With Yang Feng's strong intervention, the threat of war from the Russians to the Ottoman Empire over the Varna port incident quickly dissipated, and then the two sides began to enter a long diplomatic wrangling in which the outcome was no longer important, much to the sigh of the four Balkan monarchs who were waiting for Russia to join the war.

In fact, until now, they have begun to regret it a little, it is obvious that even if the Ottoman Empire is declining, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is still very difficult for them to gnaw a piece of fat, and if they don't get it, they will break their teeth, but now that the wood is in the boat, since the war has begun, they can only fight hard.

In the following time, Hamid II, who had a backer behind him, was even more emboldened, and his naval fleet then pressed the Bulgarians and began to bombard what can be called rampant, not to mention the coastal ports, even some of the larger fishing villages, which made Bulgaria mourn, but the Ottoman navy never attacked the Greek coast, and in response the Greek navy also cleverly continued to nest in the harbor, allowing its allies to struggle under the fire of the Ottoman navy, Ferdinand I and Bulgaria, Discontent with this irresponsible ally is growing day by day.

In fact, the Greeks are also very innocent, who told you not to buy warships, and now when it comes to need, count on us, then who do we count on? It's easy for us to cut down on food and clothing, but isn't it to protect you from the danger of bankruptcy? Even if George I was willing, the common people of Greece were not!

Fortunately, the four countries still gained a lot on land, Albania, Macedonia, Thrace, and other places A large area of Ottoman territory was occupied by them, especially the Serbs, who had never faced the main force of the Ottoman army, and even occupied Tirana. If the Serbian army does not help again, then they will withdraw from the war.

The Serbs, who were about to go crazy for the territory, reluctantly transferred an army to join the attack on Shkodard, and by this time the Ottoman army, which had shrunk to the city, had reached two divisions, plus the former Albanian rebels who volunteered to fight and some other Muslims inspired by the slogans of resistance to the infidels, the total strength had reached nearly 60,000. Because they always controlled the transportation line of the Buena River, they were constantly receiving all kinds of supplies, from food to weapons and ammunition, but these materials were not transported from Ottoman territory, these were all supported by Germany and Austria-Hungary, and not only the Skadral defenders used German and Austrian supplies. Alta's defenders were also supplied by them, and the Greeks didn't have the guts to come and trouble them anyway.

As for Hamid II himself, he only needed to ensure the supply of Salonika, which was a short distance from Istanbul, and there was no need to worry about the threat of the Greek navy.

As for the rest of the three places, as Qin Hanting said, let the armies of the four countries occupy it, and it is a big deal to take it back later, and whether it is Serbs or Greeks. Life was not easy in the occupied territories, and the Muslims, under the call of jihad issued by the caliph himself, armed with the old-fashioned weapons left to them by the Ottoman army when they retreated, attacked the infidels who occupied their lands day and night. Especially in Albania. After receiving the promise of autonomy after the war from Hamid II, the Muslims became more resolute, even more tenacious than when they fought the Ottoman army.

In Edirne, although enraged by the shelling of the coastal baoxing by the Ottoman navy. But the hateful Bulgarian army still hit their heads and bleed day after day on the Ottoman lines. Within a month of the start of the war, Ferdinand I's generals launched three major offensives, each of which suffered no fewer than 10,000 casualties, but the gains were almost zero. The Bulgarian soldiers with the Mosinagan rifles. In the opposite side of the 155 mm heavy artillery and dense machine gun fire, frantically pounding again and again, and then turned into a broken corpse, blood stained the ground red, but failed to capture a single trench, the fierce battles, endless deaths, no future of victory, is wearing down the spirit of the Bulgarians at great speed.

Watching his army strew the front lines and the Serbs easily capturing one city after another that had belonged to the Ottoman Empire, an enraged Ferdinand I also threatened to retreat to Bulgarian territory if the Serbs did not come to their aid. Fortunately, the Serbs still knew that the overall situation was important, and they also knew very well that no matter how much land they occupied, as long as they did not threaten Istanbul and Hamid II did not take the initiative to sue for peace, then in the end they could not count it as their own, so a Serbian army group in Macedonia was also thrown into the battlefield of Edirne.

However, their arrival did not change the situation of the coalition forces in the slightest, and the Ottoman soldiers lying in the trenches and fortresses were firmly blocked on the road to Istanbul, and the 250,000-strong army formed a desperate defensive line, dense with barbed wire that stretched for hundreds of kilometers, where the Turkic warriors crushed the invaders in front of them with thousands of tons of steel.

Behind them are arsenals at full capacity, with giant freighters loaded with weapons and ammunition setting sail from ports in China, Germany, the Confederacy, and Sweden to Istanbul, where they are sent to the front line by a well-developed network of railways and roads. As for the question of money, it is very simple, Hamid II knows very well what it means to him if he wins this war, even if he borrows money, he will continue to fight, it is nothing more than a loan, he has a large oil field with an annual output of more than 20 million tons on his land, although he only has a small number of shares, but the annual tax alone is considerable.

This guy used the tax revenue from the Kirkuk oil field as a guarantee, and directly borrowed 50 million pounds from the People's Bank, plus Yang Feng and William assisted him, which was enough to fight this war, if it was not big enough, it would be a good idea to sell a few more plots of oil exploration and exploitation rights, anyway, at this time, the number one focus of countries looking for oil was on his land, and he had made a lot of money by selling exploration rights alone so far.

On the contrary, his enemies can't, at first Britain, France and Russia also gave them assistance, but as the war stalemate, the consumption is getting bigger and bigger, and the bosses behind the scenes naturally can't continue to help, these countries are all standard agricultural countries, at most a small number of mineral resources, nearly a million troops just eat is a terrifying number, not to mention that they don't have any decent industry, bullets, shells all have to be imported from abroad, at most they can grab points from the newly occupied places, but this has intensified the resistance, the war has just been going on for a month, The finances of the kings and dukes were stretched.

No one is even willing to give them a loan, including the British, French and Russian banks that support them, in the final analysis, those capitalists are not charitable, the loan is not fake, it has to be mortgaged, Hamid II has oil field taxes, what do they have?

"I don't have any money to fight these days, a bunch of farmers and sheep farmers are fighting with oil sellers, and the brains are kicked by donkeys!" Emperor Yang said disdainfully, what he said was indeed good, now anyone who is sober-minded has already seen who the final winner of this war is, although the Ottoman Empire lost nearly 100,000 square kilometers of land in a month, all caught up with Austria, but until now the number of soldiers lost is less than 20,000. The total number of countries in the Balkan League is nearly 70,000, and the war potential is almost exhausted, and the total population of the four countries together does not know whether it has exceeded 10 million! But there are more than 800,000 violent divisions, and you can imagine how many people are left in the country who can fight.

In the new barracks in the Ottoman territory, at least 400,000 urgently recruited troops are being trained under the guidance of Sino-German instructors, and once Hamid II survives the initial difficult moment, these 400,000 troops can easily crush the Balkan Alliance.

"Leave them alone, let's take their time! Let's clear Hamid's appearance. The guy said with great satisfaction.

"I'm afraid Britain, France and Russia won't let him win that easily." Yuan Shikai said somewhat worriedly, after all, they are not fools, and they will not watch their thugs being taken into the pit by the Ottomans.

"It doesn't matter, they still have cards, we don't lack them, it's just a trick, and besides, all they want is war, the Balkan League goes to war with the Ottomans, which has already achieved their goal, in other words, it has lost its main value, and it doesn't matter if you win or lose.

Don't think that they are only against him when they pry these guys to go to war with Hamid II, Britain, France and Russia are even Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and these countries are counted together, Hamid loses, that is naturally equivalent to avenging them, the Balkan Alliance loses, then it hits these three countries, do you think Britain, France and Russia welcome them to be strong?

No, they didn't like the Ottoman resurgence, but they also didn't like the emergence of a few more great powers on the continent, and they were involved in the last Greco-Turkish war to prevent the Greeks from getting Crete, which is still in their hands.

Austria-Hungary did not like the great Serbian ambitions of the Serbs, and you think the French and Russians liked it? And Bulgaria, would Nikolai like the appearance of another great power on the shores of the Black Sea?

People are killing two birds with one stone, and whoever loses is good news for them. Yang Feng said with a sneer. (To be continued......)