At this time, in the battle of Jialing Mountain, the German army was already at a disadvantage, but after crossing the army and rushing to the battlefield, it suddenly became a Guan Jian force that changed the balance of power on the battlefield.

Although the number of reinforced troops is not large, the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, not to mention that there is also a mortar platoon, in such a small and medium-sized battlefield with a scale of 1,000 people, it is light and flexible, can be far or near, and the mortar with a certain lethality is definitely a big killer. The crossing army first set up mortars and bombarded the German positions.

Three mortars fired more than ten rounds in a row, and the shells fell into the German positions and exploded, killing the German troops, and then charging the Germans through the army. At the same time, the KPA launched a full-scale offensive against the German army. Under such two flanking attacks, the German army finally could not resist and was completely defeated. Only a small number of soldiers fled from the battlefield, the rest were either killed or surrendered, and the German governor of Jiaoao, Ye Shike, was also captured on the battlefield.

The battle was almost all over at about 10 a.m., and the traversers achieved a complete victory, completely occupying the Qingdao area. However, the work of clearing up the battlefield was not completed until 5 p.m., because this battle was the battle in which the largest number of troops were invested and the scope of operations was the widest since the establishment of the People's Army.

After cleaning up, a total of 228 soldiers were killed on the side of the crosser, 261 were wounded, and 31 were missing, among the wounded, 73 were seriously injured and had to be hospitalized, and it is estimated that nearly half of them were disabled, and it was basically impossible to return to the battlefield, and the crossing soldiers also killed 9 people in this battle, and 13 people were injured, but fortunately, the wounded soldiers were not seriously injured, and there was no major problem.

Although compared with the previous battles, this battle is the battlefield with the greatest casualties among the traversers in this era, with more than 500 fighters, accounting for about 15% of the troops participating in the war, but this is also the price that the People's Army must pay in the process of growth, and in this battle, the first, second, fifth, and sixth battalions of the People's Army, as well as the artillery battalions, have been tempered in actual combat, and after the baptism of war, the accumulation of actual combat experience can be said to be another huge gain in this battle.

Of course, the results of the First World War were also very rich, a total of 1,153 German soldiers were killed, 2,295 were captured, and another 117 German soldiers were missing.

At the same time, a large number of other trophies were also captured in this battle, mainly more than 1,500 German-made Mauser 98 rifles, more than 120 Mauser 96 pistols, 12 imitation Maxim machine guns, tens of thousands of bullets of various types, as well as a large amount of food and military supplies, as well as about 37,000 taels of silver, and about 225,000 yuan of German marks.

And that's not all the traversers have to offer, because there is also the German infrastructure in Qingdao. Compared with the British attitude of only regarding Weihaiwei as a stronghold in northern China, Germany attached much more importance to Qingdao, and after forcibly leasing Qingdao, it planned to make Qingdao a model colony of Germany in the Far East, so it made a detailed construction plan for the construction of Qingdao, and it was being implemented step by step. The Qingdao sewer that circulated in the old time and space was planned and built at this time, although the legend about the Qingdao sewer is somewhat exaggerated, but the old city of Qingdao in the old time and space was indeed the foundation laid at this time.

However, it has been less than three years since Germany leased Qingdao, so most of the plans are only on the drawings, and even the planned German Governor's Palace has not yet started construction, but temporarily uses the original Qing court's Jiaoao General Army's Yamen. Up to now, only the military barracks of Bismarck Mountain (i.e., Qingdao Mountain) and the wharf of Qingdao Bay have been completed, as well as a small hospital, while the military barracks of Moltke Mountain (Water Storage Mountain) and Yirtis Mountain (Taiping Mountain) have only been completed by seventy or eighty percent.

In addition, the German arsenal built in Qingdao has been completed about sixty percent, because Qingdao is too far away from Germany, and the one-way time will take two months at the earliest, so the weapons and ammunition of the Qingdao German army, including rifles and artillery spare parts, cannot be completely supplied by the country, and must produce part of it locally, so that most of it can be self-sufficient, according to the German plan, in the Qingdao Arsenal, a production line for Mauser 98 rifles and rifle ammunition will be established, as well as a production line that can produce 75, The production line of 100 mm caliber artillery shells, Mauser 98 rifles, bullets, and spare parts used by the Qingdao German army in the future, as well as small and medium-caliber artillery shells, can be produced locally in Qingdao.

Now the facilities of the arsenal are almost completed, and the machinery and equipment needed for the production line have also arrived in Qingdao, some of which are still transported by the German fleet, but the production line is being assembled.

In addition, in order to defend Qingdao, Germany will definitely anchor a fleet in Qingdao, and it is indispensable to carry out basic maintenance of warships, so it is absolutely necessary to build a ship repair yard in Qingdao to provide maintenance and repair services for ships coming to Qingdao.

According to Germany's plan, this shipyard will build two dry docks that can accommodate 10,000-ton ships for comprehensive repairs, and two slipways that can accommodate 20,000-ton ships for berthing and repair. Now the area of the shipyard has been fully divided, the roads and workshops have been completed for the most part, the slipway is under construction, and the two dry docks have been excavated, one of which has been dug about halfway, while the other has only completed less than 30%. At the same time, Germany has also shipped a batch of machinery and equipment from China and is starting to assemble it.

In addition, although it is not the infrastructure construction of Jindao, it is a heavy engineering project, that is, the Jiaoji Railway. Originally, long before Germany forcibly leased Qingdao, Germany had already planned to start building a Jiaoji railway from Qingdao to Jinan after leasing Jindao, so as to take the opportunity to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Shandong. Therefore, in the "Jiaoao Lend-Lease Treaty" signed between Germany and the Qing court, while forcibly leasing Qingdao, it also obtained the right to build the Jiaoji Railway in Shandong and the mining along the railway.

In March 1899, 14 major German banks formed a "syndicate" (note) and established Deutsche Hua Bank, Shandong Railway Company and Mining Company to jointly invest in the Jiaoji Railway and the mining industry along the line, solving the financial problem of the Jiaoji Railway. Subsequently, the German government quickly issued 16 articles of the "Regulations for the Construction of Railways and Business Conditions of the Shandong Railway Company", requiring that the railway between Qingdao and Jinan be completed within five years; in June 1899, the survey and design work of the Jiaoji Railway began in an all-round way, and the necessary equipment and materials were shipped from Germany; on September 23, the construction of the Jiaoji Railway began in Qingdao.

While the Germans were building the line, they also built the Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Factory supporting the Jiaoji Railway in the early 1900s to manufacture trains, which was the predecessor of the old time and space CSR Qingdao Sifang Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. In this era, Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Factory is the third locomotive and rolling stock factory to appear in China after the two rolling stock factories in Tangshan and Dalian. At first, the Germans brought in parts for steam locomotives from the mainland, assembled them at the plant, and prepared them for trial operation.

However, the Boxer Rebellion broke out in that year, so the construction of the Jiaoji Railway was forced to stop for nearly a year, and now the Jiaoji Railway is only less than 20 kilometers away, and a large number of equipment and materials are idle.

Because before the start of the Battle of Qingdao, the traverser conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the German army's defense in Qingdao, so in the battle, the traverser's goal was clear, and the firepower was accurate, except for a few military camps, no other construction projects were damaged. After the traversers occupied Qingdao, they immediately sent troops to station the German engineering projects in Qingdao, and protected these construction sites, as well as equipment and equipment, so as not to be damaged in the panic. These construction projects are very useful for the traverser.

At the construction site, the People's Army also found a large number of German engineers and technicians, a small number of German businessmen, all of whom were transferred from Germany to pay for the construction of the project in Qingdao, among which there were also skilled technical workers and a considerable number of engineers, totaling about 600 people.

In addition, there are more than 2,000 Chinese working at various engineering sites, because there are now a large number of engineering projects in Qingdao, in addition to engineering and technical personnel, a large number of ordinary labor is needed, and there is no need to transfer from Germany, and Chinese are recruited in Qingdao to work. Originally, there were nearly 5,000 Chinese working at the project site, but after the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion, various projects were affected to varying degrees, some projects were forced to stop, some workers fled, and some workers joined the Boxer Rebellion, so now there are only more than 2,000 people left.

After the traversers took full control of the various construction sites, they imprisoned all the German merchants, engineers and technicians. This was the same as the practice after the Travelers occupied the Tianjin Concession, because now the Travelers had just occupied Qingdao, their foothold was not secure, and normal order had not yet been restored, and the Germans were obviously in the unreliable category, so they were imprisoned first, and then released after the Travelers' rule in Qingdao was stabilized.

The Chinese working at the various construction sites were all released home, and each was given a severance pay of one or two silvers, and told them that in a few days, they would start work again, and they hoped that they would return to work at that time.

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Syndicate, a transliteration of the French syndicat, originally meant "combination". It is one of the important forms of monopoly organization. It refers to a monopoly organization established by a small number of large enterprises in the same production sector to obtain monopoly profits by signing agreements on the unified sale of commodities and the purchase of raw materials. Enterprises participating in the syndicate still maintain their independence in production and law, but they have lost their commercial independence, and the sale of goods and the procurement of raw materials are handled by the main office of the syndicate. There is competition among the various enterprises within it for a share of sales.