Chapter 430: Turkey (Part II)

The Allies moved quickly, mobilizing troops from Crimea to Sevasktopol, where they boarded ships and sailed south across the Black Sea to Turkey for support under the cover of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info There is a bad history between Russia and Turkey, and this reinforcement did not involve the Russians.

The Allies thought they were moving fast enough. The Turks also considered themselves to have been watching the war for several years and were already well aware of the war. Over the course of a few years, they had strengthened an army of hundreds of thousands. And it is equipped with modern armed forces such as aircraft, artillery, tanks, warships, etc.

The Turks thought that even if they could not defeat the Ming army, they could still defend their homeland. If the Allied reinforcements were timely, and the Ming army did not invest much here, then they might also consider counterattacking and retaking the long-lost territory from the Ming Dynasty.

I have to say that these ideas are quite constructive. It's just that the Ming army quickly educated the Turks with the reality of Chiguoguo, telling them with blood what is the difference between an audience and a boxer.

Many years ago, the General Staff of the Ming Dynasty had already drawn up a combat plan against Turkey, and there were many sets of plans. These battle plans have been revised in line with the changes in the strength of the two sides and the surrounding situation. When the two sides declare war, the prepared army will be ready to use it immediately.

On 1 May, the Ming Army Aviation completely paralyzed Turkey's air defense and air power with a furious bombardment. Most of the thousands of warplanes of various types, considered important by the Turks, were blown up on the ground before they could take off.

Turkey, which does not have radar technology, cannot predict the attack of the Ming Dynasty, and they have just entered the war and have not adjusted their state. Even some air bases, in accordance with the requirements of the training code, did not strengthen air patrols in order to save fuel, knowing that the war had begun, and eventually led to the almost complete withdrawal of Turkey's air power from the war on the first day of the war.

After defeating the weak Turkish Air Force, the Daming Army Aviation made persistent efforts to attack major Turkish cities and important transportation hubs, communication centers, barracks, material assembly areas, military ports and other important targets. As for the location of these targets, Daming's agents had already obtained them in the hands of the lax Turks.

For a confident Turkey, the first day of the war was nothing short of a nightmare. The air power they had worked so hard to manage was almost exhausted, but they had no ability to replenish it at all, because their planes were bought. Important targets were bombarded indiscriminately and suffered heavy losses. And they didn't even have a chance to fight back. It was only at this time that Turkey, which was still a little muddy and living in the kind of slow devouring war decades ago, gradually came back to its senses, and the times were different.

But it doesn't end there, it's just the beginning.

In the afternoon, the border guards stationed in Syria, Iraq, and the Caucasus reported that a large number of Ming troops were crossing the border and fighting in depth. It wasn't meant to be a big deal. Because in order to resist the possible invasion of the Ming army, the Turks deployed most of their troops along the border as early as possible, and built a large number of permanent fortifications. From here, it can be seen that the Turks have long been wary of Daming, and there is a reason why Daming has always been lukewarm to the Turks.

However, the offensive of the Ming army is not limited to this. In the early hours of May 2, while the Turks were still busy mobilizing for war, bad news came back from the front. Tens of thousands of elite airborne troops of at least three Ming airborne divisions were airborne in important sections behind the border line. The weak local defenses were crushed in an instant.

In addition to this, the Ming army sent a landing force from the eastern Mediterranean to land on the coastline of Turkey. At the same time, the Ming Panzer Army, which had set out from the Aleppo area in Syria, plunged like a sharp sword into the soft belly of the Turks.

At this point, the strategic intent of the Ming army was fully revealed. The troops on the border line attacked and entangled the main forces of the Turkish army, and the airborne troops attacked to cut off the retreat and supply channels of the Turkish army. And the armored corps that attacked from Syria was on a mission to kill. They will pounce all the way north to the southern shore of the Black Sea, thus dividing the whole of Turkey and eating the hundreds of thousands of main Turkish troops on the border in one bite.

The Turkish army, which was still stuck in the operational thinking of the last century, began to quickly save itself in a panic. Leaving part of the troops to hold on to the permanent fortifications near the border to hold the main Ming army, the Turkish army then began to counterattack the Ming airborne forces that occupied important locations. At the same time, the Turks urgently mobilized their reserves, as well as newly recruited conscripts, plus reinforcements from the allies, to resist the rapid onslaught of the Ming armored corps.

The idea of warfare was quite correct, but Turkey underestimated its opponent. They seem to have forgotten that their opponent is the world's strongest army that has been fighting for years in a brutal war!

As a modern army established by Zhang Cheng, the Daming Airborne Forces are extremely elite in all aspects, and their equipment and tactics are also very strong. Although only three lightly armed airborne divisions were airborne in the rear at the beginning, the Turkish army, which was weak and most importantly had no experience in dealing with it, did not know that the first goal of the Ming airborne troops in the airborne was to seize the airfield.

Under the impetus of Zhang Cheng, the air transport capacity of the Ming army was extremely strong. Although there is no perverted transport aircraft capable of airlifting heavy tanks, it is not that it cannot be built, but there is no need for it. However, the transportation force of the Ming army was enough to send a large number of heavy equipment such as artillery and armored vehicles. Coupled with the large number of supplies and soldiers, the airborne strength of the Ming army began to double in a very short period of time.

The fierce blows of the Ming air power not only damaged the roads everywhere, but also severely damaged the Turkish marching troops, forcing them to be unable to move during the day. When the Turkish army, which lacked air cover and mechanized strength, encountered the airborne troops of the Ming army after going through a lot of hardships, they were stunned to find that the army in front of them was completely different from the lightly armed troops in intelligence!

The powerful air power of the Ming Dynasty can send a large number of troops and equipment behind enemy lines in a very short time, thus dealing a great blow to the completely confused Turkish army. In fact, just like when the Iron Cross attacked the Scythe in modern time and space history, in addition to the things that the Scythe did himself, a large part of their initial defeat was that the army that had not fought for a long time did not have the ability to confront the elites who had experienced the baptism of war between Poland and France.

Because of its large land area, the scythe can exchange space for time and give its army a chance to grow. But Turkey does not have this capital, and the Ming Dynasty is much more powerful than the Iron Cross.

A week later, the Ming armored corps from Syria broke through the Turkish defenses and fought all the way to the southern shore of the Black Sea. The main force of hundreds of thousands of Turkish troops was divided and encircled in the eastern part of Asia Minor, and then these troops, lacking reinforcements and logistical supplies, were quickly swallowed up by the surging Ming army around them.

Having lost the well-trained main force, the Turkish army was no longer capable of resisting. Although there are still a large number of troops in their hands, most of them are newly recruited mobilized soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not even as good as that of the militia.

But there's no way around it. Turkey was unable to support a larger regular army, and their terrible tactics led them to place their main forces near the border. This kind of death-seeking move is completely full of loopholes in front of the Ming army, which has experienced the baptism of war.

It took only a week for the Ming army to sweep through most of Asia Minor, destroying the resistance of the Turkish army and breaking the will of the Turks to resist. In any case, they never imagined that the army they were proud of would be so vulnerable in front of the Ming army.

In fact, in addition to the strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army, another important reason for this is that the top level of the Turkish army is completely unable to keep up with the rhythm of modern warfare. Although they have been watching the battle for a long time, their understanding of this war is still only scratching the surface. He just added advanced weapons such as airplanes, tanks, and artillery to his troops, but he didn't know how to use them at all, and he still fought with the old-fashioned positional warfare mentality.

In fact, this situation exists in the armies of all countries, and the Ming Dynasty is no exception. After all, in a seniority military, most of the high-ranking people who hold the power will fight according to the patterns they are familiar with. And if you want to adapt to the process of a new type of warfare, it will take time and blood to wash it. Knock out the anachronism and make room for the newcomers. It took time, but the Ming army did not give Turkey time at all.

Time passed quickly, and the Ming army did not stop at all after eating the main force of the Turkish army, and the huge army swept westward across the entire Asia Minor Peninsula with armored forces as the lead. By mid-May, they had already reached the Bosphorus and immediately blocked the strait.

At the same time, the troops of the Southern European Theater of the Ming Army, which had previously landed on the Greek Peninsula, also attacked from the vicinity of Salonica and quickly attacked Constantinople all the way.

In this dire situation, the Allies could not afford to send large numbers of troops to reinforcements in a short period of time. At this time, the main Allied forces in the vicinity were busy resisting the Ming army that had entered the Caucasus and landed in the Balkans, and was unable to provide large amounts of support to Turkey. The Turkish government was forced to declare Constantinople an undefended city, and the Turkish government went into exile in Berlin.

In the space of twenty days, Turkey, known as the number one power, was destroyed. (To be continued.) )