As a result of the victory in the naval battle, the Ottoman navy was swept away, and it was already a matter of time before it landed on the peninsula of Asia Minor.

The Asia Minor Peninsula, also known as the Anatolian Peninsula, is a peninsula in western Asia with an area of about fifty square kilometers. It is bordered by the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Armenian Plateau to the east. It is mainly composed of Anatolian plateaus, and low mountains.

The Asia Minor Peninsula is about 1,000 kilometers long from east to west and 400-600 kilometers wide from north to south. The climate is suitable and the products are abundant, which is conducive to strategic support; It has both land and sea transportation conditions, which is convenient for strategic mobility.

To the east, it can attack West Asia and control the oil fields in the center of the world island and the Middle East and the Caspian Sea; To the south, it can occupy North Africa and the Suez Canal Zone, and control the world's strategic shipping routes; To the west, it can approach the heart of Europe and occupy the most economically and technologically developed region in the world; To the north, it could threaten Ukraine and Russia, and smash the breadbasket of Europe. The deployment of a strategic force here really has the effect of being in one place and shocking all directions.

The peninsula of Asia Minor is a maritime military geographical point of importance, the importance of which lies first and foremost in the control of the Black Sea.

For Bulgaria, if it controls the Asia Minor Peninsula, then it will be really strategically safe to sit on the two peninsulas, and it can sit back and watch the European continent.

Under normal circumstances, Bulgaria should have attacked Asia Minor with all its might, but now Ferdinand really had no intention of going to the Ottomans.

The reason is very simple, if the Ottoman Empire wants to abandon the Asia Minor Peninsula, unless they are directly defeated, the Sultan government will always fight you to the end!

Don't look at the fact that the Ottoman Empire now has a territory of several million square kilometers, but their core is still in Asia Minor, where half of the population of the Ottoman Empire and 70 percent of its industry and commerce are located.

It can be said that once landed, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire would not die! Considering the covert support of the Allies, Ferdinand was very skeptical that Bulgaria would be able to get out of this pit once it jumped into this huge pit.

It's okay to play for a year and a half, but if it drags on for three and five years, Ferdinand can only cry! In line with the principle of finding persimmons to be soft and pinched, now the primary goal of Bulgaria is the Ottoman enclave of Libya!

Oh, Libya in this era has not yet found oil, it is so poor that it clangs, the population is only a few hundred thousand, and there is no decent city to be found, except for Tripoli in the coastal region!

It's easy to fight down, and it's easy to govern! Aren't they just a few nomadic tribes? They bullied the Italians to play at a super level, and the Bulgarian Army said that three infantry divisions and two cavalry brigades were completely fighting mosquitoes with anti-aircraft guns!

Ferdinand didn't have a good idea of dealing with the nomads, but he had a bad idea, and the collective farm seemed to suit them well!

No matter how many people there are, first arrest all the people, and then slowly educate them. It's not good for a year or two, it's ten or twenty years, and if you can't educate it, you can only ****!

And Libya is flanked by the French Tunisia and the British Egypt, Bulgaria's operation has been supported by both countries, and all materials can be obtained from the British and French colonies, otherwise logistics and transportation alone are enough to give Ferdinand a headache!

On April 26, under the escort of the Bulgarian Navy, 60,000 troops set out from Crete and made a mighty attack on Libya, landing in Tubrug and Tripoli respectively.

Although Bulgaria has been fighting with the Ottoman Empire for more than two months, the local defenders are still immovable, unprepared at all, and are caught off guard by the Bulgarian army!

Oh, even if it's ready, it's useless, it's better to count on those 10,000 people to be able to block the Bulgarian troops, it's better to count on the **** tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and directly engulf the Bulgarian army, it's more reliable!

After receiving the news of the Bulgarian attack on Tripoli, the Sudanese government seemed very calm, and it didn't care about the recent bad news anyway.

What the hell is Tripoli and Cyrenaica for the Ottoman aristocracy? If you lose it, you will lose it, as long as it doesn't affect their happy life!

But the Italians fried the pot, originally the war between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, they were still willing to be spectators, and even prepared to fall after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, but unfortunately the Bulgarians actually took the lead and took Tripoli!

Situated on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and across the sea from Sicily, Tripoli is a strategically important location for Italy.

In order to seize Tripoli, the Italian government began to prepare for the Triple Alliance of Austria, Germany and Italy in 1882, the Franco-Italian Agreement in 1900, and if there was no butterfly effect of Ferdinand, the Italians would have signed the Italian-Russian Agreement with Russia this year.

Vittorio Emanuele III had long regarded Tripoli as meat in a bowl, but he didn't expect to be preempted by the Bulgarians, so it's no wonder that he wasn't angry!

In fact, the Italians had long been preparing to strike at Tripoli. It's just that after the failure of the expedition to Ethiopia, the Italians were no longer confident in the strength of their opponents, and they were still a little afraid of the Ottoman Empire!

Now it's different, if Tripoli is allowed to fall into the hands of the Bulgarians, it will be difficult to get it back.

Seizure by force? This was a flash in the mind of Vittorio Emanuele III, and now the Mediterranean was still in the hands of the British and French, and it was clear that the Bulgarians had the support of the British and French.

If you can't seize it by force, then you can only do it through diplomatic means!

"The Foreign Office contacted Germany and Austria-Hungary, and we want to give Bulgaria a little color!"

It's just that what he didn't know was that the Germans had the same idea, so the two sides hit it off, and the Italians thought that they had a big face and were proud on the side!

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At Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Felanz-Josef I was still hesitating, he didn't know whether to join in.

Although the rise of Bulgaria may threaten the interests of Austria-Hungary, the two countries have always maintained good diplomatic relations and cooperated on many occasions.

Now once it participates in this operation, then there will be no room for détente between the two countries, and then in the future, the military pressure of Austria-Hungary on the European continent will be great, and it will have to face Russia and Bulgaria at the same time!

As for bringing Bulgaria down in one fell swoop? Everyone knows that this is impossible, Britain, France, and Russia can tolerate the weakening of Bulgaria, but they must not tolerate the end of Bulgaria, otherwise the advantage of the Entente on the European continent will no longer exist!

But if you don't participate, can you live in peace? No one can answer him this question!

If Ferdinand had been there, he would have said yes! War is dead, even if a world war breaks out, Ferdinand is still willing to fight a fake war with Austria-Hungary!

If he could, he hoped that Austria-Hungary would remain indefinitely, so that Bulgaria would have much less military pressure from the European continent!

"Prime Minister, what do you think?" Joseph I asked

"Your Majesty, Bulgaria is rising too fast, if it is not contained, it will be difficult to restrain them after they annex the Asia Minor Peninsula!" The prime minister thought for a moment and said

The world is so big, and the rise of every country will face the competition for resources, even if Ferdinand has always recognized the Ottoman Empire's fierce beating, it still attracted the attention of all countries.

It's just that now the Entente still needs Bulgaria, and the direction of Bulgaria's expansion is also in line with the strategic needs of the Entente, so Britain, France and Russia will support Bulgaria's actions; And Germany and Austria are different, as a competitor, if you don't stumble Bulgaria, then is it still imperialism?

"Well, I see! Let's lift the embargo on the Kingdom of Montenegro first! Joseph I said lightly