Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Never overestimate the integrity of politicians!

Perhaps seeing the Armenians doing a good job, or perhaps to increase the odds, the Greeks acted. It was money and weapons to incite the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire to launch an uprising in Asia Minor.

The incompetence of the Sudanese government stimulated the ambitions of George I. Even a single Armenian problem can’t be solved. Now even Constantinople is undergoing a revolution. It seems that the Ottomans are really in decline!

Similarly, he is now very dissatisfied with Bulgaria as an ally. If it were not for the fear of being benefited by the fisherman, George I would have been ready to go it alone.

Or it could be said that there are people in Greece who can't help but want to do it. As a king, it is very troublesome to suppress activists!

Instigating an uprising in the peninsula of Asia Minor was one of his methods of shifting contradictions.

In order to suppress the Armenian uprising, the Sudanese government also transferred troops from Asia Minor, which also gave the Greeks hope.

You must know that at the end of the 19th century, the Greeks were the second largest ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire, with a large population, far beyond the Armenians.

Once they launched an uprising in the peninsula of Asia Minor, the Greek government could immediately use the navy to provide them with support, or even send troops to intervene directly.

In theory, as long as the insurgent army can break out the fighting strength of the Armenians, millions of Greeks revolt, and the tens of thousands of Turkish troops in Asia Minor are simply powerless to suppress.

If the Greek government declares war on the Ottoman Empire again, sends troops to the Asia Minor peninsula, and cooperates with the insurgent army, it might be able to swallow this piece of fat in one bite. No matter how bad it is, Greece can also get a piece of the pie in Asia Minor!

As for whether the Sudanese government will send reinforcements, you can rest assured! There will be reinforcements, but there will never be too many!

The 200,000 troops in the Balkans did not dare to move at all. If the Ottoman army moved, could Bulgaria and Mente Negro sit there? Take advantage of the fire in minutes!

And unless they go through the Sea of ​​Marmara, the Greek navy will not let them go. Now the main navy of the Ottoman Empire is restrained by the "existence navy" of Bulgaria, and they dare not leave the Bosphorus for a moment. Strait!

Even if the strong men of the Sudanese government break their wrists, abandon the Balkans, and go to the Sea of ​​Marmara, with the organizational capabilities of the Sudanese government, they will not be able to fight at all within a few months!

Not to mention the Constantinople area, the Armenian rebels are still there! Withdrawing troops now means giving up Constantinople, which the Russians covet!

It is possible for the Sudanese government to give up the rest of the Balkans, but it is totally unacceptable to give up Constantinople. Especially in the hands of the Russians, this is equivalent to sending the Black Sea Strait out for nothing!

And the suppression of the rebellion must be fast. If the time drags on for a long time, the rebels will hook up with the Russians and directly give the fortress city to the Russians. The Sudanese government will not have time to cry!

Without this golden waterway, the Ottoman Empire is not far from collapse!

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Ferdinand doesn't care about the Greeks' wishful thinking. Now the main army of the Ottoman Empire is basically gathered in the Balkans, so he can't help but worry!

Now with the Armenian insurgents, Bulgaria will not feel the pressure, once the rebellion subsides. If these 400,000 to 500,000 troops are still in the Balkans, it will be very annoying!

Constantinople, which is defended by at least hundreds of thousands of troops, is not easy to conquer, or it will become a war of attrition!

Now that the Ottoman Empire has blocked the Bosphorus, and the Armenians have been surrounded by Constantinople, Ferdinand couldn't do it even if he wanted to support them.

Sitting in a lonely city, it is a fact that the uprising will be extinguished sooner or later!

Ferdinand didn't know how much damage this uprising brought to the Ottoman Empire.

Otherwise, you won't be so worried!

Especially under the command of the professional Victor Keith, the rebel army is fighting with the Ottoman government army, and the two sides have reached the point of endless death.

By May, the outer city walls had all fallen, because the insurgents had run out of shells. Without artillery, it is naturally impossible to stop the enemy's attack!

The weakness of the rabble has now been exposed. The blind expansion of the revolution against the army, and now the Armenian Provisional Government is unable to command the army!

If it was okay before, and the Ottoman army did not come in, everyone still has hope of victory, and they can work together to fight!

But with the fall of the outer defense line, everyone's confidence in holding Constantinople has disappeared. The key is that the intervention of the foreign powers that the interim government has been expecting has passed for more than three months, and there is no shadow!

There is wine today, drunk today, worry tomorrow to worry tomorrow! Military discipline is all about floating clouds, and military orders are also selectively enforced. It all depends on the mood. This is the status quo of the rebel army!

Even Victor Keith, the nominal defense commander, is powerless to other troops except for the thousands of direct descendants under his command.

After all, he never had any illusions about the rebel army. After the defense zone is directly delineated, let it go and do whatever you want! Anyway, they all got on the pirate ship and can't get off! The Turks are here, and in order to survive, we have to fight with them!

The city is full of corpses, if the Turks don't know what's going on, they'll be blind!

The brutality of the insurgents angered the Turks. Just kidding, when will the humble untouchables slaughter the nobles! The commander-in-chief of the counter-rebel army, Wolf Pasha, directly ordered the blood debt to be paid in blood!

The two sides have no room for relaxation anymore, and the Turks, who are bent on revenge, have already been killed. Oh, they can't help but kill them. With so many nobles dead, whoever dares to let go of the rebels, their family, friends and friends will not give up!

Both sides were forced to the corner. Even if the rebel army was a rabble, it still caused a lot of losses to the Ottoman army!

Time passed by in a hurry, and it entered June in a flash. The anti-insurgency army did not live up to the expectations of the Sultan, and had already won most of Constantinople. The rebel army was compressed to a few, and the uprising was about to be extinguished!

But the commander-in-chief Wolf Pasha was not happy, and the heavy casualties were only one aspect. He is a military commander, except for the loss of soldiers, other losses have little to do with him!

Since ancient times, wars have often been accompanied by great epidemics, and this time is no exception. Now that it is summer, the city is filled with the rotten smell of corpses, and the plague has broken out!

In the face of the plague, Wolf Pasha couldn't help but worry, he immediately decided to withdraw from Constantinople, but the epidemic had already begun to spread in the army!

Fortunately, this plague, as in history, did not spread much, and Wolf Pasha blocked Constantinople again, and did not spread in the Ottoman Empire!

The arrival of the plague created an opportunity for Victor Keith to run away. Now that both sides are exhausted, Victor Keith easily persuaded the real power in the rebel army to fight for his life! (10,000 words omitted)

After all, after the outbreak of the plague, people died of illness every day, and the mental pressure on people was enormous. Instead of waiting to die, it is better to fight with the Turks and make a way out!

On July 8, 1896, the Armenian uprising that lasted more than four months ended in failure! The remaining more than 100,000 uprising troops launched a breakthrough! But the rabble is the rabble, and there was no accidental failure to break through the siege, and the insurgent army was almost wiped out!