In order to take the industrial center of the north, Italy alone invested 100,000 troops, and their command and unity can be described as strong, plus Frango's rebels, the total number reached 150,000, while the Republic side only had 60,000, so the disadvantage was obvious. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, it is not so easy to take down here, although the army of the republic has no experience, and there are many internal factions, the internal struggle is very fierce, and even in the operation, they also carry out internal purge operations, resulting in the international column becoming the main force of the operation.

However, there are also many contradictions within the international column, and the composition is too complicated, often a battalion has members from several countries, and the Xia Boyang battalion has 389 people from 21 different countries, not to mention fighting, communication is very problematic, and it can only be fought through gestures, and many times it is all based on the soldiers' own understanding in the battle.

But there are always those who stand out, Yang Yuting, who was born as a regular officer, plus a large number of Zhang Zuolin's old subordinates, and a large group of militants from China with war experience as officers, even if GC International became more and more dissatisfied with Yang Yuting, he still firmly controlled the 13th Brigade, and as more and more Chinese volunteers joined, their team soon reached the scale of 5,000 people, becoming the strongest in the international column, the most flexible command and dispatch, and the most unified combat thinking of a unit.

And Yang Yuting has followed Zhang Zuolin for so many years, this person is also a good hand at playing politics, otherwise in the original history, Zhang Xueliang would not have taken the risk of shooting him directly to get rid of him.

Therefore, Yang Yuting has attracted many allies in the international column, such as Jews.

The Jews were the main force of the international column, and they made up a quarter of the entire international column.

The reason why they supported the government of the Spanish Republic and opposed the rebels led by Frango was not because the Spanish nobles and kings supported by Franco had slaughtered Jews many times, because after all, it was more than a hundred years ago, when Spain was still a world empire.

There is only one real reason, and that is the Nazis, because the Nazis supported Frango, so the Jews supported the republic, and that's it.

Some people say that Adolf deceived the German people and led the German people on the road of war, which is a bit nonsense, Adolf never concealed his point of view from beginning to end, that is, anti-Semitism and war, but the Germans chose him, but the Western world later out of political needs, in order to make West Germany fight against the Soviet Russian forces, had to choose to understand the Germans, really think that the German Chancellor can kneel to exceed the souls of 6 million Jews?

The war lasted for half a year, and two different international camps were fought.

On the one hand, the Western countries led by Britain and the United States, even including the Nazis and fascists, are temporarily standing together, and the French are at both ends of the rat, and it seems that it is not in their interests to support anyone, and to support the Spanish government, which is to strengthen the influence of Soviet Russia, and to plant a Soviet Russian mine that may detonate at any time behind them, support the rebels, and let the Nazis form influence in their rear, and the diplomatic ability of the French rooster in the Spanish Civil War can be described as a failure.

On the other side are the forces leading by Soviet Russia to support the republic, among which the openly side of the republic is Soviet Russia and Mexico, Mexico can be described as an outlier in this era, they also consider themselves to be a revolutionary country, a workers' country, the new president has a strong anti-American, anti-British sentiment, and has always been negotiating to recover the oil and other Mexican assets in the possession of Britain and the United States.

In fact, Mexico cannot be regarded as a Soviet-style country, otherwise the Americans would have destroyed them a long time ago, and even the economic crisis would have to pull out this mine, and the leading forces in Mexico should be regarded as a kind of nationalist patriotic force, sympathetic to the middle and lower classes, and very idealistic, so they are in favor of the revolution, and even think that they are also revolutionary.

In this war, Mexico contributed a lot, not only on the side of the Spanish government, but also really provided a lot of aid, giving 2 million dollars alone, more than the Soviet Union and Russia, which only provided great help politically, such as launching the international Bushwick organization and forming an international column, but in terms of financial resources, they were more stingy.

The most puzzling thing is that China also seems to be on the side of the Spanish government.

The reason for this is that the Chinese government did not give a penny other than a public condemnation, but did not restrict the export of arms to the Spanish government, and said that any legitimate government has the right to purchase weapons from China to defend its own regime and its own people.

Therefore, when every giant ship went to Spain, Britain and France had to protest, and Mussolini had to send warships to follow, but no one dared to detain them, because the Chinese aircraft carrier was already cruising on the other side of the Red Sea, and the attitude of threatening Britain and France was very clear, if they dared to seize the Chinese cargo ship, the fighters on the aircraft carrier would dare to bomb Mussolini's warship.

At the same time, Bushwick is a legal party in China, although they are also more radical, controlling about 17% of the trade unions, and often mobilizing BA workers, but once they are violent, the government spares no effort to suppress them, so they have long learned to be peaceful, and in this Spanish Civil War, their newspapers can even openly recruit international column fighters.

The Chinese government also turns a blind eye and only prohibits minors from going abroad, and those who must go abroad must be approved by their parents, and it is impossible for Chinese parents to let their children go to war, even if China fights a war, they may not be happy, let alone give their lives to others in vain.

Despite this, there are still a large group of guys who are usually not very peaceful, going abroad to recruit to fight, these people usually can't work with peace of mind, and are not satisfied with many things, and even the whole society, once the situation changes, these people are likely to become innovative leaders, become Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang like the figures, but in a calm society, it is a kind of torment for them.

A very firm example is Chen Sheng, when everyone was working in the field, he lazily lay in the field all day long to bask in the sun, and his neighbors persuaded him to farm well, but he laughed at his neighbor's bird's nest and bird's ambition, fortunately the world was in turmoil, and he got the opportunity to revolt, otherwise this is a typical rural lazy man, who will die poor.

There is absolutely no shortage of figures like Chen Sheng in China, so there is no shortage of fighters who will go to Spain.

So Yang Yuting's strength is getting stronger and stronger.

But the power from China is not only Chinese, but also Jews, with as many as 300,000 Jews in port cities such as Northeast China, Tianjin and Shanghai, many of whom chose to go to Spain to fight the Nazis.

These Jews from China, although no different from Jews from other countries, have one point, they can speak Chinese, so it is convenient to communicate with Yang Yuting, and with Yang Yuting's help, they gradually developed a single-language army and gave priority to weapons and equipment from China.

Jews from different countries were eventually organized into the 14th International Brigade, which also numbered about 5,000 people, making it Yang Yuting's best ally, so that Yang Yuting could command 10,000 troops.

As soon as he arrived in the north, he withstood the fierce attack from the Italian army, and launched a counterattack, capturing more than 30,000 Italian soldiers, and for a time became famous all over the world, becoming a famous general.

Even GC International's criticism of Yang Yuting's voice has become smaller, because Stalin's large-scale propaganda campaign has shaped Yang Yuting into an internationalist hero, so how can GC International criticize, after all, this is an organization in Moscow, and the leaders have to listen to Stalin, otherwise it will be easy to be killed.

Yang Yuting is getting stronger and stronger, and he is more and more relied on by the Spanish government, and even many Spanish People's Troops are fighting with Yang Yuting, but Yang Yuting is too lazy to directly command these militias, and he will never dare to use these people in key places, otherwise he may command more people.

Yang Chao ignored the Spanish civil war, he knew that it was impossible to end in the short term, no matter how powerful the international column was, it would be difficult to win this war of attrition in the end, after all, the support of Britain and the United States was greater, Germany and Italy went into battle in person, Italy needless to say, the 40,000 German armed forces under Adolf were still very combative, at least it was difficult to say who would win or lose against Yang Yuting's brigade.

On the side of the Spanish government, once there is no support from Chinese funds, it is useless to rely on Mexico's $2 million alone, you must know that the funds given by the Chinese are calculated in hundreds of millions, although they need to pay all kinds of expensive luxury goods such as artworks, but these bourgeois decadent cultural products that cannot be eaten or drunk, the increasingly revolutionary Spanish government will not care, pull out a large number of churches and museums and sell them to the Chinese, if not for the Chinese, they want to peel off the murals in the church.

So during the Spanish Empire, all kinds of art treasures looted all over the world, the gold and silver of the silver empire, the antique porcelain of China, the masterpieces of Spanish painters, and even the bronze bells on the ancient churches were sold by them.

Yang Chao's attention at this time has been more focused on domestic issues.

The Great Southwest Hydropower Project is still ongoing, the construction of the highway network has begun to roll out, and the renewal of industrial equipment is also imperceptibly, but inflation has once again appeared.

This inflation is caused by car sales, and the policy of one or two daily wages has made the people's purses too big, and their current income level is no less than that of Americans, but China's overall economic development is still not as good as that of the United States, so automobile production has become in short supply.

The state subsidy is half, but it has fueled the enthusiasm of the people to purchase, and the Skoda factory, which originally needed to reduce prices to stimulate it, has raised the cheapest 420 series cars to 100 taels, which is the upper limit of the subsidy that can be received, but their products are still in short supply.

Driven by automobiles, inflation is not only more dangerous than the last pork price increase, but also more widespread. (To be continued.) )