346 The Ottoman War Returns(2/2)
This is the fundamental reason why the London government takes military measures.
In the eyes of the Qing court, there is no need to be credible with the barbarians...
Since the image of the barbarian in the eyes of the Qing court cannot be changed, then the other party will admit that he is a civilized person!
Isn’t the difference between civilization and barbarism the stronger and weaker?
After the imperial meeting ended, the Roman Empire once again started the war after two years of silence.
In just one month, the Czechoslovak Legion, with the smallest number of people, boarded the Mediterranean Fleet of the Roman Empire, landed on the other end of the Constantinople Strait, and defeated the Ottoman Empire 10,000 troops who came to support it in one day!
Since Istanbul fell, the elite of the Ottoman Empire has been exhausted. The current Ottoman New Army has been reorganized in the past two years.
Even though all members were equipped with bayonet flintlock rifles produced in Britain and conducted all-weather military training, they were still a unit that had never seen blood.
As a result, in the first actual battle, the Roman Guards were wiped out by the same number of people. Since there was no established cavalry unit, except for a small number of officers and generals riding horses, they all fell into the hands of the Czechoslovak Legion.
In this battle, the Czechoslovak Legion lost only more than 800 men.
The Ottoman New Army is already the most elite unit that the Ottoman Empire Sultan can produce. With the same number of people, it was scored 800 to 10,000. How can I fight?
You know, the Ottoman New Army has only reorganized more than 60,000 people!
These new Ottoman troops also have to protect the capital and various big cities, and it is impossible to pull them all out!
The previous battle of Istanbul has proved that the traditional feudal army of the Ottoman Empire should have been eliminated long ago. When they went to the battlefield, they could not even stand the enemy's volleyball, and they did not have the qualification to be cannon fodder!
The Ottoman Empire's Sultan did not expect that the Roman Empire would be killed so quickly. Wouldn't the tyrant Li Wei be worried that other countries in the continent would make trouble behind him?
The Ottoman Sultan, whose news was lagging behind, had no idea that the Roman Empire's army is now brainwashed and loyal, with the combat power of the French Defense Forces before, rather than being mixed with the vassal servants with poor combat power.
The regular army of the Roman Empire had more than 600,000 on the books, and the Ottoman Empire's sultans thought half of them were former vassals.
In addition, the Ottoman Sultan also overestimated the combat effectiveness of the new army he had rebuilt. It was not until the landing war that the Ottoman Sultan truly woke up the Ottoman Empire.
So, on the third day after the battle, the commander of the Czechoslovak Legion on the front line was visited by the envoys of the Ottoman Empire.
This time, the Ottoman Empire surrendered very sincerely. Not only did it formally recognize the establishment of the Roman Empire, but it ceded all the territory that the Roman Empire had occupied (legal basis), but it was also willing to pay a good war reparation in the name of pensioning the fallen soldiers of the Roman Empire!
Now the Ottoman navy has been suppressed by the Mediterranean fleet of the Roman Empire so dare not leave the port. The new army on the land is weak in combat, and the top leaders of the Ottoman Empire no longer see the hope of victory.
However, when the Czechoslovak commander proposed to ced the Asia Minor region, the top leaders of the Ottoman Empire decisively refused.
Chapter completed!