On the Jiaoji Railway, rows of military vehicles roared by, transporting heavily armed soldiers and various military supplies to the front line, Chai Dongliang's special train was guarded by ironclad trains in front and behind, and planes swept by from time to time in the sky, and the planes swept low across the treetops, making a deafening roar.

If Chai Dongliang went to Shandong alone, there would be no need to mobilize the people so much, and there would be ministers, consuls, and countless military counselors and other military attachés sitting in this train.

This railway was built by the Germans in 1904, and there were originally German local garrisons along the way to escort it, but because Qingdao was tight, the German governor Waldeck transferred all the garrison troops to Qingdao, and this railway was naturally taken over by China.

The destination of this trip was Weifang, which was under the jurisdiction of Shandong Jiaodong Province, which was not part of the war zone, and neither Ben, Britain, nor Germany had stationed troops here.

Chai Dongliang was accompanied by Jiang Baili, chief of staff, Cai Yi, deputy chief of staff, Kuang Haishan, commander-in-chief of the front, and Lu Kai, commander of the Air Force. Jiang Baili and Cai Yi are both military masters, but in this war to recover Qingdao, they really couldn't make a war plan.

The weapons of the Jianghuai Army are very different from those of Beiyang, and the surnames of these weapons are Neng, and Jiang Baili and Cai Ye don't know anything at all.

The purpose of Chai Dongliang bringing them out was to hope that they would quickly understand the new weapons and new combat techniques, and at the same time, it was also a powerful technique to win over the hearts of the old Beiyang generals.

The legations of Russia, France, Austria-Hungary, and Germany all sent a large number of military attaches to watch the war, and at the same time, ministers, consuls, and other civilian officials tried to lobby Chai Dongliang and other Chinese political leaders in an attempt to win China into their side. The Jianghuai Army's battle at Dagukou had already shown its strong combat capability, and at the same time, China had the ability to provide unlimited soldiers and labor, which was a huge temptation for European countries with tight manpower.

After arriving in Weifang, I saw a barbed wire fence wasteland, covering an area of more than 500 acres, the land is quite flat, but I can't figure out what it is used for.

Chai Dongliang ordered people to set up marching tents here, and the guards, under the command of Fang Qingyu, set up a large number of sentry posts to be responsible for guarding.

The spectators from various countries were confused, and they didn't know why they were allowed to come to Weifang. In a short time, I saw several strange-looking machines driving into the wasteland with billowing smoke. The monster resembles a tractor, but has a push bucket with a giant tooth in front of it.

"Look, everyone, this is our new bulldozer!" Chai Dongliang introduced with great interest.

Under the horrified gaze of the crowd, the huge bulldozer began to work, the soft sand was bulldozed, and the bucket was raised high, pushing the excess sand aside. Several bulldozers worked together to level half a football field's land in less than two hours. Then several more machines drove out, and the front of this monster was not a pusher, but a round steel mill.

"It's a roller!" Chai Dongliang continued to explain.

The roller made a loud vibration that sounded like it was ramming, and everywhere it went, the soft ground was compacted and flattened.

Bulldozers paired with road rollers quickly turned the wasteland into an improvised road.

Although I don't understand what this thing does, everyone is still stunned by the high efficiency of these two machines, if you use manual work to do these tasks, at least hundreds of people need to work for more than ten days. This one was less than ten machines in total, and it was done in half a day.

After watching for an afternoon, Chai Dongliang arranged a banquet in the evening, and continued to take everyone to watch the progress of the project the next day. After two days, a piece of sandy land of about 500 acres has been completely leveled and compacted.

When planes fell from the sky, everyone suddenly realized that an airstrip was being built here!

An airstrip that can accommodate hundreds of planes took only two days to work, and this efficiency is terrible!

If the high efficiency of construction machinery brought them shock, then the flight performance of the semi-metal "Huaxia-style" aircraft made them feel frightened.

The highly maneuverable nature of the ultra-duralumin fuselage and the V-12-cylinder engine was an eye-opener for the military attachés, and the performance of the aircraft's attack on the ground target made them think of the great lethality of the infantry and cavalry units on the ground if the air force were to attack them.

After watching the performance of construction machinery and airplanes for two days, Chai Dongliang led the military attaches and reporters of various countries who were watching the battle to the side of the highway, only to see the "Flying Leopard" brand light trucks pulling soldiers and artillery and moving quickly on the road. One, two??? There is almost no end in sight, and this kind of truck with an approved load capacity of two tons often runs with four or five tons of materials easily. The roads were covered with black smoke from diesel burning, and the sky was blackened.

Because the "Flying Leopard" brand truck was towed by a diesel engine, it did not conform to the mainstream view of Westerners at that time, so it basically did not sell a few units after it rolled off the assembly line. The more than 500 trucks in stock were requisitioned by Chai Dongliang's coefficient and cooperated with the cavalry to form a fast force.

The general cavalry division is either to ensure that the mobile surname causes insufficient firepower, or to tow the artillery and sacrifice the mobile surname of the cavalry, Chai Dongliang's rapid reaction force, the cavalry and trucks are half each, and the baggage and artillery no longer use horse-drawn artillery trucks, but use powerful "Flying Leopard" trucks, which travel at an astonishing speed. Even the cavalry prepared horses sat on the chariots, so as not to consume too much horsepower due to long marches.

The "Flying Leopard" truck, which was once despised by the whole world, showed excellent surname ability on the battlefield, and the advantages of powerful diesel engine and fuel economy were fully displayed. At the same time, the low-pressure large-pattern tires also show strong adaptability in complex terrain. This muddy dirt road does not seem to affect the wild running of the "Flying Leopard" truck.

Most of the drivers have just touched the steering wheel, and it is the time to enjoy it, and the roar of the car is the most beautiful music for them.

The ministers and consuls of various countries did not know what to do, but those military counselors were genuine experts, and it was clear at a glance that the Chinese army had taken the mobile surname to an unprecedented level. Strong mobility can ensure that all fronts are in front of the front, and can obtain local superiority in strength and firepower. The deployment of soldiers became a breeze, which was obviously too important for the European countries that were short of troops!

War is no longer a fixed pattern in their minds!

The next thing is naturally that all countries have asked for orders, and Chai Dongliang has already instructed his subordinates not to let go, as long as Chai Dongliang does not speak in person, no one agrees to sign an arms sales contract.

It's not yet a critical time, to let these weapons exert great power on the real battlefield, the foreign devils will be convinced, and when the time comes, whether they want to pinch them flat or round, is it not a matter of Chai Dongliang's words?

This arms sales conference should not only reap economic benefits, but also seek the greatest political benefits!

"Xiao Yueben, you are really unlucky, you just happened to bump into Lao Tzu's arms sales conference!" Chai Dongliang looked at the fighter planes that took off from Weifang Airport like a swarm of bees, and the pride in his heart spontaneously arose.

What really makes Chai Dongliang proud is that the "Huaxia type," which is already leading many in the world, is about to be eliminated by the Air Force, and the aircraft research and development center has developed special models such as reconnaissance planes, dive bombers, high-altitude bombers, and fighter planes.

The ultra-duralumin material and the Eagle engine, which is the most core technology that China has mastered in the aircraft at present, with the revolutionary surname of the material, as well as the powerful and well-made engine, the upgrade of the aircraft is a fairly easy thing.

The long-awaited war money is about to arrive!

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The former site of the Governor's Residence, located at the southern foot of Signal Hill, began in October 1905 and was completed two years later, designed by the famous German architect Marc and supervised by Strassel. Because it was the official residence of the German Governor of Jiaoao. The Chinese gave it the common name "Yang Governor Tower". This is a German castle-style building with European royal style, elegant and noble shape, beautiful outline lines, magnificent and majestic colors. The total construction area is more than 4,000 square meters, and the main body is more than 30 meters high. Some of the exterior walls are decorated with granite, and the stone is rough and simple. The beige tube tile, blue fish scale tile, and green ox tongue tile paved the roof, making the building more exquisite and chic.

The German governor Waldeck was on pins and needles in this beautiful building, and the Fushan position had been captured by his own night attack, and he himself dragged the cannon to the mountain and kept bombarding the Qingdao city and the German batteries.

The garrison is 45,000, most of them are local garrison troops stationed on the Jiaoji Railway, to put it bluntly, they are old and weak soldiers, the real elite is only 3,000, and the besieging army has 60,000, and they are all elite troops of the army, and there are more than 500 cannons alone. The Guards Division is the Emperor's Imperial Forest Army, and its equipment is one of the best in the world, and the Kumamoto Division is even more famous for its ability to fight, if it weren't for the fact that General Akiyama Yoshiko was afraid of China's reaction and did not devote himself to the battle of Qingdao, I am afraid that the German Governor-General at this moment would have surrendered with a white flag.

In the telegram of Emperor Wilhelm II, he said in a strong tone: "Surrender to Yue himself in Qingdao is more humiliating than surrender to the Russians in Berlin!" ”

This order had already pushed Waldeck to a dead end, and there was no other way but to hold on. In view of the current situation, the German political axe decided to unconditionally return the entire Jiaoao concession to the Chinese political axe to ensure that the Chinese would not join the Entente because they hated Germany, and the German political axe also ordered that the German army in Qingdao could lay down their arms and surrender their guns to the Chinese.

China is currently a neutral country, and according to the concept of Westerners, if a belligerent party reaches the territory of a neutral country, it must disarm the neutral country, which is an international practice and a civilized move, which is neither a surrender nor a shame.

Compared to the humiliating surrender to Yue himself or being beaten to death by Yu himself, this kind of ending is simply perfect.

When Waldeck received this order, he wanted to cry excitedly, but he couldn't get excited immediately, and he couldn't get rid of the water around Qingdao, where did he find the Chinese to surrender their guns?

"Your Excellency the Governor, telegram from the Chinese political axe!" The adjutant ran over in a hurry.

Waldeck took the telegram and read it, the content of which was that the Chinese political axe accepted the German request, was willing to accept Qingdao immediately, and demanded that the German defenders must cooperate, ensure the security and stability of Qingdao without receiving the official notice of the Chinese political axe, and not surrender to a third party, otherwise it will be regarded as a provocation to China's neutral status and will inevitably suffer the most painful blow.

"My God, the Chinese have finally sent troops!" Waldeck finally waited for a lifesaver.

The adjutant said worriedly: "Your Excellency, I am worried that the Chinese are not the opponents of the Yue army!" ”

A sentence woke up the dreamer, Waldeck then remembered that the Chinese have not done anything recently, those who were once in the battle of Dagukou, like the wasp air force is gone, even if China sends troops to attack himself, it will take at least ten days and a half to dispatch troops, the problem is that the current German army can not support it for so long.

"Call back to China's political axe, and say that we will strictly implement the orders of our own political axe to ensure China's neutral status! Hey, that's all there is to it! I hope we can hold out until the moment the [***] team arrives! Waldeck sighed.

At this moment, the Governor can only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor!

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Colonel Sicus was a typical Scotsman, and as the supreme commander of the British Army stationed in Weihaiwei, he was ordered to lead 3,000 men to assist the Japanese army in attacking Qingdao.

Weihaiwei was the only one of all the concessions in China that was not forcibly ceded, but was actively invited by the Qing Dynasty to garrison the British army. After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russians forced the Qing court to occupy Lushun and Dalian under the pretext of "the intervention of the three countries to return Liao". On the one hand, the Westernists in the Qing court wanted to unite with Russia to fight against Yuben, and on the other hand, they felt the aggressive posture of the Russians.

Originally, Qingdao and Yantai in Shandong Province have already opened ports, and the location of Weihaiwei is obviously not as good as these two places, and it is very difficult to attract investment. However, out of fear of the Russians drinking the Yangtze River, the British still hit it off with the Qing court, and the two sides reached an agreement that Weihai Weijun Port would be shared by both sides.

After the British leased Weihaiwei, they trained a Huayong battalion that could fight habitually, and the Huayong battalion participated in all the battles of the British army during the Gengzi State Revolution and made great achievements. But after a long time, Weihaiwei is a well-informed port city after all, and the news of the discovery of gold in South Africa soon reached here. The local young people have crossed the ocean to South Africa to dig for gold, and no one wants to serve as a soldier for the British, after all, the income from digging gold is more than two or three times that of Hua Yong!

The British had no choice but to recruit a group of Sikhs from India to garrison Weihaiwei. Compared to the Huayong battalion, whose surname is quiet and amazing, Colonel Sikus wants to cry when he sees those Sikh soldiers who are full of curry, these old soldiers of the tropical colonies are famous for their three major and three young: timid temper, big belly, small ability, old age and little knowledge.

It seems that the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China has performed a scene that the whole world despises. The coalition army attacked Yangcun near Tianjin, blocked by the Qing army, the Sikh cavalry fled into the sorghum field to hide, and after the army defeated the Qing army, the Sikh soldiers took the lead from the green gauze tent to pick up the cheap, but unexpectedly the war horse was frightened by the artillery fire of the army, the Sikh soldiers rushed into the Russian army position in a daze, and were beaten by the Russian old Maozi as a fat beat of the Qing army, machine guns, rifles, and cannons rang out together, and the two or three hundred Sikh soldiers did not understand what was going on, they had been killed, and the rest were scattered.

For this reason, the British army, the Japanese army, and the Russian army have almost not yet reached Yanjing City, and they have already started fighting! Fortunately, the big nose of the British Empire suppressed the mouth of the little one, and the whites in the coalition army unanimously believed that it was the one who started the war without authorization that caused the chaos of the coalition army, not the quality of the Sikh soldiers.

When Gengzi attacked Yanjing City in the year of Gengzi, if it weren't for the outstanding achievements of the Huayong Battalion, the British army would have become the biggest joke in the coalition army.

Leading such a batch of waste to attack the fort carefully constructed by the Germans, what is it not looking for death?

Therefore, after landing from Laoshan Bay, Colonel Sikus ordered to stay put, watch Xiao Yueben go to his death, wait until he himself captured Qingdao, and then take the opportunity to pick up the bargain, and at the same time strictly follow the domestic requirements, never appear outside the Jiaoao concession, so as not to cause dissatisfaction among the Chinese.

However, Colonel Sicus was not worried, saying that he was famous for his penchant for looking for death, and with them as cannon fodder, he would not have to bother the soldiers of the British Empire to fight. Therefore, Colonel Sikus stayed in Li Village in Laoshan Bay, drinking beer and humming a little song waiting for his good news.

"Colonel, the legation is in an emergency!"

Sikus, who was leisurely drinking a little wine, took the telegram, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed: "Damn guy, this is the time to send the telegram?" Inform everyone, withdraw Weihaiwei immediately, these damned politicians! ”

"Boom"

The sky was like thousands of hornets flying over, Sikus pushed open the window and suddenly his hands and feet were cold, only to see countless planes passing through the sky, the sky was almost obscured, the silver fuselage shone under the scattering of sunlight, and the person who illuminated it could not open his eyes.

The planes flew very low, and many of them were painted with hideous sharks, tigers, and yakshas, as if they were hordes of monsters, trying to devour the weak British army below.

"It's too late, my colonel!" The adjutant was dumbfounded.

Small black dots in the air staggered down, "Knock knock"

A huge explosion fell on the British camp, and the Sikhs who were caught off guard cried wolf, and the horses scattered and fled. After the plane dropped the bomb, it began to fly whistling over the ground, and the brass sound peculiar to the "dignified" light Makqin sounded, and a 7.92 mm heavy bullet ruthlessly harvested cheap lives.

Colonel Sikus's face trembled like chaff, and he muttered to himself, "It's really too late! ”

(To be continued)