The great reversal of the battlefield situation completely confused the four Balkan allies, especially Bulgaria, which had been beaten into the door, at this time Ferdinand I could not care about his ambitions, and hurriedly sent people to Russia for help, begging Nikolai to pull him for the sake of everyone being Orthodox, and he also knew that his allies were unable to protect themselves at this time.

But at this time, Nikolai was also weak! Germany and Austria-Hungary have massed heavy troops on the eastern border, and the German army has even held large-scale military exercises on the German-Russian border, and the flames of artillery shell explosions can be seen standing in Russia, and the Chinese army in the east has hundreds of thousands of troops on the border line, and the four group armies of Xinjiang, Mongolia, Heilongjiang, and Jilin are ready to attack Russia at any time, and the naval fleet is hanging outside Vladivostok. Because there was no concept of territorial airspace at this time, China's reconnaissance planes were flying over Vladivostok every day, and it was obvious that if Russia really wanted to intervene, these three countries would not mind beating him together, and Britain and France would also participate in the war in accordance with the obligations of the alliance, which would be tantamount to a real world war, and neither Nikolai nor Britain and France would take such a risk for the sake of the Balkans.

However, if they did not intervene in mediation, with the speed of the Ottoman attack, they would be able to reach Belgrade in less than three months, and in the case of no other choice, Britain, France, and Russia could only agree to the request of Germany and Austria plus Italy, which had joined the group, and of course China, but they agreed to agree, but they had different views on the terms of negotiation between the two sides proposed by Britain, France, and Russia, and the Austrian foreign minister who participated in the mediation mission believed that such conditions were obviously unfair to the Ottoman Empire, and it was better for everyone to negotiate again.

In his opinion, Germany and Italy were all in favor, so that Britain, France and Russia had to agree to re-study the situation of four to three, but proposed that in the process of studying, it was better to let them stop fighting, and then the Ottoman army would fight to Sofia, but Germany and Austria did not agree with this. If we haven't even worked out the specific conditions for negotiation, how can we ask for a truce? This is not in accordance with the rules of conciliation.

Conciliation is all about the mediator first coming up with an opinion, and then inviting the two parties to sit down together, you see how my opinion is, if you agree with everyone, you will restore peace, if you do not agree with each of you to put forward your opinions, I will testify and then negotiate, and now we have not even studied the specific opinions given to them, so naturally we cannot rashly call them together, let alone let them cease fighting.

All right. Then it became the diplomats of the seven countries, and you can imagine what a difficult task this is, you must know that these guys are all masters of ripping, one by one sitting at the conference table, deciding the fate of the weak with verbal battles, this is the great powers, this is the demeanor of the great powers, this is the majesty of the imperialists. Naturally, there was no pressure on them to talk over there, and everyone sat together and studied history in harmony. When it comes to legal and even philosophical issues, when I am tired of studying, I drink tea, eat and eat, have a dance party, and dance, but the Balkan alliance on the battlefield is unlucky.

The Ottoman Army, which combined with more than 800,000 troops, swept across the Balkans. The northern road took Plovdiv lightly, and opened the gate to Sofia along the way, which was only a little more than a hundred kilometers away from Ferdinand I's lair. The southern route pressed south with an army of 100,000 and joined the defenders of Thessalonija. Nearly 200,000 men then continued southward, one way to relieve the siege of Alta, and the other to the heart of Greece. The slogan was to go straight to Athens and raise the crescent flag again at the Parthenon.

200,000 men in the middle of the road entered Macedonia and began to sweep the Serbian army that occupied it, the goal was to enter Albania, and then divide the troops to sweep north and south at the same time, although the two roads were not like the northern road with a railway support, so the attack speed was like a bamboo, but still like a bulldozer slowly but completely swept through the enemy, in front of the Ottoman war monster, whether it was the Greeks, Serbs, or Bulgarians, they could only continue to rout and rout, those who lacked food and ammunition, Physically and mentally exhausted, the soldiers fled and fled again in despair.

Ferdinand I, the king of Bulgaria, who was cornered, had to find another way out after asking Russia for help in vain, and of course Britain and France could not provide him with direct help, so the king had to threaten the Serbs again, and quickly send troops to save me, or I would withdraw from the alliance, unilaterally sue for peace with Hamid II, and then get out of the way, and let the Ottoman army fight directly along the railway to Belgrade.

In this case, the Serbs had no other choice, and if he did, the Ottoman army would really be able to reach Belgrade, and the Balkan Railway, which led directly from Istanbul to Belgrade, became the deadliest threat to the Serbs at this time. Help him hold Sofia, at least Serbia will not be affected by the war, and even if he can't hold it, he can force Hamid II to negotiate after inflicting large casualties on the Ottomans. For the sake of their homeland, the Serbs also gave up, except for a small number of troops left in Macedonia to continue to contain the Ottoman army, all other forces, including the original attack on Shkadar and the maintenance of the Albanian occupation, were withdrawn and transferred to Bulgaria to prepare to meet the Ottoman army in Sofia, and also partnered with Ferdinand I to ask Nicholas I, Grand Duke of Montenegro, to send his army as well, but Nicholas I did not hesitate to refuse.

This guy is actually ready to withdraw from the war, and now he has also given up the attack on Shkodard, while contacting Hamid II alone to sue for peace, while withdrawing all the troops to the country to defend the border, his country is easy to defend and difficult to attack, although tens of thousands of people have been killed and wounded, but if he really retracts into his turtle shell, it will be difficult for others to help him, after all, his place is not of much value, Hamid II will definitely not knock out his teeth for such a worthless place, In fact, this is the main reason why this small country has never been annexed, and the value is disproportionate to the cost of attacking.

At the same time that the Serbs reinforced Sofia, the Greeks also abandoned the siege of Arta before the arrival of the Ottoman army, and then turned to the defense with the help of the mountainous terrain of the former Gio border, and they had already lost 20,000 men in this port, plus the loss in Thessaloniki, the Greeks had already paid the price of 50,000 men for this war, which was already a heavy blow to a small country with a population of just over 2 million, considering that they had just experienced a crushing defeat in the last war with the Ottomans, the Greek kingdom could really be said to be in trouble.

In fact, by now, the four Balkan allies had been completely broken up, Greece and Montenegro had turned to their own defenses, leaving only Serbia and Bulgaria to continue to hold together, and the Ottoman lands that they had occupied were almost completely lost in a blink of an eye, and if it weren't for the Macedonian terrain and traffic that hindered the speed of the Ottoman army, they would have entered Albania at this time. However, this situation is also cheaper for the Albanians, anyway, Hamid II has already said that they will be allowed to govern themselves, and it is just because of this power vacuum that he will quickly clean up the small number of Serbian troops that remain, and then get the autonomous government out himself, so as to prevent Hamid II from regretting it at that time.

Hamid II didn't care about the Greek battlefield, and forced the Greeks to send their navy to engage in a naval battle with him, even if he won, the loss would not be too small, his naval fleet was his lifeblood, there was no need to take such a risk, and he also knew that in the end the great powers would not allow him to occupy the land of any country, so he was even less interested in entering Greece. The reason why Austria-Hungary fully supports him in this way is nothing more than that he wants to cripple these two countries so that it can facilitate their invasion, as a chess piece, he naturally has the consciousness of a chess piece, and the work he should do must be done.

For the battle of Sofia, he had already assembled a full 400,000 troops in Plovdiv, countless material resources were constantly sent by train from Istanbul, and his enemies also urgently cobbled together 600,000 troops to prepare to fight him to the death in the city, considering that the total population of the two countries was more than 8 million, this number can already be said to be very terrifying.

Of course, the numbers do not represent the combat effectiveness, among the 600,000 people, only less than 300,000 are combat-effective, and the rest are all strong men who have been hastily brought in in the past month, not to mention military training, many people don't even have guns, and there are at most 400,000 guns in the 600,000-strong army, and the rest have all kinds of weapons. Although Nikolai supports them behind the scenes, it is impossible to support them for free, it is okay to give them tens of thousands of guns, hundreds of thousands of them are a joke, his money is not blown by the wind, and another point is that his arms transportation is not so easy now.

The Ottoman Navy has completely blocked the coast of Bulgaria, because with the support of China and Germany, these guys even inspect Russian merchant ships, and if there are arms, they will be directly seized, and they can also be sent to Bulgaria through Guò Romania in the past, but with the change of the war situation, it is obvious that Bulgaria has lost this war, and now it is just a matter of losing more and losing less. In this case, the Romanians naturally did not wade into this troubled water, in case they provoked Hamid II and then beat them, and there were German and Austrian threats outside, so Romania banned Russian arms from their own country. In this way, Serbia and Bulgaria were effectively cut off from the outside world, so Hamid II had nothing to fear, knowing full well that his opponent would run out of ammunition in a few days. (To be continued......)