Mediterranean Hegemony Road

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

Ferdinand took over the plan and read it seriously. Now he is no longer the military novice he used to be, and perhaps the command of operations is not at that level, but it is still possible to make a preliminary judgment on the strength required 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 and the Western Front were combined to form the Balkan Front when they launched a full-scale attack on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and even the Northern Front might merge into the Balkan Front when necessary.

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

Ferdinand has always tried his best to avoid two-front warfare. Now that the Allies have withstood the Russian attack, the Balkan strategy will naturally be postponed. Anyway, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has no time to seek Bulgaria's bad luck.

Therefore, the deployment of troops to the Balkans will naturally change. For the sake of national defense and security, the General Staff decided to set up another headquarters above the Southwest, West and North Fronts.

After canceling the original plan of the Balkan Front, the four major fronts in Bulgaria are now deployed as follows:

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

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

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

Southeast Front Army: 40 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry brigades, 8 heavy artillery brigades, 2 engineer 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 in the defense of the Suez Canal.

In addition to the 500,000 troops in France and the domestic reserve of 560,000, Bulgaria has now mobilized 2.92 million troops and is about to break the 3 million mark.

Ferdinand now has to admire his foresight. First, he brought in two or three million young men from Mao Xiong, and then asked the British for more than 600,000 Asan.

There is no doubt that these 700,000 troops alone cannot handle the Ottoman Empire, not even with the addition of the more than 200,000 troops from the colonies!

Before that, Ferdinand had already made diplomatic efforts. The hairy bears will also launch an attack on the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus region, and most of this group of cannon fodder, Ferdinand will also be sent to the Asia Minor peninsula, and the staff has the confidence to launch a war of annihilation against the Ottoman Empire.

But according to Ferdinand,

There still seems to be a shortage of troops. Bulgaria now has only 16.7 million troops in this war of annihilation, and nearly half of them are scum with a combat power equal to 5. Adding the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, it will not be only 200. million.

Ferdinand asked suspiciously: If there are only these troops, there is no problem in defeating the Ottomans, even if it is conquering Ankara, but it is not enough to destroy the Ottoman Empire, right?

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

Although the current ruling Turkish youth party is still very young politically, it is still much stronger than the previous government, otherwise the two war zones of the Caucasus and Syria would have dragged them to death.

The chief of the general staff said confidently: Your Majesty, the Ottomans have launched wars in the Caucasus and Syria after more than a year of war, which has greatly consumed their national strength.

With the industrial strength of the Ottoman Empire, their military production simply can't 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 launched the landing operation, their army was only able to fight at the beginning. When 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 concept of later generations. The Ottomans in history were able to persevere until the end of the World War, but they received no less weapons and ammunition from the Allies.

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

Once the supply of weapons and ammunition is not enough, this army of more than three million will be scrapped. This point is known by reference to the Russians. In the later period, several people have a rifle.

The industrial strength of the turkey 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:

Appointment of General Popov, former Minister of War, as commander of the Southeast Front;

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

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

Appointed Chief of General Staff General Imya Dimityev as Chief of Staff of the Balkan Regional Command.

It is obvious that the Balkan Theater Command is still an empty shell. Before the full-scale offensive starts, the following three fronts are responsible for commanding the defense of the troops themselves. This command is not yet able to play a role, otherwise Ferdinand will not be able to. May keep them in their current positions.

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The Syrian region has now become a hell on earth, cities have become ruins, and villages have begun to fall into disrepair.

The atrocities of the Ottomans are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. People near the Palestinian areas and Jordan areas are fine. After learning the news, they ran away.

Ferdinand, who was well prepared, naturally established refugee camps in Jordan and Palestine to receive refugees.

Major General Vicky Clinton, who was then the garrison commander of the Middle East Theater, after receiving domestic orders, 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 in Bulgaria, in the refugee camp. Anyway, most of the people who can run over are young and strong, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are almost finished on the way to escape.

The cannon fodder doesn't need to be so powerful. The main purpose of recruiting them is not to expect them to be able to defeat the Ottomans, but to let them take revenge~~

Forced recruitment naturally does not exist, and Ferdinand is still very disciplined. Anyway, there are ways to get them to join the army voluntarily.

For example, they are encouraged to take revenge against the Ottomans and rescue their relatives and friends who have not yet escaped. There must still be survivors, but it will be uncertain over time.

As long as a male of school age does not enlist in the army, the colonial government will not give him relief food. Anyway, if you don't join the army, you can go mining, and there is no other job in Palestine.

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

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A young officer from the garrison command of the Middle East Theater reported: General, this is the information about the newly recruited colonial troops. So far, the 40 divisions we planned to recruit have all been full.

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 really the best catalyst.

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

Let's continue recruiting later, and first replenish the Greek divisions that have been withdrawn, so that they cannot be chilled.

It has been more than two months since the fall of Syria. 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.

Speaking out can scare people to death. This ratio is already a world record. Of course, this is also directly related to the relaxation of the standard.

Originally, the proportion of young adults who escaped was high, and the recruitment standards for colonial troops were surprisingly low.

Age is difficult to judge, but it doesn't matter how tall you are, as long as a man is over 1.5 meters tall, he can enlist in the army.

Fortunately, these soldiers did not know the thoughts of Major General Vicky Clinton, otherwise they would definitely be wronged, and the ghosts would be willing to join this colonial army!

No matter how hard you work, you don’t even have basic military salaries and pensions. You can only get a small amount of military salaries unless you become an officer.

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

Of course, this is only limited to veterans, and recruits should forget it. Bulgaria is poor now, and saving a fortune is a fortune.

As for their combat effectiveness, Major General Vicky Clinton was not worried at all, it was a bad era anyway. Having just experienced the atrocities of the Ottomans, they will never surrender directly to them, right?

Time flies, and in a flash, it entered May. 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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