Hamid II certainly did not know that he was playing a role in provoking a world war for Yang Feng, and that his alliance with China had strengthened his position at home, even if the Arabs who were ready to move quickly stopped at this time. Mecca Sharif is very clear that he has a dog raised by Yang Feng by his side, waiting for the opportunity to pounce on it and bite it at any time, and over the years, with the support of Yang Feng, Ibn Saud is fighting on the Arabian Peninsula, encroaching on the territory of the neighbors around him, and sometimes even the Chinese garrison in Kuwait will personally go into battle. His Royal Highness the current Emir of Riyadh has nowhere to expand, and if an anti-Ottoman uprising breaks out in the Hejaz, then he will definitely not miss the opportunity to grab the title of Guardian of the Holy Land, after all, the Caliph's hat is still on the head of Hamid II, and even the title of Guardian of the Holy Land of the Hashemite family is theoretically conferred.

Prime Minister Balfour didn't care much about the retreat of the Arabs, he didn't expect anything to happen to these Bedouins, this is a people who are really the same as the land they live in, like sand, hoping that their sow will also go up the tree, and besides, the Arabian Peninsula itself is of little value, there is a waste of emotions on this vast desert, it is better to study the powder keg of the Balkans!

At this time, the Albanian rebel army had occupied many cities, and the wave of independence was sweeping across Albania and Macedonia, and the Ottoman troops originally stationed here were old-fashioned garrisons, although there were a lot of them, they were strictly untrained, and their equipment was much worse than that of the rebel army armed with a large number of British arms, not to mention that the officers who guided the rebel army were all British officers transferred from South Africa, these guys had been dealing with the Boer guerrillas for two years, and they had extremely rich combat experience. As a result, the Ottomans could only cower in castles.

However, as the Chinese were trained and the new Ottoman army under the guidance of Chinese advisers joined the battlefield, the unfortunate ones were replaced by rebel armies. In particular, the appearance of gas bombs and flamethrowers on the battlefield has beaten the rebel army, which was originally put together. Although the power of poison gas bombs in Albania and Macedonia is infinitely magnified, although there are restrictions on the Beijing Convention, the problem is that the Beijing Convention is only used to limit wars between sovereign states, and counterinsurgency wars like this are certainly not within the scope of restrictions. In fact, this was also stated in the convention, and it was not until the Ottoman army smoked the rebels all over the field that the British found it difficult to achieve their goals if they continued like this.

Those Albanian rebels are not fools, and the goals of the British are also very clear to them, supporting them only because Hamid II offended the British Empire, and it is certainly okay to take the opportunity to gain some benefits for themselves. But it would be a fool to shed the blood of his own nation for the sake of the game between these great powers. After suffering a heavy blow, the local tyrants and gentry who had led the revolt immediately began to retreat, and some even began to bargain with Hamid II, and it was clear that if the price was reasonable, they would not mind leaving the righteous people of England.

As a result, the British began to covet the surrounding countries, and the Grand Duchy of Bulgaria was still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire among the four Balkan states, but in fact it was a vassal of the Russians, including this state, which was also established with the support of the Russians, and was of course much smaller than modern Bulgaria. It is for this reason that the current Grand Duke Ferdinand I is ambitiously trying to reclaim the land that rightfully belongs to him from the Ottoman Empire. And the Serbs next to him are also interested in creating a Greater Serbia that includes Bosnia and Macedonia, and they also have a strange king.

King Alexander of Serbia, in the face of the angry gaze of the whole country, married a second widow who was fifteen years older than him. And he is also an old widow who is indulgent, and may no longer have the ability to have children, because his position in the country is precarious, and the dog man and woman in history finally passed the throne to the uncle because of their concerns. So he was shot and killed by the angry military who broke into the palace and shot him indiscriminately.

Now His Majesty the King is also thinking of diverting the contradictions outward, especially at this time Britain, France and Russia have come to support him. If he can tear off a beautiful piece of fat from the dying body of the Ottoman Empire, at least the predicament he is facing will be greatly alleviated, and it is not impossible to operate it well to become the emperor in the minds of the people when the time comes.

Montenegro, or Negoro, is a powerful small country, and the Ottoman Empire, which conquered the entire Balkans and even came to Vienna, has been crushed again and again in this fart place, and finally became the only land in the Balkans that has not been conquered by them. Of course, the Grand Duke of Montenegro, Nicholas I, was very simple-minded, he didn't have so many ambitions, he was fighting for hegemony and being among the great powers, and he only had twenty or thirty thousand guns, and it was too unrealistic to discuss this kind of issue, he just wanted to grab a real port for his country, such as Shkodra in Albania.

As for the rest of Greece, needless to say, this country, as long as it is the work of the Ottoman Empire, they will not miss it, although in the last Greco-Turkish war, they were beaten by the Ottoman Empire, but after the war, they learned from the pain, these years with the support of France have felt that they can wash away the shame. In particular, they also have a strong navy, and even have two Princess-class armored cruisers and four Soryu-class cruisers purchased from Sweden, which are not much worse than the Ottoman Navy in terms of strength, and they have also ordered two perfect battleships in Sweden, but because of the order ordering problem, the keel has just been laid.

The four small states, each with their own evil intentions, began to join each other with the encouragement of the three great powers, and even openly expressed their indignation at the use of poison gas by the Ottoman army, and claimed that the suppression of the Albanians by the Ottoman army threatened the peace of the Balkans.

Of course, Hamid II would not bother with them, the alliance treaty that had just been signed gave the emperor enough confidence, and the same Ottoman country was full of indignation at the fact that these dogs who had once been lying at their feet now dared to provoke their old masters, and even supported their own emperor's restoration of the glory of the empire that had been.

After a period of deliberation, after determining that the Albanian uprising was hopeless, Bulgaria officially declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire as the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and at the same time formed the Balkan Union with Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece.

However, although Britain, France and Russia did their best to encourage them to start a war against the Ottomans, these guys were not without concerns, after all, China and the Ottomans had just signed an alliance agreement, although it was against Russia, but the latter article also gave Yang Feng a basis for targeting other countries. If the British had beaten Hamid II, he would certainly not have done it, but they would never have been able to threaten China's small country if they had eight rods, and he would not have any pressure to fulfill his alliance obligations. It's not a joke to provoke this Tyrannosaurus rex, even if the monarchs of these countries are arrogant, they also know that in front of Emperor Yang, they are a pile of scum, just look at the fate of the United States now, and the four countries together have no comparison with the United States, which is still very clear to those kings and dukes.

For their concerns, Britain, France and Russia naturally patted their chests and assured that if the Chinese came to join the war, then they would definitely not sit idly by, especially Nikolai even told his good buddies that if Yang Feng beat them, then Russia would definitely join the war.

In addition, at this time, the British also announced a good news with great fanfare, their first batch of six perfect battleships were put into service, but unlike Yang Feng's, these six battleships are much larger because of the gap in the welding process of the shipyard, and the artillery technology is much worse than Yang Feng. It also uses the latest centralized fire control system developed by the United Kingdom, of course, the performance is relatively primitive, and the armor is also much thicker in view of the terrifying armor-piercing ability of the 280 main gun of the Chinese battleship. Of course, the result of this series of changes is that the tonnage of this battleship is close to 20,000 tons, and the speed of 32 knots is not to be expected, it is estimated that it is difficult to even 30 knots, but in order to publicize the number published by the British, jù is 30 knots.

Fortunately, in a real naval battle, such a speed gap is not very obvious, at most it is to grab a good position, as long as the artillery range, power and armor protection can be guaranteed, at least the British think so, of course, the main thing is that they really can't reach this speed target.

In order to cheer up the four Balkan countries, the first batch of six perfect battleships in service will all be deployed in Singapore, anyway, there are more than a dozen of the same diesel engine battleships in Britain, which is enough to cope with the situation in Europe, and their second batch of perfect battleships will also be commissioned in the middle of next year, this batch of sixteen ships in total, and the first batch of six perfect battleships of the Germans will not be in service for at least another half a year.

William's perfect battleship was in a similar situation to the British, and it was also a weighted version, also equipped with ten 305 main guns, with twin turrets arranged in the front and back, and left and right, which looked like they were carved out of a mold with the British, and was currently being outfitted. (To be continued......)