"Dada-da..."

On the road to the southern Turkish town of Hakari, nearly 10,000 cavalry were advancing along a rudimentary road.

This extremely large cavalry team was the first team that Jiang Baili raised to go south...

In this huge cavalry team of nearly 10,000 people, except for more than 5,000 cavalry of the expeditionary force, the rest were all Russian Cossack cavalry, which went south this time in order to attract the attention of the Turks and play a role in relieving the siege for the British...

"How far is it from Hakkari..."

Looking at the huge cavalry corps beside him with satisfaction, Nan Yuanchao asked the adjutant beside him.

"Commander, there are still 3 or 4 miles left..."

"Okay, let the brethren work harder, and we'll clean up those Turks later!"

"Yes!"

After turning the horse's head, the adjutant conveyed Nan Yuanchao's order...

After getting Nan Yuanchao's order, the morale of the coalition army may not be able to rise a lot, but the speed has indeed increased a little, and the road in 3 and 4 miles is about to run out.

And in the same way, looking at the huge cavalry contingent outside the town, the Turkish defenders of Hakari were all dumbfounded.

As the weapons of this era advanced more and more rapidly, the role of cavalry became weaker and weaker, although the four-legged cavalry was far superior in mobility to any other land arm of the era, including those cars that could not run much and had to lie on their stomachs. But most of the time the job is just to attack the enemy's flank, or simply to go around the enemy's rear flank to attack the enemy's logistical line, as for a frontal attack? Since the birth of Makqin, using cavalry to attack the opponent's strong field fortifications has been completely an act of seeking death...

Of course, cavalry is not completely useless, at least it is still useful to pursue it with cavalry when the enemy army is in a rout...

But attacking a town with cavalry is obviously a bit of a thing...

Merely...

"Battalion commander, what should we do now?"

Looking at the huge cavalry corps outside the town, which could almost hide the clouds, a Turkish officer who seemed to be the rank of company commander asked his boss beside him with trepidation.

It's just that looking at Nan Yuanchao's team outside, this battalion commander doesn't seem to have any idea at all...

Yes, attacking a town with cavalry is a very good thing, but if the town is only guarded by a few hundred people, then...

For a cavalry team of nearly 10,000 people, it seems to be a very simple thing...

"Damn, why did these Chinese attack us here ..."

Just when the officers guarding Hakari were at a loss, a fat man who looked very rich suddenly ran up and yelled at several soldiers.

"You guys, what the hell should you do now, didn't you expect this to happen!"

When the fat man spoke, the saliva in his mouth was almost, or rather, sprayed on the officer's face, but several officers did not dare to have a disrespectful attitude towards this fat man, who seemed to be very impulsive, or should I say that he was very underbeaten.

It's not because this fat man is the mayor of the town, but ―――――― this fat man is actually the mayor...

In 1936, the city was separated from Van Thanh Province and formed a separate province, which became Hakkari Province. Located in the southeasternmost part of Turkey, on the border with Iran and Iraq, the town of Hakkari covers an area of 7,729 square kilometers, and the capital is the town of Hakkari at their feet.

Of course, the current Hakkari is only a municipality in the province of Van City, so this fat man is only a mayor.

However, although he was only a mayor, these officers did not dare to be disrespectful to the fat man, after all, he was a mayor of the Ottoman Empire...

As for why a city in the Ottoman Empire had only one battalion and such a small garrison of a few hundred soldiers?

For a city with only 10,000 or 20,000 people in the city, to be honest, in the eyes of some of the upper echelons of the Ottoman Empire, a few hundred people are a little too much...

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Nikolai and they took Van half a year ago, the Turks would not have sent troops to the city at all, after all, when the British and French launched the Battle of the Dardanelles, the Turks were also very nervous...

Not to mention the Chief of the General Staff in Turkey, and also the Minister of Military Affairs of Enver. The Pasha had already begun planning a counteroffensive. Enver. Pasha planned to carry out a two-way assault, which was carried out by Kerim after the resignation of Vishipp. Pasha led the 3rd Army to attack along the Black Sea coast, Ahmed Izm. Pasha led the newly formed Second Army to advance towards Bitlis and detour to Yudenrich's left flank. (They were high-ranking officials in the Ottoman administration, usually governors, generals, and high-ranking officials.) Pasha is an honorific, equivalent to the British "lord", and it was the highest official title in Egypt during the pre-republican period, which is why Turkey has so many "lying down". ）

Mention Enver. Pasha, this man is the head of the Ottoman Turkey's Big Three, the other two are Talat Pasha (party chairman, interior minister) and Jemal Pasha (navy minister, Istanbul police chief), but the main control is still in the hands of Envel Pasha.

Married in 1914 Nasiye, the daughter of Sultan Mohammed VI? In view of the prevalence of nationalism in Europe, the detachment of the various ethnic groups under the empire from Germany and the demand for separation, Enver Pasha also became a fanatical nationalist.

In 1911 the Young Turks passed a resolution declaring that the empire should be a Muslim state, that aliens should be denied the right to special national organizations, and that the expansion of the Turkish language was an excellent means of establishing Muslim rule and assimilating alien elements. This was in perfect harmony with Enver's state of mind at the time. Enver went even further, advocating the creation of a unified large Turkic national empire headed by the Ottoman royal family. But his fanatical pursuit of Pan-Turkist ideology drew the Sultan's resentment, and he privately cursed him as a "clown who can only think with a hat".

At the same time, Enver Pasha was the main reason why the Ottomans would participate in the European war.

At the beginning of the First World War, Enver Pasha wanted to wait and see the situation, but Churchill, who was the British Admiralty at the time, bought two warships and detained them without giving any reason. In this case, Enver agreed to receive the German battlecruiser Goeben (famous), which was pursued by the British fleet into the Dardanelles.

Incidentally, the Armenian massacre of 1915 was also ordered by Enver.

But Enver. The European war that Pasha ordered to participate in completely disintegrated the Ottoman Empire. If he could swallow his anger a little at that time, maybe he could still let the Ottoman Empire survive for twenty or thirty years, and if he was lucky, maybe he could continue the Ottoman Empire because of the change, after all, after Britain, France and Russia ended the European war, almost all the three countries were greatly injured, and since they had no intention or ability to carry out large-scale operations.

Especially in the Soviet Union, although the polar bear had great ambitions, it was at the time of great recovery, that is, the outbreak of World War II. (During World War II, Turkey, which was left alone, has completely transformed into a soy sauce party...) ）

However, these are not things that we can evaluate, after all, it is said that the two warships purchased from Britain were donated even by elementary school students. The seizure of these two warships for no reason is obviously not an easy thing to endure...

After the defeat of Turkey in October 1918, Enver Pasha went into exile in Germany, where he published his memoirs of the Italian war, Tripoli. In 1919 he was sentenced to death in absentia by the Imperial Tribunal, and in the same year he went into exile in Soviet Russia under the introduction of [***] Dirac of Germany. He was politically active, trying to control the Anatolian national resistance and compete with Kemal for the leadership of the movement. At the most critical juncture in Turkey (the Battle of Sakarya in the Greek-Turkish War, the arrival of enemy troops 50 kilometers outside Ankara, and the discussion of relocation by the Loya Jirga), many wanted him to return to replace Kemal as the leader.

However, in the case of the Basmachi Movement, a predominantly Turkic Muslim uprising against Soviet rule in Central Asia. On August 4, 1922, Nver Pasha was killed in battle in the Pamirs (killed by the Red Army).

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It was precisely because the Turkish Chief of General Staff Envel Pasha planned to carry out a counteroffensive, and there were almost 300,000 troops on the Western Front, that the Turks thought that the Chinese and Russians would not do anything about the southern front, after all, the Sino-Russian coalition army at that time was only more than 100,000 people.

However, Jiang Baili's move to send troops south was obviously unexpected by the Turks, and this also caused the mayor of Hakari and several officers to fall into a panic...

"You useless shit..."

Seeing that he couldn't count on these officers, the fat mayor said to an officer on the side.

"You, go, hurry to the telegraph office to send a telegram..."

What does a telegram do? This doesn't need to be explained.

At this time, hundreds of Turkish defenders in the town also climbed to the top one by one, just looking at the nearly 10,000 cavalry outside, these Turkish defenders had no hope of holding Hakkari...

"Maybe I'm going to die here today..."

However, just as he was thinking about it, the officer sent out by the fat mayor ran back with a pale face...

"Oh no!!"

"What's wrong?"

Looking at the pale officer, the mayor and the battalion commander asked in unison.

The officer spoke after taking two breaths.

"The people at the telegraph office just told me that the telegram could no longer be sent out, and it seems that the telephone pole of the telegraph office has been destroyed..."

"What!"

Hearing this, the faces of the mayor and the battalion commander all changed.

In fact, the mayor and the battalion commander had never thought of being able to hold Hakkari, let alone call for reinforcements by telegram, after all, the nearest two places where reinforcements might be sent were now far away from Erzurum, which was almost 300 kilometers away from Hakkari, and had to pass through a large inland lake on the way.

As for the other one, there is Baghdad, but Baghdad is further away from Hakkari, almost 480 kilometers away. Not to mention the fact that now the Turkish army in the direction of Baghdad, the main forces are besieging the British in Kut...

The former one is more than 300 kilometers away, and the latter is 480 kilometers away, and it is unrealistic to expect either of the two. After all, I don't mention whether the two will send reinforcements out, but this distance―――――― by the time the reinforcements of the two arrive, the daylily has been cold for a long time.

So the mayor would send the officers to send telegrams, just to do his duty and let the surrounding Turks know that the Chinese had gone south to Hakkari.

As for the rest, naturally only Kaesong surrendered.

After all, the fat man is the mayor of Hakkari, and he is also a person with status, fame, and wealth in Turkey, and he can't be guilty of martyrdom for such a trivial matter...

It's just that I didn't expect that the telephone pole of the telegraph office was actually destroyed, so that the fat man obviously couldn't fulfill even the last bit of duty...

"I told the people above a long time ago that the wired telegraph should be eliminated and replaced with a wireless one, but they just won't listen, now it's okay..."

After learning that the telegraph office was paralyzed, the fat mayor kept complaining in place.

It is clear that the decaying Ottoman Turks have not been able to keep up with the trend and equip their telegraph offices everywhere with wireless telegraphy. But it's no wonder, after all, Turkey's finances are very difficult, and it doesn't mean that there is no wireless telegraph in Turkey, it's just that the number of wireless telegraphy is limited, and it is generally kept in the capital like Van City, and as for small towns like Hakkari, they are obviously not eligible for wireless telegraphy...

In the past, of course, this problem was not a problem, after all, the telegraph was used the same whether it was wireless or wired, and there was no difference in speed, but at this critical moment...

"Mayor, what now?"

Looking at the cavalry corps that was getting closer and closer outside, the battalion commander of the garrison looked at the fat man with a pale face.

As for the fat mayor, he also gritted his teeth after being depressed for a while...

"Send someone out and make it clear to those Russians and Chinese that as long as they are willing to guarantee our net worth and property, we are willing to surrender Kaicheng..."

"Yes!"

After the mayor's order was conveyed, several horsemen soon ran out with white flags, and they were naturally the messengers of the negotiations.

The order to negotiate also caused some dissent among the Turkish soldiers, but there were always a few who opposed it, because the vast majority of people saw it clearly. With the number of cavalry outside, although the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, the small Hakari is absolutely unable to hold it...

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"Surrender?"

Looking at the muttering Turks in front of him, after learning what they wanted to say from the translator, Nan Yuanchao nodded and said.

"Okay, you go back and tell your mayor that as long as he is willing to open the city and surrender, we are willing to guarantee his personal safety..."

This was what the Turks wanted, and after receiving it, the messenger quickly returned to Hakari with a happy face.

After learning that the Chinese had made a guarantee, the fat mayor also breathed a sigh of relief, and then let people go out to welcome the Chinese and Russians outside.

Then, soon, the cavalry corps of Nan Yuanchao entered Hakari under the greeting of the Turks...

Looking at the Chinese who entered the city on tall horses in pure black uniforms, and the Cossack cavalry who looked very rough, the residents of Hakari looked at them with fear through the windows of their houses...

Fear stems from the unknown, but the inhabitants of Hakkari are not very disgusted with the incoming Sino-Russian coalition forces―――――― as long as the Sino-Russian coalition forces do not have any bad effects on the inhabitants of Hakkari.

This is so because almost all of the inhabitants of Hakkari are Assyrians and Kurds, and it is clear that there is no need for the Assyrians and Kurds to die for the Turks in the context of the Ottoman Empire's internal and external troubles and the increasing number of ethnic groups calling for reading...

After welcoming Nan Yuanchao and his party into the city, the fat mayor quickly prepared a banquet in his home, ready to receive these Chinese and Russians.

For such a thing, Nan Yuanchao and other Chinese and Russian generals naturally did not refuse, after all, they went all the way south from Fancheng, and they were indeed infected with a lot of dust.

What's more, according to the usual practice, this fat mayor should arrange some women for them after the banquet and the banquet, for Nan Yuanchao, a soldier who has been holding back for a long time, there is really nothing more attractive than this. After all, not everyone can be the same as the Yue Family Army, not to mention that the National Defense Force itself has not banned this, but only prohibits harassing the people for no reason...

Of course, although he accepted the invitation, Nan Yuanchao did not relax his vigilance, after all, this is also other people's territory, in case of any tricks, although the other party will definitely die, but he can't guarantee that he will be dragged down...

So after deciding to accept the invitation, Nan Yuanchao quickly arranged several officers to be on duty. Then in the eyes of the officers on duty with "envy, jealousy and hatred", Nan Yuanchao and his party were invited to the banquet...

As for the cavalry brought by Nan Yuanchao, they were also arranged by the fat mayor.

At this point, Nan Yuanchao was not afraid of what tricks this Turk would play, after all, the telephone pole of the telegraph office had been cut by someone he had sent someone, and the entire area around Hakari had been surrounded by people he had sent, and it was impossible to send someone out to report the news.

Therefore, before Jiang Baili's order and the follow-up troops arrived in Hakari, Nan Yuanchao only needed to enjoy it. After all, when you go south to Mosul, the important city of Adamamia, the United States, it is unlikely that you want to enjoy it...

In order to save his net worth and surname, and at the same time to prevent Nan Yuanchao and others from taking the opportunity to make trouble, the fat mayor did make a good arrangement. After the banquet, it did make Nan Yuanchao and his party feel at home. It's just that just when Nan Yuanchao and his party were about to enjoy a while, they learned that Nan Yuanchao and his party had already captured Jiang Baili in Hakkari, but they had already given Nan Yuanchao the next order through wireless telegraph...

"Go south to Mosul and purge the Turks of all possible obstacles along the way..."

Mosul can be said to be the most important link in Chiang's southward strategy, because Mosul is adjacent to the Tigris River, and as long as you master Mosul, it is equivalent to mastering the important channel to the south...

Therefore...

"Alright, let's go..."

Pushing away the woman beside him, Nan Yuanchao said with some frustration

(To be continued)