Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 215

The fleet commander, Vice Admiral Cantoriotis, in the command tower of the Terry Kupis, the flagship of the Rapid Response Fleet, ordered the fleet to set sail.

The searchlights on the flagship pierced through the thick fog, constantly conveying the fleet commander’s orders to the surrounding warships.

When the distance is relatively short, the warships communicate with each other through light signals, which is much faster than wireless communication.

The warships in the port, black smoke billows from the chimneys, rising into the sky, the loud whistle sound, startling the seagulls scattered.

Almost all the essence of the Greek Navy, the fleet formed, officially set sail!

The ships following the fleet, in addition to the two supply ships, were two 10,000-ton freighters leased by the Greek Navy from the private sector.

On board are 3,000 soldiers of the Marine Corps, as well as their full set of equipment.

The task of the Greek navy is severe. As the only naval force in the Balkan alliance, the Greek navy must play an important role.

The Greek Navy faces important tasks:

1 Capture the islands of the Aegean Sea, especially those in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea.

2. Blockade the Dardanelles, cut off the Ottoman Empire by sea, and support the possibility of the Macedonian battlefield.

3 Blockade of the Aegean Sea and the Ottoman coastal routes in the Eastern Mediterranean.

From the Suez Canal, Palestine, Syria, all the way north, to Asia Minor, to the Dardanelles, these coastal areas of the Ottoman Empire are all within the scope of the Greek Navy’s operations.

There are many islands in the Aegean Sea, and on these islands, Greeks have lived for generations.

The blockade of the Ottoman Empire’s offshore routes was an economic blow to the enemy.

Among them, the most important role is to block the Dardanelles and cut off the Ottoman Empire from supporting the Balkan battlefield by sea and land.

This is crucial to the outcome of the war.

If the Ottoman Empire uses its huge military force in Asia to mobilize its potential military sources in Asia, it is indeed possible to change the balance of forces between the two sides, and the situation will not be optimistic.

The three Balkan countries have a total population of about 10 million and a total territorial area of ​​no more than 500,000.

After all, the Ottoman Empire was a skinny camel bigger than a horse, with a total population of about 20 million and a nominal territory of 5 million square kilometers.

Just looking at the data on paper, the Balkan alliance has no advantage.

In the war of 1897, Greece was able to win, and there were many tricky factors.

At that time, the Ottoman Empire was in a special period.

Its large number of old armies are no longer sufficient, and their backward equipment and tactics are out of tune with modern warfare.

A new army is being transformed and trained with the help of German officers.

When the war broke out in 1897, the new army of the Ottoman Empire was not completed, the old army was corrupted and degenerate, and the military power of the whole country was in a special period of green and yellow.

Greece can be considered to have taken advantage of a loophole, and there are many fluke factors.

The Ottoman army in 1912 was completely different.

German officers helped Sudan train hundreds of thousands of new troops whose weapons were entirely sourced from Germany.

The rifle is Mauser 98, and the artillery is Krupp.

In the previous Libyan war, the Ottoman army fought against the European powers Italy, and was baptized by the war.

Politically, the Turkish Al-Shabaab launched a coup d’etat. The Turkish Al-Shabaab, which has close ties with the Ottoman army, naturally supported the new Ottoman army, an armed force under its control, after it entered the political arena.

In the early days of the war, Greece had a small plan to cut off the passage of the Ottoman Empire from the sea to support the Balkan battlefield through the Greek navy.

If the Aegean Sea can be blocked, the Ottoman Empire’s troops deployed in Asia, even if they are dispatched to support, can only resist the Bulgarians in the trenches near Istanbul due to the poor passage.

The Greek army in Macedonia is basically unlikely to encounter these reinforcements.

After Bulgaria acquired Eastern Rumelia, the Bulgarian border was only nearly 100 kilometers away from Constantinople, posing a serious threat to the Ottoman Empire.

Greece is naturally willing to see Bulgaria, the most powerful army in the Balkan Alliance, take more responsibility.

The quick-response fleet led by Cantoriotis had the most important responsibility, which was to block the Dardanelles.

This means that the quick reaction fleet is likely to have a naval battle with the main force of the Ottoman navy.

After all, the Ottoman Empire, no matter what, could not endure the shame of being blocked by the Greek navy at the gates of the Dardanelles.

In the war of 1897, the Ottoman navy was unable to stop the actions of the Greek navy, which led to a surprise attack on Thessaloniki by the Greek navy’s auxiliary army, which directly caused the Ottoman Empire to lose the war.

In the recent Italian-Turkish war, the Ottoman navy feared the strength of the Italian navy again.

After all, there is a huge gap in strength between the two sides. The Ottoman navy is wise to protect itself. During the whole Italian-Turkish war, they huddled in the Dardanelles Strait and did not dare to go out to fight.

So much so that the Ottomans had to find a way to support the Libyan battlefield from a long overland route, to go around a big circle and send support troops to Libya through Egypt, and it also depends on the face of the British (Egypt was controlled by the British Century).

Now, once again, the Ottoman navy faces a difficult choice – whether to engage the dominant Greek navy.

The quick reaction fleet, under the command of Cantoriotis, after passing through the Kafirev Strait, headed north all the way to Limous Island.

Limous Island, located in the north-central Aegean Sea, guards the Dardanelles, only a few dozen nautical miles away from the Dardanelles.

Once the Greek navy occupies the island, it will be like a nail, providing the Greek navy with a forward base close to the Dardanelles~www.mtlnovel.com~ to monitor the movements of the Ottoman navy in the Dardanelles.

The Dardanelles is the main base of the Ottoman navy.

At seven in the morning on October 19, the entire fleet reached 30 nautical miles south of Limous Island.

The three destroyers in the fleet, under the command of the fleet commander, carried out reconnaissance and vigilance work around the island of Limous to explore whether there was any Ottoman naval activity in the nearby waters.

In the command room, Cantoriotis was discussing with the officers how to take down Limous Island.

“Colonel Feillard, you also know the importance of the strategic location of Limous Island, are you sure you can take it here?” Cantoriotis asked.

Colonel Ferrard, commander of the Marine Corps.

The Marine Corps, so far, is the only force in the Greek Navy capable of land combat.

The original intention of its establishment was to facilitate the capture of islands in the Aegean Sea by the Greek Navy.

“If the fleet can secure the blockade of Limous Island, the Marine Corps is of course confident in capturing the island, in a few days,” Colonel Ferrard said without hesitation.

According to the information collected by the intelligence department before the war, due to the important strategic location of the island, there have been three or four hundred Ottoman troops stationed here.

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