Rebirth: Romania Rising

"Your Majesty the Tsar, there is an urgent message ahead."

"Is there any new progress in the Seventh Division?" Tsar Ferdinand asked while taking the telegram from the minister.

"No, the Serbs attacked." Several ministers looked nervous. "About half an hour ago, the Serbian army led by Bojovic began a full-scale attack."

The Minister of War suddenly became nervous for no reason. After reading the telegram, the Tsar even screamed: "They actually launched a counterattack on our army's position. Didn't they say that they could hold on for at most three days before being defeated by our army?" "

"Yeah, how could this happen?" Several other people also looked at each other.

"How many troops are there? How many cavalry did the enemy dispatch? How wide is the attack?" The Minister of War asked a series of questions, and the person in charge could only explain awkwardly: "I'm sorry, it was not stated clearly in the telegram."

"No matter what happens now, the enemy has attacked, and we must fight back." Facing the Greek troops who were still advancing from a closer distance, the Tsar could only express his heartfelt position, "The situation does not allow us to continue to pursue the Greeks."

The Tsar thought for a while and made a final decision: "Withdraw the troops and return to the division! We originally expected to deal with the Serbs in a few weeks, but now the time has come. Although the enemy held the line, it is obvious that they cannot cause much trouble, let alone that it can still Count on them to storm the position.”

The Tsar immediately ordered the 7th Division to continue to retreat for emergency battlefield supplies, and then turn around and deal a heavy blow to the Serbs.Just halfway through the telegram, a new telegram came: claiming that the enemy's artillery fire was very fierce, the [-]th Division did not receive strong support, all the positions facing it had collapsed, and most of the army surrendered.

"What?" Everyone was shocked. Although a defeat was acceptable and expected, such a rapid collapse still greatly exceeded everyone's expectations, and even appeared to be the surrender of the establishment.

"Where's our artillery? Why don't we fight back? Why don't we provide support?" This question was on everyone's mind, and a big question mark seemed to hang around their hearts.

Before they could figure out the reason, a new telegram came. After reading this telegram, the Tsar's lungs almost exploded. It actually read: The civilians in the rear of the [-]th Division rebelled and joined forces with the Serbians. Military artillery fire attacked our army's logistics troops, which had suffered all losses and chose to surrender. Currently, the rebels are encouraging domestic Serbs to go on strike and resist the war...

"What?" Everyone's eyes widened, could such a thing happen?

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it!" The Minister of War shook his head like a rattle. "How is this possible? This must be a mistake." The Tsar also said coldly: "I don't believe it either. The Serbs are far away from us. How can I have the energy to send out spies here?"

"We..." the Minister of War struggled to say a sentence with a pale face, "what kind of military counterattack can we carry out?"

After saying this, he shook his head, at a loss.The [-]th Division has been wiped out, how can we fight back?Do you rely on the domestic militia?Continue to deploy other troops?Not being wiped out by others is considered a blessing from God.

The tsar seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw: "At present, we can only order all parties to hold on and hold on to Macedonia... Give us a chance to send militia support. The militia troops will need at least three days from mobilization to departure and supplies!"

……

At the same time in Macedonia, night finally fell, but the Serbian army's offensive had just begun. After eating up the resistance and supplies of the Bulgarian 7th Division in front of them, they immediately rushed towards the East Macedonian position.

In the dark night, illumination bombs were continuously launched into the sky, illuminating the earth as if it were daytime. Bojovich, known as the "Iron Stone General", led the infantry to destroy everything, and there were fierce sounds of gunfire and fire everywhere.Although their equipment was worse than that of the Bulgarians, their morale was high and they became stronger the more they fought.

But now that Bojovic's large force has arrived in East Macedonia, and the position of the Bulgarian 1st Division has also been broken through, with its flanks completely exposed, a pure infantry division lacking heavy artillery firepower cannot withstand the Serbian army's close approach. Hundreds of artillery bombardments took turns.

After repeated attacks, the Serbian 15th and 21st divisions penetrated the front. The cavalry swarmed forward and continued to expand and tear the gap. By late at night, the Serbian army as a whole had beaten the Bulgarian army to pieces and was about to fight with them. The Greek friendly forces joined forces, but they also paid a heavy price, which was greater than the cumulative losses in several battles.

As the reconnaissance investigation showed, the positions of the two militia divisions of the Bao army were basically infantry and did not have decent heavy firepower. This objectively facilitated the cavalry to break through the enemy's encirclement and interception.

The Serbian army fought a bloody path.Bojovic seemed very calm after breaking through the siege. After attacking day and night for more than 72 hours, on the one hand, he gathered the troops who seemed to be somewhat disjointed due to offensive operations. On the other hand, he deployed positions and built defenses, preparing to attack after dawn. Fight with Bulgaria's elite and militia troops drawn from the north.

However, this time the Bulgarians were obviously smarter. Although they were eager to return to the army to gather their own infantry and artillery, they did not choose to march directly and hit them head-on. Instead, they used part of their troops to conduct a frontal feint attack to cover up others. The troops carried out flanking detours and actually made the main attack.

Bojovic turned a blind eye to this. On the one hand, he made corresponding deployment adjustments in response to the enemy's attempts. On the other hand, he asked his men not to shrink back when facing the enemy's elite troops, and to fight as they should - if not, The morale that we have finally built up will definitely die down, and we are afraid that we will not be able to fight any battles.

However, this completely changed the frontal deployment. The two sides once again engaged in a melee, each losing some troops and ending hastily. The Bulgarian army was eager to return to defend the southern Greek army, and its 1st and 8th divisions were eager to gather their scattered troops. The infantry and artillery were really stretched thin and unlucky.

On July 1913, 7, the King of Romania and the Supreme Command in Bucharest finally received a complete battle report from Serbia: ...the Serbian army maintained the Macedonian front line after heavy losses with the enemy and continued to contain the war with the Bulgarian army.

Everyone thought that the Serbian army would be difficult to support, but they did not expect to achieve a counterattack. King Carol had a smile on his face and expressed satisfaction: "Very good, General Bojovic has laid a solid foundation for our next phase of operations." Base."

"Don't worry about the divisions with Serbia and Greece. I believe that the three major armies can implement the planned plan. Without the constraints of Bulgaria, it will be easier for us to take advantage of it." Carroll smiled, "Next, Romania will also declare war. Bulgaria, please feel free to move your troops forward..."

The stalemate on the front line indeed changed. On July 7, Romania officially declared war on Bulgaria, and the three major armies attacked across the board.

The war inevitably expanded, and the entire Balkans were in chaos...