Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Also tangled are the Russians. The German-Austrian allied forces are constantly expanding their victories. Now the Russian army is suffering tens of thousands of casualties every day.

The defense line built by the Russian army has collapsed across the board. Although it has not yet reached a collapse, it has already collapsed.

After the annihilation of the Russian Northern Front, the Germans sent the message of peace talks to the Russians through the neutral country Denmark, which was immediately supported by the Russian peace faction.

At the beginning of August 1916, Vasilychkova secretly arrived in St. Petersburg and was received by Nicholas II. Obviously, the attitude of the tsarist government had changed.

After the long-term war, Russia's domestic economy has been severely hit. Especially after the news of the defeat of the front line came back to the country, the people's anti-war sentiment began to rise, which made the tsarist government hope to end the war quickly.

Of course, mutual suspicion between Britain and Russia is also an important factor. In the eyes of the Russians, the defeat of the front line was entirely caused by the lack of full support of the other Allied members, which further increased the idea of ​​the Russians conducting peace talks alone.

Especially after the defeat of the front line, after the Russians' request to let Britain and France launch an attack on the western front and contain the German forces was rejected, the power of the Russian lord and faction began to skyrocket.

The pro-German faction headed by the Tsar Empress, who was born in the German royal family, has gradually gained the upper hand in the government. With the arrival of the German secret envoy, after the Russian main war faction representative Foreign Minister Sazunlov was forced to resign, the main peace faction took complete control. In this situation, no one could stop the German-Russian negotiations from starting.

But the negotiation is negotiated, and the battle is still to be fought. The German-Austrian coalition forces on the front did not show mercy to the Russians because of the negotiation, and they even fought even harder to weaken the Russians.

The Russians were forced to start a strategic retreat, and then came the trouble for Ferdinand. As the Russians retreated, there were holes in the Romanian defenses.

Now there are only two paths in front of Bulgaria, either add troops to take over the defensive line abandoned by the Russians, or abandon the Wallachia plain that has already been obtained!

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The palace in Sofia was brightly lit, and since the Russians offered to let Bulgaria take over Romania's northern defenses, Ferdinand convened an emergency military meeting.

Obviously, the Russians are retaliating. Bulgaria did not fully support them before, and they sat and watched them fight against the German-Austrian coalition on the front line!

Of course, there is no way to explain this reason. The Russians don't want to turn against Bulgaria yet. Anyway, they gave three days, just enough time for Bulgaria to move its troops to the front.

Ferdinand said with a wry smile: Let's talk about it, the Russians are broken now. Judging from their appearance, it is estimated that Ukraine will give up more than half of it. In addition to taking over the defense line of northern Romania, it is estimated that we can do a good job. Take over the defense of Moldova!

Or come to a strong man to break his wrist, directly abandon the Wallachia Plain that he has already obtained, and withdraw to the country to rely on a well-established fortress for defense!

He has always cheated on the Russians. I didn't expect that this time it was his turn to be cheated by the Russians, and there are still unspeakable pits. This time the Russians were very generous and directly announced that as long as Bulgaria can hold Romania, They will not participate in the post-war interest-sharing in Romania.

This is a blatant conspiracy, no doubt for the sake of misfortune, to lure the Bulgarians to go shopping with the German and Austrian allied forces, and change the situation in which the German and Austrian allied forces catch them and beat them!

no way,

In addition to the food that Germany and Austria needed, the Wallachia Plain in the hands of Bulgaria now also has the famous Ploiesti oil field. The Germans will definitely not let it go.

Well, the oilfield Ferdinand doesn't mind letting it go. Anyway, the Romanians have bombed the Ploiesti oilfield once before, and now they haven't recovered full production capacity, he doesn't care about bombing it again!

The big deal will be to obtain oil from the Russians through the Black Sea later, but the food will not work. Looking at the current situation, Ukraine will at least fall for most of the time. How can the Russians be too busy to export food?

Is it asking for help from the British, brought back from overseas? With Nima like this, the Bulgarian government is not far from bankruptcy after the war. The most important thing is that if one is not good, it is also ready to starve!

The war has gone on to the present, and Bulgaria's food supply has never been a problem. It is based on the premise that the Wallachia Plain was occupied at the beginning of the war. At least before the autumn harvest this year, the Wallachia Plain cannot be abandoned!

After harvesting this season's grain, Bulgaria can easily survive until next year. At that time, Bulgaria can obtain enough food by reclaiming the Asia Minor Peninsula. Now most of the millions of prisoners of war in Bulgaria's hands have been sent to mining and farming. .

Otherwise, we have to wait until the grain harvest on the Asia Minor peninsula in 1917, and at least half of Bulgaria's grain reserves will be consumed! God knows how long the war will go on, and Ferdinand can't sleep without enough food reserves?

Prime Minister Constantine said worriedly: Your Majesty, since the beginning of the war, we have received more than 2.8 million refugees, mainly Romanian refugees caused by the war, and a small number of Slavs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. !

But now, due to the defeat of the Russian army, a large number of Russian people have begun to flee, and the number of people entering our country has also increased significantly!

Therefore, the food reserves we made before may be insufficient in the future, so we cannot give up the Wallachia Plain now anyway!

Ferdinand nodded. Many of the refugees in Romania were deliberately created by Bulgaria in order to force them to emigrate in order to consolidate their local rule.

After confiscating a large number of nobles' lands, Ferdinand decisively adopted mechanized farming, and a large number of Romanian farmers went bankrupt after losing the land that could be leased!

In addition to farmers, the few factories in Romania suffered even more. Due to the war and the backward production capacity, most of them were directly abandoned, and the workers were naturally unemployed.

For these people, they are naturally diverted out. No matter how diverted they are, they still have to eat, and the consumption of food in Bulgaria will naturally increase.

The Chief of General Staff then added: Your Majesty, from the perspective of strategic security, we cannot give up Romania, otherwise if the German-Austrian coalition chooses to continue to attack us, then the war will burn to our homeland!

Instead, it is better to fight them in Romania, anyway, as long as you drag them on for a few months, when Italy is over or the Western Front changes, the battle will be over!

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After pondering for a moment, Ferdinand smiled and said, Yes, now we have to fight the German-Austrian coalition. Since the establishment of the Bulgarian Army, no world army power has ever fought against it, and now is the time to test the results. Now, lest people always say that we can only squeeze soft persimmons!

Compared with the hard-hitting wave of the German-Austrian coalition, Ferdinand still thinks that starvation is more terrifying!

A battle with the German-Austrian Allied Forces is a big loss of 1.8 million troops, and most of them are cannon fodder.

It is easy to decide to fight the German-Austrian coalition, but how to fight this battle is another difficult problem. Previously, the staff had also formulated a contingency plan, but no one expected that the Russians would abandon Romania!

According to the estimation of the previous staff, the Russians were unable to defend Romania after the defeat, and Bulgaria could take advantage of the situation to incorporate their defeated troops, and then re-armed and sent to the front to be cannon fodder. Now all this is gone!

Although he was tricked by the Russians, there was nothing unacceptable to Ferdinand, and there were only interests between countries! Everyone depends on their means, and they deserve to be cheated. The big deal is to take revenge next time!

Of course, he didn't know that the British were preparing to cut off Italy, and once the Italians announced their withdrawal from the war before the Allied troops took Rome, Ferdinand probably wouldn't have laughed.

According to Ferdinand's plan, if the coalition forces occupy Rome and force the Italians to withdraw from the war, then Bulgaria will be eligible to take the big head when it comes to dividing up Italy after the war. At least a large amount of war reparations is indispensable!

But if the Italians withdrew from the war under the pressure of the British diplomatic means, the treatment of the Italians would be different, and even if there were war reparations, only three melons and two dates would be left!

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