Bulgarian Empire

After crossing the city wall, what greeted the first army was not victory, but densely packed fortresses and bunkers!

Fortunately, Constantinople has been at peace for a long time. Many fortresses were built a long time ago, most of them were made of stone, and many were destroyed in the Armenian uprising last year. The current defense is not at its peak!

In addition to fortresses with strong defenses, there are more machine gun bunkers built on the basis of terrain, but most of these bunkers were temporarily built after the outbreak of the Balkan War.

The machine gun only shined during the Baosai War, and it has only been more than two years since now. With the efficiency of the Ottoman Empire, don't expect it to be fully popularized!

In the offensive and defensive battle of Constantinople, an extremely embarrassing scene appeared. The Turkish army had enough fortresses and bunkers, but they didn't have enough machine guns!

At this moment, the Bulgarian army is mobilizing before the war. The officers are using their own methods to make the soldiers relax. The veterans are also passing on the survival experience on the battlefield to the recruits for the last time.

In the contest between the two armies, apart from weapons and equipment, there is also a contest of overall quality!

Including the usual training, the contest of personal fighting qualities, and more importantly, the contest of the psychological qualities of both parties!

On this point, the two sides are simply incomparable. Bulgarian officers can go deep into the soldiers to boost morale, but the nobles in the Ottoman army have always been two classes from the soldiers, and it would be good to deduct a little less military pay. Forget about communication, if you scare the soldiers before the war, you will suffer!

In the headquarters of the First Army a few miles away, General Popov saw that the time was almost up, so he asked, "Are all the troops in place?"

The adjutant replied sonorously: "Report to the commander, all the troops have arrived at the designated location, ready to launch an attack at any time!"

Popov nodded in satisfaction and said, "Okay! Fifteen minutes after my order, the artillery fire will cover the fortress and bunker in front of the target!"

Following Popov's order, the First Army began to fire a thousand artillery pieces, covering the Ottoman army's positions at a rate of tens of thousands of shells per minute!

Under the intensive artillery attack, countless fortresses and bunkers were destroyed! The Ottoman army also launched artillery fire to fight back. Unfortunately, the gap in firepower, as long as the Ottoman artillery position is exposed, it will immediately usher in an intensive attack of thousands of shells!

No matter how bad the accuracy was, the Ottoman artillery suffered heavy losses. Later, Eder Pasha had to agree to use the artillery separately! The loss of the separated artillery has indeed been reduced a lot, and the strike ability of the artillery has also been dispersed!

An hour later, under the baptism of hundreds of thousands of shells, the fortress of the Turkish army was almost destroyed, and the first group army launched a general attack!

The Turkish soldiers who came out of nowhere, once again relied on the remaining fortresses, bunkers and security forces to work.

"Solid defense!"

"You go over there, idiot, I mean over there, running around to give the Baojun the head!"

"Hurry up, the Bulgarians are coming soon!"

The Ottoman officers were still screaming loudly. Under the command of the officers, the Ottoman soldiers who ran out of the anti-gun holes were led to the position like puppets, took up their weapons and prepared to fight!

At this moment, the disadvantages of the Ottoman army were fully exposed. The noble officers who were high above them could not integrate with the soldiers.

Fighting to the present, if not for the cruel military law, these Ottoman soldiers would have run away long ago!

No desire to fight, no goals in life, and passively stepped onto the battlefield, the combat effectiveness can be imagined!

Often in a round of battle between the two sides, ordinary Ottoman soldiers will choose to surrender after they are at a disadvantage.

Anyway, there was chaos on the battlefield, and the Ottoman government had no way to determine the life and death of ordinary soldiers, let alone liquidate them!

As night fell, the battle continued.

"searchlight!"

"Open it quickly, I won't be able to see it!"

"The searchlight is broken!"

"Where's the mechanic? You idiot, rush to fix it!"

"Forget about that hapless bastard,

He was paralyzed by falling rocks from the fortress just now, and he was sent to the rear. He probably has already seen **** by now! "

"Damn Bulgarians! Damn Russians, why are you giving them so many guns?"

"Come on! If the Russians hear you, they'll probably regret that they gave so little!"

"Forget it, I already knew that thing is unreliable. Fortunately, I have prepared for it. It seems that my lantern is reliable!"

In a fortress of the Turkish army, soldiers are laughing at each other, this seems to be the only way for them to relieve stress!

"It's not good, the enemy army is coming up!"

"Get ready to fight!"

There was a sound of "boom", and when the Ottoman army noticed it, mortar shells flew over and landed on the fortress accurately.

A cannonball pierced through the damaged part of the fortress and fell into the fortress, taking away the lives of three or four unlucky people. The debris hit by the cannonball wounded several people again.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Baojun had already charged up and dealt with the remnants of the enemy. Seeing that the situation was not going well, the Turkish soldiers surrendered without hesitation, and a fortress was conquered just like that!

Inside the headquarters of the First Army, Popov asked with concern: "How is the front line?"

Petrov shook his head and said: "There are good and bad! The army is advancing very fast, but the casualties are still heavy. If we continue to fight like this, when Constantinople is conquered, there will not be much left of our First Army." !"

Popov didn't ask about the specific casualties, and he could guess the general result from the fighting situation during the day. What he cares about now is when Constantinople can be conquered?

"The country didn't care about casualties, but instead dispatched three divisions from the Second Army to reinforce us. It seems that the Grand Duke has really made up his mind to take Constantinople at all costs!

Now the burden on our shoulders is heavy again. If you can't conquer Constantinople, you and I are going to commit suicide to thank the world! "

Hearing Popov's words, Petrov was choked to death, and said depressedly: "You are stimulated, it is the middle of the night and you really should have a dream!"

Popov sighed, recovered immediately, and said, "Fuck you, didn't I sigh! Is it that serious?

Okay, let's stop talking nonsense. Tell me, you found out that there is no perfect army in this world, and I don't believe that the Ottoman army has no weaknesses! "

Petrov gave him a blank look, and said: "The Ottoman army is really in decline, and it's really easy to find the weakness of their army!

In addition to the lack of training of the soldiers and the low quality of the officers; during the siege battles in the past few days, I also found that their officers are very timid!

Everyone hides far away. In many front-line fortresses and bunkers, there are no decent officers to command at all. Basically, some newly promoted veterans act as company and platoon-level officers! "

Popov asked back: "This is not a weakness, it should be considered an advantage, which shows that they have self-knowledge!

The military quality of Ottoman officers is not as good as these veterans. If they personally command, our attack will be smoother!

Hey, no! They are all basic officers, so their cooperation with each other is very problematic!

Under the coverage of our artillery fire, their communication system probably collapsed long ago, so our chance has come! "