Given that the party was extremely unfamiliar with the objective reality of the battlefield terrain, the poet General Hamilton planned a landing plan to fully develop the subjective initiative of the front-line officers and soldiers. He only arranged a roughly direction of landing - the Anzac-New Zealand Army from the North Road, the British Army from the South Road, and the French troops feinted the attack on the other side of the strait. The specific landing field was "freely chosen" by the front-line commander.

On April 20, Sir Hamilton officially announced the plan at the combat meeting, and then... Then he calmly wrote poems... So tens of thousands of landing troops were sent out without knowing the general direction and time.

The Jazz's subordinates had their own thoughts. Sir William Birdwood, the commander of the ANZ Legion on the North Road, believed that launching an offensive at night could have a surprise attack, while General Hunter Weston on the South Road felt that the daytime attack was more conducive to the fleet's fire support.

On April 25, the ANZF landed at the toe position of Sadirbashir on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Due to severe lack of light at night, a large number of landing troops began to get lost before they reached the beach, while the Turks did not doze off this night.

At 3 a.m., the landing ships arrived at the shore. Unfortunately, the landing ground that Sir Birdwood improvised was a narrow Jedi with cliffs on both sides. The landing troops could not be deployed, and a large number of people and supplies were limited to the long and narrow beach heads of less than two square kilometers. The soldiers crawled forward with dark eyes as the officers scolded him.

"Bang...hiss..." Suddenly, a flash bomb exploded in the sky, followed by the second and third.... The strong light illuminated the night, and all the Anzac-New Zealand soldiers were exposed to the guns of the Turkish army. The coalition's sneak attack instantly turned into a strong attack.

The Turks' condescending shelling began, and the crowded beachheads of the ANZE Legion became a huge living target. Each Turkish artillery shell could roll up the flesh and blood of many soldiers, while the coalition soldiers could only lie on the ground honestly or run around.

The unilateral massacre lasted for two hours. After dawn, the entire landing ground was filled with corpses and wounded soldiers, broken material fragments and broken limbs of human bodies were everywhere. The living soldiers were shocked. These Australian cowboys had never seen such a bloody scene, even in the beef slaughterhouse.

Fortunately, the British and French fleets with absolute firepower at sea suppressed the Turkish artillery fire after dawn and alleviated the plight of the ANZI Legion. Some wounded soldiers were able to evacuate the beachhead, and the intact soldiers had to stay there. The new soldiers continued to land under the cover of artillery fire.

At dusk that day, Sir Birdwood received a report of casualties in the army: more than 2,500 casualties. The Jazz just frowned slightly: the number of casualties seemed to be a bit large. But that doesn't matter. In the eyes of the Jazz, these Australians and New Zealanders were just second-class citizens of the British Empire, and it doesn't matter how much they died.

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By the second day, more than 16,000 officers and soldiers of the ANZR had already landed. However, because the Turks occupied the commanding heights, the coalition forces were unable to expand the landing field. Instead, the Turks who received reinforcements strengthened their artillery force. The landing troops could only find caves and craters on the spot to avoid artillery fire. The casualties continued to rise, but the front line was advancing very slowly.

The front-line troops blocking the landing of the coalition were the 19th Division of the Turkish Army. The commander was Colonel Mustafa Kemal. Originally, in a few years, he would become the founding father of the "New Turkey", but now, he is just a soldier loyal to the motherland, and of course, in the future.

Kemal knew very well that his equipment was far inferior to that of the British and French coalition forces, and his only advantage was that he occupied favorable terrain. So he ordered the troops to gather all artillery and bombard the enemies on the beach, and at the same time let all infantry dig fortifications. In order to motivate the soldiers, the colonel personally picked up the engineer shovel and worked with ordinary soldiers...

At the same time, the officers and soldiers of the ANZE Legion were also doing the same. In the following days, the 19th Division of the Turkish Army and the coalition began a stalemate at the cost of continuous deaths. Both sides used cannons to dig fortifications, and the number of casualties continued to rise. Although the firepower of the Turkish Army was far inferior to that of the ANZE Legion with naval gun support, the casualties were similar to those of the opponent, basically one was changed. The war of attrition on the Western Front of Europe repeated here......

On May 5, the German adviser, General Sanders, the actual commander of the Turkish army, felt that the coalition forces, which had been on the beach with shells flying across the sea for ten days, should have been mentally broken, so he ordered the Turkish army to launch a counterattack. However, he did not expect that these cowboys from the southern hemisphere were still energetic after being bombarded for ten days. The Turkish army that had been separated from the fortifications was obviously not the opponent of the ANZ. The Turks who were counterattacking were quickly defeated, but the ANZ was blocked by the Turks who were hiding back to the fortifications the next day, and both sides had to return to their state a few days ago.

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Compared with the battle on land, the battle situation at sea is even more embarrassing to the British. The German submarine U21 destroyed two British battleships in the Aegean Sea within two days.

On May 25, U21 rushed to more than 4,000 nautical miles a long distance, sneaked into the Allied Navy anchorage in the Cape of Greece at night. It was not until dawn that the periscope rose up and picked the largest British battleship Triomphe. Its attacked Triomphe with just one torpedo. Then U21 did not stop when it was better, but instead sneaked to the sinking Triomphe, waiting. The British patrol boat and destroyer torpedo at the anchorage for a day but couldn't find it. The next day, U21 floated up and picked another battleship Dignity, launching the torpedo at the tail of the boat, and sank the Dignity. Only then did the U21 leave in the chaos.

At the naval anchorage where the British army was heavily alerted, U21 spent two torpedoes sank two British battleships in two days and retreated, completely humiliating the British Empire's maritime hegemony.

After suffering from the U21, the British Navy finally could not bear such huge ship losses. At the end of May, the big guys of the Navy completely lost the courage to stay in Dardanell, and left in shame with the army, which was still fighting hard on the beach. Also this month, Navy Minister Churchill stepped down.

Mr. Churchill completely failed. He advocated that the landing of the "Navy Army Joint" surprise attack did not end with his step, but evolved into the same trench war as the Western Front. The infantry on both sides fought meaninglessly in the mud filled with corpses for several months. All attacks and counterattacks were weak when they reached the opponent's trenches.

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