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Chapter 61 The Iberian Storm
In the 7930th century of the Qiyuan calendar, Spain around [-] can be said to be in a state of extreme chaos. The countless social conflicts that have accumulated over the years have reached the limit and the result is civil war!

The left and right attacked each other, government reform failed, religious issues, etc., and finally, under the planning of some people with ulterior motives, a three-year civil war broke out.

On the surface of this war, the two sides are the National Army dominated by the right and the Republican Army dominated by the left. However, the actual background is actually extremely complicated-after Spain established the Second Republic five years ago, in just a few years, There have been more than a dozen governments, and the political chaos can be seen.

The Spanish Civil War was also the first war in which new weapons were used on a large scale. New fighter planes, new tanks, etc. joined the battlefield successively with the blending of countries around the world, because everyone has regarded it as a testing ground for new weapons.

Bf-109战斗机、He-111轰炸机、I-16战斗机、SB-2轰炸机、T-26轻型坦克等等均崭露头角，双方也都获得了大量的外援。

In the end, the war, which lasted nearly three years, came to an end with the victory of the National Army.

Regarding the failure of the Spanish Republican Army, Zhou Changfeng's view is regrettable but not worthy of sympathy. In the past military history and history courses, the teacher once emphasized that the Spanish Republican Army is just a loose alliance.

It contains a large number of parties with different political opinions and positions, such as the center, the left, the extreme left, etc., and there are different degrees of differentiation within each party. The only consensus of the Republican Army united in this way is to oppose the monarchy and support the republic. There is no agreed program beyond that.

Such looseness, constant internal fighting, and even crowding out one's own army, many officers and soldiers had to go to the opposite side. This behavior is comparable to self-destructing the Great Wall. It is outrageous.

The decisive factor in war is people, but courage alone cannot win.

Therefore, although the soldiers of the Republican Army are full of enthusiasm and fighting spirit, they lack training, quality is uneven, and their combat effectiveness is low. The military advisers sent by Moscow spent a year training before they can Barely allow them to fight back and forth with the National Army.

最典型的例子是战争初期的托莱多围城战——大量共和军民兵包围了少量国民军驻守的托莱多城堡，后者一共1028人、5挺重机枪、2门火炮，前者超过15000人、23门火炮、2辆坦克。

As a result, the Republican Army fought for more than two months but failed to defeat them, and was finally forced to retreat.

There was even more nonsense during the period, that is, the Republican Army captured the son of the commander of the castle's defenders and threatened the defenders to surrender, but was sternly rejected.

From Zhou Changfeng's point of view, this operation can be regarded as having his head caught by the door-making his decent image like a big villain, is this a normal person's idea?
With this dish of loose sand, it's no wonder that it succeeds. I really think it's a dinner treat?What a waste of the bloody sacrifices of thousands of soldiers!

That night, Zhou Changfeng went to sleep very late, because of the bursts of pain that made it difficult for him to fall asleep, and he couldn't even toss and turn.

The next day, early in the morning.

The students are on summer vacation, so the teachers naturally have nothing to do.

According to regulations, the government and government-run organizations should pay salaries on the last day of the first ten days of each month. However, because the holidays are at the beginning of July, the school finance office pays salaries a few days earlier as usual.

The staff of the finance department still had a frosty expression, and paid wages according to the roster, and then signed by the recipients.

"Take it."

"Thank you."

After putting the seven ten-yuan Four Seas banknotes into her small purse, Xia Xiaoshi, who was in a good mood, was already thinking about how to spend the money today when she crossed the threshold.

Paper money has a long history in China, not to mention Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty, the Yuan and Ming dynasties issued a large number of "Dayuan Tongxing Baochao" and "Daming Tongxing Baochao".However, it is obvious that the feudal dynasty could not play with banknotes, so the excessively issued banknotes became a tool for the government to exploit the people while depreciating sharply, so they were notorious.

Emperor Gaozu of the later Ming Dynasty chose to abolish the banknotes after the unification of the world. His original intention was to use the silver honestly in the future. However, after his death, the inexplicably confident court planned to issue banknotes again not long after. .

Considering that the credit of treasure banknotes among the people has long been thrown into the latrine, the tax supervisor changed to issue "Daming Tongxing Official Tickets", which are essentially the same as treasure banknotes except for the different shape and name.

So, after holding on to it for more than ten years, the official votes of the Ming Dynasty also began to flood, and finally ended up being hated by people.

When the currency was reformed in modern times, the official bills were abolished, and the tax supervisor combined the names of the treasure banknotes and the official bills into one, and took the meaning of "passing all over the world" and named the new paper money "Daming Universal". banknote".

[Because the taxation and financial system of the Ming Dynasty was in a mess, the later Ming Dynasty stripped off the respective taxation rights of the Ministry of Households (Taicang), the Ministry of Industry (Jieshenku), and Taipusi (Changyingku) and set up a new yamen separately" "Tax Supervisor" is under its unified management.This prison is not the prison of the Silijian, but the prison of the Qintianjian, not the eunuch institution. 】

Although Xia Xiaoshi had daydreams about a lot of things she wanted to buy along the way, she finally shelved those thoughts, because right now, what she wants most is a Leica camera.

While buying newspapers at the newsstand, she suddenly thought of the success stories of the Uzbek War that had been reported several days ago. It was said that the Imperial Army who had traveled thousands of miles had also joined the battle and fought very well.

Now that they have won, will they be able to come back soon?

Naturally, Xia Xiaoshi was still thinking about the jade pendant she had worn since she was a child, and when she thought of her belongings being taken so far away, she felt a little uneasy.

Alas, I can only blame myself for being too impulsive at the time, and I must not be impulsive in the future.

How about going to the barracks to inquire?See when it returns.

She decided to get her jade pendant back as soon as that guy returned to camp.

With this thought in mind, she simply took a car to the west of the city. It was not difficult to find a place for the Third Mixed Brigade, because a large area there was owned by them.

Since there were only a small number of people left behind, the huge barracks looked deserted, and there were only two guards at the gate, and one was on the sentry tower.

"What are you here for? Looking for someone?"

"I want to ask, when will the big troops return."

The two guards were tired of hearing similar inquiries, and people came to inquire almost every day these days.

The guard on the left shook his head slightly, "I don't know, maybe ten days and half a month."

When Xia Xiaoshi was about to turn around and leave, another person reminded her, "Are you here looking for someone? Here is a notebook for leaving messages, you fill it out yourself."

"I... came to see your commander." Although she couldn't tell the military position clearly, her simple description was enough for people to guess who it was.

The two guards looked at each other, and the man on the left thought for a while before replying, "The battalion commander came back yesterday, but he was injured, and now he is being treated at the Army Hospital."

(End of this chapter)