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Greece and Armenia invaded Türkiye, threatening the Baghdad Railway controlled by the Chinese Empire, and seriously threatening the core interests of the Chinese Empire in Turkey and in Southeast Europe. Therefore, the Chinese Empire decided to intervene and safeguard the interests of the empire.

The day after the imperial meeting ended, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Staff of the Chinese Empire formulated a detailed action plan and took immediate action.

On the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of China held a press conference and raised concerns and concerns about the situation in Turkey, accusing Greece and Armenia of being the culprits in the regional tension, and should immediately stop all military actions and call on the parties to hold peace negotiations. The Empire of China is willing to act as a mediator. This move has been supported by international public opinion, and European anti-war figures highly praised this, believing that the Empire is fulfilling what a great power should do as a responsible person.

After taking advantage of public opinion, the Chinese Empire immediately instructed the Permanent Representative to the League of Nations to further put forward the requirements of the Chinese Empire. Using the League of Nations to maintain stability clauses to draft the first peacekeeping bill since the establishment of the League of Nations (the first eight are dates and the last four are case numbers), requiring the League of Nations to intervene in the war between Greece, Armenia and Türkiye.

The League of Nations immediately convened a general meeting of members to vote on the Plan No. 192010110001 drafted by the Chinese Empire. The results of the first round of voting showed that 30 of the 39 ordinary member states voted in favor, 6 voted against, and 3 abstentions. The six countries that voted against were basically supported by the Balkan Union member states in Greece and the Transcaucasian Soviet Union that supported Armenia.

The draft was passed in the first instance, but it hit a nail in the vote of the permanent members in the second instance. Although Germany supported it, Italy abstained. Britain and France directly used the veto power of the permanent members to directly reject the draft.

The Chinese Empire was quite dissatisfied with the vote against Britain and France, so it immediately held a closed-door meeting with Britain and France for consultations.

Both Britain and France are the real messengers behind Greece and Armenia, so they will naturally vote against it and will not change their position easily. For this reason, the Chinese Empire had to use some means to force Britain and France to compromise and concessions.

Although Britain and France received economic assistance from the Chinese Empire after the war and temporarily controlled the domestic situation, the two countries consumed a lot in the war. The economy that had been regressing for twenty years could not be restored in a short time. Britain hoped to restore the gold standard, but in order to purchase advanced aircraft, tanks and various materials during the war, 95% of the gold and silver reserves were lost. Most of them flowed into the Chinese Empire. After the war, the British cabinet hoped to revive the British economic hegemony. However, although South Africa's gold reserves were huge, they could not support the exchange task of pound banknotes in a short period of time. The pound was still at a high depreciation level. The exchange rate of the world's only dragon currency with a stable currency was 75:1. Compared with the level of 1:5 before the war, it can be seen that the pound depreciation was greatly depreciated.

The United Kingdom's United Cabinet has made many efforts, but they all failed in the end. Without enough gold reserves, it was impossible to recover the large amount of pound banknotes circulating on the market, so there is no question of suppressing inflation and restoring the gold standard. The British authorities have repeatedly asked the Chinese Empire for help. They asked the Chinese Empire to lend 1,000 tons of gold to Britain as reserve, but they were rejected by the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire only borrowed dragon coins from the UK, and dragon coins could only be used to purchase goods from the Chinese Empire, and it was prohibited to directly exchange gold. The Chinese Empire accounts for 90% of the world's gold reserves, so it is unrealistic for the UK to obtain gold from other countries.

As a result, the UK's gold standard rescue plan has been delayed and the economic recovery cannot be discussed.

The Chinese Empire put pressure on Britain on the issue of Türkiye, but the UK also put forward conditions with the Chinese Empire, requesting that the Chinese Empire be able to borrow 1,000 tons of gold to Britain.

After several rounds of bargaining, the Chinese Empire finally agreed to provide the UK with 540 tons of gold to purchase British Treasury bonds in exchange for the Bank of England to recover 3 billion pounds of paper money on the market to alleviate the pressure of inflation in the UK. The British authorities only thought about how to obtain gold to maintain the gold standard financial system, and at the same time recovered too many pound paper money on the market to curb inflation and restore the economy. However, they ignored the most critical issue. The Chinese Empire's move was actually the bottom-buying tactic of stock trading. When the pound was the most valuable, it exchanged pounds on a large scale. When the UK resumed the gold standard and ended inflation, the pound would appreciate. The actual purchasing power of the 3 billion pounds obtained by the Chinese Empire would be equivalent to 4,000 tons of gold. Invisibly, the Chinese Empire was equivalent to issuing a huge loan shark to the UK, with an amazing return rate.

Similarly, the Chinese Empire also provided France with 480 tons of gold to purchase French government bonds in exchange for the French Central Bank to recover the 78 billion franc banknotes circulating on the market, which also helped France restore the gold standard and control inflation in France.

There are naturally a group of high-level economic think tanks in Britain and France. They saw the huge tricks. They once persuaded the governments of Britain and France not to make this deal with the Chinese Empire, but the authorities of Britain and France believe that although the Chinese Empire makes profits from it, Britain and France also gains more than losses. Therefore, according to game theory, this is the correct choice for Britain and France.

The bank capitalists in Britain and France also have a jealous view of this. Although the economies of Britain and France were severely damaged in the World War, this did not affect the profits of the bank capitalists in both countries. During the war, bank merchants would never suffer losses. On the contrary, they made a fortune in the war. The large consortium before the war turned into super consortiums, and small consortiums became large consortiums, and only the civilians and the middle class were the biggest victims of the war.

However, the banking groups of Britain and France, like their governments, only banknotes supported by government credit, and no gold or silver. Therefore, they could not take out the gold needed by their respective countries, so they could only watch the Chinese Empire use gold as capital to grab money on a large scale from Britain and France.

At the same time, in addition to reaching an agreement with Britain and France to exchange gold for national debt, the Chinese Empire promised Britain and France that it would ensure oil supply to the two countries in exchange for the exchange. In exchange for Britain and France, Britain and France no longer supported Greece and Armenia's attack on Türkiye and stopped threatening the Baghdad Railway.

After the World War, global energy demand changed from coal to electricity and oil. In particular, the large number of tanks, aircraft, trucks and other equipment provided by the Chinese Empire to Europe were all bottomless pits that consumed oil. Half of the oil supply of Britain and France relied on the Chinese Empire in the Kuwait base in the Persian Gulf, and the other half was imported from the United States. However, after the Sino-US War, the major oil-producing areas of the United States were ceded to Mexico, and Mexico and the Chinese Empire were allies. As long as the Chinese Empire said a word, it would completely cut off the oil energy supply of Britain and France. Therefore, the Chinese Empire used oil as an example and immediately grabbed the seven inches of Britain and France and forced them to submit.

After three days of closed-door consultation, the Chinese Empire and Britain and France reached an agreement. At the meeting of permanent members of the League of Nations on the fourth day, Britain, France and Italy voted at the same time, and finally passed Resolution 192010110001 with two votes from the Chinese Empire and Germany.

Subsequently, Secretary-General of the League of Nations Wang Meng officially issued the No. 1 League of Nations Act of 1920, ordering Greece and Armenia to stop invading Turkey.

However, Greece and Armenia still thought that the League of Nations was just a talk. The League of Nations had no army and had no actual threat to them. Therefore, the two countries ignored the League of Nations decrees and continued to attack Türkiye.

Greece and Armenia ignored the laws of the League of Nations, which gave the Chinese Empire an excuse to send troops.

On July 5, 20th year of Guanghua, two aircraft carrier battle groups of the Atlantic Fleet of the Empire of China entered the Mediterranean Sea and joined the seventh aircraft carrier battle group of the Mediterranean Fleet. Three days later, the ninth aircraft carrier battle group of the Empire of China also entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal.

On July 9, the Mediterranean Fleet Command established the Aegean Mixed Fleet, a battleship battle group and four aircraft carrier battle groups, with a total of 88 battleships. At the same time, the aviation wing of the Cyprus base where the Mediterranean Command is located was also expanded. The Chinese Empire drew four fighter air wings and three bomber air wings from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean bases, plus the original fighter and bomber aircraft of the Cyprus base, a total of nine air wings, with 200 Hellfire fighters, 300 Thunderbolt fighters and 400 H2n1 bombers.

In addition, the Third Marine Division, which completed the mechanized reform, is also stationed at a base in Cyprus. The division has three chariot regiments equipped with advanced weapons and equipment such as "Armored Three Musketeers" and two mechanized infantry regiments. They are ace marine divisions that have been fought all the way from the Japanese battlefield and the American battlefield, and have extremely strong combat power.

The Aegean Mixed Fleet Advance Fleet entered the Sea of ​​Marmara on the 13th and patroled along the area occupied by Greek troops in the northwest coastline. This move immediately scared the Greek government. The Greek President urgently ordered the front-line Greek troops and the Greek navy not to take the initiative to open fire on the Imperial Navy, and specifically instructed the Greek navy to withdraw from the Turkish territorial waters to avoid fire from the Imperial Navy.

As for the form of land war, the Greek military's attitude was the opposite of the Presidential Office. They believed that the Chinese Empire was just scaring and scaring. During the World War, the Chinese Empire did not participate in the war, and would not directly send troops to intervene. Therefore, the Greek Navy withdrew from the Marmara Sea, but the Greek Army and Air Force still beat the Turkish army and continued to invade Turkish territory.

A week later, the Chinese Empire's Aegean fleet all entered the Marmara Sea and landed in Constantinople, the capital of Turkey. At this time, the Greek Presidential Palace felt something was wrong, but the military ignored it and believed that the Chinese Emperor was just protecting the Baghdad Railway. As long as the Greek army did not approach the Baghdad Railway, they would be safe if they did not provoke the Chinese Emperor.

Just as the Third Marine Division landed in Constantinople, the Chinese Empire established a Gulf War Zone Command at its Kuwait base in the Persian Gulf, and formulated tactics to launch an attack on Armenian countries to rescue Turkey. At the same time, the Chinese Empire had a deeper strategic purpose, that is, the Transcaucasus Federation where Armenia was located controlled the Baku oil zone in the Caspian Sea, the second largest oil-producing area in the world. The Chinese Empire politically forced the Transcaucasus not to join the Soviet Union, militarily defended the Gulf Oil Zone and the Baghdad Railway, economically controlled the Baku oil zone, and completely monopolized global oil supply.

No matter from any aspect, the Chinese Empire had the reason to directly send troops to Armenia.

On September 17, at dawn in the local area, when Armenia refused to implement resolution 1 of the League Committee, the Imperial Chinese Air Force began an air strike against Armenia and launched a military operation code-named "Thunder Strike". The Gulf War broke out.

After the Sino-US War, many of the new military combat theories of the Chinese Empire were tested in actual combat. The biggest gain was the huge impact of air supremacy on naval and land warfare.

Therefore, after the outbreak of the Gulf War, the first step in the Chinese Empire to carry out a thunder strike was to launch a large-scale air battle, including strategic air strikes, seizing air supremacy in the Armenian theater and preparing for battlefield support for ground attacks.

The Armenian Air Force has an advantage in dealing with the Turkish Air Force because it was a large number of fighter jets and bombers left by Britain and France after the war. With the conclusion of the Five-Nation Convention, the armies of the five permanent members entered a fifteen-year vacation. Therefore, these combat aircraft were not useful, but the maintenance costs were huge. The British and French Allied countries had no financial resources to maintain, so they were cheaper to allied countries like Armenia and Greece, and their backward air forces suddenly became stronger.

It was this sudden power that made the small Greek and Armenian military despicable. They thought they were invincible in the world, and even ignored the warnings of the Chinese Empire (you can think of the Vietnamese army after the Vietnam War).

The Chinese Empire's naval aviation forces in the Persian Gulf moved two air wings, and the Kuwait base air force also dispatched three air wings to participate in the battle.

The 322 so-called advanced fighter jets from France, Britain and Italy can kill the Turkish Air Force, but after encountering the Hellfire and Thunderfighters of the Chinese Empire, it was like hitting a south wall. It immediately made its head break out and blood.

In just two days, the Armenian Air Force was beaten 322:0 by the Chinese Imperial Air Force. The entire air force was wiped out, but it did not shoot down a fighter plane from the Chinese Imperial. The one-sided massacre caused an uproar in the entire Armenian military, and then he realized the gap in strength with the Chinese Imperial.

However, it was too late for the Armenian military to wake up.

After taking control of air supremacy, the Imperial Air Force immediately entered the second phase of the battle, without giving the Armenian army any time to breathe and adjust.

The focus of air operations has shifted to the Armenian war zone, and implemented strategic bombing and targeted tactical strikes. By the 23rd, the Imperial Chinese Air Force dispatched a total of various fighter jets, with nearly 200,000 bombs, dropped 80,000 tons of bombs, and fired more than 5,000 air-to-ground rockets. It carried out multi-directional, multi-wave, and high-intensity continuous air strikes on selected targets, greatly weakening the command, control, communication and intelligence capabilities of the Armenian Army, strategic air strikes and surgically-style targeted strikes, paralyzing the Armenian Army's war potential and strategic counterattack capabilities, causing the Armenian Army's frontier troops to lose nearly two-thirds and the rear troops to lose about one-quarter, creating conditions for the Chinese Emperor* to launch a ground attack.

During this period, the Armenian army, which had lost air supremacy, was forced to implement passive defense in order to avoid the aviation bombs, rocket strikes and machine gun strafing of the Imperial Air Force, to hide underground, reveal the truth and falsehood, evacuation and other measures to avoid air strikes and preserve their strength. The Armenian army tried to dump oil into the battlefield, ignite Iraqi and Kuwait oil wells and threaten to use chemical weapons to block and curb the military operations of the Imperial Army, but none of them achieved their goal. Because before the Chinese Empire's ground troops were dispatched, the special forces had infiltrated the rear of the Armenian army for heavy damage, shooting and killing the Armenian army commander, and preventing possible chemical weapons attack plans.

Before the ground battle was launched, the Emperor of China successfully carried out the battle deception. Through the cooperation of special forces and the Turkish army, the Armenian army was misjudged, thinking that the Emperor of China would attack them from Turkish territory, so it built fortifications and stationed heavy troops on the eastern border of Asia-Turkey. However, the Emperor of China bypassed Turkey, and advanced 150 kilometers north from the Caspian coast, then turned back to the southwest, and went straight to the rear of the Armenian main first army.

The 33rd Armored Division of the Imperial Empire in Kuwait, with the high-speed maneuverability of the three armored musketeers, suddenly appeared behind the Armenian Army's First Army, causing chaos in the enemy. However, the Armenian Army quickly adjusted its deployment and intercepted the Imperial Empire. However, the Armenian Army did not know the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Empire, and even more unaware of how powerful the Imperial Empire's Armored Division was.

As a result, before Armenian's Third Army arrived at the rear to set up defense, it was defeated by the 77th Tank Regiment that rushed out from the waist halfway. The high-speed maneuverability of the W16-wheeled infantry fighting vehicle of the Imperial Army and the large-caliber m2 heavy machine guns above, a massacre of the Armenian army, mainly infantry. In just twenty minutes, more than half of the Armenian Third Army were killed or injured. One army was defeated by a tank regiment of the Imperial Empire and defeated all the way. The tactical deployment of the entire Armenian First Army was disrupted. Then the troops of the Imperial Emperor **33 Armored Division quickly interspersed and detoured. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the entire Armenian First Army was defeated.

The strong combat power of the Chinese Emperor terrorized Armenia. The Armenian military was forced to give up multiple strategic locations and quickly shrink its troops.

The Turkish National Assembly quickly formulated a strategy to cooperate with the Emperor of China to recover lost territory. The Congress appointed Kasem Karabakir as commander of the Eastern Front and ordered a counterattack. General Kasem Karabakir was transferred by Kemal to Erzurum as the commander of the 15th Army as early as 1919. At the same time, he was also ordered to expand the army here, collect weapons, and promote the idea of ​​resisting the enemy. Therefore, when the Great National Assembly government decided to counterattack Armenia, the Turkish army had already had considerable strength on the Eastern Front.

In the early morning of September 28, 1920, the Turkish army took advantage of the great victory of the Chinese Emperor to start a counterattack, quickly occupied Salkamesh, and then broke through the Armenian defense line between Salkamesh and Lalaolu.

On October 28, the Turkish army launched another attack, defeating the Armenian resistance. It occupied the city of Karls two days later. At the same time, the Chinese Emperor's Armored Division had flattened the city of Jurum. The 30,000 Armenian defenders in the city surrendered without fighting, and were obviously scared.

At this point, the expansion plan of the Armenian Dakh Nash party was completely shattered and he had to seek peace from the Turkish army.

The purpose of the Chinese Emperor to rescue Türkiye and show off his force has been achieved, so he agreed to negotiate.

After negotiations, the three parties in Central and Turkey signed the "Gerum Agreement" on December 3, and Turkey took back the 1878 Berlin Treaty and its surrounding areas. Under the intervention of the Chinese Empire, the Transcaucasian Union promised not to join the Soviet Union, and at the same time handed over the Chinese Emperor's temporary trusteeship in Ardahan, Artwen, Batumi and other places in Georgia. In this way, the Chinese Emperor actually controlled the Baku oil area and grabbed the Transcaucasian Union.

The life gate of the alliance made it obediently obey the will of the Chinese Empire. However, shortly after the signing of the agreement, the Chinese Empire reached an agreement with Turkey. Turkey gave up its sovereignty over Kuwait and formally ceded it to the Chinese Empire. The Iraqi region changed from the sphere of influence of the Chinese Empire to a concession area. In return, the Chinese Empire handed over the Ardahan, Artwen, Batumi and other places in Georgia to Turkey for jurisdiction, so Turkey actually controlled the Baku oil area.

For Turkey, this transaction is very cost-effective and very happy. But for the Chinese Empire, it is also a link in Wang Chenhao's global strategic layout. The Chinese Empire handed over Ardahan, Artwen, Batumi and other places to Turkey, which was equivalent to causing Turkey to have territorial disputes with the Transcaucasus Alliance in the future. After the Transcaucasus split, the Republic of Georgia would have to have a quarrel with Turkey, so that Turkey would not be peaceful around Turkey and would have to seek help from the Chinese Empire. It would be self-evident that the Chinese Empire would invade Turkish politics in the future. Turkey would become a bridgehead for the Chinese Empire to interfere in Balkan affairs and the Soviet Union.

The victory of the Eastern Front was the result of the armed intervention of the Emperor of China, but for the Turkish National Assembly government, it was the first victory in the struggle for national liberation. It not only greatly improved the prestige of the Ankara regime, but also allowed the government to mobilize a part of the army to reinforce the Western and Southern Fronts, which played a very important role in resisting the attack of the Greek army.

The comparison of the battle situation between the east and west fronts, the huge gap in strength between the Turkish army and the Chinese Emperor prompted Kemal to rebuild the regular national army. This was exactly the result expected by the Chinese Empire. Soon the Turkish Parliament passed a military purchase case with a total amount of 200 million dragon coins, purchasing advanced weapons and equipment such as aircraft, tanks, cannons, machine guns from the Chinese Empire to arm the Turkish army, learn from the Chinese Emperor, and carry out mechanized reforms.

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