According to the original plan, the Tsarist side was to prepare in May, and by June at the latest, it would send an attack on the eastern front of the Central Powers, breaking through the defensive line of the Allied troops, hoping to seize the initiative.

At that time, the distribution of the Russian army's troops on the Eastern Front was from north to south, in order of the Northern Front, the Western Front, and the Southwestern Front. The plan specified by the General Staff of the Russian Army was that the Western Front and the Second Army of China would serve as the main attack, with the Southwestern Front as the assist, and the Northern Front only making feints.

However, due to the delay in the arrival of the Second Army Corps of Huaguo and the fact that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, the Tsarist side could not wait, so after discussing with Huaguo, it was decided that the Second Army Corps of Huaguo would serve as the reserve and rush to the Eastern European battlefield as soon as possible.

Before World War I, due to the influence of the Russo-Japanese War, armies of various countries generally adopted the tactics of flanking and detouring. After the start of the war, since the defensive lines of both sides were hundreds of kilometers long, it was extremely difficult for the troops to make a detour. So the tactic of forcing a breakthrough from the front was again used, which the Germans used in several battles in 1915 with great success. Later, however, both sides of the war increased their aerial reconnaissance, making it easy for the defending side to determine the direction of the enemy's main attack and put in reserves and artillery in time. Even the tactics of a frontal breakthrough are no longer effective.

In order to solve this difficult problem, Brusirov, commander of the Russian Southwestern Front, who served as the main attacker, went against common sense and adopted a perverted style of play. He convened a meeting of the commanders of the various group armies under his jurisdiction and asked each group army, even the army, to choose its own breakthrough area. In the end, on the entire front, more than 30 breakthrough points were chosen. Brusirov admits that this would distract the forces. However, it can make it impossible for the enemy to judge the direction of the main attack, so it is impossible to move forces. The tightness of the whole line is conducive to achieving the suddenness of the attack.

The troop distribution of the Russian Southwestern Front is from north to south. 8th Army, 11th Army, 7th Army, 9th Army. There were 570,000 infantry, 60,000 cavalry, and 1,938 artillery pieces. The 8th Army was the main attacker, and the specific task was to attack in the direction of Luci and occupy the line of the Sterr River.

The Austro-Hungarian army in front of the Southwestern Front had a total of 450,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry. 1846 artillery pieces. But heavy artillery accounted for a third. And the Russian heavy artillery accounts for only one-tenth of the total. Since the Austrian army was focused on Italy at that time, it took a defensive approach on the Eastern Front. Therefore, vigorously build a defensive offensive. The entire line of defense consisted of 3 to positions. The positions are spaced 5 kilometers apart, and the first line is the strongest, with a depth of about 1.5 kilometers.

Because the Western Front, which was the main attacker, postponed the offensive four times, the final main attack was assumed by the Southwestern Front, and the Western Front became an assist. The planned campaign was aimed at breaking through enemy lines and inflicting massive casualties on the enemy. The campaign plan does not stipulate the depth of the breakthrough, nor does it have a clear direction for the breakthrough.

At 4 a.m. on June 4, the armies of the Southwestern Front began artillery preparations. The 8th Army went on the offensive after 29 hours of artillery preparation. Artillery fire was prepared to destroy the barbed wire fence and the first line of trenches. The channel is opened. Within 3 days. The 8th Army broke through the front of the Austro-Hungarian line about 70 kilometers and 30 kilometers deep. On 7 June it was occupied by Krutz. By June 15, the depth of the advance reached 75 kilometers.

The other armies that assisted also broke through the Austrian lines, when some units met stubborn resistance. The 9th Army advanced 60 km. The 11th Army advanced 40 km, the 7th Army advanced only 15 km.

According to the original plan, after the offensive of the Southwestern Front. The Western Front was supposed to go on the offensive on June 11. But the General Staff postponed the operation until the 17th. In this way, the Southwestern Front became a lone army and was in a difficult situation for a while. Brusirov then ordered the offensive to be stopped. However, the planned goal of breaking through the Austro-Hungarian line was achieved.

In response to the critical situation on the Eastern Front, the German General Staff immediately reacted and deployed. In order to ensure that Austria-Hungary was its most loyal ally and thug, Germany had to send an army group from its homeland to the northeast of Austria-Hungary to help defend it.

To say that Tsarist Russia is really miserable, in terms of the comprehensive national strength of Tsarist Russia, it is also a second-rate country, but after the outbreak of the war, it first went to war with Japan, and then fought with Germany and Austria-Hungary on the western border, and also fought with the Ottoman Empire in the southern Caucasus, it can be said that there are enemies on all sides, the war has been fought for two years now, and until now it is still trying its best to support, it can be said that it has contained most of the forces of the Allied Army, and it has also restrained part of the German and Ottoman navies, Its credit to the Entente is definitely not small.

Now that the Chinese army has finally sent an expeditionary force, the pressure on the battlefield in Eastern Europe has suddenly become much less, and due to the attack of the First Army of the Chinese Expedition against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire has to transfer most of its energy and troops to the south, which also makes the pressure on Tsarist Russia in the Caucasus sharply reduced.

On June 5, after the 1st Army of the Chinese Expedition broke through Tel Aviv, it captured 40,000 Ottoman troops, and then the 2nd Army Corps advanced north in three ways, and the 18th Army on the west route broke through Tanea, Naharia, and Saida all the way in four days with sharp fronts, and then besieged Damascus with absolute superiority, and an Ottoman infantry division stationed in Damascus chose to surrender after resisting for a day.

At this time, the 300,000 troops reinforced by the Ottoman Empire in the south, 100,000 troops on the west route had arrived in Aleppo, 100,000 troops on the middle route had reached the city of Anai along the Euphrates River, and 100,000 troops on the east route Mosul, of which the 100,000 army on the middle route was the most advanced and was the salient of the entire 300,000 army.

The commander-in-chief of the Ottoman army's 300,000 troops was Kemal, who was thirty-five years old Chinese New Year's Eve and the future father of the Turkish state, who had a background in this regular military academy, participated in the two Balkan wars, and commanded the Battle of Gallipoli last year.

Kemal is an absolutely remarkable figure in the history of another time and space, and Kemal has tried in every way to bring Turkey to the West, to modernity, and has indeed achieved his goal in a certain way. Thanks to his efforts, the Turkish nation got rid of internal and external shackles and began to move towards industrialization and modernization. For this alone, the title of "Father of Modern Turkey" is well deserved. Kemal moved the Turks from a feudal monarchy to a democratic republic, but he also moved to the other extreme of personal power and dictatorship. He tried to get rid of the influence of Arab and Persian culture, but blindly moved closer to European and American culture.

Kemal's dictatorial guiding ideology led to the long-term intervention of the dictatorial government and the military in Turkish politics. In the history that followed, the Turkish army staged several military coups or threatened to force the democratically elected government to step down. All laws must be reviewed by the military's "Constitutional Court" before they can come into effect, and the word "democracy" has become a beautiful cloak for Turkish military personnel to control the country's destiny. Kemal's influence on Turkey was enormous, and to this day, no matter which party is in power, he must claim to be Kemal's successor, otherwise he will not be able to gain support. Throughout the history of the modern Middle East, there is no one who can compare with it.

Despite Kemal's military prowess, the Ottoman army was outnumbered by the powerful Chinese army.

Wu Shiyou, commander of the 1st Chinese Army, ordered the main force of the 25th Army to attack northwest along the Euphrates River, and confronted the Middle Route Army under Kemal outside the city of Anais.

The 18th Army was ordered to continue to attack along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, and after capturing Damascus, the 18th Army successively captured Beirut, Baalbek, Tripoli, and the Ottoman Army West Route Army encountered fifty miles south of Homs, and a major battle broke out between the two sides, it should be said that the march route of the Ottoman Army was observed by the Chinese reconnaissance aircraft, and the 18th Army ambushed the Ottoman West Route Army on the march, and the vanguard was completely annihilated, losing 20,000 people, The main force of the Western Route Army was immediately frightened and did not dare to go south.

Then the 18th Army took the initiative to attack, the Ottoman Western Route Army was defeated, retreated to the city of Homs to prepare to dig trenches and carry out positional warfare with the Chinese army, but the Chinese army had no intention of fighting a positional battle with the Ottoman army at all, a division of the 18th Army detoured to the west, first sent a small force to occupy Tartus in the northwest of Homs City, and then captured the city of Hama in the north. In order to avoid the whole army being surrounded, more than 70,000 people of the Ottoman Western Route Army quickly broke through to the east and approached the middle route army in Anai as quickly as possible, and in the process of escaping, the Ottoman Western Route Army was wiped out by the 18th Army of more than 20,000 people, and only 50,000 people were left after joining the middle route army.

The Chinese army was ordered to march upstream along the railway line east of the Tigris River, and took advantage of the railway to capture Bagubai, Tuzhurmatu, Kirkuk and other places within a week, and joined forces with Iranian and British colonial forces to eat up the three divisions deployed by the Ottoman Empire on the border.

After learning the news, the Ottoman Eastern Route Army quickly went south, and there was a big battle with the Chinese army in Kirkuk, the Chinese army had strong combat effectiveness, advanced armed equipment, and combined infantry, cavalry, artillery and air force to form a multi-arm coordinated operation in the battle, the Ottoman Eastern Route Army was quickly defeated, and immediately retreated to the west after losing 30,000 people, they did not dare to retreat to the north, because they had to ensure the retreat of the Middle Route Army, but they retreated too hastily, and did not have time to blow up the railway line, This allowed the Chinese army to transport a division of troops to Mosul by train, and then received an order to quickly capture Mosul, Sinjar and Deir ez-Zor, cutting off the route of the Central Army's retreat to the north.

Under Wu Shiyou's order, the 29th Army quickly moved north to take over the movement from east to west, approaching the Ottoman Middle Route Army and the Western Route Army in Anai, and the 18th Army also received an order, and the main force approached Anai from west to east.

On June 12, the First Army of China completed the siege of the Ottoman army commanded by Kemal, at this time Kemal's men could command less than 200,000 people, in this more than a week, the Ottoman was killed, wounded, and captured up to 120,000, and he only had 180,000 left, but he was facing the situation of being surrounded on all sides. (To be continued......)