There is a small village more than 60 kilometers north of Kabul.

There is a group of Afghan resistance groups gathered here, and the Russians were allies in Afghanistan until the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Afghanistan formed an alliance with Tsarist Russia in July last year, and the British invaded Afghanistan in November of the same year.

It is clear that Russia does not have the slightest deterrent power against Britain, or that Britain attaches great importance to Afghanistan, and in order to prevent Russia from entering the Indian Ocean, even the slightest possibility must be nipped in the bud.

This is the same as the United States in the previous life, everyone knows the breakthrough point of Russia, one is the Black Sea in the Middle East, and the other is the Indian Ocean.

If Tsarist Russia can really open up an outlet to the sea in the Indian Ocean, then Tsarist Russia's geopolitical influence is no exaggeration to say that it is invincible, although now Tsarist Russia has an invincible position with a large territory, but without the sea, Tsarist Russia will never be able to obtain the world hegemony that it loves beloved.

Since the Age of Discovery, the sea is almost equal to trade, and controlling the sea naturally becomes the world hegemon, this status is the former European military police Russia, the former European continental hegemon France, can not be expected, so the European hegemony is not comparable to the British maritime hegemon, the maritime hegemon is equivalent to the world hegemon, which Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands have a deep understanding, of course, France has also been a few years, but France has never been as overwhelming as those maritime hegemons.

Of course, the struggle between sea power and land power shows that land power is still relatively competitive, but Ernst does not think that land power can compete for sea power, unless there is a centralized empire that controls the Eurasian continent, there may still be a glimmer of hope.

Let's not talk about whether this empire can appear, even if this empire appears, its sphere of influence is Europe, Asia and Africa, after all, the land is cut by the sea.

And Britain, the maritime hegemon, can intervene in the affairs of the whole world through the sea, and wherever the British warships go, it is the British sphere of influence.

Therefore, it is understandable that the British are so targeted at Tsarist Russia, if Ernst is the British, he must also want to block Tsarist Russia inland, of course, as long as Ernst is not Russian, he will definitely support blocking Tsarist Russia inland.

Russia's territory is equivalent to monopolizing a continent, which can only be compared with the United States, East Africa, and the Far East Empire, if it were not for the bad environment of most of Russia's territory, then only Britain, which has a huge colony, can stabilize Russia.

This time, Russia was quite unhappy to see its allies being annexed by the British, but the Russo-Turkish war lasted longer than in history, so Russia could only stare at the British.

Even simple support for Afghanistan could not be achieved, and only a few military instructors and a small number of weapons could be symbolically sent to Afghanistan to support the Afghan opposition forces to fight against the British.

The main reason is that the Russian-Turkish war consumes relatively large, so the supply of weapons is given priority to the Russian-Turkish battlefield, and Russia's industrial and logistical capabilities are more difficult to cope with the Russian-Turkish war.

Therefore, the weapons provided by East Africa have greatly alleviated the urgent needs of the Afghan resistance, although these weapons are relatively backward, but they are quite satisfactory for Afghanistan, a country with zero industrial base.

Therefore, Ilya, a Russian military instructor stranded in Afghanistan today, was surprised to find that the Afghans did not know where to get a batch of weapons.

He approached Murat, the leader of the Afghan rebel group, and asked, "Where did you get these weapons?" ”

Murat was not disgusted by the Russian, who was supporting Afghanistan against the British, and said to Ilya: "It is said that the weapons were sent from Persia by international friends, but they did not want to reveal their identity. ”

Persia? However, Ilya did not think that the Persians had the courage to support Afghanistan, after all, the British were not easy to mess with, and if they set themselves on fire, they would be over.

"It should be unlikely that Persia will be afraid of Britain to death, and they should not have the guts to do so, do you know who sent these weapons?"

"Mr. Ilya, it is true that a wealthy Arab businessman has given us the sponsorship, and according to him, it is very likely that this batch of weapons was provided by you Russians."

Well! This made Ilya incredulous: "This is impossible, if it is a weapon supplied by our Russia, how can I not know?" And if it's domestic support, their person in charge should always meet with me, not through a third party, right? ”

Murat scratched his head and said, "I don't know the specific situation, but the rich Arab merchant said that he was Russian, because the leader who sent him this batch of equipment was a Russian, and it was said that he was still from St. Petersburg." ”

Feeling that something was wrong, Ilya asked with some seriousness, "Could it be someone impersonating?" ”

Murati: "Probably not! That rich merchant also does business with your people all year round, so if he pretends to be a Russian, he should be able to see it. ”

"So that's it? Am I suspicious? Ilya was a little confused.

At this time, Murat said: "Mr. Elijah, you don't have to dwell on this issue, the forces that provide us with weapons must be friends of the Afghans, or at least enemies of the British, and we happen to be short of weapons, so this matter is in our favor." ”

Hearing Murati say this, Ilya also felt that he had drilled the tip of the horns, anyway, his task was to make trouble for the British, and this batch of weapons and equipment could just improve the combat effectiveness of the resistance group, and the headache should also be the British.

"Mr. Murat, you're right, anyway, it can't be the British who are kind enough to send us equipment."

Speaking of Britain, Ilya was suddenly a little surprised to find that there were many British weapons mixed in this batch of weapons.

"This is Enfield? There are also French martinis, this one is the German Dreiser, and various models of flintlock pistols. ”

This discovery aroused Ilya's great interest, and he rummaged through the weapons pile, and found that the sources of these weapons were quite mixed, and there were weapons and equipment from various countries, but mainly German, British, and French weapons, and very few of them.

Therefore, Ilya analyzed that there are two possibilities, one is that it is really possible that these weapons were provided by Arab countries, after all, the sources are too mixed, and it feels like a patchwork of second-hand goods purchased from European countries temporarily. The second is that this batch of weapons was provided by Russia, because the Russian guns in this batch of guns are the least, which is very suspicious, is it really a certain domestic force to supply Afghanistan, but does not want to reveal its identity.

The second speculation is not impossible, but Ilya prefers the first, because there is no need to be so secretive if the country is supporting Afghanistan.

In fact, this batch of weapons was sent by the East African Black Legion, which had just been retired from the Portuguese War, plus some captured Portuguese equipment, that is, weapons provided by Britain and France.

Of course, the East African intelligence services have an extra eye and have specially mixed them with weapons from some other countries, and many countries have a share.

"This batch of weapons doesn't seem to be very new, can they be used against the British, will the failure rate be too high?"

Ilya no longer bothered about the source of the weapons, but began to pick and choose the quality of these weapons.

However, Mutira was very satisfied and said: "It doesn't matter to us, with these weapons, together with our valiant warriors, we will definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to the British." ”

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