Although the Greek Peninsula was now occupied by Bulgaria, the 1.7 to 1.8 million Greeks on the peninsula, along with the six to seven hundred thousand Ottomans imprisoned by the Greeks, all needed to be dealt with. Handle it poorly, and the whole thing could explode!
After all, Ferdinand cared greatly about Bulgaria's international image. He could not possibly send all the Greeks into concentration camps. But Greeks whose nationalism had taken such deep root were clearly not so easy to assimilate!
Bulgaria had needed only one infantry division to defeat the Greeks, but Ferdinand had now dispatched three infantry divisions to occupy the Greek Peninsula!
This was still during the negotiations. The Greeks did not yet know Bulgaria's intentions, and still hoped the great powers would exert pressure and force Bulgaria to withdraw from the Greek Peninsula. Civilian resistance was therefore not especially fierce.
After all, as early as ten years ago, the Ottoman Empire's army had taught them a lesson with the heads of four to five hundred thousand Greeks: resistance meant death! The hard bones had, for the most part, all died in the last war!
Not much time had passed, and no one had forgotten the terror of the Ottoman army. Thus, they still did not dare provoke the Bulgarian army, afraid of bringing another slaughter upon themselves!
Even the once-active edgy youths had quieted down. They too had lived through that era; it had left terrifying memories in their childhood hearts, and now those memories had been stirred awake again. They hid off to the side, trembling in secret!
Ferdinand knew the Greeks had lost their nerve, but that did not mean they would not dare resist. It was only that Bulgaria had not yet crossed their bottom line, and, most importantly, had not yet