Turning their gaze back to the European theater, the war that engulfed almost all the countries of Europe was still going on. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After the 14,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty occupied the Netherlands, they actually no longer continued any army operations, and the French army also withdrew from the northern front, leaving only a small number of alert troops, most of which were assigned to the Italian and Pyrenesian regiments. The Germans also moved from the Western Front to the Eastern Front and participated in the war of annihilation with Prussia.

In addition to the North Sea Fleet under the Navy, the Datang Army re-established the 309th Independent Regiment of the Army in Europe, which is a serious mechanized force, with three mechanized infantry battalions, one armored battalion and one artillery battalion as the main combat force. The 2nd Marine Regiment was also stationed in the Netherlands, while the 309th Independent Regiment was based in the Netherlands and Belgium. The rest of the troops were left to the ad hoc corps to fill, considering that Datang obtained South Africa and needed the Negro Corps to garrison, so the original Negro Corps was drawn from the mixed brigade, combined with the newly recruited Negro soldiers from Yuzhou, and the South African Brigade was officially established in South Africa, with a strength of more than 5,000 people, belonging to the B brigade.

The mixed brigade was directly expanded in Europe and became the Datang European Division, recruiting Europeans to enter, in fact, it was an outright mercenary. The total size of the Datang European Division is 14,000 people, and now it is actually a fraction of a man, and it needs to be slowly organized. Following the model of the French Foreign Legion, soldiers entering the division need to go through a difficult physical fitness and quality test, pass the Chinese proficiency test, have basic Chinese language skills, and at the same time, after the expiration of their service, they will obtain Datang citizenship.

The Gurkha brigade will also be temporarily stationed in the Netherlands and Belgium, and the Ministry of Defence is advised to change brigades at regular intervals.

In this way, there are more than 20,000 ground troops stationed in the Tang Army in Europe. It was enough for the Tang army to launch a small and medium-sized war and safeguard the interests of the Tang Dynasty in Europe.

As for the North Sea Fleet, it will initially be composed of one battleship, four heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, and six frigates. In the future, we will expand to a certain extent as needed.

After the Battle of England, Datang will hand over six Pinghai-class and eight Liberty-class warships to the German Navy within a few years. The development speed of the Datang Navy is too fast, and there is another situation in which the warships in the early 20th century are backward when they are launched, so it is normal for a warship to serve for more than ten years. The Datang Navy is already preparing to quickly board capital ships such as aircraft carriers and battleships, and these warships can only be operated by one or two thousand officers and soldiers, and in recent years, there have been more and more warships in service, so the Datang Navy is actually in a relatively serious state of shortage, and can only quickly retire the old warships and liberate the sailors to operate the new warships.

A total of ten Pinghai-class ships were decommissioned, so that only 12 Datang heavy cruisers were left at once (8 Dingyuan-class and 4 San Francisco-class), but fortunately, in 1794, it was expected that 4 new-generation heavy cruisers of the Miami-class would be put into service, bringing the number of heavy cruisers to 16, which was not much inferior to the previous 18. What's more, the San Francisco-class with a full load displacement of more than 11,000 tons and the Miami class with a full load displacement of 17,000 tons both have 9 203-mm naval guns, which are powerful in combat and have made a breakthrough at the level of the Dingyuan class. Both the San Francisco class and the Miami class were enough to compete with the British battleships.

Major General Zhang Min was appointed commander of the joint command of the Tang Army in Europe, and the main work of the Tang Army in Europe in the next period was actually to help Belgium and the Netherlands restore order and maintain law and order.

The Don Army no longer continued to participate in the fighting, which was still a little pity for the French and Germans, especially the armored units of the 2nd Marine Regiment, which made the French and Germans covetous. The commander of the French army, Pischglou, once lamented that if the 2nd Marine Regiment was a French army, he was confident that he would lead the French army all the way to Vienna before the flowers bloomed next year.

After the war, the leading officers of France and Germany did not hesitate to write to their own governments in a frenzy, asking them to buy from the Don Army the "king of land warfare", who was almost invincible on the land battlefield. At the same time, aircraft capable of conducting reconnaissance and even small-scale bombing were of great interest to the French and Germans.

Several companies in Datang Military Industry actually have related products ready to sell, and Bai Nan also saw some introductions when he was in Tongguang Pavilion.

As an army arms export giant, NORINCO directly modeled the Renault FT-17 light tank and manufactured the CT-94 tank. The tank had only two crew members and was mainly armed with a 37 mm gun and a 7.62 mm machine gun. Although it is far from the Type 90 tank of the Tang Army, the Type 90 is a work rooted in the T-34 after all, which is not only a heavyweight behind, but also not a product of the times.

There is also a four-wheeled military jeep modeled after the first generation of Datang barrel cars, the export model CL-85. This type of armored jeep has actually been exported to Germany in small quantities.

In fact, Boeing also prepared a type of fighter CJ-3, codenamed Falcon, which is not a product of the same era as the J-1 equipped by the Navy, it is a typical biplane, but it has to be said that its performance is still relatively good. The maximum speed can reach 300 kilometers per hour, and two Tang-made 50-kilogram aerial bombs can also be suspended for dive bombing.

These products have been developed for a long time and even have finished products, just waiting for the military and the president to relent, these things will appear on the European market. It can be said that as long as Bai Nan signed here, the European military will officially be upgraded from the level of the early 20s to the level of World War I. Bai Nan was still a little hesitant about this, although he had always supported the export of weapons of a relatively weak generation to make money. But now his mood is not high, if the Europeans master the technology of early tanks and biplanes, then it will still have a more obvious impact on the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Army was bound to further mechanize and equip itself with more high-tech weapons.

On the other hand, now France and Germany are actually poor ghosts, buying things with Datang's loans, which also makes Datang lack motivation. Bai Nan was even more skeptical of the ability of France and Germany to repay. For the sake of the war, they have borrowed a large amount of money from Datang, and if they borrow any more from their own country's economic aggregate, they may not be enough to repay Datang's loans. This is also the point that makes Bai Nan entangled.

It's just that the Tang army is so windy that these countries are blushing. The British warships captured in the Battle of England became the trophies of the French, but the French also looked down on them. They wanted Datang's Dingyuan-class cruisers, but Datang opened its mouth at a price of 20 million Tang Yuan, which made the French almost fall and had to give up. (To be continued.) )