The "Land Battleship" weighed more than 30 tons in battle, and was driven by two in-line six-cylinder gasoline engines, each with a power of 130 horsepower, for a total of 260 horsepower, with 30 mm ordinary steel plates in the front, 15 mm ordinary steel plates in the side armor, and 6 mm ordinary steel plates in the bottom armor. The combat crew in standard condition is eighteen people, and the maximum is twenty-five.

The most important feature of this tank is its powerful firepower, and its main armament is a 57-mm cannon equipped with 300 shells. There are also six 7.92 mm Maxim machine guns along all directions of the body, two on each side of the hull, two in the rear, and 18,000 rounds of ammunition, and the crew consists of 12 machine gunners alone, as well as other crew members such as drivers and carrier pigeon signal soldiers.

Twenty "land battleships" emitted white smoke and lined up in a horizontal line to insert themselves into the defensive positions of the Japanese army. These steel monsters not only frightened the military attachés of various countries, but even the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army were scared enough, the war horses did not listen to the command of the cavalry, their nostrils sprayed hot air, their hooves scraped the sand, and Herod ran to both sides with a loud scream, trying to get as far away from these monsters as possible.

The Jianghuai army's own soldiers were frightened enough, not to mention himself, the soldiers hiding in the trenches trembled and even forgot how to shoot, and only opened their mouths and gasped. The deer and horse at the front of the army's position were crushed into pieces of wood by monsters weighing 30 tons, and the barbed wire, which was a headache for the infantry and cavalry, was directly pushed down and pressed into the dirt. The two-meter-wide trench could not stop the advance of these monsters, and twenty "land battleships" swayed billowing dust and smoke, pouring shells and bullets, whether it was the fortifications or the ** of the army, they could not block their way forward, and the seemingly solid defense line of the army was easily torn open a path as wide as one kilometer.

The infantry of the Jianghuai Army followed these huge steel monsters, using their huge bodies as cover, and approached the position step by step. Kwong Haishan had long guessed this scene, and he scanned the military attachés of the countries around him with a smile, and the dumbfounded looks of these people made him proud, and the Chinese also had weapons that could shock the world.

A small number of soldiers who were still calm-minded shot frantically with machine guns and rifles, but it did not work at all, and the bullets hit the armor and made a "bell" sound, but they could not shoot through the steel armor at all. The exposed firepower points were immediately cleared by the 57-millimeter guns and six machine guns on the "land battleship." A few fierce soldiers rushed out of the trenches, holding explosives bags to blow up these terrifying monsters. Soon, he himself found out that this was in vain, and the biggest feature of the "land battleship" was that there were many shooting holes and weapons, and it was not easy to get close. Countless bullets were fired from the shooting holes on the upper and lower floors, smashing the soldiers who were holding explosives into a sieve. Some of the machine gun bullets were hung with incendiary grenades, which directly hit the ammunition of the army, triggering a violent explosion.

The positions began to crumble, the soldiers threw their weapons and fled with screams, the officers' knives and pistols were out of control, and everyone wanted to stay away from the billowing smoke monsters. Fear instantly spread among the tens of thousands of soldiers, and the so-called bushido spirit was shattered by these steel monsters in front of them that breathed fire and smoked smoke and fired ammunition, and the brutality caused by the perennial brainwashing in the army was gone.

The soldiers of the Jianghuai Army followed behind to attack, and they used the "land battleships" as cover to annihilate all the remaining Japanese troops on the road opened up by these steel monsters, while the demomen stuffed explosives into the bunkers of the Japanese army and cleared the fire points of the Japanese army one by one.

The army placed 7,000 people on the second line of defense, plus the rout troops who fled back from the first line of defense, the total strength exceeded 10,000, and even General Akiyama Yoshigu personally went to Beiling Mountain to supervise the battle, which shows how much attention is attached to the second line of defense. But the collapse of the battlefield left him with no choice but to feel more terrified than ever.

The Jianghuai Army and the Yue Army are no longer troops on the same level, and the firepower and mobility of the Jianghuai Army are several grades higher than those of the Yue Army, and this gap is absolutely not something that can be made up by the bravery of the individual soldiers, and the fighting will of the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army is not inferior to that of the Yue Army in the slightest.

The defense line that the army painstakingly managed has become a joke in the face of such a cross-era product as a tank. The military attachés of various countries watching the battle were already dumbfounded, and they were eager to immediately take this terrifying steel monster for themselves. Both the Entente and the Central Powers were almost driven mad by trench warfare. The behemoths loaded with artillery and machine guns in front of them gave them hope of ending trench warfare.

Kuang Haishan saw that the defeat of the army was decided, so he said with a smile in English: "Gentlemen, this is our latest invention, and our President Chai named it 'Land Battleship'!" ”

The military attachés watching the battle looked at each other, did not say a word, and then invariably ran to the telegraph room specially prepared by the Jianghuai Army for the military attaches to watch the battle, and the radio waves were transmitted to Weifang. Chai Dongliang was there with consuls and ministers of various countries, talking about China's neutrality. When the minister and consul received the telegram from the front, they were immediately shocked and immediately sent it to the desk of the cabinet minister on the other side of the ocean.

The content of the telegram is almost identical, the more you buy this powerful weapon from the Chinese, the better, planes, mortars, grenadiers, light machine guns, as long as the Chinese are willing to sell it, they will buy it back at any cost. At the same time, by attracting the Chinese to join their side, they can promise to cede part of the enemy's colonies in Asia to China after victory, so as to lure the Chinese into the war, and at the same time use the newspapers in China to create public opinion and incite Chinese public opinion, so that the Chinese people, who have suffered humiliation for a long time, will spontaneously exert pressure on China's political axe for the sake of national honor and the status of the victorious country.

The military attachés who watched the battle were all authentic experts, and they knew too well in their hearts that no country in the world had such a powerful army division in terms of firepower and mobility. The weapons and equipment of this army are not worth mentioning, but their bravery is very famous. At the beginning of the Russian War, when Nogi Noshinori attacked the 203rd Heights, under the watchful eyes of many Western military attachés, thousands of Russian artillery and machine guns were sent to death one after another, and Nogi Noshinori actually sent his own sons to attack the 203rd Heights.

However, the current Yue army has been robbed of the courage to fight by the advanced weapons and fresh tactics of the Jianghuai army, and even the most fearless of death and even the person who likes to take the initiative to seek death has been beaten and feared, and the Westerners whose surname is 100 times more expensive than Xiao Yue's capital may not have the courage to face these terrifying weapons.

The military attachés who watched the battle now saw only 12,000 men in one division, and if China sent ten of these cross-era army divisions to Europe, once they entered the war, it would immediately change the situation on the battlefield on both sides. Although the military attachés of various countries who watched the battle thought that this possibility was not too big, after all, China's economic capacity could not be reached, and this kind of army was a gold-swallowing beast, I am afraid that Chai Dongliang could not afford to burn so much money. However, after all, China has mastered the world's most advanced weapons manufacturing technology, and as long as the financial resources can support it, the rebirth of the entire Chinese army is also a matter of waiting.

If the Chinese are willing to sell this powerful weapon to their own country, then defeating the enemy is also a matter of waiting.

The war in Europe was beyond the expectations of all military strategists, and it was not a war that could be ended in six weeks, still less a war that politicians could end at the negotiating table, but a vicious war that would affect the fate of the world and that all the countries involved in the war would never stop dying. The defeated side has no other way out than to be slaughtered, and even the victorious country will drain the blood of young people!

It is urgent to drag the Chinese into the war and join the camp of their own side! All the military attachés watching the battle made demands on their diplomats at the same time!

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The residence of Chai Dongliang of the Weifang Field Command Post is the hall of the Jin merchants in Weifang, the appearance is simple and the interior is luxuriously decorated, and the blue brick wall is full of pavilions and pavilions, and the water pavilion flower hall is very much Jiangnan style. He sat on a rosewood recliner and leisurely sipping tea, and outside stood the captain of the Suopan Guard and the Gurkha Guard, as the first batch of foreigners who were naturalized in China, they all changed into the camouflage uniforms of the Jianghuai Army, and had dual citizenship of Nepal and China.

If it weren't for the current tense war, Suopan would have to return to the Himalayas to recruit the second batch of soldiers for the Jianghuai Army, and a large number of Gurkha people would be recruited to join the Chinese [***] team, which is Chai Dongliang's established policy, once they all have dual citizenship of China and Nepal, China will have the most reasonable excuse to meddle in Nepalese affairs in the future. The reintegration of Nepal into China's territory is also of great significance to ensuring stability in Tibetan provinces.

He already knew that the second line of defense of the Japanese army had been broken through, and that the current Japanese army was sandwiched in a hilly area between Qingdao City, Signal Mountain, and Beiling Mountain, and that its heavy weapons had almost been completely lost, and it was being repeatedly ravaged by the fighters of the 1st Air Division, and it was no longer possible to pose any threat.

The defeat of the army is decided!

This kind of ending Chai Dongliang has already met, and the exchange armed with tanks and planes can't beat a few rifles of Xiao Yueben, it's really unreasonable!

Chai Dongliang's requirements for Kuang Haishan and Lu Kai are very simple, they can fight as much as they like, and he and the staff department do not give any guidance. In fact, the General Staff wanted to formulate a combat plan, the problem was that the Jianghuai Army was emerging in an endless stream of new weapons, so that Jiang Baili and Cai Ye could only keep opening their mouths and marveling, they couldn't make any plan that met the actual situation, and Chai Dongliang himself had never personally commanded a battle with more than one battalion of troops, and the biggest battle he participated in was the attack on Anqing City with one hundred and eight cavalry, and this time the army was 60,000 people, and he also mobilized 50,000 people, and the two sides fought more than 100,000 troops. Therefore, he resolutely shut up, and the blind command of the province made trouble for the generals in front.

The biggest thing in Weifang every day is to hold a banquet, Chai Dongliang, Wu Jintang, Yu Qiaqing, Jiang Baili, Cai Yi and a group of other people, every day accompanied the ministers and consuls of various countries to drink and make friends. The telegrams from the front line made the ministers and consuls of various countries understand that the Chinese have powerful new weapons in their hands, and the telegrams from their foreign ministers and even the prime minister and president let them know that they must do everything possible to win over the Chinese at this time, and at the same time they must buy these new weapons back.

For this arms sales meeting, Chai Dongliang tried everything he could, but there was no way to do it, if these guys didn't see it with their own eyes, they wouldn't believe that China had such powerful weapons, and they wouldn't believe that China's industrial level had led the world in many aspects.

Since the day Chai Dongliang raised his troops in Wuhu, he has set a policy of establishing the country with industry. Manufacturing is the foundation of the country's comprehensive strength, but to build a strong manufacturing industry, the most needed is the market, no matter how advanced weapons are made, no one buys, the factory will not have the best production, let alone the power of technological innovation and invention.

The victory of the Jianghuai army on the battlefield obviously stimulated the nerves of these foreign devils, who pestered Chai Dongliang and others like crazy, crying and shouting for the purchase of planes, light machine guns, tanks, mortars and other weapons, especially the tanks known as "land battleships", which are the most sought-after and hottest weapons. The "Flying Leopard" brand truck, which they originally despised, has also become a sweet treat. This kind of truck, with an approved load capacity of two tons, often carries four or five tons of supplies.

Seeing that the foreign devils had already gone up to the pole to beg for themselves, Chai Dongliang began to pick up the shelf, and the dignified acting president of the Republic of China was no longer something that these ministers and consuls could easily see. The outside affairs are handed over to the business elites such as Yu Qiaqing and Wu Jintang, how to handle the heat of buyers, they are much more experienced than Chai Dongliang.

In all fairness, General Akiyama Yoshiko's command was impeccable, and the deployment of troops and firepower was also decent, but he was already facing an epoch-making force, and the gap in the technical level of the two sides was at least more than ten years, and General Akiyama was not wronged at all in losing. Lieutenant General Genjiro Akashi, known as the king of espionage in Asia, did nothing, and it would have been a huge mistake to use a spy wizard like him as a military commander. Just imagine, let Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han, make leather boots, he is not as good as a stinky cobbler on the street.

Moreover, the current China is not the China of the First Wu Dynasty, and the political axe of the Republic of China is the political axe dominated by the Han people, and it is absolutely impossible for the Qing army to shake or even mutiny if the army plays the slogan of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" as it did in the First Wu Dynasty. Moreover, China is a country where the Han people occupy the absolute majority of the country, unlike Russia, which has such acute national contradictions, and the Poles and Finns all want to break away from the tsarist rule.

Chai Dongliang's victory was first of all a victory in industrial strength, and his weapons were more than ten years ahead of the Yue army, and the second was that he had no intention of calculating or not, he had long known that there would be such a day, and he would send the commercial police corps in Shanghai to Shandong long in advance.

If this can't kill him, then Chai Dongliang simply jumped into the sea and committed suicide.

"Report! Yu Qiaqing asks to see! ”

"Let him in!"

Not long after, Yu Qiaqing, who was in a suit and leather shoes, walked in with a cane, her face full of joy.

"Congratulations to President Chai, congratulations to President Chai!" Yu Qiaqing said with a smile.

Chai Dongliang also smiled: "Where does the joy come from? ”

"That's a joy! Hey, how does it sound like a joke? I congratulate President Chai! Yu Qiaqing bowed and said.

Chai Dongliang smiled: "Brother Ade, please take a seat, what's the good thing?" ”

Yu Qiaqing said with a smile: "The British consul in Jinan conveyed the statement of the British political axe, they said that the British sent troops this time only to prevent the army from attacking Weihaiwei, and did not mean to target China, hoping that China would understand, and at the same time they decided to give up the remaining part of the Gengzi indemnity to compensate for the loss of China's troops, hoping that China could return the prisoners!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled: "I'm afraid the British still have conditions, right?" ”

Yu Qiaqing said with a smile: "The president knows everything, how can the British hide that little bit of thought from you?" The British political axe wanted China to join the Entente camp, and at the same time hoped that China would sell advanced weapons, including 'land battleships'. ”

Chai Dongliang smiled faintly: "It is impossible to join the Entente, there is no problem in selling weapons, you tell the British, let them set off by themselves, we don't include transportation???? By the way, the Germans didn't plan to buy our weapons? ”

Yu Qiaqing frowned: "This is a bit troublesome, the Germans really want to buy it, the problem is that he has to have a way to transport it back!" The Pacific Ocean was full of British warships, and it was difficult for the Germans to bring supplies back! ”

Chai Dongliang smiled: "Brother Ade, will you be an old man?" Can this little thing stump you? We have to help the Germans, otherwise, Britain, France and Russia will get our advanced weapons and destroy the Germans at once. ”

Yu Qiaqing laughed: "Sure enough, I can't hide anything from you!" I consulted with the Germans to build a factory in Italy and let them buy from there! Italy is still neutral for the time being, but it has always had good relations with the Germans. ”

Chai Dongliang shook his head and said: "It's definitely not okay to build it in Italy, build it in Spain." ”

Yu Qiaqing was puzzled: "Why?" ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "You ask so much, according to what I said, it is true!" You are a businessman, and there are some things in politics that you don't understand, and I can't say it so clearly. ”

Yu Qiaqing is an old man, and he can't understand Chai Dongliang's extraneous voice, so he naturally doesn't continue to ask.

Chai Dongliang asked again: "Are there any other countries that want to order arms?" ”

Yu Qiaqing nodded and said: "Now all countries want to order, including neutral countries, they are all roaring, Europe is like that, can they not go crazy when they see good things?" I'm still holding on to them, after all, our output can't keep up for the time being, and the factory still needs to be renovated and expanded??? Russia wants to buy planes, but it's a little tight! I hope to be able to slow down and pay again! ”

Chai Dongliang pondered for a moment and said, "You asked the Russians to use nickel ore, crude oil, and coal to pay for arms. ”

After a while, Yu Qiaqing said in a low voice: "The French also want to buy our arms, and they also promised to give up the Gengzi indemnity to show their sincerity, but ???"

Chai Dongliang asked, "But what?" ”

Yu Qiaqing frowned and said: "The French Minister Glenn said, I hope you can let me go!" ”

Chai Dongliang patted the case and said: "Fart! ”

(To be continued)