Chapter 717: Greece Enters the War

"Admiral Ivanov, is there anything else that needs help, I mean reinforcements. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Serov, who was holding the phone, said with an honest attitude, "Needless to say, you should also know that the motherland is facing strong pressure, and this pressure exists all the time, and we must create a fait accompli as quickly as possible, so as to better protect the country." ”

"I understand, but I believe that reinforcements are no longer needed, we have an absolute advantage, and it is reasonable to take Constantinople!" Admiral Ivanov said confidently, "Let the Motherland and the people wait for the news of our victory." ”

After speaking, Admiral Ivanov put down the phone, he was not afraid that reinforcements would appear to rob him of his credit, but really thought that it was not necessary, there is no shortage of examples in history of soldiers who did not retreat under the city, not to mention, the Leningrad Battle and the Battle of Stalingrad during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union are typical examples. But there is a premise in these cases, that is, there must be a support channel in their own hands.

This passage Leningrad and Stalingrad had, while Constantinople did not. The Soviets had blocked the reinforcements of Turkey in Asia Minor through airborne operations, and Constantinople was an easy city to defend, which meant coming from the Turkish direction, not from the Greek side. If you want to conquer Constantinople, you must have a strong navy, and the Soviet Union is the most powerful navy of the countries around the Black Sea, and the Black Sea Fleet is in front of you.

Admiral Ivanov believes that in peacetime, there will be no huge arms reserves in a city, not every country is the Soviet Union, and the millions of residents of Constantinople are of course a big trouble, as long as there are weapons, it may cause heavy losses to the Soviet army, but if there are no weapons, will the other side beat the Soviet army out with his fists?

Serov paused for a moment, smiled and answered the phone of the Inner Guard, "The Cheka division will arrive in Constantinople within a day, and the major general administrations will dispatch personnel to prepare to receive the city, once Constantinople is taken, immediately drive out all the Turks, this is a huge workload, my personal opinion is that the Great Constantinople area, all four million Turks will be expelled, and after this work is completed, the city will be officially declared to be incorporated into the Soviet Union." ”

"Chairman, the last thing we KGB lacks is that I will arrange the kind of people you need immediately." KGB Deputy Chairman Zvigon simply agreed, put down the phone, and immediately asked the 25 subordinate General Directorate units to transfer manpower.

Once the Soviet ground forces are at full speed, it is like an indomitable monstrous wave, destroying everything that stands in front of them. This is not the first time that Erzurum has been visited by Russians, as the Russian Empire, the weak link of imperialism, was attacked fifty-eight years ago. At that time, the Caucasus Army of the Russian Empire spent a month annihilating Turkey and completely annihilating the Turkish Third Army and occupied this place.

And fifty-eight years later, the tank army of the Transcaucasian Military District of the USSR again arrived here. The opponent is still an old adversary, the positions of the two sides are already completely different, after a night of forced march of the Transcaucasian Military District Tank Army, a tenth of the tanks along the way broke down on the road, and along the road to Erzurum, there were tanks and armored personnel carriers under repair everywhere.

Soviet weapons are very durable, this means that they are not bad to use, on the contrary, Soviet weapons generally do not have a long life span as American weapons, anyway, once a full-scale war begins, even if the weapons used are not damaged, they will be quickly destroyed by the enemy, and the reason why Soviet weapons and equipment give others the impression of being durable is that Soviet weapons can be quickly repaired even if they are faulty and put into combat again.

The Soviet Tank Army, which arrived in Erzurum at eight o'clock in the morning, completed its mission by forced march with the tanks falling all the way, and the battle between the Turks and the Kurds continued in the city of Erzurum at this time. The appearance of the Soviets surprised everyone, and compared to the ecstasy of the Kurds, the Turks were disillusioned.

Some Turks could not accept the fact that the Soviets came so quickly, they believed that the Soviet Union would advance the front at least little by little every month, and these Turks living in the mountains would not understand at all that the world had already changed, and that the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, like a meat grinder, would never have been able to meet the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union dispatched one-sixth of its troops, one-eighth of its tanks, and it was enough to deal with Turkey, the regional power with the third-largest number of NATO troops, in a matter of days.

But immediately the Soviet Union's non-stop tank charge shattered the process of Turkey's reminiscence of the glorious history, although the last time the two sides fought each other, they were actually beaten by themselves, but compared to the state of the Ottoman Empire, no matter how much the Turks think about the better, they can experience the pervasive despair.

Erzurum is an important transport hub, and by capturing it, it will be possible to leverage the situation in the whole of eastern Turkey. As one of the largest cities in eastern Turkey, the stockpiles of military supplies, including fuel, could also replenish the depleted fuel of the Soviet tank army in the southern theater of operations, which was the reason for the Soviet Union's non-stop direct offensive.

It is obvious who is a friend and who is an enemy, and the red flag of the Kurdish Communist Party is not indistinguishable, it is the best signpost of the Soviet army, and the city itself is predominantly Kurdish.

Turkish soldiers would have paid a terrible price for every step forward, and the armed forces of the Kurdish Communist Party used houses on both sides of the street to shoot at soldiers walking in the streets without cover. These Kurdistan Communist Party fighters were trained in Azerbaijan and put the golden rule of street fighting to good use. Suppressing the opposing infantry with machine guns, delivering precision strikes on soldiers with sniper rifles, it became known that Soviet tanks had begun to attack.

The general secretary of the Kurdish Communist Party, Ocalan, immediately asked people to contact the Soviet army, and such people were easy to find, and many Kurdish communists were trained in Azerbaijan and had no problem conversing in Russian. With the support of the Soviet army, the Kurds, who already had a numerical advantage, immediately burst out with huge energy.

Instead, the Kurdish communist partisan fighters used the destroyed tanks and wounded soldiers to surround the reinforcements, feeding the bullets from their guns with the blood of waves of soldiers who came to the rescue. With every shot, a soldier fell to the ground, blood splattering. They didn't even know exactly what the bullet was coming from behind that window. Cunning snipers hid in the shadows and opened fire on the army. In a few minutes, the city will be out of Turkey forever.

The Soviets came, and the Soviet tank divisions, guided by numerous Kurds leading the way, attacked more easily than their own home, and in the wave of independence, all Kurds took the Soviets as liberators, leading the Soviet tank forces to attack the strongholds that were still in Turkish hands.

In the face of large Soviet tank divisions, the Turkish defenders who had held out all night collapsed, and like other cities, the Turkish soldiers here were first hit by surface-to-surface missiles, followed by carpet bombing by the Soviet Air Force, and unlike some Turkish-majority cities, the Turkish soldiers here faced the prepared Kurdish communists and Kurdish adherents who made up the majority of the population, and now the Soviet tank army finally broke the confidence of the Turkish defenders.

"Fifty-eight years ago, it took the army of the Russian Empire a month to capture the city of Erzurum, and now we have only one day to send a report to the Erwin General Command that the 216th Guards Motorized Rifle Division will capture Erzurum."

"The naval infantry division of the Red Navy, captured the Turkish port of Salsun. Salzon is now fully occupied. ”

"The 98th Airborne Division of the Guards has successfully captured the eastern city of Constantinople Izmit, Constantinople has been surrounded, and the Airborne Division has promised not to allow a single Turkish reinforcement to enter Constantinople."

"Report of the 104th Guards Airborne Division, the capture of the eastern city of Bousar in the Dardanelles, and the assistance of the 98th Airborne Division in completing the encirclement of the Great Constantinople area......"

"The 23rd Motorized Rifle Division of the Red Banner reports that our army has occupied the northeastern port of Rize and is pursuing enemy troops, and colleagues are moving to Trabzon to assist amphibious tank units in clearing out the remnants of the enemy in Trabzon."

"The 145th Red Banner Motorized Rifle Division reports that it is moving towards the central Turkish city of Elazig, with the goal of occupying the city and establishing a control base to assist Syria in annihilating the main Turkish forces in southern Turkey and ending the war."

"What? The Soviet army went south and launched a full-front attack on Turkey, more than a dozen large Turkish cities have fallen, and Constantinople has been surrounded? "Greek President Konstantin? Karamanlis was taken aback and could not believe his ears, but immediately he reacted that starting with the conflict between Greece and Turkey, the Soviet Union's proposals for peace or something were fake, and they were preparing to take matters into their own hands. It may even be that Syria's actions were benefited by the Soviet Union, and Assad acted first to pave the way for the Soviet Union.

Greece was used, Konstantin? President Karamanlis was quick to think of this, but then he also thought about the fact that Greece could not be used for nothing, and that this was a good opportunity for Cyprus to be annexed to Greece.

"After the unanimous passage of Congress, Greece declared war on Turkey, Cyprus is ours, and no one can change that." Constantine? President Karamanlis shouted to the population on behalf of all parliamentarians. (To be continued.) )