When they returned, there was no drag from the transport ship, and although they still made a detour, it only took about two and a half hours, and at two o'clock in the morning, the golden dragon landed with the fleet. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After loading the silver into the car, all the speedboats were directly sunk by them, destroying the ship, and Jin Long took Wu Daolong's people to press the silver directly back to Chahar.

Besides, to the south of the Japanese, a freighter full of silver, it was impossible for the Japanese to ignore it after sending a reinforced team to escort it.

The Tianjin Consulate specially equipped a high-power radio station for the Japanese squad, and asked the Japanese squad leader to report the situation to Tianjin and the Japanese base camp every other day.

No telegram was received on the first day. Although it was strange at the consulate, there was not too much suspicion, thinking that the team leader might have misunderstood what Mr. Beginning meant.

I think that the first day is not counted, but it has to be counted from the second day, which is not impossible, after all, the squad leader has not graduated from elementary school, and his limited understanding ability can be forgiven.

However, on the second and third days, neither the Tianjin consulate nor the base camp received any relevant news, and the Japanese consul in Tianjin immediately panicked and hurried to the navy for help.

Soon, Japanese warships went to the sea to search according to the route of the freighter, but several Japanese warships searched the sea for three or four days in a row, but they did not find the line freighter.

Needless to say, at this time, the fool also knew that something must have happened to the freighter, and no one knew what the reason was, because the whole freighter seemed to have evaporated from the world, leaving no trace at all.

Besides, there were many accidents in maritime transportation in the thirties and forties, and even giant cruise ships with a capacity of tens of thousands of tons like the Titanic sank, not to mention their small cargo ship of only 3,000 tons.

The Japanese emperor was furious about this, and the consul of the Tianjin consulate was dismissed on the spot and recalled to China for trial.

During the Republic of China, the Japanese liked to carry out diplomatic blackmail against the government of the Republic of China the most, whether it was during the Beiyang Government or the Nationalist Government, this trick was tried and tested repeatedly.

But this time it didn't work, if they lost the silver in Tianjin, they could still go to Song Zheyuan to ask for compensation or directly trouble the Nationalist Government, but this time they lost the silver at sea, and they could only break their teeth and swallow blood.

No matter how much the Nationalist Government or the local government of North China did not want to go to war with the Japanese, it was impossible to pay for such losses of the Japanese.

Once this opening is opened, next time the Japanese will be able to throw tens of millions of silver wherever they are, and anyway, they will all be at sea, and no one will see them. If this were the case, there would be no need to fight, and the government would have to go bankrupt.

The loss of 30 million silver dollars dealt a serious blow to the Japanese purchase of silver in North China. And there are more Japanese businessmen who committed suicide this time, especially in Japan, which has been jumping up and down in North China in the past few months, and more than half of the businessmen died at once.

A large number of Japanese merchants committed suicide, which not only caused a sharp drop in the amount of silver smuggling, but also brought a lot of benefits to Chinese merchants in North China.

Not to mention that most of the Japanese merchants died, that is, Japan was wiped out, the earth still turned, and people's lives had to go on, so the original orders that were forcibly robbed by the Japanese returned to the hands of Chinese merchants.

Probably because of the great losses, the Japanese have not had the heart to trouble the 29th Army and the Security Army again recently.

The Japanese government also understood that unless they sent troops to occupy the two provinces of Jicha now, even if they squeezed the 29th Army dry, it would not be possible to recover the loss of 30 million silver dollars. But now is not the best time to wage an all-out war.

Although we were not prepared for war, the Japanese were also unprepared for war, and the strength of troops in North China was less than one division, and even the Kwantung Army had only five divisions. It is a problem for these forces to control North China, let alone occupy all of China.

Thanks to the efforts of the Japanese government and the Kwantung Army, they have mobilized tens of millions of yen from the country and Tohoku in preparation for the second round of silver purchases. Japan was bent on smuggling silver, and Li Han and Song Zheyuan's lives were much better.

Without the harassment of the Japanese, the two months passed quickly, and the weapons and arsenal equipment that Li Han ordered from Weimar were also in place.

The artillery of the two divisions and one independent brigade of the Security Army did not stop on paper, but were actually equipped with 150 or 60 mountain artillery, field artillery, and howitzers, and the firepower directly increased several times.

At the same time, the artillery shell production line was also established, and at the urging of Li Han, all divisions and brigades began to conduct live-fire training, training in coordination with infantry artillery, and the production of Mauser rifles also began.

In order to improve the mobility of the cannon, Li Han also wanted American businessmen to buy more than 200 Dodge trucks to use as tractors for the cannons.

Among them, 20 were trucks with a load of more than five tons, which were specially used to tow the 105 howitzers, and of course the price was that the batch of silver that Li Han had snatched in Beiping was basically spent.

At the beginning of September, after two months of running-in, Li Han asked the artillery regiment and the guard regiment directly under the military headquarters to jointly hold an infantry artillery exercise with the special service company.

"Chief of Staff, how are the troops preparing for the exercise, this gun has been bought for a few months, and I haven't seen its power yet!"

A convoy of several hundred meters long drove into the endless steppe, if the convoy of several hundred meters was lost, it was definitely shocking enough, and it began to enter the Mongolian steppe, like a stone thrown into the sea, and there was no sign at all.

Li Han and Gao Jian sat in the same jeep, and unlike the exercise of the 29th Army, Li Han's exercise was not to deter the Japanese, but to test the training of the troops, and by the way, to see the power of howitzers.

Of course, Li Han really hasn't seen the power of howitzers, but it's all devils bombarding his troops with howitzers, being bombarded by others with howitzers and hitting devils with howitzers himself, can this feel the same?

More than half of Chahar Province is covered by Mongolian steppes, so it is not too difficult to choose a secret place for the exercise.

"It is ready, on the side of the defenders is the guard regiment, the cavalry regiment, the baggage regiment, and the attacking side is the special service regiment and the artillery regiment directly under the military headquarters."

"How can this battle be fought, the artillery regiment has more than 40 artillery pieces, and if one shell goes down, the defenders will not be able to finish it directly." Li Han asked.

Such a huge disparity in artillery can only occur in the situation where the Japanese army is facing the national army, but the opponent of the security army is the Japanese, and even if the security army is equipped with all kinds of artillery shells of mountain, field, and howitzer, it will be at most a little more than a division of the Japanese army.

"Don't worry, of course, several regiment commanders know this, so Commander Xu Hu strengthened his two mountain artillery battalions to the defenders, so that the difference in the strength of the artillery units of the two sides is not very big."

Gao Jian chuckled and explained, how could their military staff officers make such a low-level mistake if they didn't eat dry food.

Soon Li Han and a group of military personnel ascended to the observation platform, and through the binoculars, they saw thousands of soldiers wearing brand-new military uniforms in high spirits, and one after another swarthy cannons were pulled by Dodge trucks, and the scene was very spectacular.

Dozens of minutes later, all the troops participating in the exercise entered the preset positions, and with the rumbling sound of artillery, this confrontation drill with a scale of tens of thousands of people began at the same time.

After the two artillery battalions were set out, the artillery regiment also had a howitzer battalion and a mountain artillery battalion, and the special service regiment also had a mountain artillery company with four 75 mountain guns. On the defending side, the guard regiment had eight mountain guns, plus two mountain artillery battalions also had thirty-two mountain guns.

Although there was no such tragic battle as on the real battlefield, sixty cannons were bombarding each other, and the scene was also very intense, and a small hill that was originally small was directly moved to the ground.

Considering that this was only a drill after all, the attacking and defending sides only let each cannon fire five shells, and then the artillery fire began to extend, and then thousands of soldiers stepped on the shell explosion point and began to attack.

Although the attacker's artillery does not penetrate the opponent, the howitzer is not only powerful, but also has a longer range than the mountain artillery, so they can easily suppress the fire of the mountain artillery.

It is impossible to end the confrontation drill of tens of thousands of people in a few days, so Li Han only went to the scene to observe it at the beginning, and then most of the time he stayed at the command headquarters, anyway, the staff officers of the military department would want him to report the losses of both sides every period of time.

Just as Li Han was enthusiastically awaiting the results of the exercise, an incident in Yanqing District disrupted his plans.

"Director, our group recently tracked down a group of merchants who smuggled silver, but they have now arrived in Nankou Town, Director, should we arrest or not."

Li Wang, a young police officer, reported to Wu Anguo, the police chief of Yanqing, that Nankou Town belonged to the condominium of Yanqing and Changping, and Li Wang was just a small police officer, so of course he did not dare to do it without permission.

"Arrest, why don't you arrest, don't you know that the above is now very strict in the case of smuggling, Chairman Wang has issued strict orders to the police stations in various places, as long as the smuggler is found, no matter who it is, he will be arrested immediately.

Strictly speaking, Nankou is also our jurisdiction in Yanqing, and if we are indifferent this time, the upper part will not be able to bypass me. ”

Although he said that, Wu Anguo was also a little worried in his heart, but when he thought of the new chairman of Chahar, Wu Anguo quickly became firm: "Catch!" ”

If this incident will cause dissatisfaction with the Changping Police Department, and then he will spend money to invite several of their leaders to a meal, this matter will be over, but if it causes the dissatisfaction of Chairman Wang Wei, he, the director, will be the end.

If this matter had been put in the past, the director of Yanqing, a poor place, would not have been appropriate, but now it is different, after the development of Chahar, Yanqing has been rapidly developed as a county along with Beiping and Chahar Province.

The director here is an out-and-out fat shortage, plus the security army is different from other local armies, never meddles in local affairs, and their police station, as the only official violent agency in Yanqing, has unprecedented power, which makes Wu Anguo even more reluctant to let go.