"Congratulations! Congratulations! ”

"This time I will be transferred back to the capital, in addition to hearing and debating in the Congress, I will also return to the military academy to teach for a period of time, and then you will be promoted!"

In Athens, in the headquarters of the Chinese Imperial Occupation Army, the commander of the Greek Front was holding a commendation meeting for Ye Zhichao, Yuan Shikai and others, praising their brilliant achievements in the Battle of Sparta, and at the same time notifying several people to return to China for a regular hearing in Congress a month later. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Regular congressional hearings are held at regular intervals or on an ad hoc basis during special historical periods.

For example, in this Balkan War, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army participated in the war, and the explanation of the military department and the general staff was to conduct large-scale military training and strengthen the actual combat training of recruits.

As a democratic and civilized country, the citizens of the Chinese Empire have the right to know where the taxes they pay are used and what role they play.

Therefore, Congress will hold temporary hearings, send officers and soldiers from the front line to return home, and present to Congress the situation in the Balkans, focusing on the victory of the battle, so as to tell the people that taxpayers' money has become imperial glory.

Ye Zhichao, Yuan Shikai and others were very happy, they had not moved in the position of regiment commander and battalion commander for many years. Especially Ye Zhichao, who is old, if he is not promoted and cannot enter the ranks of senior generals, he will face retirement and change jobs. And Yuan Shikai and others are the same.

This time, in addition to the congressional hearing, the military department also issued a recall order for the military academy.

The so-called military school recall, in the eyes of foreign officers, they do not know the meaning, often regarded as a punishment for officers, thinking that the officer is unqualified, and is recalled by the military school to restudy.

But in the military system of the Chinese Empire, on the contrary, it is the highest honor to be recalled by the military academy. Because in the promotion system of officers in the Chinese Empire, there are clear regulations that if you want to be promoted, you must evaluate the daily accumulation of meritorious service, and after accumulating meritorious service that meets the promotion standard, you can be promoted, but you must return to the military academy to teach for a period of time, often three or five months or a year, and teach the experience and methods of how to obtain meritorious service to the cadets of the military academy.

This system has a tremendous advantage, that is, the experiences and lessons of front-line combat commanders on the battlefield can be quickly summed up and passed on to the students of military academies, so that the cadets of military academies can obtain battlefield information and battlefield experience in the first place, and this will have a tremendous role in promoting the future study of military cadets.

The graduates of military academies in the Chinese Empire have considerable battlefield experience as soon as they graduate, while the graduates of military academies in other countries are often just talking on paper and need a lot of time to accumulate experience, and those experienced officers in their countries may not tell them the real battlefield combat experience.

In this way, the same graduates of military academies, the Chinese Empire was a big step ahead.

The officer corps has won over other countries from the starting line, and this is the strength of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.

Ye Zhichao, Yuan Shikai and others naturally knew this regulation, and they also understood that being reinstated by the military academy meant that a new round of military rank promotion had finally arrived.

For them, the old generals of the Huai Army, this is really a thank you for waiting for the flowers, it's not easy!

But they didn't know that this time when they returned to China and returned to the military academy, they certainly got the honor and rank promotion, but from now on, it would be difficult for them to return to the front-line troops as officers.

All this was arranged by Wu Yong himself, and Li Weiguo neither agreed nor objected.

However, he felt a little guilty in his heart, after all, history had long since changed, and it was not certain whether Ye Zhichao, Yuan Shikai and others would repeat history.

But based on historical preconceptions, they cut off their military careers, and even wanted to kill Yuan Shikai, for which Li Weiguo still felt very guilty, so he decided to compensate these people in other aspects.

That's for later, but I don't need to go into details.

Not only Ye Zhichao, Yuan Shikai and others were recalled, but also many officers who had made military exploits were recovered, so this incident did not attract anyone's attention and was quickly forgotten.

The Balkan War continued, and the Imperial Chinese military continued to mobilize military academy graduates and newly recruited student recruits from the rear to fight in the Balkan battlefield in turn, so as to gain the opportunity to experience actual combat.

The Chinese Imperial Army fought very low-key, never launched large-scale battles, and was always at the scale of divisions and regiments.

This is because large-scale battles mean large-scale sacrifices, and it is clear that the Imperial Chinese military does not want this, but only to train officer graduates and student recruits, and the casualty ratio must be kept to a minimum.

Even in some cases, in order to protect these "novices", the military would rather march at a snail-like pace every day, steadily and steadily, step by step, rather than go on military adventures and cause a large number of casualties among recruits.

The Chinese Empire was using the Balkan War to conduct a major military training, which made the Entente feel the difficulty of the problem.

It was already an open secret to the whole world that the Entente bloc supported the Balkan Confederates behind the scenes, but the direct military intervention of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire slapped the Entente in the face.

"It is an indisputable fact that the powerful Entente bloc is not ready for an all-out war with the Allies!"

The Times newspaper published a headline article detailing the overall military strength of the Entente bloc and comparing it with that of the Central Powers.

"At present, in terms of naval strength, the total tonnage of naval warships of the Allied bloc has exceeded 2.8 million tons, while the total tonnage of the naval warships of the Entente bloc is only 1.9 million tons, and the gap is very obvious. In particular, a total of four Thunder-class battleships, the first class of super-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, have been built and put into service, which has brought tremendous military pressure on the Allied group at sea, because the super dreadnought battleships of the Allied group are still under construction and are expected to be put into service in two years at the earliest, and the two-year time difference is enough to overwhelm the Allied countries. ”

"In terms of army strength, the total strength of the standing army of the Allied bloc is 6.5 million, and the total strength of the standing army of the Entente bloc is 6.2 million, the gap is not large, but it should be noted that the Chinese Empire is a compulsory military service system, with a population of 400 million and a population of 120 million vassal states, and after the outbreak of war, it can mobilize a maximum of 100 million people to participate in the war. The total population of the Entente bloc is less than 300 million, and it can mobilize up to 60 million people to fight the war. At present, the Entente bloc should increase its population as soon as possible, otherwise it will have to adopt the tactics of a quick victory, and if it drags on, it will inevitably fail to drag the Allied bloc and will lead to a crushing defeat. ”

"In terms of economic power, the Allied bloc accounts for 56 per cent of the world's economy, while the Entente group accounts for only 38 per cent. The Tsarist Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire have been speeding up the transformation of agriculture into industry, but the industrial base is still very weak, so that the total industrial production value of the entire Entente group accounts for only 35% of the world, while the total industrial production value of the Allied Group accounts for 62% of the world, which is 1.5 times that of the Entente Group. ”

"In terms of technology and culture, the Allied bloc still occupies a leading position. Among the 400 million people, the number of people with a college degree or above accounts for 7% of the total population, high Chinese accounts for 35% of the total population, junior Chinese reaches 60%, and primary school education reaches 80%, if you do not count the elderly population over 60 years old, this proportion will be even more terrifying. The strong cultural level base has caused the gap between the Chinese Empire and the rest of the world in scientific and technological research and development to widen and widen, leaving other countries a few streets away. It is said that the Chinese Empire already possessed radio communication equipment, and that it had been heavily equipped in the army, but it had been kept secret from the outside world, and the Entente group should pay sufficient attention. ”

"In terms of the performance of weapons and equipment, the Allied bloc has always pressed the Entente bloc in terms of new weapons and equipment. It is also the cascading effect of the Chinese Empire's strong scientific and technological research and development capabilities, the Entente countries have always walked behind the Chinese Empire in terms of weapons and equipment, eating the leftovers thrown away by the Chinese Empire, and being led by the nose by the Chinese Empire. In this Balkan War, the Chinese Empire's fire reconnaissance assault vehicles, which became the key to victory in the Battle of Sparta, needed to attract the attention of the Entente bloc, which seemed to be a new war concept, and the Chinese Empire seemed to be trying this new tactic. ”

The Thames report has attracted the attention of political leaders and military personnel from all over the world.

Especially within the Entente, there was a strong response.

Regarding the fire to detect the assault vehicle, American President Grant personally called William to inquire.

A British Imperial military that did not attach importance to the army made William very embarrassed, and he couldn't answer for a long time, so he could only give a few perfunctory words first, saying that he would reply as soon as possible.

Grant also rolled his eyes and secretly scolded the British for being stupid, when is this time, the Entente and the Central Powers are sabre-rattling, maybe the next moment will detonate a world war, but the British don't pay attention to the Balkan battlefield at all, to be precise, they don't pay attention to the land battlefield, will the British Empire only fight naval battles in the future? Don't want your colonies anymore?

In desperation, I finally got on the phone once, and I couldn't hang up without discussing anything.

"How's your progress on radio?"

William breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately in terms of radio, the British Imperial military had already begun to study it.

"Although there have been certain results, there are still problems with practicality!"

The radio technology of the Chinese Empire has been successfully developed for many years, not only the radio system has been installed on the naval warships, the army dragoon regiments are equipped with radio combat vehicles, and at the same time, the major military bases of the Chinese Empire, the main departments of the city, have installed radio communication systems.

At the beginning, the number was small and the scale was small, and the Chinese Empire did succeed in keeping secrets, but with the maturity of radio equipment manufacturing technology and the sharp drop in cost, the relevant government departments also began to install and use, not limited to military use, and the full spread of public utilities was inevitably unknown to other countries.

Of course, even if this secret was not known to the Entente countries, as time entered the nineties, scientists from Europe and the United States would begin to study radio.

Marconi and others, for example, have already begun to study radio technology.

Because for more than 20 years, the scientific and technological level of the Chinese Empire has been ahead of European and American countries, and the Chinese Empire has used scientific and technological products to make a lot of money and monopolize trade in the world, which makes European and American countries finally realize the importance of talents, and do not control the flow of talents as before, and many talents are no longer allowed to go abroad, especially not allowed to go to the Chinese Empire.

Among them, Marconi and others are representatives, they were controlled by the Entente group early, which made it impossible for the Chinese Empire to take them away, and it was even more difficult to assassinate them, and finally Britain also had radio research and development capabilities and made progress.

"Our intelligence suggests that the Chinese Empire did possess sophisticated radio technology and began equipping its army a decade ago," Grant said. At that time, the Imperial Chinese Navy once carried out a major refit, that is, to install a radio system, they were at sea, and they could communicate with each other by radio, while we could only rely on the flag language for short-distance communication. ”

At the mention of the navy, William immediately perked up.

He was well aware of the great advantages of naval warships at sea that Grant had to say.

The British Empire was a naval power and has always prided itself on its navy.

Just imagine, in a naval battle, the flagship of the British Empire can only rely on the flag to transmit command orders, the flag can only be commanded at a short distance, in the case of battle, the smoke of gunpowder is filled, and the waves of artillery shells block the line of sight, so that the flag language of short-distance communication will even be interrupted, even if it is not interrupted, from the flagship to the flag order, to the ships receive the order, and begin to execute the order, it often takes a few minutes or even ten minutes, especially when the large-scale main fleet is maneuvering, It is possible for a single command to convey for an hour.

However, the flagship of the Imperial Chinese Navy could contact the ships by radio, and after a single order, the other ships could act as a whole after ten seconds.

What a gap!

You must know that before the outbreak of naval battles, the fleets of both sides will constantly change positions and change battle formations.

If the Imperial Chinese Navy and the British Imperial Navy were at war, constantly changing formations, and the British Imperial flagships had to continuously change their formations, then they only needed to toss back and forth so many times, and a time difference would be enough to exhaust the commanders of the British Empire, so that the British Imperial fleet would be in an unfavorable formation to face the battle, and the results would be self-evident.

Thinking of this, William sighed and said, "We've done our best!" At present, the radio transmission distance is only a dozen kilometers! I heard that the radio technology of the Chinese Empire has reached global communications! ”

Grant also sighed: "We did get this information, last month a large warship of the Imperial Chinese Navy entered the South Pacific Ocean and circled around Antarctica, not knowing what to do. Later, our radio experiment center in New York unexpectedly received the Chinese Empire's long-distance radio transmission test signal, because it was an encrypted signal, we could not crack it, but we collected intelligence through various channels, and finally proved that the Chinese Empire was conducting radio communication experiments in the Arctic and Antarctic, when a communication ship was in the South Pole and the other was in the Arctic Ocean. Although the radio technology of the Chinese Empire has global communication capabilities, we only need to equip the navy with radios at present, and the transmission distance of more than a dozen kilometers is enough. ”

William suddenly smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid it's not like this!" Although it can transmit more than 10 kilometers, the radio equipment is bloated and the cost is high, and it is difficult to install it on a warship, so it is necessary to make a major change to the design of the warship. At the same time, this thing is too power-hungry, and the components are not up to par and cannot be used in harsh situations. ”

"Damn it!" Grant was immediately angry, he knew that the Chinese Empire could produce these radio-mounted components, but unfortunately the Entente group was severely restricted and difficult to obtain.

"Why? Why does our technology always lag behind the Chinese Empire? ”

"That's what I want to know!"

William replied helplessly.

Grant sighed and said, "Look, we still need time!" ”

William nodded and said, "I think so, we can't go to war with the Chinese Empire at the moment, and our preparations are not sufficient!"

Grant sighed again and said: "My body is getting worse day by day, I hope to defeat the Chinese Empire in my lifetime!" ”

William was shocked, and then realized that Grant was indeed old, it seemed that he was already 70 years old, and if it wasn't for Grant's military coup, I am afraid that he would have retired long ago.

Of course, if it was Li Weiguo, he would be angry and say: "Grant, this girl should have died ten years ago!" ”

William was scared that if Grant died suddenly, what would happen to the United States? You must know that Grant relied on his own prestige to suppress all forces in the United States and achieve dictatorship. If he dies, will the American forces still be honest?

At least now the American democrats will not be idle, they have been protected by the Chinese Empire, with the help of the Chinese Empire, set up their own army and government-in-exile, once Grant is dead, the democrats will fight back, and then the United States will break out again Civil War.

If a civil war breaks out in the United States, will the Entente still be able to confront the Allies? I'm afraid that even a Chinese empire can't beat it!

Thinking of this, William shuddered and suddenly realized a very serious problem.

"Mr. President, I think, we seem to have overlooked a very serious problem!"

"We have been planning to rebel in the Allies after the outbreak of war, but the Allies will also use this method against us!" (To be continued.) )