Tsarist Empire: Please call me His Majesty the Tsar

In recent decades, despite constant friction between Europe's major powers, they have generally remained peaceful.

Countries also seem to know that if war breaks out, it will inevitably be a war of great scale. For all countries, it will have a huge impact. Even if you win the war, you will pay a great price.

Therefore, countries are also trying to avoid the outbreak of war.

Now, the Russian Empire has used force against the Bulgarian Kingdom, which is undoubtedly breaking the tacit understanding and balance between countries, and directly pushing countries to the cliff of war!

This made the countries for a while, although the clamor was very strong. But it is not so easy to get them to take factual action.

Austria-Hungary began to order troops to be combat-ready and began to assemble on the border.

However, because Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Bulgaria do not now border. So, if they wanted to send troops into the Bulgarian kingdom, they had to pass through the kingdom of Serbia or the Kingdom of Romania.

At the same time, Austria-Hungary knew very well that the Russian Empire was a formidable enemy. It would not be so easy for them to fight and defeat the Russian Empire.

This made Austria-Hungary immediately order the ambassador to the Germanic Empire to contact the Germanic Empire and request support from the Germanic Empire. If the Germanic Empire could send troops to help them, it would be the best.

However, this takes time.

The Ottoman Empire also felt an imminent threat.

The Ottoman Sultan Abdelhamid II ordered the army to begin massing in the Rumilia region to prepare for the Russian Empire.

Of course, given that in the last ten wars with the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire has lost most of the wars. Now, the Ottoman Empire is even weaker and has been completely suppressed by the Russian Empire. So much so that the Ottoman Empire simply did not have the courage to continue to fight against the Russian Empire. Without the support of other countries, as long as the Russian Empire did not take the initiative to invade the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire would not dare to easily provoke war.

Under such circumstances, the Kingdom of Bulgaria immediately appealed to Austria-Hungary for help. However, they have been slow to get help.

And the elite troops of the Tsarist Empire have quickly approached Sofia.

From Varna to Sofia, it is about four hundred kilometers.

For infantry, it will take at least half a month just to rush.

However, fortunately, the speed of the 1st Cavalry Brigade was very fast. While the infantry was still on its way, the 1st Cavalry Brigade took only three days to reach the city of Sofia.

Although, the Kingdom of Bulgaria has already gathered tens of thousands of people here. The 1st Cavalry Brigade had only more than 9,000 men.

However, they still took the initiative to attack.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Imperial Russian Army set up 24 75-mm field guns and opened heavy fire.

The army of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, although there were many people, could only defend, and did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

After all, cavalry in this era, not only maneuvers fast. At the same time, it also has a strong impact. In the field, infantry is no match for cavalry at all.

The army of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, in particular, was poorly equipped. Not to mention the Maxim heavy machine guns, there are not even many artillery.

In such a situation, they were not at all opponents of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Tsarist Imperial Army.

If you hold the city, you may be able to resist it by relying on the absolute superiority in troops.

At least, until the main infantry units of the Tsarist Imperial Army arrived, they would not have problems.

But the biggest problem was that King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria was also frightened.

With Austro-Hungarian reinforcements delayed, he feared that he had been abandoned and had become an outcast.

So, on the night of July 24, Ferdinand I, under the protection of the Guards, fled Sophia with a group of high-ranking kingdom officials.

They crossed the border directly west and entered the kingdom of Serbia.

Then, through the Kingdom of Dauselvia, he traveled to Austria-Hungary.

At this moment, even the king and the high-ranking officials fled, which immediately caused the morale of the army of the Bulgarian kingdom to plummet. The soldiers' will to fight was even more devastated.

Under such circumstances, they no longer had the courage to continue fighting the troops of the Russian Empire.

So, the next afternoon, a large number of troops of the Kingdom of Bulgaria went out of the city and surrendered.

They don't want to lose their lives in the next battle.

The generals and officers of the Bulgarian kingdom in the city, seeing that the general trend has passed, if they continue to resist, they will surely die.

Therefore, they all led their troops out of the city to surrender.

This surprised the front-line generals of the Russian Empire, who actually used only one cavalry brigade to capture the capital of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

Subsequently, Admiral Gurko quickly changed his battle plan and allowed the remaining infantry divisions to march to other cities in the Kingdom of Bulgaria, completing the occupation of the entire territory of the Kingdom of Bulgaria in a short time.

Until the end of July, the military operations of the Russian Empire achieved a complete victory, completing the annexation of the Bulgarian kingdom by force.

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