Although Kemal's Ottoman army of 180,000 was fully equipped, the Central Route Army and the 25th Army of the First Army of China consumed a lot of ammunition in the confrontation and positional battle in Anai during this period, and both the Western Route Army and the Eastern Route Army lost a lot of ammunition in the process of retreating, and they did not have an advantage in terms of strength, and their combat effectiveness could not be compared with the First Army of the Chinese Army.

In the case of the encirclement of the army, Kemal was anxious, he tried to lead his troops to break through to the north, but was blocked by the first ** of the First Army of the Chinese State and could not advance an inch in Dar Zur. Wanting to break through to the northeast, it was also blocked in Suval, the 18th Army of the Chinese Army approached Dar Zor from the west, the 25th Army of the Chinese Army in the south launched a fierce attack on the Middle Route Army of Anai after being ordered to launch a fierce attack, the Ottoman Middle Route Army barely resisted for three days, and withdrew to Maiadin after more than 30,000 casualties, the 25th Army of the Chinese Army continued to approach to the north, and ** also moved to the west, the encirclement encircled on all sides was rapidly reduced, and Kemal's army could only operate between Dar Zur and Mayadin.

On June 16, the 150,000 Ottoman army led by Kemal had to face the situation of running out of ammunition and food after being blocked back after several forced breakouts, the ground was surrounded on all sides, and the air was bombed more than a dozen times a day, not only losing most of the ammunition and food and grass, but also suffering extremely heavy casualties.

On June 18th, the cavalry and horses in Kemal's army were slaughtered and eaten, and there was no more food and grass for the army to eat, and the Ottoman army, which was facing extreme hunger and on the line of death, surrendered to the Chinese army under the leadership of Kemal, and the first army of China chose to accept the surrender of Kemal's army, and urgently transported a batch of grain to the past. Keep the Ottoman army on the brink of collapse.

Since the Chinese army attacked the Ottoman Empire, it lasted a month and a half. In total, the Chinese army captured nearly 300,000 Ottoman troops and wiped out about 150,000. 12,000 casualties.

The news that the Ottoman Empire was surrounded and annihilated by 300,000 troops shocked the world, since the start of the war, there has never been an army with such a record, and there has never been a thing of being surrounded and annihilated by such a number of troops.

After the end of this battle, the 29th Army of the First Army of the Chinese Army was ordered to move north, due to the crushing defeat of Kemal's army and the rapid surrender. The Ottomans were simply unable to react and did not have enough time to mobilize forces to block the attack of the 29th Army, which was quickly invaded by the 29th Army into Diyarbakir on the peninsula of Asia Minor.

On June 25, the 18th Army, the 25th Army, and ** left a small part of their forces in the Middle East, and the main forces successively marched to the hinterland of the Ottoman Empire - the Asia Minor Peninsula.

The Ottoman Sultan (theocratic emperor) Mehmed V and the three oligarchs realized that the Chinese army was coming fiercely this time, and they had to do everything possible to prevent the Chinese army from continuing to penetrate into Asia Minor, otherwise the Ottoman Empire would probably perish.

So the Ottomans tried everything they could to mobilize their forces, but despite this, the Ottomans were unable to stop the powerful offensive of the Chinese army. After defeating the Ottoman army in each place, the Chinese army collected the local Ottoman Empire's official grain, grass, horses, cloth and other strategic materials, except for ammunition and weapons, as long as the materials related to the war were collected by the Chinese army for backup, so on. In the territory of the Ottoman Empire, which did not have a complete transportation network, the Chinese army used a large number of horses and wagons to ensure the long logistics line.

On June 25, the Chinese Navy and the French Navy conducted a joint operation. The Marines captured Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea in one fell swoop, ending Ottoman rule in Cyprus. Cyprus was originally leased to the British by the Ottoman Empire. After the outbreak of the Great War, the Ottomans wiped out a small force of British troops in Cyprus. And expelled the British from the island and reclaimed Cyprus.

After Cyprus was captured by the Chinese expeditionary naval fleet and the marines of the French naval fleet, the Chinese army needed Cyprus as an advance base for attacking the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean, so they negotiated with the British and French sides, requisitioned Cyprus, built an airport here, built a military station, and built a warehouse in the port to store supplies, which was agreed by the British and French.

In addition to marching to the Asia Minor Peninsula in the Ottoman Empire in three ways, the 1st Army of China also transferred the 56th Infantry Division of the 18th Army to prepare for escort by the naval expeditionary fleet, and then transferred a large number of troop transports from the North African Entente to transport the 56th Infantry Division to Izmir for landing, but this move was somewhat risky, because the French Navy and the Chinese Navy Expeditionary Fleet had not yet fully obtained absolute control of the sea, and the Austro-Hungarian navy was still active in the Aegean Sea and the northern Mediterranean. Therefore, in order to ensure the success of this beach-rushing landing, the Austro-Crarian navy must be annihilated in advance, and even if it cannot be annihilated, the Austro-Hungarian navy must be beaten until it does not dare to leave the port, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the landing.

For this reason, Wu Shiyou, commander of the First Army Corps of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, telegraphed with Shen Shoukun, commander of the Naval Expeditionary Fleet, to communicate his ideas with Shen Shoukun, and then sent a commissioner to fly to the aircraft carrier of the Navy Fleet by special plane with the plan.

Wu Shiyou learned of Shen Shoukun's idea and expressed his willingness to communicate with the French side on this matter, so Wu Shiyou contacted the French military top brass to negotiate his plan with the French top brass, and at the same time sent the chief of staff Fang Datong to fly to Egypt to meet with the French top brass, the French chief of the general staff Foch saw Wu Shiyou's plan and said that he was very willing to fight with the Chinese Navy Expeditionary Fleet, because the Ottoman Empire's navy had been annihilated. The only one that could pose a threat to the French navy in the Mediterranean was the Austro-Hungarian navy, and Foch also knew the combat effectiveness of the Chinese naval expeditionary fleet, and if the French navy and the Chinese naval expeditionary fleet jointly fought to solve the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, then the French naval fleet would not have any threat in the Mediterranean in the future.

However, Foch expressed his anger when he learned that the command of the joint operation would belong to the expeditionary fleet of the Chinese Navy, and he told the other party Datong the reasons for his anger: First, this is Europe and the Mediterranean, and the French Navy is too familiar with this place, while the Chinese Navy is a guest army, and it does not know the enemy fleet and the current situation in the Mediterranean; secondly, the total tonnage of the French naval fleet is much larger than that of the Chinese naval expeditionary fleet, and the number of ships is also much larger; Thirdly, in any case, the French naval fleet is also the master here, shouldn't the Chinese navy respect the master? Isn't there a saying in Huaguo that the guest is the host?

Fang Datong listened to Foch's reason or shook his head and said: First, the French army will not know more about this place than the Chinese army, since the Chinese army dares to come here, it must have done a detailed investigation of the situation here, it has been two years since the war began, if the French naval fleet has the strength and means to deal with the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, it will not let the Austro-Lunar naval fleet run rampant until now; Second, although the total tonnage of the French naval fleet now seems to be much more than that of the Chinese naval expeditionary fleet, there are not many ships that the French naval fleet can use to fight the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, and the Chinese military really does not dare to believe too much in the combat effectiveness of the French naval fleet; Third, the achievements of the Chinese Navy Expeditionary Fleet are here, just after coming to the Mediterranean, they solved the Ottoman Empire's naval fleet and air force, which is a real record, what the French naval fleet has done in the past two years, except for a fierce fight with the original Italian naval fleet, nothing has been done, and the losses at that time were extremely heavy, and the main fleet lost more than one-third.

Foch listened to Fang Datong's above reasons and was refuted so that there was no reason to refute it, at that time, the pitiful dignity on the face of the French made Foch refuse to hand over the command to the Chinese navy no matter what, at this time the British came out to play a round and said that the Chinese army came to help, and always had to give people a little face, so to put it mildly, Foch finally reluctantly agreed to hand over the command of the naval fleet after having the steps.

After the two sides reached an agreement, they acted quickly, after all, the main force of the French naval fleet and the Chinese naval expeditionary fleet converged at Alexandria, Egypt, and for the next three days, the two fleets rested, replenished and maintained here, and the British and French collected a large number of transport ships in various ports along the coast of North Africa.

On June 29, the two fleets carried a large amount of ammunition to the Aegean Sea and the surrounding waters of Greece to search for the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, Greece was originally an Entente power, but within a few months of the start of the war was abolished by Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, the Greek authorities fled abroad to form a government in exile, and now Greece is occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops.

According to the information provided by the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau, Shen Shoukun led the naval fleets of the two countries to go deep into the Adriatic Sea to patrol the waters where the main forces of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet were usually found.

After two days of cruises, on 3 July, the naval fleets of the two countries led by Shen Shoukun and the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet encountered each other in the waters near Durrës, Albania, and a major battle broke out between the two sides.

In 1797, the Republic of Venice collapsed, and the territory was divided between France and Austria-Hungary, and Venice, the Istrian Peninsula and Dalmatia (the coastal area of present-day Croatia) belonged to Austria, and the maritime forces and facilities that originally belonged to the Republic of Venice were transferred to Austria, and became the basis of the Austrian and Austria-Hungarian navies.

What the Chinese Navy and the French Navy did not expect was that when the Chinese Navy reconnaissance planes discovered the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, the two submarines deployed by the Austro-Hungarian fleet 60 nautical miles ahead also discovered the naval fleets of the two countries. (To be continued......)