"Your Majesty, this is our plan to deploy troops in the Balkans and the Asia Minor theater, please take a look." The Chief of the General Staff said as he handed over a proposal to Ferdinand.

Ferdinand took the plan and read it carefully, now he is no longer the military novice he was at the beginning, maybe the command of the operation is not at that level, but the preliminary judgment of the troops required for a battle can still be done.

Previously, Bulgaria had formed two fronts, including the Northern Front for the attack on Romania and the Western Front for the attack on Belgrade.

Long ago, the General Staff had plans to form two more fronts, namely, the Southwestern Front to attack Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Southeastern Front to attack the peninsula of Asia Minor. Due to the needs of the battlefield, the Southwestern Front and the Western Front were combined to form the Balkan Front in order to launch a full-scale offensive against Austria-Hungary, and even the Northern Front could be merged into the Balkan Front if necessary.

Of course, this was the previous plan, and now that the Allies have stabilized the situation, there is naturally no need for Bulgaria to join in the fun.

Ferdinand has always tried his best to avoid fighting on two fronts, and now that the Allies have withstood the attack of the Russians, then the Balkan strategy will naturally be postponed, anyway, Austria-Hungary has no time to find Bulgaria's bad luck at this time.

Therefore, the deployment of troops in the Balkans will naturally change, and out of national defense and security considerations, the General Staff has decided to set up another command on top of the Southwestern, Western, and Northern Fronts.

The original plan for the Balkan Front was cancelled, and now the deployment of the four major Bulgarian fronts is as follows:

Western Front: 12 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry divisions, 4 heavy artillery brigades, 1 engineer division, with a total strength of about 226,000.

Northern Front: 15 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry division, 8 heavy artillery brigades, 2 engineer divisions, with a total strength of about 318,000.

Southwestern Front: 9 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry division, 3 heavy artillery brigades, and 2 engineer divisions, with a total strength of about 194,000.

Southeast Front: 40 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry brigades, 8 heavy artillery brigades, 2 engineer divisions, with a total strength of about 727,000.

In addition to this, Bulgaria had 51,000 troops in Sicily and 68,000 in southern Italy.

There are also 46,000 troops in the Libyan colony, 128,000 in Palestine, 24,000 in Jordan, and 78,000 in the defense of the Suez Canal.

Together with the 500,000 troops in France and the 560,000 reserves in the country, Bulgaria has now mobilized 2.92 million troops, and it is about to break through the three million mark.

Ferdinand now has to admire his foresight, first brought two or three million young men from the hairy bear, and then asked the British for more than 600,000 Ah San, otherwise he would only have to explode his liver now.

There is no doubt that the Ottoman Empire could not be defeated by these more than 700,000 troops alone, not even with the more than 200,000 troops on the colonial side!

Prior to this, Ferdinand had already made diplomatic efforts. Hairy bears will also launch an attack on the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus, and most of this group of Asan's cannon fodder, Ferdinand will also be sent to the Asia Minor Peninsula, so that the staff has the confidence to launch a war of destruction against the Ottoman Empire.

However, in Ferdinand's opinion, the number of troops still seems to be somewhat insufficient. Bulgaria's troops are now only 16.7 million troops in this war of annihilation, and nearly half of them are scum with a combat strength equal to 5, plus the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Russians, it will not be only more than 2 million.

Ferdinand asked suspiciously: "If you only have these forces, there is no problem in defeating the Ottomans, even if it is to conquer Ankara, it is not a problem, but if you want to destroy the Ottoman Empire, I'm afraid it is not enough, right?" ”

As a time-traveler, Ferdinand knew that Bulgaria had easily defeated the Ottoman Empire the first two times, not because Bulgaria was much stronger than them, but mainly because the Ottoman government was too corrupt.

Although the ruling Al-Shabaab is still politically immature, it is still much stronger than the previous government, otherwise the two theaters of war in the Caucasus and Syria alone would have dragged them to death.

The chief of the General Staff said confidently: "Your Majesty, in the more than a year since the start of the war, the Ottomans have launched major wars in the Caucasus and Syria, which has greatly consumed their national strength.

With the industrial strength of the Ottoman Empire, their military production simply could not catch up with the consumption on the battlefield, and their strategic material reserves have been consumed a lot after more than a year of fighting.

When we launched a landing operation, their army was only initially combat-ready. When they ran out of ammunition later, the war was almost over. ”

Ferdinand nodded, having to admit that he had been influenced by the ideas of later generations. Historically, the Ottomans were able to hold out until the end of the world war, but they did not receive less arms and ammunition assistance from the Central Powers.

However, due to his butterfly effect, at the beginning of the war, the local chickens lost the support of the allies, and they are now only a foreign power.

Once the supply of weapons and ammunition is not available, this army of more than 3 million people will be abolished. This point is known by referring to the Russians, and in the later period, several people had a rifle.

The industrial strength of the native chickens is less than one-tenth of that of the Russians, so how can they guarantee the supply of weapons and ammunition?

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In the end, Ferdinand announced:

appointed the former Minister of War, Colonel-General Popov, as commander of the South-Eastern Front;

appointment of Colonel-General Andrei Blaskov, former Minister of War, as Chief of Staff of the South-Eastern Front;

the appointment of the Minister of Defense, General Dante Kristof, as commander of the General Command of the Balkan region;

The Chief of the General Staff, Colonel-General Imya Dimitev, was appointed as Chief of Staff of the General Command of the Balkan Region.

It is obvious that the general headquarters of the Balkan theater is still an empty shell, and before the start of the all-out offensive, the following three armies are responsible for directing the defense of the troops themselves, and this general command is not yet able to play its role, otherwise Ferdinand would not have been able to let them continue to take up their current posts.

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Syria has now become a living hell, cities are in ruins, and the countryside is beginning to be deserted.

The atrocities of the Ottomans were beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and those who were close to the Palestinian and Jordanian areas were fine, and when they learned the news, they ran away.

Ferdinand, who had been prepared for a long time, naturally set up refugee camps in Jordan and Palestine to receive refugees.

Major General Vicky Clinton, who was the commander of the garrison in the Middle East theater at the time, directly began to recruit cannon fodder troops on the pretext of preventing the Ottoman army from attacking.

The standard is very simple, directly in accordance with the perverted Bulgarian military service law, in the refugee camp. Anyway, most of the people who can run over are young and strong, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are almost finished on the way to escape.

Cannon fodder doesn't need much combat effectiveness, and the main role of recruiting them into the army is not to expect them to be able to win the Ottomans, but more importantly, to let them take revenge~~

Forced conscription naturally does not exist, Ferdinand is still very disciplined, anyway, there are ways to get them to voluntarily join the army.

For example, to encourage them to take revenge on the Ottomans, to rescue relatives and friends who have not yet escaped, there must still be survivors, but it is not necessary after a long time.

As long as a man of appropriate age did not enlist in the army, the colonial government would not give him relief food. Anyway, if you don't enlist, go mining, and there is no other job to find in Palestine.

The mine is not easy to dig, not to mention the hardships and dangers, the key is that the contract period still starts at ten years, and they have no labor law protection.

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At the headquarters of the garrison in the Middle East Theater, a young officer reported: "General, this is the information of the newly recruited colonial troops, and the forty divisions we plan to recruit so far have all been full.

Among them were thirty-one Greek divisions, and nine Romanian divisions. ”

Major General Vicky Clinton nodded, smiled and said, "Oh, it seems that their enthusiasm for joining the army is still very high, and hatred is really the best catalyst."

When we recruited them to defend Syria before, they were all shrunken turtles, and now we know that we regret it, and it's not too late to wake up.

Let's continue to recruit later, and first replenish the few Greek divisions that have been withdrawn, so as not to chill them. ”

More than two months have passed since the fall of Syria, and the colonial government has received more than 1.8 million refugees, but 600,000 of the population have joined the army.

This ratio is already a world record, and of course it is directly related to the relaxation of standards.

The proportion of young people who escaped was high, and the recruitment standards of the colonial troops were surprisingly low.

Age is difficult to judge, but it doesn't matter if you look at your height, as long as a man is more than 1.5 meters tall, he can enlist in the army.

It's a good thing that these soldiers don't know what Major General Vicky Clinton thinks, otherwise they would definitely cry out for wrongs, and the ghost would be willing to join this colonial force!

Even if you work hard, now you don't even have the basic military salary and pension, unless you become an officer, you can get a small amount of military salary.

The only exceptions were probably the retreating Greek divisions, although they were also colonial troops, but they were old and still had a small salary.

Of course, this is limited to veterans, so forget about the recruits. Bulgaria is poor now, and it is a fortune to be able to save.

As for their combat effectiveness, Major General Vicky Clinton is not worried at all, anyway, it is worse than the era. Having just learned about the atrocities of the Ottomans, they will not surrender directly, right?

Time flew by, and in a flash it was May, when the Bulgarian army officially launched a landing operation on the peninsula of Asia Minor, and the scope of the world war expanded again.

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