As was widely expected, with the end of the first all-out war between Germany and Japan in the form of peace talks, Germany and Japan began large-scale disarmament in unison. Although the German-Japanese Treaty of Pusan did not restrict the size of the Japanese Empire's army, the Japanese emperor announced the reorganization of the 6 Navy in the third week after the armistice, and the reorganized Japanese 6 Army Standing Force only retained the size of 30,000 troops on the two fronts, and the navy abolished the wartime establishment of the combined fleet and replaced it with four alert defense fleets in South Kyushu, the Sea of Japan, the Pacific Ocean, and Hokkaido, and the entire navy retained only 150,000 combat personnel and about 10,000 logistics personnel.

In contrast to the more thorough reorganization of the Japanese Empire, the German Empire carried out a relatively smooth military adjustment, that is, a shift to a state of non-war readiness. The navy will abolish the original battle group establishment, and all ships will be under the command of the four commands in the home region, the Atlantic region, the Mediterranean region, and the Pacific region, and the model with the battlefleet as the core in the past will also be changed to the aircraft carrier battle group model, with each aircraft carrier battle group having jurisdiction over one or two main battleships, one to two heavy aircraft carriers, and a number of frigates. The Home Command covers both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, and usually does not have an aircraft carrier battle group, but is dominated by cruisers, light alert ships, and naval aviation. Atlantic and Mediterranean Command is primarily tasked with maintaining regional stability and protecting its colonies and sea lanes, typically operating with one or two carrier battle groups and a large number of cruisers and destroyers; PACOM's territory is the largest and heaviest mission, so it typically has three to four carrier battle groups with a relatively large number of submarines and naval aviation.

In the later stages of the German-Japanese War, the Luftwaffe had more than 10,000 military planes of all kinds, of which the most deterrent strategic bomber unit had more than 12,000 medium- and long-range bombers of various types, and the fighter unit, which was known for its fighter performance and pilot quality, had more than 10,000 fighters of various types, in addition to a large number of tactical bombers, transport planes, and reconnaissance planes. With the end of the war, more than half of them will go to the reserve forces or directly to the combat readiness warehouse. However, there were still many planes deployed on the Korean Peninsula, in the Tibetan Peninsula, in the city, which was rich in astronomy and rich in culture, but it took 48 hours for the column from Toulouse to arrive in Madrid.

Bursts of artillery could be heard faintly in the distance, but the train did not go straight into the station. Instead, he stopped fifty or sixty meters from the platform. The train has just stopped. Soldiers in black uniforms and German M25 black steel helmets jumped out of the passenger cars in front of and behind the train, each of them holding an MP24 submachine gun in his hand, except for the officers. This easy-to-carry, easy-to-use weapon was able to bring down any suspicious figure in the vicinity for a short period of time, but no outsider approached the train until they had placed the entire train in a sparse but effective cordon.

At this time, a colonel officer who was about forty years old and wore a flat-topped short-brimmed military cap walked down the first passenger car with a simple microphone, his real name was very ordinary, Walter, there are tens of thousands of men in Germany who were born with this name, but the ordinariness of the name can not bury a person's talent, not to mention that there are not many celebrities called Walter in German history, for example, Marshal Walter Fleicher von Rohr of the 6th Army was a very successful general during the time of Wilhelm II.

Walter looked around. Then raise the microphone:

"Now, all the tank crew members quickly assemble in front of their own compartment! The first battle squad groped their way to the station, and the rest of the battle squad remained vigilant! ”

A few seconds later, another group of soldiers in black uniforms and without any weapons in their hands quickly ran out of the passenger carriages, and between the two passenger carriages in front and behind were more than twenty flatbed carriages usually used to carry large quantities of supplies, each of which had a canvas-covered "hill", some of which showed the obvious outline of a weapon, a tank or artillery, and some of which were made of various boxes piled up.

Empty-handed, the soldiers quickly climbed into some of the flatbed cars and untied the canvas ropes.

After the canvas was removed, the gray-black tanks took on a strange depth in the setting sun, and the white number next to their turrets was reflected in an orange-red color.

The tanks, the famous 4-C battle tank, and the other two are the Tiger-1 heavy tanks, which are not well known in the international military circles, are the most expensive and important cargo on this train. There were also 12 artillery pieces and 5oo boxes of ammunition on board, which were also in desperate need of the combined forces fighting in Spain, but their ability to change the tide of the war was not significant compared to the former.

While the soldiers were busy getting the big guys back into their activities, another group of more than a dozen soldiers, the "First Combat Squad" as the officer in front of them called them, was cautiously advancing towards the station with their guns bowed. Although they had been invited by the Spanish royal family and the government, and if a week ago they would have undoubtedly received a very warm welcome, the situation was far from what they had anticipated, as the main railway artery linking France and Spain was destroyed by anti-government elements along the way. They had to wait for the railroad workers and the Spanish government to repair the damaged railroad before they could move on, and the closer they got to Madrid, the worse the situation became, and they were even attacked by unknown gunmen last night, but the rioters were still somewhat self-aware and did not dare to openly attack the heavily armed German military columns, but according to the urgent telegram taken from Germany, Xiao said. Therefore. Walter, who was responsible for the safety of all the personnel and equipment on the train, did not dare to be careless, and if the station in front of it had been controlled by the rebels, the important supplies would have fallen into the hands of the enemy, which would have made matters worse for the Spanish soldiers and the officers and men of the Multinational Joint Rapid Reaction Force who were guarding Madrid.

After waiting for a few minutes with trepidation and nervousness, Walter and his Soldier Gate received mixed news from the First Combat Team - the station was empty, but the tracks and platform equipment were mostly intact!

Before coming to Spain, Walter tried to learn as much information as he could from his superiors about the situation in Spain, and the situation was far worse than he had imagined. While it is entirely possible that the Spanish soldiers guarding the station had been ordered by their superiors to withdraw to the city to reinforce their garrison, Walter preferred to believe that the timid and demoralized Spanish soldiers had fled, and that the rebels could attack them at any moment. The situation has been left to him and wait for his superiors in the country to contact the Spanish government and find out the truth here.

"All personnel are ready for battle. The train goes straight into the city of Madrid! ”

After quickly judging the situation, Colonel Walter again gave orders to the officers and men through his improvised subway leather microphone. This railway line leads all the way to the central train station in downtown Madrid, if the line is in good condition. They would be there at most ten o'clock in the evening, and even if the railway line had been damaged, he could use the train to get to the city with tanks and assault infantry to join the combined forces.

The train quickly restarted and slowly passed through the empty military station. As night fell, the occasional distant cannon sounded, and the assault infantry in charge of security were dispersed to the carriages on Walter's orders, and the six tanks were repositioned, and the muzzles of the guns remained in battle marching mode. In front of the Tiger-1 tank, the crews of the 4 Type 4 tanks could not find the feeling of being domineering before, after all, whether it was size, tonnage or firepower. The Tiger-1 is a level stronger, but this does not mean that the Type 4 tank is outdated, at least in the current armored forces of all countries in the world, there is basically no real confrontation with the Type 4 tank, and in terms of maneuverability, maximum stroke, mechanical failure rate and cost, the mature 4-C has its own advantages.

In the early 30s, Madrid had a large but not very modern city, and the layout of the entire city was obviously not planned, with some streets straight and wide. Some are only accessible by rickshaws, and the style of the buildings in the urban area is relatively uniform, but occasionally you can see some exotic buildings. From the external conditions alone, a city like Madrid is still suitable for defensive warfare, especially when the rebels lack heavy artillery and armored vehicles.

However, the reality here is that the regime of Alfonso XIII has lost the support of the majority of the population in the country, those living at the lowest strata of society are eager to change the oppression of the aristocracy and the hardship of life all the years through a revolution, and the young intellectuals have seen through the decadence and incompetence of the ruling class of the country, and they believe that Spain's image of weakness in the international community must be changed by overthrowing the regime of Alfonso XIII, establishing a new democratic regime and carrying out radical social reforms. Therefore, the Spanish government is not only faced with those revolutionaries who are armed, but also those government soldiers and ordinary soldiers who are friendly to or even supportive of the revolution are likely to rebel, and this is probably what the International Security Alliance did not anticipate when it made the decision to send a joint force to Spain.

Like the military station in the northern suburbs, Madrid's railway line had not been vandalized at this time, but most of the stations along the route were unoccupied, and Walter had to constantly dismount his men to occupy the consoles to ensure that the train continued in the right direction. Fortunately, they received a telegram from home soon after, and the combined forces that had arrived earlier had just entered the city and taken over part of the city's defenses, while the central station of Madrid and the surrounding area were still in the hands of the Spanish Royal Guard, loyal to Alfonso XIII.

In an unusually vigilant and dreary atmosphere, the train continued to move forward, most of Madrid was already in a state of blackout, the railway line was basically dark, and when the lights on the train swept by, the tall and low houses appeared in front of people's eyes, people seemed to be in the middle of a group of silent giants, but they did not know when they would suddenly stand up and attack themselves, which made people very insecure. Fortunately, after about an hour, there were lights ahead, and the Spanish soldiers could be seen at the railway station ahead.

At 9 p.m., the train pulls into Madrid Central Station. From a distance, the platform was quite crowded with people, but when they got closer to the platform, Walter and his soldiers were presented with a bleak scene - most of the soldiers walking on the platform were Spanish government soldiers, all of them with bandages on their heads or crutches, and all of them were dejected and silent, but thousands of people looked very dull, and everyone probably had only one thought in their heads, which was to get on the train and leave the place quickly.

Watching this scene, Walter had a very bad feeling that if nothing else, their next battle would be very difficult. No wonder there are rumors that Alfonso XIII left Madrid early for the more stable south, and if this news is true, the defense of Madrid is only a purely political matter.