The German Bayonet

Kassandra is a small coastal town hundreds of miles southeast of Thessaloniki and a naval fortress in Turkey. A small fleet of the Turkish Navy is stationed here, including 2 destroyers, 3 coastal defense gunboats, 3 torpedo boats and a number of transport ships, as well as more than 2,000 fortress troops. The commander here is Rear Admiral Ozturk, one of the few heroic generals in the Turkish army, but because of his strange temper and against his superiors, he was sent to this small place. Although the weapons in the hands of the soldiers here are no different from those of other Turkish troops, under Ozturk's training, their combat power and morale are a bit higher than that of ordinary Turkish troops.

When Kemal's troops appeared outside Thessaloniki, Ozturk received a request for help from the Governor of Thessaloniki, and then he led 2 destroyers and 1,500 fortress garrisons from the waterway to reinforcements. When Kemal led his troops to clear out the recalcitrants in the city, Ozturk's fleet had just entered the port of Thessaloniki.

Seeing Turkish soldiers shooting at each other on the pier, Ozturk understood that the Revolutionary Party outside the city had already stormed into the city. He quickly commanded his soldiers to land and occupy the pier with the support of naval guns, and then began to gather the defeated soldiers to hold on to the port.

Kemal's forces regrouped two blocks east of the pier after failing to attack the port, and at the same time sent people to notify Ollie outside the city to come to support.

"What? Warships! Shelling!" Oli heard that the communications officer sent by Kemal said that warships appeared in the port and shelled the troops attacking the port. He hurriedly pulled him to the front of the map, "Tell me how many warships there are? Where is it?"

It's a pity that the poor communicator was driven back by the opponent's artillery without seeing what the warship looked like, so he couldn't provide useful information to Ollie. Fortunately, for the convenience of communication, an open space outside the city has been used as a temporary airport, and two planes were parked there at this time.

"Link, you take a battalion to gather the artillery of the Turkish army defending the city, and find more artillery shells!" Oli ordered the officers below, and ran towards the plane himself, "Pilot! Hurry up and get ready to take off." I want to go to the port to see!"

When Oli flew over the port of Thessaloniki in a plane, Kemal's troops were launching an assault on the dock. The Turkish army holding the dock was shooting frantically with machine guns, and the two destroyers in the port continued to attack the side. Fire was opened, and from time to time there were stumps and limbs thrown up high in the attacking crowd.

"Pilot, lower it a bit!" Ollie sat in the position of the co-pilot. This was the first time he observed a battle from this angle.

Major General Ozturk, standing on the bridge of the destroyer, watched the plane roaring over his head. He had only heard of planes before, and this was the first time he saw a real thing. Although he didn't know what effect this thing not much bigger than a carriage had, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Okay, pilot! Let's fly around the port again!" Ollie has clearly seen that the warships in the port are just two old destroyers. They only need to find a position suitable for bombardment, and use 6-pounder guns to take them. Kill.

When the plane returned from the port, Ollie had found the position he wanted-there was a small open space behind a street to the north of the port, from where the gun could just cross the roof to reach the destroyer, but the destroyer's gunfire could not be directly Hit there. At this time, Ori's soldiers had gathered eight 6-pounder guns that could be used on the Turkish garrison's position and found hundreds of shells from the arsenal. Ollie took a battalion and 4 cannons to the firing position on the north side of the pier, while the remaining troops and artillery went to the east side of the pier to support Kemal.

After half an hour, Ollie and his troops finally arrived there. At this time, the situation at the pier was already very bad. The Turkish army had gathered more than 4,000 soldiers under the leadership of Ozturk, and the artillery on the warship caused great casualties to Kemal's troops. The support troops of the Oriids came up, and Kemal was ready to retreat. Although most of the garrison in Thessaloniki has declared an uprising, they do not have a unified command and cannot cooperate with Kemal's forces. They just rush forward blindly and eventually become the dead souls of the Turkish navy. When the situation is not good for them, some people even start to waver.

"Everyone quickly get the artillery ready, and the rest are building defensive positions nearby! Take two machine guns to block the streets, and occupy a few houses over there!" Ollie commanded his soldiers to prepare quickly, due to the distance from the dock. In the near future, he must use the three hundred soldiers in his hand to deal with the possible enemy attack on the dock.

Boom...boom...

Several water columns rose up not far from the destroyer Ozturk was on. The officers on the ship raised their telescopes to observe where the artillery was and then fired at them, but all they could see was the corpse. Ruins, there is no shadow of artillery at all.

Boom...

After dozens of seconds, the rising water column got closer, and this time the destroyer began to shake.

"Quick! Find out the location of the enemy's artillery, and fight back quickly!" Ozturk shouted anxiously, but no one knew where the cannonballs came from, and the burning smoke around the dock also covered the artillery's rise after it was launched. The gunpowder.

boom...

Finally, another destroyer received a heavy blow, and the fire quickly rushed to the old-style destroyer with an iron and wooden shell.

"Hurry up, or we will be hit sooner or later!" Ozturk finally remembered something and ordered his warship to start moving. Just then another shell hit the hapless destroyer just now, followed by a violent explosion, and the ship began to tilt and soon began to sink.

"Great! Now focus your firepower on the other one, don't let it run away!" Ollie lay on the roof in front of the artillery position, watching one destroyer burning and sinking, while the other one began to slowly Move up.

"Lieutenant Colonel, the enemy's infantry is coming up!" The Turkish army on the dock had already discovered that the artillery shells were flying out from here, and Ozturk's troops led the charge.

"The artillery continues to shoot, and the others deal with the enemy's infantry!" Ollie climbed down from the roof and ran to the street to command the soldiers to defend. The first wave of Turkish soldiers about two hundred people rushed over with rifles.

"Looking for death!" Ollie smiled contemptuously. The two Maxims that blocked the street were enough to reimburse them.

On the destroyer spinning in the harbor, Major Ozturk would see through his binoculars that his soldiers were brought down as if they were cutting wheat, and the streets were full of dead bodies.

"Their artillery must be behind the houses on both sides of the street, fire on that side!" Ozturk excitedly shouted to the sailors on the deck gun stand. The other side's shells were chasing him, and one unexpectedly came from the ship's string. After passing, the frightened people in the boat immediately knelt and thanked Allah for blessing. "Communications, semaphore! Let the soldiers on the dock continue to attack after our shelling, and we must destroy the artillery position!"

Ozturk realized that his whole body was soaked in sweat. As long as the opponent's artillery appeared, he would immediately be wiped out by the superior artillery fire on his ship. This time the opponent found such a hidden place, and the fired shells were just right. Going over the roof, you can't see or hit that position. Now you can only use naval guns to weaken the opponent's infantry defense, and then let your infantry rush up to destroy the cannon there.

"Everyone quickly hide..."

Boom...boom...

After a burst of shelling, the two machine guns at the entrance of the street had been reimbursed, and more than a dozen Ori soldiers fell in a pool of blood. At this time, Ollie couldn't care about the distress, and commanded the soldiers to drag the wounded to the back for rescue, and then he was ready to meet the opponent's infantry charge.

"Oh...oh..." This time, nearly a thousand Turkish soldiers rushed up. Although the warships in the port were no longer able to take care of the dock at this time, the Turkish army's machine guns on the dock were still firmly suppressed. The offensive troops on Kemal's side.

"Shoot!" Two machine guns were missing and the sound of gunshots on Ollie's side became sparse. All that was left was a Maxim on the second floor on the right side of the street, and then Mauser 1898 in everyone's hands.

The Turkish soldiers fell one by one on the street, but more people swarmed from behind.

"Damn! Why are these Turkish bunnies so brave!" A German veteran on Oli's side spat angrily, pulled the gun, ejected the shell, loaded it, aimed, and pulled the trigger. 5 seconds later, another Turk headed. A cloud of blood spurted out, and then fell to the ground and twitched twice.

Click... Click...

The only Maxine got stuck at this moment, and the Turks rushed even more fiercely.

When the Turkish soldiers rushed 50 meters away, the soldiers of the Ori regiment threw their grenades out one after another, and the Turks suddenly fell down again, but the people behind did not intend to stop the charge.

"Fight, get bayonet!" Ollie shouted the words "up bayonet" very loudly. The German soldiers suddenly boiled with blood, and the blood of Germany began to explode.

"kill..."

The Turkish soldiers rushing in front saw the group of tigers descending from the mountain. They were so frightened that they were ready to retreat, but the soldiers behind squeezed up again, and they just bite the bullet.

But how could they be the opponents of these well-trained and experienced German veterans? Within a few minutes, dozens of Turkish soldiers fell under Mauser's 1898 bayonet. Finally, these Turks were blocked by their aura, and they retreated one after another.

Ta ta ta...

At the critical moment, the machine gunners finally repaired the Maxine and vented the bullets frantically at the retreating Turk.

After pushing the destroyer out of range, Orly's cannon adjusted its direction and started shooting at the Turks on the dock. Soon the offensive troops on the east side of the dock finally broke through the defense line and rushed to the dock. Seeing that the situation was over, the Turkish soldiers on the dock dropped their weapons and raised their hands. Had it not been for the 1,500 soldiers brought by Ozturk, the other "Turkish rabbits" would have surrendered long ago.

In the distance, Ozturk stood at the rear of the destroyer, looking at the burning harbor with a heavy heart. I lost half of the ship this time, and the soldiers trained so hard are all left to the enemy, and I don't know what to use to defend Cassandra.

At dusk, the battle of Thessaloniki came to a successful conclusion. The 33,000 defenders of the Turkish Third Army were wiped out. The Orly Regiment lost 63 soldiers and more than 100 were wounded. Kemal's guerrillas suffered nearly 1,000 casualties. The significance of the revolution is extremely significant.

Half a month later, Major General Ozturk led all the defenders and ships of the Kassandra Fortress to surrender to Kemal's forces.