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After being stunned for a while, Ferad immediately asked the messenger to notify officers at all levels and direct the soldiers to eliminate the remaining enemies in the surrounding area.

After the bombardment, the Marine Corps' operations became much smoother, and they encountered little effective resistance.

The fierce bombardment completely destroyed the enemy's will to fight.

Thirty minutes later, staff officers at all levels summarized the battlefield information.

A total of nearly two hundred enemy casualties were found in the mountains and forests around Mudros Bay, of which more than fifty were injured.

According to the reaction of the captured wounded soldiers, the enemy commander quickly issued an order for the troops to evacuate after the shelling began.

It was just the fierce explosion that had interrupted effective communication among the troops scattered everywhere. Seeing that there was nothing they could do, they led a small force of less than a hundred people to evacuate the battlefield and headed towards the northern foot of the mountain.

Generally speaking, if a unit has more than 30% casualties, it is considered to have lost its combat effectiveness.

The Ottoman island defense force of 300 people directly lost two-thirds.

After hearing the soldier's report that the remnant soldiers had entered the forest, Fedela sighed. It would probably take a lot of effort to completely deal with this army.

According to the navy's next strategic deployment, Mudros Bay on Limousin Island will be a temporary port of call for the rapid response fleet in the next period of time.

These remaining enemies are a hidden danger.

If the enemy finds a loophole and takes advantage of the darkness to sneak attack the warships anchored in Mudros Bay like frogmen and lose these expensive war weapons, it will be a big disaster.

I couldn't help but admire the enemy commander's mental tenacity. Even when there was no hope, he still persisted in fighting and did not surrender.

In order to eliminate the remaining enemies, Ferard commanded all the Marines to land, divide into several groups, and enter the mountains and forests of the island to encircle and suppress the remaining enemies.

Ferad personally led a team of 300 people over the ridge ahead. Looking down from a high position, he saw a small village on the mountainside at the northern foot of the mountain.

A dozen low houses were vaguely visible among the trees, and there were figures walking around in the village.

The most conspicuous building is a small church with a towering white cross on the roof.

Apparently this was a Greek village.

Because they were unfamiliar with the island's terrain, the other search troops searched around like a headless fly, and they didn't know when they would be able to clear out this group of rat-like enemies.

Ferad wanted to ask the Greeks in the village about the topography of the island, so he led the troops towards the village.

The sudden appearance of hundreds of soldiers naturally attracted the attention of the villagers, who rushed out of the village in fear.

A little boy dressed in linen caught Ferad's attention.

The little boy had curly black hair and two dark eyes staring at the heavily armed soldiers without blinking.

Ferad joked: "What are you looking at, kid?"

"Look at you Greeks!" The boy raised his head and replied without any fear.

The boy's answer made Ferad stunned, and he subconsciously asked: "We are Greeks, who are you?"

"We are Romans" the little boy replied quickly.

"Romulus, what are you talking about?" A sudden scolding interrupted Ferad, who was in a trance.

A man wearing a red silk robe stepped forward. The cross mark on the robe identified his identity.

"Sorry sir, this child was deceived by the Ottomans. I am the priest of the village church, Rofus" the man said to Ferad apologetically.

Ferad came back to his senses and said: "Hello, Father Rofus"

"A dozen soldiers came to the village a few days ago to promote these things to the villagers, such as the Romans and the Greeks," Rofus explained as if he was worried that Romulus' words would anger these soldiers.

Greece is now at war with the Ottoman Empire, and there are a large number of Greeks living in the Ottoman territory.

Conservative estimates put the number of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire at no less than 2 million.

In order to win over these people, the authorities promoted them as Romans, intending to cut off their emotional ties with the Greek nation and separate them from their compatriots living in Greece.

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Kontoriotis was very happy to learn that the Marines had successfully gained control of Mudros Bay, and immediately informed the Greek General Staff of the successful capture of Lemuos Island.

A response was quickly received, and the General Staff sent a radio requesting the fleet to annihilate or severely damage the Ottoman Navy as soon as possible and effectively block shipping on the Thrace coastal routes.

In the following days, due to the delay in the appearance of the Ottoman fleet, the Greek Marine Corps, with the cooperation of the fleet, successively occupied the islands of Imbros, Thassos, and Agios Ever in the Aegean Sea. Strath Island and other islands.

Greece continued to occupy islands in the Aegean Sea, and the Ottoman side seemed completely unconcerned about the loss of these islands.

In the command tower of the flagship of the Trikupis

"The main force of the Ottoman Navy shows no sign of sailing out of the Dardanelles Strait. Is there any way to lure them to the Aegean Sea?" Fleet Staff Officer Aiprus said while looking at the chart on the poster.

"If they can't hold on, there's nothing we can do. The islands in the Aegean Sea, according to the current state of the Ottoman Empire, seem to be really planning to give up," Kontoriotis replied helplessly.

It was originally thought that the naval strength of Greece and the Ottoman Empire were similar, and there would be a fierce naval battle in the Aegean Sea to determine the real controller of the Aegean Sea.

Unexpectedly, the Ottoman navy had no intention of going to war.

Several accompanying destroyers ventured to the Dardanelles Strait for reconnaissance over several days, but the Ottoman navy turned a blind eye.

"In this case, let's send destroyers to completely block the offshore shipping from the Dardanelles to the coast of Thrace."

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At six o'clock in the morning on October 26, in the coastal area of ​​​​Thrace, 120 nautical miles northwest of Lemuus Island, a double destroyer formation was quietly moving forward in the morning fog on the sea.

As the commander of this small fleet, Captain Chris stood on the bridge of the temporary flagship Xianlin, feeling very excited.

The mission of this small fleet is to search for imperial ships along the Ottoman coast and completely block the Ottoman Empire's offshore shipping.

"Ah...morning patrols are so annoying," Staff Sergeant Hrum complained while dozing off on the lookout post of the destroyer Xianlin.

Starting from three o'clock in the morning, when the human body is most sleepy, Hrum has been on this towering lookout post for three hours.

The fleet was performing patrol missions, and the unchanging scenery on the sea made Herum feel extremely bored.