In the cockpit covered with a teardrop-shaped glass cover, the young pilot with a big mustache had a serious expression on his face, and the national emblem of the stars and moon on his chest was gold, green, and red, just like the slightly fancy livery of this plane. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Sometimes he looked at the sky, sometimes at the ground, and gradually the outline of a city appeared in his sight, it had no modern high-rise buildings, many of the striking buildings had ******-style round spires, the city overflowed the former walls and moats, and the towering chimneys emitted a faint gray smoke......

Beyond the city, at the far end of the horizon stood a number of identical-looking oil wells, with open flames burning on the exhaust gas combustion towers, and gray-black plumes of smoke rising in the blue sky. Behind this vibrant and busy scene, there is a looming sound of cannons. After passing over the oil fields, the Irish-made unarmed military reconnaissance plane did not continue to fly north, but the pilot suddenly noticed that several black spots appeared in the northern sky, he stared at it, and then his face changed drastically, and while contacting his own command by radio, he flew low, and when he was about to fly over the city, he removed the hatch and fired a red flare with his flare gun.

A closer look reveals that the city is slightly mutilated and burned by fire, and there are anti-aircraft positions in the open space around the moat. At the sight of the warning flares, the whistle sounded loudly in these positions, and the soldiers wearing German steel helmets but generally bearded ran to the combat positions, there were German-made M1916 77 mm and M1917 88 mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as various self-mounted anti-aircraft mount machine guns, and next to each gun position was a Ottoman Army star and moon flag with a red background.

Here is the North Caucasus, Grozny, the former "terrible fortress". The history of this famous city is very short, with the Russian army building a fortress here in 1818 and the city of Grozny in 1870, which is mainly inhabited by ****** Chechens. In 1919, taking advantage of the revolution and civil war in Russia, the Ottoman Turkish army crossed the Caucasus Mountains, and Grozny "returned to the ****** world", and then the nascent Soviet Russian regime continued to negotiate with the Ottoman government, demanding that the Turkish army withdraw to the armistice line drawn in 1916, but the Ottoman government not only did not respond, but also sent additional troops to the North Caucasus and built a defensive line along the border. By 1926, the tense situation in the North Caucasus was finally out of control due to the "lack of restraint" of the soldiers on both sides. The Russian and Turkish armies first clashed fiercely in Mozdok, more than 90 kilometers from Grozny, and although the two sides did not declare war on each other, they each mobilized heavy troops and fought fiercely around the city.

In the early years, Grozny was a strategic stronghold of the Russian army in the North Caucasus, which shows its important position. Since the discovery of oil fields in the 19th century, Grozny has developed rapidly, where the Russians have built oil pipelines to ports on the west coast of the Caspian Sea. After the Turkish army occupied here, the Ottoman government allocated special funds to restore and expand oil exploration here, and in just a few years, the Grozny oil field became the largest oil producer of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Therefore, immediately after the Soviet and Russian bombers attacked Grozny for the first time, the Turkish army launched retaliatory bombing of Russian cities, and the two sides went back and forth, and the air contest continued to escalate, and the North Caucasus became a testing ground for testing the development of air combat and air defense technology and tactics.

More than twenty minutes later, a group of Soviet and Russian aircraft, consisting of more than a dozen aircraft, entered the Grozny air defense circle, and dense gunfire began to sound on the ground. From the ground, clouds of smoke were blocking the path of the Russian planes, but the actual threat of anti-aircraft fire to those planes was not as great as expected, and most of the Russian planes passed the anti-aircraft fire of the Turkish army unharmed. Their exterior contours are not identical, some show a smooth metallic sheen in the sun, the cockpit and the shooter's combat position are relatively closed, and some are still old-fashioned cloth skin, open cabins, uneven performance makes it impossible for them to maintain a compact formation, each bomber carries a limited number of bombs, but because of the large time interval between arriving at the bomb dropping position, the bombing of the city lasted more than ten minutes.

As black bombs fell from the sky, the ground shook violently with a loud bang, and the smoke and dust from the explosion soared into the sky. An attack on an oil refinery ignited a horrific fire, and the city was filled with panicked shouts and people pushing old pressurized water fire-fighting equipment in the thick smoke to extinguish the fire.

With the exception of one bomber that had been shot down, the rest of the Russian bombers quickly set out on their way home, and the Turks counterattacked as expected: more than a dozen biplane fighters roared in, and the gold, green, and red livery made them look like ferocious sparrowhawks. Just as they were about to catch up with the Russian bombers, several dark green painted fighters suddenly swooped down from a high altitude. Although the number of Russian fighters was smaller than that of the wealthy Turks, the skill and fighting spirit of the Soviet and Russian pilots were obviously superior, and they rushed into the infantry array like cavalry, slashing left and right, and being extremely brave, and in the blink of an eye, the two Turkish fighters dragged black smoke to the ground -- what the outside world thought of as a military conflict had long since turned into a bloody war with real swords and guns, and more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians had been killed and wounded on both sides!

While the Russian-Turkish fighters were fighting, a flock of gray warhawks flew at high speed from the southwest. The Germans, although not directly involved in the Ottoman expansion of the North Caucasus, were also the economic beneficiaries of the Turkish seizure of the Grozny oil fields. In response to tensions in the Caucasus, Germany has strengthened its military presence in the tripartite Baku region, and the 4th German Fighter Wing, which has been deployed overseas for a long time, is equipped with excellent Focker-XI biplane fighters, each pilot has at least 200 hours of flying experience, which is a force that the Russians are quite afraid of. The Russian pilots gave up the opportunity to further expand the victory, covering the rapid withdrawal of their bombers to the side of the border, and the German fighters still did not get involved in the battle, but hovered over the battlefield like vultures. After the danger was removed, two of the Fokker-XI landed near the wreckage of the downed Russian warplane, and the pilots took photos at the scene to record the situation, and then re-flew the planes into the air and followed their fleet back to the military airfield near Baku.

Due to ideological antagonism, the Soviet Russian regime has been boycotted by Western countries since its birth, and representatives of Germany, Austria, Turkey, France, Britain, the United States, Italy and other countries signed the Berlin Convention in 1919, declaring that a diplomatic and economic blockade was adopted against Soviet Russia, but after the Russian-Turkish conflict in 1926, military observers were surprised to find that many of the weapons equipped by the Soviet Russian army had a distinctive American or British style, and even simply made in the United States and Britain. The Russian air force was equipped with a small number of new fighters, but the limited number of troops committed by both sides before the military conflict in the North Caucasus escalated into a local war gave the Russian pilots the upper hand in the confrontation with the Turkish air force. On the ground, the field guns of the Soviet and Russian armies were superior in range and rate of fire to the German-made M96 77-mm field guns used by the Turkish army, and German military observers judged in their reports to the General Staff that the artillery used by the Russians probably absorbed the experience of the British 13-pounder rapid-fire field guns, which had made a very deep impression on German officers and men during the war. In addition, the Turks also observed that the Russian army was equipped with two models of tracked combat vehicles, one similar to the American-made M-2 light tank, and the other similar to the German Hubert-14 heavy tank, and in all previous intelligence, there was no description of the Russian army equipped with tanks.

1926 certainly was not a pleasant year for those in power in Istanbul, as the renewed Russian army in the North Caucasus put them in a dilemma, and the Ottoman rule in Egypt faced new challenges: armed uprisings broke out in many parts of Egypt, demanded independence from the Ottoman Empire, and successfully repelled the Turkish garrisons that had gone to suppress them. The Ottoman Empire's rule over Egypt has been maintained for more than 400 years, and the resources and economic output here are far inferior to those in the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia, but the Suez Canal is of great strategic value and is a must for control of the Mediterranean.

With the Ottoman Empire's unabated military strength after the war, the Egyptians did not have an independent grasp of their own strength alone, but their rebel troops showed impressive strength in the battle against the Turkish army, the Turks captured a large amount of American-made equipment on the battlefield, and later captured an American officer, and the Allied camp launched a diplomatic offensive against the United States on this ground, but the United States does not need to rely too much on Europe in terms of politics, diplomacy and economy and finance, and they are far-fetched and perfunctory in the accusations of Germany and Turkey. After Germany announced that it would send troops to Egypt, it joined forces with Britain to attack Germany's aggression and expansion.

At a time when the world's attention was drawn to the smoke of the North Caucasus and the war in Egypt, a military coup d'état occurred in Japan, which was on the verge of collapse due to the economic regression caused by the huge expenditure on the development of the navy for many years, and the financial and strategic resources were depleted. Only a little more than a month after the end of the coup d'état, the Japanese troops stationed along the South Manchurian Railway and in the Korean region suddenly launched an attack on Northeast China, quickly occupying a number of important political towns and a number of transportation hubs, and ignoring the joint note of Germany, Austria, Italy and other countries, transferring more army units from the mainland to Korea and China, and the ambition of annexing Northeast China was undoubtedly realized.

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