The subsequent development of the Balkan war also proved that his judgment was correct, except for the Serbian army in Macedonia, where the defense was empty, and the attacks of the other three countries all evolved into brutal offensive and defensive battles. Especially in Shkoda, a week of fighting not only did not capture the long-awaited city, but the Montenegrin army also paid more than 6,000 casualties, so that the current Montenegrin army was exhausted. Although Nicholas I urgently requisitioned another 20,000 mountain people and armed them with the munitions given to him by the British, it was clear that he had lost confidence in taking the city in the short term.

He now looked forward to his allies who would help him cut off the supply lines of the Shkodra defenders, since the city was in the farthest northwest corner of Ottoman territory, and the Serbs who had invaded Macedonia had drawn an army group to attack Algeria, but instead of reinforcing the Montenegrins, they had rushed straight to Tirana, preparing to seize the city before the Greeks.

The careful thinking of the Serbs is actually completely unnecessary, because the Greeks are also blocked in Alta at this time, and their victory is also far away, where the Chinese students and the French students collide fiercely, but from the current situation, the Greeks were beaten badly, and the casualties in a week have been nearly 10,000, after all, their teachers were also beaten by the other party's teachers not long ago.

The Greeks who attacked Salonika made decent progress, but they avoided the city of Thessaloniki, which they were supposed to focus on and was also the focus of the Ottoman army, and instead attacked Macedonia north along a flat corridor, presumably with the same mentality as the Serbs. In the final analysis, this war is nothing more than everyone grabbing territory together, this thing must be able to grab who can make more money in the end, the Ottoman Empire put a whole army group in Thessalonija, surrounded by mountains, and the fool put Macedonia, which was empty in defense, did not rob it, but ran there to kill a river of blood! When the time comes, I will lose my troops here. The Serbs took the whole of Macedonia lightly, do they still expect them to divide the occupied territory after the war? The Greeks weren't so naïve.

Another important force, the three armies of the Bulgarians, marched south to the Thracian Peninsula in a fierce attempt to attack Istanbul like a raging wave, but unfortunately the entire 250,000 Turkish army, including 100,000 new troops, built a steel embankment on the front line of Edirne, firmly blocking Ferdinand I's ambitions.

"Your Majesty, our best plan at the moment is to play a defensive counterattack, our troops are insufficient, even if we add the old army that has not been reorganized, we can put it into the Balkan battlefield. It will not exceed 500,000, and our enemy has a total strength of 800,000, and the recruits who have just been recruited will be sent to death before they have completed three months or even half a year of training, so at present they have no ability to counterattack, they can only defend and use defensive operations to consume the enemy's strength.

Modern warfare, with the advent of machine-gun barbed wire trench defense systems, coupled with rapid-fire infantry artillery. The massive equipment of mortars, the strength of the defense has far exceeded the power of the offensive, and it can be said that whoever attacks is unlucky, unless, like the Chinese and German armies. Equipped with a large number of large-caliber heavy artillery and ample supplies, it is possible to smash through the opponent's defense line with steel instead of the bravery of soldiers, otherwise the best option on the battlefield is to be on the defensive side.

We put the forces shrinking to Shkadra, Alta. In a coastal fortress like Thessaloniki, he held out with supplies from the sea, while at the same time holding back the Bulgarians on the line of Edirne with the main force. Istanbul is guaranteed security, and the rest of the country is occupied by them, even if they occupy the entire poor countryside of Algeria and Macedonia. Before shrinking the army, the local Muslims were given weapons in large quantities, given them official titles, and given them rewards, so that the imams told them that this was a war against the infidels, and called on them to organize against the infidels, to contain the enemy's mobile forces, and to strike at their supply lines, while our main forces relied on the sea to receive supplies, and shredded the enemy's attack with steel and medicine, so that they could drain their blood.

Three months later, when their blood had been drained, and our newly recruited 400,000 troops had completed their training, they would then run over the Balkans like a steamroller, recapture all that we had lost, and even go straight to their capital, forcing them to double our losses.

Of course, the premise of this qiē is that we must guarantee the right to control the sea. Lieutenant General Qin Hanting, the head of the Chinese adviser to the war, pointed to a map and said to Hamid II at the Ottoman Army General Staff in Istanbul.

For this advisor, Hamid II is still very satisfied, after all, he is also a famous general who captured a US secretary of war, as for the control of the sea, he is not worried about this, although Greece has a strong navy, but compared with the Ottoman navy, it is still a cut behind, after all, they only have two princess-class and the Ottoman navy has four, this difference in the number of warships built with the same set of drawings is doubled, but it is not the bravery of the soldiers or the level of the commander can make up, In particular, the Ottoman Navy also had a large number of Chinese advisers to guide operations.

In fact, because of the difference in strength, the Greeks are more inclined to use their fleet to ensure the safety of Athens, rather than running out to fight a decisive battle with the Ottoman Navy, you must know that these two armored cruisers and the four Canglong-class, which are all the Greek people's food and clothing, and even took a loan from France to buy it, which is the guarantee of Greece's national security in the next ten years, even if this war is lost, as long as this fleet is there, there is no need to worry that the Ottoman Empire will drive the warship to Athens to cut itself, this account Greeks still calculate very clearly.

As for the safety of the coastline of his allies, this is a matter of the Greek navy, so even if Hamid II claimed to send a fleet to bombard all the ports along the Bulgarian coast, and gave the Bulgarians and foreigners in each port 24 hours to evacuate, this fleet, which was also capable of shelling Istanbul, still hid in the military port of Athens and pretended not to hear.

The final result was that the Ottoman Navy's four Princess-class and six Canglong-class armored cruisers were all dispatched, and under the desperate gaze of the Bulgarians, they burned the country's largest port, Varna, the largest port in the country, directly to the ruins, killing and wounding more than 6,000 civilians alone, causing Ferdinand I to curse King George I of Greece in the royal palace.

"Alliance, it's not all like this!" Yang Feng said with disdain.

"Dozens of Russians are said to have died in the fire at Varna, and the Russian government is threatening Hamid II!" Zhang Quan said.

"Sue Nicholas, everyone has already announced that they are going to bombard Varna, they don't hurry up and leave, they deserve to be killed, this war has to be according to the rules, if he wants to break the rules, then don't blame me for breaking the rules, let Liu Buyun drive the fleet to Yuanshan Port, and also announce that four more divisions will be added to the Shenyang Military Region, and one division will be added to Kulun and Dihua." Yang Feng said with a sneer.

Following the order of His Majesty the Emperor, Liu Buyun led a huge fleet including the Kunlun and the Qinling, and drove to the port of Yuanshan, staring at Vladivostok and Aomori with fierce eyes, and the Far East suddenly became nervous.

"Rules, I'm the most rule-abiding person, I said that I wouldn't interfere in the war in the Balkans, that is, I will definitely not interfere, but if your country wants to interfere, then don't blame me for being rude, since China is an ally with the Ottoman Empire, it must fulfill its alliance obligations." Yang Feng said very arrogantly.

"Your Majesty, I hope you understand that the brutal attack of the Ottoman navy on the port of Varna, which resulted in the death of forty-two Russian citizens, must be punished for Hamid II and his army." Russian Minister Resal said with a frown.

"Your Excellency, the Ottoman navy has given them enough time to retreat, since they have not been warned, then they can only take the blame, in this tragedy there is nothing wrong with the Ottoman navy, and I think you should understand the meaning of the alliance treaty, if your country goes to war with the Ottoman Empire, China must fulfill its alliance obligations." Zhang Quan said with a sneer on the side.

"In addition, if your country behaves in other ways that are not in line with its status as a neutral country, then the Chinese government will respond at the same level, for example, if your warships block the military action of the Ottoman Navy on the high seas, then the Chinese Navy will send a fleet to the Black Sea to help its allies defend their legitimate rights and interests." Yang Feng then added.

Ressar reluctantly retired, in fact, Nikolai was not ready to fight at all, he just wanted to see Yang Feng's bottom line, now that Yang Feng had made his attitude clear to him, naturally there was no need to entangle, although he also knew that Yang Feng could not really drive the battleship into the Black Sea, after all, there was still a British fleet watching here, but this guy wanted to make trouble for him, and there was a way, not to mention that it was enough for him to drink a pot just by instigating the Japanese to play the Reconquista.

In recent years, the Japanese, with the support of Yang Feng, have begun to recover their vitality, and the army strength has even reached the upper limit of 100,000 stipulated in the treaty, and it can be said that it is well-equipped and well-trained.

There is also the ongoing oil development in Alaska, and without the drilling equipment imported from China, he can only look at the underground treasure and sigh, not to mention the big killer of cutting off the supply of diesel engines. (To be continued......)