean is no longer the business of the British!"

The British themselves have a lot of troubles, and now the British are not willing to be the first bird and resist the pressure of the Russians alone! ”

The War Secretary was even more puzzled, and continued to ask: "Now that Russia has broken the status quo in the Black Sea region and touched on the provisions of the Mediterranean Agreement on maintaining the status quo in the Black Sea, the British should come forward to sanction them, right?" ”

The Foreign Minister said with a wry smile: "Now it is the Balkan Union that is breaking the balance, and if you want to sanction them, you will also sanction them, and it has nothing to do with the Russians!"

Russia did not do it directly, this is a fig leaf, giving John Bull face! Of course, John Bull has to repay the favor, otherwise they do have the strength to drive the Russians back now!

But the Russians can also retaliate in Central Asia or Afghanistan, forcing the woolly bear to fight all the way to India!

What's more, even if the Russians enter the Mediterranean now, it is the Italians who bear the brunt of the attack, and the British can wait for the Russians to enter the Mediterranean, and then unite with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italians to deal with him! ”

Well, the presence of Italians has not been high, and it is a joke that often appears. But this only refers to their army, the naval combat effectiveness of the Italians is still good, at least now this Black Sea Fleet of the Russians, the Italians can also say that I can hold it!

On land, the woolly bear is a European steamroller, and the strength of the army is leveraged! Now even Germany, which claims to be the world's number one army power, will be weak in the hearts of the Russians!

It's not that you can't beat it, but the main reason is that there are too many gray animals, and how many ants bite and kill elephants? Not to mention the army of the Russians, whose combat effectiveness is also among the best in the world!

At sea, to be honest, the British really don't pay attention to the Russian Navy!

Although the Russian Navy is also the third in the world, the current Royal Navy of the British Empire is much stronger in combat than the combined second + third ranked navies in the world!

As soon as the Foreign Minister explained, everyone immediately reacted, the current situation is different from the period of the Crimean War, and the rise of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy is enough to balance Russia in Europe!

With John Bull's current temperament, if he has the opportunity to stir up trouble in the back, of course he has to hide in the back and do the wedding dress for others, but now they won't do it!

The Sultan said with a gloomy face: "Since the British are no longer reliable, what about other countries? Can Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy all sit still? Don't worry at all, will Russia continue to grow bigger? ”

At this time, the prime minister opened his mouth and reminded: "Great Sultan, the Italians can't count on it now, they have set their sights on our Libya and may take advantage of the fire to rob at any time!"

If it weren't for the fact that they were embarrassed in Ethiopia last year, and now the Italian government really has little confidence in their army, maybe they would have done it now! ”

The Sultan's face was even more ugly, well, this time embarrassed! Don't say please help, it's a new enemy, ask your own enemy for help, isn't it a sheep's mouth?

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While the Sultan government was trying to find a way to end the war, the Battle of Constantinople entered a new phase.

After the sea was cut off, Eder Pasha's life was even more difficult, now the ammunition is one less shot, and the food is one ton less for one meal!

But Bulgaria did not show the slightest mercy, and the shells were still poured on their heads as if they did not need money, and of course heavy artillery was rarely used!

Therefore, although the intensity of the First Army's offensive has been greatly reduced, the speed of the advance has not decreased, to some extent, it has become even faster!

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After entering the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea Fleet was not willing to be lonely, and often visited the Ottoman cities and ports on the Asia Minor Peninsula, and even the villages did not mind a few shells!

The Russian-Turkish hatred does not need to be described, the hatred of the ninth world is innumerable! Ferdinand didn't care about what was going on, and he couldn't care about it anyway!

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At this moment, there is no sign of a cosmopolitan city in Constantinople anymore!

There are broken walls everywhere, and as time passes, the morale of the defenders is constantly decreasing!

"General, we're running out of food!" The adjutant reminded

Eder Pasha said weakly: "Got it, inform the troops, start the distribution of food quotas, we need time!" ”

Fast forward to July, two months after the outbreak of the Balkan War.

Constantinople was still strong, but the Ottoman garrison had been reduced to a small territory, which occupied less than 10% of the city!

On 3 July, the Ottoman Empire, through Germany, submitted its intention to negotiate with the Balkan League.

At this time, except for Constantinople, all the other territories of the European part of the Ottoman Empire had ceased to exist!

Seeing that the benefits were almost exhausted, Ferdinand agreed to negotiate!

There is a striking similarity in history, and the venue of the negotiation was still chosen in London, and the two sides of the negotiation were naturally the Ottoman Empire and the governments of Bulgaria, Mentagaro, and Greece!

What is surprising is that the Russian Empire, which participated in the war almost personally, also became a mediating power this time, participating in mediation together with the British, French, Germans, and Austria-Hungary!

Italy was excluded, and the Ottoman Empire naturally did not invite the Italians because of the Libyan ism. The Balkan League also showed disdain for Italy and ignored him!

Of course, the more central reason was that the Italians had bad ambitions for Albania, which was boycotted by Ferdinand and Nicholas I!

As for the Greek government, sorry! This time, they are the least vocal, who makes them the weakest now? To be able to let them sit at the table, it's all for the sake of the ally's face!

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