And what about Russia? The Eastern Front was long and the density of troops was decreasing, which favored offense over defense, and at the same time, Russia had a large population. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info To put it mildly, it is possible for Russia to mobilize troops to reach Britain and France, but it lacks industry and weapons!

And for now, the best way to break this impasse is, of course, to reconnect the two. Of course, it is impossible to get through from the Western European continent. If it had been cleared, the war would have ended long ....... Then the only, and most convenient option, is naturally to do it on this broiler in Turkey! As long as the Dardanelles Strait is opened and the strait is about 61 kilometers long, 1.2 to 6 kilometers wide, with an average water depth of 55 meters and a maximum depth of 82 meters, then the equipment and equipment of Britain and France can be continuously transported to Russia, and the allocation of resources of the Entente countries will be more reasonable. This is a strategic improvement.

Moreover, Constantinople is the capital of Turkey, surrounded by Turkey's most well-equipped naval base, important arsenals and heavy industry bases, if this battle can be easily solved, it will not only be a matter of restoring communications between Britain and France and Russia, but also directly clean up the Mediterranean Fleet of the Central Powers, and Turkey, which has lost its capital, will probably choose to surrender immediately, right?

And the reason why Britain and France did not start this operation immediately is nothing more than two reasons, one is that the Mediterranean Fleet of the Central Powers is not easy to match, 4 fast battleships equivalent to the Scharnhorst, 4 queens can't fight! The fundamental reason why the French Navy was able to barely hold the situation was the huge former dreadnought cannon fodder and the 2 battleships supplied by Italy. More than enough to defend, attack? It's better to save it.

Another reason is that Britain and France do not have enough soldiers. Attacking the Strait of Dardanelles, or even Constantinople, requires not only the navy, but also the army, which only provides a basis for victory, a necessary condition, but it is not sufficient! It still takes hundreds of thousands of soldiers to fight desperately!

Historically, why is the battle for the Dardanelles the largest battle ever fought in the world? It makes sense! This battle was fought for ten months! Not counting the Allies, the Allies had 480,000 landing troops alone! Among them, the number of people killed in battle, captured, wounded, missing and other reasons lost is as high as 252,000! Of those, 44,000 died! The 500,000 troops invested by the Turkish side also paid 218,000 casualties, and as many as 66,000 deaths! And all this is simply for the sake of this 60-kilometer strait!

Of course, there were no traversers among the British, and naturally they did not know how much blood they would have to shed on this front in the future. However, thinking about the terrible geography of the Dardanelles and the 4 super-dreadnoughts armed to the teeth, the British are empty. Although I don't know how many people will die, there will definitely be a lot of deaths, and this has almost formed a kind of consensus. So, how can 60,000 Japanese troops be enough? Isn't this a call for Hanako?!

Thinking of this, Campbell's thoughts immediately cleared! "60,000? This is only the number of 3 divisions, and we are on the Western Front, maybe in 2 days, we will lose so many people. (The author Jun vaguely remembers the most day in World War 1, and the number of dead and wounded seems to be 50,000?!) And in order to carry out this landing battle, we need absolute naval suppression! Campbell said.

"Holy?! It's done? Katsura Taro was overjoyed with Campbell's statement! Don't be afraid that the other party will not talk about the conditions, and the negotiation of conditions means that the other party has agreed to the plan in principle! Besides, don't look at Katsura Taro as an army, but the army top brass really doesn't see how heavy the lives of ordinary soldiers are. Unless there is their son ...... in it.

"Every month, I mean, the Japanese government should send no less than 120,000 soldiers and laborers to Europe. Your country is also a member of the Entente Powers, and we have not asked your country for weapons and supplies, taking into account Japan's difficulties as a Far Eastern country. We just need troops! Your country has a population of 50 million, more than the British Empire and the French Republic, and we have supported your country's actions in the Far East, so if we lose, do you really think that Japan can retain the fruits of its victory? Campbell said.

"120,000?! For Europe, which was tens of thousands of miles away from the Japanese Empire, we had to pay so much population every month? Katsura Taro's face was a little ugly, it has been several months since the Japanese Army participated in the battles in the European theater, although there are only tens of thousands of troops now, but the cruelty and bloodiness of the Western Front are beyond the imagination of the Japanese, after defeating the Russians, the Japanese Army, which thought it was also a first-class army power, was taught to be a man in minutes after arriving in the European theater!

And then the Japanese understood that the war of modernity turned out to be fought like this! While understanding that bayonets and meat bullets could not stop shells, the casualties of the Japanese on the European front line skyrocketed. The highest record was when an attack accompanied by the French, and in one day, all Japanese casualties and prisoners exceeded ...... five figures. What is this TM concept? During the Russo-Japanese War, although the attack on the 203 heights was bloody and killed and wounded tens of thousands, it was not like the European battlefield, where tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded in one day! And then the Japanese were frightened, frightened by the play of the European powers.......

Such high casualties are not that the Japanese cannot afford them, but they feel that they are not worth it. A group of European countries are fighting, and Japan has nothing to do with tens of thousands of casualties every month, can it be committed? If it were history, it would certainly not be, but now it is different, not to mention that the Americans and the Japanese have become mortal enemies. Without the tiger skin raised by the banner of the Entente, Japan would be in a much more difficult situation. If Japan wants to continue to expand its sphere of influence, it needs the full support of the British. Moreover, for the sake of these soldiers, the British and French paid! It would be nice to understand them as mercenaries!

"We need to talk about this again. If you agree in principle, I think today's talks will be enough, and as for the rest of the details, we can leave them to other professionals to discuss, for example, how many troops we will send and how many laborers we will send. "As prime minister, Katsura Taro can't do it himself, and he doesn't need to be involved in discussing the question of how many troops to line up each month or how many workers to send each month. So if you can set the tone today, you can complete the task, but Britain doesn't seem to intend to pass it like this.

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