Chapter 402: The Ottoman Counterattack
The demands of the four Balkan countries are undoubtedly hilarious, although they still seem to have the upper hand until now, but even the ordinary people of European countries can see who the victor is, and the war is nothing more than money in the final analysis, just those poor devils who won the oil stick Hamid II? This emperor's majesty smashed them to death with money
For the Balkan Alliance's request for peace talks, Hamid II very simply made conditions, first withdraw all the Ottoman lands they occupied, and then prepare an indemnity of 50 million pounds, otherwise his army would go directly to the capitals of the four countries to talk to them, he is now ready to counterattack, 400,000 recruits are waiting for peace? And talk about a fart!
However, at this time, Britain, France and Russia could not sit still, they did not mind the victory of Hamid II and the weakening of the Balkan alliance, but it would not be good if it was weakened too much, after all, they still had to maintain the balance of power in the Balkans, in other words, these four countries had to continue to play the role of containing the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary.
"Your country is ready to mediate the Balkan war with France and Russia?" Yang Feng looked at Sa Daoyi in front of him with a smile.
"Your Majesty, this war has already caused hundreds of thousands of lives, and as a responsible power, the British government is very reluctant to see the war continue, and the French and Russian governments also think so, so our three governments have decided to jointly mediate this war and restore peace in the Balkans." Sa Daoyi said that this kind of thing must first probe Yang Feng's attitude, after all, he is such a big lump behind Hamid II, and no one can turn a blind eye.
"Indeed, I am deeply saddened by the devastation of life in the Balkans, and it is a good thing that this war should not continue from a purely humanitarian point of view, leaving aside the question of who is right and who is wrong. In addition, in order to reflect the principle of fairness, I will also invite the Kaiser and the Austrian Emperor to jointly mediate. Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, we are very welcome for China to join the mediation, but there is no need for Germany and Austria-Hungary to join, right?" Sa Daoyi said with a smile that the British government was ready to let China join the mediation when it came to find out Yang Feng's attitude first, after all, China and the Ottomans were allies. And to put it bluntly, Yang Feng is the backstage of Hamid II, and it is impossible for this kind of thing to bypass China.
The result of the mediation is actually not important, Britain, France and Russia have already written the script for this war, and the armistice between the two sides will restore the borders of the countries before the war, and considering that Hamid II actually suffered a relatively large loss, he can ask the Balkan Alliance to give him a symbolic indemnity of 1.8 million pounds, so that the strength of both sides has been greatly weakened, and no one has benefited from this war, and the extent of the weakening will not allow the other side to gain a large advantage. The two sides are still in a state of equilibrium, and at the same time increase the hatred between the two sides, after which they will inevitably fall into a protracted military confrontation.
As for whether the two sides will accept this script, this point is not in their scope at all. As long as Yang Feng is dealt with, Hamid II has to agree if he disagrees, and as for the four Balkan countries, they still have a fart to say at this time.
But join Deao. The situation is complicated.
Yang Feng has no interests in the Balkans, and gives him certain benefits in other aspects, he will not care how the scripts of Britain, France and Russia are written. But Germany and Austria are different, especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Emperor Joseph will definitely block this script until the Ottoman Empire beats Serbia and Bulgaria to his satisfaction, and it is clear that this time is far from satisfying him, and the Balkan Alliance will die another two or three hundred thousand estimates.
But in this case, how can you contain him in the future?
"This is not good, after all, such a matter of maintaining world peace requires the joint participation of all countries, and I believe that the Kaiser and the Austrian Emperor are also very much looking forward to restoring peace in the Balkans, and if they are left alone, they will be very disappointed." Yang Feng said, and it could be seen from the expression on his face that he was smiling happily.
Now the two sides can't cease fighting, the Balkan Alliance has only 100,000 dead and wounded, far from reaching his expected goal, especially Serbia has only 40,000 dead and wounded, this number is far from reaching the Cheng dù that made Emperor Joseph tempted, at least one more must be added in front, such a small country, the total strength is only about 200,000, if the loss is more than half, Austria-Hungary will unceremoniously swallow it.
But if he comes out to obstruct it, it will be very inexplicable, because no matter what kind of situation the Balkans are, it seems that it has nothing to do with China, and if the imagination of the six European powers is richer, I am afraid it is not difficult to see that he harbors evil intentions.
So the best way is to let Deao join in, and then they will do the work, he is at most considered to continue to play the wall, after all, if China alone joins the mediation, it is easy to release a signal of isolation from Deau, which will create a rift in his friendship with William.
Sa Daoyi guessed this reason, in fact, the three countries did have this consideration, and even prepared to try to give Yang Feng some benefits in the mediation process and pull him to his side, but since Yang Feng insisted on Deao participating, he could no longer discuss this issue.
After Sadaoyi left, Yang Feng did not hesitate to release the news that Britain, France and Russia were ready to mediate the Balkan War, and at the same time also released the news that he hoped that Germany and Austria would join, and Emperor William and Emperor Joseph immediately reacted, opposing the practice of Britain, France and Russia to set aside the international community, and would not recognize any result of the mediation of the three countries, and at the same time Hamid II also announced that he would not accept the mediation of Britain, France and Russia, unless it was the mediation in which the seven major powers participated together.
Immediately after the Austro-Hungarian Empire announced a large-scale military exercise in Bosnia, and then the Ottoman Empire invited the German Navy to visit the southern port of Wèn, Germany immediately responded, and the fleet with four diesel battleships as the core went south into the Mediterranean, targeting the Ottoman port of Smyrna.
At this time, the first batch of six perfect battleships of the German Navy were officially put into service, because the six perfect battleships of the British Navy were all in Singapore at this time, it was obvious that if there was a war, Britain would be at an absolute disadvantage in the short term, and the British Admiralty had to urgently transfer the six battleships back to Europe, but at the same time as they left Singapore, the formation of the Kunlun and Qinling of the Chinese Navy accepted the invitation of the Ottoman Empire and set sail to visit the Ottoman Empire.
The significance of this news is even more uneasy for Britain, France and Russia, it is obvious that Yang Feng is releasing a signal, if Britain, France and Russia force Hamid II, he does not mind using force to fulfill his alliance obligations, these two notorious battleships into the Mediterranean, will pose a great threat to the balance of European maritime power, if the six perfect battleships are withdrawn, Britain can still regain their maritime self-confidence, but these two into the Mediterranean, they will not be able to find it.
The first batch of 200,000 Ottoman new troops suddenly joined the battlefield of Edirne, and then the Ottoman army totaling more than 400,000 launched a counterattack against the exhausted Bulgarian coalition army on the opposite side, and in the roar of more than 200 155mm heavy guns that had just arrived from China, the Ottoman soldiers who had been instilled by the imams with the idea of jihad for several months held the latest rapid-fire rifles in their hands, like the furious waves of a tsunami. Almost instantly, it overrode the opposing line of defense.
The Bulgarian coalition army opposite them, after nearly four months of attrition at this time, the remaining is less than 250,000, the long war, endless deaths, lack of food and ammunition dilemma, has long exhausted their sharpness, in fact, they have long lost the ability to attack, and now they are suddenly counterattacked by nearly twice as many enemies, and most of them are new to the battlefield, full of holy war ideas of hot-blooded young people, charging up and not afraid of death, not to mention the terrifying artillery suppression.
In fact, when 200 155 heavy artillery bombarded, the Bulgarian coalition army had already begun to rout, the attack of the Ottoman army only accelerated their rout, nearly 200,000 rout soldiers rushed north without the will to resist, and the Ottoman army in the mountains behind was in pursuit, and the Ottoman army that was caught up directly threw away their weapons and knelt aside, but it was obvious that the Ottomans were not prepared to tell them what to shoot and not kill, and the vast majority of those who surrendered were directly shot.
Hamid II knew very well that if he wanted to ensure that there would be no more similar wars in the future, the best way was to kill all the four countries that could fight, what to do with the prisoners, and what to feed the prisoners, and finally to put them back, and after putting them back, they could not be grateful to themselves, and the best way to deal with such people was to make up for them.
The rout of the Bulgarian coalition army was not able to stop until it entered the territory of Bulgaria, but fortunately at this time the pursuit was too fast, and the logistics supply of the Ottomans could not be supplied, and this unprecedented scale of the war came to an end.
In this counteroffensive, they killed and captured more than 60,000 Protectors, including 40,000 Serbs, while the Ottomans suffered less than 10,000 losses.
This brilliant victory completely turned the tide of the Balkan war, and then another 200,000 new Ottoman troops joined the battlefield and marched west into Macedonia, and the Ottoman army in the north, after a short rest and supplies, also began to continue the attack on Bulgaria, and even shouted the slogan of fighting Sofia and capturing Ferdinand I alive. (To be continued......)