In the "Achilles Heel" plan, the most important task is the Anzac Corps composed of Australian troops and New Zealand troops, the planned landing site of the Anzac is the Goba Mound, and Roque's order to the Anzac is to establish a beachhead after the landing, attract as many Ottoman troops as possible, and create favorable conditions for subsequent battle plans.

In order to cooperate with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to complete the landing mission, the attack fleet led by John Fisher consisted of 200 transports, 18 battleships, 14 cruisers, 35 destroyers, and 8 submarines, including two light cruisers and six destroyers that had just been commissioned in southern Africa.

Taking into account the caliber of artillery, the task of southern African warships is mainly minesweeping, in the previous stage of operations, trawlers have proven to be unable to complete minesweeping tasks well, and now in the Mediterranean fleet, minesweeping tasks are carried out by destroyers.

Under the cover of the most powerful fleet in the world, the Anzac landed successfully, but not at the Goba Mound, but on a beach 1.2 kilometers away from the Goba Mound.

1.2 km is not far, but for a landing operation, it can lead to serious consequences.

Roque's choice of the Goba Mound as the landing site for the Anzac was also the result of careful consideration by the General Staff.

The Goba Mound was not really a mound, but a fairly prominent high ground, and Zanders did his best to organize the defense, but the Fifth Army had only 87,000 men, and the coastline of the Garibaldi Peninsula was more than 100 miles long, and there were many places to land, and the Fifth Army could not cover everything.

According to Roque's plan, after the Anzac landed on the Goba Mound, it could have a better geographical advantage by establishing a defensive position on the high ground, and there were no Fifth Army troops around the Goba Mound, and the Fifth Army troops closest to the Goba Mound would need a day to reach the Goba Mound.

One day was enough time for the Anzacs to establish a strong defensive position.

No matter how perfect the battle plan is, there may be deviations when it is implemented, the deviation of the Anzac is only 1.2 kilometers, but this mistake is fatal, it was already a day later when Roque knew about this problem, in just one day, a regiment of the Fifth Army had occupied the Goba mound, and suppressed the Anzac like a rat on the unobstructed sand, the Anzac did complete the task of attracting the troops of the Fifth Army, but it could only be beaten passively and suffered heavy losses.

When Roque learned about this, he was silent at command for half an hour.

Don't look at Roque is full of confidence in the face of anyone, but Roque's pressure is only known to him, the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the expeditionary force are under Roque's control, any small mistake will cause serious consequences, the expeditionary force has suffered more than 200,000 casualties so far, of which 150,000 were killed, with the victory of "Operation Victory Horn", the expeditionary force initially gained the trust of the Anglo-French coalition forces, if the Dardanelles fails, then the trust accumulated in the previous stage will be evaporated, if the situation is serious, Roque may even lose command of the Southern African Expeditionary Force.

Don't think that this situation can't happen, I don't know how many people in the Anglo-French army are waiting for Roque to make a mistake, and now the flowers are blooming, covering up the fire and cooking oil, and making mistakes will become the straw that crushes the camel's back.

"Don't retreat, stay put!" Roque's orders are ruthless, and those who make mistakes will pay for their mistakes, and the plan has already begun to be implemented, and the plan will not change regardless of what goes wrong.

Soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, and behind this sentence is full of cold-blooded and cruelty.

Ordering the Anzac to continue to hold the beachhead would certainly have caused huge casualties to the Anzac, but as long as the battle was ultimately won, the casualties were worth it now, and the Anglo-French army had already suffered more than a million casualties since the start of the war, and Xia Fei and Frenzi were not blamed in any way.

"Yes, General Brad Nancy wants more grenades and mortars." Ian Hamilton also knew that the plan could not be changed, and that hundreds of thousands of people who had worked hard for months for the "Achilles heel" would not be stopped because of the safety of 30,000 people.

Brad Nancy was the commander of the Anzac Corps, and the Anzac did not carry much supplies before they set out, and could only support the needs of the war for a few days.

Even so, the Anzac had only landed for a day, which reflected how fierce the fighting was.

"He'll have enough grenades and mortars to send a telegram to General Brad Nancy to hold his position anyway, and a telegram to General John Fisher that the landing force needs fire cover—" Roque would support the Anzac as much as he could, but that could not change the fact that the Anzac suffered heavy casualties.

After the expeditionary force began the landing operation, the Mediterranean Fleet had already begun to clear all the ships of the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara according to the predetermined plan, and bombarded the batteries on both sides of the Dardanelles, and the cover for the landing force gradually weakened.

"We can also activate a preparatory programme to send troops to land on the other side of the Goba mound to reduce the pressure on the Anzac." Ian Hamilton suggested that the general staff's operational plan also included plans for all kinds of contingencies, but that in order to launch a new landing operation, it would be necessary to draw troops prepared for landing in the northern part of the Garibaldi Peninsula, which would affect the later operations.

A single unexpected factor will not affect the entire campaign, but if accidents keep happening, then the entire campaign will be affected, and ultimately affect the victory of the campaign.

In the plan of the General Staff, if the situation was bad, then in the end the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force would at most maintain an invincible situation with the Fifth Army, that is, the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force would occupy the Garibaldi Peninsula, but would not be able to launch an attack on Constantinople.

This result, in fact, also means the defeat of the entire campaign, because the capture of the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara alone, as long as the Bosphorus is not occupied, the passage between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea cannot be opened.

The goal of Kitchener's campaign for Roque was the capture of Constantinople, with the ultimate goal of opening up a passage to the Black Sea.

"No, not yet, wait-" Roque is not in a hurry to put in the reserves, he has to make the Anzac pay enough to do it, not to punish the Anzac, but to keep the reserves in case of greater danger.

Of course, this is also a reminder to other troops not to make the same mistakes as the Anzacs.

Roque's decision also put the Anzac in greater danger.

The situation for the Anzac is indeed very bad.

It was not until a day after the landing that the Anzacs discovered that they had not landed at the intended landing site, and that the Goba Mound had already been occupied by a regiment of the Fifth Army at this time, and the Anzac had a chance to correct the mistake.

Brad Nancy chose to attack the Goba Mound, and even at great cost to do so.

The Fifth Army units occupying the Goba Mound had a clear advantage, they were condescending, armed with Makqin heavy machine guns, and the Anzac offensive troops still used the traditional thin red line tactics, and soon the bodies of the Anzac soldiers were covered in front of the Goba Mound position, and the Anzac suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, basically losing its offensive capability.

The Anzac had no choice but to go on the defensive, but fortunately the Anzac still had naval artillery cover, and the material resources continued to be sent ashore, otherwise the Anzac could only withdraw from its position.

At the front of the Anzac were the Carbine Regiment from Sydney, and behind them were the men who were urgently building fortifications, which had been requisitioned from the port of Beirut by the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force before the war.

"How can you use sand for fortifications, you should use stronger materials-" muttered a soldier with the rank of corporal, his face covered with freckles and small red pimples, definitely no more than 18 years old.

"This is a beach, what can you use without sand, don't worry, the sandbags are a defensive line, as long as you use enough sandbags, the protection is also good-" A weather-covered sergeant reassured, the military medal on his chest clearly indicating that he had fought in the Second Boer War.

Australia's conscription program covers all adult males between the ages of 18 and 45 in Australia, and the mobilization is the most thorough in the British mainland and among all the British colonies and dominions.

"I suspect our commander-in-chief sent us to our deaths!" The freckles were unhappy with Roque, and it was indeed Roque who ordered them to come to the Garibaldi Peninsula.

"Don't talk nonsense, Lord Nyasaland didn't let us come to our death, it was our commander who went the wrong way, and as a result, we poor old and poor people have become brainless ducks, if you want to blame, blame our officer master." Old Poor was obviously more aware of the situation, and after Wilhelm II's evaluation of the British troops spread, "Old Poor" has become synonymous with self-deprecation by British soldiers.

Like the Southern African Expeditionary Force, the Anzac was a British unit.

"Isn't Lord Nyasaland an officer?" Freckles and small pimples are inexplicable to Roque's hostility, the Imperial Viscount from the colonies -

hmm——

Why not me!

But life is obviously not so simple, and the poor old man understands this more deeply: "Lord Nyasaland is not an ordinary military officer, the cigarettes you smoke, the canned food you eat, the clothes you wear, and the weapons you use - including the boat we took when we came - are all produced by Lord Nyasaland's factory, so you should respect Lord Nyasaland a little bit, and for those who are better than yourself, even if you don't like him, you must give him enough respect." ”

The freckles and small pimples no longer make a big fuss, and their faces fell into silence thoughtfully.

I was in no mood to chat, and the heavy machine guns of the Fifth Army on the Goba Heights were strafing again, which was to seduce the Anzac to die, and the freckled pimples were lying on the ground trying to bury their heads in the sand, like ostriches in danger.

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