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When Petroch fired the first shot of the war, a steady stream of awakened Serbian troops rushed into the trenches, preparing to resist the Bulgarian invasion.

The Bulgarian Fourth Division saw that its raid had been discovered, and rushed to the Serbian front line. When a large number of Serbian troops arrived, they were already within 50 meters of the position. After suffering a wave of casualties, the 4th Division rushed into the trenches and fought with the 6th Serbian Division. The Bulgarian artillery group of up to 453 artillery pieces also began to block artillery at this time. The reinforcements of the 6th Division were completely unable to intercept them with such powerful firepower.

Seeing that the reinforcements he sent were blocked by artillery fire, Podonovic, the commander of the Serbian Sixth Division, was anxious in his heart.

Colonel Devanat, the brigade commander of the 6th Brigade of the 3rd Division, who had just come in for reinforcements today, saw the commander of the 6th Division, who was helpless, said loudly. "General, the enemy's artillery is too fierce now, and our reinforcements can't go up. It is estimated that the first-line positions will soon be unstoppable. It is better that we stick to the second-line positions for layer-by-layer defense."

Hearing the suggestion of Colonel Devanat, who was reinforcing him, Major General Podonovich realized that he was too impatient, and called a messenger to speak to him. "Call the reinforcements of the 12th Brigade back to strengthen the second-line positions."

Watching the departure of the messengers, Major General Podonovich secretly hurt himself for the Eleventh Brigade on the front line. Without reinforcements, it is unknown how many people from the Eleventh Brigade will escape.

In fact, the Eleventh Brigade on the front line was almost unable to resist, and the culprit that caused them to be unable to resist was the large number of Madsen machine guns of the Fourth Bulgarian Division. Under the suppression of this machine gun, a large number of soldiers of the 11th Brigade fell under its muzzle. If the shelling behind them was too violent, it is estimated that many people would have fled.

In Ohrid, Marshal Putnik (who had only been promoted from general to marshal on June 15 for his exploits against the Ottomans) had just been awakened by telegrams that the 6th Division had been attacked. The old marshal, who was wearing only one shirt, took over the telegram of the Sixth Division that was handed to him by a staff officer.

The 6th Division said in the telegram that it had been under heavy attack by the Bulgarian army and hoped to receive reinforcements. Marshal Putnick, who had read the telegram, gave orders to the staff around him who were waiting for a reply. "Let the third and first divisions stationed outside the city quickly reinforce the sixth division's defense line, and let the seventh and tenth divisions be ready to reinforce at dawn."

After he finished speaking, he felt that he had said something less and wanted to continue talking to the staff officer carefully. "Let the second division in the city prepare to enter the fortifications and prepare for the attack at the same time."

"As ordered, Your Excellency Marshal."

After receiving the order, the staff officer replied to him, and immediately went out to send a telegram to the third and first divisions.

Marshal Putnick couldn't sleep after giving orders to the staff,

Walked back and forth in the room wondering if there were any loopholes in his deployment. Marshal Putnik had prepared for Bulgaria to launch an attack before, taking into account all the circumstances, and now it only needs to be implemented according to the previously scheduled plan. After thinking for a while, he came to the hall of the headquarters, intending to wait for news from the front line. Seeing that under the bright lights, the staff members were busy with their work, which filled the hall with the tense atmosphere of the coming war.

Marshal Putnick came to the front of the hall and looked at a huge high-scale military map hanging on the wall and began to think.

Seeing the marshal standing in front of the map and meditating, the voices of the staff members became much quieter. After about fifteen minutes, a staff officer looked at the telegram just received with a change in his face, and walked up to Marshal Putnick and said. "The marshal just sent a telegram from the sixth division, the first-line position was lost, and they are struggling to resist in the second-line position."

"What? Show it to me."

After hearing the latest information on the battlefield, Marshal Putnick couldn't believe his eyes. In his opinion, the defense line of the Sixth Division can be held for at least half a day, and the reinforcements can reach the position in only an hour and a half. At present, it seems that the sixth division can't stand for an hour and a half, and now it is estimated that the reinforcement time will be delayed by two hours due to darkness. How can this not surprise Marshal Putnick.

Marshal Putnik took over the telegram from the staff and checked it. In the telegram, the commander of the sixth division, Podonovich, described in detail the entire process of being attacked. Seeing that the Bulgarian army was putting all its heavy firepower into the vanguard was what caused the sixth division to be caught off guard and suffer heavy losses.

Marshal Putnick was very surprised by this, and he was surprised that this completely subverted military common sense. But now that he can't take his gaffe, he needs to come up with a reliable way to solve the problem. After thinking for a while, he made arrangements to resist the attack of the Bulgarian army.

"Send a telegram to the 7th and 10th divisions and ask them to immediately reinforce the 6th division's positions."

Hearing the marshal's decision to increase troops twice within an hour, the staff officer replied immediately. "As ordered, Your Excellency Marshal."

When Marshal Putnik made the decision to fight against Bulgaria, the second line of the 6th Division was also under heavy artillery fire. The first line of defense had fallen, and the remnants of the Eleventh Brigade were brought back by them. Looking at the 11th Brigade with less than 3,000 people in front of him, General Podonovich's heart is bleeding. You must know that before the 11th Brigade, there were more than 7,000 people, plus the machine guns and small artillery he added to them. Eight thousand people. Now he can only line up the remnants of the Eleventh Brigade to the third-line defense.

The fierce Bulgarian shelling ended after only fifteen minutes. Then the soldiers of the Fourth Bulgarian Division appeared in front of them, and the remaining soldiers of the Sixth Division and the reinforcements of the Sixth Brigade of the Third Division began to launch a violent counterattack. One side relied on its own fortifications to resist, while the other relied on its own fierce firepower, and the battle situation was fierce and unusual. After more than ten minutes, Bulgaria pushed up the small artillery, facing the tactics of bayonets on the Bulgarian artillery, the Serbian Sixth Division gradually arrived and struggled.

One after another, the support firepower was broken by this tactic of Bulgaria, which greatly increased the pressure on the defensive sixth division. The fourth division finally broke into the sixth division's position with the help of the cover of the night, and the Serbs who were fighting for a while were retreating. The 3rd Army behind the 4th Division also sent two divisions to reinforce it. In the end, the sixth division failed to resist the Bulgarian attack, and successively withdrew from the second-line and third-line positions.

However, the Bulgarian army could not let go of their plans. The Bulgarian Fourth Division followed and attacked with the reinforcement of the two divisions of the Third Army, which completely collapsed the Sixth Division of the Sixth Division and the Sixth Brigade of the Third Division, and the soldiers rushed to the rear of Ohrid. The reinforcements of the 3rd and 1st divisions were caught off guard and were routed by three divisions of Bulgarian troops one after another while on the march. This also affected the second reinforcements, and the 7th and 10th divisions were also routed by three divisions of Bulgarian troops. It was not until the next morning that the divisions responded, which made Marshal Putnick completely unexpected.

In order to avoid being surrounded by the Bulgarian army, Marshal Putnik could only lead his troops to retreat to Miyak, 30 kilometers away, and plan to regroup and continue to fight.

The Serbian army lost about 30,000 people in this battle. Among them, 6,158 people were killed, 4,315 people were wounded, and 18,417 people were captured, most of whom were captured after being lost on the battlefield. Bulgaria lost 11,000 people, including 5,719 killed and 5,134 wounded. The loss of management was less, but the Bulgarian machine guns consumed a lot of bullets. On average, the main fourth division of the raid had more than 50 bullets left per Madsen machine gun, which was not enough for two magazines. It should be noted that Bulgaria supplied half of the Madsen machine gun bullets in its inventory to the 4th Division. There are less than two magazines left, and you can see the intensity of the battle.

In another battlefield, Bitola's Serbian army could not resist the Bulgarian raid and was defeated, and handed over the occupied Bitola area to the Bulgarian First Army. The Serbian army of more than 70,000 people returned only about 50,000 people, and 20,000 people were left in the local area. The First Army also lost no small amount of troops in the early 80,000s and there were still 70,000 troops left.

It was the same in the Thessaloniki area, where the Second Bulgarian Army launched a surprise attack on the defending Greek army. Despite the stubborn resistance of the Greek army, the Bulgarian army was still defeated in the face of increased firepower and no shortage of ammunition. Of the more than 70,000 Greek troops defending, only about 60,000 returned alive to a small town called Dambia on the border. The Bulgarian Second Army also lost almost 10,000.

The results of the war between the Bulgarian and Sehi armies surprised the European powers. For a time, Bulgaria was the Balkan Prussia and was called very loudly.

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