 Nekuziviswa kwehondo, Hondo yeGirisi yeThessaly inotungamirirwa naMuchinda Constantine yakasvika kuchamhembe, ichibudirira kukundaKurwisana neOttoman muStraits yeSarantaporo yakasimbiswa. Pashure pokumwe kukunda paGiannitsa, mutungamiriri weOttoman Hasan Tahsin Pasha akaisa Thessaloniki nevarwi vayo vevarwi 26 000 kuvaGiriki. Maviri emaCorps HQs Ustruma neVIII, maviri Nizamiye madhivhisi 14th ne22nd uye mana Redif madhivhisi Salonika, Drama, Naslic neSerez akarasikirwa nekudaro kuOttoman kurongeka kwehondo. Mukuwedzera, mauto eOttoman akarasikirwa nezvombo 70 zvemauto, 30 pfuti uye 70 000 pfuti Thessaloniki yaiva nzvimbo huru yezvombo zvehondo dzeMadokero. Mauto eOttoman akafungidzira kuti vakuru vakuru nevarume 15 000 vakanga vaurayiwa munguva yehondo muMakedhonia, zvichiunza kurasikirwa kwose kusvika kuvarwi 41 000. Imwe mhedzisiro yakananga yaive yekuti kuparadzwa kweuto reMacedonia kwakasimbisa magumo eOttoman Vardar Army, yaive ichirwisa maSerbia kuchamhembe. Kuwa kweThessaloniki kwakasiya rakaparadzaniswa nenzira yokuronga zvinhu, risina zvokushandisa uye risina nzvimbo yakakura yokufamba nayo, kuchivimbisa kuparadzwa kwaro. 