Chapter Forty-Nine: The Situation on Other Fronts

On 12 April, the Caucasian front was stabilized, but the war did not benefit the Allies.

Equipped with advanced weapons, the German-Austrian forces not only did not succeed in extricating themselves from the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, but on the contrary, they also had an additional Balkan front, which made them very uncomfortable.

Now Turkey has lost control of the Sea of Marmara, giving the Entente the opportunity to sneak up on Istanbul and thus force Turkey out of the war.

Germany will not allow it, but there is nothing he can do to relieve that pressure, because they are not in very good shape at the moment.

In the absence of foreign aid, Turkey had to go it alone, but the 24 divisions deployed by the Entente here should not be underestimated.

Fortunately, there was a young man in the Turkish army who successfully blocked the attack of the Entente.

This man has the rank of colonel, and as for the name is more familiar, his name is Kemal.

The Allies, who had been tyrannical in the Gallipoli Peninsula, suddenly ran into obstacles, slowing them down to the point where they could barely move any further.

When Churchill learned that his army had been suppressed by a small colonel, he angrily asked the front-line commander what he was eating, and he couldn't even beat cats and dogs.

But his will could not control the situation of the battle. Since the collision with Kemal's forces, the Allied forces have joined forces and gradually advanced southward.

However, the propulsion speed is very slow, and it can only push about 200 meters per day. But for advancing without a numerical advantage, it is already the best result.

Such a situation is nothing more than the fact that the members of the Entente have evil intentions, and they are very scattered in the battle, and there is no cooperation at all.

Although the same was true of the Allies, when the time came for the crisis, every member of the group did their best.

Today's Gallipoli is an unprecedented crisis for the Allies: the Turkish capital is about to be occupied, and the triumvirate government is likely to surrender.

That's why they were able to unite and crush the Entente in terms of cooperation.

Coupled with the fact that there were two elite German divisions as the main force, Britain and France had also patronized the offensive before, and forgot about the defensive fortifications, and the Allied forces fought smoothly.

Seeing Gallipoli's decline, the British Parliament, fearful of the Germans and a fine tradition of betraying their teammates, finally decided not to fight, abandoned the still recalcitrant Anzac and French troops, and retreated alone and built fortifications in Canakkale to ensure navigation in the Sea of Marmara.

Churchill also finally did it for a while, and he fought with Parliament not to abandon friendly forces, otherwise it would be to the slightest disadvantage of Britain.

The parliament didn't care about his, and directly bypassed him, the commander-in-chief, and ordered the British troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula to withdraw, and took 12 divisions back to Western Europe.

Unexpectedly, the French retreated faster than the British, and directly abandoned the position in Asia Minor and rushed back to their hometown in Paris. In order to get to the port quickly, some left all their equipment behind, so that the Turkish army who had nothing to do made a lot of profits.

As for what kind of ghost can make Britain and France, two old European powers, so frightened, the answer is undoubtedly you Kaiser - Wilhelm II.

Although Wei Er's brain is not very good, sometimes his brain is still easy to use.

Like this offensive against Western Europe, he rarely listened to the advice of his generals and let them fight on their own and not meddle in their own affairs.

Seeing that the emperor did not interfere, those generals soon showed thrilling combat effectiveness and pushed directly twenty kilometers outside Paris.

The French wanted to survive the war in peace, but they were torn apart (physically) by Germany's advanced weaponry, and they didn't resist for long.

It's a pity that Germany was able to take Paris in one go, but Weiji ran out again halfway through to join in the fun.

For Wei Er, the front line is lively and gives me a long face! So I have to take it upon myself to show the younger brothers what I'm capable of.

As a result, after Fa Jinhan learned that Wei Er was coming to the General Staff, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to command, and hurriedly went out to curry favor with this Buddha.

This paralyzed the German command system, and the rank and file generals began to fight their own battles again, and progress gradually became slow.

Ironically, the British and French thought that the Germans were not well organized and wanted to counterattack to regain lost ground, but they were unsurprisingly defeated.

After feeling the unprecedented crisis, Britain and France could not care about any face, and drew back all the troops that could be withdrawn.

They also demanded that Tsarist Russia launch an offensive and delay the German offensive.

The Tsar was completely ignorant of the retreat of Britain and France, but was full of excitement and readily agreed.

However, the Russians also have a heart, they pick soft persimmons and pinch them, and when they see that Austria-Hungary is not very good at fighting, they want to teach him to be a man.

Brusilov came up with a novel idea: since we have a large front, why don't we concentrate our superior local forces in order to form a crushing advantage over the local enemy.

However, the fact is that the Russian front is too large to fully concentrate its forces, and it can only concentrate a few troops that are close to each other.

However, the enthusiasm of the Russian officers and soldiers was not extinguished, and they were still actively preparing to inflict heavy losses on Austria-Hungary at any time.

The Austrian army watched the gradual increase in the number of Russian troops in Poland, and also knew that they were going to fight themselves, so they began to build grain on a wide wall, sitting and waiting to be beaten.

It's just that they probably didn't expect that this time the Russians were using a completely new tactic.

Perhaps Kuster, who was far away in Asia Minor, could not have imagined it, after all, he had the impression that the battle should have been launched in 1916.

On the Arabian Peninsula, Britain also siphoned off a lot of people, so that Turkey was no longer at a disadvantage, but felt good about itself, and intended to retake the Sinai Peninsula, and even the Suez Canal.

This is obviously unrealistic, and Britain also gave him a heavy blow, inflicting a heavy blow on Turkey, making them realize that they are better than him no matter how good they are, so they can defend honestly.

However, Turkey did not abandon the Sinai Peninsula because of this, and even increased its troops, which angered the British.

Without saying a word, the British did a good job of stirring up, and deployed many spies to the Arab region, which greatly interfered with the operational efficiency of the Turkish government.

In the spirit of child-free professionalism, they decided to support any Arabs who opposed the Ottomans, no matter what kind of person they were.

After making these preparations, the British felt that it was not enough, and it so happened that a member of the intelligence service volunteered to go to Arabia to help the natives become independent. The British government felt that this would work, the French acquiesced, and the Egyptians agreed, so with the support of the three countries, an Englishman named Lawrence justifiably went to Arabia to do underground work.

A nation that needs help for independence may seem hopeless, but in the context of the great awakening of national consciousness, a multi-ethnic state like Turkey is bound to perish, and the Arabs can take advantage of it to become independent.

But as everyone knows, although the Arab countries broke away from Ottoman rule, they were still puppets in essence, but their masters became Britain and France. If you don't rely on a big country, you can't survive, and I'm afraid that's the sadness of the effect.