Bulgarian Empire

Your Majesty, please take a look at our plan for the deployment of troops in the Balkans and Asia Minor. The chief of staff said while submitting a plan to Ferdinand.

Ferdinand took the plan and read it carefully. Now he is no longer the military rookie he used to be. Maybe he is not as good at commanding operations, but he can still make a preliminary judgment on the troops needed for a battle. arrived.

Bulgaria has formed two fronts before, including the northern front when it attacked Romania, and the western front when it attacked Belgrade.

A long time ago, the General Staff had plans to form two more fronts, namely, the Southwest Front to attack Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Southeast Front to attack the Asia Minor peninsula. Due to the needs of the battlefield, the Southwest Front Army and the Western Front Army need to merge to form the Balkan Front Army in order to launch a comprehensive attack on the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even the Northern Front Army may be merged into the Balkan Front Army when necessary.

Of course, this was the previous plan. Now that the Allies have stabilized the situation, there is no need for Bulgaria to join in the fun.

Ferdinand had always tried his best to avoid fighting on two fronts. Now that the Allies had withstood the Russian attack, the Balkan strategy would naturally be postponed. Anyway, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had no time to seek Bulgaria's bad luck.

Therefore, the deployment of troops on the Balkan Peninsula will naturally change. Out of national defense and security considerations, the General Staff decided to set up a headquarters above the Southwest, West, and North Fronts.

Cancel the original plan of the Balkan Front Army, and now Bulgaria's four major front army deployments are:

Western Front: 12 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry divisions, 4 heavy artillery brigades, 1 engineer division, with a total strength of about 226,000.

Northern Front: 15 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry division, 8 heavy artillery brigades, 2 engineering divisions, with a total strength of about 318,000.

Southwest Front Army: 9 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry division, 3 heavy artillery brigades, 2 engineering divisions, with a total strength of about 194,000.

Southeast Front Army: 40 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry brigades, 8 heavy artillery brigades, 2 engineering divisions, with a total strength of about 727,000.

In addition, Bulgaria has 51,000 troops in Sicily and 68,000 troops in southern Italy.

At the same time, there are 46,000 troops in the Libyan colony, 128,000 troops in Palestine, 24,000 troops in Jordan, and 78,000 troops assisting in the defense of the Suez Canal.

Coupled with the 500,000 troops in France and the 560,000 domestic reserves, Bulgaria has now mobilized 2.92 million troops, and it is about to break through the three million mark.

Now Ferdinand has to admire his foresight. First, he got two to three million young men from Mao Xiong, and then asked the British for more than 600,000 assams. Otherwise, he would have to explode now.

There is no doubt that the Ottoman Empire cannot be dealt with by these more than 700,000 troops alone, even with the more than 200,000 troops in the colonies!

Prior to this, Ferdinand had already made diplomatic efforts. Mao Xiong will also launch an attack on the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus region, and Ferdinand will also send most of the group of Asan cannon fodder to the Asia Minor Peninsula, so that the staff will have the confidence to launch a war of annihilation against the Ottoman Empire.

However, in Ferdinand's view, the strength of the troops still seemed to be somewhat insufficient. Bulgaria now has only 16.7 million troops in this war of annihilation, and nearly half of them are scumbags with a combat effectiveness equal to 5. Adding in the hundreds of millions of Russian troops, it will not only be two hundred How much.

Ferdinand asked suspiciously: If there are only these troops, it will be no problem to defeat the Ottomans, even if it is to conquer Ankara, but it may not be enough to destroy the Ottoman Empire, right?

As a traverser, Ferdinand knew that Bulgaria had easily defeated the Ottoman Empire twice before, not because Bulgaria was much stronger than them, but mainly because the Osman government was too corrupt.

Although the current ruling Turkish Al-Shabab is still very immature politically, it is still much stronger than the previous government. Otherwise, the two theaters of the Caucasus and Syria alone would have dragged them to death.

The chief of staff said confidently: Your Majesty, since the war started for more than a year, the Ottomans have successively fought wars in the Caucasus and Syria, which have greatly consumed their national strength.

With the industrial strength of the Ottoman Empire, their military production could not keep up with the consumption on the battlefield. After more than a year of fighting, their strategic material reserves have been consumed a lot.

When we fought on the ground, their army was only capable of combat at the beginning. After they didn't have enough ammunition to replenish later, the war was almost over.

Ferdinand nodded, and had to admit that he was influenced by the ideas of later generations. The Ottomans in history were able to persist until the end of the World War, but they did not receive weapons and ammunition assistance from the Allies.

However, due to his butterfly effect, when the war broke out in this time and space, the native chickens lost the support of the allies, and now they are only strong on the outside and strong on the inside.

Once the supply of weapons and ammunition is not available, this army of more than three million will be abolished. This point can be seen by referring to the Russians. In the later stage, several people have a rifle.

The industrial strength of the native chickens is less than one-tenth of that of the Russians. How can they guarantee the supply of weapons and ammunition?

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Finally Ferdinand declared:

Appointed General Popov, the former Minister of the Army, as the commander of the Southeast Front Army;

Appointment of the former Minister of War, General Andrei Blaskov, as Chief of Staff of the Southeastern Front;

Appointment of Defense Minister Dante Christophe as commander of the Balkan Regional Command;

Chief of General Staff Imya Dimitev was appointed Chief of Staff of the Balkan Regional Command.

Obviously, the general headquarters of the Balkan theater is still an empty shell. Before the full-scale offensive, the three front armies below are responsible for commanding the defense of the troops. This general headquarters cannot be effective, otherwise Ferdinand will not It may be possible for them to continue to hold their current positions concurrently.

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The Syrian region has now become a hell on earth, the cities have been turned into ruins, and the countryside has begun to be deserted.

The atrocities committed by the Ottomans were beyond ordinary people's imagination. The people close to Palestine and Jordan were fine, but they ran away after hearing the news.

Ferdinand, who had been prepared for a long time, naturally established refugee camps in Jordan and Palestine to receive refugees.

Major General Vicky Clinton, who was the garrison commander of the Middle East theater at the time, received the domestic order and began to recruit cannon fodder troops directly on the grounds of preventing the Ottoman army from attacking.

The standard is very simple, directly in accordance with the perverted military service law of Bulgaria, in the refugee camp. Anyway, most of those who can run over are young and strong, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are almost finished on the way to escape.

Cannon fodder doesn’t need a strong fighting force. The most important role of recruiting them into the army is not to expect them to defeat the Ottomans, but to let them take revenge~~

Forced conscription naturally does not exist, Ferdinand is still very moral, anyway, there are ways to get them to join the army voluntarily.

For example, encouraging them to take revenge on the Ottomans and rescue relatives and friends who have not yet escaped. There must be survivors now, and it may not be certain after a long time.

As long as a man of the right age does not enlist in the army, the colonial government will not give him relief food. Anyway, if you don't enlist in the army, go to mine. Apart from this, there is no other job to find in Palestine.

The mine is not easy to dig, not to mention the hardships and dangers. The key is that the contract period starts from ten years, and they have no labor law protection.

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A young officer from the Middle East Theater Command Command reported: General, this is the information on the newly recruited colonial troops. As of now, all the forty divisions we plan to recruit have been fully staffed.

These included thirty-one Greek divisions, and nine Romanian divisions.

Major General Vicky Clinton nodded and said with a smile: Oh, it seems that their enthusiasm for joining the army is still very high, hatred is indeed the best catalyst.

When we recruited them to defend Syria before, all of them were shrinking heads. Now that we know that we regret it, it is not too late to wake up.

Let's continue to recruit later, first replenish the withdrawn Greek divisions, and don't let them chill.

It has been more than two months since Syria fell, and the number of refugees accepted by the colonial government has exceeded 1.8 million, but out of such a small population, 600,000 people have joined the army.

It can scare people to death if you say it. This ratio is already a world record. Of course, this is also directly related to the relaxation of standards.

The proportion of young and strong people who escaped was high, and the recruitment standards of the colonial troops were surprisingly low.

Age is difficult to judge, but it doesn't matter if you look at your height. As long as a man is over 1.5 meters tall, he can join the army.

Fortunately, these soldiers didn't know what Major General Vicky Clinton was thinking, otherwise they would definitely be wronged, and the devil would be willing to join this colonial army!

It's okay to work hard, and now even the basic military pay and pensions are gone, unless you become an officer, you can get a small amount of military pay.

The only exception is probably the retreated Greek divisions. Although they are also colonial troops, they are old and still have a small amount of military pay.

Of course, this is only limited to veterans, let's forget about recruits. Bulgaria is poor now, and it is a fortune to save a fortune.

As for their combat effectiveness, Major General Vicky Clinton wasn't worried at all, it was a bad time anyway. I have just experienced the atrocities of the Ottomans, they will not surrender directly to the enemy, will they?

Time flies, and it entered May in a flash. The Bulgarian army officially launched a landing operation on the Asia Minor peninsula, and the scope of the world war expanded again.

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