Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 243

Since the foreign affairs were involved, neither of them knew much about diplomacy in the absence of the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venizelos.

Constantine walked to the door of the conference room and asked Colonel Hammett, the attendant waiting at the door, to notify Venizelos to come for a meeting.

Ten minutes later, Venizelos hurriedly entered the Ministry of Defense building and entered the conference room under the guidance of Colonel Hammett.

The two made a statement on the movements of the Bulgarian army, Venizelos.

Venizelos thought for a moment and said to the two: “His Royal Highness, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff, if a war breaks out between Bulgaria and Greece, in order to increase Greece’s winning rate, I think that active diplomatic actions should be carried out around the Balkans to increase the The number of countries that are friendly to Greece, isolate Bulgaria as much as possible”

“Can you be specific, is it possible to win over two allies for Greece?” Emanuel asked eagerly.

Seeing that both Constantine and Venizelos looked at him in surprise, Emanuel explained: “If Greece can find a common alliance against Bulgaria, then it can reduce the risk of war for Greece and reduce the risk of war for the Greeks. loss”

Constantine agrees with this. Every Greek is precious. Originally, the population of Greece is not large. Especially now, almost all young Greeks have received a complete compulsory education, and the quality of the population is very high.

“Bulgaria is a central country between countries. Its geographical location is somewhat similar to that of Germany. Germany is in the center of Europe, so Bulgaria is in the center of the Balkans.” Venizelos pointed to the map of the Balkans in the conference room. explained.

In fact, the geographical location of Bulgaria is the most favorable factor for Greece.

Bulgaria’s neighboring countries, Romania, Serbia, Ottoman Empire, Greece, there is no country that wants Bulgaria to rise in the middle of the Balkans.

Because once such a central country becomes powerful, it will inevitably compress the living space of surrounding countries.

The geopolitical environment in Bulgaria is too bad.

On the other hand, Greece is different. Greece is a marginal country in the Balkans, which means that when Greece expands to the Balkans, it will not be hostile and hindered by neighboring countries like Bulgaria.

“The northern part of Bulgaria is Romania, and the two countries have a dispute over South De Broga in the lower Danube River. This is a good opportunity for us to win over Romania,” Venizelos said, pointing to Romania on the map.

“The Ottoman Empire suffered heavy losses in the just-concluded war, especially the loss of Adrianople, an important barrier of Constantinople, and the entire Thrace was almost completely taken by the Bulgarians”

If it weren’t for the fact that Constantinople was still under the control of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire would have no other territory in Europe.

Bulgarian territory extends to the northern shore of the Sea of ​​Marmara (inland sea between the Bosphorus and Dardanelles).

“The Ottoman Empire may attack Bulgaria once Bulgaria is at war with Greece, and I believe the importance of Adrianople will allow them to do so”

Emmanuel asked suspiciously: “In the war that just ended, Greece was also the enemy of the Ottoman Empire. Will the Ottoman Empire and Greece reach an alliance against Bulgaria?”

Although it is said that there are only eternal interests between countries and no eternal enemies, the speed of this change of expression is too fast.

After all, during the war, in order to promote the war and increase the people’s support for the war, the newspapers in Greece almost covered the tragic experience of the Greeks during the Ottoman rule.

Like Greek boys being taxed on blood by the Ottomans and robbing girls from Christian families as concubines.

Now, just a few days after the end of the war, their attitude towards Ottoman changed immediately, and the people could not accept it emotionally.

“It is not necessarily necessary to reach an alliance. Even when a war breaks out between Greece and Bulgaria, the Ottomans can mobilize troops on the Bulgarian-Ottoman border to relieve the pressure on the Greek army,” Venizelos explained.

“As for Serbia’s attitude, I can’t guess.” Venizelos said hesitantly.

“As a landlocked country, Serbia’s urgent need for an outlet to the sea is conceivable. In order to obtain an outlet to the sea, Serbia may join Bulgaria to attack Greece. For Serbia, the sea outlet in northern Albania is the only possibility for Serbia. Get an outlet to the sea,” Emanuel guessed.

Bulgaria and Serbia joined forces to attack Greece, Bulgaria got Macedonia, Serbia got Albania.

And Greece is likely to fail in the face of the land attack of Serbia and Bulgaria.

Whether it is Serbia or Bulgaria, their army’s combat effectiveness is as strong as that of the Greek army.

However, the combined army of the two countries far exceeds that of Greece.

The originally relaxed atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became depressed, and it was as quiet as if a needle fell and one could clearly hear it.

Emanuel said, it is indeed a very likely scene. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

The rise of Bulgaria is naturally what Serbia, a neighboring country, does not want to see. The rise of Greece, also a neighboring country of Serbia, is what Serbia wants to see?

“Serbia is unlikely to do this, because it will be strongly reacted by Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary will never sit by and watch Serbia gain access to the sea, which will violate the core interests of Austria-Hungary,” Constantine said, breaking The silence in the conference room.

“Unless all countries are ready for war, this kind of action by Serbia will definitely be stopped, because this kind of action by Serbia is likely to become a fuse and trigger a war that affects the whole of Europe” Constantine said blankly said.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire will never allow Serbia to gain access to the sea, and Russia is Serbia’s Slavic eldest brother, and will never watch the Austro-Hungarian Empire bully its younger brother.

Austria-Hungary and Russia belonged to the Allies and the Allies respectively.

At this time, the two major military groups, the Allied Powers and the Allied Powers, were engaged in a military competition that did not give way to each other.

“So, if countries don’t want a world war that will spread to the whole of Europe right now, they will try their best to stop Serbia’s crazy move to attack Greece.”

After Constantine explained, the expressions on the faces of Venizelos and Emmanuel became more solemn and serious.

In order to ease the tense atmosphere, Constantine had to say: “After all, these are just our analysis and speculation. How the situation in the Balkans develops depends on your specific work.”