When Serbia, Romania, Greece, and Montenegro reached a secret treaty, Bulgaria, which was their target, was unaware. In fact, they were prepared for an alliance between Serbia and Greece, and as for Montenegro, they could ignore it, but the accession of Romania did not let them know.

Now Bulgaria is deliberating on how to resolve its territorial disputes with Serbia and Greece. The three parties are now in flames under the influence of nationalism, and all of them do not like the other, especially in Bulgaria. Among the people there have been several eruptions of demonstrations against Serbia and Greece for the occupation of the territories that Bulgaria should get. In this regard, the government organs headed by Prime Minister Geishov have already been overwhelmed by the demonstrations.

And the army was also influenced by the people, as Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov had previously said to King Ferdinand I. The army was already showing signs of instability, which made Ferdinand I secretly determined to take back the territories occupied by Serbia and Greece. If peace does not solve the problem, then war is on the table.

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister, it is now up to me to tell you about the plan prepared by our army."

Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov stood in front of a map and said to King Ferdinand I in front of him. Behind the kingdom are Prime Minister Gaisov, Foreign Minister Dilas Noch and other high-ranking government officials.

Ferdinand I said to his War Minister. "Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov begins."

Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov bowed his head slightly to the king, then picked up the command gang and began to explain. "Now we in Bulgaria need to deal with the fact that Serbia has 210,000 troops stationed in Macedonia, including 190,000 in the Bitola and Ohrid regions that occupied our country, and about 60,000 troops in its own country. Greece has more than 70,000 troops in the occupied Thessaloniki region and 60,000 troops within its borders. ”

Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov, after introducing the Serbian and Greek armies, began to speak of the Bulgarian army. "We Bulgaria have the largest number of troops among the three countries, reaching 360,000 troops. Since we need to face two countries to launch an attack at the moment, we are slightly less than Serbia and Greece in terms of total troops. After deducting the 30,000 troops that needed to defend the Ottomans, and the 20,000 troops that needed to defend other areas, we actually only had 310,000 troops. ”

In the face of Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov's explanation, Ferdinand I and Prime Minister Gaishov listened quietly without saying a word.

In fact, in the original history, Bulgaria did not have so many troops. It was all the result of the instigation of Eder's butterfly, and at that time there were only 300,000 troops in Bulgaria. And after the Balkan wars, the Bulgarian army was left with no ammunition. And now there are blood transfusions from Romania and Germany, so that the reserves of the Bulgarian army are still above the normal line. In artillery there were 761 in Bulgaria and 683 machine guns now, which is 167 and 412 more than in history.

After finishing all the armies of both sides, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov began to explain the plans prepared by the military. "In our plan, since the total strength of the two countries is higher than ours, we are ready to use the method of surprise attack."

Hearing that the foreign minister was going to raid without declaring war, Foreign Minister Dilasnoch couldn't help but interrupt and asked. "Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov, isn't such an approach too uncivilized."

Foreign Minister Dilas Snocchi said this because the pattern of warfare in Europe has always been that of declaring war on each other before attacking. An undeclared war would be spurned and considered not to be the work of a civilized nation. That's why Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II made the United States so angry.

Faced with the words of Foreign Minister Dilas Noch, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov explained. "Now Serbia and Greece have 1.7 times the population of us, and it will be difficult for us to defeat the Serbian-Greek army if we go to war normally."

After hearing the explanation of Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov, Foreign Minister Dilasnoch also stopped questioning.

After seeing that the foreign minister did not continue to object, Prime Minister Gai Shuov told him. "Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov, please continue."

"The main force we need to deal with this time is the Serbian army, for which we have concentrated the First Army, the Third Army, and the Seventh and Fourth Divisions, with a total strength of 210,000. We are preparing the First Army to attack the Bitola area, where there are 60,000 Serbian Second Army, and our First Army, with 80,000 men, is completely capable of crushing the other side. The 3rd Army and the 4th Division attacked the Ohrid area, where the 1st and 3rd Serbian armies were defended with 130,000 men, and since we were equal to them here, the main target of our raid was here. The Seventh Division interspersed between the two places, depending on the situation. ”

After listening to Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov's explanation, King Ferdinand found that this was not similar to the pattern of the previous Paussa War. However, both the size of the troops and the weapons and equipment are much better than those of that era.

Still, Ferdinand I complimented it. "You're doing a good job."

In the face of the king's praise, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov was still a little embarrassed, but he still said it truthfully. "Your Majesty, our plan is still based on the modification made in the last war."

Prime Minister Gaisov asked the key question. "Then Your Majesty, when are we going to start?"

Ferdinand I replied. "It depends on when Austria-Hungary is ready."

Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary had previously discussed attacking Serbia at the same time, but this ended with German disapproval. Because Austria-Hungary could not afford the wrath of Russia, Austria-Hungary would have been cleaned up by Russia in the past few decades without the help of Germany. So after Germany refused to provide guarantees, Austria-Hungary sent the prime minister to lobby Germany, and now Germany's attitude has become a little hesitant.

After hearing the king's words, Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov said with a little hesitation. "Your Majesty, but we can't just wait. Moreover, the mood of the army is currently high, and if it is delayed, I am afraid that the situation will change. ”

Hearing the words of Lieutenant General Mikhail Savov, Ferdinand I also walked back and forth thinking about the gains and losses. The ministers all looked at their king quietly, for fear of disturbing him, and for a moment the whole room was quiet.

Eventually, Ferdinand I stopped as if he had made a decision, and looked at the ministers waiting for him to make a decision. "We'll just wait a week, and if there's no news yet, then let's solve the current territorial problem ourselves."