Missiles and helicopters took turns to attack, so that the defenseless Axis reinforcements suffered a lot of losses, in just one day, half of the 500,000 reinforcements were wiped out, in the face of the encircled Chinese army, de Gaulle had to choose to retreat, if he did not retreat, he also had the danger of being surrounded.

The plan to rescue the troops in the encircled area was interrupted, which also indicated that the encircled troops had lost all hope of rescue. After dealing with the reinforcements, the Chinese army began to launch a general offensive, and the covering attack carried out by a large number of artillery fires inflicted heavy casualties on the encircled troops.

More than a million troops were crammed into a small area, unable to put up effective resistance, and even because the density of soldiers was so high, a single shell could kill hundreds of people. After three days of resistance, the Axis army, which had run out of ammunition and food, could no longer hold on, and the remaining 350,000 Axis troops were forced to surrender under the leadership of their commander, Admiral Petain.

The perfect victory in the siege and annihilation of Ankara heralded the beginning of the transition of NATO forces from defense to offensive on the southern route of the Western Continental Front. After solving more than one million Axis troops, Gao Hong commanded the main force to continue the attack to the south, cutting into it from the flank of the Axis southern defense line, and encircling the 800,000 troops fighting in the south in one fell swoop, and Marshal de Gaulle, who only had 300,000 troops left in his hands, could not free up his hands to relieve the southern troops at all, he could only fight and retreat to the Dardanelles.

Gao Hong's main forces were all besieging the main force of the Axis Southern Route Army in the south, and there was not much force to prevent the withdrawal of Marshal de Gaulle's troops, only a few hundred thousand Chinese troops and 300,000 Iraqi troops followed, on the one hand, to exert military pressure on the other side, on the other hand, to gradually weaken the other side, and eliminate the small forces of the enemy army that had fallen behind and behind the palace, and the battle between the two sides was relatively peaceful.

The Axis forces in the south were severely undersupplied and cut off from retreat. Under the attack of Gao Hong's superior forces and strong firepower, there was no way to fight back. A week later, the force was forced to surrender after running out of ammunition and food and without reinforcements. Nearly 600,000 Axis troops laid down their arms and walked into NATO prisoner camps, which became the largest surrender of the Axis powers since the start of World War II.

The defeat on the Istan Peninsula made Washington III furious, but the defeated forces were mainly the troops of the Nantes Empire, and he did not want to be too harsh. It's just that after this battle, the vitality of the Nantes Empire was greatly damaged, and the country could no longer have enough troops to fill the gap in the Southern Route Army.

The Axis Powers' Western Continental Front opened its doors widely, so that the two million troops drawn from the Central Route Army had to be stationed in Istanbul to block the possible attack of NATO troops, so that Howell's flank of the Central Route Army was not threatened, and at the same time, it also blocked the other side, preventing NATO troops from crossing the strait and attacking the hinterland of the Western Continent.

Regardless of the situation in the southern part of the Istanbul Peninsula, Marshal de Gaulle's main concern now was how to bring the only 300,000 troops in his hands back to Istanbul, but in this case, with the close follow-up of the NATO army and the Dardanelles Strait in front of the dense mines, the Axis Southern Route Army was almost in a desperate situation.

Sitting in his own armored command car, the image of Marshal de Gaulle is already very different from what it was two months ago. At that time, Marshal de Gaulle led his troops across the Dardanelles, and he was in high spirits and looked like he was directing the country. The hair is combed with oil, the military uniform is straight, and the face is full of red light. And now, in the same place, his hair is unkempt, his military uniform is wrinkled, his face is like ashes, and his eyes are red staring at the Dardanelles in front of him.

The Dardanelles Strait is not wide, only more than 30 kilometers at its narrowest point, but in this not wide strait, there are nearly 10,000 mines, which shows that the Chinese Navy attaches great importance to this place. In peacetime, Marshal de Gaulle could have ordered his troops to resist on the spot and get on a plane and return home, but now the situation is different.

The 300,000 troops in de Gaulle's hands were the only remaining 300,000 main forces of the Nantes army on the front line, and if these armies were wiped out here, the Nantes Empire would have no field troops, and those left behind in the country could only be regarded as militia units at best, lacking not only lack of training but also lack of weapons. If it came to that point, the position of the Nantes Empire in the Axis powers would plummet, which was not allowed by Marshal de Gaulle, nor by the Nantes Imperial government.

In order to be able to retrieve the last 300,000 soldiers, the Nantes Imperial government was desperate, and they recruited a large number of fishing boats from the country to go to the Dardanelles. The task of these fishing boats is very simple: to detonate mines. It has to be said that those Nantes are still very patriotic, and under some tragic emotions, thousands of fishermen voluntarily sailed to the sea to seek hope for the life of their own soldiers.

At the cost of their own lives, a large number of Nantes fishermen opened up three shipping lanes in two days, for which more than 1,000 fishermen sank into the sea with their fishing boats. Subsequently, the Nantes Empire mobilized all the warships and aircraft that could be mobilized to escort the ships in the vicinity day and night, in order to avoid the Chinese air force and submarines to replenish the mines. With adequate protection, hundreds of transport ships began to follow the safe lanes, frequently crossing the strait, transporting soldiers who were waiting to return home.

Seeing this, the Chinese military reacted quickly, and Gao Hong and Cai Tingyuan mobilized the entire air force of both theaters of operations to bomb Marshal de Gaulle's troops. Seeing the large-scale sortie of the NATO Air Force, the Nantes Air Force resisted desperately, buying time for its own army to board and leave.

Now the strength of the Chinese army is tight, and Gao Hong does not want to lose too much of his own strength, after all, the other side only has 300,000 troops, and he can't turn up the big waves even if he is rescued, so he ordered the air force to only attack the enemy forces on the beachhead, and not attack deep into the sea or on the opposite shore, so as to lose fewer pilots.

With such instructions, the Chinese Air Force concentrated its main efforts on the beachhead, but the sand here is very soft, and if aerial bombs are thrown on it, a large amount of explosive power will be absorbed by the sand, and the bombing effect against the enemy is not good. Seeing that a large number of Nantes troops were withdrawn, the pilots were anxious, and later an operational staff officer suggested that the bombs were not effective and that it would be better to try them with incendiary bombs, which was what the helicopter units of the Eastern Ocean Fleet did during the Battle of Ville Island. This proposal was supported by the superiors, and soon the bombers of the Imperial Chinese Air Force carried napalm produced by the Chinese Empire.