Chapter 628 The Balkan War breaks out

From being troubled by the antitrust law to now using this law to discipline others, only Sheffield can understand the hardships involved.

"Then you should respect me more in the future. Now you see that our Morgan family is not easy to mess with." Louisa Morgan was very proud and felt that her brother showed his strength when necessary.

"If I respected you, we wouldn't have this child." Sheffield tilted his head and said in a long tone, "So should I respect you or not?

It would definitely not be possible to put the Mellon family under pressure in a short period of time. The slave owners in the United States were still thinking of using the Mellon family as a way to pass the time, and the war outside America was still in full swing.

The Italian army finally stopped worrying about the resistance in Tripoli and decided to first eliminate the Ottoman army in Benghazi before considering how to deal with the resistance of the local people. The army rushed towards Enver Pasha in Benghazi.

The Ottoman army led by Enver Pasha is defending Benghazi. Kemal is also training the Ottoman army here. As the largest city now controlled by the Ottomans, Benghazi has a very important position.

It is for this reason that Enver Pasha attaches great importance to Italy's actions. After all, this will be the first major battle between the Ottomans and Italy in Africa since the war, and Enver Pasha cannot afford to lose.

The Italian army is very complex, but due to geographical factors, it is not unfamiliar with the environment of North Africa. Normally, Italian soldiers should be more adapted to the local environment than soldiers from other countries. But so far, the Italian army has not shown this.

Of course, considering only the data on paper, Enver Pasha would not have to fight another war. Generally speaking, the data on paper now shows that the Ottoman Empire is far inferior to that of Italy, so there is no need for the Ottoman Empire to resist.

Although they could no longer receive support from their homeland, Enver Pasha had always managed the North African troops well, so he still concentrated a lot of artillery to cover the upcoming battle. Many of these artillery pieces were temporarily withdrawn from the local army, which caused some minor unhappiness between Enver Pasha and the local Arab troops.

At this unexpected time, the Italians' attack began. The artillery preparation took only a quarter of an hour. The purpose of this attack was not to kill many Ottoman troops, but to destroy the port of Benghazi and isolate the Ottoman army. The first priority was to maintain the success and surprise of the attack.

The Italian Navy's guns made a deafening sound and poured their shells onto the port city. Enver Pasha, who had anticipated this, had already been out of the range of the guns. The shelling of Benghazi's outer defense line did not last long. Just over ten minutes later, Italy came out in full force, and a large number of soldiers rushed out of the desert, following the mobilized cars.

The Italian attack here was not fierce. After all, no one thought that any soldiers would resist the bombardment of naval guns. This shows Italy's attitude towards the war. Even though the war had been going on for a long time, there were still some wishful thinking.

But even this was enough, and within a day the Italian attacking forces were engaged in a firefight with the Ottoman defenses.

The sudden artillery fire caused the few Ottoman soldiers to panic. The problems faced by the Ottoman army were actually more serious than those faced by the Italians. They had not received proper training and had no good equipment. Compared with the Italian soldiers, they were at a disadvantage in all aspects. Perhaps only their belief in defending their country was superior to that of the Italians, but how much they could surpass the Italians was still unknown.

So after being suddenly attacked, the first reaction of most soldiers was to flee. A small number of soldiers bravely stayed in their strongholds and reported the situation here to their officers, but these brave soldiers were soon overwhelmed by the Italian attack.

Sheffield received a telegram from John Connor after Benghazi was semi-surrounded, saying that the slave owner's mercenaries were still doing well. They were less than 60 kilometers southwest of Benghazi, and posed a certain degree of threat to the attacking Italian army by coordinating their efforts from a distance.

Of course Sheffield also knew that this statement was John Connor's way of covering up the fact that the mercenaries had no effect.

The fighting in Benghazi is still quite fierce. According to the Italians' level, this is what a truly powerful industrial country is. It is one that can exert all its strength in war. Just look at the Western Front of World War I and the Eastern Front of World War II. A large-scale battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, a war meat grinder that devours lives, and only a truly powerful country can support such a war.

The war between the Ottoman army and the Italians was not completely out of the scope of agricultural society. They would rest for a long time after each battle, and then fight again after a long rest. As a result, the Italo-Turkish War lasted for more than a year until it ended, with both sides losing several thousand people. The mobilization of this war was similar to that of the Qing army in 1840, except that the intensity was raised.

In essence, such a war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire was a routine operation of old-style armies.

If the French sneaked into the area where the two sides were fighting and saw the fighting like this, they would probably become more confident in the backstab operation. The slave owner guessed that there must be French people sneaking into the area now.

The terrain in Benghazi is not complicated, and there are not many huge buildings in the city. Generally speaking, it is not a city suitable for street fighting, but it is better to have it than not. Anyone with a little military knowledge knows the advantages of geographical location.

After the Italian Army approached Benghazi, the Ottoman soldiers who had been hiding from the naval guns returned to their positions and used the defense lines they had built.

In general, this is the current situation of the battle. Sheffield muttered after reading the telegram, "At least Enver Pasha has common sense and didn't do the stupid thing of letting the soldiers fight against the battleship's guns."

When the slave owners recalled the Chinese soldiers defending against the battleship's main guns in the Battle of Song Lake, Enver Pasha's image in the eyes of them suddenly became wise and powerful.

"The Rockefeller family announced that it will invest in the electrolytic aluminum industry?" When Blair, the executive president of United Bank, came to visit the slave owner, he brought the latest news.

"John, on the surface, seems to be cultured, but in fact, he is no less ruthless than J.P. Morgan. What does it mean for him to issue this news in the name of Standard Oil at this time?" Sheffield laughed. Rockefeller Jr. usually looks like an academic, but in essence he is a bad person.

Morgan Jr. was a man who put his words into words, but Rockefeller Jr. showed his words with his actions.

"Boss, Heinze and Morse also have an idea. Do they want to speculate on the Mellon family's assets?" Blair hesitated and asked, "Of course, this depends on your opinion."

"Wait a little longer. People like Andrew Mellon won't give in so easily. You don't really understand what an outstanding person means to a company or a country." Sheffield shook his head slightly, telling his institutions in the financial industry not to act rashly.

The slave owner does not completely agree with the heroic view of history, but some outstanding figures really have nothing to do with the times. Using many powerful figures from the East and the West as examples is not representative, so let's take the black community that he has always suppressed.

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In Rwanda, where the Rwandan genocide took place, the country's president, Paul Kagame, is a very powerful figure. Before Kagame turned fifty, he had a record of overthrowing a country's government in five years. When he was young, he participated in the Ugandan war that overthrew Amin, followed by the Burundi, Rwanda, and two Congo wars.

As a Tutsi, he successfully took back and ruled Rwanda after the Rwandan genocide hit this already small ethnic group hard. On the surface, Rwanda had only 20,000 square kilometers and a population of 10 million, but under his rule, he actually occupied hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of Congolese land. Many places that were still part of Congo on the map had already become areas controlled by Rwanda.

Being able to turn an unfavorable situation around when faced with a crisis is an outstanding ability. Kagame, who comes from the Tutsi ethnic group, understands this very well. As a member of the victim group in Rwanda, he is very able to take advantage of this victim role.

The whole world knows about the Rwandan genocide that killed one million people, but Kagame intervened in the Congolese civil war, resulting in nearly ten million casualties and occupying hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of Congolese territory, but no one cares. This shows how terrifying Kagame is.

Sheffield also wanted to see whether Andrew Mellon, who had caused losses to both the Rockefeller family and the Morgan family, could launch a surprising counterattack?

While the three major companies in the United States took action at the same time, a good show of forming alliances and making coalitions was also being played out in the distant European continent. The countries of the Balkan Alliance had begun to mobilize and communicate their battle plans with each other.

The Bulgarian army formed a main group in the direction of Istanbul with three armies. Serbia's main force was also three armies to deal with the Turkish army's group in Macedonia. Greece's Vsalia Army and Epirus Army were ready to deal with the armies of Salonika and Yanina respectively. The Greek Navy was ready to take action against the Turkish Navy to ensure the Allies' control of the Mediterranean. The task of the Montenegrin army was to cooperate with the Serbian army in Macedonia.

The Battle of Benghazi was still in full swing. Montenegro, as the weakest country in the Balkan Alliance, was the first to declare war on the Ottoman Empire and demanded that all Ottoman troops withdraw from the Balkan Peninsula.

Montenegro's declaration of war put Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia into a final state of mobilization. In response to Montenegro's claims, they jointly declared that the Ottoman Empire gave up its sovereignty over the Balkan Peninsula.

The Ottoman Empire rejected this request and also began military mobilization. In the following days, the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan League declared war on each other, and the Balkan War broke out.

(End of this chapter)