Chapter 518 - Spanish Arms Exhibition (Part II)

It can be said that the waste wood of the Spanish republican government has reached the level of earth-shattering ghosts and gods, and a government of this level such as waste wood is rare in the history of human civilization for thousands of years. Even Kaishen Logistics, I Daqing, I Dameng and other regimes famous for waste wood, which have been criticized by countless people in later generations, can despise them very proudly.

Throughout the recorded history of mankind, the incompetence of the Spanish republican government is at least in the top three, if not the first. Under the incomparably large number of advantages, it will be hung and beaten by the Franco group, which does not occupy anything, or hanging in various postures, and all kinds of tricks, and you can fight as much as you want.

However, after the arrival of the volunteers of the Third International and the People's Revolutionary Union, the situation in the republican government began to stabilize.

In the history of the original plane, the Spanish Civil War is generally regarded as a rehearsal of the "Second World War", and it is similar in this plane. Moreover, there are more countries involved on this plane, and the scale of intervention is also larger.

By April 1937, all five major groups of nations in the world were involved. Among the top eight powers in the world, only Britain did not participate at all, and all other countries participated to a greater or lesser extent. Even in the United States and Great Britain, which had declared no intervention, a large number of members of the Third International, including members of the Public Estate, as well as sympathizers of the Spanish republicans, formed volunteers to participate in the war.

Although the Spanish republicans are extremely useless, their supporters are many in the world, and of course their opponents are also their opponents.

The Spanish Civil War attracted a large number of ultra-leftists to Spain at their own expense, and these "five pesetas party" with their own dry food came from more than 50 countries, covering almost every major country in the world. Among them, the international columns organized by the Third International were the largest, and the Third International recruited troops in various countries and organized more than 50,000 international columns.

However, far-right elements in various countries did not do anything, and they also organized volunteers to join Franco's national army. Of course, because of the conservative and nationalist nature of the right, not as many people go as far as the far left. This is because, according to the thinking of many right-wingers, "Spain is dead or alive and does," the foreigners who go to join the national army are the kind of extremists who do not share the nature of public property.

Because this period of time is the most intense collision of various trends of thought in the world, publicism, socialism, syndicalism, fascism, nationalism, anarchism and other various currents of thought are all popular for a while because they are oriented to the bottom, and a new variant will emerge if you are not careful. In the years since the end of the economic crisis, this collision of ideas has been extremely active.

The current stage is the heyday of ultra-left-wing ideas in the world, but it is also the period when far-right ideas are most rampant. Internationally, the left and right flanks are extremely opposed, and after the can't tell the winner from the cannon, it will take a fight to decide who is more correct.

However, with the exception of Spain, most governments have been able to hold back the field, so that their own domestic differences of thought do not turn into wars. Mediating such ideological disputes has always been a thankless task, and governments were still bothered by this kind of thing, but now with the Spanish Civil War, governments are feeling the light.

Nima, don't you want to fight, then go to Spain and have a good fight! It's better not to come back! So all governments tacitly acquiesced, and even encouraged their own extremists to go to Spain to fight. For governments, both the far left and the far right are very annoying things, and the less such stuff the better, and it would be better if it died in Spain.

Against this backdrop, extremist thorns in the eyes of governments, both on the left and on the right, have come to Spain to try their hand at expressing their revolutionary passions, although they may well be on the wrong page. Volunteers from all over the country flocked to the site, and the Spanish Civil War unwittingly turned into an international battlefield. The left and right poles in the world use Spain as the battlefield, and an ideological war duel is being fought here.

Governments have done the most to use Spain as a weapons testing ground and a weapons fair, in addition to using it as a dumping ground for extremists. The great powers have sent their latest weapons to test them in battle, as well as to advertise them.

Take airplanes as an example, including the Soviet Union's I-17, I-18, Il-1, Germany's HE100, BF109, JU87, France's G520, the United States' P40, the United Kingdom's Spitfire and Hurricane, and so on.

Of course, the most visible thing is the new army equipment developed by various countries, from pistols, rifles and other light weapons, to tanks and artillery and other heavy weapons, the whole of Spain has become a huge weapons testing ground and weapons exhibition, where weapons from various countries fully display their performance.

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Andalusia is one of Spain's richest lands, producing the famous Andalusian horses and the best olive oils. But after the start of the Spanish Civil War, the region was in the midst of war.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Da Da Da ......"

Countless shells streaked across the sky, countless bullets screamed at their respective targets, and the battlefield was full of gunsmoke, and people fell every minute. In the middle of the battlefield, two teams of steel behemoths are engaged in a fierce battle. One of the largest armored Armageddons since World War I.

If it is a military fan who sees this scene, he will definitely jump up excitedly. Because here there is a concentration of new armored combat vehicles (tanks) of almost all the great powers of the world.

Germany's No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6, the Soviet Union's T-26, T-28, T-30, T-34, IS-1 and BT series, the United States' M3, M4, M5, Britain's Matilda, Van Taylen, Churchill, Cromwell, Firefly, France's Charles D2, Soma S35, Hatch Chase H36, Renault R-35, AMX-36, etc., almost all new armored combat vehicles (tanks) and armored vehicles that have been finalized or not finalized can be seen here. It should be noted that some of these armored vehicles, although they are the same as the original plane, are actually very different from each other, and are not the same thing at all.

For example, Germany's No. 3 tank is completely different from the work of the same name in the original time and space. The Tank III on this plane is a light tank with a total weight of 20 tons and a 75 mm gun. Tank IV was a medium tank weighing 38 tons and carrying an 88 mm gun. It's the same in other countries. The scientific and technological development of the plane, especially in terms of conventional weapons, has been affected beyond recognition under the storm of the wind god pterodactyl fanned by Wen Desi, to be precise, it is greatly advanced, for example, armored vehicles are at least ten years ahead of the original time and space.

Of course, as the initiator of the new weapon of armored combat vehicles, New China naturally has new toys unveiled at this "exhibition and sales conference".

China's ZZC-2 1912 "Wolverine" light tank and ZZC-3 1916 "Red Wolf" medium tank have long been famous in the world. During World War I, they were undoubtedly the most advanced tanks, but now, sixteen years later, they are nothing.

This time, China launched three new tanks, namely the ZZC-6 1931 "Chinese Jackal" light tank, the ZZC-7 1932 "Leopard" medium tank, and the ZZC-7 1933 "Siberian Tiger". However, the ZZC-4 1920 "Giant Rhino" and the ZZC-5 1930 "Mammoth", two super-heavy tanks that have been concerned by the outside world, were not unveiled. There are also rumors that China is developing more advanced super-heavy combat vehicles.

If you are a military fan of later generations, you will definitely feel that these three tanks are very familiar, the "Leopard" is clearly a copy of the 59D, and the "Chinese Jackal" is the Type 62, as for the "Siberian Tiger" heavy tank, it is the WZ111 that died in the original time and space (on this plane, it can be called "Wen Zong 111"^_^). Of course, since the history of "Wenzong 111" in the original time and space has not been completed, it does not have much information to copy, and it is basically a redesign. Compared with the product of the same name in the original time and space, it is only an appearance, and it is actually more based on the Soviet T-10. Of course, the "Leopard" and "Chinese Jackal" have also been re-optimized on the basis of the original, and the subsystems have also been greatly improved.

For example, the engine of the "Leopard" uses a 550 kilowatt (737 horsepower) liquid-cooled diesel engine, which far exceeds the 382 kilowatt engine of the original Space-Time 59 and is equivalent to the level of the 85 engine. In addition, it adopts a new planetary gearbox and steering control device with hydraulic power shifting, and the lever of the steering control mechanism is changed to a steering wheel, which is light and agile to operate. A self-loading simple fire control system and a stabilized image aiming system were installed, which gave the tank the ability to fire at short stops, as well as a certain ability to shoot moving targets between movements.

In addition, there are automatic fire extinguishing systems, collective and individual combination of three-proof devices, hot smoke screen application devices, new radio stations, fast-opening safety doors and other advanced design concept achievements of later generations. Not only the "leopard", but also the "Chinese jackal" and the "Siberian tiger", adopted many design concepts from later generations.

However, these three tanks are actually export versions, so they are not the best performing products in China, and the performance of all subsystems has been reduced, but in today's world, they are already super-first-class products.

A bunch of heavy tanks of the Nationalist Army were being beaten by a company of "Siberian Tigers", which included the Matilda tank from Britain and the No. 5 tank from Germany, but these two heavier and larger big guys were beaten by the smaller "Siberian Tigers" and had no power to fight back.

Matilda and Five on this plane are different from those of the original plane, they are both heavy tanks.

Matilda was a heavy tank developed by the British in 1933 and weighed 58 tons. It was available in two variants, an "infantry tank" with a turret equipped with an anti-infantry four-inch howitzer, which the British positioned to support infantry operations. The other is the "cruiser tank" aimed at armored targets, armed with a 17-pounder (76 mm) cannon. The Germans' No. 5 tank, which was heavier at 62 tons, had much more firepower than Matilda, and was a 105-mm anti-aircraft converted tank gun.

However, their artillery is not powerful enough for the "Siberian Tiger", and the armor protection of the "Siberian Tiger" is extremely good. Both the turret and the hull had a large armor inclination and a good bulletproof profile. The front armor of the front of the car was 120 mm thick, the inclination angle was 72 degrees, the turret was a cast steel structure, the shape was low, the inclination angle was large, and the front armor of the turret was 200 mm thick, which was difficult to penetrate at that time.

The Germans' 105-mm tank guns could only penetrate the side impact, not to mention the Matilda's 17-pounder gun, which was like tickling the thick-skinned "Siberian Tiger". The navy of the British liked to carry cannons in small boats, but their army was the opposite, always preferring to make some thin pipes.

The 120 mm main gun of the "Siberian Tiger" with tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells is really too ferocious, and hitting Matilda and No. 5 is simply one shot.

"Hahahaha, it's so cool! It's this feeling of one shot at a time, and this horse is called a heavy chariot!" Captain Boyle of the 12th Heavy Tank Company of the International Column drove the "Siberian Tiger" on a rampage in the enemy group.

There was a loud bang ...... "boom", and the "Siberian Tiger" that was being pursued made a huge earthquake. Boyle slammed his head into the wall in front of him and let out a scream.

"We were shot, company commander, but fortunately, we didn't penetrate," shouted the driver, Sergeant Bode.

"Horse-stepping!" Boyle rubbed the bag on his head, glad he was wearing a tank cap, otherwise it would have been enough for him to drink a pot.

"It's the No. 5 in the grass ahead!" called Gunner John. The car was an international column, with four crew members from three countries.

"Grass! How dare you sneak up on us and kill it!" Boyle also saw the No. 5 tank in front of him, and quickly turned the turret to cover it.

This No. 5 tank was probably frightened, and it didn't even penetrate at a distance of 200 meters! This is too unscientific! By the time they reacted and were about to apply oil to the soles of their feet, the opponent's turret had already been turned around.

The main cannon of the "Boom ......" Siberian Tiger spewed out a long cannon flame.

The 120 mm tungsten alloy armor-piercing incendiary bomb instantly hit the No. 5, which could not be dodged, and pierced its front armor in one fell swoop.

With a loud ......bang, the hapless No. 5 tank exploded like a cannonball, and the thermite behind the warhead detonated its internal ammunition depot, and the detonated ammunition lifted the turret. The whole tank was like a lit torch, and the fireworks were magnificent.

The chariot units of the Nationalist Army were beaten back again and again, and at this moment, a large group of "leopards" rushed down from a low hill next to them.

"Oh no, leopard, leopard, leopard has rushed down from the mountain!" a Nationalist officer shouted hoarsely over the radio. "Retreat!

The battle, known as the "Battle of Andalusia", ended with the defeat of the Spanish National Army, in which nearly 1,200 armored fighting vehicles of various types were thrown in by both sides. The Nationalist camp (including the German and Italian intervention forces) destroyed 376 tanks, while the Republican camp (including volunteers from various countries) destroyed 123 tanks. Two-thirds of them were destroyed by Chinese tanks, while only one-third of the Chinese tanks themselves were destroyed.

After this battle, China's position as the number one chariot power became unshakable again.