Time flies, and the three-day deadline for the ultimatum quickly passes!

There is no doubt that Serbia did not choose to compromise and righteously rejected Bulgaria's unreasonable demands!

It's all up to this, and Ferdinand can't pretend to be cowardly! Just as he was about to declare war, Ferdinand remembered the parliament at the last moment, felt that his appearance was a little too ugly, and decided to frame it.

On October 8, 1894, Ferdinand urgently convened the Diet and submitted a bill declaring war on Serbia!

Then it was unanimously passed, and there was no abstention, and even those who couldn't get there and were forced to be absent sent a telegram to vote, although it was an invalid vote, but they also had to join in the fun! There is no way to do it these days, in Bulgaria, it is politically correct to fight Serbia!

On the evening of October 8, 1894, Ferdinand openly declared war on Serbia on the grounds that Serbia was harboring war criminals!

The war has broken out!

It is impossible to make a sensation in the world, Europeans are used to it! It is normal to fight a war in the Balkans, but there is a problem if you don't fight!

Ferdinand, who cherishes his face, did not give the order to sneak attack at night, and prepared to fight openly and honestly!!

Well, it's all advertised in the newspapers!

In fact, Ferdinand did not think about a surprise attack and did not declare war, but considering the relationship between the two countries, the attack is a fart! How can an old opponent not be guarded?

The most important thing is that you can't give full play to the power of artillery at night, and it's easy to accidentally injure your own people!

Bulgaria has a lot of advantages this time, and there is no need to give up its advantages and choose to risk a night attack!

Now almost all the top echelons of the Bulgarian army participated in the last Bulgarian war, and it is clear that the Serbs are not as weak as advertised in the newspapers!

And after the last war, Serbia was crazy about building defensive fortresses on the border, but fortunately, the Serbian government was short of money and the defense line had not yet been completed!

According to the plan of the General Staff, this time Bulgaria sent 150,000 troops, divided into three fronts, left, center and right, and attacked Serbia at the same time.

The main force was in the Middle Route Army, which was attacking from the Tren region, with the goal of disintegrating the main military forces south of the South Morava River, Serbia, with three standing divisions and one newly formed division, totaling 70,000 troops.

One standing division of the Left Route Army and two new divisions, totaling more than 50,000 people, set out from the area of Mount Mijul, with the goal of occupying the Serbian southern zombie town of Niš!

The Right Route Army is the smallest partial division, with only two divisions and more than 30,000 people, but they are all standing divisions, although the number is small, but the combat effectiveness is not weak at all! Starting from the Vidin region, head straight to the Morava River, aiming for Belgrade, the capital of Serbia!

After the conflict between Bulgaria and Cyprus intensified, Dante Kristof, the commander of the 3rd Bulgarian Division, who was stationed on Mount Mijul, began to worry!

He was not worried about not being able to win Serbia, but Ferdinand's order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers as much as possible and kill and wound as much as possible the living force of the Serbs!

The 3rd Division was a Bulgarian standing division, and its combat effectiveness was unquestionable, and this time it formed the Left Route Army together with the newly formed 10th and 12th Divisions. Dante Kristof became the commander-in-chief of the Left Army by virtue of his outstanding performance in the last war!

Dante Kristof is not afraid of fighting, and it is terrible how to weaken the living force as much as possible, which makes it difficult for him!

Massacre of captives?

Massacre of civilians?

This is obviously impossible! Ferdinand wasn't that crazy yet, and neither was he, Dante Kristof!

Ferdinand's meaning he probably understood was to knock Serbia down at one time, and it was better to change the situation with Bulgaria, so that they could not cause trouble to Bulgaria for decades!

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Back to three days ago, the joint operations enlarged meeting, all the cadres above the left army level participated, and hundreds of people brushed together.

Dante Kristof said: "Under normal circumstances, on October 8, 1894, we would have declared war on Serbia. ”

The chief of staff livened up the atmosphere and said: "The general staff began to formulate the battle plan for Serbia very early, and if it were to be piled together, it might not be possible to pile up in this room!" ”

Everyone burst into laughter, watching everyone's tense spirit ease slightly, and the chief of staff began to introduce the comparison of strength between the enemy and us.

"Okay, this is the end of the joke, everyone knows that our Left Route Army this time consisted of three divisions and two artillery regiments, totaling more than 56,000 people.

It has more than 54,000 rifles, all of which are Bulgarian Type 1889 (imitation of the Water Bead), more than 150 machine guns, more than 100 light and heavy artillery, and more than 3,000 pistols of various types.

Compared with the Baosai War nine years ago, our family base is much thicker, and the firepower of the Left Route Army alone exceeds that of that year!

Weapons and ammunition, this time everyone here can put their hearts in their stomachs, 20 million rounds of ammunition, 80,000 shells, are already in place, and there is still a steady stream of ammunition in the rear to replenish. There are enough supplies in stock, and we can start a war at any time! ”

After a pause, he added: "Look at the Serbs on the other side, more than 168,000 people have been deployed in the Niš generation, and the number is almost three times that of us!"

But don't worry, we all know that Serbia has a little combat effectiveness in the regular army, and their standing army is only 110,000. No, it should be more than 90,000, not long ago they have lost more than 10,000 in the civil war!

In other words, they deployed the main force in the Niš region, at most 30,000 or 40,000 people, which is my main opponent this time.

After all, our border with Serbia is so long, it needs to be defended everywhere, and the other hundreds of thousands of people are a bunch of peasants who have just put down their hoes and resisted their guns!

Maybe not everyone even has guns, the intelligence services have found out that their weapons and equipment are very chaotic, there are so many types and years old, you can open a weapons museum! ”

The chief of staff joked, and everyone couldn't help but laugh again, and discussed it one after another. Although there was no doubt about the outcome of this war, the hundreds of thousands of troops on the opposite side still looked very intimidating.

Now that they found that their opponents were only a few tens of thousands of regular troops, and the rest were peasants, everyone suddenly relaxed. It seems that this mission is not difficult to complete!

Dante Kristof slapped the table gravely and said, "Quiet! Look, you guys are having fun, and don't forget what our mission is this time?? It's not just about defeating the enemy, it's about weakening their living power as much as possible!

What do you mean, I don't need to explain! Even though we are big bosses, we all went to school, at least we all graduated from the officer training class!

I can tell you unequivocally that it is impossible to accomplish the task by slaughtering the captives! Military law will show no mercy!

What to do exactly? I don't know! Anyway, at the beginning of the war, in addition to completing the deployed tasks, which unit kills the most enemies is the first merit!

I don't care what you do, as long as it turns out! ”