China's homeland, Yang Yuanzhao is not worried at all, many times to expand the army, with the support of strong productive forces, China has a full range of army production capacity, from 330 mm train guns, to 203 mm strategic artillery divisions, and then to ordinary division artillery fire, the improved 155, 120, 108, absolutely first-class quality, plus excellent assault rifles and light and heavy machine guns, in terms of firepower, it is not much worse than the European army in the late World War I.

The most important thing is quality, adhering to the attitude of excellence, the northwest already has 1.3 million infantry, and when the battle comes, it can be more than doubled at any time, more than 2.5 million troops, enough to ensure the security of a huge country.

But what Yang Yuanzhao is worried about is still in the navy, this is an era of the ocean, the strength of the army, can only ensure that it is not bullied, not occupied, but the navy, is the key to breaking the ground, with huge investment and support from Germany in exchange, the construction of a huge Qingdao shipyard, 600,000 tons of shipbuilding plan, once leaked out, will shock the world, even if it was learned later, can not help but admire, China's courage, in the past year, frequent exchanges.

Yang Yuanzhao knows very well what the Germans are for, that is, to pull China into the camp of the Entente, and they have been working hard before, because the battle with Russia proved that the northwest is strong in military strength and is the best ally to drag down the Russian forces, and now they have started a 600,000-ton shipbuilding program, which means that there is also a strong strength at sea. This is much stronger than Austria-Hungary and Turkey. In terms of naval strength, I am afraid that it is second only to Italy.

Yang Yuanzhao did not rashly agree. World War I was the time to make money and reap benefits, and we could not rashly join any camp, although intellectually, it was impossible for the Allies to join, but in fact, after the victory of the Entente, it was not necessarily a good thing for China, and Britain and the United States, which were free, could not let the East. The rise of a large country with such a large land area will still be in constant war when the time comes.

In the past few days, in addition to paying attention to the news with the European side every day, Yang Yuanzhao has sent a telegram to Qingdao Shipyard to inquire about the progress of the Fantasy class. It's just less than half done.

The Northwest has a strong production capacity, Yang Yuanzhao has the strategic vision of the traverser, and the German experts have strong design capabilities, and the three are combined. The Fantasy class, and even the promotion of parallel engineering, made the Fantasy class, a huge warship of more than 45,000 tons. Faster production than other warships, designed from laying the keel to launching sea trials. It's 13 months, but actually. Several adjustments and reductions have narrowed this time to more than 8 months and 255 days.

255 days, this is already a speed that shocked everyone, can definitely crown the production of the entire battleship, in World War I, the most powerful British Queen Elizabeth class as an example, the first ship was started on October 21, 1912, until October 16, 1913 launched, it seems that it was launched in less than a year, but it is almost the same, the most important thing is that after the launch, the sea trials and the installation of weapons and armor, a total of more than 1 year, until January 1915 was completely completed, into the navy.

As for the German Bavaria-class, it was similar, construction began on January 22, 1914, and it was launched on February 19, 1915, and as for the commissioning, it was not until July 15, 1916 that the two Bavarian classes were built and did not catch up with the Battle of Jutland, which is probably the fundamental reason why Schell did not dare to go head-to-head with the British.

8 months, compared to the fastest Britain has to save 4 months, you know, these two are about 32,000 tons of warships, and the Fantasy class is 13,000 tons more than them, which is almost the weight of a dreadnought.

But even so, this ship is far from being completed, from December 24, 1912 to June 14, to now, only 6 months and 10 days, although the earliest two ships, the progress is a little faster, but it also takes about 45 days, plus sea trials and equipment cannons, etc., if you want to have combat effectiveness, at least a few months later, so it is not too late at all.

For the first time, Yang Yuanzhao was a little hesitant, all along, he was worried that China's development was not fast, and tried every possible way to consolidate China's foundation, so that China could get a faster development speed and opportunities than before, and now, the butterfly's wings are a little too big, and it is possible to let the First World War break out in advance, this is not Yang Yuanzhao's cranky thinking, but after the analysis of the staff officers, if the situation in the Balkans, without obvious easing of the premise, a sweeping Europe, or even the entire world war, is almost inevitable to break out.

Time passed little by little, news about Europe, more and more came, Turkey because equipped with Chinese arms, can be said to be overwhelming, in Serbia, 15 days, assault 230 kilometers, occupied Serbia more than 10,000 square kilometers of territory, this is almost a fraction of Serbia's territory, continuous defeats, so that Serbia is eager to find the anti-Bulgarian coalition army, but Turkey seized the opportunity, deliberately let go of a group army, but in the middle of the ambush, after an encounter, Of the 60,000-strong Serbian army, less than 10,000 fled, the rest were either killed or captured, and Serbia had almost lost most of its ability to resist.

The anti-Bulgarian coalition army was left with only Greece and two small countries, an army of less than 70,000 people, surrounded by 300,000 superior forces, although there was still strategic depth, but there was no possibility of escape, and at this time, having been waiting for Austria-Hungary, began to attack, crossed the border between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and attacked the city directly, and within 10 days, seven towns in Lianke.

The Balkans had been opened, and Britain and France put forward a direct threat, but Turkey and Austria-Hungary turned a deaf ear, and the Anglo-French forces drove warships directly into the Dardanelles, and the war seemed to be about to escalate.

The clear attitude of Britain and France made Turkey and Austria-Hungary a little restrained, Turkey stopped the offensive in the actual control line, and Austria-Hungary retreated a little, but in the north, there were still 70,000 people of the anti-Bulgarian alliance besieged and could not leave.

The direct intervention of Britain and France gave Serbia a respite, and Serbia began a general mobilization for the war, all those over 14 years old and less than 65 years old must enter the army, almost all the people are soldiers, and in a short period of time, 4 army groups were formed, more than 500,000 people. However, Serbia's 500,000 troops were extremely weak in combat, and in the first Balkan War and the second Balkan War, they lost a large number of elite soldiers and equipment, so that Serbia could not even make up a gun per person.

The situation in the Balkans eased slightly, but it was still like a powder keg, burning hot, Britain and France asked Turkey and Bulgaria to let the anti-Bulgarian coalition led by Greece return, but neither side answered, Britain and France were in a dilemma, and they had the intention to relieve the siege, but the Dardanelles Strait was completely blocked by mines, and no warship could pass through Guò, and it could not reach unless the army was sent.

The emergence of the army represented the outbreak of all-out war, and Britain and France also knew that although Turkey had not yet joined the Central Powers, with Germany's influence on Turkey, as long as Britain and France declared war on Turkey and fought on land, Germany and Austria-Hungary would definitely declare war, and such consequences could not be afforded. At this time, they were also difficult to ride a tiger, and they inevitably complained in their hearts that Serbia and Greece had obviously taken advantage of the situation, and they were successfully counterattacked by Turkey.

At this time, Serbia, which had been stabilized, began to find London, and kept asking for this, for that, at this time they were already on the verge of collapse, and they didn't care about any face at all, and now they were fighting alone, whether it was Turkey or Austria-Hungary, they all had the possibility of destroying them alone, at this time, if they didn't arm themselves as much as possible, and when they perished, it would be too late.

If Serbia, Montenegro and other countries are divided between Austria-Hungary and Turkey, then the main routes of the Mediterranean Sea may be controlled by the two countries, and the two countries, which are connected and have no worries, will go all out to attack Russia, and when the time comes, the whole war situation will be completely different.

In the end, Britain and France together supported the arms of 3 Serbian divisions, so that these people reluctantly went back, but the Greeks came out again, and they strongly demanded that Britain and France intervene and let several of their divisions return, otherwise, the problem would be big.

The emergence of Britain and France made the situation in the Balkans stalemate, Turkey and Bulgaria did not attack, Turkey was based on the pressure of Britain and France, Bulgaria simply did not have the ability, after they gave back the Turkish territory, they were busy recovering their own territory, barely maintaining, they were not able to attack at all, and the Greeks were even more reluctant to take risks, staying where they were, relying on a less safe road, temporarily replenishing supplies.

Several major powers began to negotiate on the situation in the Balkans, diplomats flew around, arguing with each other, ready to bring peace to Europe, but in fact, Britain, France and Germany all secretly entered the wartime state, all the arsenals, civilian factories that can be converted into military use, all were taken over by the military, military representatives directly entered the factory, supervised the production of the factory, and a new round of secret recruitment, is also underway, everyone knows that the war is almost imminent, who drops the chain at this time, What awaits them is annihilation. (To be continued......)