The tone of the matter has now been set, but the subsequent outcome depends on the situation, and Germany will intervene in mediation and negotiation at the appropriate time, but this is premised on the fact that the Turkish army must perform well. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoOtherwise, what you can't get on the battlefield can't get at the negotiating table! For the Kaiser and people at the level of Ruprecht, they will not devote much energy to this matter until the situation is clear. Just leave it to the people below to do it.

But for the Turks, the war was a real crisis, and the Turks had already been beaten and retreated, and had lost part of Macedonia. The Balkan states are still pressing closer, and Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece continue to squeeze Turkey's territory in Europe on three fronts.

However, Turkey reformed a few years earlier than in history, its military and economic power increased, and when the mobilization of troops from Asia Minor and the Two Rivers Valley, as well as German assistance, arrived, the Turkish Empire began to regain its strength and gradually stabilize the front.

The Turks, under the guidance of the German officer corps, counterattacked very quickly, first of all, they carried out defensive minelaying operations in the remaining coastal areas, using camouflaged minelayers and boats. The Turkish Navy turned over the last stockpile of mines against the Italians and deployed them on large and small waterways in the northern Aegean Sea.

This action also caught the inexperienced Greek Navy by surprise, and on the third day after the Turkish Navy laid mines, two Greek transport ships transporting troops were sunk by mines, and by the way, thousands of Greek army officers and soldiers sank to the bottom of the sea. And that's not even fun, a week later, a Danton-class dreadnought also struck a mine in the waters off the island of Samothrace. Although it sank in the end, the best outcome for the battleship was to go to the shipyard in Alexandria for a few months.

Mines are a simple but highly effective coastal defense weapon that has almost made the world's naval powers suffer, and even if there is prevention, there will still be problems from time to time, for a small country like Greece, which is a junior navy in the middle of a primary, with a capital ship on lease from France, the Turks are full of loopholes and immature sea mines have actually turned the coastal area of the Aegean Sea into a forbidden place for the Greek navy. And if the navy and transport ships can't get through, then it also means that the southern region is already safe. And then, the only directions that the other side can attack are the western and northern fronts.

Needless to say, the Western Front was itself conducive to defense, because the front was so narrow that the Greek and Serbian corps could not deploy their forces, and all the superiority of forces was drastically reduced. As for the northern route? Although the battlefield is very wide, but the relatively long front is only Bulgarian army, and the number of Bulgarian legions, that can only be hehe, as the most populous and largest country in the Balkans, the size of Bulgaria's army is only a little ......more than Montenegro. Therefore, for Turkey, which has a steady stream of troops to move troops to the Balkans, a wide front has become its advantage.

It is true that the Germans were not able to send a large number of troops for Turkey, but the supplies and aid were not at all, and the Turkish army, which had received 800 machine guns, 85 rapid-fire guns and 32 150mm heavy howitzers, also fought well in defensive operations, and this was only the first aid. The whole situation gradually changed from an offensive battle of the Balkan Union to a stalemate battle. The Serbian states could not break through the defenses of the Turks, and again, the Turks could not launch a deadly counterattack.

General Shevkai, who is the de facto ruler of Turkey, was still quite satisfied with what the Germans did, and he did not expect Germany and Austria to really send a large army to launch an offensive from behind Serbia, because the result of this was that the war between the Central Powers and the Entente broke out at the same time, and Turkey was also not prepared for this kind of war that would determine the fortunes of the country, and rashly opened the film directly, Germany and Austria-Hungary did not know the situation, but at least the situation in Turkey would be very bad.

And he also knows that although everyone is an ally, but an ally does not mean to do everything, just enjoy the benefits, do not help, know that up to now, Turkey has enjoyed the economic and military assistance received from Germany, but Turkey has not made any direct contribution to the alliance of the Allied Powers, and the German government has guaranteed that once a major war breaks out in the future, if the war is won, Turkey can recover the occupied territories in the Balkans, which can be regarded as a reassuring pill for the Turks.

Although Turkey's national power is still not as strong as Italy, the worst of the European powers. But in the face of bloody facts, the Turks really understand the true meaning of the phrase that if they are backward, they will be beaten, and the situation on land is that the Turks feel that they can deal with it, but the situation at sea is really helpless, and three Dandong-class quasi-dreadnoughts that can only be regarded as second-rate or even third-rate among first-class naval powers can show off their might at the Turkish doorstep. It's a very uncomfortable feeling.

Historically, after experiencing the consequences of having no sea defense, Turkey, which had just ended the war, could order two dreadnoughts from Britain to deal with the crisis, and this plane could do even more so.

Therefore, even if the war is still going on, even if the financial situation is not good, and a lot of the war funds are paid for by Germany, the Turkish leaders believe that whether it is from the point of view of national defense or from the point of view of rewarding allies, Turkey should express its ......, for example, to order two warships or something.

So, in January 1909. The Ottoman ambassador to Berlin made a formal request to the German government to build two super-dreadnought capital ships for the Turkish Empire, each costing around £2.5 million! The German government, which had received the diplomatic church, at the behest of the Kaiser, placed an order for two warships directly to the Blom-Foss shipyard and the other to the Kirgermania shipyard.

As for how to build it, the Kaiser threw the pot directly on Ruprecht, who had just returned from Prague. After all, in the Kaiser's view, Turkey is still a very important ally, not the kind that only needs to make money. The navy that can come out must be able to fight. After all, in the future, the Turkish Navy will be the key force for the Allies to dominate the Black Sea and control the Aegean Sea!

"It's finally stable." When Ruprecht saw the telegram that the Turkish representative was about to come to Munich, he was loyal to breathe a sigh of relief, and Turkey finally decided to build a navy, which was undoubtedly good news for Ruprecht's plan!

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