Late at night on the 23rd, Ouyang Geng, the Chinese ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who had just learned the results of Beijing's mediation, stood on the high platform of the consulate in the hazy night with a stern expression.

Bang bang...... Bang......

In the night, there was a dull gunfire suddenly on the west side of Istanbul, and a gust of sea breeze blew, making the gunshots a little vague, but as a senior soldier, Ouyang Geng could naturally immediately determine that this must be a gunshot! Since Austria-Hungary announced its unscrupulous announcement that it would annex the two states of the Ottoman Western Front, the Turkish Al-Shabaab has become less secure in its seat of power!

According to multiple sources, Sabah al-Din's Freedom Party and the Muslim League, which have a significant presence in the coalition council, have secretly formed an alliance with the aim of replacing the Turkish Al-Shabaab in power, and the killer move of these conservative parties is to abolish the constitutional monarchy advocated by Al-Shabaab, which is apparently also supported by the Ottoman Sultan, and a new opposition coalition has been formed.

In recent days, the situation in Istanbul has become unoptimistic, and the conservative → forces that have gained political support have begun to launch frequent secret military operations, especially attacks on the garrisons under the jurisdiction of Turkish youth, and Enver, who is fighting on both the North African and Western Fronts, is exhausted.

Ouyang Geng took two puffs of his cigarette, then pinched the cigarette. Extinguished cigarette butts on the ornate stone railing. Turn around and go downstairs. A few minutes later, with several powerful military orders sounded, the embassy's car slowly drove out under the protection of a squad of marines.

By the time Ouyang Geng arrived at the Prime Minister's Office, it was already 12 o'clock in the evening, but unexpectedly, the lights outside the Prime Minister's Mansion were brightly lit, and the soldiers in charge of the guard even placed searchlights on both sides of the street. Of course, the Chinese consulate entered the prime minister's palace without any obstacles, and Ouyang Geng saw dozens of Macedonian regiment officers coming out of the house with dark faces.

A few minutes later, he heard very unexpected news...... What, General Enver, are you thinking of submitting your resignation to the coalition council and leading the Macedonian corps to reinforcements on the Western Front?

"This is already the result of discussions within Al-Shabaab, and if we do not return to Macedonia, soon the Reich's rights and interests in the Balkans will be completely lost. And only our struggle may be able to make the Europeans retract their claws! Enver looked at Ouyang Geng with a gloomy expression. He did not reserve his intentions, but he apparently did not say what Macedonia meant to Al-Shabaab in Turkey, which was their base.

"The loss of Istanbul means the loss of the political position of the Macedonian Army and the Turkish Al-Shabaab, and I can even imagine that soon you and General Kelmer will be removed from their posts, and in that case, Istanbul will be able to justifiably withdraw its supplies, and the Muslim League will soon cancel all your supplies until you are wiped out by Austria-Hungary or Bulgaria!"

Ouyang Geng almost unceremoniously brainwashed the hard-working Turkish general, and at the same time immediately took out a telegram from Beijing, and the content of this telegram was obviously completely beyond Enver's expectations, the content of the telegram obviously could not prevent the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, but at least gave the coalition committee a chance to breathe.

He was not a political idiot, and Austria-Hungary was still obedient to the terms of the Berlin Treaty, apparently only giving face to China and Germany to mediate, and only promising to suspend annexation, so that the powerful Mediterranean country would eventually give up its interests, unless the Ottoman Empire finally had the strength to let the other side go...... But in the current situation, such news is enough to make him ecstatic.

"Ambassador Ouyang, the situation in Istanbul is already very critical, and if the situation cannot be stabilized quickly, there will soon be a riot against the cabinet in the eastern part of the empire, so I desperately hope to ...... China can provide military support! Realizing that his chance had come to turn the tables on the tables, Enver immediately regained his composure, and as long as the front between the west and Austria-Hungary could provide a few months of buffer, he would not hesitate to make a painful determination to hold power in his hands.

Ouyang Geng smiled slightly, he had always been right about this officer from the bottom of Turkey, at least, this was enough to invest, "General, the Chinese government has always been behind you, but we believe that the future of the Ottoman Empire is not in our hands, and the Ottoman Empire can only gain greater support if it fully demonstrates its strength!" ”

Having said that, the two had apparently reached an agreement on the political situation in the Ottoman Empire, and the lights in the Prime Minister's Office were not extinguished that night, and after the early hours of the morning, a large number of Turkish Al-Shabaab officers appeared in the Prime Minister's Office again!

In the early morning of the 24th, when Istanbul, a thousand-year-old city, woke up in the morning light, it suddenly seemed to be plunged into an unprecedented war, a group of troops wearing khaki military uniforms and round felt hats surrounded Hagia Sophia Square, and the parliamentarians who arrived in a hurry were ordered by the military not to leave the parliament for the time being after entering the parliament.

Later, some of the soldiers of the capital's First Legion, controlled by the Liberal Party and the Muslim League, rebelled and marched from the camp on the east side of Istanbul to Hagia Sophia Square at the request of more than a dozen opposition parliamentarians, loudly announcing the abolition of the constitutional monarchy and conscripting urban youth to join the rebellion, with the clear aim of expelling the speaker and outlawing the parliament.

However, it was clear that the opposition had no preparations at all for the military operation that was trying to see the dagger, and General Enver apparently personally took action to stabilize the situation in Istanbul, and the Turkish Al-Shabaab troops who entered the city that day were as high as 60,000, while the Liberal Party and the Muslim League, which were trying to turn the tables, had less than 1,000 troops, so by the evening of the 24th, Istanbul had a crucial day.

Later, Sultan Mehmed IV declared himself the new imperial sultan, and at the same time announced the preparation of a new parliament to eliminate the Turkish factions involved in the attempt to overthrow the current prime minister, and a large number of arrested opposition were sent to military camps outside Istanbul, where the military was ordered to transport them to the North African theater in a few days to replenish the front-line troops and defend the honor of the empire.

On July 27, Enver once again spies with Ouyang Geng, a major Chinese envoy in the Ottoman Empire, and in the afternoon of the same day, the news that the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary had reached a draft diplomatic negotiation immediately spread throughout Istanbul, and China and Germany announced that they would participate in the negotiations to mediate the border dispute between the two countries to ensure the stability of the Ottoman Empire.

On the morning of the 28th, Ouyang Geng had just received the news that He Xiaohai had come from the Antalya military port, and the Ottoman Navy had quietly gone to sea that day after completing the repairs, preparing to go to the North African coastline to seek fighters.

In the past week, the Ottoman North African Army led by Kelsemo finally broke the Italian Army's plan to try to take full control of Tripoli, and the Battle of Soluk achieved an unprecedented victory, and the headquarters of the 3rd Division of the Italian Army that landed on the Benghazi side was ambushed by Kelma during the attack on Soluk, and was heavily damaged, with more than 5,000 casualties and more than 2,000 captured, and the remnants are currently holding on to Benghazi waiting for reinforcements.

Thanks to mortar fire from China, the Ottoman North African Corps broke the defense line of the Italian Army's 3rd Division in only two days, and the Italian Army, which had less than 1,000 men, fled Benghazi by boat.

This victory completely ruined the Italian military's plan to quickly occupy North Africa, and the Italian Minister of War Case announced his resignation the next day, and was replaced by the former Minister of the Navy, Amideo...... On 3 August, when Keelmo joined the Ottoman naval fleet escorting supplies at the port of Benghazi, the new Italian Minister of War Amityo announced that he would increase the number of troops in North Africa, increasing the total number of Italian troops there from 50,000 to 100,000.

This news was immediately transferred by the Chinese intelligence system to the commander of the Ottoman North African Corps, who was resting his troops. (To be continued......)