Chapter 1580: Turkish Ambitions

Turkey's reorganization lasted more than 6 months, although before the First World War, China armed Turkey and also sent a team of instructors, but the team of instructors was not deep, this time, Turkey even asked China to send a team of 15,000 instructors, and will give 4 instructors, that is, among the instructors, from top to bottom, all are Chinese, and Turks serve as deputies to increase the combat effectiveness of the Turkish army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the first time in the world, Turkey has faced Germany like this, for various reasons, especially in that era, the army occupies a small role in the system, Turkey is located on the Black Sea coast, and the war with Russia is mainly naval warfare, and land warfare is a secondary role.

But now, the entire Black Sea is basically blocked by Germany, Turkey is also facing the direction of Central Asia, the main war, will shift from the navy to the army, and the war to this extent, even if the German army presses Britain, France and the United States, but in terms of combat record and strength, it is still the strongest Chinese army, and the most important thing is that such a large team of officers can only be sent by the Chinese.

A division of 25,000 people, if it is only a full-time officer, there may be more than 100, but they represent a different meaning, 4 instructors, but also the most elite troops, originated from the Turkish Guard, they can also be regarded as a unit that has undergone the initial test of war, has a certain combat effectiveness, I believe that a full set of Chinese equipment, plus the Chinese commander, although his combat effectiveness may not be as strong as the Chinese army, it will not be weaker than the Japanese army, if this army moves, at least the British army in Iran is not an opponent.

It is not China's occupation, it is a military mission, and the situation of overly complicated religion can be ignored by the Chinese side, Iran is also an oil-producing area, even in a hurry, only a fraction of Baku's oil production, this risk China is also willing, after receiving a diplomatic note from the Turkish side, the Chinese side will reply to Turkey as quickly as possible, and at the latest in 7 days, the first batch of instructors will arrive in Turkey, and they will carry at least 10 divisions of supplies.

These supplies are almost from the Arab army, these guns that have not gone through tragic battles, as long as they are slightly maintained, can play a role, and there are supplies that can be used for 10 divisions to fight continuously for 3 months, this part is directly loaded in Basra, and at the same time, 800 excellent officers were drawn from the General Staff, the highest position of which is the brigade commander, they have also been transferred, they have all participated in the war, served in the field army, not the reserve, which is almost to see this unit as an elite, If necessary, it will take 3 months to complete the equipment of 4 instructors, and then enter Iran.

Oil, for the current China, is the most important thing, Baku's oil, so that China on its basis, to obtain a huge income, in the eyes of most of the high-level, China is an oil-poor country, can not take advantage of the war to import, a large number of oil, the future war ends, or the war to a more intense extent, where to get oil?

Such rumors and rumors have also been transmitted to Yang Yuanzhao, and he just laughed at the time, but then he thought about it, it is true, about Daqing, Shengli and even Karamay's exploration work, has never stopped, but these oil fields, after being discovered, only did some construction on the surface, and surrounded the area, and did not redevelop, as for the Tyumen oil field in Siberia, the Ural oil field, for the time being, there is no effort to manage, China's current oil field, is not a Yan'an Yanchang oil field.

China's 30 million square kilometers of land, only so many oil fields, is not an oil-poor country, the most important thing is that China has entered the era of motor vehicles in advance, the number of motor vehicles exceeds 80 million, on average every 10 Chinese, there is a motor vehicle, cars, aircraft, ships, all rely on a variety of oil crackers, in this case, oil as part of national security, as an important reserve resource, is essential.

It is impossible to develop domestic oil fields, because whether it is Karamay, or Shengli Daqing, especially Daqing, it can be said that it is the only world-class oil field in China, the recoverable reserves are very large, but the depth of the reserves is larger, are above 1000 meters, which is also the World War II period, small Japan came to find, but did not find the fundamental reason, if the Daqing oilfield is really found in the northeast, the entire World War II pattern will undergo far-reaching changes, Japan will definitely shrink in China, will not go to Southeast Asia, challenge Britain and the United States, Even the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, I don't know how World War II will be in the future, China will definitely be the first to be unlucky.

At this moment, the threat of Japan is no longer there, Japan is attached to China, there is no possibility of a rebound at all, it is not known whether World War II will happen, and it seems that some bans need to be opened to solve the oil problem.

Reserve oil and use it at the last time, this is what the United States has done, and China can also follow suit, but to ensure a certain amount of oil production, to ensure that China's oil has a basic safety line, this is also an inevitable choice, the domestic inconvenient exploitation, the Middle East is the same, then there is only one target Indonesian province.

Although Indonesia Province is not as amazing as the oil resources in the Middle East, it has 5 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, Indonesia's 3.7 billion and Brunei's 1.35 billion combined, which does not count the shallow sea reserves, of course, it is still not comparable with the Middle East, the original Saudi Arabia in the Middle East of the world, has 210 billion barrels of oil reserves.

External acquisition is still unchanged, Baku is relatively mature, must increase the intensity of exploitation, if Turkey is willing to go to Iran, it can also fully support, after all, Iran is the world's fourth largest oil reserves, with 140 billion barrels of reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, even if it can't make production rise much in a short time, it is also a target worth occupying.

However, at this moment, Turkey's ambitions were hidden under the pattern of a world war, and among the current Allied powers, the most striking were Germany and Japan, and even China, which had not been at war for a long time and had been ignored, but in the second half of 1916, China once again shocked the world.

In the whole year of 1916, in fact, there were not many wars, Britain and the United States were deliberate, and the tank plan that came out was disintegrated in front of the bazooka, not only knocked out a large number of living forces, but also completely knocked out their confidence in counteroffensive, in a short period of time, a large number of casualties of troops, and it was not easy to make up for it, the war has entered its fourth year, which is the world's most destructive war, in this era, it has become more destructive, Germany on a scale in the late stage of World War II, perfect trench warfare, The use of heavy firepower and machine guns made Germany a scythe of death that slaughtered the world, and the battle loss ratio between the Allies and Germany has always been 4:1, and even changed in 1916, the only major war, the battle loss ratio exceeded 1:30, and the German side used meager losses in exchange for a large number of Allied personnel and equipment losses, and the entire 1916 offensive was reimbursed.

For the Entente, it must take time to recover, even if the entire Entente occupies the vast majority of the world's population and land, but it is impossible for people to be pulled into the army and become an army, especially in the current situation of a large number of losses, Britain, France and the United States began to suffer huge losses from joining the war, 4 years, the overall loss every year is more than 3 million, 4 years of 12 million, this is not a small amount, represents the maximum mobilization capacity of 120 million, and so far, in the whole of Europe, an army of 7 million has been maintained, which is already the result of patchwork, and if you lose a few million, it is strange that you can continue to fight?

The Entente could not fight, they had to accumulate strength before they could, Germany's losses were much smaller than those of the Entente, 4 years, about 3 million, of which about 20%, after treatment, could return to the battlefield, and about 1.2 million were disabled, and less than 1.2 million really died, far smaller than the Entente.

The seriously injured have no ability to work, but most of them are not completely unable to take care of themselves, they are still doing some work within their capacity in the rear, and the overall industrial capacity and mobilization capacity of Germany have not yet been devastated, at least one or two failures, and they can recover quickly.

However, the reason why Germany did not go to war with such a good opportunity is that they are not in a hurry to start a war with the Entente, whether it is the newly occupied territory belonging to Russia, or Baku, an oil center, as long as it is long enough, it will increase the strength of Germany, and after seeing China's strategic firepower, Germany is ready to popularize 155 heavy artillery at the division level, and is ready to increase the number of artillery pieces above 100 mm by 20%, machine guns and small mortars by about 20%.

At that time, the projection capability of a division of the German army will reach 1.5 times that of the present, for the German army, the firepower projection capability represents the combat effectiveness, such a firepower projection capability, in the whole of Europe is the first rate, once put into the Bordeaux battlefield, one or two divisions are good to say, if the Bordeaux battlefield on more than 70 divisions, have carried out similar modifications, it will be the nightmare of the Entente, and it is not impossible to take the Entente to the sea.

In the history of World War I, in 1916, in addition to the war in Europe, as well as the landing in Alaska, there is nothing to show for it, but after entering September, the wars in other parts of the world gradually stopped, and began to gradually confront, China started the final war against Australia, counting the war that lasted almost three years, and finally came to an end. (To be continued.) )