Bulgarian Empire

Although the uprising in Constantinople was extinguished by the Sudanese government, the aftermath could not be eliminated. This prosperous international metropolis in the past is now almost like a ghost town!

Hundreds of thousands of people were buried here, and it took more than a month just to clean up the corpses! The people who escaped by chance also fled this ominous place immediately.

According to the official statistics of the Ottoman Empire after the war, the turmoil caused a total of more than 500,000 deaths, including the loss of more than 30,000 soldiers who participated in the counter-insurgency, and the economic loss was even more immeasurable!

What kind of mood the Turks are in now, Ferdinand doesn't know, anyway, he is in a good mood now. Although the uprising in Constantinople was extinguished, the impact was far-reaching!

Compared with history, both the influence and the destructive power are much greater! The foundation of the Ottoman Empire's rule has been shaken, and revolutionary organizations everywhere have begun to flourish.

The Greeks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Blacks and other nationalities couldn't help it, and joined the ranks of opposing the Sudanese government one after another!

With the secret support of Bulgaria and Greece, the Ottoman Empire began to surge undercurrents from the Balkans to the Anatolian Plateau!

The Albanians can't stand the long-term expropriation and extortion of the Sudanese government, and are affected by the Constantinople uprising.

With the secret support of Bulgaria, the Albanian Revolutionary Party planned a peasant uprising on July 14, 1895, and once broke through Durres.

It is a pity that the rebel army was improvised and lacked a strong organization. They did not belong to each other and fought independently. The uprising broke out on July 14 and was extinguished by the Ottoman army on July 27. It lasted only thirteen days!

After the uprising ended, the Ottoman government carried out a white terror rule in Albania. All organizations and individuals who supported or sympathized with the revolutionary party were persecuted!

For a time, the Albanian Revolutionary Party was wiped out! Well, the Albanian Revolutionary Party in this era is not yet a political party, it is only composed of a few passionate young people, and it was established under the influence of Bulgaria.

A grass-roots team, without any preparation, was instigated by Bulgarian intelligence personnel and provided support with a thousand rifles, and launched an uprising in a hurry. Failure is inevitable!

On August 6, the Greeks launched an uprising in the Aegean coast of Asia Minor. The original plan was to launch the uprising on August 18. At that time, the Greek navy would send a batch of supplies to support it. Unfortunately, it was betrayed by the traitors and forced to launch ahead of schedule.

Due to the advance of the uprising, there was no time to receive the support of the Greek government, and the uprising was extinguished just three days after it broke out!

Ferdinand knew that the Ottoman Empire had been operating in Asia Minor for hundreds of years, and most of the local Greeks were used to being ruled, and their revolutionary enthusiasm was not that high!

This is not over yet, on August 15, 1896, another uprising broke out in the Macedonian region where the Ottoman Empire was heavily concentrated.

The uprising can be divided into two stages. First, the bourgeois revolution broke out in West Macedonia on August 15, and the rebel army once broke through Kozani.

However, due to insufficient preparation in advance and the strong military strength of the Ottoman Empire in Macedonia, the uprising quickly fell into a low ebb.

The weakness of the bourgeoisie was exposed. Faced with the brutal suppression of the Ottoman Empire, after the uprising fell to a low ebb, the revolutionary leaders decisively ran away. After losing their leader, the rebel army began to split.

But this was just the beginning. On August 24, another uprising broke out in the Kumanovo region of Macedonia. Due to Ferdinand's intervention, the Kumanovo people did not attack Skopje, which was heavily populated, but turned to the Kosovo area!

Well, actually forced out! The Ottoman Empire has more than 100,000 troops stationed in Macedonia, and its headquarters is in Skopje, only 20 kilometers away from Kumanovo.

If you don't run, you're screwed!

With this run, a group of rogues came out. Except for the arms support from Bulgaria at the beginning of the uprising, at other times the insurgents could only try to find their own way.

If you don't have a gun, grab it! No food, no supplies, still looting! No soldiers, still grab, grab, grab! ! !

The rebel army successfully carried forward the essence of the word "grab", and the price paid was that the rebel army successfully transformed from a revolutionary army to a bandit!

In the later period, the uprising has deteriorated, and it will be a disaster all the way, and the places it passes will be starved to death! In order to strengthen the team, under the training of Bulgarian instructors, the rebel army fully learned the essence of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's peasant uprising!

Hold high the banner of beating the local tyrants and dividing the land, and keep coercing ordinary people to participate along the way. As for unwillingness, that is simple: coerce the people to attack the manor of the Turkish nobles, and then give full play to the spirit of Sanguang, and let go of a few messengers after finishing.

Of course, if you believe in the noble morals of the aristocrats and are not afraid of revenge, the rebel army will not force you, so stay if you want to stay!

If it's just the rebel army, then it's nothing. With the Ottoman army chasing behind, it won't harm many people.

"Bandits are like a comb, and soldiers are like a grate!" This is not a patent of the Eastern Dynasty, it is also applicable in the West, and the Ottoman Empire is one of the best!

They dare not touch the manors of the nobles, but they are not so polite to ordinary people. Robbery is polite, rape and robbery, killing good people and pretending to be meritorious, are all well-versed!

Of course, the army cannot be completely blamed for not observing military discipline. It is entirely because the Ottoman Empire’s logistics is too scumbag, or the efficiency is too low. If the officials and lords deliver the supplies, the day lily will probably be cold!

In the beginning, the two sides were still working with real guns and live ammunition. In the later stage, the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire didn't care anymore!

They wished they could delay a little longer so that they could continue fishing! All the way, from Kumanovo to Kosovo, from Kosovo to Albania, and then back to Macedonia.

Both sides formed a tacit understanding, the rebel army ran in front, and the Ottoman army chased after them, and there were battles from time to time, and the rebel army left a lot of corpses for them as military merit.

The insurgents couldn't win and had to run away! The Ottoman army had no fighting spirit. Compared with usual times, the nobles would deduct their military pay. Now it is a rare opportunity to reap benefits when they come out to fight!

Military discipline to hell! No matter what you do, you can pass the responsibility to the rebels in front, and kick the actual benefits into your pockets. The fly in the ointment is that you still have to fight!

In the minds of ordinary soldiers or basic officers, it would be great if they could rob unscrupulously without fighting!

In contrast, the life of the top Ottoman army is not easy. Although the people below also gave them a sum of money according to the rules, the income is good, but the domestic orders are repeated, and his pressure is getting bigger and bigger!

More than two months passed in a flash, and the commander-in-chief Celtic finally couldn't stand it anymore, even though he knew that his subordinates wanted to take the opportunity to make a fortune, and it was not in their interest to kill the enemy now.

But the harm of both is the lesser, and offending the people below is at most nothing more than cursing. If you violate the order of the sultan, your future is in jeopardy!

Raising a thief's self-respect also has to be divided into targets. At least the mob in front of him is not qualified. Celtic knows that any commander can win the war if he commands it.

Don't dare to procrastinate now, and strictly order all the troops to attack with all their strength! Level by level, the Ottoman army is serious!

Despite their lack of training and low morale, there is still no pressure to deal with mobs like the rebels!

Once the Ottoman army exerted its strength, the rebel army could not stand it. Although the current team has expanded to tens of thousands of people, it is still beaten to the ground by a smaller number of regular troops!

In order to preserve the revolutionary forces, the rebel army scattered and fled under the advice of Bulgarian intelligence personnel. The uprising was suppressed, but the Macedonian region was even more chaotic!

It is the best choice for the defeated soldiers to fall into the grass and become the bandit and occupy the mountain as the king! It is easy to suppress an uprising, but it is difficult to wipe out bandits and bandits! Until the Ottoman Empire completely lost the Balkans, the bandits and bandits who were blooming everywhere were not able to be wiped out!

In the future, after Bulgaria occupied the Macedonian region, it would carry out a two-year campaign to suppress the bandits before the area was completely cleared. Ferdinand could be regarded as lifting a rock and smashing his own foot!