Bulgarian Empire

The Russians are also entangled. The German-Austrian coalition forces continue to expand their victories in pursuit of victory. Now the Russian army suffers 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 collapsed for thousands of miles, it has already collapsed for hundreds of miles.

After the annihilation of the Russian Northern Front, the Germans sent a message of peace talks to the Russians through the neutral country of Denmark, and immediately received the support of the Russian peace faction.

In early August 1916, Vasilichkova secretly arrived in St. Petersburg and was received by Nicholas II. Obviously, the attitude of the Tsarist government has changed.

The long-term war has severely damaged Russia's domestic economy. Especially after the news of the defeat on the front line was transmitted 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. From the perspective of the Russians, the defeat on the front line this time was entirely caused by the lack of full support of other Allied powers, which further increased the Russians' desire to conduct peace talks alone.

Especially after the defeat on the front line, the Russians proposed to allow Britain and France to launch an offensive on the western front to contain the German troops. After the request was rejected, the strength of the Russian peace 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 foreign minister Sazolov, the representative of the Russian main combat faction, was forced to resign, the main peace faction took full control of the government. In this situation, no one can stop the German-Russian negotiations from starting.

But negotiations belonged to negotiations, and battles still had to be fought. The German-Austrian coalition forces on the front line did not show mercy to the Russians just because the negotiations started, and they even fought harder to weaken the Russians.

The Russians were forced to begin a strategic retreat, and then Ferdinand's troubles began. As the Russians retreated, a hole appeared in Romania's defenses.

Now there are only two ways before Bulgaria, either increase troops to take over the defense line abandoned by the Russians, or abandon the Wallachia Plain that has already been acquired!

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The Sofia palace was brightly lit, and since the Russians proposed to let Bulgaria take over Romania's northern defense line, Ferdinand immediately called an emergency military meeting.

It is obvious that the Russians are retaliating. Bulgaria did not fully support them before, and watched them fight with the German and Austrian coalition forces on the front line!

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

Ferdinand said with a wry smile: "Let's talk about it, the Russians are broken now. Judging from their appearance, Ukraine may have to give up more than half of it. Apart from taking over the defense of Romania in the north, we probably still have to do a good job." Take over the defense of Moldova!

Or a strong man cuts off his wrist, directly abandons the Wallachia Plain that he has already obtained, and withdraws to the country to rely on a complete fortress for defense! "

He has always cheated the Russians. I didn’t expect it to be his turn to be cheated by the Russians this time, and there are still unspeakable pitfalls. This time the Russians are "very generous" and directly announced that as long as Bulgaria can hold Romania, They will not participate in the division of interests in Romania after the war.

This is a blatant conspiracy, no doubt to lure the Bulgarians to go shopping with the German-Austrian coalition forces, and change the situation that the German-Austrian coalition forces caught them and beat them!

There is no way, the Wallachia Plain in the hands of Bulgaria now has not only the grain needed by Germany and Austria, but also the famous Ploiesti oil field, and the Germans will definitely not let it go.

Well, Ferdinand of the oil field doesn't care if he lets go. Anyway, the Romanians have bombed the Ploiesti oil field once before, and they haven't restored full production capacity yet. He doesn't care about bombing it again!

The big deal is to get oil from the Russians through the Black Sea in the future, but the food will not work. Judging from the current situation, at least half of Ukraine will fall. By then, how can the Russians export food when they are too busy to take care of themselves?

Is it to turn to the British for help,

Shipped back from overseas? In that case, the Bulgarian government may not be far from bankruptcy after the end of the war. The most important thing is that one is not good, and it is necessary to prepare for starvation!

The war has progressed 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 the Wallachia Plain cannot be abandoned before the autumn harvest this year!

After harvesting this season's grain, Bulgaria can easily survive until next year. At that time, Bulgaria can obtain enough grain 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 up.

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

Prime Minister Constantine said worriedly: "Your Majesty, from the beginning of the war to the present, we have received more than 2.8 million refugees, mainly Romanian refugees caused by the war, including a small number of Slavs who came 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. There are so many refugees in Romania, many of them were deliberately caused by Bulgaria. The purpose is to force them to emigrate in order to consolidate the local rule.

After confiscating a large amount of noble land, Ferdinand decisively adopted mechanized farming, and a large number of Romanian farmers went bankrupt after losing their rentable land!

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

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

The chief of staff then added: "Your Majesty, from the perspective of strategic security, we cannot abandon Romania, otherwise if the German-Austrian coalition chooses to continue to attack us, then the flames of war will burn to our homeland!

Rather than this, it is better to fight them in Romania. Anyway, as long as they are dragged on for a few months, when Italy is over or the situation on 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 this battle with the German-Austrian coalition forces. Since the establishment of the Bulgarian army, no world army power has ever fought against it. Now is the time to test the results." That's it, lest people always say that we can only squeeze persimmons!"

Compared with the tough German-Austrian coalition forces, Ferdinand still thinks that being hungry is more terrifying!

A battle with the German-Austrian Allied Forces would cost 1.8 million troops. Anyway, most of them are cannon fodder and die; but if there is no food, you will be hungry. This is unbearable!

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

According to the previous estimates of the staff, the Russians were unable to defend Romania after the defeat, and Bulgaria could take advantage of the situation to collect their defeated troops, re-arm them and send them to the front line as cannon fodder. Now all of this is gone!

Even though he was tricked by the Russians, Ferdinand had nothing unacceptable. There are only interests between countries! Everyone uses their own methods and deserves to be tricked. At worst, they will retaliate next time!

Of course, he didn't know that the British were preparing to cut off Italy. Once the Italians announced their withdrawal from the war before the Allied forces occupied Rome, Ferdinand probably wouldn't be able to laugh.

According to Ferdinand's plan, if the coalition forces occupy Rome and force the Italians to withdraw from the war, then when Italy is divided up after the war, Bulgaria will be eligible to take the lead, at least a large amount of war reparations will be indispensable!

But if the Italians were forced to withdraw from the war under the diplomatic means of the British, the Italians would be treated differently. Even if there were war reparations, there would only be three melons and two dates left!

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