In the afternoon of the war, the Russian army took most of the positions outside the city, and the protectors were forced to retreat into the city of Sofia. The fierce offensive and defensive battle caused serious losses to both sides, especially the Russian cavalry, with thousands of people killed or seriously injured, and the protectors also needed to breathe. Therefore, the two sides tacitly reached a short ceasefire agreement. In the trenches filled with corpses, the Russian army and the protectors were busy restraining the remains of their own soldiers. In this hot summer, if the corpses were not disposed of as soon as possible, it would be easy to cause a plague.

"Report to General! There is a Bulgarian envoy outside, and he asks to meet you." Budoni, who was thinking about how to break the city, was interrupted by the guards.

"Let him in!"

The person who came was an infantry colonel, like many European officers, wearing a mustache. He glanced at the command center and immediately noticed Budonnie, who had the highest rank, and quickly nodded and bowed, "Your Excellency, I am the representative of all Bulgarian troops in Sofia, and surrender to you..."

"Surrender?!" Budoni reacted for a long time and asked with a smile, "Why, don't you continue to fight? Surrender, okay, then you go back immediately, open the city gate, and all Bulgarian soldiers leave the city and hand over their weapons!"

"Okay, OK, I'll go back now..." The colonel turned around and left in shame.

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The next day, all the weapons and equipment of the Guardian Army were confiscated, and a large number of Guardian prisoners were handed over to the Romanian army in the rear for care. Budonni led his troops into the city of Sofia. The Cossack cavalry rode high-headed horses and walked in the front. The streets were full of scattered boxes and parcels, and there were almost no residents.

As the Russian army entered the city center, more and more Bulgarian residents carefully opened the doors and windows, watching the Russian army outside through a gap. For these Sofia residents, the rich had fled before, and the rest were real ordinary people. They lived in the capital for generations, and even if they faced a threat of war, they would not leave easily.

"The palace of your king is ahead?" asked a Cossack cavalry captain.

"Yes, sir, there should be no one in the palace. Our king and queen have escaped..." The officer in charge of leading the way smiled, "But there should be many treasures inside. sir, I'll take you to see?"

"Well, go quickly!" When the cavalry captain heard that there were treasures in the palace, he immediately thought of endless jewelry, gold and precious oil paintings, and immediately urged the guide to lead the way.

So hundreds of cavalrymen whipped their horses and quickly passed through several streets, passing through a small wood, and finally arrived at the palace with jewelry spirit.

"Bang!" After the sudden gunfire, a Cossack cavalry fell down his horse wailingly. Then the sparse gunfire sounded, and more than a dozen cavalrymen died.

"Dropping off the horse! Hiding on the spot!" the captain quickly ordered, and at the same time he grabbed the security officer, "Damn it! Didn't you say there is no one in the palace?"

"Sir, I don't know..." The guide shook his head and suddenly remembered something, saying with certainty, "It must be the guards and some imperial guards in the palace, they did not surrender..."

"Oh? It's just a bunch of miscellaneous things," the captain waved his pistol, "Heroic knights, rush in, countless gold is waiting for us! Rush!"

"Ula!...Ula!" The Cossacks who left the war horses still bravely waved their sabers and spears, rushed into the palace gate in one breath. Several soldiers guarding the gates of the guards were cut to the point of blood. The group of Cossack cavalry fought and robbed, and many precious porcelain, furniture, calligraphy and paintings fell into their pockets one by one. There were very few guards in the palace, only dozens of guards. The Russian army cleared out one by one. Even though a few guards surrendered, they were still killed by the irritable cavalry.

With a "bang", the door was knocked open. The leading Cossack soldiers stared blankly at the palace maids in front of them. The palace maids were curled up in the corner of the room at a loss, enduring the soldiers' strange eyes.

"Ah...oh!!!" After a brief calm, the soldiers shouted excitedly. The Cossack man in groups of three or three looked like a chicken. Several palace maids were pulled and pressed to the ground by more than a dozen soldiers. The thin dress was torn apart rudely, revealing a large piece of snow-white chest. Such a moving picture greatly stimulated the natural wildness of the Cossacks...

At the same time, similar robberies gradually became public and collective in Sofia. With the mentality of revenge and venting, Russian soldiers cleaned up a street and houses. In addition to property, young and beautiful girls also became popular.

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With the fall of the capital, the Bulgarian will to resist quickly collapsed, and many protectors surrendered voluntarily. The Russian army headed south all the way. Soon, Plovdiv, Old Zagra, Blagoevgrad and other southern cities surrendered one by one. By August 25, the last city, Podkova, was captured and the Russian army occupied the entire Bulgaria.

When the news of Bulgaria's defeat reached Moscow, everyone was smiling. Since the development, in just over a dozen days, such a huge victory was achieved, and there were endless officials and nobles who celebrated Emperor Alexey.

However, Russia's small victory in the Balkans could not change the entire war situation. On the Western Front, millions of German troops crossed Belgium and rushed towards France in a fierce manner. Large-scale encounters broke out in the Ardennes and the region between the Sambur and the Mas. In Ardennes, the 3rd and 4th French Army were defeated by the 5th and 4th German Army and were forced to retreat to the Verdun and the Mas River; in Charleroi, the 2nd German Army forced the crossing of the Sambur and launched before the 5th French Army, and repelled it to its starting position. At the same time, the 3rd German Army approached the Mas River from the east, posing a threat to the 5th French Army, forcing it to retreat to the south of Philipville before August 25.

From August 23 to 24, the German 1st Army repelled the British Expeditionary Force to Le Cato and the front line in the Mons area. On August 14, the French 1st Army launched an attack in Lorraine and made progress for a while, but on August 20, the German 6th and 7th Army, who were transferred to the attack, encountered it and was repelled to the Merte River on August 27.

The series of failures of the British and French coalition forces led to frequent visits to the Kremlin by the British and French ambassadors to Russia, and strongly demanded that Russia send troops to attack East Prussia to relieve the pressure on the Western Front.

There is no way, what should be come is still coming. In order to change the original misfortune of the Russian army, Anna decided to go to Warsaw to take charge and lead the Russian army to fight against the most powerful enemy.

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