Cannonballs!

The shells fell on several bastions in the Dardanelles like raindrops. The heavy conical shells drilled into the stone wall like awls, and exploded inside them. Each explosion could always blow up deep pits, large or small, on the turrets. In the fierce artillery fire, the Turks were constantly firing fire to counterattack. Red incendiary bombs roared to the sea, but at a distance of several miles apart, the accuracy of the cannon installation in front of the smooth bore was extremely touching, so that the scorching shells only shot out water columns on the sea.

Under the Ming army's artillery bombardment, the coastal turret gradually turned into ruins. For the Turks guarding the turret, they could all feel the determination of the Chinese from the fierce artillery fire.

"The Chinese must want to seize the Dardanelles!"

Without any hesitation, General Rauff immediately ordered the strengthening of defense in the strait area to prevent the Chinese from landing.

“Fortunately, the terrain in this area is not suitable for landing.”

Lafwu said to himself. Finally, he stared at the map and even began to imagine how to use the special terrain and coastal artillery here to severely damage the Chinese who were trying to come from the sea.

In fact, he had such an idea. After all, the terrain of this area is indeed not suitable for landing. Looking down at the ridges and steep slopes of the seashore provide excellent defensive positions. Any army that attempts to land here will suffer an extremely heavy price.

Hundreds of years later, when the British Navy Minister with a cigar in his arms drew a circle in the Dardanelles, the 410,000 British and French expeditionary forces suffered more than 200,000 casualties, which was the highlight of the Turks. Now, for General Rafwu who was guarding this place, he was looking forward to creating a miracle here to defeat the Chinese!

Amid the fierce shelling of the joint fleet, the Turkish positions and the artillery were flooded by the yellow flames and smoke and dust caused by the explosion of the shells. In this case, no one on the position could survive.

When Kemal was ordered to lead his troops to reinforce the fortress, even though he had not yet approached the fortress, he felt that the unprecedented pressure and fierce artillery fire had completely covered the fortress.

"The Chinese must have wanted to seize the Dardanelles from here!"

Kemal turned his head and shouted loudly at the soldiers beside him.

"We must stay here until the Chinese are repelled!"

However, he did not know that when he was supporting the fort with artillery fire, a large fleet appeared in the Bay of Saros in the north of the strait. For a moment, the entire bay was filled with white sails, and white sampans were put down from the sea. As the soldiers rowed their boats towards the coast, the Turkish shepherd stood on the bare Bolayer ridge and looked at the fleet in the bay with dumbfounded eyes.

The shepherd shouted in horror and rushed towards the nearest town, which is the narrowest area of ​​the Gallipoli Peninsula and also a breakthrough for Zhu Heyu to choose.

"The Turks' fortresses are concentrated on both sides of the Dardanelles, the Gallipoli Peninsula and parts of Asia on the other side. There are seven bastioned fortresses and more than three hundred cannons. They think it is foolproof, but here..."

From the telescope, Zhu Heyu smiled.

"As long as we occupy this place, the Turks' fortress in the Dardanelles will become a decoration. Our army can land from here, then climb over the Bolaïr Mountain, board the other side of the shore, and directly support Zheng Sen in Constantinople..."

Why choose this as the login site?

Because from here to Bolayer, the Gallipoli Peninsula is only about eight miles wide. After the Ming army landed, they could easily cut off the peninsula along the line from Saros Bay to Bolayer.

Is it just because it can cut off the connection between the Gallipoli Peninsula and the mainland?

Of course not. The most important reason is that there are no Turkish fortresses here at all. Since there are no fortresses, no cities, and only one small town.

In fact, this is the difference of the times. During the Battle of Gallipoli hundreds of years later, Churchill also used his feint attack here to try to attract the Turks to think that they would land here. But in the end, with the advantage of terrain, the Turks blocked them on the coast with field fortifications. But now it is different. Without machine guns and rapid-fire cannons, the coast guards often rely on fortresses. While defending the coastal fortress, it means that they gave up a large area of ​​land outside the fortress.

"Your Highness, speaking of this, if General Zheng had not boldly broken through the Dardanelles and entered the Maramale Sea, even if we landed here, we would not be able to threaten the Turks."

Li Dingguo's words made Zhu Heyu laugh.

"In that case, it is the same in Damascus. The soldiers have no constant power. Now the initiative is in our hands. The truth is the land or the sea, and the Turks..."

After a smile, Zhu Heyu's face was full of sarcasm.

"It's just meat on the board!"

While they were talking, the first landing troops had already climbed to the top of Bolayer Mountain. On the bare ridge of the mountain, you could clearly see a group of yellow figures moving. When you watched them on the top of the mountain, install cages on the ridge, and build a simple defensive position, Zhu Heyu smiled.

"Okay, we'll win this battle!"

No resistance!

Their landing was not at all resisted, and even when the landing troops were building defensive positions on the beach and on the mountains, the Turks in the Gallipoli Fortress were still watching how the fortress on the opposite side of the Kumtale was torn to pieces by the Chinese shelling. They didn't even know that their retreat had been cut off, and now they were alone.

A few hours later, when the Turkish defenders of the Gallipoli Fortress learned from the residents that the Chinese were landing near Boryere and had occupied Boryere, the defenders were immediately in chaos. When they argued that they should send troops there to repel the Chinese and drove them into the sea, a fleet of two warships had arrived at the port on the side of the Maramar Sea. It was said that it was a port, but in fact it was a small town with only a few fishing boats. When they arrived at the port, when they saw the sun and moon flags flying on the port, the captain shouted excitedly while the sailors smiled.

"Salute!"
Chapter completed!