The total number of casualties in the two days was nearly 15,000, and more than 6,000 people were killed directly in battle. Such heavy losses have never happened in Turkish history. Even the Turks, who are not afraid of death, are a little scared now.
Already.
It’s only been two days!
Even fifteen thousand pigs can't be killed that fast!
Therefore, the Turks want to take it slow first and regain their health. If they continue like this, they will be a little unbearable.
However, the British and French did not agree, because it was not their people who died first. Although their artillery participated in the battle, the infantry and cavalry were still watching the show. Anyway, they did not like the Russians or the Turks.
Wouldn't it be nice to let them fight to the death and shed more blood?
This is one, and the other is that the British and French generals believed that after two days of fierce fighting, the Russians should have reached their limit. As long as Turkey continued to strengthen its offensive, it would be easy to eliminate the opponent in one fell swoop.
If we can kill more than 30,000 Russian naval infantry in one fell swoop, it will be a brilliant victory. It can give reassurance to those domestic elites who still have doubts about Russia's declaration of war. Incidentally, it can also make Turkey more powerful.
Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, Britain and France strongly demanded that Turkey continue to maintain the offensive on the third day and deal with the Russian naval infantry as soon as possible.
It can only be said that the Turks are relatively pitiful. They have not been the protagonists of this war from the beginning. Although they are the ones who are beaten and suffer, it is not up to them to decide whether to fight and how to fight. Without the support of the British and French fathers, they
He couldn't last a day, so when the British and French fathers strongly requested it, even the Turkish commander had doubts and had no choice but to go ahead and carry it out.
The third script was no different from the previous two days. The British and French artillery still opened fire fiercely. The only difference from the first two days was that there were not many targets they could find. There was no longer a building outside Ineada.
The complete building doesn't even have a decent broken wall.
The artillery observer looked up and saw nothing but ruins. So the question became, where would the bullets rain down? Is it the ruins or the pile of waste land and garbage?
The British and French artillery could hardly find any decent valuable targets, and even no trace of the Russian army could be found in the ruins. But their superiors ordered them to rain down bullets, so they could only shoot blindly and randomly.
Compared with the previous two days, the artillery fire of the British and French Expeditionary Forces was obviously lacking in structure. It looked like a hail of bullets, but in fact it was completely aimless. A large number of artillery shells were wasted on meaningless ruins. The losses of the Russian army were minimal.
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Moreover, the preparations for this artillery fire were a little hasty compared with the previous two days. On the one hand, there were not enough targets, and on the other hand, the British and French ammunition reserves were not enough. After all, new explosive bombs were not produced by barbarians like Turkey. With the British and French expedition
It seems that the army's reserve is one round less than one shot, and the past two days have been a bit too wasteful, so their explosive bombs are not enough.
The Turks also changed slightly. The corpses everywhere made it difficult to maintain a dense formation, so they could only slightly widen the gap between the formations and launch a charge in a relatively loose and loose formation.
Of course, from the perspective of future generations, this kind of looseness is far from enough. It is still a dense formation, which is simply giving away people's lives.
Fortunately, the Russian army did not have machine guns, otherwise the grand occasion of the First World War at Verdun would have been born in advance. However, the Turkish army was still in trouble. They were greeted by dense rain of bullets. They were knocked down one by one, and then looked like zombies.
He trampled on the corpses of his own people and continued to move forward until he was knocked down again.
Two thousand lives were lost this morning alone, and some battlefields were littered with corpses.
However, the huge sacrifice did not bring about the expected victory. The Russian army dealt with it relatively easily. The excellent results of the trenches the day before gave the soldiers great confidence. Almost all front-line soldiers began to dig trenches frantically. Not only did they dig
The foxholes initially connected the foxholes to form a relatively simple and primitive trench.
Some survivalists went to great lengths to reinforce their foxholes, using wood and bags to build fortifications. As long as they were not directly hit by explosive bombs, there would be no big problem.
"Your soldiers are all cowards. Look at how loose your formation looks! If you want to break down the enemy's defense line, you must form a tight formation and surge up like a wave, otherwise there is no use!"
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Regarding the failure of the Turks, the British and French commanders believed that the key reason was that the Turkish army was as timid as mice and had poor military quality. They believed that the Turkish army's array was too loose and loose like a group of second-rate soldiers. What's the point of this!
"We must form a tighter formation to attack!"
The Turkish army commanders are not smart. They have been taught countless lessons by the Western powers. They subconsciously believe that the Western powers must be right. Even if they fart, they should be regarded as a blessing!
So after an adjustment at noon, the Turkish commander formed the densest formation in history and launched a new offensive, and then... and then nothing happened!
In the afternoon, the Turkish army's losses were twice as high as in the morning, and another 4,000 lives were lost outside Ineada. If the wounded are included, they lost nearly 12,000 people that day!
Okay!
The Turkish army originally had only a little over 100,000 troops on the battlefield. After these three days of fierce fighting, more than one-third of the number was reduced. Even the Turkish army could not bear it anymore and could only tell the British and French fathers in despair:
"We tried our best, but the troops suffered heavy casualties and are in urgent need of rest and recuperation!"
The faces of the British and French were as ugly as ever. They felt that the Turks were just sneaky and cunning, and they only stopped fighting for three days with heavy thunder and light rain. No wonder they have been beaten by the Russians over the years.
They were extremely dissatisfied with the poor performance of the Turkish army and believed that Turkey was an out-and-out sick man of the Near East. They even shamelessly criticized and ridiculed the Turkish army commander and threatened to say:
"Tomorrow we will go on the offensive, and we will tell you with actual actions how real soldiers fight!"
The British and French commanders actually looked down upon the Russians. Even though the performance of the Russian army in the past half and thirty years was still relatively impressive, they always believed that the reason why the Russian army was able to win was not because of the high quality of the Russian army.
How clever the general is, but just because the Russians have a large number of people, they can use the human wave tactic unscrupulously.
He even asserted that if the same number of Russian troops encountered the British army, the French army, or even any army in Western Europe, they would be beaten because polar bears are so rough and savage!