In the case of advocating the imperial system in the country, there are countless pairs of eyes who are secretly watching coldly, waiting for the opportunity to make a move.

In Xia Jun's view, this is a great opportunity to annex other provinces, as long as Yuan Shikai becomes emperor, then it is not a problem to take up the banner and immediately occupy a few of his provinces.

And for those Beiyang officers, the cold-eyed bystanders are all waiting for the opportunity to attack.

Li Yuanhong, who had previously advocated the hereditary system of the president, was silent at this time and never mentioned any imperial system again. Cai Yi, who was in Yanjing, also began to plan to escape from Yanjing and return to Yunnan, where he had his roots.

Cai Ye sent his wife and children back to his hometown overnight, while he himself suddenly fell ill.

Every few days, it is rumored in Yanjing City that Cai Ye is very sick and is about to be terminally ill.

Cai Ye suffers from throat disease, which is well known, so Yuan Shikai did not suspect it, but Cai Yi's disease has already been cured with enzyme chain protein, but few people know about it.

…… In this period of turbulent undercurrents of support for the imperial system and against the imperial system, the political axe of East China was actively preparing for war.

Twenty-eight new divisions, plus the fourteen divisions on the previous battlefield, have assembled forty-two divisions of the East China Army on the Shandong battlefield.

Of the 42 divisions, three were armored divisions, five were artillery divisions, and thirty-five were infantry divisions.

Of the artillery divisions, four were howitzer divisions and one was rapid-fire artillery divisions.

The stretch of trenches had completely encircled the Yue army in the demarcated combat area, and the number of East China troops in the trenches was not too large, and most of them were training in the back.

The chariots had already driven to the front line, but in the martial law zone, the Yue army could not get close to the martial law zone at all, because the East China Army had already surrounded the Yue army with trenches, and the Yue army would not be able to penetrate from the front line in the first place, and if it entered the martial law zone from the rear, it would also not work.

In December, the East China Autonomous Government announced that Shandong Province had entered a state of martial law, and in order to cooperate with the martial law work, the administrative personnel of the counties in Shandong would be replaced by the East China Political Axe.

This is the annexation of Shandong in disguise, but at present, the political axe of East China is in a confrontation with Yueben, so there are legitimate and sufficient reasons for this demand.

The East China political axe sent the administrative staff to Shandong, that is, it was permanently occupied.

It is impossible for Beiyang Zhengaxe to take back Shandong, because East China Zhengaxe has already implemented the same policy as the seven provinces in Shandong, and has begun to issue ID cards to the people of Shandong.

However, because Shandong is a battlefield, the people of Shandong have to go to get a pass to go out when they travel, and this pass is the same surname as the ancient road guide.

Passers-by who do not have ID cards and road guides will not be able to pass through the checkpoints.

This is to guard against the means of the secret agents, but such means cannot be done once and for all, there are still many loopholes, but at least most of the special agents can be restricted.

The real anti-spy weapon is still the electronic warfare group, and those spies will generally send back the detected intelligence with a telegraph machine, and the equipment owned by the electronic warfare group can roughly determine the location of the telegram, and then make a phone call to the troops and let people round up and arrest them.

Those spies can infiltrate Shandong, but they may not be able to infiltrate the martial law area, and there are many military dogs and secret sentinels arranged around the smoking cessation area, and strangers will be discovered as soon as they get close.

Under such circumstances, the special agent of Yueben could not move an inch in Shandong at all, but more than 60 special agents of Yueben were arrested in just over a month, and many of them were still special agents of Yueben who had been lurking in China for many years, and they looked completely no different from the Chinese, and they spoke with a local accent in Shandong, and it was completely impossible to tell from the appearance that they were Yue himself.

It's just that in the context of martial law everywhere, those people who run around are very eye-catching, and the East China Army has deployed military dogs everywhere in Shandong, which is completely difficult to move an inch.

The training of the East China Army in the martial law zone is mainly the armored division, which is a top-secret force, and the infantry division will also often enter the martial law zone to cooperate with the armored division for training.

The tactics are very simple, the artillery first carries out artillery bombardment, and then the artillery fire is extended, and the tank troops immediately follow, while the tactical bombers of the air force fly in the front, select valuable targets to bomb first, the artillery is gradually extended, plow the road of the tank troops, and the armored division inserts from the breakthrough, and then intersperses in depth to cut the defense line of the army. The infantry division followed closely behind, clearing the trenches and annihilating the sliced soldiers.

The premise of this tactic is that there are enough tanks to achieve the effect of a blitzkrieg. At the same time, it also involves the comprehensive coordination of air, artillery, infantry, and armor.

Due to the large number of new recruits in this expansion, it is equipped with a lot more fully automatic weapons, of which the most equipped is the latest Type 14 submachine gun produced by the military factory.

The submachine gun looked crude, stamped and welded, cost as little as 14 Fuxing coins, and was produced quickly.

This submachine gun is the Stern submachine gun used in Britain during World War II, the structure of the Stern submachine gun is very simple, at first glance it seems to be composed of tubes of different sizes: the barrel is round, that is natural, the sleeve is also round, the butt is also round, and the bolt handle is also a small round tube.

The Stern submachine gun was manufactured with a very low cost, costing less than $11 for a gun and only $7 for the East China Military Factory.

During World War II, the submachine gun was ridiculed as a "Woolworth toy gun" (Woolworth was an American merchant who sold small goods for 5 to 10 cents).

Because the Stern submachine gun is simple to manufacture, low in cost, economical, reliable in work, and accurate in shooting. Its power on the battlefield is no less than that of the expensive American Thomson submachine gun, so the Thomson submachine gun in the East China Army is no longer equipped.

In the new infantry division, the number of submachine guns in a squad was increased to two, along with a ZB-26 light machine gun and a Type 14 shotgun. The platoon level is equipped with an MG08/15 light machine gun and a 60mm mortar, and the firepower is absolutely unprecedentedly powerful.

The submachine gun is simple to use, the recruits don't need to aim, just see the enemy hit the cross, plus the low cost of the Type 14 submachine gun, it is naturally a large amount of equipment.

The bullet is common with the Thomson submachine gun, both of which are pistol bullets, and the stopping ability is extremely strong, and being hit by this bullet is basically killing on the spot, and generally there will be no phenomenon that the enemy can shoot a black gun if he is knocked down.

Because it is trench warfare, it is just right to have more submachine guns, and the firing range is not a problem. The East China Army does not lack individual firepower to strike at long-distance targets, and its ability to strike at long-distance targets is absolutely strong. There are rifles and light machine guns for fire suppression, and sniper rifles for precision strikes.

Whether it is near or far, the army will not be able to get any benefits.

The new type of aircraft was also quickly equipped with the air force, and ten Mosquito bombers could leave the factory every day, and the air force was very satisfied with this mosquito bomber.

One could even say that it was very exciting.

The surname of the mosquito bomber is really excellent, and with a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour, it is definitely the fastest bomber in the world at present.

And the bomb load can reach 2,000 kilograms, and the range is 3,000 kilometers.

The Mosquito bomber surpassed the bomb load of the Hammer 3 and also surpassed the range of the Kunpeng 2. At the same time, some Mosquito bombers were converted into fish planes and used to deliver torpedoes.

I heard that there is a subsequent modified version, which will also be converted into a fighter. The Air Force began to equip a large number of such mosquito bombers, which could be used not only as tactical bombers, but also as strategic bombers.

It can be used not only to bomb the homeland, but also to reinforce the navy from a distance. The production rate of 10 aircraft per day can accumulate more than 3,600 aircraft after a year, but whether or not to equip so many aircraft depends on the situation.

However, the Air Force's military spending is relatively sufficient, and there should be no problem in equipping 3,600 aircraft.

Even if it is equipped with more than 3,000 Mosquito bombers, this kind of bomber is extremely fast and has strong survivability, and it can be used for at least 20 years, and this investment is very cost-effective.

In mid-December, the East China Aircraft Factory test-flew a new type of dive fish plane, the Seagull 2, which was larger than the Type 1, with a bomb load increased from 450 kg to 700 kg, a maximum speed of 360 km/h, and a maximum range of 600 km.

With a bomb load of 700kg, you can write about a 400mm caliber torpedo, and the surname Neng is not bad, especially since the warships of this book are as bad as the British in terms of anti-torpedo, and the 400mm caliber is completely sufficient.

Xia Jun personally went to the aircraft factory to watch the test flight of this dive torpedo plane, and the torpedo dropped a torpedo in the experimental sea area of Hangzhou Bay.

Seagull 2 swooped down from the sky and dropped a 400mm torpedo from a distance of 100 meters from the target ship, the torpedo engine spun rapidly in the water, and soon surfaced and quickly jumped towards the target ship.

Soon the torpedo rushed under the target ship, it was a magnetic torpedo, and it immediately stuck to the bottom of the target ship.

"Boom!" After a loud bang, the torpedo exploded on the rear side of the target ship, forming a small mushroom cloud, black smoke rose into the sky, and after the target ship was hit, a large hole was blown out of the waterline behind the side of the ship, and then it quickly tilted backwards, and sank underwater in less than three minutes.

This target ship was salvaged from the waters off Ningde, and after casual repairs, it became a target for the East China Navy.

After the Seagull 2 bomber finished dropping the bomb, it circled and flew back to land.

"This is it." Xia Jun stood up excitedly, turned his head and asked, "Who designed it?" ”

"The report is the chairman, it was designed by Mr. Feng Ru." Anthony, Falk said to Xia Jun in a somewhat jerky Chinese.

Xia Jun was very surprised when he heard that it was a torpedo machine designed by Feng Ru.

Unexpectedly, Feng Ru, who was in charge of the machinery manufacturing factory, still did not give up the aircraft design, he got up and looked around, and soon found Feng Ru's figure.

Xia Jun hurriedly walked over, held Feng Ru's hand and said, "Sir has the talent of the world, and this time he can make a great contribution to the navy. ”

"The chairman of the committee has won the award, and it was only designed in his spare time." Feng Ru said modestly, but his face was full of red light, obviously happy.

"Sir is too modest." Xia Jun said with a smile, and then said to the people: "Since the torpedo plane test flight was successful, let's go and celebrate!" ”

"Okay." The crowd thundered with joy.

(To be continued)