For ordinary soldiers, their home and country are too far away from them and have little to do with them, and wealth and women can better stimulate their desires.

Especially for the cavalry of the Sultanate of Najd, they were generally uneducated, they could not speak English, they could only charge when fighting, they were numb to the orders of their superiors, they could not even exchange booty, and a gold pocket watch worth ten pounds could be exchanged from them most of the time for only three or five shillings.

The road to Ankara is not smooth, the road is full of snow, the woods on the mountain may be lurking Ottomans waiting for the opportunity to attack the troops, you must be careful when fighting in the mountains, sometimes the sound of gunfire can even cause avalanches, the cliffs are covered with snow, you don't know where the edge of the road is, there is an abyss under your feet, and you will be doomed if you step into the air.

Hank is now a standard colonial soldier, and he orders the Guide to go to the front of the line, the Servants to monitor the Guide, and Hank's troops at the back of the line.

While passing through a mountainous area near Achaia, the troops were attacked by the rebels, a dozen of them shooting at the troops on the ridge as they were trudging, killing two guides and wounding one of the Najd Sultanate servants.

Because of the distance between the rebels and the fact that there was a ravine between them and the troops, the troops could not attack head-on, but this was difficult for Hank, the Muscat Pirate Regiment had a large number of accurate marksmen, and the troops also set off with heavy machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers, which were all weapons of mass destruction against the rebels.

There are only a dozen rebels in total, they hide in the forest on the ridge opposite the ravine, the heavy snow gives them the best protective color, the rebels also know how to use the terrain, and they also wear white clothes to increase the confusion, from a distance, it is impossible to find the rebels hiding in the forest.

However, this is not difficult for the precision shooters of the Muscat Pirates, who use carefully tuned Lee Enfield with scopes installed, and these rifles are very accurate, at a distance of 300 meters, the impact points are distributed in a diameter of 15 centimeters, which is still very rough for the future sniper rifles, but don't forget that it is only 1915, and this accuracy is already very accurate.

In the snow environment, because the sunlight reflection is very serious, ordinary people simply cannot find a target the size of a target at a distance of more than 100 meters.

It was also difficult for the observer with a telescope in his hand, it was unwise to shoot in a snowy environment, looking for muzzle inflammation, the snowflakes stirred up by the muzzle air flow when shooting were easier to distinguish, the rebels did not understand this, the cover they were looking for was still very rough, and after the precision shooters launched a counterattack, the gunfire quickly thinned out.

Originally, it wasn't much dense.

At this time, the grenade launcher was finally ready for battle, and compared with the precision shooter, the grenade launcher was more efficient against such targets, and the two grenade launchers tom tom a dozen grenades, and the gunfire completely stopped.

Several soldiers from the Sultanate of Najd followed the guide and brought back several Lee Enfield, which had been badly worn out and had no guarantee of accuracy, with nameplates on the butts of the rifles, all of which were made in Nyasaland.

"We're not going to kill our own people—" Major Marjorie frowned, since the outbreak of the world war, there have been cases of accidental wounding of friendly troops, and similar tragedies have happened to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

During the Battle of the Dardanelles, the attacking Anzac Corps was shelled by the Mediterranean Fleet.

"No, these are Ottomans, during the war in North Africa, the Ottomans used to buy weapons from Nyasaland, these Lee Enfield guess they are." Hank's eyes were like torches, several Lee Enfield's rifling had been almost smoothed, and they were all eliminated in southern Africa, and the weapons equipped by the servant army were all eliminated by the regular army in southern Africa, and they were in much better condition than this.

Relying on this weapon, the rebels were able to hit people at a distance of more than a hundred meters, and the shooting skills of those rebels were also good.

"So are we going to move on?" Marjorie relieved himself, it was normal for the British and French to be injured by mistake, and he could only consider himself unlucky when he was killed, and the murderer would not be punished in any way, which was part of the war in itself.

But if it is a servant army that accidentally injures a friendly army, the consequences can be big or small, mainly depending on the identity of the injured person, if it is also a servant army, the murderer will not be punished in any way, if it is a British and French army, the consequences may be very serious.

"What else is going on? We were attacked, and according to the order just given by the command, all Ottomans within ten miles of our location were to be put in concentration camps. Hank smirked cruelly, a circle of ten miles is about fifty square kilometers, Hank can't do this at all, he needs the cooperation of the local garrison.

"Then what are you waiting for, the nearest city is Akya, the data says there are tens of thousands of people, and it must be less than ten miles from us." Marjorie laughed, this order from the headquarters was so much in line with the hearts of the officers and soldiers on the front line, Marjorie seemed to see that wealth was beckoning to him.

Although the Ottoman Empire was founded for 450 years, the economy was still very primitive, the industry was not developed, and agricultural production was the mainstay, and the population in the cities was not large, only the rich and nobles lived in the cities, and the commoners lived in the countryside.

When Constantinople was captured, legend has it that the officers and men of the occupation, including the 2nd Cavalry Division, had made a fortune, and the servant army of the Sultanate of Najd did not catch the opportunity to make a fortune in Constantinople, and now the opportunity has come.

Akkaya's garrison came from the 15th Division of the Kingdom of Italy, the troops of the Kingdom of Italy could not fight, it was still suitable as a garrison for the garrison, there was a battalion of the 15th Division in Akkaya, after knowing the intention of Hank and Marjory, the commander of the garrison Alessandro was simply crazy, when he first arrived in Akkaya, he wanted to make a move on the rich people of Akkaya, but there was not enough reason.

"It's hard to imagine that the most hostile to us were the Ottoman commoners, the rich or the nobles who were more docile, who didn't care who ruled them, only whether they could keep their property—" Alessandro fully cooperated, the poor had nothing to lose, and the rich had more shackles and more concerns than their own lives, so they had to compromise on everything.

But can compromise ensure the safety of family and property?

Don't be naïve, the Entente is going to conquer the Ottoman Empire, the politicians care about the national interest, the officers and soldiers of the Mediterranean expedition are waiting to get rich, their houses in their homeland need more decorations, Cyprus and Port Elizabeth need more workers, the transformation of Beirut and Damascus has begun, and it is impossible to make the enemy lay down the butcher's knife unless he willingly gives up all his wife and daughter and property.

"Then let's begin, follow the orders issued by the command, and throw all the people of Akkaya into the concentration camp." Hank's heart is as strong as iron, and the Ottomans of Akkaya are going to be unlucky, which is the inevitable fate of them after they give up resistance.

Don't blame Hank for being ruthless, it was the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that won the victory now, so the Ottomans could only be killed, if the Ottomans won the final victory, then today's Akkaya would be tomorrow's Los Angeles or Johannesburg, and the Allies would not easily let go of the southern Africans at that time.

Considering that the Ottomans who cleaned up Akkaya were a fat difference, Hank and Alessandro also divided the entire city, the central city of Akkaya belonged to Hank's troops, and the surrounding area belonged to the garrison of the Kingdom of Italy, and Marjori's troops did not have a chance to touch Akkaya, but the villages around Akkaya belonged to the Sultanate of Najd, and everyone was satisfied with the whole distribution result.

It was the Ottomans who were not satisfied, but no one cared about them.

When a large number of Ottomans were imprisoned in concentration camps, fierce battles were raging at Verdun, thousands of miles away.

After Petain rotated the troops at the front, the morale of the troops was greatly boosted, and the officers and men were more courageous in the battle against the Germans, to the point of forgetting their lives.

If you are not brave, you can't do it, the world war has been going on so far, everyone knows that there is no way out, killing the enemy is the only way to win, those pacifists who opposed the war before the war also gave up their illusions, the world war broke out just over a year ago, and both sides of the war have already suffered millions of casualties, this sea of blood feud can only be resolved by completely killing the enemy.

As time went on, the weather also became more favorable to the French, and the shells fired by the French and German troops melted the snow, the ground became muddy, and the German offensive became more and more difficult.

On the west bank of the Mez River, there is a ridge called "Lemoteom", which means "dead man" in French, and Petain concentrated his artillery on the ridge and bombarded the German positions fiercely, and the German artillery was also suppressed, and the situation of the battle became more and more unfavorable for the German army.

At the end of February, more and more French troops arrived at Verdun, and a meeting was held at the top of the German army, attended by Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Chief of the General Staff Fakeham, as well as the commanders-in-chief of several army groups, to discuss whether it was necessary to continue the Battle of Verdun.

By the end of February, the Battle of Verdun had been going on for two months, and at the beginning of the battle, the French army suffered heavy casualties and the Germans sang triumphant songs.

As the battle progressed, the French line of defense stabilized with Pétain's efforts, and some parts of the line began to counterattack, and German casualties skyrocketed.

By the end of February, the French had suffered 121,000 casualties, while the German casualties had approached 100,000.

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