The Eastern European theater of war gradually subsided, but the war in Asia Minor was in full swing. Feng. Morality. At this time, Baron Golz was leading the Ottoman 1st Army, 6th Army, 8th Army, Ottoman Iraq Army and the Chinese First Army in a desperate struggle around Ankara.

Colmar. Feng. Morality. Baron Goltz stayed in the Ottoman Empire from a young age, initially training the Ottoman Empire, and later as colonel of the German Military Advisory Corps in the Ottoman Empire, and later as division commander, army commander, and chief inspector of the engineering corps. From 1909 to 1912 he was Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of the Ottoman Empire. In 1911 he was promoted to field marshal. In August 1914, he was transferred to the post of German military governor in Belgium. In December of the same year, he was appointed senior military adviser to the German army in the Ottoman Empire (at the same time commander of the 1st Turkish Army).

The Ottoman 1st Army, 6th Army, 8th Army, and Ottoman Iraq Army were already the last military forces of Turkey. Feng. Morality. Baron Goltz himself was the commander of the 1st Army, the commander of the 8th Army was the German Lieutenant General Kolaisenstein, and both the Sixth Army and the Iraqi Army were replaced by Colmar. Feng. Morality. Baron Golz commanded and served as commander, so although the commanders of the two armies at this time were Turks, they were both Colmar. Feng. Morality. A descendant and loyal follower of Baron Goltz.

The baron was in poor health, he had been ill for a long time, and some time ago he had been asking the German high command to return home to recuperate. But the German high command could not find anyone who could replace the baron, because only the baron was most familiar with Turkey. He was the only one who could command the Turkish army against the First Army of the Chinese Army. In the history of another plane, he would have died of illness a few months ago. But because of the landing of the Chinese army in the Persian Gulf, the baron survived for several months without dying.

Ankara is still a small city with a population of only a few tens of thousands, far from being the capital of Turkey, which later had a population of more than five million. However, in Ankara there is a railway to the Turkish Straits, which was built by Germany and has been built for 20 years, from the Turkish Straits to Konya, which was originally intended to build the railway all the way to Kuwait into the Persian Gulf region, passing through Ankara, Nicoya and Baghdad along the way. Therefore, the railway was called the Baghdad Railway, but due to the strong opposition of Britain and France, the railway was only built from the Turkish Strait to Konya and stopped.

The fastest way to get from Ankara to the Turkish Straits is by train, and in order to prevent the First Army of China from reaching the Turkish Straits of China, Baron Gorz led four Turkish armies of nearly one million men to defend Ankara and the surrounding areas.

In terms of equipment, the Ottoman army certainly cannot be compared with the German army, let alone the Chinese army, although the Chinese army is only 300,000 people, it is less than one-third of the strength of the Ottoman Empire. However, it was still possible to attack the positions defended by the Ottoman army.

On September 2, Baron Golz fell ill and died in Ankara, and the German command chain was thrown into disarray, and the 1st Army Corps of China, which received the news, immediately took the opportunity to attack. After a day of fighting, the Chinese captured Krekkale, east of Ankara, on 4 September. The Chinese army captured Kayadibi again, and Ankara no longer defended its city to the east. The Chinese army directly threatened the security of Ankara, and the Ottoman army in Ankara suddenly turned into a state of chaos. Many generals and officers retreated west with their soldiers.

On September 5, the 25th Army of the First Army of the Chinese Army launched an attack on Ankara, and the Ottoman 8th Group under the command of Kolesenstein was responsible for blocking the attack of the 25th Army, under the cover and cooperation of two armored divisions and a large number of fighters, the 25th Army broke through the defense line of the Ottoman 8th Army in one fell swoop, more than 80,000 people were captured, and the remaining Ottoman troops fled to the west, and even Kolesenstein was almost captured.

At the same time, the 18th Army of the 1st Army received an order to approach Elenkoy from Banaz, and the Ottoman 6th Army, which was stationed in Erenkoy's generation, had to step up its preparations, but the loss of Ankara in the east made Erenkoy's flank seriously threatened, and the 6th Army had no intention of fighting.

On September 7, the Ottoman Iraqi Army stationed in Konya was launched a fierce attack by the 29th Army of the First Army of the Chinese Army, the defenders suffered heavy casualties, Ankara in the north has been lost, the 18th Army of the Chinese Army in the west, and the first ** of the Chinese Army in the east, it can be said that the Iraqi Army Group has fallen into a heavy siege.

Under such circumstances, the Ottoman Iraqi Army in Konya surrendered to the Chinese army on the morning of September 10 after withstanding the Chinese army's attack for three days and losing more than 30,000 men.

Asia Minor, Kayseri, headquarters of the 1st Army Corps.

Wu Shiyou had been smoking a cigarette and staring at the map for more than ten minutes, and the war in Asia Minor had reached this point, and the situation was already very clear, even if Germany and Austria-Hungary sent more troops over, it would be useless, so Germany and Austria-Hungary only deployed their troops in the Thrace region west of the Turkish Strait.

However, on the shores of the straits of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire deployed a large number of coastal defense guns, in order to prevent the Ottoman troops from Asia Minor from fleeing to Thrace, Wu Shiyou believed that it was necessary to cut off Constantinople from the Asia Minor peninsula, and to do this, it was necessary to destroy the coastal defense batteries on both sides of the Turkish Strait, and then contact the naval expeditionary fleet and the French fleet to blockade the strait.

Wu Shiyou immediately ordered the 1st Expeditionary Division of the Land-based Air Force to carry out a bombing mission on the batteries on both sides of the Turkish Strait, and the goal of the mission was to completely destroy these batteries until all the guns of these turrets could not be fired.

On September 12, the 1st Division of the Expeditionary Air Force took off from Kayseri airfield with a hundred bombers to carry out a massive bombardment of coastal defense batteries on both sides of the Turkish Strait.

The reason why the Ottoman Empire built a large number of coastal defense batteries on both sides of the strait was to prevent the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the Romanian fleet from entering the Mediterranean Sea from the south of the Black Sea to attack the Ottoman Empire's navy.

After all, the battery is not a fortress, it is impossible to build a strong and solid battery in all directions, and the built strong battery can withstand the bombardment of the frontal naval guns, but it cannot withstand the aerial bombardment, and the bombardment of half an hour has destroyed all the batteries on both sides of the Turkish Strait, and there are a large number of shells in those batteries, and when the batteries are bombed, the shells stored in the batteries are also detonated, and under the double explosion, the batteries are torn to pieces like paper paste.

After the bombing was over, the bomber group returned and left, and the Chinese expeditionary fleet, which had been notified, sent a small fleet of several cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo planes and a French detachment to form a joint fleet to sail to the Turkish Straits and blockade the Turkish Straits.

The detachment was commanded by Fang Datong, chief of staff of the expeditionary fleet, and he led the fleet and the French detachment to arrive at the Turkish Strait at 3 p.m. on 12 September.

Obviously, the Ottoman side wanted to quickly build a pontoon bridge, and then let the Ottoman troops trapped on the peninsula of Asia Minor move to the Thrace region through the pontoon bridge, but they happened to be bumped into by the small fleet led by Fang Datong and the French detachment who happened to arrive just in time.

Fang Datong immediately ordered the fleet to attack, and the overwhelming naval artillery shells smashed into the busy Turkish crowd on both sides of the strait, a large number of explosions killed a large number of people, and then the Turks spread their legs and fled desperately, and the naval guns kept extending the shelling, and the explosions on the ground on both sides of the strait continued to sound, and the Turks were constantly killed, and the corpses were blown up into the sky, and some machine guns on the ships also fired at the pontoon bridges that had been built for a third of the time, and the small fishing boats used to lay the pontoon bridges were beaten to sawdust. Soon disintegrated and floated on the surface of the water, washed away by the sea.

The Ottoman Empire's idea of building pontoon bridges to divert the troops in Asia Minor was shattered, and the hundreds of thousands of troops trapped in Asia Minor never had a chance to break through, and not only that, they were facing a situation of running out of ammunition and food.

Kemal, who had surrendered in Syria two months earlier, was sent to the capital of China, where Xiao Zhenlei took the time to meet him, and Xiao Zhenlei had always considered Kemal to be a figure whose achievements, at least in the modern Islamic world, had not been surpassed.

Xiao Zhenlei and Kemal held a total of two talks, in which Xiao Zhenlei said that the Chinese authorities can support Kemal Turkey to establish an independent state, and Kemal can freely display his political ambitions in Turkey and govern the country according to his own ideas, while the requirements of the Chinese authorities are very simple, there are only two points, first, to lease Cyprus for 99 years, and second, the two countries to establish ambassadorial-level relations, and China enjoys Turkey's most-favored-nation status.

Previously, the Ottoman Empire had leased Cyprus to the British, but now the Ottoman Empire was on the verge of extinction, and if Kemal established a new Turkish government, it would be possible to agree to Hua's request, so Kemal agreed to Hua's request after weighing it, and the two sides immediately signed a treaty.

Kemal was then sent back to Asia Minor and entered the Ottoman army's defense zone, and within a few days, Kemal used his strong influence in the Ottoman army to surrender 600,000 Ottoman troops trapped in Asia Minor, and the Asia Minor Peninsula fell into the hands of the Chinese army. (To be continued......)