It turned out that Ahmet's choice was not wrong, they had just made a departure and were discovered by Bulgarian intelligence officers, but by the time the main forces of the Bulgarian Navy arrived, they had already died.

After all, it's only a little distance, and it's not too easy to run, and the fledgling Bulgarian Navy has encountered its first problem!

It's not that you can't win the enemy, it's not that you can't find the enemy! The problem is that the enemy doesn't fight you in the first place, hiding in the harbor as a turtle. I can't help but come out once, and before you can pass, people shrank back again, what can you do with them?

Fortunately, the Ottoman Empire is really decaying, like a sieve, it can't be kept secret at all, and Bulgaria can easily figure out where their main naval forces are stationed, otherwise they will be even more passive!

Ferdinand could not do anything about the slow action of the navy, and if it was an army, Bulgaria still had a few generals who could handle it.

Navy? Just by looking at the fact that the Admirals are all admirals, you can see what kind of situation they are in!

Oh, there is no way, the French instructors and Russian instructors who trained them are all grassroots officers, so let them explore this kind of command and operation by themselves!

The commander of this battle, Colonel Britain, was promoted by Ferdinand among the short men, and became the first victorious captain of the Sofia.

He served in the Russian Black Sea Fleet and participated in the Battle of the Sea of Marmara and the Battle of the Taiwan Strait, so he can be regarded as experienced in combat, but it is really the first time to command the Grand Fleet.

In addition to him, there were quite a few people in the Bulgarian Navy who were poached from among the junior officers of the survivors of the Black Sea Fleet.

As for why only grass-roots officers are poached, the reason is very simple, although high-level officers have command ability, Ferdinand does not dare to use them!

Who knows who St. Petersburg will choose to listen to when they suddenly give them an order?

And the grassroots officers are different, at the same time as they are dug up, the family also immigrates, the ability may not be enough, but the loyalty is high enough!

The pressure is on Burtia now, this is the first time that he has independently commanded the Grand Fleet in battle, and the first battle of the Bulgarian Navy!

If he performs well in this battle, then his future is bright, otherwise he can prepare to retire, and he can't get a record with an absolute strength advantage, so is he qualified to continue to mix in the army?

After much time, Brita made a reluctant decision - to divide the troops! While continuing the offensive, while watching the Ottoman navy.

In fact, he should have made this decision a long time ago, after all, the Bulgarian Navy had one thing that the Ottoman Navy could not compensate for - speed!

With this advantage, no matter what happens, it will not be broken by the Ottoman Navy one by one! On the contrary, it can attack the coastal cities of the Ottoman Empire, as long as you send me a few cannons every once in a while, it will be enough for the Sultan government to drink a pot!

The Bulgarian Navy was divided directly into two, with Blutia leading the flagship Sofia, acting with two cruisers (Prague and Sloke), three destroyers (Slive, Edier, and Little) and four torpedo boats;

The remaining two pocket-sized battleships (USS Harmony, USS Sliven) and one armored cruiser (USS Constantinople) acted along with two other destroyers (USS Clem, USS Smamufen) and six torpedo boats!

According to this distribution, either side encountered the main forces of the Ottoman navy and could crush the enemy. Oh, the old ship that bullied the Ottoman navy, weak firepower!

Due to the strong firepower of the dreadnoughts, which could provide more powerful fire cover for the landing force, the task of keeping an eye on the Ottoman Navy fell on the head of the second detachment.

Oh, and this is not without the meaning of luring the Ottoman Navy to come out for a decisive battle, after all, the dreadnoughts have all fallen off, and the main force of the second detachment is two shore defense battleships, plus an armored cruiser.

Destroyers or something, they still can't be used in the decisive battle of the main forces of the Navy! No, if it's against an ironclad ship thirty or forty years ago, you can still try it!

After the division of forces, the Second Fleet first blocked the island of, stared at the port of Calabrun, and blocked Izmir, and the First Fleet continued to cover the army's operation to seize the island.

Now the choice is back in the hands of Ahmed Pasha, and if the Ottoman navy does not come out for a decisive battle, then when all the coastal islands have fallen, they will also be trapped and killed in Izmir and Karabulun!

Either take advantage of the Bulgarian Navy and fight with the Second Fleet, and if you win, the blockade will naturally not exist, of course, the consequences of losing are also very serious, and it will be a problem to run away!

Oh, Ahmed Pasha has a third option, which is to leave the Aegean Sea and head to their southern port of Icher to avoid the war.

If you want to run, it's not so safe now, the first fleet of Bulgaria is on the island of Chios, and once its tracks are exposed, it won't be able to escape!

Moreover, for Ahmad Pasha personally, this is also a catastrophic blow, the hat of a traitor, don't want to take it off in this life, and the Sultan government will not let him go!

Ahmed Pasha stared at the charts with his eyes fixed on them, half speechless. In fact, the Ottoman Navy also had a port on the island, but after the outbreak of the war, the cowardly navy directly gave up.

Choosing the safest port, the security is safe, but it is also strategically limited, once the island chain is lost, it is trapped in Izmir!

Will the Bulgarian Army land?

Obviously, it is a matter of whether the landing is sooner or later, and the Ottoman Empire has such a long coastline in the Aegean Sea, there will always be a few suitable places for landing.

The Sudanese government has no confidence in the navy, and Ahmed Pasha does not have confidence in the army? A new type of army? Just fool the people, when he doesn't know?

The weapons and equipment have been updated, but they have been discounted, and the quality depends on the conscience of the responsible officer!

Soldier training has improved, but this is only compared to before, how big is the difference between the ten-day training and the three-day training, this is still difficult to say!

Anyway, the officers are still those officers, and the soldiers are still those soldiers! Otherwise, where would the Ottoman Empire now go to find so many qualified officers!

Although Ahmad Pasha has average ability, he has also studied the history of modern naval warfare, and he still remembers the "Sino-Japanese War" that occurred in the Far East more than ten years ago!

One warship after another remained in the harbor, and if they didn't fire a single shot, they would become prisoners of the enemy, and he knew that if he didn't act immediately, this time he was afraid that they would also become the second Beiyang fleet!

"Fight!" Ahmed Pasha secretly made up his mind

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At this time, the Bulgarian army was still fighting hard, but not with the enemy, but with seasickness and the natural environment!

Originally, Ferdinand staged a huge decisive battle with the Ottoman Empire, but now it gives people a feeling of being tricked, and what about the "blood debt and blood payment"?

How many islands are you going to do? Not to mention the capture of Ankara, at least to attack the strategic points of Bursa and Üsküdar!

It had been almost a month since the start of the war, and apart from the capture of a large number of coastal islands, the main force of the Bulgarian army was in a daze at home, and there was no trace of a landing operation.

Even shipping in the Aegean Sea is unimpeded, Bulgaria did not intercept merchant ships, the Ottoman Empire did not have the ability to come out to intercept merchant ships, and the Dardanelles and Bosphorus were even calmer!

After the great powers watched the excitement, they hung up on their own business, and even the Germans were relieved that the local war did not matter!

If Bulgaria attacked the Asia Minor peninsula, they were also worried about whether the Sultanate government would collapse, but if they attacked the coastal islands, it is estimated that few Ottomans would have taken these islands to heart, otherwise Crete would not have fallen into the hands of the Greeks!

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War Minister Popov said anxiously: "Your Majesty, is it time for our army to act, and it is not a way to wait for this?" ”

"Don't be in a hurry, aren't you already attacking the South Sporades Islands? At this rate, wait another month, and the islands of the Ottoman Empire in the Aegean Sea will be ours! Ferdinand smiled

He was very satisfied with the current progress, Ferdinand never dreamed that the Ottoman Empire would give up the coastal islands, otherwise with these islands and Bulgaria, he would not want to take them all for a year and a half!

Oh, if the Sudanese government knows, they will be very aggrieved, and they will be helpless! Everyone knows that these islands cannot be defended, and who to send to death, this is the question?

Don't look at the slogans shouted by the main battle faction every day, when you want them to be cannon fodder, there are countless reasons for one or two.

In short, we can't waste our precious defense forces on inconsequential islands!

Unless the navy can win, it is better to defend in the peninsula of Asia Minor! You see, now Bulgaria has not landed, which means that our strategy is very successful, and it has frightened the enemy, and they will not dare to land!