Regardless of Ruiz's will or not, no one can be allowed close to the position at this time, not even women or children.
Some soldiers couldn't help but shoot, and the woman with a ferocious face who was about to rush over was suddenly blown into a ball of blood mist.
Only then did Wilson react. He threw away the crystal cup in his hand, picked up the "Big Cowboy" at hand, and pointed it at the ruins opposite with a burst of crazy tom tom tom.
Let’s not talk about whether it can hit people or whether it has any effect. Under the irradiation of a large orange-red flame, countless Ottoman soldiers holding sharp bayonets were like devils emerging from hell, howling towards the 11th Division.
position and launched a charge.
Boo!
The mortars of the 11th Division finally reacted. Countless flares rose into the sky and slowly fell from the sky with gorgeous trajectories. The winding battlefield was as bright as day. The rifles were of no use at this time.
The first reaction of the division officers and soldiers was all kinds of mass destruction weapons, and grenades were the best choice. At this time, it was no longer offensive grenades that relied on impact to create killing, but defensive grenades that relied on steel balls and fragments to weave death.
Thanks to the solid buildings in the city of Constantinople, when the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force was attacking, these marble buildings caused huge trouble to the expeditionary officers and soldiers. Now these buildings have also become solid bunkers for the expeditionary officers and soldiers, and general-purpose machine guns can fire
From the window on the ground floor, a bullet can sometimes pass through several people when fired directly. The riflemen are on the top floor of the house, so they can throw the grenade farther and shoot accurately more efficiently.
The Lee Enfield used by Ruiz produced an astonishing effect for a crazy minute. After the bullets in the magazine were exhausted, the sound of gunfire and explosions became sparse. The counterattack organized by the Constantinople garrison was like
It's as futile as hitting the waves on the cliff.
From three o'clock to six o'clock in the morning, the flares over the defense line never stopped. Within three hours, the mortars of the 11th Division fired nearly 20,000 flares. That night, the 11th Division suffered no more than a hundred casualties, and the Ottoman defenders
The casualties were more than 5,000.
At six o'clock in the morning, the 11th Division began its attack on time.
It's the grenade-and-grenade-launcher thing again, violent, but effective. The Russians fought for a month and lost 300,000 people without even entering Constantinople. The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force took just three days to capture it.
At 90% of the city of Constantinople, at 12 noon on the 17th, the heavily surrounded Governor's Palace raised a white flag, and the defenders of Constantinople laid down their weapons and surrendered to the expeditionary force.
"Congratulations, Locke——"
"Congratulations, Lord—" In the simple tent on Marmara Island, Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet John Fisher and Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Force Ian Hamilton congratulated Rock immediately.
The capture of Constantinople can be regarded as the greatest victory achieved by the Allied Powers since the outbreak of the World War. Although the Ottoman Empire is still resisting in the Asia Minor Peninsula, in the usual sense, the loss of a country's capital also means the victory of the war.
The negative is determined.
Roque can now say with pride that he is the first conqueror of Constantinople in 460 years. Since the establishment of the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the city of Constantinople has never fallen.
For the Allied Powers, the capture of Constantinople was of great significance. Before that, the Kingdom of Serbia had fallen completely, Belgium was struggling on the edge of destruction, and the Russian Empire was losing ground. Last winter, it had lost the land it had gained since the outbreak of the World War.
, has now been invaded by the German and Austrian forces.
By capturing Constantinople, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea will be connected. Russian crops can be continuously sent to France through the Mediterranean, and military supplies from the Allied Powers can also be continuously sent to Russia through the Black Sea. On October 25 last year, the Ottoman Empire
Having just joined the war, no one expected that the Ottoman Empire would only last 10 months before the capital was occupied by the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
The Ottoman Empire has existed for 450 years. Although it is nicknamed the "Sick Man of West Asia" and ranks alongside the Austro-Hungarian Empire, known as the "Sick Man of Europe", and the collapsed Qing Dynasty, it is after all an old imperialist country that once spanned Asia.
The three continents of Africa and the Mediterranean were almost the inner lakes of the Ottoman Empire.
Now everything has become yesterday's news. After losing Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire is already on the verge of withdrawing from the war.
"Thank you Ian, this is an honor for all of us - thank you also, Marshal Fisher, without the close cooperation of the Mediterranean Fleet, we would not be able to do this." Roque is not arrogant, although white people are not good at modesty.
, but speaking nicely at this time will not affect Rock's due honor.
"Think about when we first came to the Mediterranean, it was really like a nightmare." John Fisher was filled with emotion. Like Roque, he was ordered to come to the Mediterranean in a critical situation. John Fisher could not imagine that if he lost
How much impact will this war have on the Allied Powers?
Just yesterday, after the collapse of the Greek cabinet and the reshuffle of the British cabinet, the French cabinet finally came to blows.
The reason for the thunderstorm in the French cabinet was the fall of the entire Kingdom of Serbia. The Kingdom of Serbia has not yet surrendered. 150,000 soldiers of the Kingdom of Serbia arrived at Corfu Island in the Adriatic Sea on British Royal Navy warships. They are still fighting, but
France was very dissatisfied with the French government's failure to provide adequate protection to the Kingdom of Serbia, so Viviani, who had just become Prime Minister, resigned, and Aristide Briand, who had already served as Prime Minister of France twice, became Prime Minister again and Minister of War.
Millerand was also dismissed, and the new Minister of War was Joseph Gallieni, who performed well in the Battle of the Marne but was struck by Joffre's jealousy.
Originally, Joffre was among those dismissed. After two failed battles in Alva and the failed Spring Offensive, Joffre had completely lost the prestige he had accumulated during the Battle of the Marne. The French government and opposition parties were increasingly demanding a change of commander-in-chief.
Coming higher and higher.
Joseph Gallieni once again protected Joffre. He did not hold a grudge because he had been dismissed by Joffre. Instead, he generously forgave Joffre and ensured that Joffre continued to serve as commander-in-chief of the French army.
I really wonder if Xiafei would feel so ashamed in his heart when he found out about this!
Xiafei's retention is not a good thing for the British and French coalition forces. Next, Xiafei will drive the soldiers of the British and French coalition forces to attack the increasingly solid German positions. Countless soldiers will continue to sacrifice in the war, and Xiafei will be exhausted.
The French had courage and war potential before they had to leave the position of commander-in-chief of the French army.
This can also explain why it took the British and French forces four full years to win the war despite seemingly having a huge advantage.
The Germans did not admit defeat because their war potential was exhausted. When the German army surrendered, there were still millions of troops on the front line, and the British and French forces did not even invade Germany.
Because internal conflicts broke out in Germany and the war could not continue, Germany had to surrender.
This was also the underlying reason why Germany provoked World War II twenty years later.
The capture of Constantinople does not mean the end of the war. The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force is attacking the Asia Minor Peninsula. Just as the expeditionary force captured the Balkans and the Kingdom of Italy jumped out to pick peaches, the expeditionary force occupied Constantinople and the Russian Empire also
They couldn't wait to jump out and demand to take over Constantinople. The reason was the same as the Italians, which was the promise of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey.
Rock didn't even know how many bad checks Edward Gray had given to the allies in order to defeat the Allies. Constantinople and the land around Constantinople had been given away several times by Edward Gray as bargaining chips.
When tempting Greece to join the war, Edward Gray promised to give Constantinople and the land around Constantinople to the Greeks after the war. Later, in order to stabilize the Russian Empire, Edward Gray changed the bargaining chip in his mouth to Cyprus.
In tempting the Kingdom of Italy into the war, Edward Gray also promised Constantinople and the lands surrounding Constantinople to the Italians.
As the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Roque was not qualified to overturn Edward Gray's promise. However, Roque refused to hand over Constantinople and the land surrounding Constantinople on the pretext that Constantinople's remaining enemies had not yet been eliminated.
to the Russian Empire.
On August 20, Roark received a telegram from Kitchener, in which Kitchener requested the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to control the Bosporus.
On the same day, Roark also received a telegram from the Foreign Office, in which Edward Gray requested the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to hand over Constantinople and the lands surrounding Constantinople to the Russians.
The contents of the two telegrams were completely different, coming from the two most powerful departments in the UK. Rock felt absurd and at a loss as to who to listen to.
"Lord, the contents of these two telegrams do not conflict -" Rock felt that the troublesome problem was easily solved in Ian Hamilton's opinion.
"Why?" Rock really didn't understand these twists and turns.
"I'm saying that there is no conflict between controlling the Bosporus and giving up Constantinople -" Ian Hamilton repeated, and this time Rock heard something different.
Yes, handing over Constantinople to the Russians does not mean giving up the Bosporus. The Bosporus is 30 kilometers long, and the Black Sea entrance is 3.7 kilometers wide at its widest point and only 700 kilometers wide at its narrowest point.
rice.
On the south side of the Bosporus, Constantinople straddles both sides of the Bosporus, but there is still more to do on the north side of the Bosporus.
What's more, to say the least, even if the Bosporus is handed over to the Russians, the British and French forces controlling the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara are still equivalent to controlling the Bosporus.
Even if it can be repaid, that will be a matter for the future, and it is definitely not possible now. Constantinople is like a huge treasure house that has yet to be discovered by the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.