Chapter 928: The Fall of the Ottoman Turkish Empire
While the Chinese Empire was planning to land on the Japanese mainland, the war between the Chinese Empire and other battlefields of the League of Nations was still continuing, and the whole situation was becoming more and more severe for the countries of the League of Nations. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After the Chinese Imperial Army conquered the Ottoman Turkish Empire's Saudi Arabia and Iraq regions, the number of the Chinese Imperial Army in the Middle East battlefield increased instead of decreasing, the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire increased to three field armies, and the Marine Corps of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire also increased to three, and the officers and soldiers lost in the previous battles were also replenished by the Ministry of Defense in a timely manner.
Immediately after that, three full-fledged field armies and three full-fledged marines, under the cover of a large number of fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, captured the Syrian region, Jordan and Pakistan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire with lightning speed, so that the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had a land area of more than 2.6 million square kilometers before the war, was left with an area of less than 800,000 square kilometers.
On December 10, 1914, three full-strength field armies and three full-strength marines, supplemented by the Ministry of Defence, launched an attack on the last part of Ottoman Turkey.
Because of the crazy expansion of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the Turkish region, the European coalition army in the Turkish region still has a total strength of 3.5 million, of which about 2.5 million are Ottoman Turkish Empire army troops, but more than 80% of them are temporary recruits, plus half of the recruits can only be equipped with cold weapons, the combat effectiveness of the 2.5 million Ottoman Turkish Imperial Army units can be imagined.
The coalition forces of other European countries also have nearly 1 million land forces in the Turkish area of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but in the absence of air supremacy, the European coalition forces of the international coalition in the entire Turkish region were almost instantly defeated by the attack forces of the Chinese Empire.
Under such circumstances, the Chinese Imperial Army that invaded the Turkish region was all the way to the ground, and soon nearly 800,000 European coalition troops were annihilated, and most of the losses were the elite troops in the European coalition of the League of Nations, so the top of the Ottoman Turkish Empire continued to send telegrams to several other European powers, asking countries to send more land forces to reinforce the Turkish areas of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, otherwise the Ottoman Turkish Empire would be destroyed by the Chinese Empire.
It is a pity that the main energy of European countries has been contained in the Moscow area of Russia, although because of the army of the Chinese Empire, all kinds of war materials have been hoarded on the periphery of the Moscow area, and there was no attack on the Moscow area in the middle of December 1914, but in the face of the 10 group armies of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire that have gathered on the periphery of the Moscow area, European countries can only do their best to increase troops in the Moscow area. All of Russia will collapse.
Compared to the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Russia was more important to the entire League of Nations, and the other four countries of the Central Powers also sent their land forces to the Moscow region as much as possible.
However, it was impossible for European countries to watch the Ottoman Turkish Empire be destroyed by the Chinese Empire, so they could only do their best to increase troops to the Moscow region of Russia, and at the same time grit their teeth and send reinforcements as much as possible to the Turkish region of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
After launching an attack on the Turkish region, the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire felt that the strength of the attacking force of the Chinese Empire was much smaller than that of the European coalition of the League of Nations in the entire Turkish region, so it sent two additional guards corps of the First Guards Army of the Imperial Chinese Army to the Middle East Theater.
Originally, the Ministry of National Defense was going to send several field armies from the five newly formed temporary field armies used to target the Japanese battlefield to reinforce the battlefield in the Turkish region, but at the strong request of Chen Ergou, commander of the First Guards Group Army, the Ministry of Defense decided to transfer two guards from the First Guards Group Army guarding Beijing to support the battlefield in the Turkish area.
If Chen Ergou hadn't interceded with Lin Daxin, hoping that the troops of the First Guards Group Army would have been able to go to the battlefield, the Ministry of Defense would never have used the only Guards Group Army in Beijing.
When the 2 Guards of the First Guards Army of the Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire also joined the Turkish battlefield, it was even more difficult for the European coalition of the League of Nations in the Turkish region, if it were not for the fact that other European countries continued to send reinforcements to the Turkish region, the Ottoman Turkish Empire also frantically recruited everyone who could take up arms in the Turkish region into the army, maybe the Ottoman Turkish Empire could not hold out at the end of December 1914, but it was like this on December 31, More than half of the Turkish region was already under the control of the Chinese Imperial Army.
At this time, the top leaders of the Ottoman Turkish Empire could no longer hold on, they could not see any hope of victory, and the pace of the fall of the country was getting closer and closer, so the Ottoman Turkish Empire secretly sent representatives to Beijing, the capital of the Chinese Empire, hoping to negotiate with the Chinese Empire alone to stop the Chinese Empire's troops in the Turkish region.
However, for the representative of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Chinese Empire did not even talk about it, and directly told the representative to let him go back! Unless all 26 countries of the entire League of Nations surrender unconditionally, the Chinese Empire will carry this war to the end!
The Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had no way out, could only grit its teeth and fight hard, but under the bombardment of millions of Chinese Imperial troops and more than 3,000 Royal Chinese Air Force fighters, the land in the Turkish region continued to fall into the hands of the attacking forces of the Chinese Empire, and by January 11, 1915, the Chinese Imperial Army had attacked the vicinity of Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
And the League of Nations European coalition forces in the Constantinople area concentrated more than 2.7 million army troops to defend the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, if even Constantinople is lost, then the Ottoman Turkish Empire is really equivalent to the fall of the country.
And in order to keep Constantinople, all the remaining main forces of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations appeared in the Bosphorus, ready to cooperate with Constantinople's 2.7 million European coalition forces of the League of Nations to resist the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army.
When the Imperial Chinese Army approached the vicinity of Constantinople, the 27th, 28th, and 29th Field Armies of the 9th Field Army of the Royal Chinese Army in the African theater had wiped out nearly 700,000 Army troops of the League of Nations in Egypt, conquered the entire territory of Egypt, and also held the control of the Suez Canal in their hands.
In fact, the army of the League of Nations was preparing to blow up the Suez Canal, so that it could cut off the passage of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire into the Mediterranean, but just when the army of the League of Nations thought that Egypt could no longer hold it and was preparing to blow up the Suez Canal, suddenly two airborne divisions of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire descended from the sky and quickly seized control of the Suez Canal, making the plan of the League of Nations troops to blow up the Suez Canal unsuccessful.
Before the three field armies captured the whole of Egypt, the 23rd Field Army and the 24th Field Army of the 8th Field Army of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire had already captured South Africa, the last British colony in Africa, and completely annihilated 600,000 League of Nations Army troops in South Africa.
At this point, the entire African continent was already under the control of the Chinese Empire, and the power of European countries was completely eliminated.
After the Suez Canal was controlled by the Chinese Empire, the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, the Third Fleet, the Second Task Force and the Third Task Force of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, which had been waiting in the Red Sea, immediately passed through the Suez Canal and entered the Mediterranean Sea, and approached the Bosphorus Strait, where Constantinople was located.
On January 17, 1915, in the Bosphorus Strait, the Royal Navy of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations encountered again, and finally the Royal Navy of the Imperial Chinese Navy relied on the anti-ship missiles equipped with the Second Task Force and the Third Task Force Aircraft Carrier Formation, and once again inflicted heavy damage on the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations.
In this naval battle, the British Navy sank 8 capital ships, including 1 Glorious-class aircraft carrier, 1 Fury-class aircraft carrier, 1 Queen Elizabeth-class super battleship, 1 Iron Duke-class super dreadnought-class battleship, 2 Tiger-class battlecruisers, 1 Lion-class battlecruiser and 1 Giant-class dreadnought-class battleship, as well as 2 Queen Elizabeth-class super battleships, 2 King George V-class super dreadnought battleships and 1 Iron Duke-class super dreadnought-class battleship were seriously wounded and captured.
The British Navy also had 4 all-steel battleships, 7 large fast armored cruisers, 36 fast protection cruisers, 49 destroyers, 102 torpedo boats, and 10 submarines either sunk or captured by the Imperial Chinese Royal Navy in this naval battle.
After this naval battle, the British Navy, which was once the second largest in the world, was left with only 2 Queen Elizabeth-class super battleships, 2 King George V-class super dreadnought battleships, 1 Iron Duke-class super dreadnought-class battleship, 1 Tiger-class battlecruiser and 1 Lion-class battlecruiser, a total of 7 capital battleships, and more than 200 warships of other types escaped from the Bosphorus.
The naval losses of the other countries of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations were also very heavy, 11 capital warships of the French Navy, 5 capital warships of the Russian Navy, 18 capital warships of the German Navy, 7 capital warships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, 5 main warships of the Italian Navy, 3 main warships of the Ottoman Turkish Navy and 6 main warships of the Spanish Navy, a total of 55 capital warships, only 19 escaped in the end, and 21 of the remaining 36 capital warships were sunk, 15 ships were captured by the Imperial Chinese Navy.
Among them, none of the 5 capital warships of the Italian Navy and the 3 main warships of the Ottoman Turkish Navy escaped, and other types of warships of the navies of these countries also lost hundreds.
As for the Imperial Chinese Navy in this naval battle in the Bosphorus, because it mainly relied on the anti-ship missiles of the two task force aircraft carrier formations, the losses were almost negligible, but all the anti-ship missiles were released.
After defeating the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations, the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, and the Third Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire sent a large number of warships to bombard Constantinople with naval guns, which immediately brought extremely huge losses to the European Coalition of the League of Nations in Constantinople.
Under the joint attack of the Chinese Empire's navy, land and air force, at noon on January 21, 1915, Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, was conquered, and the three giants of the Young Turks, who controlled the military and political power of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the nominal supreme ruler of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Sultan Mehmed VI, because the Bosphorus Strait was blocked by the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, could not evacuate to the European region of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and finally became a prisoner of the Chinese Imperial Army.
Subsequently, with the cooperation of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, two guards and two field armies of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire crossed the Bosphorus Strait and captured the territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in Europe on January 25, 1915.
After the Ottoman Turkish Empire was occupied by the troops of the Chinese Empire, the European countries of the League of Nations immediately gritted their teeth and sent additional troops to Bulgaria, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria also began to expand its army in the country to prepare for the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army.
The territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in Europe was all bordered by the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and if the armies of the Chinese Empire continued to march into the European continent from this direction, the Kingdom of Bulgaria would bear the brunt.
At this time, some European countries even suggested to the General Headquarters of the European Coalition of Nations that they should not transfer some troops from the Moscow region of Russia to Bulgaria, otherwise the Russian side would not be doing anything, and the troops of the Chinese Empire would enter the hinterland of the European continent from the direction of Bulgaria.
However, this proposal quickly disappeared with the outbreak of the Moscow War, and the European member states of the League of Nations knew in their hearts that the Moscow War was the most critical, and if Moscow lost the war, then the last capital of the European coalition would be gone. (To be continued.) )