670: Reconquest of Hong Kong
Although the China Concord and the China Treaty were regarded by later generations as the biggest hoax in human history, it is undeniable that in this era, at this point in time, no matter which side is extremely convinced of the content of this agreement. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The main reason is that the Chinese have drawn a big pie for the world, given the Entente hope of victory over the Allies, and given the Allies the hope of controlling the whole of Europe, while the United States is independent.
And no one knows what the real purpose of the Chinese Empire is, even within the Chinese Empire, only a few people know their true intentions, and those who know do not dare to reveal even the slightest rumor to the outside world, the stakes are very high, this is not a simple matter of discussing the gossip of who and who, but it is related to the safety of the whole country.
If they don't control this news, then the final consequences will definitely be beyond the Chinese Empire's ability to bear. That would calm down the war situation in the whole world in an instant, and then it would most likely force the whole world to unite against the Chinese Empire.
Wang Sirui is still very confident in his empire, but if he is an enemy of the whole world, even Wang Sirui has to weigh it carefully. At least not yet.
On August 14, in Shanghai, the Chinese Empire delivered to the British the equipment of an armored division, all of which had been retired from active service.
Of course, this active duty unit is discounted, for example, active duty does not represent the front line, and the recruits in the armored training base in Luoyang who have not yet completed the whole training also belong to the active duty troops.
The Luoyang armored training base is divided into three parts, the first part is the pure recruit area, all the recruits who enter here, will carry out a two-month theoretical study, covering tank warfare, equipment learning, tactical learning, basic combat coordination and other theoretical knowledge must be experienced here.
From the third month, the second part will be moved on, actual combat training.
This actual combat training is not to drive tanks to the front line to train, but within this period, the recruits are already qualified to be equipped with various equipment, but these equipment are all eliminated and retired from the army before, there are the earliest boar tanks, and there are also wild boar tanks that have just been reequipped from the front line.
The first batch of equipment delivered to the British for an armored division was delivered from here, and all the equipment was the longest-serving and slightly worse of these equipment, and the slightly better ones were left for the training of recruits.
Four months later, the armored forces were basically formed, and although they did not yet have full combat capability, they were basically barely enough in case of emergency.
And that, seven months have passed, and from the eighth month onwards, they will be reequipped, and the training tanks will be transferred to the next group, and they themselves will receive their real equipment, which will be with them for a long time to come.
And at this time, the tank generally becomes a butcher tank, replaced with new equipment, the troops begin to familiarize themselves with the performance of the new equipment, and then continue to conduct tactical running-in, and after five months, they will complete the entire stage of training.
That is to say, from the moment the recruits enter here, they will have to undergo a one-year intensive training here, and only after completing the one-year intensive training can they be qualified to go to the battlefield, but this is only a preliminary qualification, unless they are really needed in the front, they will be sent to the battlefield in a hurry.
But according to the current situation of the Chinese Empire, it seems that there is no battlefield that needs them urgently, so this also gives these new troops more time to prepare. And in this kind of non-tense time, the military top brass has gradually formed an unspoken rule, after the armored division leaves the new barracks, it will not be sent to the battlefield until at least six months later, usually a year.
And after a year, whether there is war or not, they will be transferred from the interior, either to the Western Front, or to the South, or to the Northeast, anyway, a year after leaving the boot camp, they will be stationed on the frontier.
Although the tanks handed over to the British were old, they did not seem to have any problems on the surface, and although these tanks had been constantly rubbed by countless recruits, there was no sloppiness in terms of maintenance.
When more than 360 wild boar tanks were connected to the historical cargo ships, Sadaoyi's face was even more excited, that is more than 360 tanks, if these tanks are used together, I am afraid that no German army can resist them, right?
And half a month later, they will receive the second batch, that is, the equipment of another armored division, which is also withdrawn, because the British are in urgent need, so they have no time to wait, they can only go to ask for second-hand goods from the Chinese.
The British cargo ships were all urgently reinforced, which made the Shanghai shipyard make a small profit, although not much, but it is better than nothing.
After being reinforced, the cargo ships were basically barely able to transport the equipment of an armored division at one time. If the country receiving the equipment is not the United Kingdom, if it is another country, then how to transport the equipment away is a big problem.
Don't look at the British have more ships, but their ships are actually not very strong, of course, this is for armored divisions.
An armored division has more than 360 tanks, 88 armored reconnaissance vehicles, and more than 1,200 delivery trucks, and the British want a complete set of equipment, which includes a large number of machine guns, and the Type 03 automatic rifle will definitely not be given to them, so this article was directly canceled, and the Mauser 1898A They can't look down on it, so the rifle is also saved, and the Type 08 machine gun is the killer weapon of the Chinese Empire, so it is given the retired Makqin heavy machine gun.
But in terms of heavy machine guns, the Chinese are not stingy, originally because the Chinese refused to give the Type 08 general-purpose machine gun, Sa Daoyi was still a little angry, but when he saw the Makqin heavy machine guns that were piled up, where was Sa Daoyi still a little dissatisfied in his heart?
So how many Maxim heavy machine guns did Sa Daoyi see? The answer is nearly seven hundred, the Chinese are currently working hard to equip the machine gun to the squad, the troops on the front line have basically done this, the troops located in the homeland are also stepping up their redress, the arsenal is accelerating production day and night, and the Makqin heavy machine gun is heavy and clumsy, the rate of fire is still slow, after experiencing the Type 08 general-purpose machine gun, the soldiers naturally no longer like the Maxim heavy machine gun.
Now there are more than 100,000 Makqin heavy machine guns piled up in the warehouse alone, and it was originally proposed that these heavy machine guns be returned to the furnace to make steel, but if you think about it carefully, is China still short of iron? To put it mildly, there is the effort to put them back into the furnace to make steel, and the steel produced by the steel mill in the same time is far more than several times, and it is also troublesome.
So, the equipment was just left there.
This time the Chinese were not stingy, but according to the establishment of one heavy machine gun per two squads, to the British, and at the same time to the British equipment, the Chinese also handed over to the British a complete formation unit.
These are helpful for the British to form armored forces immediately after they go back, as for whether the British will find the loopholes in the Chinese armored division, this can only be hehe, the establishment is there, as long as you have the heart to inquire, anyone can understand that this is completely meaningless.
And China took the initiative to tell the British, and the British may not fully believe it, they will definitely think that the Chinese must be hiding something, in fact, they have known this for a long time. For example, each squad is equipped with a Type 03 automatic rifle and a sniper rifle, which are not equipped for the UK, and the Type 08 general-purpose machine gun.
On the surface, the British knew that these three pieces of equipment were hidden by the Chinese, but after seeing these equipment, the British instantly felt that there was nothing.
The firepower of the Germans is very strong, but they cannot do it to the point where they are equipped with a machine gun every two squads, although the Maxim heavy machine gun is backward for the Chinese, but in the European theater, the Maxim heavy machine gun is quite advanced equipment, and the lack of machine guns is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, can you imagine that even the weapon of the Air Force is a Maxim heavy machine gun welded to the aircraft?
And when used in that environment, there will often be problems such as jamming, and the pilot will be equipped with a small hammer to solve these problems, once the machine gun does not go off, just hold the hammer a few times, the picture is very happy.
It is even conceivable that once this armored division is put into the battlefield, it will bring much shock to the German army, if only tanks and machine guns are not enough, then more than 1,200 carrier trucks are what they want to be tough, which is equivalent to making the British army from the level of not even knowing what motorization is, directly jumped to a motorized unit, and now even the German army can only be barely called semi-motorized.
The British received the equipment of an armored division in Shanghai, and in accordance with the provisions of the Entente, Saudie sent a telegram directly to Hong Kong via international radio in Shanghai.
At seven o'clock in the morning of 15 August, the Chinese troops of one corps and one armored division entered Hong Kong under the formation of British troops.
Because the motorized reconstruction has been completed, the Chinese army has also shown itself fiercely in front of the British, crossing the border at 7 o'clock in the morning, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, an armored division and five infantry divisions have all taken control of Hong Kong, taking over one camp after another from the British army.
At 0:00 a.m. on August 16, the British Governor of Hong Kong, Lu Ji, formally handed over the return documents to the Chinese commander Lieutenant General Chris Patten, who had come to receive Hong Kong, at the Hong Kong Governor's Palace, and both sides signed it.