So, Xia Fei now wondered what would happen if his armored division did not go back and chose to go south to attack Bichel, an important city east of Eskieshir? There is a railway connecting Ankara, which is an important channel for the transport of Turkish troops and personnel. If this section is taken down, it would be equivalent to cutting off the retreat route and logistics supply of the Turkish troops on Eskieshir. If this important transportation route is occupied, then continue east along the railway and rivers to the east, the western division of Ankara will be Duporatre!

If there are railways and waterways, the British's supply problem can be greatly improved. By then, it may be easy to capture Ankara. So what if the Turks are prepared for it? The Turks are not Germans, so just fight directly on the front!

So, that night, Xiafei contacted Lord Alanby, the commander-in-chief of the British Army on the southern front, and asked whether the plan to lead his troops south, detour the rear of the Turkish Legion, and then join the British army to attack the Turkish army in front and behind.

"If your troops can move south quickly, it will undoubtedly have a subversive effect on the entire battle situation!" Lord Alanby wrote in a reply call.

The British welcomed the French with both hands. Until now, Lord Alanby is carefully using the military power in his hands. It is not that he can organize a fast attack vehicle and fuel, nor is it that British tanks are overwhelmed. (Although there are indeed many repairs along the way) However, the current situation is far from the limit. Lord Alanby's plan is to capture Eskisheir. After severely attacking the main force of Turkey, he rushed to the city of Ankara, thus cutting off the 3b railway in one fell swoop. However, now, he doesn't seem to have to be so troublesome!

Of course, from the side, this is equivalent to announcing the failure of the Constantinople strategy formulated by the French, and the attack was broken. When the infantry climbed to the city of Constantinople, they were probably facing the Bavarian Legion with more than 6 figures. Looking at the consistent performance of the Bavarian Legion, it is estimated that the British and French coalition forces could not be even more than that!

"The battle will inevitably delay the long-term trend, but if the 3b railway can be cut off, then at least, we can drag more than 100,000 Bavarian legions to Asia Minor, right? In addition to the troops still stranded on the Eastern Front and the Balkans, it may be difficult for Bavaria to go to the Western Front." Lord Alanby was thinking in his mind.

On the next day, Xiafei took his troops to evacuate south and disappeared from the German vision again. On the third day, the information about the battle was sent to France. Before delivering the war report, Xiafei was worried that the failure of the battle would shake the French government's confidence in the Asian Minor front. But to his surprise, the French government not only did not accuse Xiafei and his subordinates, but instead sent the third batch of troops to continue to reinforce the Asian Minor War Zone.

Afterwards, Xia Fei understood the reason for this. Although his armored troops were repaired miserably by his Bavarian counterparts, the French army on the front was well fought. In the offensive battle, the war loss ratio between the French and German army was almost 1 to 1! This is a very difficult record. In fact, on the Western Front, the average war loss between the French and German army was about 1 to 1.5. When the Bavarian Legion advanced westward, the loss ratio between the two sides even reached 1 to 2.2 at one point! It was only 1 to 1.2 at the best time. Now, the exchange ratio of 1 to 1 really made the French Supreme Command feel very pleased... So the French believed that continuing to fight in Asia Minor was a very cost-effective deal.

In fact, there is a reason why the French could make such exchange ratios. First, General Von Seckert, who was defending Bursa, was transferred from the Eastern Front. This unit was pulled to Asia Minor just after the rescue. Although they were equipped with some equipment, it was obviously difficult to allocate nearly 60,000 people at once, so the equipment was worse than that of the ordinary Germans on the Western Front. At the same time, the deployment time in Bursa was not long enough, and the fortifications were not perfect enough.

Another aspect is that the French army has a very large firepower advantage. Although there are no tanks to charge, their artillery is fierce. Can it not be fierce if they put a bunch of naval 152mm naval guns, 120mm naval guns and 102mm naval guns onto the army gun mounts to the front line as suppression guns? During the attack, the French even used a small number of 152mm naval guns as flat-fired cannons, which can all be used against light cruisers! How could a hasty line of defense be blocked such a shelling?!

After receiving the "internal news", General Xiafei was also a little amused and crying. He knew what was going on on the battlefield. He was the kind of person who didn't look at the joyful dance now, be careful to pull white strips after autumn... It is difficult to overwhelm the opponent when he gained the first advantage and time difference. Once the Bavarian Legion completes the adjustment. If even a strategic goal of the Allies cannot be achieved, it will be completely black...

In just less than three days, the British and French legions completed the battle adjustment. In addition to his own armored division, Xia Fei also drew another division's troops from the troops surrounding Bursa as support and then advanced to the southeast. The British also suspended the attack, giving the Turks an illusion that they could still defend, allowing Turkey to invest more troops. In addition to France, the third batch of support troops had a total of about 2 armored divisions and 6 infantry divisions. The troops of the third batch of support troops had been assembled and could board the ship at any time from Toulon Port.

However, what the Allies did not expect was that while the British and French coalition forces were adjusting, the Allies were also adjusting their deployment. On the day when Xia Fei ordered the troops to turn to the southeast, Ruprecht sent a telegram to the Turkish Chief of Staff General Liman von Sanders and Kemal, asking them to immediately shrink the troops near Ankara, then build a defense line in place to prepare for defense, and demand that the front-line troops be prepared for defense.

Kemal finally chose to execute the orders of the nominal commander-in-chief of the Balkan-Turkish theater, and General Sanders made his own opinion: "If we allow the British army to continue moving forward instead of blocking, they will soon penetrate into the heart of Turkey, which has a very bad political and economic impact on Turkey. Therefore, I suggest that the troops continue to resist at all levels."

Therefore, Sanders suggested that Kemal's troops be divided into two parts, and light troops provide support, leaving behind inconvenient maneuverable baggage and heavy firepower to defend Ankara.
Chapter completed!