It has been more than a month since Chen Tian returned to Qingdao, which has become an economically and culturally developed area and an important strategic place for coastal defense after several years of painstaking management by the German authorities. The port of Qingdao began to accept oil tankers in July 1908; In September of the same year, the Governor of Dejiaoao promulgated the "Regulations on Wharves and Stacks" and the "Regulations for Loading, Unloading and Storage of Goods", and set up a Wharf Management Bureau to manage wharves and warehouses in the tax-free zone. In October, the Sino-German Qingdao Special Higher Education Hall (also known as Dehua University) opened, which is the earliest university in Qingdao, with more than 400 students in the preparatory department and the higher department, which has four subjects: politics and law, medicine, science and engineering and engineering.

When Chen Tian first came to Qingdao, the German army had just begun to plan the fortress defense system in Qingdao, and now this system was largely completed:

The permanent coastal defense forts include the Tuandao Fort, the Taixi Town Fort, the Yamen Fort and the Huiquanjiao Fort. Tuandao Fort is located in the Tuandao Peninsula at the front end of Tuandao Peninsula, lonely hanging forward in the Jiaozhou Bay Estuary Strait, the situation is dangerous, it was originally a Qing army fort, and was occupied by the German army before it was completed. The Germans expanded and built the current battery on the basis of the original battery, equipped with three cannons with a caliber of 88 mm. Taixi Town Fort is located in the Xiling Heights behind Tuan Island, which was originally built by the Qing army, but was occupied by the Germans before it was completed. The Germans expanded and built the current fort, which was renamed Taixi Town Fort. Equipped with 4 cannons with a caliber of 210 mm. Yamen Fort is located in front of Yamen, the general army of the Qing Army, because the fort is close to Qingdao Kou, so it is called Qingdao Fort, it is the only fort completed when Zhang Gaoyuan garrisoned Jiaoao. After the German army occupied Jiaoao, it was renamed Yamen Fort, and its artillery was still the Krupp Taiwan Gun placed in Zhang Gaoyuan, with a total of 3 cannons with a caliber of 150 mm. Bismarck South Battery. Located on the southern slope of Bismarck Mountain (Qingdao Mountain), it was built in 1899 and completed in 1905, with 4 280mm howitzers of the 1904 type. On the slope of the north side of the artillery area, a large-scale underground concealment headquarters was built, equipped with generators, watchtowers, searchlights, etc., with 42 rooms of various sizes, with a total area of 1,600 square meters, and there was a tunnel to communicate with the Bismarck barracks on the southern slope. This battery is the largest, largest artillery caliber and most important battery built by Germany in Qingdao. Huiquanjiao Fort. Located at the front end of the south corner of Qianhai Huiquan, it was built in 1902 and was the first German fort built in Qingdao, equipped with two 240 mm cannons and two 150 mm cannons. In 1900, the German army participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the artillery was plundered to Qingdao from the Dagukou Fort, and was deployed in the Huiquanjiao Fort. The fort area has a large-scale underground shelter and a tunnel connecting the Irchis barracks and other places. The above forts are located in the Qianhai area of Qingdao, constituting the defense system of Qingdao Qianhai.

Permanent land defense batteries include Bismarck North Battery, Ilchis North Battery, Ilchis East Battery, and Zhongjiawa Battery. Located on the northern slope of Bismarck Hill, Bismarck's North Fort was built with hundreds of square meters of underground shelter and two large gun emplacements, equipped with two 150-mm cannons. Ilchis North Battery. Located on the northern hill of Mount Ilchis (Taiping Mountain), it has a large-scale underground shelter equipped with six 120 mm cannons, which is the largest and most important artillery position in the German land defense battery. Ilchis East Battery. Located on the top of a hill in the eastern part of the Irchis Mountains, it has an underground shelter and is equipped with two 150-mm cannons. 4. Zhongjiawa Fort. Located on the high ground on the north side of Zhongjiawa, it is very large-scale, with a total of 8 gun emplacements, but no artillery is equipped. The above-mentioned land defense forts are built in the same style and defense condition as the coastal defense forts, and are built with shelters, watchtowers, breastwork, barbed wire, and trenches of different sizes, and are the main artillery support positions and defense lines of the land infantry fortress defense line.

Infantry forts, i.e. groups of infantry land defense fortresses. The Germans built a large group of infantry fortresses along the west bank of the Bo River from Xiaozhan Mountain in the south to the mouth of the Haibo River in the north, namely Xiaozhan Mountain, Xiaozhan Mountain North, Central, Taitung Town, Taitung Town North, and Coast. Due to the small size of the North Fort of Taitung Town, it is called Taitung Town Fort together with Taitung Town Fort. The fort is generally composed of 1 large shelter and 1~2 small shelters, which are used to store ammunition, supplies and garrisons. Most of the fort line extends northward along the river channel, the fort is about 100 meters away from the river, and a trench about 5 meters deep and 6 meters wide is dug between the riverbed and the fortress, and the bottom of the ditch is covered with electrified barbed wire, which connects the north and south coasts. On the west side of the trench, a long line of infantry bunkers was built along the ditch, and these small forts were equipped with light artillery, machine guns, rifles and other weapons, forming a fortified defensive line of up to 6 kilometers.

At present, the German army in Qingdao is mainly a coastal artillery battalion and a marine battalion, with a strength of more than 2,000 troops, and more than 10 ships belonging to the Far East Detachment of the German Navy are also stationed here.

After more than 20 years away from this ancient land, Chentian can finally taste the delicious food here again. As soon as he had time, he took Lisa and Rainey to a Chinese restaurant, and everyone was puzzled as to why Chen Tian was so obsessed with Chinese food, but after several times, their stomachs were captured by those delicacies. Rainey has been in Japan for several years, chopsticks are not difficult for him to use, Chentian is born to use chopsticks, balls can be easily clamped, only poor Lisa from time to time to use chopsticks and forks to get the dishes on the plate everywhere, countless times by others laughed at.

That night, Chen Tian patted his stomach and Rennie walked out of the fish fragrance house satisfied, Lisa and the other two guards looked pained, the delicious fish was a kind of torture for them, it was good to be able to use chopsticks to pick up the fish meat, there was no way to pick out the thorns inside, they had been stuck by the fish bones several times in one night.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out not far away, and Rainey's strong body quickly blocked in front of Chentian, while Chentian hid Lisa behind him, and the two guards also looked nervously ahead with their rifles. Yuxiangju is located on the edge of the German concession in Qingdao, and a few dozen steps further to the lease area, there is a figure in the darkness staggering towards Chentian, and the guards immediately raised their guns to aim at that person.

"Don't shoot without my orders!" Chen Tian found that behind that person, several Qing soldiers with hats were chasing after him, "Rennie, intercept him!" ”

The man seemed to have been wounded, and Rainey was about to grab him when he fell to the ground.

"Your Highness, this person has a gunshot wound!"

Chentian asked Lisa to stand behind the guards and walked over himself. It was a young man with a whip coiled around his head, one arm soaked in blood. He struggled to break free of Rainey, but was pinned down there.

"Don't move! We won't hurt you! "Although Chentian's standard Mandarin has not been used for a long time and is a little stiff, as long as the other party can understand it, it will be fine.

The man looked at Chen Tian stunned, and then gave up the useless struggle.

"Mr. Yang, this person is our fugitive, please return him to us!" At this time, 7 or 8 Qing soldiers had already chased after them, they discussed for a while, and then a leader stepped forward to negotiate with Chen Tian and them, but Chen Tian pretended not to understand and ignored them.

Wow! Click!

The two guards behind Chentian pulled the gun hard, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the Qing soldier, so frightened that he took two steps back.

"Head, what to do? Yangmaozi seems to refuse to hand over people! A Qing soldier from behind walked up to him and was about to raise his rifle in his hand, but the leader stopped him. Don't move, this is already the ground of the concession! ”

The leader of the Qing soldiers wanted to come forward to make a gesture, but Rainey glared at him viciously, and he had to take his soldiers back the way he had come.

"Bandage him first, let's go to the hospital!" Chen Tian looked at the young man, his face was already a little pale due to the loss of a lot of blood.