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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 232: What a Big Deal

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    The Russian army is still as incompetent as ever in terms of military statistics, maintaining the Slavs' usual crude nature.  The most precise statistics can only reach units of millions.  If you ask any Russian general who participated in the Battle of Warsaw, his answer will be, our casualties, about one million, or, our casualties?  Less than a million.

    The world¡¯s first empire, its statistical units are indeed not comparable to those of ordinary small countries.  You must know that many countries did not have a population of one million in the 1930s.

    No matter what, it is a fact that the invasion of Poland and the attack on Warsaw involved most of the energy of the Russian Empire.  This is also the reason why the little devils strongly opposed Tsarist Russia's sending troops to Poland to open a second battlefield.

    The little devil thought very clearly that even if Tsarist Russia broke out and took down the entire German Empire.  However, sending large-scale troops to Asia can only be done in a few years. This will not be beneficial to the current war situation in Asia.  Anyway, Germany did not send troops to Asia.

    The little devil has been preparing for this attack for more than half a year, but he really can't wait any longer. The allies just did something wrong at this time - this is also the result that the Russian Empire wants. If you like to attack the defense line of Rehe, go  Let's face it. We in Tsarist Russia have already bought melon seeds and tea and are ready to watch the show.

    The invasion of Poland was a plan that the Tsarist Empire had prepared for more than ten years. It can be said that from the day when Poland was invaded, the topic of recovering Poland and conquering Warsaw was constantly being discussed by the general staff.  It can be said that if foreign powers did not directly intervene, then Tsarist Russia's capture of Poland would be a certainty - after all, the economic and military strength of the two countries are not at the same level.

    According to data from Tsarist Russia¡¯s staff, if Tsarist Russia¡¯s military strength is 100 points, Poland¡¯s military strength is only 20 points. This strength gap is roughly the gap between Xiao Lin and Wu Tian who just appeared.  That means to torture them as much as you want.

    However, according to the latest research from the Tsarist Russian Staff Headquarters, the military strength of the four-in-one German Empire has now surged from 50 points to 90 points - not counting the power of the navy.  This data is already qualified to be the opponent of Tsarist Russia.

    In addition, according to the latest data from the Tsarist Russian General Staff, the military strength of their allies in Asia, the Japanese, is 40 points, while their enemy, the Nanjing government, has a military strength of 60 points. This is also the result of Tsarist Russia¡¯s analysis after several recent battles.  In the earliest report, the Nanjing government's military strength was only 20 points, which was the same level as Poland.

    In the Tsarist Russia's Staff Research Office, the military indexes of other European and American columns are: Italy 30 points, France 60 points, England 65 points, Spain, which has just begun its civil war, 25 points, Portugal 15 points, the Netherlands 15 points, Finland 25 points, and Turkey  35 points, Sweden 30 points, Yugoslavia 35 points, and the United States 55 points (this is counting the war potential, and the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force currently only have a few hundred thousand people).

    Although the data is not so accurate. For example, the strength of the Nanjing government warlord Chiang Kai-shek increased sharply from 20 points to 60 points in two or three years. After the Battle of Warsaw, the Russian General Staff Headquarters also admitted that Poland had at least 35 points of combat effectiveness, it can still be used as a reference in normal times.

    Since Tsarist Russia openly invaded Poland and the Spanish Civil War, although Europe has not yet become a mess, it looks like a war is about to break out.  The German Empire was now in close contact with the Tsarist Empire and was already too busy to take care of itself. Of course, it was not in the mood to discuss the Spanish issue, but the Nanjing government, which had become a second-hand arms dealer, wanted to intervene in the Spanish issue.

    While maintaining neutrality, the international community has sent arms dealers to contact both sides of the Spanish Civil War. If Spain wants to fight, let them fight. It would be better if they can easily sell some arms.

    The biggest problem of the Nanjing government now is that it has enough arms but no suitable talents to use them. Selling some of them will also help the Nanjing government's finances.  After saying hello to Mustache, the relevant liaison personnel of the Nanjing government went straight to the side of the Republican Army - Mustache was familiar with the inside story of Spain. The Republican Army was relatively wealthy, and it had been a maritime hegemon for hundreds of years.

    The Republicans made the decision as soon as they saw the weapons list quoted by the Nanjing government. They bought 10,000 trucks, 500 civilian 22 aircraft, 200 other types of aircraft, and 1,500 tracked troop transports.  Armored cars and eight hundred tanks and enough small arms and artillery to equip four hundred and fifty thousand men, as well as an even greater quantity of bullets and shells.  Because of the German guarantee, the Republicans even ordered two aircraft carriers with aircraft and escort fleets for the aircraft carrier battle group.

    It was even more exciting when settling the bill. The Republicans used the existing gold and silver in the Bank of Spain to settle the bill - the Western arms companies preferred to settle the bill in gold instead of silver, but the two sides could not reach an agreement.

    ¡° Many of the Nanjing government¡¯s arms reserves were temporarily unable to gather together, and they placed orders with Jin Batian¡¯s Nanyang Arms Company.  Jin Batian looked at the list worth hundreds of millions and said in his heart: What a big order.

    Since the Republicans mainly ordered arms from the Nanjing government, Western arms dealers?One after another defected to Franco's National Army faction to sell arms. According to the agreement signed by the Republicans and the Nanjing government when signing the arms purchase and sale agreement, the Nanjing government was not allowed to sell arms to Franco's National Army faction.

    These Western arms dealers are all well-connected, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have controlled the political power of some big countries. Franco, who has just launched an army to rebel, would not dare to offend these giants, so he has to do something even if it is symbolic.  Hold your nose and buy some high-priced arms.  The result is that the entire National Army has been turned into an exhibition hall of IWC weapons.

    Here, the Germans and the Nanjing government sent some military instructors to serve as military advisers to the republicans - mainly to teach the republicans how to use these weapons.  Countries such as Britain, France, Italy, and other countries have sent military instructors accompanied by arms to the National Army of Franco's faction.

    The Spanish Civil War can be said to be the consequences of the Spanish Armada's dominance of the world, because Spain has accumulated countless gold and silver since then, and even caused the world's first crisis due to excess precious metals due to excess gold and silver.  economic crisis.  It is not difficult to see Spain¡¯s precious metal reserves.

    After Spain fell to the altar, these gold and silver did not flow out of Spain in large quantities. Today's Spain is like a child walking in the city holding gold ingots. European and American robbers are naturally very keen on this gold.  It can be said that Franco would be nothing if he did not have the support of foreign Western forces.  The significance of the Spanish Civil War was to redistribute its stored gold, silver and other precious metals.

    What the Western bandits didn¡¯t expect was that the Nanjing government from the Old World would be the first to eat a large piece of the operation they had planned for many years.  But this kind of thing cannot be said openly. The most it can do is to write another entry in the little black book for the Nanjing government - not just once or twice, but to wait until the end of the day to settle the general ledger.

    Nanjing is full, but now only some people can barely eat enough.  Large areas of land on the Japanese island were barren and overgrown with weeds. In 1936, food production dropped to the level before the Meiji Restoration. Military recruitment activities continued, whitewashing activities continued, and singing the emperor's praises for jihad continued

    The situation on the mainland has reached 1936. The Japs have recruited too many former farmers due to excessive military expansion. Now food production is a huge problem.  This kind of problem not only occurs domestically, but also affects the troops stationed in the three northeastern provinces and North Korea. Before the three northeastern provinces, North Korean people were also prohibited from eating rice and white noodles.

    Although it was decided that the local people in the three northeastern provinces were not allowed to eat rice and white flour, by 1936, the soldiers of the Little Japs still could not eat rice and flour every meal.  There are a lot of very cheap rice and white noodles in the international market, but not a kid can afford to buy them in large quantities.

    There was a Japanese soldier on the island, Taro Ishida, who was dissatisfied with eating cornmeal steamed buns and wrote the following song: "With a steamed bun in my hand, there is not a drop of oil in the dish"

    Only half a month after this song was sung by the Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria, Taro Ishida disappeared.

    The emperor always has to set an example at this time. While the people across the country were starving to support the jihad, Emperor Hirohito ordered the royal family to reduce one egg per meal, and only one dried salted fish was left in each meal.  Amidst the praise from the country, the emperor and his family enjoyed Chinese delicacies such as bear paws and venison that were airlifted from the three eastern provinces and other places. The traitor leader Wang Jingwei also gave the emperor two Manchurian imperial chefs.  The Emperor's family has long been tired of eating eggs and salted fish, so it's time for a change.

    The little devil who has been preparing for more than half a year really can't afford to wait. Raising millions of troops may not be a big deal to the Russian Empire, but for the little devil this is an unbearable burden.  The next recorded plan for saving food in the Little Japanese Base Camp is to provide the troops with two hundred grams of food every day, and issue Manchuria Bank Notes to the soldiers for the rest.

    But at this time, the allies chose to open up a second battlefield in Europe, which made the little devils feel as if they were in an ice cellar. Although they knew that the center of gravity of their allies, the Russian Empire, would always be Europe, they did not expect that the center of gravity would suddenly shift because of a Baltic Sea battle.  Although this makes sense in theory, the little devil still feels like he has been cheated.

    There were radicals in the base camp who had long shouted the slogans of "Tsarist Russia first, then Nanjing" and "taking down the defeated generals in the Far East first". However, after Heilongjiang came under the joint control of the three countries, these calls gradually became quieter.  The strength of Tsarist Russia in the Far East was far beyond what the little devils had imagined before. Just the number of calibers of artillery and tanks was beyond what the little devils could match.

    Although the combination of command and infantry and artillery in Tsarist Russia is still as rough as ever, after more contact, the little devil has to admit that the Tsarist Russian army still has two brushes.  Especially after taking over Xinjiang and most of Poland, they actually did not mobilize troops from the Far East back to Europe. This also made the little devils understand that it was Tsarist Russia's allies that had been guarding them.

    Going south to seize Peiping, Zhili and other places is a national policy that the little devils have long decided, even if it is an alliance.?Now even those little devils who don't give in will have to carry out the task.  In view of the main force of the allies opening a second battlefield in Europe, during the Battle of Warsaw, the little devils could only come up with a backup battle plan to go south.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to become a registered member of Piaotian Literature to recommend this work. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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