Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 228

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Hearing Constantine’s question, Emmanuel was silent for a moment and said: “Prime Minister Venizelos has just summoned the managers of the three major banks and asked them to cooperate with the government and purchase an emergency national debt of 120 million Germans. Lakma”

“Before I came, I asked the Prime Minister for his opinion. According to his opinion, if he still cannot persist until the end of the war, he can apply for a loan from a foreign country.”

“So, how many Congolese soldiers does the General Staff plan to recruit?” Now the financial pressure on the Greek government is already great. If more Congolese soldiers are added now, can they afford it?

“According to the estimates of the General Staff, about 100,000 to 150,000 Congolese soldiers are needed,” Emanuel said after thinking for a moment.

“In this way, the total strength of the Greek army can reach about 400,000 people, which can generally deal with the land threats to Greece from Bulgaria and Serbia.”

Constantine did not comment much on the decision made by the General Staff. Since the General Staff made such a decision, they have their own reasons.

“I see, I will inform the Congolese government of this news”

After saying goodbye to Emmanuel and his party, the senior officers of the Macedonian Legion returned to the tent again to discuss the military plan to attack Thessaloniki.

“Everyone has also heard the order of the chief of the general staff. The heavy artillery has also been allocated to each unit. All preparations have been prepared. How to take the city of Thessaloniki now requires everyone to work together and express their opinions.” Constantine supported the large conference table with both hands, leaned forward with his upper body, and looked back and forth on the officers.

As the chief of staff of the legion, Samaras has been thinking about how to attack Thessaloniki since the Ottomans built the fort.

“Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, although our heavy artillery is enough to deal with the enemy’s strong permanent fortifications, it is still not a wise choice to use the precious Greek soldiers to attack the enemy’s well-defended fortresses.” Saying a word, Samaras, who was sitting at the top of Constantine’s right hand, spoke first.

“Our Macedonian Legion has long planned a plan to attack Thessaloniki, combined with the maps and intelligence of the intelligence personnel before the war, in order to reduce the casualties of soldiers and quickly and effectively take Thessaloniki, we should feint from the front and attack from the side. roundabout”

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In the early morning of December 28, 1912, the Greek army officially attacked the city of Thessaloniki, which was heavily defended by the Ottomans.

“Hey~~ Boom!”

Sharp whistles and violent explosions, accompanied by the vibrations from the ground, slammed the hearts of the Ottoman soldiers sitting in the bunker.

Even though the whistling and explosion of the shells were far away from me, my body was still instinctively afraid of this terrible sound. Every time the explosion sounded, my body trembled uncontrollably, and the sound of soil splashing up and splashing down , people involuntarily generate fear, and then close their eyes tightly.

“boom!”

Another high-explosive shell of the 315mm heavy artillery fell into the trench. The dozens of soldiers in the trench were torn to pieces before they could even scream, and their stumps and arms were thrown high, mixed with blood. And visceral dirt flying all over the sky.

A full 80-meter-long section of the trench was completely collapsed, and the soldiers who were not killed by the monolithic and destructive shock waves generated by the shell explosion were also buried in layers of thick soil.

Even if they were dug out of the soil and escaped the fate of suffocation, the huge shock wave caused their internal organs to rupture, vomit blood, and life and death were unpredictable.

There is no such sturdy reinforced concrete fortress on the Trutius Hill. After the war, in order to accommodate more soldiers, the shallow trenches dug in a hurry, could not bring the Ottoman soldiers a sense of security at all.

When the mud kicked up by the explosion smashed on their heads, the blood full of blood at the start of the war had long since vanished.

Beginning in the early hours of the morning, the hours-long shelling nearly collapsed the Ottoman army.

When the warm minced meat and blood fell on the faces of the Ottoman soldiers, they fell into indescribable fear, and some people shrank in the trenches with their heads and shivered.

“Raise your heads! Look at me!” Lieutenant Mazahed roared loudly. The rumbling sound of the cannon had already made a buzzing sound in his ears, and he didn’t know if his voice could reach him. in the ears of comrades.

But he roared with all his might, inspiring his comrades who were squatting in the trenches with him to do his duty as a company commander.

“Don’t be afraid of those cannonballs! God bless us! Those greek sons of a bitch, it’s just wishful thinking to shoot us down with cannonballs! When the cannons stop, those Greek puppies will attack, then look up and grab Shoot. Put all your bullets in their chests! Let them taste the horror of death!”

“This is the land of the Ottoman Empire! It’s our home! It’s the burial place of those Greek brats! The Ottoman Empire has a million troops! As long as we hold out until reinforcements arrive, we can crush all those German brats! Then our The army will invade Greece! All the way to Athens! Hang the **** Greek king on the flagpole! Long live the Ottoman Empire!”

The officers shouted pep talk, but their voices were weak compared to the deafening explosions ~www.mtlnovel.com~ that kept ringing on the field.

In order to firmly attract the attention of the Ottoman defenders, mislead the enemy and make the Ottoman army mistakenly believe that the Greek army’s attack direction is the southwest, all the heavy artillery equipped by the Macedonian Legion poured artillery shells towards the Bajani fortress in the southwest. .

Before dawn, the Greek soldiers huddled behind the bunker saw an unforgettable scene: the cannonballs streaking across the night sky were as gorgeous as a meteor shower, whizzing towards the enemy’s position.

The passionate words did not boost the morale of the soldiers under Mazahed, and they stared at the face of their company commander with numb and shrinking eyes.

But the slightly upright body and the action of clenching the rifle in his hand proved that the company commander’s words were still useful.

For this artillery battle, the Greek artillery continued to prepare firepower for the whole day, with nearly 50 shells prepared for each artillery.

Although the Ottoman army also had hundreds of artillery pieces, due to the poor supply line, they would fight back at the beginning, and soon fell into the dilemma of lack of ammunition, and they died down and were completely suppressed by firepower.

In order to enhance the impression that the main attack direction of the Greek army is the Bashanie Fortress, the small and medium-caliber artillery of the Macedonian Legion covered the positions of other Ottoman troops with slightly weaker firepower.

This is the so-called false and true, multi-line firing tactic, which made the Ottoman army unclear about the true offensive direction of the Greek army.

On the surface, on the entire front of more than ten kilometers, every place seems to be the target of the Greek army.

Early morning of December 29

The 4th Division of the Macedonian Legion, under the orders of Constantine, launched an attack on the area in order to convince the Ottoman soldiers that the positions near the Barjani fortress were really the target of the Greek soldiers.