Originally, the German Empire was scolded for being stupid and having a lot of money, but after the performance of the Chinese Empire's dreadnought-class battleships was exposed, the whole world was suddenly silenced, and no one said that the Germans were stupid and had a lot of money, but they were envious, jealous and hateful.

In other words, any country that wants to develop a strong navy will be willing to spend as much money as the German Empire did in order to gain strength.

"Wow Ka Ka, I smell the sour smell of England, France and the United States!"

At the Berlin Imperial Palace, Wilhelm I burst out laughing, finally venting his bad anger.

Bismarck smiled wryly, how old was this Wilhelm I, and he was still angry like a child.

"Your Majesty, you are happy, but the Chinese Empire has issued a stern warning to us!"

William I pouted and said: "The Chinese Empire is not only a **** but also a memorial arch!" They were clearly very happy in their hearts, and with the help of our mouths, they showed off the great strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy to the whole world! ”

Bismarck agreed: "Actually, it is! But we have to apologize to the Chinese Empire! ”

"Damn politics!" William I cursed, and then said: "Just look at it!" I heard that the Chinese Imperial Shence Army has a new move? ”

Bismarck nodded, "Yes, Your Majesty!" Count Tal called back and said that the Chinese Imperial Shence Army was implementing the semi-mechanized reform of the army! ”

William I frowned and said, "Semi-mechanized reform? Didn't the Chinese Empire begin mechanization reform ten years ago? What the hell is this semi-mechanization? ”

Bismarck then explained: "Ten years ago, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army did carry out mechanization reforms, but it was different from now. Ten years ago, the Chinese Empire only replaced the traditional mule, horse, and ox carts with military trucks, which was actually just a logistical system reform. But this time it was different, the front-line troops of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire were equipped with assault vehicles and motorcycles, which belonged to the reform of combat units. As for why it is called semi-mechanized reform, the minister does not understand. Maybe it's because the reform is not perfect! ”

William I was suddenly interested and asked, "What is the specific?" ”

Bismarck replied: "We don't know the exact details, but Tal visited the Imperial Imperial Forest Army of the Chinese Empire and saw some new equipment!" ”

"New gear?" William I suddenly perked up and asked, "Is it the new equipment like the Blizzard heavy machine gun again?" ”

Bismarck shook his head and said, "I'm afraid not!" Tal and his party are just a glimpse of the surprise of an unexpected discovery! According to Tarr's report, it appears that the Imperial Chinese Divine Force had installed Blizzard heavy machine guns on trucks and motorcycles, turning them into a new piece of equipment called the Assault Chariot. At present, it seems that the Chinese Imperial Shence Army is being equipped with such new equipment on a large scale. ”

William I fell into deep thought, and after a while said: "Attach the Blizzard heavy machine gun to trucks and motorcycles, so that firepower and mobility will be combined to form a rapid penetration capability!" The Chinese Empire really produced a large number of talents, and it came up with such clever tactical equipment! ”

Wilhelm I, the German emperor who had grown up in the flames of war, unified Germany, and had great military ability and judgment, immediately discovered the mystery of the so-called semi-mechanized reform of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.

Soon, the German War Chancellor Stephen was called.

When Stephen learned about this, he immediately jumped up with excitement.

"Your Majesty, in addition to penetrating and assaulting the enemy's infantry positions and infantry clusters on the battlefield, this assault combat vehicle can also achieve rapid maneuver in troop projection. The latter, in particular, was of great strategic importance and, for the German Empire, was the key to solving the problem of insufficient combat forces on two fronts. ”

Wilhelm I and Bismarck were overjoyed when they heard this.

It is important to know that the key factor restricting the military expansion of the German Empire at present is the population problem, and the total population of the German Empire is insufficient, resulting in a shortage of soldiers. It was also the first country in the German Empire to be forced to implement universal compulsory military service, and now the surrounding countries have adopted universal compulsory military service, and the French Empire has a large population, and by 1885, five million people could be mobilized to fight in wartime, while the German Empire could only mobilize three million people to fight.

Moreover, the German Empire was surrounded by powerful powers. In particular, the Tsarist Russian Empire, with a population of more than 100 million, could mobilize 20 million people to participate in wartime wars. If it weren't for the fact that the Tsarist Russian Empire was too poor and too backward in industry, if the industrial strength of the Tsarist Russian Empire was mentioned to one-tenth of the industrial strength of the Chinese Empire, it would have scared the German Empire.

Because of the Austro-Hungarian and Chinese Empires, the attitude of the Tsarist Empire towards the German Empire became more and more hostile. After all, the Tsarist Empire had serious territorial disputes with both Austria-Hungary and the Chinese Empire, while Germany was allied with the Chinese Empire and with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

During the Ninth Russo-Turkish War, France made overtures to the Tsarist Empire, and the original technological blockade of Tsarist Russia, but also because of the rise of the German Empire, France felt an imminent threat, so it opened the door to the Tsarist Empire, so that the Tsarist Empire was throwing itself into the arms of France.

At the same time, the British Empire also compromised with the Tsarist Empire on the issue of the conflict of spheres of influence in the Middle East and West Asia, in exchange for the Tsarist Empire moving closer to Britain and France.

Under the mediation of the United States, the Tsarist Empire began to order warships in the United States for the first time last year, which was actually the acquiescence of the British Empire, which transferred British technology to the Tsarist Empire through the hands of the United States.

In this way, the contradictions between Britain and France and Tsarist Russia became smaller and smaller, and through the economic and technological ties of the United States, the four countries gradually formed a common interest, and sooner or later they would form an alliance against the German Empire.

From the map, Germany is sandwiched between France and the Tsarist Russian Empire, and the Baltic Sea is also under the deterrence of the British Empire's navy, so to speak, it is embattled.

For the German army, which had few troops, it would have faced much less military pressure if it had extremely mobile equipment.

From this point of view, Stephen suggested that the German Army should also carry out "semi-mechanized" reforms that were modeled on the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.

"Don't you know how pitted the Chinese Empire is? And let me beg them? ”

Wilhelm I and Bismarck suddenly had pained expressions on their faces.

This time, in order to be able to obtain the core technology of the Chinese Empire's Dreadnought-class battleships, the German Empire can be said to have made a bloody investment, and was slaughtered and bloodied by the Chinese Empire.

If you go to ask the Imperial Chinese Army again, I don't know what it will be slaughtered again.

Stephen said helplessly: "Then let's do our own research!" We develop and produce our own vehicles, and the weapon system can imitate the Bloody Heavy Machine Gun, which is estimated to not be too difficult! ”

So the German military immediately recruited relevant experts and began to develop assault combat vehicles, although the overall technology is not difficult, but it is not easy to do a good job.

At the same time, the Army Council of the Chinese Empire officially adopted a resolution on the formation of a dragoon regiment.

To this end, the National Assembly of the Chinese Empire held a special hearing, discussed and approved the land defense budget of the Shence Army in 3986, which was specially allocated for the construction of dragoon regiments.

Dragoon regiment, as the name suggests. The dragon represents the Chinese Empire, the cavalry represents the cavalry, and the corps can be called a corps with a size of at least ten towns or more.

Although the arms are classified as cavalry, they are not all armies riding war horses, but mixed cavalry composed of war horses, chariots, motorcycles, bicycles and transport vehicles, and it is also the first transformation of cavalry to semi-mechanized cavalry in modern military history.

Mechanization reform, first proposed by Li Weiguo, has passed more than ten years.

When the European and American armies were still using mules and horses to transport artillery, food and ammunition supplies, the Chinese Empire began to use trucks instead of mules and horses to speed up the highway.

During the last Sino-British War, the logistics department of the Chinese Empire used thousands of trucks to continuously transport all kinds of materials and resources to the battlefield, and the efficiency was so high that the whole world was shocked and the British army suffered.

However, during the last war, some problems were also exposed. For example, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, which fought in Bangladesh, had difficulty transporting trucks through the rugged rainforest, which was directly related to the underdevelopment of local transportation. There are also problems such as truck parts that are susceptible to moisture and corrosion damage in the tropical rainforest, which were highlighted at the summary meeting held by the Chinese Imperial Military after the war.

In the past ten years, the military of the Chinese Empire has successively developed more than 10 new models of military vehicles, from the initial military off-road vehicle to the current development of off-road tractor trucks, off-road reconnaissance vehicles, off-road assault vehicles, off-road command vehicles, off-road dining vehicles, field medical vehicles, off-road communication vehicles, and so on.

The assault vehicle is to reinforce the military vehicle and install a bracket-type bloody heavy machine gun on it. The command vehicle is for the commander to use an off-road vehicle, the dining car is for cooking, the medical vehicle is a field hospital, and the communication vehicle is a new branch of the army, equipped with simple radio communication equipment, and the telephone soldier is also on it. Due to the immaturity of the radio manufacturing process and the bloated equipment, the communication vehicle looked similar to the double-decker long-distance passenger in later generations, and the size was very large.

The fact that these military off-road vehicles were able to be developed so quickly was due to the great progress of the automobile industry in the Chinese Empire.

Because the Chinese empire monopolizes the core key technologies of the automotive industry, such as engines, chassis, batteries, gearboxes, bearings, and tires. The cars produced by other countries are not as good as the Chinese Empire at the same price, and if they have the same performance, the price is too expensive, and they cannot compete with the car dealers of the Chinese Empire.

In terms of practicality, there are hundreds of various automobile production companies in the Chinese Empire, with a complete range of products, to meet the consumption of all kinds of people around the world.

With the release of the military off-road vehicle bidding contract by the Chinese Imperial military, hundreds of automobile companies in the Chinese Empire have come up with their best designs and lowest offers, and in less than a year, all the military's requirements have exceeded the standard.

Large automobile companies such as China Automobile and Beiyang Automobile have won 12 types of military automobile orders from the Chinese Imperial Military, and the other five types of military vehicle orders have been taken away by the Chinese Imperial Private Automobile Company, which fully proves that the technical level of the Chinese Imperial Private Enterprises is catching up with the state-owned companies, which is an important embodiment of the transformation of the Chinese Imperial Military Science and Technology into civilian use and the benefit of the people.

Among them, the most satisfying thing for the Chinese Imperial Military was the dining car and medical cart designed by a private company, which not only met the strict requirements of the military, but also was very humane, so that soldiers could eat hot meals in the field and receive better medical treatment in the field in a timely manner.

However, the state-owned automobile company has higher technology, which is reflected in the design and manufacture of communication off-road vehicles. Installing a radio system in an off-road vehicle to ensure smooth communication, while also meeting demanding requirements such as safety, bulletproof, and off-roading, is impossible to achieve in other countries around the world.

After years of preparation, the equipment required by the Dragoon Regiment was basically technically no longer in question by the year 3985 (1885), and the defense budget was approved by the Parliament, and the first funds were in place, and the construction of the entire Dragoon Regiment was in full swing and rapidly.

The Dragoon Regiment is a unit that Li Weiguo personally proposed, personally guided, and finally personally nominated, and its core combat mission is the vanguard role, which is the trump card and spearhead of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, requiring victory in the first battle and boosting the morale of the whole army.

The dragoon regiment consisted of 12 divisions, numbered from 1st to 12th. Among them, the cavalry divisions of the first two towns were assigned to the command of the Royal Forest Army and stationed in Gyeonggi. The other ten town cavalry divisions were assigned to the ten major theaters of the Chinese Empire, and each theater was equipped with a town cavalry division.

Take, for example, the establishment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Imperial Forest Army.

The 1st Cavalry Division is equipped with 632 CT1 off-road assault vehicles, 94 reconnaissance vehicles, 308 infantry transport vehicles, 160 command vehicles, 108 ammunition transport vehicles, 72 artillery trailers, 10 communication vehicles, 10 field propaganda vehicles, 200 engineering vehicles, 40 medical vehicles, 40 dining vehicles, and 300 logistics supply vehicles.

In addition, the traditional cavalry has not been abolished, because some places with underdeveloped transportation are not suitable for high-mobility vehicles, so the war horse still has the value of exerting residual heat. It has a cavalry wing, 3,900 war horses (one person and three horses), and is equipped with Guanghua 16-year-style cavalry guns

The total strength of the entire First Cavalry Division is about 15,000, which is larger than that of ordinary infantry divisions, mainly because there are some more communication units and combat units. For example, divisional headquarters, brigade headquarters, and regimental headquarters all have one more communications unit, and all combat units at the grassroots level have one more telephone platoon.

The most striking thing is that for the first time, the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire had a troupe of art and art, and the specially equipped vehicles were equipped with loudspeakers, which encouraged their officers and soldiers to fight bravely and without fear of sacrifice during wartime, shouting at the enemy, persuading them to surrender, and disturbing the enemy's will to resist.

Of course, this is also a new tactic that Li Weiguo suddenly remembered, and it was also arranged for the dragoon regiment.

In fact, the Dragoon Regiment of the Chinese Empire was still in the stage of experimentation and exploration, and the specific equipment and establishment were constantly changing.

At the same time, Li Weiguo was also secretly developing tanks and other land hegemonic weapons and equipment, but he never had the intention of equipping the troops.

This is also the fear that once the tank appears in advance, the military pattern of the whole world will be even more confusing. Li Weiguo's greatest reliance is on these future weapons and equipment, which are also the last killer weapon to ensure the undefeated status of the Chinese Empire, and must not be easily exposed.

Now that Li Weiguo has come up with a dragoon regiment, it is actually to vaccinate the Chinese Imperial Shence Army in advance, so that they can first understand the new equipment combined with the vehicles and weapons under their subordinates, and when tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery, etc. appear in the future, the Chinese Imperial Army can quickly adapt. (To be continued.) )