Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

"What are you still doing here?" Seeing Kemal still standing there, Li Xianzhou couldn't help frowning. He acted immediately after receiving the order. This is the iron-like discipline of the Dragon Army.

"Your Excellency, I have an idea." Kemal said boldly, "Should we send 7 to 8 additional companies to the outer positions? This can at least delay the offensive of the British and French forces and buy us time."

Li Xianzhou listened to him patiently, and then said coldly: "How to arrange is my business. All you have to do is to complete it unconditionally. If you fail to join the battle, this responsibility will be borne by me. But before that If there is any violation of military orders, I will execute him without hesitation. Colonel Mustafa Kemal, please turn around now and return to your post!"

Unwilling, Kemal glanced at Li Xianzhou a few times, and finally walked out helplessly.

"This man is ambitious, and he doesn't want to follow your orders." After Kemal turned and left, he stood by the side and watched everything patiently Zheng Jiemin, a senior agent of the empire, said.

Since the end of the Iraq War, Zheng Jiemin, who has rich experience as an agent, was directly transferred from Iran to the Ottoman Empire to assist in the development of local intelligence work.

Li Xianzhou nodded: "It seems that the emperor is right, this person will be removed sooner or later, but now is not the time."

Zheng Jiemin, who was dressed in the uniform of an Ottoman Empire officer, said: "This person has always opposed Turkey's enmity with Britain and France, thinking that it would be a "terrible disaster", and he opposed and condemned our control and command of the Turkish army. With a human face, they openly said, 'We Turks should manage our own affairs, and it is a disgrace to our nation to invite these Chinese people', so it can be seen that such people are really too dangerous."

"Wait a little longer." Li Xianzhou said coldly: "As soon as the war here is over, we will get rid of him!"

On October 1916, 10, the landing operation of the British and French coalition forces began.

When tens of thousands of British and French soldiers landed in Alburnu, they were surprised to find that they did not encounter any obstacles. This made the British officers excited. He fled without firing a gun.

But soon their excitement was replaced by worry. When the British and French allied forces advanced about ten kilometers, they suddenly found a large number of dark troops and well-arranged trenches in front of them.

In front of the powerful coalition forces, the Turks dare to resist?The British commander, who quickly woke up from his astonishment, immediately ordered his subordinates to attack the enemy on the opposite side.

On the defensive line arranged by Li Xianzhou, he gathered all the heavy machine guns of the 19th Division, equipped with 26 mortars, and watched the British and French allied forces rushing up.

At this time, Kemal, the commander of the 19th Division of the Ottoman Empire, was guarding the front line. Although he was seriously dissatisfied with the arrangement of the Chinese, but out of his love for Turkey, he was still fulfilling his mission with due diligence.

When the British and French allied forces were 100 meters away from the position, Kemal gave the order to fire.In an instant, the light and heavy firepower on the Turkish position opened fire at the same time, and the dozens of heavy machine guns that were concentrated for use burst out with terrible roars. The dense fire net caused the soldiers of the British and French allied forces to fall in front of the position.

The arrogant British were angry, and the officers roared and organized charges again and again, but each time they returned without success.On the contrary, it made its own casualties more and more serious.The helpless British officer pondered for a long time, and finally decided to send a force of 7000 men to bypass the front line of defense and attack the Turks' positions from the flank.

The British have a good idea, and this is what Kemal is most worried about.But when the British and French allied forces circled around from the flanks and were about to encircle the 9th Division, suddenly there was a loud cry of killing on their two wings, and the 18th Division of the Ottoman Empire suddenly appeared around the coalition forces.The strong and shouting all over the mountains and plains made the soldiers of the coalition army lose their minds, and they threw down their guns and ran back.

At this time, Kemal's 9th Division also received an order to counterattack, and the Turkish soldiers jumped out of the trenches one after another, and launched a charge against the troops of the British and French coalition forces. Only two hours later, the positions occupied by the coalition forces returned to Turkey. human hands.

Standing on the ground, Kemal breathed a long sigh of relief. At this point, he had to admit the excellent commanding ability of the Chinese officers, but at the same time, he also had a faint worry in his heart.

"Mr. Gergut, what do you think of Chinese officers?" Kemal asked his chief of staff.

After thinking for a while, Gergut said: "They are really amazing. They seem to be incompetent, but they smashed the attack of the British and French allied forces in one fell swoop. I have to admit that there are too many things we can learn from the Chinese. "

Kemal nodded in agreement: "So the more this is the case, the more we cannot allow the Chinese to stay on our land. This is really a terrible thing, Mr. Gergut, maybe the fate of Turkey is in our hands The rise of Turkey will also be accomplished by us, take advantage of the opportunity given to us by history, and work together for a strong country!"

After the coalition forces were defeated, they launched a more frenzied attack the next day, but suffered heavy casualties under the concentrated firepower of the Ottoman Empire.The main and auxiliary forces of the British and French allied forces lost an astonishing 1.8 people in two days of fighting, but only captured the landing field with a depth of only 1.5 kilometers. In order to expand the landing field, the British High Command decided to implement the second batch of landing troops.Britain has added about 12.7 people from the mainland to the Gallipoli peninsula. In mid-October, the army increased to 10 divisions.

联军于10月16日夜间以1万人的兵力在苏夫拉湾实施登陆后，英法联军转入进攻。到10月17日，奥斯曼帝国的14个师阻止了英法联军的进攻。战斗中，英法联军损失约45万人。

The struggle for the Dardanelles lasted for nearly a month, with 48 British troops, 8 French troops, and 70 Ottoman troops participating in the battle.In the course of the fighting, 11.97 British casualties and missing, 2.65 French, 18.6 Turkish.The British and French combined fleet lost 6 battleships and Turkey lost 1 ship.

The defeat in the Battle of the Dardanelles seems to be caused by the mistakes of the British and French High Command. They did not implement coordinated operations with the Portuguese army and navy as agreed, but attempted to seize the two straits and the Turkish capital alone. There is an inescapable responsibility.

At the beginning of the campaign, the British idea was to seize the Dardanelles and Constantinople with only fleet forces, which itself was not appropriate.The British and French Allied Command underestimated the defense capabilities of the Ottoman Empire, and did not expect that China's support behind it would play such a big role. It also ignored the concealment of the campaign preparations and the suddenness of the first batch of landing troops.And when the second batch of landing troops landed too slowly, the Ottoman Empire established a strong defense before that.The ingenious use of land forces, coastal artillery and anti-landing mine obstacles by the Chinese, German and Turkish trilateral headquarters, as well as the effective operations of the Imperial Atlantic feeder fleet on the sea line of communication, were the main reasons for the defeat of Britain and France in the Battle of the Dardanelles.

The failure of the Battle of the Dardanelles forced the British Secretary of the Navy to resign in the saliva of the people.

Originally, Secretary of the Navy McKenna refused to resign, but a telegram he inadvertently leaked angered the British people.When the war just broke out, when the British and French allied forces attacked mainly with naval warships, McKenna believed that the casualties were not large, indicating a lack of bravery on the battlefield, and he was unwilling to take the necessary risks to strive for a breakthrough.To this end he telegraphed Caden: "We do not wish to press you beyond your judgment, but we are well aware that at some stage of your operations you will have to enforce the resolution, and we would like to know whether you consider that point to be Reached."

This telegram indirectly caused the British and French allied forces to storm the Dardanelles, and also caused more than [-] British and French allied forces to suffer heavy and huge casualties. As soon as the telegram came out, British public opinion was in an uproar.

But McKenna didn't think he was responsible for this failure, and he didn't even want to take any responsibility for it. In his opinion, the frontline generals should bear the main responsibility.There are still many people who sympathize with McKenna in the parliament. Only General Haig is always brooding over the disastrous defeat of the British and French forces in the Battle of the Dardanelles. From his inner thoughts, the former Secretary of the Navy must have come from somewhere. problem.

The victory in the Dardanelles was a rare victory for the old and fatuous Ottoman Empire, and it also gave this country that was about to collapse a chance to survive.But it was neither the Chinese nor the Germans who benefited the most from the war, but Kemal. His achievements were infinitely magnified, and he was called "the savior of Istanbul" by the people of the Ottoman Empire.His official rank also jumped to brigadier general, and he was also awarded the honorary title of "Pasha".

The Chinese officers Li Xianzhou and General Fenerbahce, who really helped the Ottoman Empire win the war, were completely ignored. The Turks seemed to have completely forgotten how much they had contributed to this country. .

Will of the Empire Chapter 871 Fanatical Nationalists

Li Xianzhou did not say anything about this, but General Fenerbahce of Turkey was aggrieved. The upright General Fenerbahce found Mohammed V and his brother Maha, the actual ruler of the Ottoman Empire, several times. Promoting, but they evaded it with various reasons, and in the end they just gave Li Xianzhou a commendation mercifully.

"General Li, this country is really hopeless." Admiral Fenerbahce pushed his monocle and said angrily, "The real hero has been completely ignored, while a colonel who is only carrying out orders has been ignored." This is a humiliation to the noble Chinese soldiers!"

Li Xianzhou smiled and invited General Fenerbahce back to his seat: "General, each of us is angry about such things, but this country itself is like this, I think we should calmly think about the problem Where is it. Since the Turks are not willing to solve it, let China and Germany help it solve it."

Admiral Fenerbahçe was stunned for a moment, unable to comprehend the meaning of Zhou Tiancheng's words: "Excuse me, I can't quite understand what you mean."

"This is my staff officer, Mr. Zheng Jiemin." Li Xianzhou introduced Zheng Jiemin to Fenerbahce: "He will tell you everything you want to know."

Zheng Jiemin smiled slightly at the Turkish Admiral: "Your Excellency, although the Ottoman Empire has been willing to form a military alliance with China, their actual ruler, Mahmoud, still favors the British in his heart, but the British Secretary of the Navy, Mr. McKenna, is arrogant. The disrespectful move irritated him. But now that McKenna has resigned from his respective positions, once the new Admiralty of the Navy shows his favor to the Ottoman Empire, there is a possibility that Turkey will be shaken. I can't imagine how terrible it will be The result. There is also the Turkish hero, Colonel Mustafa Kemal, no, he should be called a brigadier general. He is a fanatical nationalist. He wants to bring the Chinese who have given great help to Turkey to Germany. For this reason, he did not hesitate to undermine the stability of the Triple Alliance and lead the Three Kingdoms from victory to defeat, which is something none of us want to see."

Fenerbahçe carefully appreciated Zheng Jiemin's words, and nodded frequently. The current Ottoman Empire is immersed in the "victory" they have achieved.Cheer for the national hero in their minds. In such a fanatical atmosphere, indeed, anything can happen. If it really happened as the other party said, it would be an unprecedented and terrible thing.The best way is to abolish Mahmoud and arrest or expel Kemal, but there are also hidden dangers in doing so, and it may suffer another greater turmoil in the Ottoman Empire. General Fenerbahce can’t help but frowned at this thought I frowned.

"I think I understand what you mean." Admiral Fenerbahce said hesitantly: "But how should we deal with this matter? By force, or through negotiations?"

"No need, just wait quietly." Zheng Jiemin said with a smile: "Please believe me, there will be a heavy rain in the sky of Turkey soon, and everything will be washed away. What we have to do. Just let yourself control yourself An army that can be controlled, strengthen our ties, and deal with anything that may happen."

General Fenerbahce shrugged helplessly for the obscure words of the Chinese. Since the Chinese are so confident in resolving this crisis, we can only trust them completely. Showed superior preparation judgment and foresight.

"I would like to ask, how many troops are completely loyal to Muhammad V and completely obey the command of Chinese and German military officers?" Zheng Jiemin asked at this time: "I need to know the exact number."

"The 11th Infantry Division and the 14th Infantry Division." Fenerbahce thought for a while and said, "These two divisions have the most German officers, and I don't think there is any problem with loyalty, but the 14th Infantry Division is newly formed. I can't give any guarantees about the combat effectiveness of my division."

Li Xianzhou then said: "Although the Seventh Army in my army, which was completely armed by the Chinese side, was disabled in the first Balkan War, it still has a certain combat effectiveness, and all the officers above the current battalion in the army are all Chinese. As officers, the soldiers of the 7th Army also have a good impression of China."

"Then the 7th Army." After hearing the two generals, Fenerbahce said: "Transfer the 7th Army to Istanbul to be responsible for the security of the Istanbul area. violent turmoil."

General Fenerbahce and Lieutenant General Li Xianzhou glanced at each other and shrugged at the same time. They are just real soldiers. They can deal with any emergencies on the battlefield, but they are powerless when it comes to conspiracy and politics. I hope everything can be resolved smoothly as Zheng Jiemin said, otherwise the impact of the war on the three allies will be too great.

In fact, the regime of the Ottoman Empire, which was shrouded in the halo of victory at this time, was very unstable. The Armenians, Kurds, and Greeks on the Black Sea coast of the empire all had hidden ambitions for separation, regardless of whether it was Europe or Asia. They infiltrated into these places one after another, especially the British, who wanted to collapse the ancient Ottoman Empire and divide it into small pieces of the country.

And the No.1909 fifth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Muhammad Rashad Abdul, who ascended the throne in 30, is definitely not a good ruler. 1909.He came to power after his brother Abdul Hamid was deposed.At the time when the second constitutional movement of the Ottoman Empire was on the rise, the real power of the government was controlled by the Unity and Progress Committee organized by the Young Turk Party. Muhammad became the ideal candidate for the party to establish a constitutional monarchy and was embraced as the new Sultan. The Ottoman Empire was dismembered by European powers after he took office after the constitution of 1876. In 1910, Tripoli in North Africa was occupied by the Italians, and the European possessions were almost lost in the two Balkan wars.

Under such circumstances, the various ethnic groups in the territory of the Ottoman Empire demanded independence very loudly.In the Ottoman Empire at that time, Enver, the main leader of the Young Turk Party and the military minister, was a staunch pro-China faction.He expects to rely on the strength of the Chinese to suppress all opposing forces, and to seek the greatest benefits for himself and the Ottoman Empire in the possible victory of the pro-Chinese forces.

The most violent opponent of Enver's policy was Kemal, who had just been promoted to brigadier general. He always fiercely opposed the direct conflict between the Ottoman Empire and Britain and France, and opposed the Germans and Chinese in the Ottoman Empire.He has a strong dislike for China deep in his heart.

Especially after the brilliant victory in the Battle of the Dardanelles, it was originally reported from the palace that he would be sent to Anatolia to fight against the Soviets with the Eastern Command Corps, in order to regain lost lands such as Mushi and Bitlis, But then this suggestion was strongly rejected by China and Germany, and the reasons for China and Germany are very simple.Britain and France's ambitions for the Dardanelles have never died, and it is very likely that another offensive will be launched in the near future. General Kemal's most suitable command position should be here, which makes Kemal lose the opportunity to gain again. Excellent opportunity for advancement.This incident made Kemal's anger towards China and Germany unbearable.

"We can no longer hope for Muhammad V." Kemal's friend and the chief of staff of the 19th Infantry Division Gergut said indignantly: "A Sudan who doesn't even know where Serbia and Bulgaria are , and can you expect him to contribute to the Ottoman Empire? Prince Mahmud is also the most suitable candidate for the next Sultan. And the traitor Enver should step down immediately, and you are the most suitable military minister. What British and French The coalition forces will launch an offensive in the Dardanelles, only ghosts would believe that the Chinese and Germans are clearly trying to suppress you."

Kemal said in a daze: "My ideal is to regain the lost land, restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and re-establish a unified and powerful country, but there are too many numb and ignorant people in the country, who foolishly think that Turkey will defeat the British and French forces. It seems to me that this is out of reach. It is an iron fact that the British army is strong for hundreds of years. Although China has risen and gained the upper hand in the confrontation with the British, in Turkey, China still cannot compete with it Yes. In my opinion, China is more like a nouveau riche or a thief, taking advantage of the time when Britain and France competed for interests with the Soviets in Europe, they plundered their colonies, but how long can this situation last?"

"Get up and fight, general." Gergut encouraged, "Now you have a great reputation in the country. As long as you shout out, the people of all Turkey will respond to you. Overthrow Mehmed V and support Prince Mahmud Successor to Sultan. Quit this damn war, no longer let Turkey become a victim of the interests of great powers, and actively develop and expand the empire while they are in trouble."

Kemal was surprised by his friend's words. Although he was dissatisfied with the status quo, he never had the idea of ​​overthrowing Muhammad V, but Geergut's words made him faintly feel that this might be the right choice.Kemal always believed that the entire Ottoman Empire would have hope only if he served as the military minister. He hoped to establish a tough government headed by him to resist the pressure from China or the United Kingdom, but this dream was ruthlessly hit by reality. It seemed difficult to achieve, but Gergut's suggestion pointed him another way.

Seeing that Kemal was silent, Gergut said anxiously: "Don't hesitate any longer. Our army is fighting fiercely with the Soviets on the front line, but we can only stand by. This is very important to us and the entire Ottoman Empire. It is all unfair. General, for the future and destiny of Turkey, fight bravely, and I will always stand by your side."