Chapter 607 Good Intentions
For this Serbian army, Alexander’s presence is not strong.
Although Alexander was the commander-in-chief of the Kingdom of Serbia, it was Putnik who actually commanded the troops in combat.
Alexander's influence on the Serbian army is even less than that of Stefan Sternovic.
At least Sternovich chose to be with the soldiers when the Serbian army was defeated, but Alexander abandoned his troops and fled to France.
The Serbian soldiers did not receive much education, and their feelings were very simple. They would help anyone who could make them live a good life.
Alexander was angry that his speech did not get the response he wanted.
After the speech, Alexander returned to Sofia accompanied by Sternovich.
In the car on the return trip, Alexander confessed his true purpose to Sternovich.
Alexander asked Sternovic to preserve his strength, ensure control over the Serbian army, and avoid interference from other factors.
Sternovich frowned. Alexander's request was correct, but it was difficult to achieve.
Srpska soldiers are living people, not puppets. It is impossible for Sternovic to prohibit contact between Serbian soldiers and Bulgarians.
Many things are beyond our control.
After the Serbian army withdrew into Bulgaria, the wounded soldiers were treated in Bulgarian hospitals by doctors sent from the Balkan war zone. The people who took care of these wounded soldiers were Bulgarians.
It was impossible for wounded soldiers and nurses not to communicate, so the real situation in Bulgaria was spread throughout the Serbian army through those soldiers who had recovered from their injuries.
As both Balkan countries, Bulgaria enjoys land distribution, tax exemptions, and light corvee and low taxes.
Serbia is militaristic.
What can Sternovich do?
Tell those soldiers who have begun to doubt that what the Kingdom of Bulgaria is doing is wrong——
Then what is right?
"To improve morale, we must make a promise to the soldiers so that they can live a good life after the war."
Stenovich is a soldier and still doesn't know enough about the art of language .
“So, they had a bad life before?”
Dimitrijevich in the passenger seat had a tricky angle.
Dimitrijevich and Alexander had a very close relationship. It was with Alexander's support that Dimitrijevich established the Black Hand.
"That's not important. What's important is the future."
Sternovich doesn't want to discuss this issue.
Only your feet know whether a shoe fits your foot or not.
So you have to ask yourself whether the life of the Serbian soldiers is good or not.
“No problem, you can do whatever you want as long as it restores morale.”
Alexander fully supports Sternovich.
Alexander did not live in the military camp like Sternovic, but lived in the Serbian embassy in Sofia.
Sternovich sent Alexander to the embassy and returned to the military camp outside the city.
Dimitrijevich was very dissatisfied with Sternovich.
“This old guy must have taken refuge with Grand Duke Yuriev, he betrayed us!”
When Dimitrievich said this, he seemed to have forgotten that he had just contacted Brusinov a few days ago and proposed the establishment of the United Kingdom of Bulgaria-Serbia-Montenegro-Albania-Bosnia-Herzegovina.
And invited Polis to be the king of this country.
Whether this suggestion is realistic or not is irrelevant.
If this idea becomes a reality, this may be the country with the longest name in the world.
Alexander didn’t speak. What he observed was indeed not good.
"Are we really going to allocate land to those poor devils? They are so lucky."
As a part of the aristocracy, Dimitrievich himself must safeguard the interests of the aristocracy.
“Oh, many of them have no chance of surviving to that day.”
Alexander is just a blank check.
George never wrote a blank check and always kept his word.
When the Balkan Alliance was established, George promised to lead the Balkan countries to defeat the Ottoman Empire and meet the requirements of the Balkan countries.
Although the final result is not satisfactory, it is already the optimal solution based on compromise between all parties.
When mobilizing the Kingdom of Romania to send troops to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, George promised to distribute Transylvania to Romania. Now Ferdinand has begun to send consuls to Transylvania.
Montenegro King Nicholas did not have high demands, he just wanted to preserve the country's independent status.
Albania wants to take back Kosovo and Northern Epirus, which were assigned to Serbia and Greece respectively after the end of the Second Balkan War. George ignored Albania, and there must be a limit to his dreams.
Albania was nominally independent, but before the war it was under the joint control of Britain, Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Russia.
Due to the lack of national leadership, Albania was not mobilized before the war broke out, so it was unable to send troops to help the Kingdom of Serbia like the Kingdom of Montenegro.
After Conrad occupied the entire Kingdom of Serbia, he successively annexed the Kingdom of Montenegro and Albania.
Albania did not even resist during this process.
Now George has a new understanding of the saying that a small demon in a temple has a strong wind.
Georgi, like Nicholas, only asked to ensure the independence of the country.
George naturally supports such a request.
Polilis didn’t even ask for it, because he knew very well that George would give him more than he imagined.
With Ekaterina and Anne in charge, George was just a prop at Polis's wedding.
Nicholas, who arrived in Adrianople only the day before Polis's wedding, had been in a difficult position of late.
After the war broke out, the successive defeats in the European theater had a huge impact on Nicholas's prestige.
Fortunately, there was still the Battle of Galicia to cover up the humiliation. Nicholas finally regained some confidence in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
However, the results of the Battle of Galicia pale in comparison to the results of the Battle of Transylvania.
George, who opposed the offensive before the war, gained hugely after the war broke out.
Little Nicholas, who had supported the offensive before the war, was disgraced, and Nicholas was also affected.
At the time of the Polis wedding, the British and French armies were planning a new attack. George V sent a telegram to Nicholas, hoping that the Russian army would cooperate with the British and French forces to attack the German army from the north to the south.
This mainly refers to the Balkan theater commanded by George.
Although George's Army made progress in Transylvania, George also had an unshirkable responsibility for the demise of the Kingdom of Serbia.
Probably the British and French believe that no matter how evil Peter and his son are, George must do his best to provide assistance to the Kingdom of Serbia.
In this case, George would have something to say.
The UK and Belgium also had an agreement before the war. Why didn’t the UK fight for Belgium and the Germans?
On the big day, the British and French people caused trouble for George, and George was in a very unhappy mood.
"The troops are seriously lacking in winter supplies, weapons and equipment, and are unable to attack."
It is impossible to use moral kidnapping to allow George to attack and get benefits.
Nicholas had a complicated expression.
Although Nicholas did not go to Constantinople, Nicholas knew the situation in Constantinople very well.
Are the mountains of supplies in Constantinople all fake?
"The attack must have a clear purpose. It cannot be an attack for the sake of attacking. The main force of the German army is still in Britain and France. You must understand William's good intentions."
George whispered to Nicholas , this is treason.
"How is this possible!"
Nicholas is indeed a bit lacking in human sophistication.
It’s actually hard to say.
William II and Nicholas must have feelings.
But after the war broke out, the German army showed no mercy to the Russian army.
But this can't be done by the Germans. After all, it was that idiot Zhilinsky who invaded the German mainland first.
As for the German counterattack against Warsaw, George believed that the problem lay with Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
Hindenburg and his chief of staff Ludendorff were soldiers. The reason why the Germans on the Eastern Front launched the Battle of Warsaw was that George believed that the purpose was to replace defense with offense.
The size of the Russian army on the Eastern Front was twice that of the German-Austrian Allied Forces.
If Hindenburg wanted to stabilize the defense line, he could only continue to cause damage to the Russian army.
Otherwise, Hindenburg would have a hard time waiting for the Russian army to be ready.
For the same reason, Mackensen will also organize an attack on the Tisza River front line, because as time goes by, the troop strength gap on the Tisza River front line will become wider and wider.
George had nothing to say. The orders given to Vasily and Andrei were to stay on the defensive and wait for the arrival of the armored forces.
The Russian army is still building roads in the Carpathian Mountains, and work has not stopped even with the arrival of winter.
This work will be completed before March next year.
At the wedding, George couldn't say too much to Nicholas. Anyway, George and Nicholas Jr. were going back to Petrograd for a meeting at the end of the year, so they would leave these words until then.
(End of this chapter)