Chapter 1032: Black Sea Strait
The Americans did not get excited for long for the occupation of the Deomede Islands by China, and the news of another strait quickly diverted their attention.
On March 28, in Turkey, 800,000 Chinese troops defeated the Ankara defense line on the Anatolian plateau composed of 300,000 American troops, 100,000 British and French troops, and 500,000 Turkish troops.
The defeated Allied forces fled all the way, and the hastily organized defensive front was soon broken by the steel troops dominated by the Chinese Rhino and Grizzly Tanks. The Allied fighters were busy in the sky blocking the attacks of the Huaxia fighters extending to the European continent, and they no longer cared about blocking the Huaxia attack planes and bomber groups chasing behind the Allied butts.
By March 31, the surrounding area of Ankara was completely overwhelmed by the influx of Chinese troops and became an isolated city.
The Chinese army had already crossed the Keroğlu Mountain, pushed across the Sakarya River and the SusuĂlu River, and blocked 180,000 Anglo-American, French-allied troops and 150,000 Turkish troops on the edge of the Turkish Strait.
The other 220,000 Anglo-American-French allies were annihilated 70,000, 90,000 were captured, and about 60,000 fled with the Turkish rout, of which 40,000 American troops and 160,000 Turkish troops retreated to the city of Ankara, waiting for the next trial of the seemingly imminent Chinese army.
From the high-power radio station of the hastily retreating headquarters to the company radio carried by the jeep, the dense radio waves were constantly intertwined to call for help to the superiors or superiors.
Calls for help are also being raised everywhere in the United States.
When the British and French troops in Dunkirk were evacuated, the Americans just watched the excitement. But this time, more than 270,000 Americans and British and French allies fell in Turkey, including nearly 200,000 American troops alone, making it the largest trapped army in American history.
The tens of thousands of U.S. troops that fell in Japan before were difficult to rescue because they were separated by a Pacific Ocean. The 30,000 U.S. troops in the Bering Strait that happened just now were also in a bad environment and could not be rescued in time, but now this group of defeated U.S. troops is at the gate of Europe. Just as the Allies had already controlled most of the Mediterranean coast. What else can you say that you can't save when it's difficult? Besides, that's 270,000 U.S. troops, not 27,000.
If it is left unchecked, or even if the rescue is not in place, it will definitely be a serious blow to the morale of the entire US military.
"No matter how the Chinese and German warplanes block the Turkish Strait, and no matter how many Chinese and German troops the army there will face, I only need one result, which is to rescue those poor children! None of them should be left behind! Roosevelt gave the order to death directly to the military.
Of course, the last sentence is just a gesture.
When the Chinese army achieved victory near Akala. The Germans also acted.
The 120,000 German troops in the Balkans also attacked the weakened European part of Turkey and forced it into Istanbul. The Black Sea Strait, which is much narrower than the English Channel, is no longer safe.
The Germans, who had occupied Greece, also intensified the blockade of the sea lanes leading from the Mediterranean to the Turkish Straits and had no choice but to break through.
These are not what the Americans are most worried about, but the Chinese army, which is constantly pursuing in the rear, is the most fatal. Perhaps without waiting for the American rescue forces to arrive, the defeated Allied forces there may not be able to hold out first.
No one can say for sure that under the attack of two terrible armies, many of them rescued more than 200,000 troops. It's good to be able to save a tenth of them at the end.
Roosevelt also knew the difficulty. It's worse than Dunkirk, but as the head of a country, he needs to send a signal to the outside world that he will never give up on every American soldier. Otherwise, the Turkish army would not be able to resist at all, and it would have collapsed first.
As for the task that cannot be completed in the end. Naturally, someone came to carry the black cauldron.
"I'm afraid I'm going to hate this biggest defeat in American history for the rest of my life!" Mark Willa Clark gloomily said to Jacob Devers.
Devers was partly responsible for the previous defeat on the Turkish-Syrian border, and Clark, the youngest lieutenant general in American history, was quickly promoted to general. Took over the operational reins of the Turkish Allied forces. But before the amphibious warfare expert could sit down, the Chinese army suddenly attacked.
The confrontation of the great army. The raid may only be a temporary advantage, breaking through one or two lines of defense at the forefront.
For the Allies, who had set up at least five lines of defense from the Taurus Mountains to Ankara. It doesn't matter if you lose a little bit of defense at the front. In the process of retreating step by step, it will gradually offset the sharp impact of the Chinese army, and then gain a firm foothold, and even launch a large-scale counteroffensive when the Chinese army is weak.
"In the end, it still needs to rely on absolute strength." Clark was also confident in the strength of the American army, but he did not expect that the Chinese army would be stronger than the mixed Allies.
The 800,000 commanded the united Chinese army to attack the stamina again and again overturned the Allied army's intention to stabilize the front, and the steel armored troops seemed to tirelessly launch the attack again and again, cutting into the weak points of the Allied defense like a sharp blade, and dismembering the Allied formations that were still being rectified and running-in, so that the Allied forces retreated again and again, and were never able to organize effective resistance.
When the tired Allied soldiers quickly retreated to the vicinity of Ankara and wanted to take a breath, the torrent of Chinese steel with traces of gunsmoke once again swept everything in front of them with a cold metallic luster like a hell's sickle.
No one can tell where it collapsed first, just as it seemed that the string in the soldier's mind was infected by the virus and broke en masse, and the rout of the entire front seemed to happen in an instant.
Everywhere were Allied soldiers fleeing in the sound of artillery and the roar of aircraft engines, and the vast quantities of supplies that had been carried all the way back were discarded, leaving only a vague shadow in the smoke of gunfire that no one cared for anymore. Even the rushing Huaxia chariot was ignored, at this moment of great defeat, the opportunity for one person to catch a company of prisoners was like a pile of military medals shining in front of them waiting for someone to pick them up, who still had the leisure to pick up the rags?
The tanks and chariots of China were faster than the Allied forces running desperately.
Seeing someone next to him being crushed by the non-stop tank under the tracks and squeezed out of the flesh, a large number of soldiers who ran on their legs immediately collapsed, and they were the first to be eliminated.
With the support of the deep-pocketed U.S. military, there was never a shortage of vehicles among the Allied forces.
Nearly every moving Allied vehicle was loaded with people, often with severed limbs and even dead bodies in tow. But it still couldn't stop the surrounding allies from continuing to pounce.
Some soldiers took out all the riches they were carrying, and cried out all the promises they could give, just to ask for the last seat. Some directly forced to board the car, and even stopped directly in front of the Mercedes-Benz vehicle, and then spurted out more than 1,000 milliliters of blood in an instant, and were directly hit by the vehicle that did not stop.
Of course, many overloaded vehicles do not benefit from it, and there are many pen pens that explode and catch fire when they turn to the ground. Even some of the people who were chased were dizzy, and went straight to the nearby minefield, and were silent in the pillars of smoke.
Even those vehicles that flew at their maximum speed could hardly outpace the speed of the shells, and in the chaos, the Huaxia multi-purpose combat vehicles had already galloped in, and the 20mm cannon was enough to knock over all the ordinary vehicles that fled.
Under the bombardment of several shells, they were crushed in a moan and cry, and the rest fell.
Many of the Chinese chariots didn't even care about being surrendered, and continued to rush forward while shouting a few words of preferential treatment for the prisoners.
The defeat is decided, and everything can no longer be undone. As if sleepwalking, Clark could only retreat with the fleeing army, during which he was lucky to avoid two bombardments of the Huaxia bomber group that had assembled troops, and saved his life.
But his political life had come to an early end.
Even if the well-trained British and American troops, after filling in hundreds of thousands of Turkish cannon fodder and hastily organizing 40,000 Anglo-American, French troops to break off, were too prematurely wiped out, the future of these allied forces was still bleak, and the chances of escape were slim.
The greatest defeat in the history of America's foreign wars is about to be made in his hands. There is not even a chance to sign peace talks like the Korean War in later generations, and what awaits him will even be captured or killed on the battlefield.
"We still have a chance!" Lieutenant General Devers comforted him, and at the same time comforted himself.
This time, the biggest defeat in American history, Clark could not carry it alone, and he couldn't escape it. If you can lead some soldiers back, you can still have the aura of a tragic hero, so that you will not have a miserable life and never come out.
Even though the chances of survival were slim, they finally got the information that the country was coming to the rescue, which boosted the morale of the soldiers.
"In order to be able to go home, our soldiers will insist on resisting to the end!" Devers sighed.
There is good news of support outside, and there is a slogan of insisting on going home inside, which can at least inspire many soldiers to fight and use cannon fodder and blood to form a new line of defense, and hold on to the Black Sea Strait until a miracle happens.
"Is there a miracle?" It's just that even Devus is wondering if God's blessing will come. (To be continued.) )