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Chapter 34: Marching into Thessaloniki

In the tent, everyone was studying the map.

According to the latest news, young officers in the Thessalonika garrison are actively preparing for an uprising and then picking up Kemal and the others into the city, but there are still many stubborn officers in the city, and they still have many troops in their hands.

"According to the information we have, the city of Thessalonika and its surrounding areas are stationed with 20 infantry regiments and 3 guard regiments of the Turkish Third Army. In addition to the four infantry regiments we defeated last time, there are still about 30,000 troops!" Kemal pointed to the map, "At present, most of these troops are concentrated in the city of Thessalonika. The young officers preparing to revolt can control about 5 regiments, which means we have to face about 20,000 Turkish government troops, but I think many of them will fall to us in the last battle!"

Everyone nodded in agreement. In addition to Oli's regiment and Kemal's troops, several other guerrillas and two "guerrilla generals" came here, which made everyone very worried about command. These two people always wanted to be the commander-in-chief, but unfortunately, Kemal's troops were all brought by Oli and the others, so Oli's regiment didn't have to think about it. So they had never succeeded, but Oli and Kemal were unable to command their troops, and there were many inconveniences in collaborative combat.

"I think I should lead the troops to attack from the front and rush directly into the city!" General Ramo was the leader of a guerrilla team operating near Thessalonika. He and Kemal were also part of the Youth Turkish Party that supported the armed revolution.

"No, I think I should persuade them to surrender, they are simply vulnerable!" General Ilk was a member of another alliance party, and he brought his guerrillas from Kirkis.

"I agree with General Ramo!"

"No, I think it's enough to persuade the surrender!"

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Ollie really didn't want to listen to these boring and childish arguments, and walked out of the tent alone. The people in the tent were just arguing about their own interests, and few people were considering the substantive things in the battle. Seeing their soldiers neatly practiced, it was a pleasure. Recently, many people have been added to the camp. In addition to the captives captured last time, many guerrillas have come to join. The entire barracks seemed like a big vegetable market, and the environment was no better than in the tent just now.

The prisoners of war were enclosed in the northwest corner of the camp. They seemed very satisfied with it. They could enjoy three free meals every day and bask in the sun carefree manner. Seeing their leisurely appearance made people feel that soldiers didn't need to watch them at all.

As Oli walked past the prisoner-of-war camp, General Fatih, with a bandage on his head, ran to the fence and shouted at him.

"Translator, what is he talking about?" Ollie couldn't understand what the guy was talking about, so she had to call the translator.

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, he said he was Major General Fatih of the Turkish Army, and he wanted to talk to you!"

"Major General Fatih? Take him into my tent!" Oli felt very strange. These prisoners Kemal had already interrogated them before, why did this guy still have to talk to him?

"God of General, please sit down! What advice do you have?" Rioli and Fatih sat face to face in the tent.

"I have a small request, I want to know who defeated me!" Fatih's tone was his usual arrogance.

"Turkish guerrillas! Turkish guerrillas led by Colonel Kemal!"

"But you and your soldiers should be German!" Fatih looked at Oli calmly, "Most of your equipment here are made in Germany! I know them, Mauser 1898 rifle!"

"Not bad! General, these arms were bought from Germany! As for me and my soldiers, they were a group of wanderers!" Ollie regretted bringing this guy in. The identity of his army was to try not to let outsiders know.

"But how do you explain the plane! As far as I know, there are only Germany, Britain, France and the United States now!" Fatih asked arrogantly.

"God General! I hope you can understand your current identity and situation! It's not your turn to ask these questions here!" Ollie slapped the table heavily, and just now it seemed like he was being questioned.

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel! How can you speak to a general like this?" Fatih stood up dissatisfied.

"Sorry, you are now a prisoner of the Turkish revolutionary guerrillas and also our defeated general! Forget your identity as a general!" Oli despised this guy's ignorance and arrogance from his heart, but he had a very rare fighting spirit that day until the last moment of his machine gun fighting, so his tone eased down again, "We spent a lot of money to buy some parts from a German factory and then assembled it by ourselves! Now, you must answer my question seriously!"

"Oh..." Fatih didn't ask any further, although he was a little surprised.

"Listen to my soldiers, when your army was running away wildly, you were the only one who insisted on being on the machine gun position and injured one of our planes with a machine gun! Congratulations! I think your government should award you the medal."

"Those cowards!" Oli was talking about Fatih's soreness, and he gritted his teeth and began to curse the escaped soldiers.

"Your Excellency General, your behavior is worthy of my admiration! As a soldier, you have done your best. Next, I hope you can cooperate with us!"

"Cooperate?" Fatih looked at Oli in confusion.

"Yes! Cooperate!" Oli had a very good idea in his mind. Then, he found Kemal, and the two discussed for a long time, and finally formulated a combat plan to occupy Thessalonika.

Thessalonika was founded in 316 BC and is one of the oldest cities in Europe. The city was named after the sister of Alexander the Great and the wife of the Macedonian kingdom, and since then it became the capital of the Macedonian Kingdom. As the gateway to the Balkans, Thessalonika is the commercial center of the entire Balkan region, with a population of hundreds of thousands, and more than 30,000 soldiers of the Third Army of Türkiye were stationed here.

A week later, the "Embed-down Angel" Fritz began to throw flyers over Thessalonika with his flying squad. These flyers were written by General Fatih and his soldiers in order to show their support for the revolution. It not only revealed how the officers withdrew the military pay of soldiers and sent spies to monitor them, but also promoted the future of the revolution and the preferential policies of the revolutionary party. For a time, the soldiers of the Thessalonika garrison were shaken, and small groups of soldiers quietly left the city and voted on Kemal's troops under the leadership of young officers. So a few days later, the commander of the Thessalonika garrison declared martial law throughout the city and no one was allowed to go in and out of Thessalonika, but this could only make the morale of the army even worse, and the people in the city who were extremely dissatisfied with this continued to clash with the army.

A few days later, Kemal and Oli led their troops to the outside of Thessalonika City. Although the Turkish army in Thessalonika City had an advantage in number, they did not choose to go out of the city to fight. Outside the city, they simply dug some trenches and other fortifications, and the Turkish soldiers in these fortifications just watched the revolutionary army from afar and set up a formation. The entire Thessalonika was shrouded in a terrifying silence. When the plane flew over the Thessalonika and threw the leaflet again, Thessalonika finally broke out in silence. The soldiers in the city began to riot under the leadership of the young officers, starting with one battalion, and then another battalion. In less than an hour, there were gunfires throughout the city.

"Okay! It's time for us to act!" Seeing the soldiers in the fortifications of Thessalonika in chaos, Kemal put down the telescope in his hand and looked at the neat queue behind him.

"Okay!" Oli looked very reluctant. To make a powerful charge, he had to let his Oli regiment rush forward. He begged that the situation in the city had been controlled by the rioters. If the situation was not controlled, he could only hope that the Turkish soldiers would not conduct shooting training properly, otherwise casualties would be inevitable in street fighting.

"Soldiers of Oly's regiment, go forward!"

One thousand two hundred German soldiers lined up in three rows, erecting their familiar military songs, and marched towards Thessalonika with neat steps.

"The war is coming, tears flow through my mother's face, the motherland is behind me, and the footsteps of the enemy's army came from afar, and the earth is trembling. It is time to defend justice. The blood has already surged. The last leaf on the dry branches was knocked down by the cold wind, and lightning broke through the dark curtain of load-bearing in the distance, and the heroic soldiers are advancing."

Behind them were Kemal's troops and several other guerrillas, with thousands of people. Although the queues were far less neat than the Orly regiment, they also followed the appearance of German soldiers and advanced with their chests.

Maybe it was overwhelmed by this momentum, maybe it was the flyer offensive a few days ago that played a role, or maybe it was because he had wanted to revolution long ago. In short, the soldiers outside the city hung up the white flag without a shot, sat next to the trenches waiting for the arrival of Olympian and Kemal's troops.

The situation in Thessalonika City was worse at this time. When Oli's regiment entered the city, he found that the streets were full of soldiers holding their guns and confronting each other. However, they could not distinguish who was the enemy and who were their own people, nor could they continue to move forward. As a result, they could only stand by at a loss.

Kemal then entered the city area. Seeing this situation, he rode his horse and rushed to the middle of the soldiers and shouted loudly: "It's time for the revolution, the Turkish soldiers! We must restore the constitution and punish the traitors!"

After a few minutes of silence, a Turkish soldier hit the officer beside him with a gun and shouted: "Let's not work hard for these people! Revolution!" The situation changed immediately. Soldiers who were originally preparing to "put the rebellion" joined the revolutionaries' ranks, and the crowd began to flock to the Governor's Office in the city center.

The gate of the Governor's Mansion in Thessalonika was soon surrounded by revolutionary soldiers. Two heavy Maxim machine guns were mounted at the gate of the Governor's Mansion. However, facing the surging soldiers, the officers and machine gunners guarding there would be swallowed up at any time like leaves in the sea.

"Put down your weapons, here is surrounded by the revolutionary Turkish warriors!" The soldiers made a way for Kemal, who was riding horses. The revolutionary leader soon came to the gate of the Governor's Mansion, delivered a brief and inspiring speech to the soldiers, led them into the Governor's Mansion, and pulled out the Governor who was hiding in the toilet.

Just after Kemal and his soldiers occupied the Governor's Office of the Thessalonika, due to concerns about language obstruction, Oli drove his Oli regiment outside the Thessalonika city to repair. At this time, although there were a few stubborn officers and soldiers fighting stubbornly in the Thessalonika city, the city had basically calmed down. Oli found it difficult to understand this war and revolutionary model with Turkish characteristics. His Oli regiment almost failed to fire a shot in the entire farce-like siege, and of course, he also left a large amount of pension for Chen Tian.
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