In the 90s of the 19th century, Germany built the famous triple B railway, that is, the railway from Berlin through Constantinople to Baghdad. This was Germany's largest capital export in decades, and the supply of rails, wagons and other equipment for the 2,467-kilometre railway brought huge profits to the German capitalists, as well as the right to exploit the underground mineral deposits along the railway.

In January and March 1908, Britain successfully drilled two exploitable oil wells in Masjid Suleiman, on the Persian border with Iraq, and discovered the first major oil field in the Middle East on May 26 of the same year.

In January 1910, Kemal, with the help of Germany, overthrew the Ottoman Empire and established the Democratic Republic of Turkey.

In March 1910, Chentian invested 5 million marks in East Prussia to establish the Gigi Petroleum Company, and sent two oil exploration teams to the eastern part of the Turkish Democratic Republic for exploration, and the following month found a rich oil field between Mosul and Kirkuk, named the William Field.

With the full support of the Kemal regime, in May 1910, the Wilhelm 1 oil field was officially exploited, with a daily production capacity of 5,000 barrels. In August of the same year, the Wilhelm No. 2 oilfield was officially exploited, with a daily output of 8,000 barrels. Every day, tens of thousands of barrels of oil are transported from the Wilhelm oil field to Mosul, where they are transported to Germany via the Triple B railway, where they are refined at the Gigi Petroleum Company.

In August 1910, Chentian established several large oil storage warehouses in East Prussia, with gasoline reserves of tens of thousands of tons.

In 1910, the Gigi Oil Company invested a lot of money in infrastructure construction and lost 3.5 million marks that year.

In February 1911, Chentian and the Turkish government jointly established a large-scale oil refinery in Mosul, and some of the oil was refined and then shipped back to Germany.

In February 1911, Chen Tian proposed to Kaiser Wilhelm II to implement the strategic petroleum reserve, and with the consent of Wilhelm II, Germany immediately began to build many large oil storage warehouses in the north and center, and purchased a large amount of oil and gasoline from the Gigi Oil Company, and the German oil and gasoline reserves increased rapidly.

In 1911, the Gigi Oil Company made a profit of 8 million marks for the whole year, and the profit increased year by year.

It was precisely because of the sufficient fuel guarantee that Chen Tiancai dared to ask for the creation of a large armored force at this time. In his plan, the armored forces of 50,000 people were organized into a corps, under the jurisdiction of 4 divisions, one tank division, one armored fighting vehicle division, two mechanized infantry divisions, the tank division includes 250 tanks, 50 armored vehicles and 100 trucks composed of logistics units, the armored combat vehicle division includes 50 tanks, 200 armored combat vehicles and armored personnel carriers converted from ordinary trucks, 100 ordinary trucks and 50 large-caliber howitzers, The mechanized infantry division is equipped with 200 trucks and 3,000 motorcycles carrying the regular infantry division and all equipment.

For Germany, which has a sufficient supply of reserves, it is not difficult to recruit 50,000 recruits and 100,000 reserve troops, and after half a month, Chentian's Panzer Corps has reached full strength, and another 100,000 reserve troops will be recruited a month before the exercise, and will be disbanded on the spot after the exercise.

The factory, which has a full capacity of 200 tractors per month, will be able to produce 15 Stone I and 15 Stone II tanks per month, and 20 trucks will be converted into armored vehicles, and 800 trucks and 6,000 motorcycles will take 12 months to complete, although orders have been sent to German car manufacturers. Therefore, when the exercise was conducted half a year later, Chen Tian only had a little more than half of the tanks, armored vehicles and trucks in his hands, but these were enough for him, and the more difficult task was how to train an unprecedented fast armored force.

A month later, 50,000 new recruits for the armored corps had been reorganized. Chentian's armored corps recruits recruits instead of reservists, mainly because the veterans of the reservists are already very familiar with the previous weapons and tactics, and it is easy to form a mindset; And the recruits are more receptive to new weapons and new tactics, just like writing better on a blank piece of paper.

In the appointment of officers of the armored army, Chen Tian is determined to build a team of officers who are completely his own. The commander of the Panzer Corps is Chentian himself, because Brigadier General Oli is currently the deputy commander of the First Army of the East Prussian Army, the deputy commander of the Panzer Corps is another of Chentian's classmates, Colonel Olge, and the chief of staff is also his classmate Lieutenant Colonel Matthew, and the other middle and senior officers are his classmates at the Königsberg Military Academy, and half of the junior officers of the Panzer Corps are non-commissioned officers and lieutenants who have just graduated from the Königsberg Military Academy, and the other half are officers temporarily transferred from the East Prussian Corps. Due to the limited number of equipment, Chentian arranged for the newly graduated officers to participate in the training of new equipment and tactics for practical operation, and the officers temporarily transferred from other units were responsible for imparting the discipline and style of the German army to the recruits, after which they would return to their respective units, and the vacant positions were filled by a group of excellent soldiers from among the recruits.

On the training ground outside Königsberg, hundreds of young officers looked at the tanks and armored vehicles parked next to them in a silent daze, these were "monsters" they had never seen before. All countries have aircraft, so planes do not need to be kept secret, countries have submarines, so submarines do not need to be kept secret, but tanks and armored vehicles need absolute secrecy. Although countries such as Italy already have the most primitive armored vehicles, their role is very different from that of armored vehicles here. Therefore, it is a report handed over to the emperor, and Chen Tian also noted that it is highly confidential, and asked the emperor not to hand it over to the general staff for study.

"Okay, don't stand here stupidly, we have explained the specific introduction and operation instructions to you in detail before, now let's start the actual operation!" Chen Tian is standing next to everyone, and he will participate in the training and practice of the officers throughout the process.

Officers climbed into tanks or armored vehicles and began to fumble around, while technicians ran back and forth to solve the problems posed by the officers.

"Let's go, let's go up and try it too!" Chentian dragged Olg and Matthew aboard a "Stone II" tank, which was equipped with a 37 mm rapid-fire gun and two water-cooled Firebird machine guns, which were larger and faster than the "Stone I" tank, and a radio transmitter was installed on the tank as the company's command vehicle, and a transmitter and machine gunner were added to the members.

Chen Tian skillfully started the tank, moving forward, turning and reversing on flat ground at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour, to the envy of the officers who were distinguishing between the accelerator and the brake. It's a pity that after 1/4 of the pillar incense, Olg in the turret couldn't stand the bumps and asked Chentian to stop the tank, and then climbed out of the car with lightning speed and vomited.

"Mr. Olge, you can't even sit on a tank, and you, the deputy commander of the armored corps, are too ashamed!" Chen Tian opened the hatch of the cockpit and watched this seasick guy vomit wildly.

"No, it's okay! Spit on, spit and you'll get used to it! ”

While the other officers started their tanks and armored vehicles to practice, there was another group of drunken beetles on the training ground.

When Olg spent two months getting used to vomiting next to the tank, the number of tanks and armored vehicles finally allowed all the tankers and armored troops to take turns to carry out the actual operation, and the infantry also practiced infantry and tank coordination under the guidance of Chentian. In addition, Chentian also transferred 50 aircraft from two squadrons to the armored corps, so that the soldiers began to familiarize themselves with the most primitive ground-air coordination tactics.

The most painful thing in the world is that the tank drops its chain in the middle of the road. During a march of tens of kilometers, there will always be more than a dozen or twenty tanks, armored vehicles and trucks broken down on the road, which makes Chen Tian sigh. However, there was no way to put high demands on the quality of vehicles in this era, and in addition to asking factories to make improvements, they had to arrange for drivers to participate in special training for vehicle repair.

As the half-year period approached, Moltke Jr. and Tatsuten carried out reserve mobilization in Prussia and East Prussia respectively, and hundreds of thousands of reserve troops were to be assembled for a month and a half. Germany announced that it would conduct a large-scale exercise codenamed "Pineapple" in the west, and invited ambassadors and observers to watch it.