Chapter 37 The Complete Revolution
In order to win the parliamentary elections, the Youth Turkish Party issued its program, proposing to implement labor legislation, allocate land, and abolish tithes. Four months later, the new parliament was held, and the leader of the Youth Turkish Party, Riza, served as the speaker. After taking office, the Youth Turkish Party retained the throne of Hamid II, but refused to implement the promise of re-dividing the land. Therefore, democratic movements between workers and peasants continued to break out in various parts of Turkey.
At this time, Kemal, Oztulk and Oli were taking their soldiers to enjoy the warm sunshine and gentle sea breeze of the Aegean Sea. A small part of the Turkish army is in the hands of the Young Turks, and most of them are being handed over to the government. There are also some old troops in the hands of the kings and nobles, and there is no unified command at all. Therefore, Kemal's troops have never received any orders except for the acquisition of Oztulk's troops in the past four months. As the saying goes, Kemal, Oztulk and Oli, a revolutionary, an old army officer and a German officer, although their backgrounds and experiences are different, they are equally excellent military.
Qualification and rebelliousness made them soon become good friends. Now Cassandra's garrison includes 2,500 people brought by Kemal, 1,200 people from Oli's regiment, 500 people from Oztulk, and the remaining ships commanded by Oztulk. Although they are forgotten, they are idle, but there is little supply. Fortunately, Oztulk has long been used to such days. He brought soldiers to reclaim a farm a few years ago, and he can basically be self-sufficient. In addition, there is a small port here, and Chentian has also continuously transported some supplies from Germany. Their life is quite interesting. After a long period of training, the coordinated combat between these three troops has also improved greatly.
The soldiers built a medium-sized airport north of the Cassandra Fortress. The planes were still the five Sky III types, but the pilots had been replaced. The "landing Angel" Fritz and the pilots who had received actual combat training have been transferred back to Germany. They will help aircraft engineers design more practical aircraft, and the military academy graduates in the Orly regiment also returned to China. They will bring a lot of valuable practical experience to the German army that has not experienced war for decades.
Chentian, far away in Germany, did not have that leisure. On the secret test site of Cornisburg, he was drilling out of the turret of the first tank prototype "Stone", and his movement was almost bumped and dispersed, and his face was filled with a happy smile. The "Stone" was riveted from a homogeneous armor plate. The total weight of the battle was 9 tons, the length of the car was 6 meters, the width of the car was 2.4 meters, the maximum road speed was 15 kilometers per hour, the maximum range was 80 kilometers, and it was equipped with a 37mm caliber cannon, and the armor thickness was 10-30mm. Because the Maxim heavy machine gun was too bulky and the Maderson light machine gun fired too slowly, the engineers did not choose them as the machine guns of "Stone", but installed a weapon research room jointly organized by Chentian and arms dealers.
Another machine gun that was founded - "Firebird", a light machine gun that uses rifle bullets and chains to supply ammunition, with a fire rate of 400 rounds per minute. Although this machine gun is a water-cooled machine gun designed for "Stone", at Chen Tian's request, "Firebird" was also improved to an air-cooled light machine gun for infantry. In the test, this infantry weapon performed well. The only disadvantage was that the barrel temperature was too high after long-term high-speed shooting. Chen Tian asked the designer to improve the infantry's "Firebird" machine gun technology and use a replaceable barrel. Then Chen Tian brought the trial-made 10 infantry "firebird" to Turkey, hoping to let the Oli regiment test the "Firebird" in actual combat.
At Cassandra's airport, a large double-wing aircraft slowly stopped.
"Oli! How are you doing recently?" Chen Tian walked out of the cabin with Lisa and waved to Oli and others from afar.
"Jiji, I'm so happy to see you! You've brought your wife too!"
"Yes! We are here for vacation this time. We have never basked in the sun on the beach on the Aegean Coast!" Chen Tian then shook hands with Kemal and others one by one.
"Your Highness, Prince, welcome your arrival!" Kemal glanced at their plane several times as he spoke, "Your Highness, can this plane really fly directly from Germany to here?"
Chen Tian looked back at the latest production "Bayan II" aircraft. It has a closed cockpit and a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, but it is still not enough to fly here directly from Germany. They set off from Cornisburg, stopped in Vienna in the middle and refueled, and then arrived here after more than two hours.
"General Kemal, the flight of this plane is very long, but we still need to refuel halfway to get here!" Despite this, the huge fuselage of "Beast II" still made Kemal envious.
After greeting everyone, Chen Tian asked the soldiers to carry the things on the plane down.
"Come on, let everyone see some good things!" Chen Tian took out a "firebird" and shook it in front of everyone, "How is it? It looks good! Let's find a place to try it!"
When Chen Tian, with the help of a soldier, lay on the ground and used a "firebird" to shoot out a full 150 bullets in half a minute. Everyone looked at the sieve-like target in the distance, and their mouths opened their heads.
"Oli, give me an egg!" Chen Tian got up, patted the dust on his body, and stretched his hand in front of Oli.
Oli looked at Chen Tian in surprise and took out an egg from his pocket.
"I knew you would carry an egg!" Chen Tian took the egg and broke it on the barrel of the "Firebird".
Sizzle...
The eggs quickly ripened, and then they became charred and charred, and everyone closed their mouths at the same time.
"There are still a little flawed in this weapon now! But Oli, I still hope to let your troops try this machine gun!"
"Jiji, this kind of weapon is not available here for the time being!" Oli looked at the "Firebird" and shook his head vigorously.
"Yes, Your Highness, although there is a riot now, the other party is all ordinary people. You can scare them away with a rifle!" Kemal explained, but his eyes were staring at the small but amazingly powerful "firebird".
Chen Tian looked at everyone's eyes and picked up the machine gun, "The cost is 5,000 marks, why don't you buy two to go home to play?
Kemal and Oztulk's eyes instantly shifted to other places, and Chen Tian and Oli met and smiled.
A week later, just as Chen Tian and Lisa were enjoying sunbathing on the beach of Cassandra, news came from Thessalonika that the workers, peasants and some of the army there were strongly dissatisfied with the national autonomy policy issued by the ruling young Turkish party. At present, the rioters will occupy most of the urban area, but the government forces immediately surrounded the urban area and asked Kemal to lead his troops to attack the urban area from the port.
"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Everyone in the conference room looked at Chen Tian.
"Uh... I'm here for vacation, it should be decided by General Kemal, your highest commander here! I'll just listen!" Chen Tian nodded to Kemal.
"According to existing ships, we can only transport 800 soldiers at a time, so I think our mission is to occupy the port and docks of Thessalonika and hold them there!" Kemal looked at everyone and continued: "This time I am going to mobilize my two battalions there, and General Oztulk is responsible for the ships for this operation!"
Everyone didn't say anything.
"So, Your Highness, and Lieutenant Colonel Oli, do you want to participate in this operation?"
"Why not? Lisa and I have long wanted to go to Thessalonika to see it!"
"Your Highness, but it doesn't seem safe there. If the rebels bombard us with cannons..." Oztulk was still scared of the last time he was shot by Oli.
Chen Tian didn't say anything, just waited for Kemal's opinion.
"I think this operation is different from the last time we attacked Thessalonika. This time it was just a riot between ordinary people and some troops. It is not certain whether there will be a large-scale battle!" Kemal thought for a long time, and he felt that the possibility of a peaceful solution to this matter was high after all.
In the evening of that day, Kemal's two battalions boarded four transport ships, Chentian, Lisa, Kemal, Oli and Oztulk rode the only destroyer, and they drove towards Thessalonika under the escort of two shore defense gunboats.
At dawn the next day, they arrived at the port of Thessalonika.
"Wow... so beautiful!" Lisa stood on the deck and watched the sun slowly rise from the sea. The entire harbor was bathed in a soft morning light, and everything seemed so beautiful!
"I have seen sunrises all over the world, and it is very beautiful here!" Chen Tian recalled seeing sunrises from different places while sailing around the world. For this world, every time the sun rises, it represents new hope.
Bang...
The gunshots in the distance pierced the silence and pulled Chen Tian back from his memories.
"Look at the dock!" The sailors on the watchtower suddenly shouted.
Chen Tian hurried back to the command room with Lisa.
"Your Highness, there is a fierce exchange of fire on the dock! We are trying to figure out what is going on there, and the soldiers are ready to land!"
"General, you are the commander here, you don't need to report anything to me!" Chen Tian took the telescope handed over by Kemal. The dock was full of messy people, and the gunfire became more and more intense. As they got closer and closer to the dock, Chen Tian found that there was a one-sided situation there, and the government soldiers were shooting at the crowd in an organized manner.
"Kemal, what's going on? Those people are unarmed people, why are the army still shooting at them!"
Kemal did not answer, but rushed outside the command room and shouted loudly: "Soldiers are ready to land to maintain order. No shooting is allowed without my order!"
"Oli, let our soldiers prepare the 'firebird' on the side of the ship!" Chen Tian brought a platoon of the Oli regiment and 5 "firebirds" this time.
"Yes! But we won't be shooting at the crowd!" Ollie looked at Chen Tian with a little confusion.
"Of course not! Didn't you see women and children in the crowd? Tell the soldiers to use machine gun fire to separate the Turkish soldiers and the people and try to shoot at the open space between them!" Looking at Lisa who was holding his arm tightly, Chen Tian decided to do his best to stop the massacre, but he did not have much confidence in whether this could stop the Turks.
Kemal's four transport ships quickly landed, and his soldiers rushed to the dock, but unfortunately they were too few to completely separate the government forces from the crowd, and the situation looked even more chaotic. However, due to their arrival, the government forces had stopped shooting at the crowd, although soldiers still attacked the crowd with bayonets and butt stocks.
Tatta...
The machine guns on Chen Tian's side opened fire, and dense bullets were jumping in front of the Turkish government forces, and the soldiers were all stunned.
After waiting for dozens of seconds, the machine gun sound finally stopped, and a strange scene appeared on the dock. Turkish soldiers and the people were standing there, staring at Chen Tian blankly. The power of the five machine guns concentrated shooting shocked everyone.
Kemal also breathed a sigh of relief, stood on the bridge and shouted loudly, "I am Turkish Brigadier General Kemal! I order everyone to stop! No one can attack the other party again!"
The rioters and the government soldiers occupied both sides of the dock, separated by Kemal's troops in the middle. Kemal ran to the government troops to communicate with their commanders.
"Huh...it finally stopped!" Chen Tian let out a long sigh. What he didn't want to see was the massacre of the people.
When Kemal walked back, the government troops had already begun to retreat and the crowd gradually dispersed. The citizens here only conducted demonstrations, while the government dispatched troops to block the streets, and later shot the crowd. As a result, the parade became a riot. Some soldiers participated in the owed military pay due to dissatisfaction, and drove the government troops out of the city one day before. However, at night, these soldiers had already surrendered under the leadership of the officers. However, when the government soldiers entered the city, they encountered the citizens who were preparing to march and demonstrate again. The citizens thought that the army was here to capture them, and the soldiers who were unaware of the situation thought that they were the people who drove them outside the city the day before, and then a fierce conflict occurred. When Chen Tian and the others arrived at the port, the citizens had been forced back to the dock by the army.
"General Kemal, I didn't expect that your country would be so turbulent. It seems that it needs a complete revolution!" Looking at Kemal who was in a heavy mood, Chen Tian said profoundly.
"A total revolution?" Kemal raised his head and nodded firmly after a long time.
Chapter completed!