"The Turks can't do it either?" Roosevelt was surprised.\\

He knew that the Turks might not necessarily stop the footsteps of the Chinese army, but how could they drag on for a year and a half. Even after Britain and the United States drew more troops, they directly cooperated with the Turks to block China out of Europe. But who knows, in just 3 days, the Chinese army defeated the Turkish army of more than 400,000 that invaded Iran and counterattacked into Turkey.

"I heard that this time the Turkish army is equipped with our advanced tanks and fighters?" Leahy also asked.

In order to keep Turkey in check, Britain and the United States, while putting pressure on Turkey, also provided Turkey with a large amount of weapons and equipment.

The Americans were also willing to pay for it, and Pershing tanks and Mustang fighters, which were considered advanced weapons in the US military, were sent to the Turkish border one after another. The Turks also planned to take the opportunity to play a prestige, one was to deter China, and the other was to further reap the benefits between the Axis and the allies, and they also took great pains to select many elites for the 29 divisions that participated in the war.

Among them, even if you don't consider 4 cavalry divisions, 2 German motorized divisions and 5 American motorized divisions, just the 3 American armored divisions, 2 German armored divisions, 1 British armored division, plus 2 armored divisions cobbled together from Soviet and Russian tanks, also gave Turkey great confidence. Moreover, there are more than 3,000 artillery pieces and more than 800 warplanes to support it.

If the 400,000 troops are less than one-third of the 1.5 million troops after the expansion of the Turkish army, the fighters and tanks dispatched this time are already the vast majority of Turkey's total equipment.

They thought that they could rely on these to force the Huaxia army that came from afar, but they never knew that the Huaxia army on the other side had surpassed it by a large margin in terms of size and performance of its armored divisions.

Turkey's armored divisions were the first to be influenced by the Germans, and the number of tanks was small, with less than 150 tanks in one panzer division. Even after equipping British and American weapons, the number of tanks did not increase much.

This time, more than 1,300 tanks can be taken out in one go, all of which the Turks have won by currying favor with both sides in recent years. In the original history, the Turks did not have such a scenery. The Germans did not have enough tanks of their own, and the number of support was limited. And the Allies, who had the advantage in the Middle East, did not give the Turks much face.

And now the number of tanks supported by the Allies to Turkey alone exceeds 1,000, as well as more than 300 tanks of various types that the Germans gave to Turkey before, plus more than 300 tanks put together by the Turks themselves, Turkey at this time can be regarded as having a strong armored force.

But it is only good, and it cannot be compared with the superpower that can easily dispatch tens of thousands of tanks, even compared with the armored forces assembled in China on the border between Iraq and Turkey. It's not enough to see.

After the adjustment of the Chinese National Defense Forces. Although it is no longer as exaggerated as the Vanguard at one time, even the number of tanks in the B Division exceeded 300, and some Division A even reached 500.

Although the number of tanks in the mechanized division is less than that of the tank-based armored division, the tanks in the mechanized division in the Chinese army are only about one-third less in size when the classification is not perfect.

Of the 9 mechanized divisions that Meng Xiang came out, 3 of them were already the size of armored divisions used as sharp knives.

With the addition of tanks scattered in various motorized divisions, the total number of tanks in the vanguard of the Chinese westward army has exceeded 2,500.

If it weren't for the support of the sub-bases, logistics alone would have crushed this forward army.

Neither the British nor the Americans nor the Turks could have imagined that Huaxia would burst out with such a large number of armored forces in a short period of time.

You must know that in the original Battle of Kursk, the total number of tanks invested by both sides was only more than 6,000.

But a miracle happened.

On the long Iranian-Turkish border. Grizzly bears and rhino tanks are everywhere, blasting around with huge tank guns.

Neither the cruiser tanks of the British, nor the Shermans of the Americans, were difficult to resist, even the Fireflies and Pershing tanks, against the Rhino or the Grizzly Bear. are at a disadvantage. Not to mention the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th tanks that the Germans had earlier supported the Turks.

In addition, the Turks lacked command of such a large-scale tank force to fight, and the weekday tank training was also suspected of shrinking due to huge losses and costs.

It is also a matter of training and cost, and it is not uncommon for the Turks to be able to send more than 800 fighters at a time. However, considering the Chinese army's always strong air power, Britain and the United States also specially supported more than 200 Allied pilots.

But in the face of the swarming of more than two thousand fighters. They can only flee for their lives.

The difference in quantity is still second, and the worst of the Chinese fighters is also the piston propeller fighters such as the Mustang fighters, and the jet fighters continue to destroy the fragile hearts of Turkish pilots like target shooting.

The Allied pilots lost more than twenty planes as soon as they came up, and the wind tightened. Only Turkish pilots are still supported by patriotic enthusiasm, but the difference in strength between the two sides in terms of equipment and the level of pilots is too great. Watching the fighters continue to drag black smoke down, soon the Turks also despaired.

On the first day of the battle between the two sides, the air supremacy of the battlefield was taken away by the Chinese army. The B-29 fleet traveled thousands of miles to attack many airfields where the Turks' air defense was weak, so that the Turks only flew scattered fighters in the next few days, but they were immediately targeted and stepped on by the Chinese fighter group that was looking for prey.

At this time, Germany, Japan and other countries did not have enough anti-aircraft artillery, not to mention Turkey, which lacked sufficient strength to produce anti-aircraft artillery.

Having lost air supremacy and not having enough anti-aircraft artillery, the Turks could only passively be bombed.

Artillery positions suffered first.

In view of the fact that the tank factories mainly produced tanks, the number of artillery produced was very small, and although the army traveling west also had a lot of artillery, it was impossible to suppress Turkey.

Fortunately, the heavy firepower of many tank guns and some self-propelled guns and even self-propelled rocket launchers made up for this part of the gap, until the Chinese attack planes and bombers in the sky bombarded the Turks indiscriminately and indiscriminately on the heads of the Turks as if they were in a no-man's land, and the only hope in the hearts of the Turks was useless.

The numerical superiority that the Turks once thought was proud of had long since become a joke after facing the Chinese armored forces, which were armed to the teeth.

If ordinary flesh and blood could resist the advance of the tank, then the Spiritual Victory Method would have been glorious in the world.

After the other aspects were crushed by Huaxia one by one, the Turks suddenly found that they had no chance of winning.

The entire Turkish front was shaken and crumbling on the first day by the Chinese armored forces that counterattacked head-on; On the second day, there were many gaps, and they were in chaos under the dismemberment of the tank sharp knife unit and the bombardment of the Huaxia fighter group, which had already occupied air superiority; By the third day, there was nothing left to prevent the collapse of the entire Turkish army.

Once the army collapses and flees, it is even more difficult to clean up than the river bursts.

It is also common for one person to chase hundreds of people, not to mention that the Turks are chasing all the black smoke steel monsters behind them.

Whether it's a grizzly rhinoceros or a multi-purpose tank, it is perfectly possible to fight their way through the rout of the Turkish army and block their front. But the force of the rout was enough to break through all the obstacles that stood in front of us, whether it was the officers waving slogans, the law enforcement teams with machine guns, or the reserve positions at the rear, they were all scattered.

Zhang Zizhong understood that the most suitable way to deal with the rout army was to chase after them unhurriedly, and when they couldn't run, there were only two ways to choose between surrender and death.

Whenever the Turks accumulated, they immediately pounced on the fighters, and then the tanks and armor rushed quickly, brutally crushed and divided, and broke up again into stragglers.

Huaxia's armored troops pursued all the way, until they chased through Lake Fan, the largest lake in Turkey, and saw that the reconnaissance troops at the forefront had seen Elazig, only to meet the Turkish troops on large-scale defense, and stopped the pursuit.

The 430,000 Turkish troops, with the exception of 60,000 officers and soldiers who fled scattered, were surrounded and annihilated by the Chinese army, of which 240,000 were captured.

If it weren't for the ammunition and supplies provided by the sub-base, which were only enough for the armored army to consume fiercely for 5 days, I am afraid that Zhang Zizhong would have led his troops all the way to Ankara.

After this battle, the Turks were already terrified.

Most of the armored tanks and fighters were lost, and they were simply unable to resist the Chinese.

Inonu hurriedly appealed to Britain and the United States for help.

At this time, the troops that the US military was preparing to send to Turkey to support were still on the other side of the Atlantic and did not board the ship.

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"Turkey is so defeated?" Churchill hurriedly ventilated with Roosevelt. Once Turkey collapses, it will pose the greatest threat to the British, but Britain will no longer have more energy to support Turkey, and can only rely on the United States.

"How strong is the Huaxia army? They are still at war in the Urals and Central Asia, they are still fighting in Turkey, and they are on the verge of completely occupying the Japanese capital in Japan itself. How many troops do they have? Roosevelt asked in a deep voice.

"According to the proportion of the population of China, it is not unusual for them to dispatch 20 million troops!" Marshall immediately said, "With the support of copycat companies, there is no sign of a shortage of their weapons!" ”

Marshall didn't say anything else, these two points are enough to show the strength of the Chinese army.

"We need to expand our army again!" Roosevelt was silent for a moment, then said categorically. (To be continued)

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