Chapter 692 - 693 One Step into the Abyss
How long does it take for a country to go from normalcy to an abyssal state, the answer is simple, only five days. Five days ago, Turkey was quite smooth and peaceful, and in order to support the actions of the US military, Turkey did not attack the Kurds in eastern Turkey on a large scale again, but maintained a relatively stable situation. However, Turkey did not make a move against the Kurds, Kurdistan did first. Turkey's rapidly growing Kurdistan army has created a huge sense of crisis, but although Turkey is a member of NATO, it is not the country that enjoys the most assistance and support within NATO, and it does not have much ability to build its own troops into elite divisions that can reliably resist the Kurdish threat.
Naturally, Turkey still has a certain amount of national defense industrial capacity, but there are still many shortcomings in relatively sophisticated and complex industries, such as fighter planes, advanced main battle tanks, air defense systems, and naval vessels, and these things are already a decisive force on the battlefield in the new century. Even if there are more infantry and no advanced weapons, they will still be wiped out by the opponent's armored forces like sheep. Therefore, if Turkey wants to better defend its territory, it must rely on the United States and Europe to send it a large number of weapons of war in order to thoroughly improve the capability of its own army.
Although one or two advanced weapons cannot win an absolute victory, the advanced nature of the weapons has reduced the role of the traditional infantry to a minimum, especially the Chinese army, which has thoroughly carried out military innovation, and even the traditional flesh-and-blood mills such as urban warfare and guerrilla warfare are not very afraid, and the high-speed transmission and coverage of information and firepower in the new form of warfare have raised the control power of a country's army over the battlefield and occupied areas to an unprecedented height.
The Kurdish army that invaded Turkey from northern Syria was led by its most elite mechanized troops, and the Kurdish army also pulled out nearly a thousand artillery pieces of various calibers with great luxury to carry out fierce bombardment of the Turkish defenders in various positions on the battle line. Had to retreat from the front.
Many of the artillery pieces supplied by Qi Yiming to the Kurdistan army were replaced by the PLA a few years ago, and they were particularly new to the vast majority of countries. Under the coordination of the unified artillery synthetic combat system, these towed artillery have exerted the combat power of the digital troops, and the effect of firepower strikes is several times that of traditional artillery.
After the training of Chinese instructors, and even a large number of Red Guard soldiers disguised to participate in the Kurdish troops, the strike effect of the Kurdish army may not be as perfect as that of the Chinese artillery, but the effect is absolutely amazing, the Turkish army has never experienced such a blow, and some have been disrupted.
The three armored brigades of the Kuk army drove straight in with several infantry brigade commanders, constantly breaking through the defense of the Turkish army, and even quickly penetrated into it, leaving the remnants of the Turkish army behind, and the friendly troops who followed up would wipe out the Turkish army.
Although Turkey firmly believes that it will not be conquered by Kurdistan, and only if there is time to buffer, it will definitely be able to say that the Kurds will be driven away, but Turkish Prime Minister Cesaire still put on a bitter and embarrassed appearance and asked the United States and NATO for help, asking the United States and Europe not only to send soldiers to the rescue, but also to support Turkey in continuing to fight.
It's just that before the Americans could make any decisions, another thing happened that completely sent Turkey into the abyss. The SCO Eastern European coalition launched a joint attack from Bulgaria to Turkey, with a scale of more than 200,000, and in just one day broke through the Turkish border town of Edirne, and captured Jollu later the next day, the historic city of Istanbul, the core of Turkey's elite Europe, was completely exposed to the SCO coalition forces.
If the United States and NATO still have to consider whether to provide large-scale assistance to Turkey before, after all, Turkey is still a country with a lot of potential to be tapped, and if Kurdistan is allowed to become this catalyst, the United States and Turkey will be happy to see that Turkey can provide greater war resources to help NATO win. But now, Turkey is being attacked by the SCO coalition forces on both sides, even if Turkey is not completely occupied, but a half-crippled Turkey will not give much support to the United States, so at this time, the United States can not reconsider whether to invest in the Turkish battlefield on a large scale, but to consider how quickly it can help Turkey, what kind of war it can become, and what impact it will have on the subsequent war situation.
The closest NATO army to Turkey is the Greek army, but there has always been a grudge between Greece and Turkey, and it is a bit of a fool's dream to expect Greece to really save Turkey, while the nearest US military is in Europe and North Africa, and these two battlefields cannot allow the US military to withdraw from this, and at this time NATO's strength is undoubtedly overstretched.
The Pentagon has drawn up a new plan to have 2 million troops by the end of 2002, which can basically meet the needs of the US military in the world, and the United States has also expressed to several of its major allies that it hopes they will be able to provide the same large number of troops to deal with the current staggering size of the forces of China and its SCO allies.
The United States has promised to provide Turkey with a large amount of weapons and equipment and other important materials, and the demand is that Turkey can basically stabilize its own situation, especially to protect its European part, prevent the SCO from connecting with Turkey, and link its Eurasian parts to create greater trouble for NATO.
If Turkey is opened by the Chinese, China's support for the three Eastern European countries of the SCO will rise by orders of magnitude, and a large number of weapons and personnel will be sent from Babylon through Kurdistan and Turkey to the three Eastern European countries, even if this will be a considerable distance, but they are all under the control of China, and Americans cannot imagine what it is like for an endless stream of Chinese soldiers to come to Europe, so Istanbul cannot be lost in any case.