Chapter 246: Planning For the Gallipoli Campaign
Bruno would gather daily with the fellow leaders of the Army Groups sent to the Balkan Campaign. At the same time, Montenegro, as expected, fell by the wayside. With Serbia out of the war, and being surrounded by a technologically superior army numbered over tenfold their own forces, the small Kingdom admitted defeat before the final battle had been waged.
In the span of a single season, the two greatest concerns of the Balkans had been taken out with swift and decisive action. Now all that remained was the Ottoman Empire, and it had been a thorn in Europe's side for far, far too long. And Bruno would bring a brutal end to its regime, and in doing so, would allow Greece to reclaim its historical and disputed territories.
Bruno planned to be so thorough in his victory that not a single Turk would remain in the lands of Thrace, Ionia, Cyprus, the Dodecanese Islands, and Crete. So long as a single Turk occupied these lands, they would forever be disputed.
While simply killing the people in these regions was the most logical and practical solution available to Bruno and the Central Powers, Bruno did not believe that harming innocent and unarmed people was a proper thing to do.
Instead, he would follow the allied powers examples on how they destroyed German claims over its historical and ancestral lands following their defeat in the Second World War of his past life. Forceful relocation eastward into Anatolia.
The resources needed to acquire such a thing would be vast, and Bruno could not accomplish this goal during the war, but following a Central Powers victory which was Bruno's ultimate goal in this life, he figured this reclamation of greater Greece could truly be established.
Thus, at the moment Bruno was speaking of his plans to his allies as he like they smoked a cigarette to calm his nerves.
"Transport ships will have to be allocated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to accomplish our aims. There is simply no feasible reality where the High Seas Fleet can accommodate an escort at this moment, which will guarantee their safe travel from the North Sea and into the eastern Mediterranean.
As for the Black Seas fleet, until the Bosphorus and Dardanelles can be secured for our own forces, it is starting to look like the Russians will be unable to provide aid. It is because of this, I believe we should currently use our combined assets to assault this fortress here, unblocking access to our fleets to the Dardanelles strait."
Bruno pointed to an area of the map any student of history would immediately recognize. The Gallipoli peninsula. It was definitely an eye opening gesture as the Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Greek generals tensed up while straightening their backs after hearing Bruno's suggestions on how to begin their invasion of the Ottoman Empire.