Chapter 779: The Turning of the Tide

  Chapter 762 The Turning

On the Near East battlefield, an exciting scene appeared. When the front line was fighting at its hottest, there was a mess in the Ottoman rear.

The Armenians revolted, the Greeks revolted, the Slavs revolted, and even the Kurds showed signs of instability.

There was no revolt, that’s because no one was trying to stir them up. Otherwise, the number of rebellious peoples in the Ottoman Empire would have increased by a large number.

The previous waves of ethnic uprisings were all attributed to the Anti-Turkish Alliance. Everyone knew that the Ottoman Empire was going to cool off, and it would be too late if they didn’t jump ship.

The upper class has to find a way out, so naturally, they have to pay their dues. If you don’t take action to prove your position at this time, how can you secure your position in the future?

If the Anti-Turkish Alliance opens the door wide at this time, it is expected that there will be people within the Ottoman government who will jump ship.

There is no doubt that civil unrest accelerated the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

Unlike previous national independence movements, this time the insurgents were armed, and Austrian airships airdropped weapons and ammunition to the insurgent forces.

The aftermath of the multinational state broke out. Although the rebels were only a minority, being stabbed at this time still caused the Sultan’s government to lose trust in the minorities in the country.

As a result of the rebellion, the ethnic tensions that had built up in the Ottoman Empire were also intensified.

The morale of the people, which the Sudanese government had managed to build up with great difficulty, was directly halved, and the sense of belonging of the ethnic minorities to the country was drastically reduced.

First, the Austrian army captured Kırşehir, then the Russians also captured Ottoman Zek, and the two countries were about to meet on the Kyzyl River.

Once this battle plan was completed, the Ottoman Empire was split down the middle by the Anti-Turkish League.

In particular, the western part of the Ottoman Empire was completely surrounded by the Anti-Turkish Alliance and could not receive any assistance from the outside world.

Abandoning the west was not an option; the capital, Ankara, was west of the Kyzyl River.

Moreover, the Austrian army had already entered the Two Rivers Valley, and the eastern Ottoman territories were equally insecure.

The narrow topography of the Asia Minor Peninsula created favorable combat conditions for the Anti-Turkish League, and the allied forces could cut in at a point in the middle and split the Ottoman Empire in two.

The “Kizil River Rendezvous” was only one of the alternative plans, and the two river basins could also be converged. Unfortunately, the Caucasus was a mountainous region, and the Russians were still playing mountain warfare with the Ottomans in the Greater Caucasus.

Tension forced the Ottomans to shrink their forces and hold on to their position.

The main force contracted back, and the burden of defense fell entirely on the hands of the local militia, whose commanders were not government-appointed officers, but religious leaders ……

It was always the craziest when faith was involved. Though not yet comparable to the regular army, the fighting strength of the Ottoman militia shocked the anti-Turkish alliance.

In Constantinople, Albrecht, the commander-in-chief of the allied command, angrily questioned, “Marshal Publius, have you come here for a vacation or to fight?”

For a soldier, such a questioning is undoubtedly the greatest insult. It was a good thing that Publius was a halfway decent pseudo-military man, with a cheek more toward politicians.

“Your Excellency the Commander, it was a complete accident. No one knew that the Ottomans would put their main force in ……”

Without waiting for him to finish his sentence, Russian Commander-in-Chief Ivanov nonchalantly interrupted, “The battlefield is not an amusement park, you can start over if you fail in the game, but not in war, don’t make so many excuses for failure.

And where the Ottomans’ main force is, we all know it by heart, we are not unscrupulous politicians, no one is listening to you being clever here.”

There was no way around it, the Greek army had been ambushed by Ottoman guerrillas in the battle not long ago and had unfortunately lost dozens of heavy guns.

Originally, some losses on the battlefield is not a big deal, but the problem is that the Greeks did not blow up the artillery when they were breaking out, and these artillery pieces, along with the ammunition, fell into the hands of the Ottoman army.

The Greek army naturally hid the loss and did not report it. In the following battle, these shells fell on the heads of the unfortunate Russians.

Unprepared and misjudging the enemy’s firepower, the Russians were caught off guard and lost thousands of men.

After figuring out the cause and effect through the captured prisoners, the Russians naturally refused to eat this dumb loss, which led to this meeting of the Allied Forces.

Originally Ivanov, a soldier of orthodox origin, could not look at a watery marshal of politician origin like Publius.

Now that such a thing had come up, naturally he wouldn’t be polite. The commanders of the four armies in the coalition command all held the title of marshal, and were likewise divided into three, six, nine classes.

Ivanov and Albrecht are both orthodox soldiers, but also have war achievements, status is naturally the first class.

The Montenegrin Commander-in-Chief, Maxim Trentiev, although he had no military achievements, was also of orthodox military origin.

Even though Greece was more powerful than Montenegro, when it came down to it, Maxim Trentiev’s status was still higher than Publius’.

This subconscious judgment was proved on the battlefield. Russia and Austria were the main forces, and naturally the battle record was not bad.

Although the Duchy of Montenegro had fewer soldiers, the people fought a battle that was almost as good as the Greeks.

The army was a place that believed in the strong, and no matter what tactics were used, the generals that could win battles were the most respected.

Luckily Publius had a good mindset, if it were ordinary people they would have collapsed long ago.

“Marshal Ivanov, we are very sorry about this matter. Due to the fact that the troops escorting the artillery were completely wiped out that day, we didn’t get the news, so ……”

This explanation was obviously unsatisfactory, it was just that everyone was under the banner of the Allied Forces, and political interests dictated that they couldn’t roll over.

Albrecht’s initial mockery appeared to be directed at Publius, but in reality it was more to ease the conflict.

No matter how much of a waste Publius was, he was still a Greek representative and couldn’t be clicked off by the Russians in a fit of rage.

Under normal circumstances, taking out an ally’s representative is something that people don’t normally do, just that it doesn’t mean the Russians can’t do it too.

Albrecht was not expecting anything less than a Russian tantrum.

Didn’t finish it, wrong point ????

(End of chapter)