"A starling with blue wings stood in fear on a broken wall. The shells had already destroyed the house, and there were ruins everywhere. The dead soldiers and the killed livestock were lying on the cold ground in various postures.
war on the land
There were few intact houses in Bukhara after the explosion. One place seemed to have been a flower house of a wealthy family. The flowers blown away by the shells were still bright green, but they quickly disappeared on the snowy ground filled with gunpowder smoke.
The earth withers and withers.
Several prisoner-of-war camps surrounded by barbed wire in the city were filled with captured Soviet officers and soldiers in ragged clothes. These soldiers were dejected, with dull expressions, and their faces were full of frustration. The Red Empire, which once terrified the entire Western world, had hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
army,
Unexpectedly, it quickly collapsed in the face of the Chinese offensive. During the month-long Central Asian counterattack campaign, the Soviet Russian army seemed helpless in the face of the steel torrent of the Republican Army, and the entire battle situation was firmly in the hands of the Chinese.
inside."
In a temporary camp in the city of Bukhara provided by the Republican Army's Northwest Theater Command for foreign observers and reporters, Joyce, a reporter from the American "Chicago Tribune", placed his pen on a simple wooden table made of poplar wood.
He went up and rubbed his hands, which were red from the cold, vigorously.
"Sean, is there any special news?" At this time, Major Van Friest lifted the curtain and entered the tent from the outside. He took off his military cap and threw it on the table. "Damn Chinaman, they refused to let me go.
Application from the front!”
"This is normal, Alexander, they are fighting the British, and we all speak English, don't we?" Joyce turned around and comforted the American major.
"But those military attachés from the German or Italian embassies are allowed to go to areas where fighting is ongoing. They are discriminating against Americans!" Van Friest was still angry.
"Major, this is not discrimination, but hostility!" Joyce said calmly, "Don't you think that since the Chinese won the war in Southeast Asia, the relationship with the United States has become more subtle?"
"Well, this can be felt. Recently, Lieutenant Colonel Smith seems to have shown unusual enthusiasm for collecting intelligence on the Republican Army." Van Friest said, "The Chinese weapons are very advanced, and the Russians cannot stop them at all. If
If they are willing, it seems that they should easily be able to cross the Ural Mountains and eliminate the evil Red Empire. Their armored forces are easily reminiscent of the Mongolian invincible cavalry."
"The problem now is that they seem to be more interested in the British. I think the Republican Army will drive the Russians out of Central Asia and then move south." Joyce said, "The French are trying to figure out how to exit with dignity.
war, and was unwilling to send any more troops to the Far East. I heard that the Chamberlain government was also seeking the possibility of peace talks so that it could try to preserve its territory in India. This war only lasted a year and a half. Who could have imagined that it would have such an outcome?
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"In fact, there are still people who have a clear understanding of this. Thomas, a reporter for British Broadcasting in the Far East, predicted that this war would be a disaster for the British Empire after the British declared war on China, and that the British army would suffer a humiliating defeat.
, thereby losing the whole of Asia, and even Australia." Van Friest said, "In fact, the military before the war
In the incident assessment report, no military personnel could believe that the British could win, but no one could predict that the British and French coalition forces would be so vulnerable. General Yarnell reminded the British that they should be wary of the possibility that the Republican Navy would launch an attack on the Changi Navy
A raid on the base, just like what the Japanese did during the Russo-Japanese War, is the most trouble-free way."
The two were chatting when Lieutenant Shipp walked in and said, "Aren't you two going to eat? Those German guys and mafia gangsters have returned from the front. Maybe you can get something useful while dining."
"Okay, let's go over there." Van Friest reached out and picked up his military cap on the table, stood up and said.
There is a large grass-green cotton tent in the center of the camp. It is a restaurant specially set up here by the Republican Army. Foreign observation groups and reporters on the front line in Buha usually come here to exchange their views. It is also a favorite place for intelligence personnel from various countries.
A place to stay.
Lieutenant Colonel von Thoma was a small German who looked quite similar to their leader. As the military attaché of the German Embassy, he and the Second Class Attaché of the American Embassy, Van Friest, were in Beijing.
We already know each other. It is common for military attachés from various countries to gather together and spy on each other's intelligence.
"Hi, William, I heard that you just came back from the battlefield where artillery fire was raging. Did you do anything interesting?" Van Friest sat in front of Thomas holding a metal tray with food, "Is the battle still fierce?
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"There is nothing special about it. The Russians have already collapsed. Groups of hungry and cold Russian troops walked out of the desert, and were then obediently taken in by the Chinese who stood in front of them. There were only small-scale battles in sporadic places."
The horse raised his head and took a small spoonful
After drinking the potato soup mixed with a little minced meat, he said, "I was greatly shocked by the Chinese tank. It was much larger than any tank I had seen before. If it were placed on the Spanish battlefield, it would be a huge weapon."
These are invincible weapons, and the Russians can do nothing with them."
"Are they strong?" Van Friest said. "As far as I know, the trials of tanks from various countries on the Spanish battlefield were not very successful. Some people in the army even think that their real role is very limited."
"It's really powerful. If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's hard to imagine..." Thomas said this and saw a tall European with a bald head and a big belly and Joyce also came over with a plate.
, so he greeted the two people with a smile, and then introduced to Van Friest: "Robert Schumann, the chief correspondent of the People's Observer in the Far East."
Van Friest smiled and greeted: "We know each other. Nice to meet you, Robert."
"Hey, there's really no place to sit, so I have to come over to your side and squeeze in," Schumann said.
The topic shifted to Europe, the French cabinet collapsed, Chamberlain's life was not easy, Britain, France, Germany and Italy joined forces to betray the Czech Republic and Slovakia in Munich, and Germany was about to annex the Sudetenland.
These seemed to be correcting the unfair treatment imposed on the Germans due to the Treaty of Versailles, which further fueled Hitler's ambitions. At least in the eyes of the Germans, he became an unparalleled wise leader.
Similar to Republican China, the head of state organized the German people so that every family had food to eat and would not be troubled by unemployment. Young people were receiving training every day, which helped the country's economy return to vitality from a state of bankruptcy.
"The Führer has led us to regain our confidence. Now the young people are consciously and receiving training. No one is taking to the streets to cause trouble. The whole of Germany is united and the people are very happy, right?" Regarding Joyce's response to the Anschluss.
And questioned the militarization of the German economy, Schumann retorted.
"Yes, it is very similar to the path that the Chinese have taken. The state has very strict control over the economy, but the consequence of militarizing the entire economy is the same as what the Chinese are doing now, leading to war," Joyce said, "
Since the great economic crisis in 1929, China's economic focus has begun to shift to the military industry. They need a war, which was originally aimed at the Japanese, otherwise such a huge military industry will bring down the entire country. The stupidity of the British,
It just gave them a proper reason to provoke a war, but in fact they had already prepared it."