ACT116: "belligerent" Italians
Since the beginning of tearing up the "Versailles Treaty" in 35 years, Germany's mustachioed Führer has been actively expanding its armaments, not only restarting the military service system, but also publicly announcing in February this year that it would take back the "Rhineland Demilitarized Zone" located on Venus, but it has not been officially started until now.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Germany is about to make a comeback, and it has thoughts about the old colonies on Venus. However, the leaders of Britain and France believed that the Soviet Union and the Tang Dynasty were the "real threat", and in order to contain the rise of the Soviet Union, they even thought that restrictions on Germany could be appropriately relaxed.
The Germans are testing new weapons, and this testing ground is in Spain!
"How long have you been studying this ruin?"
In Marta's underground ruins, Zhao Jian stood in front of a crystal stone tablet and asked Duruti on the side.
"It's been almost 7 years, and those scholars say that every qiē here is a priceless treasure, but I think that giant god soldier is valuable."
"That's why you can't be a scholar!"
Erase the water vapor on the crystal stele, the words on it are incomprehensible to others, but Zhao Jian can. The Gendaya people still use the "lingua franca" in their regular communication, and the "system" of the maintenance station introduces a common vocabulary for Zhao Jian four times according to the tolerance of Zhao Jian's brain, allowing him to learn the Gendaya lingua franca.
“…… (Bio-type power machine maintenance center?) )”
The power machine of the ancient people refers to the giant god soldiers in the mouth of human beings, and these huge mecha human beings have not found a duplicate one so far, and it seems that there is no concept of "mass production machine" in the consciousness of ancient people. The "biological" refers to those giant god soldiers whose main body has an organism-like structure, such as the "gentleman" giant god soldier with unscientific pectoralis major muscle.
Compared to the mechanical giant god soldiers. The biggest advantage of the biological class is that it has higher agility and self-healing ability, while the disadvantage is that it is not easy to maintain, and the parts of the organism will shrink and die with the passage of time. In ancient times, there were even cases where human kings used the flesh and blood of slaves to maintain such giant soldiers.
In the seven years since the discovery of this ruin, the Spaniards have found 12 living giants, but 11 of them have been completely necrotic, and only one is relatively well preserved. The environment inside the ruins is like a labyrinth, and there are many barriers, and researchers in many places can only look at the doors.
After leading Zhao Jian and Rezenov around in a rough circle, and finally taking a look at the remains of the 11 giant god soldiers, Durudi felt that he had shown enough honesty with his allies. After the visit, both Rezenov and Zhao Jian said that they had no objections. But Zhao Jian secretly remembered the location of all the closed doors he passed along the way.
"All right, gentlemen! Now can we turn our attention back to the war in front of us? ”
"No problem!" x2
Before it was uncertain when the home fleet would be able to make a move, the Republican Army's logistics in the Spanish colonies were currently relying on Zhao's fleet. As long as the fleet of the national army still has a normal IQ, they will not dare to rashly attack these ships of the Tang Dynasty. Soviet aid could be transported to the colonies in a steady stream through these ships.
"A message just passed in from the French side. The second batch of Soviet aid was already in place. And in view of the previous losses of the first batch, both our country and the Soviet side hope that this time all personnel and materials will be entrusted to your company. Mr. Zhao, what do you think? ”
"No problem. Then I'll set sail in the early hours of the day after tomorrow. ”
After communicating with Durutti, Zhao Jian undertook the follow-up delivery task, but the freight cost was 3 times that of conventional cargo. This price is usually black to death, but the current situation is undoubtedly a "conscience price", the cost is borne by the republican government, and Duruti directly paid the bill with the gold in the inventory of the colony general bank.
At the same time, on the Nationalist side, Franco's regular army had just been neutralized by the remnants and guerrillas in the occupied areas, so he organized the recruits who had just completed three weeks of training into four garrison divisions to replace the main forces that were maintaining law and order in the occupied areas.
If the mobilization progress is normal, Franco is expected to gather 10~120,000 troops within 2 weeks to launch an attack on the autonomous region of Asturias, which is located in the north of the colony. There was an industrial area that he had coveted for a long time, and if he could take it, the Republican army trapped in the colony would completely lose its ability to produce weapons and ammunition.
However, Franco wanted to launch an attack on the industrial area, but the German and Italian staff officers urged him to turn around and hurry to fight Astra, on the grounds that there were relics of ancient people there and must be taken first. Franco was puzzled by this kind of construction, and he felt that these two goods were fooling him.
True! There are ruins of ancient people in the Astra region, and there is a giant god soldier, but it is not a giant god arsenal after all, and if you can produce one, you may not be able to produce a second one. If that were the case, the Republican Army would have launched a large-scale counteroffensive long ago, and it would not have been possible for him to hold it down until now.
In Franco's plan, if the Astra region cannot be taken at the beginning, it can only be solved at the end. First lay down the surrounding area, and finally encircle them and trap them for a few months, and the people in the city will naturally come out and surrender when they are too hungry. However, Germany and Italy seemed to be in a more urgent situation than he was, and the Italians even had troops ready for him.
An Italian "volunteer legion" of about 50,000 men had arrived in the neighboring Portuguese colony and was ready to march on the Spanish front to fight for Franco. In order to prevent his international influence from being lower than that of Hitler, who had pit himself in Ethiopia, Mussolini suddenly became arrogant in aid, not only sending guns, cannons, and even his own daughter!
Mussolini's eldest daughter, Edda, was the pilot of the Italian A-class giant soldier Caesar, and because of the previous battle in Ethiopia, the giant soldier she was piloting was damaged, and even she was trapped in the cockpit for 5 days, and there were some "side leaks" that made her feel ashamed and embarrassed.
Although Edda was not punished afterwards, and could still be Caesar's driver, the humiliation of her self-esteem made her always want to find a chance to be ashamed.
So when Italy openly supported the Spanish National Army and was ready to send legions to the war, the eldest lady took the initiative to ask for a transfer to the Spanish battlefield. After considering that the Legion needed a "heavyweight" role, the military agreed to her request to go with Caesar, the Titan soldier.
At least at this point in time, the Italians are a little surprised that they are belligerent (laughs)! (To be continued......)