After two major wars, 70,000 people of the 16th Division of the Yue Army were completely wiped out and completely removed!

Such a great victory was a great encouragement to the East China Army, and at the same time, the artillery of the East China Army on the battlefield showed extremely strong firepower, which also made the morale of the East China Army high.

This was a situation that no one expected, and Yuan Shikai felt deeply incredible when he received the victory of the East China Army in Yanjing again.

After that, the army retreated to the Longkou line, basically to the point where it was about to be driven out of the sea, if the defense line of the army on the Longkou line was torn apart again, in addition to jumping into the sea, it was to run to Yantai.

The army found that they had no air superiority, let alone artillery superiority, and believed that the strength of the two divisions was still not enough to be safe, so the political axe of the other party once again reinforced the three divisions and regiments in the Shandong battlefield.

As a result, the situation on the Shandong battlefield escalated further, and the army dispatched six divisions, but the 16th division had already been annihilated.

The total number of combatants of the five divisions and regiments is 180,000, and the number of logistic, engineer, and other auxiliary personnel has reached 80,000, or 260,000.

At the same time, the army once again mobilized more than 800 artillery pieces of various types, which is almost all the artillery of the army, and the political axe of the army wanted to take advantage of this to regain the disadvantage in firepower in one fell swoop.

The East China Army, which also has 180,000 troops, has already arrived on the battlefield with the Third Army.

At the same time, the East China Army still has 100,000 militiamen patrolling the rear of the Shandong battlefield, and the number of logistics personnel in the front and rear has increased to 150,000, basically showing a 1:1 ratio with the combat troops.

The reconnaissance planes and scouts of the East China Army all discovered that the strength of the Yue Army was increasing sharply, and Chen Xuanyu suggested when reporting to Xia Jun: "Chairman of the Committee, it is better to postpone the attack and see how many troops the Yue Army can gather and clean them up in one fell swoop." ”

"Do you have that confidence?" Xia Jun asked.

"The subordinates have confidence in the chairman." Chen Xuanyu replied solemnly, which means that as long as the logistics can be guaranteed, there will be no problems on the front line.

"Huh! Okay, then drain Xiao Yueben's blood. ”

With Xia Jun's approval, Chen Xuanyu continued to maintain the current state of confrontation, but the bombers were still carrying out bombing missions at sea.

In the confrontation in the Longkou area, it is first necessary to ensure sea supremacy, so the bombers need to bomb the warships at sea. When the army was reinforcing the Shandong battlefield, it had to transport supplies at night.

However, even at night, the army always has to light the lights, and the black lights are definitely not allowed to be blinded, and these lights guide the East China Air Force to the target, and every night, many bombs will be dropped on suspicious places.

Under the bombardment of the East China Air Force, one troop carrier was sunk at sea, along with six cargo ships. Under such bombardment, the Yue Army was completely unaware that the East China Army was releasing water.

For the Yue army, this is a war that must not be lost.

The bombing of the East China Air Force can't scare them!

The army still went to the Shandong battlefield night after night to support, and the submarines of the East China Navy often ran out to harass them, but there was no success.

The East China Navy is still releasing water to the Yue Army, and the navy is already ready to cut off the sea lines of communication of the Yue Army as long as the above gives an order, and if it cooperates with the Air Force, it will be useless for the Yue Army to send the entire combined fleet, and then the Shandong Army will lose any supplies, while the East China Army will have a steady stream of supplies.

…… Xia Jun's reception at the East China Hotel was relatively successful, and the diplomatic ambassadors of the Entente and Allied powers respectively conveyed their intentions to the political axes of East China's autonomy.

At this time, the German army and the British and French forces were already in a state of confrontation on the Western Front, and the closest distance between the two sides was only 300 meters.

The two sides are in the midst of a terrifying war of attrition, surrounded by each other, each trying to bring the other to its knees with artillery.

The French general Chauffeur shouted: "If 200,000 shells cannot be made in a day, the war will not be sustainable." ”

The East China Autonomous Political Axe has a strong military industrial capacity, which Xia Jun has developed in the past two years, and belongs to the field of policy inclination.

Even the military industry of the United States is not as large as the military industry of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, but if we simply compare the speed of expansion, the military industry of the East China Autonomous Political Axe is obviously not comparable to the military industry of the United States, after all, the industrial base of the United States is there.

However, Xia Jun's methods have gone beyond the conventional range.

As long as there is a market, Xia Jun can continue to expand the scale of the military industry.

Orders from France and Great Britain followed, and in addition to a large number of aircraft, they needed a large number of shells, bullets, as well as artillery and even firearms.

On the Russian side, Xia Jun also communicated with them.

However, Russia does not seem to be optimistic about the weapons of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and after Xia Jun bribed the Russian ambassador, the Russian ambassador revealed to him that Russia might be interested in ordering arms from the Russian ambassador.

The Russians were most lacking in arms among the Entente, and a third of their infantry did not have rifles. And Russia mobilized almost six million people in the First World War.

Xia Jun naturally knew what kind of state Russia was, so he paid great attention to Russia's arms market, after all, Russia had 3,500 tons of gold reserves.

Gold is very important, and in this world war, Xia Jun's goal is to get rid of debt, become a creditor country, and reserve enough gold to give China a certain position in the international financial market.

Gold reserves do not represent all gold, for example, the United States has 8,000 tons of gold reserves, but the rural areas of India have more gold than that.

Even if Xia Jun doesn't earn the gold reserves of these countries, he can earn the gold they don't use to reserve.

At present, all the war materials sold by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, such as pounds, francs, and marks, are not collected, but Fuxing coins, US dollars, and gold are collected.

At present, the East China Autonomous Political Axe only recognizes these three things.

As for exports, it is generally accepted by all currencies, but as long as it is about the currency of the belligerents, it must be spent as soon as it is received.

Even the U.S. dollar is also exchanged for gold when it is received.

The Russian market is still very large, and Russia wants to buy arms from Yueben, which makes Xia Jun feel very unhappy, but there is still a way to change this state.

The first is bribery, the Russian ministers are far from being honest, and Nicholas II is even more confused. The second is to defeat Yuben on the battlefield in Shandong, as long as Yuben is defeated, Russia will also face up to the weapons of the East China Army.

In fact, the weapons of the book are very backward, but because of this, they are relatively cheap, and this is also a major advantage of the arms in the competition.

However, Xia Jun had cheaper stamping weapons in his hands, but he lacked a sales pitch to the Russians.

At this time, it should be sooner rather than later, Xia Jun immediately sent a delegation to Russia to carry out activities, asking them to bribe and bribe those Russian ministers, but they must be able to speak, and the scope of bribery should not be too wide.

At the same time, it is also for them to sell arms to the Russians, the arms of the East China Army, there are expensive ones, there are cheap ones, and there is nothing wrong with them.

The biggest rival of East China's autonomous political axe is not the United States.

In contrast, the Allies were very happy with the issue of arms purchases, and Germany purchased 3,000 60mm mortars from the East China Autonomous Government in one go, and also ordered 1 million rounds of artillery shells and 100 million rounds of ammunition, with a quota of 200 million yuan.

The reason why Germany placed such a huge order was because Britain had blocked the high seas, and the supplies from the outside world could not be shipped to Germany, but Germany could buy them from Italy, and Italy could import these materials from other countries, but in the middle, they had to be exploited by the Italian political axe.

It is naturally not cost-effective to go to Italy, Xia Jun plans to hire transport submarines to transport these materials to German ports, so that direct transactions do not need to be exploited by Italy, and the profits are much higher.

The hiring price of a transport submarine is also not high, and a submarine with a displacement of 20,000 tons only needs 100,000 points to hire a round trip.

These 100,000 points are worth a lot, a 20,000-ton submarine can carry 15,000 tons of cargo at a time.

These submarines are equipped with sonar, and the current Allied countries still lack aerial reconnaissance means, which means that these submarines can first travel on the surface of the sea, and once they encounter the Allied warships, they can dive underwater to break through the British blockade.

Austria-Hungary also ordered 100 million yuan worth of arms from the East China Autonomous Axe, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire also ordered 80 million yuan worth of arms from the East China Autonomous Axe.

The military factory of the East China Autonomous Political Axe had already been operating at full capacity for production, and at this time, as soon as the order was placed, the munitions immediately began to be loaded into the submarines.

Xia Jun hired the first batch of 20,000-ton transport submarines, which were loaded with steel, aluminum and other raw materials in addition to munitions.

Although raw materials are not as profitable as munitions, and submarines also need points to be hired, this is not a loss, Germany is a country lacking in raw materials, and sending them more raw materials can also make Germany last longer and fight harder!

These 20 transport submarines appeared very covertly, and the loading was also very hidden, and in the night, these submarines sailed out of Ningde Port one by one.

The port of Ningde is the most heavily guarded port, and there is basically no way for other countries to conduct reconnaissance in this port.

These submarines are basically safe underwater, even if they are discovered by submarines of other countries, after all, submarines in this era are unable to attack underwater targets, and these transport submarines have a speed of more than 17 knots, and those submarines cannot catch up at all.

The arms orders of the Entente countries were not too large, first of all, the Entente countries put the orders in the United States and the United States, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe was obviously behind.

However, the Entente still ordered some shells and bullets, and in terms of firearms, the Entente was more interested in the kind of cheap stamping rifles produced by the East China Autonomous Axe, and also bought some.

Although the British bought some guns, they were very repulsive to submachine guns, and even the American submachine guns were the same, and they refused to use submachine guns.

The Pride of the British Empire was the Lienfeld rifle, which had a very high rate of fire, and the British army had a firing tactic called the Crazy One, which fired fifteen rounds in one minute, and the rate of fire could be even higher for a well-trained soldier.

This rifle was not inferior to the German Mauser rifle, but both had their advantages and disadvantages.

Many British soldiers considered it to be the best firearm in the world, because they had never touched any other firearm.

However, the German submarine war was about to begin, and the Entente would not be so happy.

(To be continued)