The Rise Of Australasia
Chapter 521: Chapter 408: The Fall of Constantinople_2

The important oil-producing region of Sutton Arabia in later generations was still a barren desert with few traces of human activity at this time.

This also meant that Larasia had a lot of room for choice, selecting land with rich oil reserves and easy to control.

On June 17th, the Allied forces successfully landed on the Little Asia Peninsula and quickly launched a fierce offensive.

The nearest Bulgaria to the Ottoman Empire had already surrendered, and the Ottoman Empire had become the most miserable country among the allies, with no ally to support it.

Of course, there are only three countries left in the Allies, and besides Germany still has some combat capability, both the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire are already in dire straits.

More importantly, there were as many as one hundred thousand Ottoman troops stationed in Constantinople, guarding the capital of the empire.

This has led the Ottoman Empire to be in a state of war on two fronts, the European battlefield and the Asian battlefield, making the already weak Ottoman Empire exhausted and struggling to cope.

If you want to get into the details, the border between the Ottoman Empire and Russia in the Caucasus is occasionally patrolled by Russian cavalry troops.

Although they did not launch an attack, the Ottoman Empire did not dare to take the risk, and the border guards were on high alert, only to be met with thin air.

In the southern region bordering the British colony, the Ottoman Empire also faced occasional attacks from the British army.

Although the attacking forces were all local indigenous people, their relatively advanced equipment and the fact that they were far from the Ottoman Empire's homeland made logistics very troublesome, causing a lot of trouble for the Ottoman Empire.

Between the Caucasus and the southern border, nearly 400,000 Ottoman troops were held up. Adding to the more than one hundred thousand troops trapped in Constantinople, nearly half of the Ottoman Empire's total force of more than one million were held up, leaving only over 500,000 available troops.

To show support for the landing campaign on the Little Asia Peninsula, at Commander Martin's request, Britain launched a feint attack on the Ottoman Empire from Egypt, Yemen, and the Oman region, and the Russians in the Caucasus also mobilized some troops.

Although it was a feint attack, the number of Suez Canal defenders and Egyptian indigenous troops was nearly 300,000, far more than the mere hundred thousand Ottoman defenders deployed in the region.

In addition to support from Oman and the Caucasus, the Ottoman Empire was horrified to replace itself engaged in five-front warfare, which was even worse than the situation faced by Germany.

It should be known that in the First Balkan War, the Ottoman Empire failed to defeat even the Balkan League.

Although the Italian army is a distraction, its combat effectiveness is far behind that of the Australasia Army.

At present, the Ottoman Empire is not only facing the Balkan League and the Australasia, but also a small contingent of Russian and British troops.

Such a situation is daunting even for a fully victorious Ottoman Empire, let alone the current one, and it would have to be determined to fight to the death in order to have a chance of winning.

As for the current Ottoman Empire, Arthur could imagine the final outcome with his eyes closed. The Ottoman Empire could not even defeat Italy, let alone the nearly 500,000 troops now on the Balkan Front, and the help of Britain and Russia.

In fact, Commander Martin originally only expected the Russians to hold the Ottomans in the Caucasus.

But Russia and the Ottoman Empire had long-standing feuds, and after the Ottoman Empire showed weakness, the Russian army attacked even more fiercely, seemingly about to open up a new front in the Caucasus.

It seemed that the siege of Constantinople was actually the slowest progress. Within just a few days, the Allies achieved a great victory in the Middle East, with the Ottoman army retreating in disarray, and the Allied forces advanced tens of kilometers in just a few days.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire could no longer cope, but each of these regions was quite important to the Ottoman Empire, and giving up too easily could lead to even more severe consequences.

As for the Arabian Peninsula, most of the region is desert and the population is not too large, so the Ottoman Empire has strategically withdrawn and declared its abandonment.

But the Ottoman Empire does not dare to give up the further north Syria region. To put it bluntly, if the Ottoman Empire dares to give up, the British army could control Syria at any time and establish a British Syria colony.

And in the Caucasus, the Russians' desire to fight was already very strong. Even if the Ottoman army surrendered now, the Russians would probably continue to kill.

The Iraq region is even more indispensable, with a large population and material resources. Once abandoned, the land controlled by the Ottoman Empire would be limited to the Turkish part, and even the secondary power status would be lost.

As for the Little Asia Peninsula, it is the most important region outside of Europe for the Ottoman Empire, which has deployed hundreds of thousands of troops here to defend it, but still cannot resist the Allied forces.

At this time, the situation of the Ottoman Empire was even worse than that of Russia. Because various territories within the country had been occupied, the Ottoman army not only lacked weapons and ammunition, but also clothing and food, let alone medical supplies.

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In just a few days, the offensive of the Allied forces had caused more than one hundred thousand casualties to the Ottoman Empire, and the number of deaths had exceeded twenty thousand.

It doesn't seem like much, but that's because the Allied forces haven't mobilized a large number of heavy weapons yet. When heavy weapons are transported to the major battlefields, the number of Ottoman casualties will only rise in a straight line.