Chapter 525: The Ottoman Empire's Response
On May 23, the 201st Armored Division launched a fierce attack on Jerusalem, at this time Amman City has gathered the strength of two cavalry divisions and two infantry divisions of the Chinese army, this time the 201st Armored Division and four divisions acted together, with the cooperation of the infantry, the 201st Armored Division rampage, the Ottoman defenders could not resist at all, the attack of the 201st Armored Division was too rapid, and the super mobility, super defense ability, and super strike ability made the 201 Armored Division a well-deserved king of war in the Middle EastThe Ottoman army had nothing to do with it, except to pray that it ran out of fuel.
On 24 May, Jerusalem, defended by 100,000 men in six infantry divisions, was breached by the 201st Panzer Division, which feared the Ottoman army with its powerful assault capabilities, with more than 40,000 defenders annihilated and more than 50,000 remaining retreating to the northern province of Damascus.
In order to annihilate the living forces of the Ottoman Empire, after Wu Shiyou learned that the four Ottoman divisions stationed in Jerusalem had been defeated and the remnants of the army had retreated to the north, he immediately ordered Dijon and others to leave the 56th Infantry Division to garrison Jerusalem and sweep the small Ottoman army in the surrounding area, the 55th and 57th Cavalry Divisions were responsible for chasing and killing more than 50,000 remnants of the four Ottoman divisions retreating to the north, and the 201st Armored Division and the 76th Infantry Division launched an attack on more than 30,000 Ottoman troops in the southern Israel region, completely clearing the Ottoman military power in the south.
At this time, the 29th Division had swept away the Ottoman Empire's military strength on the Arabian Peninsula at the fastest speed, among which the Ottoman troops in Oman, Yemen and Mecca, which had the largest number of garrison troops, were completely annihilated by the 29th Division, and the Arabian Peninsula was completely controlled by the Chinese army at this time.
May 26th. More than 30,000 remnants of the four Ottoman divisions that fled north were surrounded in Tel Aviv by the 55th and 57th Cavalry Divisions, on the way to escape. The remnants of the Ottoman army were hunted down to death or captured by 20,000 people.
The city of Tel Aviv was located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in order to defend itself against the attack of the Chinese army. The Ottoman army built a strong defensive line in Tel Aviv and sent more than 20,000 men from the north to join the defense, a total of 50,000 men, while the 55th and 57th cavalry divisions combined were only more than 8,000.
Attacking the city with cavalry was not a good idea, and the 55th and 57th divisions could only surround Tel Aviv and prevent the people in the city from escaping, and report the situation to the command. At the headquarters in Baghdad, after receiving the telegram, Wu Shiyou weighed one or the two, and immediately ordered the 77th Infantry Division, which had already arrived in Jerusalem, to immediately rush to Tel Aviv to take charge of the main attack.
In the establishment of the Chinese National Defense Force. The standing strength of the infantry division is generally 26,000 to 27,000 people, and it is quite powerful in terms of strength and firepower, and this super-large-scale divisional establishment is larger than the divisional establishment of any country in the world, even the German Army is not as good, with a fully integrated and powerful infantry division of more than 26,000 people to attack the city defended by more than 50,000 remnants, Wu Shiyou will never think that he is full of self-confidence, not to mention that there are two cavalry sweeping formations, Attacking those people with so many troops is worthy of them.
On May 28, the 77 Infantry Division arrived in Tel Aviv. After a short break, the Ottoman army began to attack Tel Aviv, and the Ottoman army built a large number of trenches outside the city and established three lines of defense, and the Ottoman army totaled more than 50,000 men. Defending a city that is not too large is more than enough in terms of troops, nevertheless. The Ottoman army was still not sure that it would be able to withstand the attack of the Chinese army, because the combat effectiveness of the 201st Panzer Division had terrified the Ottoman army. They were worried that the Chinese army would send another armored division to attack Tel Aviv this time, but they did not know that the 201st armored division was sweeping through the Ottoman army in the southern Israeli region.
The use of trench defenses to block enemy attacks may be effective for other armies in this matter. However, it has lost its effect against the Chinese army, and under the condition that the soldiers are well-trained, well-armed, and multi-arms work together, trench warfare has lost its advantage, and the Chinese army has now generally adopted this assault tactic.
Three days in the afternoon of the same day, the 77th Infantry Division of the Chinese Army immediately launched a penetrating assault attack on the weak positions of the Ottoman army with the assistance of a large number of artillery fire.
In just one hour, the Ottoman army lost the first line of direction outside the city, but after the commander of the 77th Infantry Division of the Chinese Army on the forward position received that our army had captured the enemy's first line of defense, the support troops immediately touched over to take over the first wave of attacking troops and continued to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's deep defense line, attacking the enemy in this continuous infiltrating assault mode, so that the enemy did not have time to redeploy the defense, and the first wave of attacking troops rested in the first line of defense that had just been occupied, and then the second wave of support troops came again, They saw the first wave of reinforcements in the second line of defense and took their place to continue the attack on the enemy's third line of defense.
This series of attacks made the Ottoman army unable to cope with it at all, and before it was completely dark, the three lines of defense that the Ottoman army had dug outside the city for three days were all captured in three hours, which made the remnants of the Ottoman army of more than 40,000 people in the city rush to great fear.
In order to protect themselves, the remnants of the Ottoman army in Tel Aviv had to send a telegram for help to the Ottoman military headquarters in Istanbul. At this time, the military and political power of the Ottoman Empire was held by the Young Turks party, and the leaders were Enver Pasha and Mehmet? Talat Pasha, Ahmed? The three men of Jemal Pasha are called the "Three Males" oligarchy.
In May 1889, 4 students of the Istanbul Military Medical College, namely the Albanian Ibrahim? Temo, the Turks Ishak? Sukti, Kurdish Abdullah? Jeffdet, Circassian Mohammed? Reished, who initiated the creation of a secret organization, the Ottoman Unity Society. The first formal meeting was attended by 12 participants. Soon, secret groups were established in various parts of the Ottoman Empire. In 1894, the Association for the Advancement of Unity was founded. The main members of the association were intellectuals, petty officials and military officers, and the original leader was Ahmed? Riza.
On July 3, 1908, Major Niazibey, head of the Resné organization of the Association for the Advancement of Unification, led 150 men to revolt first. A few days later, Enver Pasha also declared an uprising. The uprising quickly swept through the Third and Second Army Corps stationed in Macedonia, and soon the Association for the Unification of Progress took control of the entire Macedonian region. On July 23 the rebels marched into Thessaloniki, proclaimed the restoration of the 1876 Constitution, and telegraphed the Sultan, Sultan Abdul? Hamid II felt that the tide was turning, and was forced to announce the restoration of the constitution and the reconvening of the parliament on the 24th.
Half a year later, some soldiers of the First Legion, loyal to the capital of Sudan, rebelled and demanded the expulsion of the Speaker and the banning of the United Progressive Association. Abdul? Hamid II immediately complied with the rebels' demands, removed the prime minister, and ordered the governors of the provinces to protect the Shariah. The Association for the Unity of Progress in Thessaloniki was immediately formed by Mahmud? The "Action Army" under the command of Sefkat Pasha arrived in Istanbul on April 23, and on the 26th took control of the city, and the rebellion failed. On April 27, the Young Turks deposed Abdul? Hamid II, his brother Muhammad? Reished was the Sultan and was for Muhammad V.
After taking power in the Ottoman Empire, the Young Turks began to promote Great Ottomanism, suppressed the national independence movement, and pursued a pro-German policy abroad.
After receiving the telegram for help, the Ottoman "Three Heroes" oligarchic regime immediately held urgent consultations, and then ordered the Ottoman naval fleet assembled in the port of Izmir to march to Tel Aviv to support Tel Aviv. At the same time, he mobilized 300,000 troops in various parts of the Asia Minor Peninsula to prepare to go to Damascus Province one after another to defend against the attack of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and gave the remaining 40,000 defenders of Tel Aviv a death order, telling them to hold on to the city of Tel Aviv, so that the buildings in the city fought street battles with the Chinese Expeditionary Force and resolutely resisted the attack of the Chinese army. In addition, the "Three Heroes" oligarchic regime also sent more than 100 warplanes from Ankara to Damascus to prepare for air strikes against the Chinese army.
Speaking of the Ottoman Air Force, it was established in June 1909 as the world's first flying organization, and in July 1912, the Ottoman Empire established the Air Force Academy to train pilots and train air force officers. The establishment of the Air Force Academy has accelerated the process of strengthening the Air Force and enriched it with more personnel. In 1913, the Ottoman Air Force Academy conducted a special reconnaissance training program and established a reconnaissance department. In June 1914, a new naval aviation academy was established in the Ottoman Empire. It can be seen that the development of the Ottoman Empire's air force is actually much worse than that of non-European countries, and it can be seen that the Ottoman Empire is very optimistic about the future of the air force, although the Ottoman Empire attaches great importance to the air force, but due to financial and technical reasons, the development of the Ottoman Empire's air force is still relatively slow, far from Britain, France, Germany and the United States, and even farther than China. The 100 fighters transferred by the Ottoman Empire from Ankara were obtained from Germany, which is equivalent to the first generation fighters of China, and the performance of the third-generation fighters used by China is too far behind.
And in terms of the navy, due to the former Ottoman Sultan Abdul? Hamid II considered the navy to be both financially and energy-consuming, and would not help the Russian-Turkish war at all, so he ordered the construction of the navy to be stopped, and the naval fleet was blockaded in the area of the Golden Horn.
After the Young Turks came to power, they began to attach importance to the navy, and the two dreadnoughts purchased from Britain and Brazil were seized by the British because the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, and the Ottoman naval fleet is now almost entirely old. (To be continued......)