Greece’s Roman Road

After obtaining the consent of the two, Constantine solemnly took the document representing the black scheme, took out a pen, and signed his name on it.

While signing, countless thoughts flashed in Constantine's mind.

The second Balkan War at this time is completely different from the war in the original time and space.

Due to the expansion of Greece in the Balkans, the political and military situation in the Balkans is very different from history.

In the original history, in the second Balkan War, the Greek Serbia signed an alliance treaty to unite the weak and fight against the powerful Bulgaria.

The current situation is that Greece and Bulgaria have serious differences of interest due to the partition of Macedonia.

Bulgaria believes that it has defeated the main force of the Ottoman Empire in the first Balkan war against the Ottoman Empire, and has the greatest credit, hoping to gain Vardal Macedonia (now the Republic of Macedonia), and Aegean Macedonia The territory near Thessaloniki .

In the eyes of the Bulgarians, the Macedonians were the Bulgarians, who wanted to save their compatriots and establish Greater Bulgaria.

The Greeks certainly did not share the Bulgarian views.

First of all, the Greeks thought that those Macedonians who believed in the Orthodox Church were Greeks.

The contemporary Greek national identity was originally reshaped by religious belief (Orthodox).

Especially within the territory of the former Ottoman Empire, those who believe in the Orthodox Church are the Greeks, and the Greeks believe in the Orthodox Church. This is the common understanding of the Greeks.

It is also for this reason that the Greeks regard those Orthodox Christians who are still living in the Ottoman Empire as Greeks and consider them to be their own countrymen.

It is precisely because of such national feelings that in recent years, with the rapid development of the Greek economy, more and more "Greeks" who originally lived in Asia Minor have immigrated to Greece.

The native Greek people not only do not resent these outsiders, but welcome them very much.

The Greeks saw it as a relief to their compatriots from the barbaric rule of the Ottoman Empire.

In fact, the Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire were a very complex group.

A considerable number of Orthodox Christians are Slavs who migrated from the Balkans.

Second, the Macedonia region was the main result of Greece's last war, so there is no reason to cede it to Bulgaria.

The three Balkan countries are Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, among which Serbia is the weakest, while Greece and Bulgaria are slightly stronger.

In the last war, Serbia benefited the least among the three countries, only getting the area around Kosovo.

In addition, there are 300,000 Albanians living in the Kosovo region, which is the largest settlement of Albanians outside the Albanian region.

In any case, it is impossible for these Albanians to identify with Serbia.

It is conceivable that Serbia is naturally very dissatisfied with the fact that it has only obtained a small area of ​​Kosovo (compared to Macedonia), and there are still a large number of ysl believers who are incompatible with Serbs (Albanians believe in ysl religion).

Serbia, which has not benefited much from the competition between Greece and Bulgaria for Macedonia, has not made a statement for a long time.

The Greek ambassador to Belgrade has visited the Serbian Prime Minister several times to inquire about the Serbian government's attitude, but there is no clear result.

According to the ambassador's feedback, Serbia's attitude is also very tangled. It neither refuses nor agrees to Greece's offer, and its attitude is ambiguous.

Serbia does not want Greece to win, nor does it want Bulgaria to win.

Whichever of the two was born would gain a huge advantage in the race for the Ottoman heritage in the Balkans.

In order to prepare for the possibility that the Serbian army might take advantage of the war between the Greek army and the Bulgarian army, take the opportunity to encroach on North Macedonia, which borders Kosovo, and even Albania. In addition to the Macedonian army that confronted the Bulgarian army, Greece also deployed in Skopje (the capital of North Macedonia). Albanian Legion of 150,000 men.

This made Greece even more stretched against the highly mobilized Bulgarian Army.

High-level Greek military leaders, including Constantine, are worried about the unknown role Serbia will play in this war.

Once Serbia is on the side of Bulgaria, the war may have many variables, and the General Staff will lose control of the direction of the war.

Only now that the Bulgarians have preempted, Greece has no other choice.

Seeing this scene, Emai Nur and Giannis looked at each other.

"As the supreme commander of the Greek army, I have approved the black plan formulated by the General Staff." Constantine stood up and solemnly handed over the document to the chief of the general staff, Emai Nur.

"Inform the Macedonian commander of the Manugianasky Army as soon as possible, and let him deploy and mobilize the army according to the black plan as soon as possible"

"Hope the Greek army can be blessed by God and win another glorious victory"

Emai Nur took the document carefully, and after confirming it again, he also took out a pen from his pocket and signed his name under Constantine's signature in the lower right corner of the document.

After saying "Greece will win," he handed over the document to the Minister of Armaments Giannis.

Giannis took a deep breath, followed the example of Emmanuel, and also signed his name in the lower right corner of the document.

The signatures of the three people indicate that the black plan on this document has been unanimously agreed by the three people at the actual top level of the Greek army.

If this war fails, the three people who signed the document will certainly be held accountable by the Greek people.

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On the morning of June 19, the headquarters of the Macedonian Legion in Thessaloniki

"Your Excellency the Legion Commander, the urgent military situation of the General Staff," the Chief of General Staff of the Metaxas Corps, with a telegram in his hand, came to the office of the top commander of the Macedonian Corps, Manu Giannaski, and said nervously.

Manu Giannaski, who was dealing with military affairs, immediately stood up, walked quickly to Metaxas, and said eagerly: "How about it, what is the choice of the General Staff?"

"Order of the General Staff, the Macedonian Legion will immediately implement the black plan after receiving the news." Metaxas stood up and read out the order.

Many staff officers at all levels of the Macedonian Legion in the office began to discuss with a "bang" after hearing this.

"Unexpectedly, the General Staff finally chose the conservative black plan"

"It's no wonder that Basil's plan is too radical and the risk is too high. At the same time, we have to be careful to prevent Serbia from taking advantage of the opportunity. Naturally, we must be careful."

"Okay, don't talk anymore, since the General Staff has made a decision, we must strictly implement the battle plan now," Manujanasky shouted loudly.

After that, he glanced at the division-level staff officers of the Macedonian Legion, and continued: "According to the theme of the black plan, the various parts of the Macedonian Legion army, relying on the complete fortifications built, contain, sniper, strike, weaken the Bulgarian army, and seek opportunities to counterattack. "

"Now you immediately return to your troops, assist your military subjectivity, implement the black plan, and execute it."

After receiving the order, the staff members filed out and went to their respective troops' quarters.

"Metaxas Chief of Staff, let's discuss the military situation on the front line," Manugianaski said to Metaxas, opening the map of the military situation on the table.

The Macedonian Legion had already begun to build fortifications on the Macedonian border after the London Conference was unable to reach an agreement with the Bulgarian side.

In the same situation, the Bulgarian side is also actively mobilizing troops on the border.

According to intelligence, the Bulgarian side divided the army into two parts, mainly Kavala, located on the coast of the Aegean Sea, and Petritsch, located in northwestern Bulgaria.

Against the Macedonian Legion, the two Bulgarian armies showed a clear pincer-shaped offensive. They wanted to attack the Macedonian Legion, which was generally deployed around Thessaloniki from the northwest and southeast, and defeated the enemy Macedonian Legion in one fell swoop, occupying Vardar. Macedonia and Aegean Macedonia.

After the black plan was formulated, the Macedonian Legion was instructed by the General Staff to focus mainly on defense, with the central city of Sere in Macedonia and the Aegean city of Nizhny Tarovs at the root of the Chalkidiki Peninsula as the fulcrum. U-shaped line of defense.

The plan has been implemented for two months. With the efforts of the Macedonian Army, the two cities of Serre and Nizhny Tarovs have been turned into two heavily guarded fortresses.

In addition, there are trenches connecting various defense points. According to reports from various armies, in the past two months, in addition to the natural obstacles formed by rivers and mountains, the Macedonian Legion has built more than 200 bunkers, 500 kilometers long. 's trench.

The entire eastern Macedonia has become a large construction site. 400,000 troops and other mobilized, possibly 300,000 people, a total of 700,000 people, were organized by the Macedonian Legion to build the steel defense line.

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The second division garrisoned the city of Nizhny Tarovs.

The border patrol that caused the accidental exchange of fire was affiliated with the Second Division.

On the front line at this time, the Greek army and the Bulgarian army have been fighting for a day and a night.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the 100,000 Bulgarian army, led by General Nikolai Ivanov, had already moved from Kavala to the vicinity of the Greek defense line, and began impatiently attacking the Greek defense line.

The Bulgarian side was a little surprised by the cowardly and aggressive construction of fortifications by the Greek army.

Of course, at the high level of Bulgaria, they are still very vigilant about Greece's intention to wage a long-term war.

They are naturally very aware of their own weaknesses, and if they delay, it will only give the Greeks more time to build more fortifications.

For the Bulgarian side, once the army cannot quickly overcome the Greek defense line, Bulgaria, which has drawn almost all the strong domestic workers into the army, will be undefeated.

In the camp of the 4th Division of the Macedonian Army, division commander Papademos was seriously awaiting the attack of the Bulgarians.

As the main force defending the Lower Tarovs fortress, the second and fourth Greek divisions and two black divisions are mainly deployed here.

"This...." When Ivanov arrived outside the Nizhny Tarovs Fortress, the trenches outside the city wall made Ivanov's head big!

Ivanov was a little skeptical about the command issued by the headquarters to quickly conquer the defense node of the Greek Macedonian Legion in Nizhny Tarovs, and quickly disintegrate the defense line of the Greek army.

It's not that he has never seen a trench, but the one in front of him is completely different from what he has seen. The trenches extend in all directions, like a huge spider web, which quickly spreads out around the lower Tarovs.

When faced with the Bulgarian army, the Ottoman army generally refused to defend the city.

The Greek army in front of them seems to be playing cards unreasonably, and the depth of the entire line of defense has been expanding outward by more than 800 meters!

This immediately increases the pressure on the infantry to charge!

The results of the investigation made Ivanov a little helpless. The Ottoman Empire had built complete fortifications in these places, and Greece, on the basis of the Ottomans, spent a lot of money to build a complex and solid city defense system.

In Ivanov's view, the design of the fortifications in Nizhny Tarovs was rigorous and reasonable. The multi-layer fortifications could provide cross fire protection for each other, and a large number of artillery were arranged.

The popularity of the Greeks is also very high. In yesterday's tentative storm, the Bulgarians suffered heavy losses. In just one afternoon, more than 700 people were injured or killed.

"Otherwise, let's come as planned! Blow up the artillery at the head of the city first!"

Although the Bulgarian Army began to learn from Russia, it still knew how to concentrate firepower.

Since it is carrying the heavy task of conquering Lower Tarovs, Ivanov's legion carried a total of 424 artillery pieces, which were specially prepared to deal with the hard bones here.

As a result, a whole four artillery regiments, about 424 artillery artillery units, unfolded in front of the Greeks.

Under the watchful eyes of the Greeks, they unfastened the artillery from the carriage step by step, then arranged the artillery positions, and placed the artillery in the artillery position~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The artillery crew took out the ammunition from the ammunition cart, and the commander started Ranging to prepare for bombardment.

The Bulgarian training is still good, the whole process only lasted about 30 minutes!

The Bulgarian artillery was being prepared, and the infantry was gradually approaching the Greek lines.

In this era, in addition to artillery is the rifle.

The Bulgarians began to construct the suggested starting positions, the forward troops began to move, and the troops began to take their positions one by one, waiting for the artillery to be ready to start shelling.

While the Bulgarians were busy, the Greek legions were also preparing for the final battle.

The 200 75mm and 45 150mm rapid-fire guns behind the defense line will not be mentioned, which are responsible for long-distance suppression.

The remaining machine guns and mortars have been deployed to pre-placed machine gun and gun nests, and troops are deployed in machine gun and mortar positions.

Although the number is not as large as the Bulgarian army, the firepower is indeed strong. The melee firepower of the Greeks is not comparable to the single-loaded rifles of the Bulgarians.