On August 12, Bulgaria was attacked by Russian troops. On the morning of that day, Bulgaria declared war on Russia. In the afternoon, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Russia on the grounds that its protector Bulgaria was attacked by Russia. On the 13th, as an ally of the Austrians, Germany also declared war on Russia. In this way, Russia suddenly faced three enemies.

Anna had already expected this situation. In addition to using the declaration of war as a reply, Anna sent another power to notify Budoni, asking him to fight quickly and force Bulgaria to surrender at all costs.

The Balkans run across central Bulgaria, with the vast Danube plain to the north and the Rodope Mountains and the Maricha Valley lowlands to the south. The plains provide great convenience for the assault of the Russian cavalry. In addition, every time the Russian army pushes further, the Romanian army will follow behind and occupy and consolidate the towns captured by the Russian army. Therefore, Budonnie can safely and boldly order all troops to take full advantage of the attack.

The defense line organized by the hasty-fighted defense army often can only last for a few hours. In just a few days, northern cities such as Rusai, Previn, Shumen, Daterwor, Tolbuhin fell one by one. Faced with the failure, Bulgarian King Ferdinand continued to speak, strongly condemning Russia's "shameful sneak attack", claiming that the victory of the Russian army was only temporary, and the security army was mobilizing with all its strength. At the same time, as the eldest brother of Bulgaria, the Austro-Hungarian Empire also used the Russian sneak attack incident and launched a public opinion offensive.

However, the Germans didn't talk much, and they were also shameless about Belgium's attack. At this point, the Germans and Anna had the same idea: when Belgium and Bulgaria surrendered, everything would be fine, and history was decided by the winners.

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On the western front, on August 13, the "Big Belta" giant cannon destroyed two of the Belgian defenders' turrets, but the remaining batteries still insisted on resisting and refused to surrender. Since this was the case, Ludendorf decided to completely smash these hard walnuts with brute force. He ordered: The four "Big Belta" giant cannons were divided into two groups, and the remaining batteries were swept through the banks of the Maas River.

As a result, there were continuous earth-shaking noises on the battlefield every day, and various turrets collapsed one after another, becoming huge iron melting furnaces and corpse burning sites. By August 16, 12 turrets had been destroyed, leaving only the Longsen turret guarded by Leman.

At this point, Rudendolf held the last hope and sent someone to persuade the surrender for the last time, but Lehmann's answer was only one word "No!" So four "Belta" giant cannons fired at the Longsen Fortress, and the fire immediately ignited. The ammunition depot in the fortress was also ignited, and a chain explosion occurred. The roof of the fortress was lifted dozens of meters away, and the entire fortress was completely destroyed.

When the smoke and dust dissipated, the German army rushed forward and saw burnt corpses and broken guns everywhere. The scene was terrible. The German soldiers packed up the bodies one by one, and finally found the shocked Lehman in a pile of broken armored turrets and smoked cement fortifications.

On the morning of August 17, the German First Legion, Second Legion and Third Legion continued to sweep Belgium as planned, forcing the remaining Belgium troops to retreat to Antwerp, and causing Brussels to surrender without fighting on August 20, and Belgium completely collapsed.

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It took the Russian army six days to finally approach Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The battles of several days made the Russian soldiers exhausted, and Budonni had to order the entire army to rest. Then, he sent an envoy to persuade the protector to surrender.

At this moment, King Ferdinand was taking his family and a group of senior government officials, dressed as civilians under the protection of the Imperial Guards, fled to Austria, preparing to form an exiled government there and continue the war of resistance.

Sitting in a car that looks average but is extremely luxurious inside, Ferdinand was extremely sad. The shame of defeat in the Balkan War a year ago has not been eliminated, but now he has become the king of the country. The huge sense of oppression has caused the monarch who still has a trace of backbone to take out his gun and aim it at his temple...

On the 19th, because the Sofia defenders refused to surrender, the Russian army had to attack. First, there was a fierce shelling, and then the cavalry charged as usual, while the infantry followed far behind.

The Cossack soldiers waved their sabers and spears and rushed forward with a scream. In just a few dozen seconds, the galloping horses had approached the protection army's position, 500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters... Through the telescope, Bujonny looked at the advancing cavalry and counted silently in his heart. In his opinion, the protection army could not resist such a violent impact. The brave and warlike Cossack cavalry could soon drive them out, and then the infantry stepped forward, occupied the position, and eliminated the remaining enemies. Along the way, this traditional method was tried and tested.

However, Budoni was wrong. When the Russian cavalry rushed to only 200 meters away from the target position, the military position sounded dense gunshots like fried beans. The military machine gunners controlled the Maxim heavy machine gun. Facing the dense cavalry in front, they didn't need to aim at it. They pulled the trigger directly. A whirlwind bullet shot into the chest, arms, and stomach of the Cossack warriors... Blood splashed everywhere, and many war horses were also shot. They fell to the ground with the cavalry on the horse's back, and then they were trampled into meat sauce by the comrades who were swarming behind...

Bujonny was shocked. He had never seen machine gun strafing scenes, but had never seen such a intensive, unilateral massacre; he did not understand how the Guardians were equipped with so many machine guns: they had never met such well-equipped enemy troops all the way.

This is of course. The security forces responsible for guarding the capital Sofia are the most elite troops and the equipment is the best. With the belief of sticking to the end, the city guard generals distributed the light and heavy machine guns and various artillery in the armory to the troops without hesitation, and asked them to fight with all their might!

In addition to the machine gunners, the infantry of the army also raised their guns and fired them in a slight manner, and the mortars that had been suppressed in the rear for a long time also roared.

The Cossack cavalry were still charging desperately, but the dense bullets quickly harvested their lives. Soon, only a few soldiers who fell to the ground were left. They waved their sabers tremblingly and walked towards the protection position. After the rapid gunfire, everything calmed down...

Bujonny encountered a hard nail. He was unwilling to give up and ordered the artillery again to aim at the fire points and completely smash them.

"Boom!" Boom............A shell was thrown into the river like a stone, stirring up several meters of smoke and dust. The soldiers in the trench were shocked to roll in their internal organs, covering their ears, lying on the ground, feeling the trembling of the earth.

At this time, before the shelling was completely stopped, Budonni ordered the entire army to charge.

Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of Russian troops rushed forward like tigers, like a tiny-brown flood, which was about to flood the frontier positions of the protectors.

"Dadadada..." The machine gunners of the protector opened fire, and another Russian army fell. But at this time, the firepower of the protector was much weaker, and the Russian army's numerical advantage suddenly showed. They finally broke through the defense line by exchanging two lives for one life or three lives for one life.

Then, fierce hand-to-hand combat unfolded in the winding trenches. Bayonets, buttstocks, engineer shovels, stones, teeth, wooden sticks... Any hard thing became a tool for killing. As the Russian army arrived, the protection army gradually retreated.

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