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Chapter 945 Conqueror of Constantinople

Whether Ruiz likes it or not, no one can be allowed near the position at this time, not even women or children.

Some soldiers couldn't help but shoot, and the woman with a ferocious face who was about to rush over was instantly blown into a cloud of blood.

It was only at this time that Wilson came to his senses. He threw the crystal cup in his hand, picked up the "big cowboy" in his hand, and aimed at the ruins on the opposite side with a burst of frenzied tom tom tom.

Let alone whether it can hit people or not, let alone whether it is effective or not. In the light of a large orange-red flame, countless Ottoman soldiers holding bright bayonets are like devils drilled out of hell, howling to the 11th Division. The position launched a charge.

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The mortars of the 11th Division finally reacted. Countless flares rose into the sky and slowly fell from the sky with gorgeous trajectories. The winding battlefield was as bright as day, and rifles were useless at this time. The first reaction of the officers and soldiers of the division is all kinds of group killing weapons, and grenades are the best choice. At this time, they are not offensive grenades that rely on impact to create damage, but defensive grenades that rely on steel balls and fragments to weave death.

Thanks to the solid buildings in the city of Constantinople, when the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force attacked, these marble-built buildings caused great trouble for the officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Army. Now these buildings have also become solid bunkers for the officers and soldiers of the Expeditionary Army. In the window on the ground floor, a bullet can sometimes pass through several people when shooting directly. The riflemen are all on the top floor of the house, so they can throw the grenade farther, and the precise shooting is more efficient.

The Lee Enfield used by Ruiz had an astonishingly crazy effect for 1 minute. After the bullets in the magazine were exhausted, the sound of gunfire and explosions had become sparse. The counterattack of the Constantinople defenders was like It is as futile as hitting a wave on a cliff.

From 11 o'clock to 11 o'clock in the morning, the flares above the defense line did not stop. Within three hours, the mortars of the 5000th Division fired nearly [-] flares. This night, the [-]th Division suffered no more than a hundred casualties, while the Ottoman defenders The casualties of more than [-] people.

At six o'clock in the morning, the 11th Division began to attack on time.

It’s the set of grenade and grenade launcher again, violent, but efficient. The Russians fought for a month and lost 30 people without invading Constantinople. The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force took it in just three days. 90.00% of the urban area of ​​Constantinople, at twelve noon on the 17th, the heavily surrounded Governor's Palace raised a white flag, and the defenders of Constantinople put down their weapons and surrendered to the expeditionary force.

"Congratulations, Locke—"

"Congratulations, my lord—" In the simple tent on Marmara Island, Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet John Fisher and Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Force Ian Hamilton congratulated Roque for the first time.

The capture of Constantinople can be regarded as the greatest victory of the Allied Powers since the outbreak of the World War. Although the Ottoman Empire is still resisting in the Asia Minor Peninsula, in the usual sense, the loss of a country's capital means victory in the war. The negative has been determined.

Roque can now say with pride that he is the first conqueror of Constantinople in 460 years. Since the establishment of the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the city of Constantinople has never fallen.

For the Allied Powers, the capture of Constantinople was of great significance. Before that, the Kingdom of Serbia had fallen, Belgium was struggling on the brink of extinction, and the Russian Empire was losing ground. Last winter, it lost the land it gained since the outbreak of the World War. , has now been captured by the German-Austrian coalition forces.

The capture of Constantinople will connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Russian crops can be continuously sent to France through the Mediterranean Sea, and military supplies from the Allied Powers can also be continuously sent to Russia through the Black Sea. On October 10 last year, the Ottoman Empire After joining the war, no one thought that the Ottoman Empire lasted only 25 months before the capital was occupied by the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

The Ottoman Empire has existed for 450 years. Although it is jokingly called the "Sick Man of West Asia", it is juxtaposed with the Austro-Hungarian Empire known as the "Sick Man of Europe" and the collapsed Qing Dynasty. However, it is a veteran imperialist country after all. The three non-European continents and the Mediterranean Sea are almost the inner lakes of the Ottoman Empire.

Now everything has become a thing of the past. After losing Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire is already on the verge of withdrawing from the war.

"Thank you Ian, this is an honor for all of us—thank you too, Marshal Fisher, we would not have been able to do this without the close cooperation of the Mediterranean Fleet." , but speaking nicely at this time will not affect Rock's due honor.

"Thinking about when we first came to the Mediterranean Sea, it was really a nightmare." John Fisher was filled with emotion. Like Roque, he was ordered to come to the Mediterranean Sea when he was in danger. John Fisher couldn't even imagine that if he lost How much impact will this war have on the Allied Powers.

Just yesterday, after the downfall of the Greek cabinet and the reshuffle of the British cabinet, the French cabinet finally had a thunderstorm.

The reason for the thunderstorm in the French cabinet was that the entire territory of the Kingdom of Serbia fell. Now the Kingdom of Serbia has not surrendered. 15 soldiers of the Kingdom of Serbia arrived at Corfu Island in the Adriatic Sea on a warship of the Royal Navy. They are still fighting, but France was very dissatisfied with the fact that the French government did not provide sufficient protection to the Kingdom of Serbia, so Viviani, who had just become prime minister, stepped down, and Aristide Briand, who had served as French prime minister twice, was once again prime minister and minister of war. Millerand was also dismissed, and the new Minister of War was Joseph Gallieni, who had performed well at the Battle of the Marne but was struck by Joffre's jealousy.

Originally, Joffre was also among those dismissed. After two failed battles at Alva and a failed spring offensive, Joffre had completely lost the prestige accumulated in the Battle of the Marne. come higher.

Joseph Gallieni once again protected Joffre. He didn't hold any grudges because he was dismissed by Joffre. Instead, he generously forgave Joffre and made sure that Joffre would continue to serve as the commander-in-chief of the French army.

I really don't know if Xiafei would feel so ashamed in her heart when she found out about this!

Joffre's stay in office is not a good thing for the British and French allied forces. In the future, Joffre will drive the soldiers of the British and French allied forces to attack the increasingly solid German positions. Countless soldiers will continue to sacrifice in the war, and Joffre will run out of money The courage and war potential of the French before they had to leave the position of commander-in-chief of the French army.

This can also explain why the British and French allied forces took four full years to win the war despite the seemingly huge advantages.

The Germans surrendered not because their war potential was exhausted. When the Germans surrendered, there were millions of troops on the front lines, and the British and French forces had not even invaded Germany.

Because of the outbreak of domestic conflicts in Germany, the war could not continue, so Germany had to surrender.

This is also the deep-seated reason why Germany provoked the Second World War 20 years later.

The capture of Constantinople does not mean the end of the war. The Mediterranean expeditionary force is attacking the Asia Minor peninsula, just as the expeditionary force captured the Balkan Peninsula and the Kingdom of Italy jumped out to pick peaches. The expeditionary force occupied Constantinople, and the Russian Empire also I can't wait to jump out and demand to take over Constantinople. The reason is the same as the Italians, and it is the promise of the British Foreign Secretary Edward Gray.

Rock didn't even know how many empty checks Edward Gray had written to the allies in order to defeat the Allies. Constantinople and the land around Constantinople had been sent out several times by Edward Gray as chips. When tempting Greece to join the war, Edward Gray promised to give Constantinople and the land around Constantinople to the Greeks after the war. Later, in order to stabilize the Russian Empire, Edward Gray’s bargaining chip was replaced by Cyprus. In tempting the Kingdom of Italy to join the war, Edward Gray likewise promised the Italians Constantinople and the lands around Constantinople.

As the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Rock was not qualified to overthrow Edward Gray's promise, but Rock refused to hand over Constantinople and the land around Constantinople on the pretext that the remaining enemies in Constantinople had not been cleared to the Russian Empire.

On August 20th, Rock received a telegram from Kitchener, in which Kitchener asked the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to control the Bosporus Strait.

On the same day, Roque also received a telegram from the Foreign Office, in which Edward Gray demanded that the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force hand over Constantinople and the land around Constantinople to the Russians.

The two telegrams with completely different contents came from the two most powerful departments in the United Kingdom. Rock felt absurd and was really at a loss as to who to listen to.

"My lord, the contents of these two telegrams do not conflict—" Rock felt that the trouble was difficult, but in Ian Hamilton's view, it was easy to solve.

"Why?" Rock really didn't understand these twists and turns.

"I'm saying that controlling the Bosphorus doesn't conflict with giving up Constantinople—" Ian Hamilton repeated, and this time Rock heard something different.

That's right, handing over Constantinople to the Russians does not mean giving up the Bosporus Strait. The Bosporus Strait is 30 kilometers long. The widest part of the Black Sea estuary is 3.7 kilometers, and the narrowest part is only 700 Meter.

On the south side of the Bosporus Strait, Constantinople straddles both sides of the Bosporus Strait, but there are still articles to be done on the north side of the Bosphorus Strait.

What's more, taking a step back, even if the Bosphorus is handed over to the Russians, the British and French allied forces control the Dardanelles and the Sea of ​​Marmara, which is still equivalent to controlling the Bosphorus.

Even if it is paid back, that will be a matter of the future, and it will definitely not work now. Constantinople is like a big treasure house, which has yet to be discovered by the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

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