Athens, located in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula and the capital of Greece, has a recorded history of more than 3,000 years and is known as the "cradle of Western civilization".

With its outstanding people and well-developed waterways, it is one of the engines of the southern European economy.

Thousands of years of cultural accumulation have given birth to many great historical figures and have had a very far-reaching impact on Europe and the Western world.

However, this important city in the Mediterranean, and even in Europe, has always had a bad fate, and has been repeatedly invaded by foreign powers in successive wars.

The Greek army, which was besieged outside Istanbul, had run out of ammunition and food, and many soldiers began to disobey the constraints of their commanders and plundered the city, causing panic and anxiety among the people in the city.

French artillery played an unprecedented role in the battle, although many of the equipment was not very advanced, but as a live ammunition test, the French army felt that there was a light on their faces.

The Greek army had to endure intensive shelling from French artillery every day, and the casualties were constantly increasing, especially the epidemic of disease, and the non-war attrition was very serious.

It was summer, the temperature in the city was high, and the piles of corpses had begun to rot and stink because they could not be buried in time.

With the successive entry of the five-nation coalition forces, the situation of the war has been one-sided, and no matter how hard the Greek army tries, it cannot escape the fate of defeat.

In mid-June, in addition to the troops trapped in Istanbul, Greece continued to mobilize for war at home, in a vain attempt to fight the coalition to the end with a national consciousness.

The weather was slowly getting hot, and the Five-Nation Coalition had exhausted all their patience and forced Greece to surrender one after another, but the answer received was very disappointing, so the Five-Nation Alliance, led by Germany and Italy, began to launch a large-scale fierce attack on Greece itself.

The flames of war soon reached Athens, and at this time, the Greek army could not withstand the heavy blow of the coalition forces, abandoned its positions on the outskirts, and retreated one after another.

After three days and three nights of bitter fighting, the troops suffered unspeakably, and Athens gradually fell into a siege. Cold guns and cold cannons rang out in the city from time to time, the Greek soldiers and civilians were facing death at all times, the victory or loss of the war was a cruel certainty, and the Greek soldiers began to lack food and ammunition, except for seeking self-protection, they had no fighting spirit, the common people were the victims of the war, they could not bear the hunger and thirst, began to secretly flee out of the city, and even acted as a guide for the attack of the coalition army.

Greece had just gained independence from the Ottoman Empire, and the Greeks were willing to fight with blood, but they offended their neighbor Germany, and after only three years of independence, they were again in danger of annihilation.

After four days of siege, the battle outside Athens was met with a surge of troops from the Five Kingdoms, and soon they occupied the city, which had been glorious for thousands of years. As far as the eye can see, you can see foreign troops in various uniforms everywhere in the streets.

When Italian and German troops entered Athens, they quickly took over the local armed forces and police stations, and patrol cars flying the flags of both countries and important organs were quickly put in place. The British and French troops were not idle, except for purchasing some daily necessities in the city, they were generally waiting at the military port wharf.

Several Greek warships anchored in the harbor have all been disarmed and forced to lower their flags and flags under the supervision of the coalition forces, and the noisy naval docks have changed flags overnight, with British, American, and French flags flying everywhere.

The fall of Athens marked the complete defeat of the government of the Kingdom of Greece, and King Alexander hurriedly sent an ambassador and solemnly handed over the instrument of surrender to the forces of the Five Kingdoms. From then on, Alexander's throne had to be relinquished before his ass was hot, and immediately afterwards, Constantine I returned to Athens with his cronies all the way from Berlin, Germany.

The main battle faction led by Vinizelos was all controlled by the coalition forces, especially the Greek generals who forcibly started the war, and they were successively transferred to the so-called international military tribunal formed by the coalition forces to stand trial, and according to the relevant provisions of the war crimes, they will be sentenced or executed.

The German and Italian armies took the lead in the battle and entered the city first, and the command organs of the armies of the other three countries also set up joint command centers of the coalition forces in the city one after another, so as to coordinate and deal with the contradictions between the countries. In fact, everyone knows that it is time to sit down and talk about war reparations.

Through difficult negotiations, Germany first voluntarily renounced its own interests, which was in full line with its own promises before the war, and the other four countries quickly agreed.

In order to demonstrate the justice of this war, the "Second Berlin Peace Conference" was held again at the former presidential palace in Berlin Unter den Linden.

In order to gain German support, the new Greek lord Constantine I agreed to cede the area north of Thrace, and the newly captured Macedonian region had to be returned to Bulgaria.

The islands east of the Aegean Sea were returned to Turkey, while Rhodes, formerly part of Greece, was ceded to neighboring Italy. In order to express his "gratitude" to Germany for helping him return to the throne of the country, Konstantin ceded all the islands and affiliated islands in the western part of the peninsula to Germany and became part of the Albanian state, which made Germany overjoyed.

As for the Epirus region, sixty kilometers south of Germany's border with Greece is a demilitarized zone, and neither side is allowed to gather armed forces.

The end of the war left Greece with a heavy international debt, and after painstaking negotiations, Constantine I finally agreed to pay the coalition a total of 26.2 billion marks worth of gold equivalents, to be paid over 20 years.

Turkey received 44 per cent of the reparations, France 22 per cent, Italy 11 per cent, Britain 11 per cent, Germany 11 per cent, and Bulgaria received 1 per cent of the war reparations for preserving its territory.

In terms of military affairs, Greece's own military ships of more than 2,000 tons and civilian ships of more than 5,000 tons were completely divided among Britain, France, and the United States, of which the United States received the least, while Britain drove away most of the ships because of its soft spot for the sea.

At the request of Constantine I, the Germans left the 3rd Army to continue to maintain social order in the region, and after withdrawing from Athens, it was temporarily stationed on the outskirts of the city. Because the road has not yet been completely completed, the troops still return triumphantly on various types of ships of the coalition forces.

The complete victory in this war further amplified Eric's international reputation, and Germany's voice was also greatly improved.