After receiving the telegram for help, Prince Konstantnos tossed it aside without reading it. They said, after so thought, "Take a regint from our newly ford militia division and go over to reinforce the 18th Division! Tell Major General Andreas that this is his last group of reinforcents and that he must hold the line. If he can't, he doesn't have to co back!"
After saying that, Prince Konstantnos got up directly and went to the field hospital, knowing that it would be tough to hold the defense line with the current strength in hand!
In order to increase the number of soldiers, he had even ordered to catch strong n in the area. The militia reserve that has just been ford comprises militian captured in the Thessaly region!
Theoretically, he gained another division of troops; in reality, this newly ford militia division does not even have a gun in hand, and its combat power is better than nothing, right?
When they get to the front lines, they'll have guns anyway! The war goes on, people always die, and they'll have guns when others die!
In the late stages of World War I, the Russian army did just that! Now it has been done by the Greeks, in advance!
Now Prince Konstantnos played the idea of the field hospital again. From the beginning of the attack on the city of Trikala until now, the wounded in the field hospital has exceeded 20,000 people!
Leaving out the severely wounded who have completely lost their fighting ability, at least 7,000 to 8,000 lightly wounded can still barely fight on the battlefield! Even if the combat power has to be reduced, this group of 'veterans' is better than the newly ford militia division!
Prince Konstantnos has long ordered, but it is a pity that few people are still willing to go to war again!
When he approached the field hospital, a stench overwheld Prince Konstantnos, who had never suffered this pain but was still forced to resist nausea and continue to move forward!
Not far away appears a row of a load of the stretcher. It still puts the wounded on top. These are just from the front line! From ti to ti ca a burst of wailing from the wounded. It's creepy!
Few dical staff holding a first aid kit are busy working. That is, to carry out so first aid work, take the bandage to re-dress the wound!
dicine? I'm sorry, but in the 19th century, this was a very luxurious product! Except for a few officers, ordinary soldiers were not entitled to it!
And many of the seriously injured, even if one can rescue them, are also crippled, making it even less worthwhile for the Greek governnt to spend the big bucks!
Even with dicine, the chances of the seriously wounded surviving are ager! There are no antibiotics in this era, and the inventor of penicillin is still a kid!
It's all a gamble on whether the wound will beco infected or not! Once a wound becos infected, if it is on an extremity, it has to be amputated!
If it is other parts, expect God to help! The chances of a miracle will not be more than one percent!
Obviously, the field hospitals of the Greek army were not capable of receiving so many wounded! Even for simple dical treatnt, they could not do it!
Seeing this scene, Prince Konstantnos had so understanding as to why those lightly wounded refused to go into battle again! After experiencing such an environnt, it is estimated that many of their minds would collapse!
Prince Konstantnos was thinking about how he could send these n to the front again. Coercive ans are useless, and many of the wounded who have been healed have already broken their bones again to resist being recruited!
...
On the front line of the 18th Division Command, Major General Andreas looked at this batch of reinforcents sent to him by Prince Konstantnos and was about to go crazy!
From twelve or thirteen-year-olds to seventy or eighty-year-olds!
Not to ntion combat power, Andreas doubts that many of them, in the end, will still be able to afford to withstand the gun!
At this mont, he even wondered if he had offended Prince Konstantnos sowhere and was now putting on little shoes!
Soon, he dismissed this idea! At this ti, everybody is in the sa line of shackles. If sothing happens, no one can get away!
Anyway, it's better to have reinforcents than not. No matter how outrageous, as long as you can pull the trigger, it's always sowhat useful!
The premise is that he first has to teach this mob to use weapons!
After a mont of frustration, Major General Andreas yelled, "Guards, tell all regints to co to division headquarters to collect their n and tell them that reinforcents have arrived!!!"
Well! Soon he will not be the only one depressed. It will be even more difficult for those below! And there is no choice. There are only so many reinforcents. Take it or leave it!
Anyway, now all the troops are short of n! Since Prince Konstantnos drew a division at the front, everyone's defensive line has beco longer, and accordingly, the troops have been divided thinly!
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Since the Ottomans launched a full-scale counter-offensive, Prince Konstantnos telegraphed the Greek governnt with a sternly worded plea for help!
The content is very short, with just one aning: if there are no more reinforcents, everyone will receive the news of his defeat in less than three days!
At this mont, Gergios I could not sit still! Unlike the previous letters for help, this ti is dangerous. No commander will send such a telegram for help until the mont of life and death!
"How many troops are left in the country?" Gergios I asked eagerly.
The Minister of War said with a bitter smile, "Not more than 40,000 n, and mostly old, sick and disabled! But all the troops with fighting ability are now deployed to the front!"
Gergios I thought about it and said, "It's no big deal! Send out my Royal Guard as well, form a reinforcent force of 30,000 n, and set out at once to reinforce Prince Konstantnos!"
The Minister of War said with a deathly grimace: "But Your Majesty, there's simply not enough ti!
All these just ford the army. They are still only a peasant with hoes, or just from the factory workers, not to say that there is no combat power!
Right now, they're still spread out all over the country, and I'm afraid it will be too late when they arrive! Now the army that can reinforce Prince Konstantnos within three days is less than 10,000 n!"
Gergios I look more gloomy and dreadful, this mont he suddenly found the situation, the crisis has reached such a point!
The governnt has been holding back from sending additional reinforcents to the front, not that they don't want to, but the country simply can't get a decent army all the ti!
In other words, from the mont they sat down at the gambling table, the Greek governnt had already bargained! If they hadn't done their best, the Greek army wouldn't have been able to pierce the Ottomans' defenses earlier easily!
It is also the common problem of all small countries - they can not afford to lose! One defeat and you lose all the chips in your hand!
Gergios I coldly swept the Minister of War and said, "I don't care how many reasons you have, but within three days, reinforcents must arrive at the front!
We have to hold the Trikala line, and don't tell that your Ministry doesn't even have a plan for reinforcents!
Even if the reinforcents can't all arrive, we must make it to as many as possible! I only ask that the defense line be held, and at what cost, we must hold it!"
"Yes!" The Minister of War replied with a bitter smile.
After a few monts of silence, seeing Gergios I's anger slightly subsided, the Pri Minister suddenly sighed and said: "Now is not the ti to bla. The most urgent task is to make Bulgaria and Montenegro join this war soon!
Otherwise, it's no longer possible to win this war on our own, even with a decent armistice outco!"
Gergios I is also considered the Greek hero of all generations, but it is a pity that so were born at the wrong ti. Now the bottom of Greece is really too thin!
At the Pri Minister's prompting, Gergios I at once understood and opened his mouth to ask: "Tell us all! What price do we have to pay in exchange for the Bulgarians to send troops imdiately?"
The faces of the people changed greatly, from the beginning of the war to now. In not even ten days Ottomans will defeat Greece!
The plan to rebuild Greater Greece has just taken its first step and failed!
Now Greece can not compare with the latter. Not only is the territory less than half of the latter, but the population is also only two million! Once defeated, in the future, the Greek army will not be able to restore their strength for a long ti!
The Minister of Finance spoke up first and said, "Isn't it too early for you to talk about the post-war gains!
The current situation on the battlefield is very unfavorable for us, and I suggest urging Bulgaria and Montenegro to enter the war as soon as possible!
From the situation on the battlefield, the strength of the Ottoman army is still there, and it is tough to end the war in the short term!
Without the intervention of the Great Powers, it is a big question mark whether the League could have won the final victory?"
When the covers were blown off, the Balkan League had to be quick to win the war! Once the Ottoman Empire reacted, the war beca a protracted war, and the other countries were still uncertain, but Greece is definitely did not last two months!
The Minister of the Interior said with a bitter smile, "This is indeed a problem! But we started this war. We have to get sothing out of it, right?
Without enough revenue, what will we tell the people at ho!
If we promise too many benefits now in order to pull Bulgaria into the war, in case the Russians intervene later and the League wins the war, we'll lose big!"
Everyone looked at each other with a look of helplessness! Everyone has now lost confidence in the Balkan League and pinned their hopes on the support of the Russians!
The Minister of Foreign Affairs disapproved: "At this point in ti, why do you still think so much! We must think so much, but won't others think about it?
Do you think the Bulgarian and Montenegro governnts can't think of this? Why should people take millet from the fire for us without enough interest?"
Gergios I was stunned, wasn't he? They would have joined without the Greeks' promises if it was a sure-win war!
But now it is obvious that the chances of winning are not good. Do you expect a paper treaty to bind everything?
Ferdinand did not even have to tear up the pact. The war was started in advance by the Greeks. According to the pact's terms, Bulgaria joined the war within three months, which is not considered a breach of contract!
As for the Bulgarian governnt's promises, don't even bother. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made verbal promises. As long as the Bulgarian governnt cos to a stalemate, Greece can't even make allegations in public opinion!
If Greece can hold out for three months, Bulgaria will definitely enter the war! It ans the Ottoman Empire had limited strength, and there was no pressure to crush weak people!
If Greece could not hold out for three months, they lost the war. Bulgaria can pretend that nothing happened. Anyway, they have not yet declared war on the Ottoman Empire. With the presence of the Russian-Bulgarian Alliance, the Ottoman Empire did not dare to do anything to them!
At this mont, Gergios I knew Ferdinand had screwed him! Moreover, he was also screwed. There is no concrete compromise. Bulgaria will probably continue to watch the show!
But he also did not believe that the Bulgarians would not be worried at all. It really is not easy to watch the defeat of Greece, nor will it be easy for Bulgaria!
Well, he had overestimated Ferdinand's morality! In Bulgaria, Ferdinand is looking at the war report, drinking tea, and enjoying himself!
Sotis they also review a few points and co off as a crowd eater, not worried about the Greeks at all!
The Greeks were able to fight until now, and Ferdinand was satisfied! At most, according to the initial estimate of the staff, Greece could withstand the attack of 150,000 Ottoman troops with all its strength; if they launched an active attack, they would defeat them in no more than ten days!
It was similar to the historical Greek Army performance, which got defeated a week after the start of the war!
Now the performance of the Greek army has been very good, and fighting with more than 100,000 Ottoman troops for so long, and has taken out at least 30,000 to 40,000 Ottoman troops, has been very surprised by Ferdinand!
As for sending troops to help? No problem! Just wait a little bit. After the defeat of the main Greek force, that's when Bulgaria sent troops!
In both lives, countless lessons from history have taught Ferdinand that the allocation of benefits is never based on rit. That strength is the core factor in determining the distribution of benefits!
Isn't Bulgaria the biggest contributor to the Balkan wars in parallel ti and space? He thought he could get the biggest share of the cake, but the result? Not enough strength, in front of the interests of forr allies into enemies, was beaten up a half!
Now Ferdinand intends to pit one against the other, and anyway, Bulgaria is acting according to the plan that was agreed upon in advance.
The Greeks themselves are the ones to bla for starting the war early, and if they can't hold out for half a month, who has the nerve to bla Bulgaria!
Of course, even if it lasted half a month, it would be useless! Even if they entered the war, Bulgaria was also first to deal with Istanbul, followed by the Macedonian region. For a while still could not help the Greeks!
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Ferdinand put down the cup of tea in his hand and asked, "Pri Minister, how are the preparations for Montenegro? Is there a chance that they will enter the war early?"
Pri Minister Konstantin smiled and said, "Montenegro is now terrified! They have their eyes on us right now, and it looks like they won't enter the war as long as we don't co to the field!"
Ferdinand's face turned pale. Sothing is wrong! Nikola I was a man who had fought in two wars against the Turks and knew absolutely everything about the military power of the Ottoman Empire! Even if the Greeks are defeated, it is not so much to scare him!
"Do not underestimate them. Nikola I is also a famous general of his generation! The strength the Ottomans display now will not scare him!
We were able to fool the Greeks, but not him! It looks like through the Bulgarian War, Nikola I has gained a basic idea of our strength, or else by now Montenegro would have simply withdrawn from the League and would not be watching!"
The people's faces changed greatly and then returned to the ti. It has co to this point, even if their strength is exposed and what can be?
Could the Greeks not make peace with the Ottoman Empire? At the most, it was only two divisions in size. What could it do to threaten Bulgaria?
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