The signing of the German-Japanese armistice agreement was welcomed by most countries in the world, and many proposed that December 8, the day it was signed, be designated as World Peace Day to commemorate this great occasion.

However, permanent peace exists only in people's dreams.

When the news reached Germany, most of the 90 million native citizens seemed relatively calm. In their minds, there is so much behind this war that many people have mixed feelings when they hear the news of the truce. At the beginning of the war, a considerable number of Germans looked at the war with a normal mind, what the murderer of Wilhelm II, the evil country, the essence of the war is actually two countries to fight for some interests, with Germany's strong national strength and a huge group of allies, at this time most people feel that it will not take too long to defeat Japan.

Soon after, the Japanese began to inflict vicious attacks on the government and civilians on German soil, much to the annoyance of the tough Germans. During that period, the enthusiasm of the German population for the war was at an all-time high, and there was a positive attitude despite the unfavorable fighting in the Far East, and the strong German and Turkish forces continued to advance steadily on land, which gave people a great deal of confidence.

As the war deepened, more and more German soldiers shed blood and died on the battlefield, which also meant that more and more German families received "black notices". In the face of the huge annual war expenditures, some economists were the first to propose an end to this kind of labor-based war, because after taking all the colonies of the Japanese Empire, Germany had gained as much as possible from the war, and the next attack on the Japanese mainland would be far more costly than good.

Gradually, calls for an end to the war grew, a situation that Japanese officials once regarded as a turning point in the war, but they never imagined that a film would rekindle Germain's deep desire to fight. The German government continued the war for another year—and the Japanese Empire held out for another year.

In the end, the war in the Far East ended with fatigue on both sides. In Russia, a vast country straddling the Eurasian continent, the war came to an end with the arrival of winter. The last soldiers of Democratic Russia accepted the reorganization of the Soviet Red Army, and only the Far Eastern separatist forces in the whole of Russia were still struggling to support it. Although the situation in Russia seems to be in the overall situation, and at the same time, the Soviet Russian Red Army has impressed the world with its strong combat effectiveness, and Valradimi Petro has made all countries see an insatiable and capricious ugly face, neither the Allies nor some neutral countries want to see the emergence of a strong Russia, therefore. They still use Vladivostok as a fulcrum to send arms, supplies and even so-called volunteer troops to Valadimipetro forces.

People are betting on whether the Soviet Red Army will rush to the Sea of Japan in one fell swoop at the beginning of the next spring, or whether Valadimi Petro will hold on to the last Russian "reservation". In the opinion of military commentators, this was a "very dangerous gamble", and not only the shipwand of aid would be a scoop, but it could also provoke the envy of the Russians. Of course, others hope that Soviet Russia will be jealous of all the interferers, and it is better to have another world war, so that they will have the opportunity to take advantage of it and fight for their own place in the readjustment of the world pattern.

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France. Brest.

When another steamer laden with people and supplies slowly sailed into the harbor. It is impossible to remember how many such ships have been built since the beginning of winter, and groups of soldiers carrying large bags and rifles have arrived by sea, and this beautiful French coastal city is now a military camp. Right now. The streets are full of soldiers wearing various uniforms, including Germans, Turks, Italians, Greeks and Spaniards, and even French soldiers wearing imitation German military uniforms, these people plus a variety of logistics support personnel The number is close to 50,000, you must know that the city, including the suburbs, is only about 100,000 residents!

In international security, the Multinational Joint Rapid Reaction Force (JRES) has been understaffed. After the signing of the peace treaty between Germany and Japan, 6,000 additional Italian soldiers arrived in Brest on 20 December, a week later. Greece also sent a supplementary 500 soldiers and 200 logisticians. After Christmas, with an additional 10,000 German troops stationed in Brest, and with the arrival of soldiers from other countries, the rapid reaction force in Europe finally reached its expected size. Although these tens of thousands of soldiers are not enough to strengthen the size of a regular army in the country, they are, in the words of League of Nations officials, more than enough to deal with some regional conflicts.

The commanders of the rapid reaction force were satisfied with the abundance of troops, but the influx of soldiers of different nationalities into Brest in a short period of time also caused some very difficult problems for the French community. First of all, according to the agreement between the participating countries.

The soldiers sent by each country carry their own weapons and equipment, the ammunition is also transported by their own ships, and the food and drink are purchased by the logistics departments of the troops of each country at the station, and the responsibility of the local government is to coordinate the needs of the troops of various countries and ensure the supply of food, which does not seem to be difficult, but in fact the food culture and habits of various countries and ethnic groups are very different, especially the majority of Turkish soldiers who believe in Islam, they do not eat pork, dog meat, donkey meat, horse meat, rabbit meat, scaleless fish and animal blood, Most of the soldiers from other countries had their own food preferences, and these demands kept the officials of the local government in Brest busy, and they were reprimanded by the other party if they were not careful, and many did not even have time to deal with their own affairs.

Secondly, the quality of the ** people is uneven, and there is a language barrier with the local French residents, coupled with the tempting beaches and bars on the west coast of France, tall and beautiful French girls, physical conflicts between ** people, soldiers and civilians occur from time to time. Every weekend, the soldiers of various countries who are allowed to go out become the most troublesome but dare not offend the Brest police department, and at the same time make the coalition command and the local police department very troubled. Although the Multinational Joint Rapid Reaction Force Command has set up a military police department to oversee the conduct of officers and soldiers in various countries, when a coalition soldier is caught violating the rules, the command often has to take into account the face of the governments, so at best it detains the perpetrator for a few days or sends him back to his country. As a result, this problem has never been fundamentally resolved.

The problems in life are not all headaches for commanders, and the officers and soldiers sent by various countries to participate in the Joint Rapid Reaction Force are elite personnel in their own countries, but the level of equipment and training varies from country to country. The quality and combat effectiveness of the German soldiers were recognized as world-class. They also had in their hands an enviable sophistication of weapons that could not be matched by Finnish, Italian, or even Turkish soldiers, and the apparent disparity had some undesirable effects. The German officers and soldiers often looked down on the soldiers from second-rate countries, and the Italians disdained to follow the Germans closely behind the buttocks like the Finnish and Turkish soldiers.

Three months of training down. Some people do not think that the Joint Rapid Reaction Force (JRF) is capable of rapid response, but there is always a lack of "unity". They felt that the political significance of the formation of this joint force was far greater than the reality, and that they did not need to consider any other opponents except Russia. At the request of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, the International Security Alliance decided to send a rapid reaction force to Spain to assist government forces in suppressing the "peasant revolt".

After the League of Nations made its decision, in Brest, the multinational soldiers of the Joint Rapid Reaction Force quickly gathered and drove to the airport according to the procedures that had been practiced many times before, and a large German transport plane soon appeared in front of them. But it wasn't until I boarded the plane. Quite a few soldiers still have the illusion of an ordinary exercise. Some looked nervous and serious, but many more were talking and laughing, in their opinion. This trip to Spain can be seen as a trip, because their opponents are just a bunch of "hoe-carrying and sickle-carrying peasants"!

Only the soldiers from Spain were careful to tell their foreign counterparts that the situation in Spain was far from being as simple as they thought, that the peasant movement and revolutionary activities had broken out 20 years earlier, and that Alfonso XIII's regime would have collapsed long ago had it not been for the repeated material assistance or armed intervention of foreign governments. Don't underestimate the armed forces of peasants, handicraftsmen and unemployed workers, who, although poorly equipped, are not at all weak in their determination and will to fight, and are adept at using all kinds of flexible means of warfare.

There's no denying it. The Russian Revolution had a profound impact on the situation in Spain, but perhaps the more important reason was the decay of the country's ruling class. However, it seems that every country wants to see its neighbors ruled by a group of incompetents, so every time there was a riot in Spain, Germany, Italy and even Portugal were happy to come to the aid of Alfonso XIII's government, and most of the time without compensation.

This time, the identity of entering Spain to carry out armed intervention appeared more complicated than usual. With France and Spain just a neighbor, Luftwaffe transport planes soon transported the first batch of 7,000 Rapid Reaction Force soldiers to Toledo, 100 kilometers from Madrid, the Spanish capital.

Over the next two days, another 32,000 coalition soldiers entered Spain. The first task of these multinational forces was to work with the Spanish government forces to stop the revolutionary forces from advancing into Madrid.

Compared with the old Mauser rifles and heavy Maxim water-cooled machine guns in the hands of the soldiers of the Spanish government army, the soldiers of the multinational joint forces have a much higher degree of automation in their weapons, not to mention the German army soldiers who are generally equipped with MP24 submachine guns and GG semi-automatic rifles, even the Italian army has equipped light machine guns to the most basic infantry platoon, while the equipment of the Turkish army has basically maintained a technical level that is 34 years different from that of its German counterparts. Half of the Greek infantry used weapons purchased from Germany, and the other half was also imitation German equipment, Finland and France, needless to say, completely German-style equipment, only Britain and Ukraine followed their own characteristics, that is, British and Russian equipment.

After assigning their respective defense areas, the soldiers of the Multinational Joint Forces began the familiar trench-digging operation. In terms of the technical standards of field fortifications, the armies of each country have their own designations, and it is difficult to achieve unity in a short period of time, so the troops of each country are carried out according to their own standards. Considering their current lack of artillery, especially heavy artillery, the German, Turkish, British, and French commanders still let their soldiers build the fortifications as strong as possible, a decision that soon proved to be very wise, but only the Italians did not think so, not only did they not see the progress of the project being significantly slow, but they also "cut corners" in the depth of the trenches and the thickness of the bunkers, which soon brought them many unnecessary losses in the initial battle that followed.

As the superior number of ** armed forces continued to approach Madrid, the first battle in which the soldiers of the combined forces participated began on February 4, although the Spanish government army had significantly more artillery in their hands than ** armed, but on the first night of the battle, their artillery positions and ammunition depots were attacked by ** armed forces, and many artillery and ammunition were lost. The Coalition soldiers found several Spanish government positions empty, and the commanders had to draw soldiers from their own units to fill their positions. The battle was fiercely fought on this day, and if it had not been for the timely fire support provided by the Luftwaffe, the pressure on the combined forces would have been even greater.

In the first two days of fighting, a total of 245 Combined Forces soldiers were killed and more than 300 were wounded. As a last resort, the Combined Forces Command ordered the participating units to withdraw from contact with the enemy and retreat in the direction of Madrid, but the artillery brought in from France by rail and the only regular armoured unit of the combined forces finally arrived in Madrid at this time.