Pabrov is a small town in the Russian Far East near the Amur Bay, which had fewer than 100 inhabitants at the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet War. A few months ago www.biquge.info, the Japanese army surrounded Shuangchengzi and advanced into Vladivostok, and although Balabashi was still far away from the range of Japanese artillery, the atmosphere of war had already enveloped this peaceful and beautiful town. This time, the Japanese counterattacked by sea and land, and they quickly won the Battle of Cheongjin, surrounded tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and annihilated most of them, and then once again entered the borders of the Russian Far East. When the Japanese Combined Fleet arrived in the southern waters of Peter the Great Bay, the 7th Division, which served as the vanguard of the Japanese army, penetrated dozens of kilometers into the Russian border, and Paburov thus became the front line of the Soviet and Russian troops' assembly and defense......

"Yes, that's right! It was the Vickers-40, built at the Ryder-Vickers factory in Scotland and known to the Scottish military as the 'St. Andrewke' tank. According to the information we have, the combat weight of this combat vehicle is about 32 tons, it is armed with a long-barreled 17-pounder cannon, the frontal armor may reach 70 mm at its thickest point, 40-50 mm at its thinnest point, and the cross-country speed is about 30 kilometers per hour, and its main performance should not be worse than your C-35. ”

South of Pabrov, at an observation and command post of the Russian army, Captain Eden-Hendrick from Ireland briefed the Russian officers on the enemy vehicles he had observed through his binoculars. This Irish Army officer on active duty is a military observer officially dispatched by the Kingdom of Ireland, and with the approval of the Soviet and Russian military authorities, he came to the front line of the battle in the Russian Far East theater, and his mission is to observe and record the combat situation of the two sides and evaluate the combat performance of the Irish equipment to aid Russia.

Standing next to Captain Hendrik was a staff officer of the command of the military district of Marshal Tukhachevsky, a burly man in his mid-forties, who wore on his chest the gold medal of merit for his battles in the Caucasus and Persia.

"Sure enough...... Mr. Captain, judging by the intelligence you have, how many Vickers-40s have been acquired by the Japanese army from Scotland? Two hundred? Three hundred? Five hundred? The Russian staff officer asked angrily.

The Irish captain shrugged: "I'm sorry, but I don't have access to that kind of information in my position. If you want to know the conclusive data, it is recommended to take the higher route, and there may be a satisfactory answer. ”

The Russian staff officer nodded, continuing to focus on the battlefield. In front of the line of sight, about two wings of Japanese infantry were attacking the positions of the Soviet Russian troops under the cover of thirty or forty combat vehicles. Less than 10 of these tanks are distinctive Vickers-40s, and the rest are the common Type 97 and Type 94 - they have consistently performed unsatisfactory in the face of the tank guns and anti-tank guns of the Soviet and Russian armies.

Suddenly, another Soviet and Russian military officer who was observing with an artillery mirror instructed the signal corps: "Send a report to our support fleet that the enemy's coordinates are 102-094-056 and request a round of artillery support!" ”

The signal corps did not hesitate to carry out the order. About five minutes later, the battlefield was filled with the screeching of shells bursting through the air, followed by a violent explosion that shook the ground for less than three minutes.

When the smoke cleared slightly, Captain Hendrik shook his head with some regret, while the Russian staff officer beside him frowned directly.

The officer, who had calculated the coordinates of the shelling, did not look very good, and after re-measuring it, he instructed the signal corps: "Please recalibrate the parameters of the support fleet and cover the coordinates 102-093-055 with fire, the landing point of the round of artillery fire just now is 500 meters to the east." ”

A few minutes later, another round of artillery fire came from the direction of the sea, but the shelling was still not satisfactory. In fact, Baburov was not a small seaside town, it was about 5 kilometers from the nearest coastline, and the support fleet sent from Vladivostok was obviously afraid of the deterrence of Japanese ships and carrier-based aircraft, and did not sail to the waters near Babrov, but cruined in the bay about 16 kilometers away, supporting land operations and preparing to withdraw into the Amur Bay at any time.

In addition, the largest of these ships sent to support the army's operations is destroyers, and they are better at direct shooting and lightning strikes at sea than long-range fire coverage......

The two rounds of rapid firing of Soviet and Russian ships more or less caused some obstacles to the Japanese troops who were engaged in the attack, but the Japanese army was able to eliminate the Soviet Russian army that invaded the northern part of the Korean Peninsula in less than half a month, relying not on the traditional tactics of the sea of people, which included the strong support of naval artillery and the mighty assault of the land troops, as well as the close coordination and precision bombing of the bomber forces. Although the Japanese troops on the ground were thwarted from attacking, it didn't take long for a group of black spots to appear in the southern sky. Seeing such a scene, everyone in the Soviet Russian observation post stiffened their faces.

The Soviet army staff officer said hatefully: "A land attack type B, the Japanese Army introduced a fast bomber from Austria-Hungary in 1941, the range, speed, bomb load and self-defense ability are superior to the German Ju-33, it is said that 400 are manufactured by the Phoenix factory in Austria, and 800 are manufactured by Mitsubishi and Nakajima in Japan. ”

Captain Hendrick from Ireland turned his head to look at him: "The Phoenix 37 bomber you said was in service four years later than the Junker 33, and it is a twin-engine bomber, so it is not surprising that all performance is superior. In fact, in terms of the strength of the aviation industry of European countries, Austria ranks behind Germany, Ireland, and Italy, and few of the aircraft they design and manufacture are first-class, and the Phoenix 37 is their most outstanding work in recent years. ”

"So the sanctions of the League of Nations are bluffing at all, and if you are really determined, you can't stop the military transactions between Italy and Austria and Japan?"

Captain Hendrick pretended to smile lightly: "International issues are something that big people worry about, and I, a small army captain, don't need to care so much." ”

The Soviet army staff officer snorted coldly, not to express dissatisfaction with the perfunctory attitude of the Irish captain, Ireland's national strength has been booming in recent years, but after all, it is only a small European country with a population of less than 10 million, and the ruling party has focused its main efforts on building a solid social foundation and developing economic and trade relations, deliberately suppressing the development of its own armaments, and the government and the people have a mentality of not fighting with the world, so its influence and right to speak in the international arena are very limited. Whether or not to exert pressure on a country that goes against the will of the League of Nations depends mainly on the attitude of the Germans.

At the end of the day, this is a real world where profit comes first!

In the blink of an eye, dozens of Japanese bombers flew into the battlefield under the cover of a group of fighters, and those land attack B models with strong European style in their contours and lines were not only excellent in flight performance, but also equipped with Europe's first-class eagle bombing sights, and the accuracy of horizontal bombing has been greatly improved compared with the past. Under the condition that the ground anti-aircraft fire is not too strong, this kind of fast bomber is also suitable for small-angle bombing and horizontal strafing, and is a very effective ground suppression weapon. For a period of time, the air force of the Russian Far East Theater was exhausted to cope with the naval and air offensives of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and rarely intercepted the combat planes sent by the Japanese Army Air Force as long as they did not fly to the port of the Vladivostok fortress to bomb them. As a result, these Japanese fighters bombed the Soviet positions around Pabrov indiscriminately, and the killing and destruction of the defenders was obviously more effective than the weak artillery bombardment of the Soviet and Russian support fleets.

Under the repeated attacks of the Japanese army and air forces, the two brigades of the Soviet Russian army held out in Paburov for only 30 hours and began to retreat. Pabrov, Barabashi, Filipvka, Zhanadzhovka, Karatsovka, a series of villages and towns across the Amur Bay from Vladivostok, are no more than 50 kilometers away from the central city of Vladivostok. When the Russian army invaded the Korean Peninsula in the south, they served as land supply depots for the Russian army, and when the Japanese army counterattacked, they became the forward position of the Russian army to defend Vladivostok. With the loss of these towns, the Russian army had to rely on the Vonno-Naddiskoye line at the northern tip of the Amur Peninsula for defense, and once the Japanese troops from the north reached this line, it meant that Vladivostok was cut off from the outside world by land - the battle situation looked bad, but the huge Amur Peninsula gathered more than 200,000 Russian troops, although there were tens of thousands of wounded and sick before retreating, but under the command of Russian Marshal Tukhachevsky, this was still a worthy combat force, As long as they rely on the Amur Peninsula and Vladivostok to continuously consume the Japanese army, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet and Russian troops gathered on the front line of the Eastern Railway will have the opportunity to make a big dumpling for the Japanese in turn.

The Japanese were determined to win, the Russians were united, and the two armies faced each other fiercely, but by August 22, the gunfire on the battlefield had stopped, not because of a deliberate truce between the two sides, but because of the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who had ruled the German Empire for more than half a century. At the appeal of the German royal family and government, Japan and the Soviet Union jointly ceased war for two days as a sign of mourning.

With the death of the old emperor, William Jr., known as the "oldest crown prince" and "totalitarian crown prince", held a very grand funeral for the deceased Wilhelm II with unimaginable patience, and then began to prepare for his long-awaited coronation. This year, the city of Berlin, which took nearly 20 years to expand its massively, is nearing the end of a magnificent atmosphere reminiscent of the transformation of the German Empire over the past 50 years. When Wilhelm II succeeded to the throne, it was a traditional European power, and today Germany is almost a single hegemon in control of the world. In the process of this great change, Berlin gradually replaced London and New York as an international trade and financial center, and became a shining city for elites in diplomatic, commercial, scientific and technological fields.

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