Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 884 Victory depends on China

During World War II, he participated in the Italian-Turkish War in Tripoli and the Balkan War successively, and showed his military talents in these two wars.What does the Chinese have in his opinion?A bunch of fanatical and insane officers who are nothing else.good.The Chinese did win all the wars they deserved to win in Asia, but what does that mean?The British were busy competing for rights and interests with the Soviets in Europe, which made the Chinese pick a big deal.Neither the Chinese nor the Germans are worthy of commanding the Turkish army. The Turkish army should be personally commanded by Turkish officers.

"What are you still doing here?" Seeing Kemal still standing there, Li Xianzhou couldn't help frowning. He acted immediately after receiving the order. This is the iron-like discipline of the Dragon Army.

"Your Excellency, I have an idea." Kemal said boldly, "Should we send 7 to 8 additional companies to the outer positions? This can at least delay the offensive of the British and French forces and buy us time."

Li Xianzhou listened to him patiently, and then said coldly: "How to arrange is my business. All you have to do is to complete it unconditionally. If you fail to join the battle, this responsibility will be borne by me. But before that If there is any violation of military orders, I will personally execute him without hesitation. Colonel Mustafa Kemal, please turn around now and return to your post!"

Unwilling, Kemal glanced at Li Xianzhou a few times, and finally walked out helplessly.

"This man is ambitious, and he doesn't want to follow your orders." After Kemal turned and left, he stood by the side and watched everything patiently Zheng Jiemin, a senior agent of the empire, said.

Since the end of the Iraq War, Zheng Jiemin, who has rich experience as an agent, was directly transferred from Iran to the Ottoman Empire to assist in the development of local intelligence work.

Li Xianzhou nodded: "It seems that the emperor is right, this person will be removed sooner or later, but now is not the time."

Zheng Jiemin, who was dressed in the uniform of an Ottoman Empire officer, said: "This person has always opposed Turkey's enmity with Britain and France, thinking that it would be a "terrible disaster", and he opposed and condemned our control and command of the Turkish army. With a human face, they openly said, 'We Turks should manage our own affairs, and it is a disgrace to our nation to invite these Chinese people', so it can be seen that such people are really too dangerous."

"Wait a little longer." Li Xianzhou said coldly: "As soon as the war here is over, we will get rid of him!"

On October 1916, 10, the landing operation of the British and French coalition forces began.

When tens of thousands of British and French soldiers landed in Alburnu, they were surprised to find that they did not encounter any obstacles. This made the British officers excited. He fled without firing a gun.

But soon their excitement was replaced by worry. When the British and French allied forces advanced about ten kilometers, they suddenly found a large number of dark troops and well-arranged trenches in front of them.

In front of the powerful coalition forces, the Turks dare to resist?The British commander, who quickly woke up from his astonishment, immediately ordered his subordinates to attack the enemy on the opposite side.

On the defensive line arranged by Li Xianzhou, he gathered all the heavy machine guns of the 19th Division, equipped with 26 mortars, and watched the British and French allied forces rushing up.

At this time, Kemal, the commander of the 19th Division of the Ottoman Empire, was guarding the front line. Although he was seriously dissatisfied with the arrangement of the Chinese, but out of his love for Turkey, he was still fulfilling his mission with due diligence.

When the British and French allied forces were 100 meters away from the position, Kemal gave the order to fire.In an instant, the light and heavy firepower on the Turkish position opened fire at the same time, and the dozens of heavy machine guns that were concentrated for use burst out with terrible roars. The dense fire net caused the soldiers of the British and French allied forces to fall in front of the position.

The arrogant British were angry, and the officers roared and organized charges again and again, but each time they returned without success.On the contrary, it made its own casualties more and more serious.The helpless British officer pondered for a long time, and finally decided to send a force of 7000 men to bypass the front line of defense and attack the Turks' positions from the flank.

The British have a good idea, and this is what Kemal is most worried about.But when the British and French allied forces circled around from the flanks and were about to encircle the 9th Division, suddenly there was a loud cry of killing on their two wings, and the 18th Division of the Ottoman Empire suddenly appeared around the coalition forces.The strong and shouting all over the mountains and plains made the soldiers of the coalition army lose their minds, and they threw down their guns and ran back.

At this time, Kemal's 9th Division also received an order to counterattack, and the Turkish soldiers jumped out of the trenches one after another, and launched a charge against the troops of the British and French coalition forces. Only two hours later, the positions occupied by the coalition forces returned to Turkey. human hands.

Standing on the ground, Kemal breathed a long sigh of relief. At this point, he had to admit the excellent commanding ability of the Chinese officers, but at the same time, he also had a faint worry in his heart.

"Mr. Gergut, what do you think of Chinese officers?" Kemal asked his chief of staff.

After thinking for a while, Gergut said: "They are really amazing. They seem to be incompetent, but they smashed the attack of the British and French allied forces in one fell swoop. I have to admit that there are too many things we can learn from the Chinese. "

Kemal nodded in agreement: "So the more this is the case, the more we cannot allow the Chinese to stay on our land. This is really a terrible thing, Mr. Gergut, maybe the fate of Turkey is in our hands The rise of Turkey will also be accomplished by us, take advantage of the opportunity given to us by history, and work together for a strong country!"

After the coalition forces were defeated, they launched a more frenzied attack the next day, but suffered heavy casualties under the concentrated firepower of the Ottoman Empire.The main and auxiliary forces of the British and French allied forces lost an astonishing 1.8 people in two days of fighting, but only captured the landing field with a depth of only 1.5 kilometers. In order to expand the landing field, the British High Command decided to implement the second batch of landing troops.Britain has added about 12.7 people from the mainland to the Gallipoli peninsula. In mid-October, the army increased to 10 divisions.

联军于10月16日夜间以1万人的兵力在苏夫拉湾实施登陆后，英法联军转入进攻。到10月17日，奥斯曼帝国的14个师阻止了英法联军的进攻。战斗中，英法联军损失约45万人。

The struggle for the Dardanelles lasted for nearly a month, with 48 British troops, 8 French troops, and 70 Ottoman troops participating in the battle.In the course of the fighting, 11.97 British casualties and missing, 2.65 French, 18.6 Turkish.The British and French combined fleet lost 6 battleships and Turkey lost 1 ship.

The defeat in the Battle of the Dardanelles seems to be caused by the mistakes of the British and French High Command. They did not implement coordinated operations with the Portuguese army and navy as agreed, but attempted to seize the two straits and the Turkish capital alone. There is an inescapable responsibility.

At the beginning of the campaign, the British idea was to seize the Dardanelles and Constantinople with only fleet forces, which itself was not appropriate.The British and French Allied Command underestimated the defense capabilities of the Ottoman Empire, and did not expect that China's support behind it would play such a big role. It also ignored the concealment of the campaign preparations and the suddenness of the first batch of landing troops.And when the second batch of landing troops landed too slowly, the Ottoman Empire established a strong defense before that.The ingenious use of land forces, coastal artillery and anti-landing mine obstacles by the Chinese, German and Turkish trilateral headquarters, as well as the effective operations of the Imperial Atlantic feeder fleet on the sea line of communication, were the main reasons for the defeat of Britain and France in the Battle of the Dardanelles.

The failure of the Battle of the Dardanelles forced the British Secretary of the Navy to resign in the saliva of the people.

Originally, Secretary of the Navy McKenna refused to resign, but a telegram he inadvertently leaked angered the British people.When the war just broke out, when the British and French allied forces attacked mainly with naval warships, McKenna believed that the casualties were not large, indicating a lack of bravery on the battlefield, and he was unwilling to take the necessary risks to strive for a breakthrough.To this end he telegraphed Caden: "We do not wish to press you beyond your judgment, but we are well aware that at some stage of your operations you will have to enforce the resolution, and we would like to know whether you consider that point to be Reached."

This telegram indirectly caused the British and French allied forces to storm the Dardanelles, and also caused more than [-] British and French allied forces to suffer heavy and huge casualties. As soon as the telegram came out, British public opinion was in an uproar.

But McKenna didn't think he was responsible for this failure, and he didn't even want to take any responsibility for it. In his opinion, the frontline generals should bear the main responsibility.There are still many people who sympathize with McKenna in the parliament. Only General Haig is always brooding over the disastrous defeat of the British and French forces in the Battle of the Dardanelles. From his inner thoughts, the former Secretary of the Navy must have come from somewhere. problem.

The victory in the Dardanelles was a rare victory for the old and fatuous Ottoman Empire, and it also gave this country that was about to collapse a chance to survive.But the one who gained the most from the war was neither the Chinese nor the Germans, but Kemal. His achievements were infinitely magnified, and he was called "the savior of Istanbul" by the people of the Ottoman Empire. His official title also jumped to brigadier general. Also received the honorary title of "Pasha".

The Chinese officers Li Xianzhou and General Fenerbahce, who really helped the Ottoman Empire win the war, were completely ignored. The Turks seemed to have completely forgotten how much they had contributed to this country. .

(End of this chapter)