At this time, the Ottoman Empire was already very weak, although they still had a total population of more than 260,000, but among them there were 4oo Christians, and more than 6o Shiites, Kurds and Arabs, these populations were not suitable soldiers. Coupled with the lack of weapons and strong social contradictions, and most importantly, the Ottoman Empire's feudal system was extremely backward and had very low control over the grassroots, resulting in extremely low mobilization capacity.

In this war, this flaw was exposed, and only 33 were sent, despite the fact that there were more than 1.76 million Juche nationalities. 60,000 troops. Its opponent, the Balyu League, was far more capable of mobilizing, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria, with a population of only 430,000, sent more than 30,000 troops; The Kingdom of Serbia, with a population of 210,000, formed 2. an army of 60,000 men; The Kingdom of Greece had a population of only 2.66 million at that time, and it dispatched 2. 60,000 troops; Even the Kingdom of Montenegro, a small fart country with a total population of only 60,000, pulled out an army of 446o.

The Balkan coalition army has as many as 750,000, more than twice as many as the Ottomans, and not only is it more numerous, but also the quality of its soldiers, weapons and equipment, and the level of training are higher than those of the Ottomans. Moreover, the morale of the armies of these countries, encouraged by the goals of the national liberation struggle, is high. On the other hand, the Ottoman Empire ** team, because the country has just experienced a series of coups d'état, the political situation is turbulent, the ideology is chaotic, and the morale of the army is low. In such a situation, the Ottomans can win the battle.

Therefore, although this war was delayed by a few months compared to the original plane, the early process was similar. The Bulgarian army formed the main group in three army groups in the Istanbul direction. The main forces of Serbia (three army groups) against the group of Ottoman troops in Macedonia. The Greek Army Group Thessaly and Army Group Epirus were preparing to deal with the armies of Thessaloniki and Yanina, respectively. The task of the Montenegrin army was to fight in Macedonia in coordination with the Serbian army. The Greek Navy was ready to take action against the Ottoman Navy, guaranteeing the allied supremacy in the Mediterranean. The Allies formed an encirclement posture against the Ottoman Empire, preparing to crush the enemy before Ottoman reinforcements arrived.

On February 9, 192, the Montenegrin army, together with the 20,000-strong Serbian Ibar Army, launched an attack on the Ottoman Empire** in northern Thrace and northern Albania. On the same day, Bulgarian troops advanced south across the border with Baotu. The Second Army, located on the right flank of the Conservative Army, repelled the First Ottoman Army. The 1st and 3rd Armies of the Protectors, fighting on the left flank, after repeatedly repelling the Ottoman Army, routed the 3rd Army of the Ottoman Army near Kirk-Kilishe (Lozegrad) on 2 February and began to advance southward.

On February 15, 192, the Serbian army groups launched a general offensive, and the Ottoman Empire ** in Macedonia was crushed.

On February 19-2, 192, there was a fierce battle at Lülé Burzsen, and the Fourth Army of the Ottoman ** was routed. The Ottomans retreated in a hurry. At the same time, the Greek Navy also opened the blockade of the Dardanelles, cut off the exit of the Ottoman Navy, and began a campaign to seize the islands of the Aegean Sea.

In southern Macedonia, the Greek army won on 2 February near Yenige and launched an offensive towards Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki). In the original history, the Saloniki defenders held out for only a week before kneeling, and the local governor, Hassan O. Takhsin Pasha, surrendered to the Greek army.

But on this plane, history has turned a corner here. The Greek army kicked the steel plate and smashed its head under the city of Thessaloniki.

Kemal himself was a native of Thessaloniki, and his family was influential in the region. In the case of the Ottomanko Socialist Party, there were no longer a few people born into the families of the local elites, and under the activities of these people, the governor of the Thessaloniki region, Hassan O, Takhsin Pasha, was overthrown. Half a year earlier, the Ottoman Eighth Provisional Regiment in the area had been completely controlled by the Ottoman Socialist Party.

Although the Ottomanco Socialist Party was a new organization that had been established for less than three years, it was full of talented people and very united. Kemal himself was a very good military strategist, and his deputy, Osman Nie Fleis, had a talent for politics and propaganda. With this culture and martial arts as the core, the Ottomanco Socialist Party has gathered many outstanding talents in just a few years. On top of that, there are thousands of cyborgs sent by Wendehei, who have joined this organization as natives of the Ottoman Empire in the past few years, and they have quickly become the backbone of the organization by virtue of their ability to make the mass level at this time, although they have not yet entered the top level, but they have already accounted for a lot of proportion in the middle and lower levels of the organization.

Kemal's Ottoman Socialist Party basically completely copied the organizational form and operation mode of the Chinese Socialist Party, and it had a good mass base in the Thessaloniki region, and its control over the grassroots was far beyond that of the Ottoman Empire. They established extensive grass-roots organizations and militias in both the urban and rural areas of Thessaloniki.

After the start of the war, they formed the Thessaloniki Regiment with the 8th Provisional Regiment as the core, plus the militia forces controlled by the Ottomanco Socialist Party. Thanks to China's strong support, the regiment has the weaponry of the Far Ottoman regular army and the Balyu coalition army, and coupled with the efforts of the cyborgs, the level of training, morale, and organization is also higher than that of the Balyu coalition army. In addition to the weapons of the 6th Army supported by China, they also got 4o original J-1 "Big" fighters and 4O J-2 "Raven" fighters, which played a huge role in the war.

Thus, the tragedy of Greece began.

The main attack on the Thessaloniki region was the Greek Army Group Thessaly, led by Prince Constantine, Crown Prince of Greece. This prince is King Constantine I, who had three ups and downs (two abdications and two resets) in the original time and space.

It was not the first time that His Royal Highness had dealt with Osman. In 1897, during the First Greco-Turkish War, the Greek army he led fought a battle with the Ottomans, but was beaten by the Ottomans, so that Greece had to cede land and pay reparations. At the time of the military alliance coup d'état in 19o9, the prince was relieved of all his duties in the army.

In 192, Crown Prince Constantine was re-appointed commander-in-chief of the Greek 6th Army, leading the Thessaly Army Group and participating in the First Balyu War. This time his luck seemed to have picked up, and during the war he led the Thessaly Army in the battles of Sarantapolo and Gianitsa to defeat the Ottoman army into dogs.

However, this good fortune only lasted for half a month. The triumphant Prince Constantine led his army into the Thessaloniki region on February. Here he was met by Kemal, and the Turkish army, outside Thessaloniki before the start of the war, had built a strong line of reinforced concrete and steel plates, built by the standards of World War II, although far less exaggerated than the Maginot Line and the Siegfried Line, but it was almost insurmountable in this era.

The equipment of the Greek army, although better than that of the Ottomans, was also very limited, they did not have an air force at this time, and the entire Greek army did not even have a single aircraft, and the army of Thessaly was no exception. Their opponents had 8 advanced fighters, and although these aircraft did not participate in the war at first, their reconnaissance activities did not stop, so every move of the Greek army was watched by Turkey.

Prince Constantine was ready to take the city of Thessaloniki in one go, to give himself a good reputation, and at the same time to be able to take more initiative in future negotiations, so he ordered the Thessaly army to speed up the march, but he did not expect to run headlong into the Turkish defense line 4o kilometers outside the city. Constantine's previous encounters with the Turkish army were all vulnerable, so he thought that the current army would be no exception, so after 2 minutes of artillery preparation, he ordered a strong attack.

At that time, Kemal's Thessaloniki Regiment had more than 60,000 well-trained officers and soldiers, and 66 continued to receive 4oo heavy machine guns, 6o light machine guns, as well as as 1o6 mortars of various calibers and 2u1丨 barreled artillery, and ammunition was also very sufficient.

The Greek army did not know this, and they still measured the Turkish army according to the old eyes. When they launched a major attack on the defensive line, it was smooth at first, and the Turkish army hid behind the line and did not move, allowing the Greek army to advance in high spirits, with only scattered gunfire ringing out from time to time along the entire line.

The shots were fired by snipers, and before the war, the Ottoman Socialist Party had selected sharpshooters from its own armed forces to form a 6o sniper unit, which was their first official appearance. This line of defense had well-equipped artillery bunkers, and the Greek artillery fire had little effect on the defenders who were hiding in the bunkers. As soon as the Greek artillery fire stopped, they got out of their bunkers and began their work.

With these gunshots, Greek officers fell to the ground in response. These officers in ornate military uniforms and holding command knives were so conspicuous in the queue that the Turkish snipers were as easy as hunting, knocking these guys dressed as conspicuous as roosters to the ground one by one.

However, the small number of these officers did not have much impact on the surging Greek army. The Greek soldiers, with high morale, did not care about this loss, and the higher-ups behind them kept urging, and the Greek army continued to storm.

Seeing that his men were about to storm the Turkish lines, Prince Constantine was as excited as a chicken, and he was already fantasizing about himself riding a tall horse and stepping into the city of Thessaloniki to the cheers of the crowd.

But he didn't have long to be smug before a smile froze on his face.

When the Greek army was less than 1oo meters away from the Turkish defense line, the Turkish army, which had been silent in front, finally made a move, and it was a big move. Three green flares rose behind the defensive line, and the entire defensive line was densely packed with human heads wearing steel helmets, followed by a continuous, earth-shattering sound of gunfire.

The Greek army was like a huge wave, as if it had hit an invisible wall, and the momentum of its march came to an abrupt end, and then the Greek army's ranks resounded with terrible screams, the sound almost drowned out the sound of Turkish guns, and in the fire net woven by hundreds of machine guns, the Greek soldiers were knocked down one by one like wheat harvested by a harvester.

Because many junior officers have been killed by snipers, in this case, if it is a good fight, there is no problem. But now in this situation, the soldiers who have lost their command do not know how to deal with it. The confusion of the Greek army in front of the line and the continued advance of those behind made their casualties even worse.

At the same time, the Greek artillery positions were also attacked by Turkish artillery, who, with the correction of the aircraft, had an extremely high hit rate, destroying most of the artillery of the Greek army. As a result, the Greek army could not even counterattack with artillery fire, and then the Turkish artillery, which destroyed the Greek artillery position, turned the muzzle of the gun to tilt the artillery fire towards the Greek infantry cavalry

At this moment, the Greek army could no longer hold on, and began to retreat. They discarded almost all their heavy weapons and provisions, and retreated 6 kilometers in one fell swoop.

On February 2 alone, the Greek army lost 20,000 killed and 86 wounded, which was the "Christmas Fiasco" that would be circulated in Greece in the future, of course, on the Turkish side it was called the "Christmas Victory".

With 20,000 casualties in one day, the 70,000-strong Thessaly Army was crippled, and Constantine was also stunned by this, and he organized a defense on the spot while asking for help from the coalition forces.

However, the coalition forces themselves had their own agendas, and the Bulgarian army closest to him was storming Constantinople (Istanbul) and fighting for Macedonian territory, where could it be to make the difference between life and death in Greece. For them, Greece is hopefully unlucky, so that they can have a lot of points. Serbia's plan is similar, they are now competing with Greece and Bulgaria to grab Macedonia's territory, how can they send troops to help?

And Greece's own Epirus Army Group could not get out of the way for a while, and if they had come to their aid, Albania and Macedonia would have to lose all their territory to Bulgaria and Serbia.

Therefore, the Greek government let Prince Constantine resist on the one hand, and on the other hand, organized the second batch of troops in the country. But Kemal wouldn't give him a chance. On 2 February, the Legion of Thessaloniki stormed the Greek army with a great victory.

The Greek army, having lost almost all its heavy weapons, was unable to resist at all, and held out for only one day and one night, and was completely defeated on February 2. In this battle, the Greek army lost more than 20,000 B, 270,000 under Prince Constantine were captured, and the Thessaly army was completely annihilated.

In the current situation of repeated defeats, the encouragement of this great victory is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, the Turkish army on the Istanbul side, which was supported by Germany, Austria and China, was also much stronger than the original time and space, and in this case, they also supported it.

At this time, the Ottoman authorities were in great need of a hero to boost the morale of the people, and Kemal, who had a brilliant record, became the most suitable candidate. On 3 February, the Ottoman authorities promoted Kemal to the rank of lieutenant general, giving him the honorary titles of "Pasha" and "Guardian of Thessaloniki", and appointed him governor of Thessaloniki and Macedonia, responsible for military and political power in the region.

With this appointment, Kemal justifiably replaced the military and political positions in the area with his own party members, and the area around Thessaloniki and the Halkidiki Peninsula were completely controlled by the Ottomanko Socialist Party. At the same time, Turkish civilians and fleeing troops in the nearby fallen areas also seemed to have found their backbone and came to take refuge.

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