The offensive and defensive battle of Skopje in full swing began, and when the officers and soldiers of the two sides were desperately fighting, Carlo, who was far away in Rome, also had his own problems.

However, his difficulty was much less difficult than that of the Italian officers and soldiers who fought bloodily.

Perhaps in the eyes of some, this is the king's fuss.

"That's what your Department of Transportation has changed?"

Looking at the documents in his hand, Carlo looked at Pedersen, the Minister of Transportation, in front of him with an unhappy expression.

Pederson, who was watched by Carlo, secretly complained in his heart. Why did this monarch suddenly care about the Ministry of Communications, and personally looked at the rectification plan of the Ministry of Communications. There are so many departments, and your own department is directly selected?

Pedersen couldn't figure it out, but he knew what to do now.

Faced with the king's wrath, he immediately bowed his head and confessed his mistake. "I will take this rectification plan back and renegotiate it, and I will definitely come up with a better rectification plan."

Facing the old fritter-like Minister of Transportation, Carlo coldly put the rectification plan back in front of him. "I will wait for the new rectification plan of the Ministry of Transportation."

With so much attention from Carlo, I don't know whether Pedersen should be happy or sad.

After seeing off the Minister of Transport, Carlo rubbed his face, and he was busier than ever. The resumption of the war with the Ottomans was only a small part of this, and more was due to the need to review the rectification plans of various departments, as in the case of the Ministry of Communications.

The biggest reason why Carlo still insisted on rectifying various departments during the war was that after the war, there were continuous mistakes in all aspects of government departments and even the military.

Taking the military as an example, there are all kinds of flaws in the lists of various conscripts, and even those who have been conscripted for several years until they have died, which also fully shows that the military is not doing its job properly.

In addition, there are countless mistakes in the preparation of materials, such as the Ministry of Communications, which Carlo pointed out and criticized, at present, it is common for railway transportation to be delayed, and some are even delayed by more than 10 hours. There are many reasons for all this, in addition to the various discomforts in the face of the sudden increase in tasks, there is also the original personnel consciousness and thinking are not in place.

Of course, there are various problems in other departments, so I won't list them all. As for why the Ministry of Communications was mentioned separately, it is also because road traffic, whether it is a state of emergency in peacetime or wartime, has a huge effect on the military, economy, and politics. Otherwise, the motherland of the future will not build a large number of various communication lines.

Bringing everyone closer together, and even making them feel the outside world, can have a huge impact on them. To put it mildly, it also makes it easier for the Royal Government to control each individual and family. After all, the phrase Emperor Yuan is not unique to China.

Therefore, the necessary rectification is also imminent, and as for the choice of wartime, this is better understood. It's not that wartime takes more time, but wartime it's easier to cut through the mess quickly, after all, everything is faster and faster in wartime, and the efficiency is better than at other times.

And just as Carlo was about to continue his knife on the government department, the chief of the guard hurried in. "Your Majesty, the Ottomans of Adrianople have made a move."

Ferimic's words surprised Carlo unusually much. "When did it start?"

"Just this morning, this is a telegram from our front-line advisers in Bulgaria."

Although Carlo did not know much about military affairs, he also knew that the battle in Adrianople was very important to Italy.

Carlo took the telegram and immediately read it. On the telegram, an Italian adviser from Adrianople wrote in detail about the scene of the beginning of the war.

At about 7 o'clock this morning, the Ottoman troops from Adrianople launched a massive artillery bombardment, and the heavy artillery fire enveloped the Bulgarian positions in it.

Although the Bulgarians had built positions, this time the Ottomans seemed to have pulled up all the artillery of the country, although the number of artillery of the Ottoman army was not too large, but it was mixed with a lot of heavy artillery, and experienced Italian advisers heard the whistling of shells of more than 300 mm caliber.

He could put his hand on the Bible and swear that it was definitely a heavy artillery of more than three hundred millimeters caliber. Although the Ottoman army was not equipped with such a huge cannon, considering that it had introduced heavy artillery for shore defense, it is self-evident where it came from.

These Ottomans were really bold and dismantled all the coastal defense guns that defended Istanbul and brought them over. Aren't they afraid that the Italian fleet will break through the straits and shell Istanbul?

Although I don't know what kind of ability Osman has, he dares to do this. But the effect is really significant.

Although the rate of fire of this heavy artillery is impressive, its power is quite large, and basically everyone in the area of most football fields is killed or injured in one shot. Such a powerful artillery bombardment naturally makes people fearful, and no one can not change their color in the face of such a powerful heavy artillery bombardment. Fortunately, such a heavy artillery rate of fire is impressive, and the Ottoman artillery is well-trained to do one shot a minute, and there are only two of this cannon on the front line, and the number of other Ottoman heavy guns with a caliber of more than 150 mm is also scarce, so the Bulgarian army gritted its teeth and withstood it, although it still had some impact, but it was not enough to make its morale collapse under the shelling.

With the end of the artillery bombardment and the arrival of the Ottoman infantry, the morale of the Bulgarian army began to pick up.

Yes, you read that right, the Bulgarian defenders, on the contrary, grew in morale under the onslaught of the Ottoman infantry.

The main reason for this spectacle is the current lack of combat effectiveness of the Ottoman army in Adrianople. At present, the well-trained Ottoman army has either been defeated and annihilated before, or besieged, especially the more than 100,000 Ottoman troops currently besieged in Macedonia, which are the absolute elite of their training for many years.

This also led to the fact that less than 80,000 of the nearly 300,000 Ottoman troops currently in Adrianople were pre-war troops, and the rest were improvised after the outbreak of the war. Among them, nearly 100,000 people are brand new troops that have been formed for less than a month. What can you expect from these recruits who can't even shoot accurately?

Karlo didn't know what was going on with the Ottoman army, but at least he was relieved that Bulgaria had blocked the news of the Ottoman attack.

After putting down the telegram, Carlo asked the chief of the guard in front of him. "Has the Army received any news?"

"I already know."

"And what do they do?"

"Not yet, but I think the War Department should have a countermeasure."

Ferimic was right, and the news of the Ottoman army's offensive in Adrianople prompted the War Office to respond immediately.

The two divisions, which were originally intended to be used for the seizure of the island, were immediately changed by the War Department and ordered to turn to Salonica. Whether the reinforcements will support Skopje or Adrianople depends on the actual situation.

As for the Battle of Skopje, which Admiral Kadolna is commanding, it is believed that he definitely received the news earlier than Rome, and as for what to do, there is no need to remind the battle-hardened Chief of the General Staff.